What Is the File Extension Blob?

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Tip 1 - What is BLOB (binary large object)? - Definition from WhatIs.com

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Carsten Rode | permalink

For further reading: http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/BLOB ^[1]

Tip 2 - Blob.type

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Tom Moyle | permalink

The type property of a Blob object provides the MIME type of the file. It returns an empty string if the type couldn't determined.

For further reading: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Blob/type ^[2]

Tip 3 - How can I identify a file type from a blob/filestream?

Published: 9 years, 2 month(s) ago | Submitted by Nanthakumar Shanmugam | permalink

We bought an "off the shelf" application a lonnng time ago that is capable of storing files as a blob within SQL Server. We've noticed that the database has more than doubled in size within the pa...

For further reading: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1004203/how-can-i-identify-a-file-type-from-a-blob-filestream ^[3]