I've seen plenty of people suggest or question which is better, storing files in a database or outside of a database. Like just about everything, each has trad

I've seen plenty of people suggest or question which is better, storing files in a database or outside of a database. Like just about everything, each has trade-offs. I don't find it immediately obvious that a database would never be used for such a thing, or that reaching for a third party file storage service is the only solution to consider.