Let's look at the main disadvantages of storing images in a database table:
- Images cannot be indexed without textual information - Images are large in size (Kb), and can inflate the database tables - Retrieving images from the database table requires passing the image to a separate script, which slows down your page load speed

To summarize, storing images in a database table requires more development and is a messy process. Ideally, you want to store images in a folder, and store the image names and captions in a database table. This way the image information can be indexed and searched, the database table uses up less space and displaying the information on your web page is a lot faster.