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Hi guys I'm currently looking at some code that stores files in a CLOB/BLOB in our OpenEdge database, or save them on the filesystem. Saving them in the database seems wrong to me. The current decision to store files in the database, are driven by the fact that we can't easily access system when we deploy to an cloud environment. But I think that decision was perhaps not based on good arguments, because OpenEdge can of course always some part of the OS to read Pl-files, R'codes, etc. So configuring a folder to store files, can always be done. Am I paranoid about saving files in the database? Or should I go ahead and refactor this part of our application? Love you hear you pro's and con's, since I'm a bit stuck in between the two options 
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