Mindtraveller Messages: 917 Registered: August 2007 Location: Russia, Moscow rgn.
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The problem appears when one tries to hold/fetch i.e. large files in/from database. Not going into detail, the maximum allowed SQL transaction size is commonly no more than 1 MB.
Just in case someone needs to store large blobs in a database too, publishing a solution. The idea is to have separate table with blob column. So you divide your large file into ~512 KB pieces and keep them as records sequence in the table. Each time you need this big blob, you have to fetch it with many transactions, piece by piece.