>That said, it is better to store just a filename and store your images in some shared directory. Our approach is to let the user select the image file, then we copy it to the images directory renamed with a serial number, and we store this number as a key in our tables.

OK, I'll buy that, and it's no trouble, because I already have a temporary .BMP file. So how does the report know to print the bitmap? I don't get how it works. A code snippet would be helpful...