I seem to be missing the point?? WHY, WHY, WHY would you save images in your DB when saving the link/URL to a simple varchar field and letting the OS do the work on the image directory is not MUCH more efficient?? BLOB, really?

Vince, Many people use MySQL for BLOB/TEXT fields to keep them accessible together with other data … file storage can be better choice (especially when blobs are really files such as images, pdf documents etc). You can also use…

Thanks Peter, finally a clear statement on storing images as blobs. I have been looking for this single-lined answer for quite a long time now… Tobias