From: Ellen K. 

Don't know how DB2 or Oracle do it, but in SQL Server although the BLOB
will be on a different page than the row it belongs to, it is not a
separate file.

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:29:10 +0100, Thees Peereboom
 wrote in message
:

>aren't BLOB's stored as separate files by the DBMS?

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