Network World

Database Mirroring and FILESTREAM data not allowed – or is it?

In a previous blog entry, I talked about the new FILESTREAM data capability in SQL Server 2008 where we can store Binary Large Object (BLOB) data on the file system but have it transactionally part of ...
Ars Technica

SQL Filestream, what are you?

I had a sql server fail this morning (W2k8r2 Cluster). Can't bring the File Share Resource back online and I've had input that it's related to the Filestream definition. The errors logged seem ...
Ars Technica

SQL Server, varbinary(max), Filegroups and Filestream questions

We have an app that stores documents in the database as a varbinary(max) column. Our current average document size is about 475KB, so these are not large documents by any means, but there are a fair ...
Network World

So you want to store movies in a SQL Server database? Go ahead, make my day.

There has always been the debate as to whether to store binary large object (BLOB) data such as images, documents, audio and video inside the database or outside on the file system. The problem with ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Using FileTables in SQL Server 2012

FileTables, a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012, is a unique table that reflects metadata of files in a specified folder. FileTables is a new feature introduced in SQL Server 2012. It's a ...