MySQL blob: how to get just a subset of the stored data
I would like to use MYSQL as a storage system for a huge number of files. I would like to read/write just a portion of the data stored in a column (data is stored as bytes) so I don't have to load the entire file into the application (because it can be > than a GB). So, in brief, I would like to have random read/write access in a blob column without loading the entire data into memory. Are there functions available to perform these operations? Thank you. MySQL treats blobs the same as strings (more or less) : BLOB values are treated as binary strings (byte strings). They have no character set,