Introducing Remote BLOB Storage
Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) is a library API set designed to move storage of large binary data (BLOBs) from Microsoft SQL Server to external storage solutions. RBS is incorporated as an add-on feature pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express, and later SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Express.
Using RBS, applications can store large amounts of unstructured data (such as Office documents, PDF files, or videos) and enjoy both the relational capabilities of SQL Server and the scalability of a dedicated blob store. Best of all, developers do not have to write the code to handle the job of tying together the SQL metadata and the blob data. RBS handles the transactional consistency ...
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