GZip decompression of SQL database blob
<p>I'm trying to load a .mbtiles database into a C# application, and relevant data that I need to finalise my project is stored in a var_blob column in my database. I've been told that the data is compressed and GZip should be able to decompress it, but I can't seem to find anything relating to this.</p>

<p>I'm not even sure how to go about doing this. Do I try and load the (rather large) blob in as a string and then use a byte array? Just typing that out makes it sound ridiculous.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance.</p>

<p><strong>Edit:</strong> for reference the database is an SQLite db.</p>