title: Is it a good practice to save a base64 string on the Database?
body: <p>i'm developing an android application when the user can send a image to my webservice.</p>
  
  <p>Currently on my WebService i get a Base64 string and save it in a table on my database.</p>
  
  <p><strong>My question:</strong> Is that a good practice? Because as far as i know the Base64 string is a heavy string. My concern is about the db performance, like when this table gets bigger than 10000...100000 records.<br>Or should i avoid this behavior?
  <br>Eg.: Isntead off store the Base64 string on the database, i could recover the image and save only the URL at my db.</p>
  
  <p>Ps: The database is SqlServer
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  Thanks for the help guys</p>