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Over EngineeredA podcast where we explore unimportant programming questions (mostly PHP/Laravel/JavaScript) in extreme detail.. Author: Chris Morrell
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Storing Files in the Database w/ Bogdan Kharchenko and Skyler Katz
Episode 33
Wednesday, 15 October, 2025
Sometimes you have files or other large chunks of data that you need to associate with a record in your database. It might be convenient to just store that as base64-encoded data or HTML in a "longtext" column, but that can eventually cause issues—especially as the table grows. What other options are there?In this episode of Over Engineered, we go back to the show's roots and try to find the absolute best solution to a problem we already have an acceptable solution for.
