Quote Originally Posted by daljitsb
Can we not store .tiff file as bfile - store it in file system and save the pointer to file in the database and keep the database small. What are the pros and cons for different options.
The idea of storing files outside the database is nothing new; think about backup consistency.


Quote Originally Posted by daljitsb
Our application is going to be configurable to work with both sqlserver and oracle db and We do want to store the files on file system in sqlserver db.
Nice idea, hard to implement. Your backend code will be totally different.