Open a picture from within a database?

I've previously posted this in the database development section, but haven't recieved any responses.....

Okay.... I'm making a database app. which displays certian fields from a table within the database, but I also need to display a picture that corresponds with these fields. I believe I saw somewhere that it was possible to open a picture from within the database. How do I do this?
Also, would this be quicker/more efficent(in terms of disk space) than opening the image from the hardrive?....Ex.-instead of opening from the database- each row has an id field, so I could tell the application when the id is "1435" to open "1435.jpg" from the hardrive.

Thanks in advance...

P.S.- I'm using ADO.
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Mitchell Hayenga
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[This message has been edited by mhayenga (edited 02-04-2000).]