What are the data type for storing multimedia in RDBM?

What are the data type 开发者_高级运维for storing multimedia in RDBM?

I can only think of BLOB, TEXT...

In general, my advice would be to not store large chunks of binary data in the database. There's very rarely a good reason for it.

See this question for a discussion of the advantages of doing it either way: Would you store binary data in database or in file system?

The point that keeps coming back is memory consumption of storing large binary data in the DB.

They also discuss some DB-specific features that might be helpful, such as FILESTREAM in MS SQL Server.