From: William Crawford <wccrawford@...>
Date: 2006-08-24T00:49:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Storing animated .gif images

Patrick Spence wrote:
> I guess I've answered my own question... an animated gif file is 
> actually *several* layered images. No bloody wonder I was getting the 
> aforementioned error when I attempted to store it in the SQL Server 
> table. On the brighter side of things, I've stumbled across a way to 
> store and retrieve other binary files; specifically .jpg's, in a table, 
> w/o resorting to using the ADODB.Stream object. If there's any interest, 
> I'll post the code.

That's not exactly correct.  It's still only 1 file, and you couldn't 
split the file at several points and end up with whole images.

An animated gif is indeed several image pieces in a single file, but 
there's no reason trying to store that file should break anything. 
There no 'EOF' markers or any crazy thing in the middle of the file.

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