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Oliver wang
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Posted - 2012-05-21 : 05:55:37
Hi everyone,

Does anybody know how to store a picture or a file(say, word file) into a table. Let's suppose the file is located in c:\, and is there anyway to transfer it into varBinary and then store? Thanks for your help.

regards,

Oliver

visakh16
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52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-05-21 : 16:42:48
use varbinary(max) for datatype. but why do want to store it in database itself?

Also have a look at FILESTREAM option

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Oliver wang
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Posted - 2012-05-21 : 22:15:13
Thank you for your reply, visakh. Actually I'm doing a test about full text index. Yes, the datatype is Varbinary(max), but I want to know whether we can use T-SQL scripts to insert word documents into a table. Then I can do a full text search with a key word for the document that I'm interested in. Could you please give more advice? Thanks a lot.

regards,

Oliver
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