MySQL - storing images in a database? [duplicate]

Answer 1

i would prefer you should store pictures in some folders , so at the time of retrieving it will make easy. If you want to store in database you can use BLOB datatype.

Answer 2

The overhead of storing the image data directly in the database can become an issue, especially for large sites with a lot of traffic.

Usually I have a naming convention for storing the images on the server, and the file names are re-written from whatever the user uploads, but you can retain the original file name from the user if you prefer - just make sure to sanitize them. The database only stores metadata for the images, so that requests for the image files can be handled directly by the webserver.

Answer 3

Sounds like homework. You’d want a one-to-many relationship from the vehicles table to the pictures table. The pictures table would contain a BLOB column with the images. Or it could contain a VARCHAR column with the filenames of the images as stored on disk.