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Asked by thesnoman in SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, MySQL Server
Hi everyone,
I'm new to VB.Net, and MS SQL server development so please bear with me. I'm writing a custom application for inventory purposes. The front end is VB.Net 2008 and the backend is SQL Server 2005 on the local side of things. On my webserver I use a Flash based front end and a PHP/MySQL backend.
Now I know most people would not recommend storing images in a database and I can understand the reasoning behind this however I have a bit of a conundrum. I really don't want to have to handle setting up shared folders on the local server for the customer. I want this application to be as simple as possible to install and operate and I feel like having the customer set this up would be one more issue to have to deal with.
Is there a way to use stored procedures in MS SQL server to store and retrieve the images in external files on the server?
Another issue with this is I intend to write a sync procedure to allow the user to easily update MySQL on the webserver with the inventory items and photos from the local MS SQL server. I thought this might also be more easily accomplished by storing the images in the database. I have worked with PHP several times in the past and though I haven't had to deal with database conversion and transfer I'm fairly certain that it has been dealt with many times and that there is likely lots of information available on the internet to assist me.
I would sure appreciate any pointers or ideas you folks might have that would be of assistance with this.
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