The answer is "it depends" and in some very specialized situations storing
binaries in the database might be the best solution. But in general, this
approach will cause you serious problems.
Some ramifications:
1) Browsers won't cache the images. So you'll take a CPU and bandwidth hit
every time
Depending on what you're building, it could be very easy or extremely
difficult. When posting on mailing lists, you need to give other developers
more information about your application so we can give you useful
information.
Also, for general web-dev questions, sites like stackoverflow.com can
usu
Do not use Microsoft Word to save files that need to be read-in by other
software. Ever. It *always* finds a way to screw it up. Even if you cut and
paste it into the other program, I've heard cases where Word has put
unprintable control characters into the pasted output, that showed-up as
spaces i
