Storing documents in MySQL

Question

User-973319413 posted

Hi all,

I need to store word,pdf,notepad,rtf documents in MySQL database.

Can someone send me some code snippets to refer.

Thanks and Regards

Ashvin

Answer 1

User-1179452826 posted

You could store them as a byte[] but it's almost always better to store them in the file system and just storing the path to the file in the database.

Answer 2

User-973319413 posted

Hi,

Yes it is not a good idea to store documents in databases..But my requirement is to do that way.

Is there some code snippet available

Regards

Ashvin

Answer 3

User-1179452826 posted

Second result on google:

http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/csharp/threads/247583