Re: Best Practice for blobs

Okay, thanks all...this is pretty much what I thought but wanted to make
sure I wasn't missing something.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 5:28 AM Michael Gentry <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've always used a secondary table (1:1 relationship) which contained just
> the blob data.  The parent table would have the metadata for the blob, and
> possibly other data as required.  That way you can fetch in the name, file
> size, type, etc without fetching in the blob until needed.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:02 PM Lon Varscsak <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I have a blob column in an entity, but I don't want to always actually
> load
> > the blob, just on demand (but I still want to be able to see the other
> > attributes in the entity).  Any best practice here to have the blob be
> > lazy?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lon
> >
>