Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/10/06 02:47

eholz1 wrote:
> Hello bkdotcom
> do I have to encode/decode the image data if I use a "binary blob"?,
>
> tnx,
>
> eholz1
>
> BKDotCom wrote:
>
>>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).
>
>

No.

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