Working with photos

[Soumini Ramakrishnan]

If I have to store a set of photos for each user, is it good to save those photos in the database or keep separate folder for each user for those photos

[Rocky]

I would prefer saving the photos in a seperate folder coz in the long run the size of the db can really go sky high.

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[Chetan Patel]

You can use either Database to store or You have to store only extension in database and give user id as file name to photo of every user.

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[N a v a n e e t h]

It depends on the database space you have. If you have good database space, keeping images in database won't be a problem. Also it prevents users accessing image file directly typing through URL.

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[Abhijit Jana]

if you store image in database then image will store as a binary format. and while retreaving the image it may cause losses of quality of image. i can prefer you to store image in a folder and store the corresponding path in database and retrive from it. I have written article on it . please check on my article section.

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[N a v a n e e t h]

Abhijit Jana wrote:

if you store image in database then image will store as a binary format. and while retreaving the image it may cause losses of quality of image.

This is not correct. There won't be any difference for quality.

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[Abhijit Jana]

I have face that problem .

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[N a v a n e e t h]

mm.. You might be doing something wrong.

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[Abhijit Jana]

Hi navanteeth, Can you kindly inform me that what would the best apporch to search data from Active directory. i have to implemnt a Address book like OWA . and AD contain more that 1 laks data so any idea ? Thanks in advance !!!

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[N a v a n e e t h]

I am sorry, but I don't have any idea on this. I have seen your original post last day, but I don't have an answer for this. Have you tried MSDN forums ?

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[Abhijit Jana]

yup. i have post the same question in asp.net forum on active directory section. but the response which i have got that is , they are using one DB and seaching is done from DB. on schedule job will update DB from AD. But i dont want any depenecy with Database server. Main problem is the huge data. Thats whay i am thinking making it like OWA 2003. where first user will give input and Address book will manupulated those data from AD only. What do u think?

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[N a v a n e e t h]

That would be better that porting it to a DB, AFAIK.

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