Posted by BKDotCom on 12/09/06 16:20

eholz1 wrote:
> Hello Group,
>
> Perhaps you can help me. I have a mysql db, that holds images.
> Images are encoded using base64_decode/encode, etc. Image data seems
> fine.

And I'm curious why your data is base64 encoded rather than simply
stored as a binary blob.
base64 is quite inefficient (takes up a lot more storage space).

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