>>>>Hi Sergey. Whats the difference between blob and binary memo field in VFP9? Seems the same to me?
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>>>Besides Sergey's answer, a BLOB field nicely solves the problem of storing images (or other binary data) in a DBF, avoiding the dreaded MEMO GENERAL fields.
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>>But presumably not avoiding memo file bloat :) Havent had a chance to play with it yet :)
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>Nope. Memo's by definition work on blocks. They reserve the block size even if you pass the size by one byte, a whole new block is spent. Then when you delete a record and re-change it, a new set of memo blocks are reserved, therefore bloat. But you already knew this. Memo bloat has not changed. What has changed is that with BLOBs, which resolve to text, you get to use regular memos not General, which bloat rate is insane.

Yeah, I realised this. It's in the nature of fpt files. But thats ok - we all have our work-arounds :)