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From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
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To: "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com>
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	Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: How many files can I put in one diretory?
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"Nicole Harrington." wrote:
> 
> On 23-Jun-00 Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >
> > On 23-Jun-00 Nicole Harrington. wrote:
> >> > Yeah.. This is why databases where invented :)
> >>   Hey I agree... However even if the html was databased.. (working on that
> >>  now)
> >>  the custom graphics cannot be. (yet)
> >
> > Hmm.. can't you do binary blobs in a DB and change the image URL's to be cgi
> > requests?
> >
> 
>  I dunno.. whats a "binary Blob"?

Pleonasm? :-) BLOB = Binary Large OBject.

From the TransBase SQL Reference Manual:
"TransBase does not interpret the contents of a BLOB. Each field of type 
BLOB either contains the NULL value or a BLOB object. The only
operations 
on BLOBs are creation, insertion, update of a BLOB, testing a BLOB on 
being the NULL value, extracting a BLOB via the field name in the SELECT 
clause, extracting a subrange of a BLOB (i.e. an adjacent byte range of 
a BLOB), and extracting the size of a BLOB."

Cheers,
Jeroen
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