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From: peterson_s@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re:  PC/UNIX/Mac databases that support images?
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Date: 18 Jan 90 23:52:00 GMT
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In article <3952@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> segel@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu
writes:

>To be fair, I don't know of any other database engines that allow for
>the BLOB to be stored in the engine.

A product named InterBase has had this capability since I started using
it back in June 1987.  A nice feature that BLOBs have in their latest
version, Version 3, is what they call BLOB filters.  BLOBs can have an
type associated to them, whereby a BLOB filter can be stored in the database
and automatically called for input and output while accessing a BLOB in
a program or one of their utilities.  You can contact Interbase at:

      Interbase Software Corp.
      209 Burlington Road
      Bedford, MA  01730
      Ph#: 617-275-3222
      FAX#: 617-271-0221


Stephen Peterson

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