Best way IMO to store the image is store it in a folder and put path to it in the database, path being "imagefolder/imagename.ext" if you get what i mean? its so much easier and it can be much quicker i believe. (this is how avatars are given to users on forums if you look at the user database, normally in a column called "Avatar" or something on those lines.

Hope it helps.

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