Storing files in the database has already been demonstrated as not an efficient trade-off here, and in many pages on internet. As such, this post provides subjective stories about files in the database, rather than an objective compare.
Now Bob the manager has watched Peter Chubb’s talk and decides that you will store uploaded PDFs and HD photos in the database when that doesn’t even matter when people are going to upload files in AJAX, before they submit their form, during HTTP requests that occur before that request that causes a relational data write.
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