CREATE TABLE `appraisal_files` (\n `idnum` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,\n `time_stamp` timestamp(14) NOT NULL,\n `reference_number` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',\n `source_filename` varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',\n `source_extension` varchar(5) NOT NULL default 'PDF',\n `source_data` longblob NOT NULL,\n PRIMARY KEY (`idnum`),\n KEY `time_stamp` (`time_stamp`),\n KEY `reference_number` (`reference_number`)\n) TYPE=MyISAM
This already is the separate table for the blobs.