I am looking at a new application that will store millions of images, about 70-k each. My instinct is to store them in a blob datatype. I haven't worked with blobs before. Can anyone suggest resources for learning how to configure a scalable database to handle this? My guess is to create it with a 32-k block size. Obviously each row would take at least 3 blocks, and I would want to keep the blocks contiguous. Also, some developers are lobbying for SQL Server. Could it handle this situation? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------