Azure Searching On File Attachments

Question

I need to convert some Oracle databases to MSSQL AZURE.

We seem to have most things working except the ability to search on file attachments

Oracle lets us index a column in a table that uses a filepath link.

I got excited in MSSQL when a column in a table can be added using:

[File] VARBINARY(MAX) FILESTREAM
and then an index can be setup so files can then be searched.

I managed to get this working with the Oracle table we had used with this special column.

Unfortunately my optimism was broken when FILESTREAM was not supported on AZURE.

I'm trying to use the same oracle table with this extra column & data & I am hoping if there was a way i could still achieve this on AZURE.

Any ideas if we could still achieve this by searching on the same table?

Answer 1

Hi @OZDBA ,

Yes..Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL Managed Instance currently doesn’t support FileStream and FileTables.
For workloads dependent on these features, you can opt for SQL Servers running on Azure VMs as your Azure target.

Please refer to the following similar post.

1. varbinary(max) (Usually varbinary(max) is not available for files/docs larger than 1MB)
2. Store content of a file in Azure Blob storage and keep paths/urls in table
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36688593/enable-and-configure-filestream-in-azure-sql-db

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Answer 2

Hi,

unfortunately we cannot use Azure VMs. We have got Azure SQL Db