[LUNI] database question

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 07:28:14PM -0500, Jay wrote:
> It also depends on the brand of database you are storing these images
> within.

Not really.  Unless the database (and the rest of the environment!) deal
with the image format natively (1), you're going to be pushing it through at
least a smidgen of conversion code.  So you can do whatever the database
needs to have done, even if that means splitting it up and storing the image
as a bunch of (tagged) pieces.  Sure, it may be a little more work to setup
with some databases than others, but you only have to do that once.

Now, all else being equal this might influence your choice of database, but
unless you're stuck with one that just can't cope with so much [total] data,
you can do what needs doing.  One way or another...


(1) say, along the lines of being able to drag the image from a viewer into
a field in a form that's used for data entry.  I'm not sure that cutting and
pasting a file name is the same sort of integration, though it might sqeak
by on a technicality.

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