[LUNI] database question

[lembark at wrkhors.com]

-- Richard Reina <Richard at rushlogistics.com> on 08/07/02 09:54:13 -0700

> Martin Maney wrote:
> 
>> 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. 
>> 
> What I am going to do with them: Store and occasionally fax a copy or print a
> copy -- probabably once every 30 records.  The documents are ussually 1 to 5
> letter sized pages -- I don't know how big they'll be as imaged files.  
> There will be 1 document for each record in the database.  The database grows
> currently at a rate of about 200-300 records per month, however, this could
> increase 5 fold  in the next 2 to 3 years.

Image them as PNG's and you can use DBI/DBD::MySQL to handle
the whole thing for you.

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