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List:       php-general
Subject:    Re: [PHP] Images in PHP and MySQL
From:       Jason Wong <php-general () gremlins ! biz>
Date:       2004-09-30 22:44:54
Message-ID: 200410010644.54373.php-general () gremlins ! biz
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On Friday 01 October 2004 05:52, Ed Lazor wrote:
> Images take up more space when stored in the db, because you're storing raw
> binary data.  Gif and jpeg are compression methods that convert binary data
> into something smaller that can be stored in a file.

??

If you store a jpeg file into a database blob, the database doesn't magically 
decompress the jpeg file. It will just treat the jpeg file as any other 
binary file and store it as-is (plus any overhead).

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