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> On the other hand, you might also want to consider runtime efficiencies. > If you're planning on using blob fields for storing documents, images, > and other binary files, which users may need to access from a browser, > wouldn't you have to convert the Blob to a "temporary" directory, pass > the URL to the browser, then cleanup temporary stream files later? . . . in which case, perhaps what you really want is a "datalink" field. -- JHHL P.S.: QuestView has supported datalink fields for a few months now. As to LOBs, well, it manages to open files containing them without crashing, which is better than most non-SQL programs can manage.
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