in reply to literally saving a file inside a database

Yet another reason is to allow for serving of these files to the web. For example, a wiki might want to take advantage of this.

Or, looked at another way, SharePoint (by Microsoft) is a fancy wrapper around storing files in a database. So is Subversion or CVS or RCS, for that matter.

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