Setting Up a Database for FILESTREAM Storage
After you enable FILESTREAM for the SQL Server instance, you can store FILESTREAM data in a database by creating a FILESTREAM
filegroup. You can do this when creating the database or by adding a new filegroup to an existing database. The filegroup designated for FILESTREAM storage must include the CONTAINS FILESTREAM
clause and be defined. The code in Listing 42.18 creates the Customer
database and then adds a FILESTREAM
filegroup.
Notice in Listing 42.18 the FILESTREAM
filegroup points to a file system folder rather than an actual file. This ...
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