[ale] Question: Transparent document sharing over the Internet

[Geoffrey]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> A few years back I brought this question up about MySQL.  A BLOB
> was possible but there was a better solution.  Simply store the binaries
> on disk.  In the DB store the filenames.  You app can then feed the data
> to the remote or do whatever it needs to do. 

It's a whole lot easier to control access if the files are actually in 
the db.  You want to be sure the process is atomic and that's easier if 
you're dealing with database access and not database access AND 
filesystem access.  It can be done, it's just easier.

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Until later, Geoffrey