Help with Pictures

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 11/25/03 9:56 PM, Mark Maslowski at mark at majico.com wrote:

Hi Mark,

> I am attempting to add pictures to a database for use in Director and I have
> to plead complete ignorance. I have a few questions -
> 
> * I have about 1100 JPGs that need to be put into the db. Should I use BLOB
> or Picture? The files sizes of the original JPGs vary from 76K to 1.3MB and
> I hope to use JPEG compression in the db.

Use Picture. 

It is possible to use BLOB, but Picture is better. Than more that you want
JPG compresion


> * Given the varied size of these pictures, what would be the best segment
> size to use? Could someone explain exactly what the segment size setting is?

Oh, I think in Kernel.pdf and FAQs this is described very good.

The best segment size -- near to avg size of all your pictures.


> * Is there a way to import these pictures into the database other than
> writing a LIngo routine?

Today - NO.

> * The total size of all the pictures is around 580MB. Would it be better to
> have one large db for the pictures or split it up into a few smaller db
> files? How much problem is there with a 580MB database file?

No difference.

I think it is bad idea split on few dbs.
This will make only problems.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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