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shapper
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

450 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-14 : 08:50:03
Hello,

I am working on a ASP.NET 2.0 project with an SQL 2005 database.
I created a documents table with various columns including:
DocumentId and DocumentUrl

My documents will always be PDF's of SWF's (Flash Paper Files)

I will need to display this files in my web pages.

My question is:
Should I save the DocumentUrl in the database or should I save the file itself in the database?

And how can I save files in an SQL 2005 database?

Thanks,
Miguel

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-14 : 13:35:10
You should not save files to the database. Just store the URL in there, then store the file on the web server's file system.

Tara Kizer
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shapper
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

450 Posts

Posted - 2007-02-14 : 14:02:49
Tara, thanks for the advice.

Miguel
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