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Mark Conway Munro, Learn FileMaker Pro 16, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2863-0_10

10. Managing Containers

Mark Conway Munro

(1)Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

A container field is used to store any kind of document. Traditionally, and in some circles to this day, the content of a container is referred to as a binary large object or basic large object, both commonly expressed as the acronym “BLOB,” which is a collection of binary data representing image, audio, or other multimedia files and stored as a single entry in a database.

The options for and behaviors of a container field depend on several factors. Various settings influence how users or scripts insert a file into a container, how that material is stored, and how ...

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