Re: To BLOB or not to BLOB

2003-01-15 Thread Maximo Migliari
It depends on what kind of comparing you will be doing. Text is case-Insensitive for comparisons, blob is case-Sensitive. Generally I find that for pure text, TEXT type is better. For files and texts that need to be compared case-sensitively, use BLOB. Either way, for images, and any other bin

To BLOB or not to BLOB

2003-01-15 Thread Haisam K. Ido
Is it wise to always assume that a file content is always binary and hence store it in a MySQL BLOB type, even if the file may be only a text file? Your thoughts on this would be appreciated. sql - Before posting, please check