Photo as binary data why?

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12 years ago
Why do you keeping photos as binary data but not links. It's faster or another reasons
12 years ago
It depends ...

If you store links, then you have to read the link from database and then read the image from some file/network storage.

It's also easier to maintain images in your application. For example: if you delete the image from filestore, you have broken link in database.
12 years ago
Ok!
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