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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/01/53 11:38
--CELKO-- (jcelko212@earthlink.net) writes:
> When we wrote the SQL Stanardards, we wanted to design a high level
> abstract language for data that would be portable beause it would NEVER
> deal with the low level PHYSICAL representation of the data.
And what if the data is binary? How would you store a JPEG image in a
database? You would disassemble it, and store it in some high-level format?
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
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