[ale] OT: MySQL Blobs

[Christopher Fowler]

I've got the database storing names and all my perl stuff written.  I can
now place a cd in the drive and with a perl script rip it, convert it, and
store it into the database.  

One weakness occured to me.  If I want to use my rip script on another
machine I can not use the mysql driver to put the MP3 song on the server.
If I was to use blobs instead of a pathname then I could then use
the mysqlclient API to dump songs into the database remotely over
the network.  The way I have set it up now I can not do that.  I could
use scp to copy it over I guess.  Has anoyone ran into this issue?

Chris

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:03:51PM +0000, hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> Going the file-pointing route also enables you to decouple the databasing
> machine from the video-serving machine.
> > > I'm working on a media center for home and would like to store
> > > media files such as DivX and MP3 in MySQL as blobs.
> > 
> > This is generally a fairly horrific idea.  Why not just store pointers to
> > the files (i.e. their locations) in the database?  Storing binary files in
> > blobs like this is something which most of us go through because of the
> > 'cool'(/geek) factor, before realising that it's a nasty performance hit
> > for (in most cases) no gain.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > --George
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