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Storing a document in SQL

  • July 1, 2010 at 9:00 am

    #387260

    Is it possible to store a file in SQL? For example could i store a word file in SQL instead of the path to the word file?

  • July 1, 2010 at 9:10 am

    #1187719

    If you're using SQL Server 2008 or 2008R2, you can use FILESTREAM.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb933993.aspx

    previous versions of SQL Server do not support storing/managing documents right in the database itself.

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  • July 1, 2010 at 11:10 am

    #1187812

    Thanks that will help.

  • July 1, 2010 at 11:44 am

    #1187829

    there's another thread on a very similar subject today:

    Retrieving Large Videos

    15-20MB in a varbinary(max)

    that you should read...

    basically, the filesystem is almost always faster than SQL for storing and retrieving a binary....so you should store the link to the file in the database, and not the binary itself.

    take a look and see some of the recomendations there...it's a good read.

    Lowell

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