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BLOB storage in rows

I have a database that has several BLOB columns scattered across multiple tables. Since I am a developer and am looking at making application code writing easier, I wanted to turn these columns into ...
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Files - in the database or not?

What is the best place for storing binary files that are related to data in your database? Should you: Store in the database with a blob Store on the filesystem with a link in the database Store in ...
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import csv data stored in a blob column

Here's what i need to do: Users will upload CSV files into SQL Server 2012 blob column Each night, i would like to take each file and import the data into table I will have 2 web sites using the ...
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Oracle BLOB store performance

LOBs in Oracle are stored in-row when they are less than 4K in size and out-of-row otherwise. I'm wondering how do SECUREFILE storage options COMPRESS and ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW work? I have a lot of ...
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Can I use mysql to serve 100's of millions of small image files?

I need to serve 300,000,000 small image files totaling 1.5TB. Trying to unpack these files to individual files on the file system is next to impossible (1 MByte/sec throughput rates to create the ...
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Possible reasons for slow BLOB updates in Oracle?

We have an application that transfers .bmp images as BLOBs to an Oracle table. One of the users of the app has complained that it is taking 2-3 seconds to transfer each image. Each image is ~1.2Mb. ...
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Selecting with varbinary(max) criteria (in the where clause)

Basic info Database: SQL Server Express 2008 R2 Client: SQL Server Management Studio Backround (skip if not interested): A project I'm maintaining uses an ORM, which apparently stored my enum ...
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Which Database to choose: MySQL or Oracle

I have an application generating time series data (32 channels, 22KHz, 6 secs) once a minute. These have to be stored in a database. At the moment I'm using MySQL with InnoDB tables ...
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Copying BLOB fields from a table on one server into corresponding fields in a corresponding table on a different server?

I have a database on a remote server whose BLOB fields are corrupted. I have fields in an earlier copy of the database which duplicate a portion of the corrupted data. I would like to overwrite the ...
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Java application unable to access Blob stream in Oracle after upgrade to 11g

This issue below might be an application problem, but I cannot seem to rule out a poor database setup, I was hoping to get some insights into potential database issues. I am maintaining a legacy Java ...
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Length of LOB data (%1) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum %2

We recently hit this error shortly after enabling replication on a table. Length of LOB data (%1) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum %2 I've found solutions to this problem already: ...
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How can one reliably update a LOB column with data from another LOB column in Oracle?

I have tried: UPDATE "SCHEMA".TABLE SET LOB_COLUMN = (SELECT LOB_COLUMN FROM "SCHEMA".TABLE) I have tried: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE COPY_LOB_DATA IS OLD_BLOB BLOB; NEW_BLOB BLOB; ...
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Export table without BLOB column

I have a big table with BLOB objects and some references from other tables to this one. I prepare dev and test schema for my app by making expdp (data pump) from production, then anonymizing data on ...
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What is the underlying representation of BLOB data when I export it?

When I export a blob object to an SQL file, I get some thing like this for a blob field: 0x4f3a383a227374644....., Questions I would like to know how the BLOB is actually converted to the above ...
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DBMS_LOB.READ performance and Oracle BLOB chunk size

I have a script that reads a lot of BLOBs using DBMS_LOB.READ, in the process of converting them to files. While looking to improve the read speed, I looked at GETCHUNKSIZE. The documentation on ...
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How to copy bytea from Postgres to Oracle

I have a db on Postgres 9.1. The db collected some binary data that are stored in bytea file. I need to copy the data to Oracle 10g. How to do it? The details I have a table plines in Postgres9.1. ...
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Data type for protobuf objects in mysql

I would like to store some protobuf objects in a MySQL database. The objects are created in a Java application. The object is accompanied with a textual type identifier and a timestamp. ...