SQL Server :: Storing PDF Into SQL Or Alternatives?
Dec 10, 2010
title isn't as detailed as I hoped but I have a few questions. Traditionally I've always been a mixed mode person, storing PDFs and other things into the file system with pointers from my SQL DB to them.
Recently I've heard more people storing files into the DB directly and wonder if I'm storing files around 100-200MB in size, will I run into a lot of issues? Are there ways to compress the files other than perhaps zipping them up and storing the zip?
Finally, something I've always wondered about but never really found a good work around for... if I decided to continue with the mixed-mode storage solution, and these I need to retrieve these files for use on a website, how do I secure these files so that someone can't just randomly come and retrieve these files off the server by guessing files names, etc?
I did one work around once where I stored a set of PDFs to a non-web directory like c:pdf and setting permissions for the web account to access them. This allowed me to retrieve them using the references in the DB and provide some garbled filename so people couldn't retrieve it themselves but this all seems rather complicated.
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