Storing PDF and other Docs. Inside DB vs Outside

Part of our OLTP application allows users to store Statement Of Work as one of several different file formats. When it was first implemented years ago, we stored the file as a BLOB inside the DB. We did not have much use of this feature at first. It has now exploded and we are forced to rethink this discision. should we keep them in the DB or just a file location in the DB and the file on a SAN. The blob field is stored in its own table space and it has grown to over 9Gig. I would like to know how others handle such documents or if there are any White papers with best practices you can point me too.
Thanks
bj

My company has an application that keeps PDFs, HTML files, ASCII files, and JPEGs in the database as BLOBs, and we have customers with over 20 Gigs of BLOBs in it.
Unfortunately I'm more of an implementer than an actual database designer, and even if I did know the details of the design my company would probably get mad at me for posting them on a message board :), but what I can tell you from experience is that most of our customers wish we would store MORE of our documents in the database. We still have report layouts, chart definitions, print layouts etc. that are stored on a network drive and I can't tell you how many tonguelashings i get from customers that these aren't stored in a more centralized location.
So naturally there are pros and cons both ways but I can tell you without question that keeping large amounts of document data stored as BLOBs has been done.

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Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.
SAP Version: 4.7EE on AIX DB2
Regards,
Simha

Hi ,
just i searched on SDN forums ,
Please check this link
http://www.sap-img.com/sap-dms.htm
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About DMS
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/30/08a037b9e62417e10000009b38f889/frameset.htm
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6 /
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