RE: Find the biggest blobs

2005-06-02 Thread Artem Koltsov
Did you try: select blob_field from blob_table order by length(blob_field) DESC limit 1 Regards, Artem > -Original Message- > From: Roland Carlsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:02 AM > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Find the biggest blobs > > > H

Re: Find the biggest blobs

2005-06-02 Thread mfatene
Hi, since reading blobs is not a simple action (heavy), you must store the size of every file in the table's structure. if you write with php, somthing like that filesize($binFile) gives you the column value for every insert When done, a simple order by filesize gives you what you want before beg