> > I always see posts of people trying to get their large binary and text
> > objects into and out of the database somehow. I was wondering if there is
> > some reason why just storing a filename in the table would be a bad thing?
> > This way you can let the file system worry about storing the data (since
> > that is what the file system is good at.) I understand that you probably
> > could not access the data via ODBC, but if you are writing your frontend in
> > C or Perl, etc. then you would simply use the filename stored in the table
> > to access the data.
>
> Because the database is in a different room then the client.
>
There are lots of easier ways to pass files from that room (http, etc.)
--Gene