How to store /retrieve image to/from MS ACCESS
Sameer Chandra
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posted 8 years ago
More of a JDBC issue.
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Have you read about CLOBs in the JDBC tutorial yet?
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Bauke Scholtz
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posted 8 years ago
Images are binary data, don't use CLOB. Use a BLOB. Create a binary field in the database and use PreparedStatement#setBinaryStream() to store it and ResultSet#getBinaryStream() to retrieve it. Not sure if that is supported by MSAccess as well as it isn't a decent database. Otherwise either upgrade to a decent RDBMS or store the images in the file system and save the path in the database. After all, saving binary data in a database may improve portability, but it doesn't make much sense as you cannot index and search it in the DB.
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