Designing and Implementing FILESTREAM How-to Topics

Much of the data that is created every day is unstructured data, such as text documents, images, and videos. FILESTREAM integrates the SQL Server Database Engine with an NTFS file system by storing varbinary(max) binary large object (BLOB) data as files on the file system. The topics in this section describe how to enable and set up FILESTREAM.

In This Section

• How to: Enable FILESTREAM

• How to: Create a FILESTREAM-Enabled Database

• How to: Move a FILESTREAM-Enabled Database

• How to: Create a Table for Storing FILESTREAM Data

• How to: Set Up FILESTREAM on a Failover Cluster

• How to: Use FILESTREAM in a Firewall-Protected Environment

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Concepts

FILESTREAM Overview