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- From: widener!uunet!uunet!microc!eric@emory.mathcs.emory.edu
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- Subject: Re: importing images
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 14:58:09 -0500
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- }From: uunet!desktalk.com!eric (Eric Lieber)
- }Message-Id: <1992Sep29.181725.1158@desktalk.desktalk.com>
- }Subject: Re: importing images
- }Date: 29 Sep 92 18:17:25 GMT
- }Organization: Desktalk Systems Inc.
-
- }In article 1723@execnet, "clay irving" <clay.irving@execnet.com> () writes:
- }>Does anyone have any experience in getting an image into the OnLine
- }>database? I'll have a GIF, JPEG or BMP image in a file on the system that
- }>I want to import into a field defined as a BLOB. I'm wondering how to get
- }>it into the database?...
- }>
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- }>Clay Irving Work: clay@garpac.com
- }>4GL Project Manager Fun: clay.irving@execnet.com
- }>Garpac Corporation uucp: {uupsi3, 4gen}!garpac!clay
- }>Voice: 212.760.0070 CIS: 75170, 107
- }>Fax: 212.564.2635 IBM: HONE82(DACK0AX)
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- }> * Software Systems for the Apparel Industry *
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- } Instead of storing these huge amounts of data inefficiently in the database,
- }why not store the address (pathname) in the database and keep your GIF/RASTER >file as an operating system file. This will improve performance.
- }If the picture has to be swapped out with another all u have to do is
- }update the pathname and you are ready to go.
-
- }eric lieber
- }DeskTalk Systems
- }Torrance, CA
-
- Uh-Uh!!
- Mr. Lieber, this is true ONLY if you have Informix-SE.
- If you have OnLine, why not take full advantage of storing these images
- along with the character data? Why have image files on the slow UNIX file
- system and the data in the faster raw disk? Now imagine 30,000 scanned
- customer signatures in a UNIX directory...
-
- I can't find ANY reason for doing what you say!
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