What is a BLOB?

If your answer was Binary Large Object, then you would be wrong. Check out Mike’s comments on History of Database Blobs from the man that created the BLOB, Mr Jim Starkey.

I had the chance to meet Jim a few months ago, and I spent quite some time talking on various database topics. He is one cool guy.

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