Inserting files into database table
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I have been reading various articles where bitmaps, excel files, pdf files, etc... are being inserting into a column of a database table. Out of curiosity, why are developers doing this and what are the benefits? :-D
:-DIn my understanding, let's say you have an employee database, and you want to store employee pictures as well in the database along with the name and other information. In that case you may want to store it as a bit map. Also alot of business are still receiving documents as a hard copy, and to keep the paper trail at one place, they scan the document and upload it to the Database. This is just few of the many reasons why bit map, and files are inserted to DB. Hope this helps Ruchi