As far I know Oracle has very good feature to store gif/jpg images in database.
Infact we need to declare datatype as longvar(I am sure about the exact data type name refere Oracle
jdbc doc) which store the data in binary form up some GIGA BYTES.
Basically you will read the gif/jpg file data and put it into longvar.
when ever you want to retrieve the data same read as binary and save as file with specific extention (gif/jpg).
Oracle 7.3 has very good documentation on JDBC where you can also find above information in detail.
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