Posted by Mary Pegg on 03/30/07 13:27

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> No, I gave you several good reasons as to why it's a better way.

Sorry, I missed them. Somebody else came up with portability.

So if you could briefly recap? If storing binary files in the database
really is a better way of doing things then I want to know. And all the
PHP coders on another mailing list I'm on will want to know too, because
currently when this question comes up they unanimously advise the questioner
to use the filesystem to store files.

> And obviously you've never tried it, so you really have no idea about
> what you speak.

What exactly would I learn from doing it? That it works? I can see that.
I don't need to do it. I don't need to fry an egg in a saucepan to see that
it can be done; the fact that I've never done it doesn't invalidate my
opinion that by and large frying eggs is best done in frying pans, and
that I will continue to use saucepans for heating up sauces.

> Followups set to comp.lang.mysql. This is off-topic in this group, and

A) it's in both groups and B) it's a scripting decision, it's not a
mysql-specific discussion.

Anyway, you can continue to discuss it in comp.lang.mysql, I'll carry on
in comp.lang.php, we can both be happy.

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