Posted by Mary Pegg on 03/27/07 15:51

Tim Streater wrote:

> In article <fqaOh.26793$267.1379@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>,
> Mary Pegg <invalid@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> Why? Why would I *want* to put non-relational data in a relational
>> database? Why would I *want* to use a database as a filesystem?
>>
>> Just saying "it works fine" is not enough.
>
> Depends on your needs, dunnit?
>
> If I'm providing as it might be a web page for our engineers to see what
> the access procedure is for some site, that info is in the database. But
> the hosting organisation might provide an extra Site Procedures doc,
> that I also put in the database so the engineer can download it as
> needed, at the same web page.
>
> I'm not going to put it in some entirely separate filesystem that they
> might not have access to while offsite, now am I.

It'll look the same to the user whether the document is stored as a
BLOB in the database or as a file.

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be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

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