Thank you Igor for your reply....

Does your 2 cents include taxes :)

ADSC

>>I can only see disadvantages:
>>-bigger database
>>-corrupted MDB file
>>-need to backup images that may never changes
>>-requires the use of GetChunk/AppendChunk to use them
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>Can anyone tell me what are the Advantage and Disadvantage of storing the images directly to the database like MS-Access, or it's better to be saved on the HDD & called from there.
>>>
>>>Thank you for any help.
>>>
>>>ADSC
>
>Hi,
>
>I want to add some more disadvantages:
>- Access mdb files have limit 1GB. So if you have many images to store than you can hit the limit.
>- If you store image files as is than you can easily re-arrange them storing some of them on different servers.
>
>Just my 2 cents.