title: Large Text and Images In SQL
body: <p>Is it a good idea to store large amounts of text (eg html pages) inside your SQL database? Or is it a better idea to store it as html files in the filesystem?</p>
  
  <p>The same goes for images - is it a good idea to store image data in the database or better to put them on disk?</p>
  
  <p>Will storing large amounts of data cause me performance problems for example? What are the pros and cons of each method of storage?</p>
  
  <p>In terms of the size of data, in this case I am looking in the region of "a few pages" of HTML and images less than about 500kb in size (probably a lot smaller though). Enough to produce your average article/blog entry/etc scale web page.</p>