Storing images into a database

I need help with storing images in database. In my mdb file, one of the fields is declared as memo. Back in the vb.net program, I have a box declared as RichTextBox. When I paste an image into this RichTextBox and insert that into the mdb file, there is no error occure....but when I went back to the datagrid to load that entry into the datagrid, I found out that the image wasn't stored. In fact, the variable that holds the RichTextBox with the image shows nothing in between the quotes. So the question I have is, how do I store images with texts in the RichTextBox and store that somehow into a database file? One other concern is, once I am able to store the images into the database file, is the VB.NET datagrid able to show the images when populating the datagrid?

I appreciate any help with this problem.

ljCharlie