Is it a good idea to store audio files (mp3, wav) in SQL Server as BLOBs? One of the merits appears to be saving Hard disk space. Does this have any impact on scalability or performance?
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Is it a good idea to store audio files (mp3, wav) in SQL Server as BLOBs? One of the merits appears to be saving Hard disk space. Does this have any impact on scalability or performance?
No, it’s not a good idea 🙂 Variable-sized fields (such as TEXT and BLOB) have all sorts of performance impacts. A better approach is store the files on disk and just maintain a reference to them in a DB table. Nowadays, hard drive space is so cheap (especially compared to CPU and I/O performance) that it shouldn’t even be a concern.