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The other day I was watching a tutorial video on Youtube about db, and in the introduction it said "db stores files such as pictures, sound files … ".
As far as I know, database systems only store text. This text could be alphabetical, numerical and other characters, and by using a combination of that, we can create links of the actual files that are stored on the server directory.
Am I wrong?
Most Relational Databases allow for the storage of binary data in the form of some datatype supporting that. In Oracle, for example, this is the
BLOBdatatype (Binary Large Object).Whether or not this is a good idea is highly subjective and depends on a case to case basis but it definitely is possible