I don’t know this concept is there or not. Can we store the Files and related information in MySQL database ? If the answer is Yes then how ?
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I don’t know this concept is there or not. Can we store the Files and related information in MySQL database ? If the answer is Yes then how ?
Yes, but make sure you really want to.
MySQL has a “BLOB” (and related) column type, which can be used for storing arbitrary binary data, much the same way you would store a string (it is just a string of bits instead of a string a characters) value.
The problem is serving files from the database is quite inefficient (the filesystem is much faster), as well as putting unnecessary strain on your DB. So if you can, you are often better of using real files and only storing metadata in the database. Or, at a minimum caching the file to the filesystem.