Best way to store images

• Lempster

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  February 18, 2014 at 4:47 am

  #1689828

  Something to be aware of (which has always prevented me from using FILESTREAM) is that a database cannot be mirrored if it contains a FILESTREAM filegroup. There are a number of other restrictions to take into account:

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb895334.aspx

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  Lempster

• Nadrek

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  February 18, 2014 at 2:29 pm

  #1690056

  TomThomson (2/17/2014)

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  But I can see cases where I would want to have binary data involved in transactional consistency with other data;

  To me the critical question is: Do changes/adds/deletes to the binary data require ACID compliance? If so, thou shalt put them in the database. If not, you have choices to think about.

  If you use "files on file store, link in the database" (whether FILESTREAM or custom coding), I would recommend a regular process that checks validity - i.e. something you can run when you run DBCC CHECKDB to see if the links still lead to files.

• Jeff Moden

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  February 18, 2014 at 9:51 pm

  #1690140

  To me, the critical question is, is the data important whether it changes or not? If so, put it in the database because no one will protect the data better than a DBA. It's going to take disk space in one place or another. It might as well be in a safe place.

  --Jeff Moden

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