Steven W. Erbach
serbach at new.rr.com
Tue Nov 30 13:05:04 CST 2004
Dear Group, Even though the standard advice for storing graphics on a web server is to store them in the file system, I've decided to store graphics in tables. I've used the ADO Stream object to read GIFs from disk and write them into an Image field. I found that the original images (over 4,000 GIFs) averaged 53.6KB each. When they've been written into the SQL Server tables the amount of table "space" allocated for each image stored averages 63.2KB. So there's about 10K of "overhead" (about 18%) for each image. Not bad. Getting the images out of the original Access database was a bit of a chore, though. Fortunately IrfanView allows command line options to paste an image into the window and convert the image to a GIF. I was able to cycle through all the images in relatively short order by copying to the Windows clipboard and pasting and saving with IrfanView. Steve Erbach Neenah, WI sweblog1.blogspot.com