Store pictures as files or in the database for a web app?

Question

My question is fairly generic and I know there might not be an 100% answer to it. I\'m building an ASP .NET web solution that will include a lot of pictures and hopefully a

Answer 1

i usually like to have binary files in the database because :

• data integrity : no unreferenced file, no path in the db without any file associated
• data consistency : take a database dump and that's all. no "O i forgot to targz this data directory."