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chuckatkinson
1-Mar-2021, 10:29 AM
But we all knew that right?

https://yourlabs.org/posts/2019-04-19-storing-hd-photos-in-a-relational-database-recipe-for-an-epic-fail/

Garret Mott
1-Mar-2021, 10:56 AM
Interesting. I always been against it - but mostly due to DB bloat. I've gotten a lot of grief about preferring storing the file on disk & the filename in the DB.

Bob Worsley
1-Mar-2021, 12:15 PM
And of course they're blaming Bob. They're always blaming Bob!!!

Stephen W. Meeley
1-Mar-2021, 12:55 PM
Well duh...

Bob Worsley
1-Mar-2021, 01:57 PM
it is kind of obvious, isn't it

Garret Mott
1-Mar-2021, 02:13 PM
Stephen did sum it up perfectly.

However, I haven't blamed you for anything yet this week! I must be slipping.

Bob Worsley
1-Mar-2021, 02:41 PM
I was wondering why