你的网络服务器(我假设你正在使用)是用来处理图像的，而数据库不是。因此，我会大力投反对票。

在数据库中只存储路径(可能还有文件信息)。

根据我的经验，有时最简单的解决方案是根据主键来命名图像。因此，很容易找到属于特定记录的图像，反之亦然。但与此同时，你并没有在数据库中存储图像的任何信息。

如果这是基于web的应用程序，那么将图像存储在第三方存储交付网络(如Amazon的S3或Nirvanix平台)上可能会有优势。

如果您没有使用SQL Server 2008，并且有充分的理由将特定的映像文件放在数据库中，那么您可以采用“两者兼备”的方法，将文件系统用作临时缓存，并将数据库用作主存储库。

例如，您的业务逻辑可以在提供映像文件之前检查该映像文件是否存在于磁盘上，并在必要时从数据库检索。这为你购买了多个web服务器的能力和更少的同步问题。

I have worked with many digital storage systems and they all store digital objects on the file system. They tend to use a branch approach, so there will be an archive tree on the file system, often starting with year of entry e.g. 2009, subdirectory will be month e.g. 8 for August, next directory will be day e.g. 11 and sometimes they will use hour as well, the file will then be named with the records persistent ID. Using BLOBS has its advantages and I have heard of it being used often in the IT parts of the chemical industry for storing thousands or millions of photographs and diagrams. It can provide more granular security, a single method of backup, potentially better data integrity and improved inter media searching, Oracle has many features for this within the package they used to call Intermedia (I think it is called something else now). The file system can also have granular security provided through a system such as XACML or another XML type security object. See D Space of Fedora Object Store for examples.

尝试使用SQL模拟文件系统通常是一个糟糕的计划。如果您坚持使用文件系统作为外部存储，那么最终编写的代码会更少，结果也会更好。