Jul-23-2020, 05:00 PM
(This post was last modified: Jul-23-2020, 05:00 PM by deanhystad.)
You appear to think a zip file is somehow different than other files. It is not. It is a bunch of binary data in a format that can be understood by a zip program. If you store a zip file in your database it ceases being a file and becomes a BLOB. The binary data doesn't change. THe format doesn't change. It just moved to a new locale and no longer has a filename or a path. You can turn it back into a file by writing the BLOB to a file.
What we call files are really nothing more than BLOBs in a database we call the file system.
What we call files are really nothing more than BLOBs in a database we call the file system.