Hello Folks,
I have a database with large tables that contain attachments of various kinds of files such as *.doc, *.docx, *.xlsx, *.jpg, *.pdf, *, *.jpeg. Overtime this database has grown so quickly and quite a handful to maintain.
I've been thinking of a proper approach to redesign the database's tables' struct with a little change on the application side.
How do you implement an idea in which the physical file attachment is not appended to these tables but instead just a path to that file which is located in another storage drive? Hence, the column's data type could be just a string rather than an image.