Hello, guys
I want your ideas whether uploading pictures to database or uploading to the file system on the web server is the best way to implement? Can you give me pros and cons about this issue?
Thanks Chamnap
File systems are much better designed for holding files than databases. While databases must keep all that data in the transaction log and be able to roll back the changes, etc., file systems generally do not attempt to provide that level of data integrity. As such they are faster and more efficient at it. Since databases require full pages for blobs you do not save any space placing files in the database either. But, if efficiency is not the issue, putting them in the database means you do not need to worry about orphaned files and so on.
Michael
files-with-rails/
if you are uploading lots of images, I say neither - use amazon s3 
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