Question

I am creating a site whose content is dynamic and has images in it.
What/How much performance hit will my DB (MSSQL) take if I save content/Images in DB?

I am just trying to understand what kind of problems I may run into.
I appreciate any responses.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you keep content (e.g. images) outside of the database, you can let IIS serve this content directly without calling ASP.NET at all (and as a consequence, no database access is needed).

You can even put static content on a different server is you have huge load (like here on StackOverflow).

So if you need to scale in any way, keep static content outside of both ASP.NET and database.