This isn't responsive to the OP, but I was hoping you could help me
understand what advantage you people saw in storing large volumes of
blobs in the database at all. I think of a database as something you
use if you want some combination of (1) a complex, flexible query
language (2) transactions (3) simultaneous multi-user read/write access
to the data. Are any of these a factor in your storage of blobs in the
database? If not, I would think it would be preferable to store the
blobs in filesystems, which are easier to administer, faster (because
you don't have to traverse the code path through Oracle database) and
cheaper.
But I stand ready to be corrected.
Thank you,
Mark
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