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From: bfbreedl@sactoh0.UUCP (Bob F. Breedlove)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: RDBMSs that can handle binary data?
Summary: Informix to store images
Message-ID: <588@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 15:52:05 GMT
References: <157@sunquest.UUCP>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access, Ca. USA
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In article <157@sunquest.UUCP>, whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) writes:
> We have a need for a database that can handle binary data of arbitrary
> length.  We've looked at Oracle, Ingres, Sybase, Informix, and Unify, and Unify
> is the only suitable one we've found thus far.

I'm not sure what you mean arbitrary length, but we're using
Informix on Plexus computers to store compressed image data. This
is of varying length.

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Bob Breedlove  SYSOP: BOBsBBS (916/929-7511)
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