[LUNI] database question

[Jay]

It also depends on the brand of database you are storing these images
within.

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Maney" <maney at pobox.com>
To: <luni at luni.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] database question


> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 06:49:17PM -0700, Richard Reina wrote:
> > I have a document that coresponds to each record in a table in a MySQL
> > database.  In the future I am planning to image the each document (
> > ussually 1 to 5 pages) and store them on my server.  Would it be best to
> > store them as a files in a directory or to or is their some data type
> > that can store them that I can add a colum in the table itself?
>
> Depends muchly on what you're going to do with them, as well as on the
size
> and number of images this will result in.  Offhand, I'd be inclined to
> continue the existing document numbering scheme that ties the database to
> the paperwork.  Unless your application demands a tighter coupling of the
> data records and the docuemnt images?
>
> Just tell us what you want to do.  :-)
>
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