The Art of SQL Server FILESTREAM - Red Gate Software

Chapter 2: Getting Started with FILESTREAMWith this in mind, let's get started! If you have followed all the sample scripts so farand executed them in SSMS, you will have a FILESTREAM-enabled table containinga FILESTREAM column. So, before we move ahead with storing BLOB data in theFILESTREAM column of our table, let us rebuild it to make sure that everything is set upcorrectly (Listing 2-17).-- Drop the table if existsIF OBJECT_ID('Items', 'U') IS NOT NULLBEGINDROP TABLE ItemsENDGO-- Create the tableCREATE TABLE [dbo].[Items]([ItemID] UNIQUEIDENTIFIER ROWGUIDCOLNOT NULLUNIQUE ,[ItemNumber] VARCHAR(20) ,[ItemDescription] VARCHAR(50) ,[ItemImage] VARBINARY(MAX) FILESTREAMNULL)GOListing 2-17:Creating a table with a FILESTREAM column.SQL Server 2005 enhanced the OPENROWSET() function with a very powerful attribute:BULK. The BULK attribute can be used to load the content of an image file on disk into aVARBINARY(MAX) column, and then insert it into a FILESTREAM column.We'll use the BULK attribute to load the image of a Microsoft mouse (Figure 2-4) into theFILESTREAM column of the Items table. (You can find this image in the sample imagedownload file available at http://brurl.com/fs4 and extract it into C:\TEMP folder if youdo not want to change the code given in the sample snippet.)73