reading BLOB image from MySQL database

Question

I\'m having some trouble reading a blob back from a MySQL database. I\'ve gotten it to successfully insert into the database, but can\'t seem to get it to read back. I know

Answer 1

Have you tried simplifying first? Instead of reading the BLOB 100 bytes at a time, try simplifying your code to just read all bytes to a file. This way you can easily rule out data layer issues.

The following documentation also suggests you store your file size as another column: Handling BLOB Data With Connector/NET