July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
27h 38m
English
From a programming standpoint, FILESTREAM offers a complete abstraction over the varbinary(max) data type. Thus, applications and frameworks (including Entity Framework) are unable to distinguish between varbinary(max) columns with the FILESTREAM attribute that are stored as files in the file system, and varbinary(max) columns without the FILESTREAM attribute that are stored inside the relational tables. This provides a high level of compatibility between FILESTREAM and existing applications that work with varbinary(max) data.
However, FILESTREAM’s internal integration with the NTFS file system does create unique challenges that affect compatibility with several other SQL Server features. It’s very important ...
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