Reducing the photo size

Question

I am recording the photos taken by my application in the sqlite database, know that it is not much recommended more need to transfer these photos to a central database that unifies all data of all applications.

The way I am reducing and recording in the sqlite database is this way:

 Bitmap bitmap = (App.bitmap);
 MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
 bitmap.Compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.Jpeg, 100, stream);
 byte[] ba = stream.ToArray();
 string bal = Base64.EncodeToString(ba, Base64.Default);

App.bitmap gets the photo taken on time in the Onactivityresult method. After that I write to the bank passing the variable "bal".

The problem is time to fetch this image, in my select I get the following error:

Java.Lang.IllegalStateException: Couldn't read row 0, col 0 from CursorWindow. Make sure the Cursor is initialized correctly before accessing data from it.

Searching the internet this error is returning because of the size of the cursor that have at most 2MB.

Am I compacting the image wrong? Or is the way I’m getting the photo in select wrong?

My select is as follows:

  private void MostraFoto()
    {
        players = new ArrayList();
        clslogin abrir = new clslogin();

        //ultimoatend();
        var path = System.IO.Path.Combine(System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal), abrir.Nome_banco);
        _connection = new SQLiteConnection(new SQLitePlatformAndroid(), path);
        sqldb = SQLiteDatabase.OpenDatabase(path, null, DatabaseOpenFlags.OpenReadwrite);

        sqldb = SQLiteDatabase.OpenOrCreateDatabase(path, null);


        Android.Database.ICursor sqldb_cursor = null;
        sqldb_query = @"select foto,descricao from  foto
        where lugar_id = '"+abrir.Id_lugar+"' and pessoa_id = '"+abrir.Id_pessoa+"'";
        sqldb_cursor = sqldb.RawQuery(sqldb_query, null);

        if (!(sqldb_cursor != null))
        {

        }

        if (sqldb_cursor.MoveToFirst())
        {   
             foto = (sqldb_cursor.GetString(0));
            descricao = (sqldb_cursor.GetString(1));
        }
    }

Without fetching the photo select does not return the error mentioned above. I count your help.