Thanks, Frankie!!!
I would do that EXACT same operation IF I owned the database.
Since I am using Cloud Services, I share the database server with many others so I can't change nor configure the database server to my liking. Same holds true for the Apache and PHP configurations.
I am always looking for workarounds. In this case, it looks like the tables are configured for Barracuda file storage even though the database variables are not set for defaulting to Barracuda.
Time will tell if this is successful but so far it seems to be working.