Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!isgate!krafla!strengur!snorri From: snorri@strengur.is (snorri) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Relational Database, with a Graphical type field Message-ID: <568@strengur.is> Date: 28 Jun 90 09:01:59 GMT References: <1176@abcom.ATT.COM> <1700.26863d4e@spacm1.uucp> <898@dgis.dtic.dla.mil>, Organization: STRENGUR Engineers, Reykjavik Iceland Lines: 15 The new Informix OLTP engine (Informix OnLine) has the BYTE and TEXT datatypes. The BYTE and TEXT datatypes are called BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects) and have a theoretical limit of 2 gigabytes. One can store scanned images, voice, video, spreadsheet files, WP files, ordinary text files, etc. in those fields. These BLOBs are selected from the database through standard sql and all the Informix application tools (ISQL, 4GL, ESQL/C etc.) can access them. -- Snorri Bergmann, Strengur Consulting Engineers, Reykjavik Iceland INTERNET: snorri@strengur.is