SQL Server Binary and Large-Value Data
.NET Framework 4.5
SQL Server provides the max specifier, which expands the storage capacity of the varchar, nvarchar, and varbinary data types. varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) are collectively called large-value data types. You can use the large-value data types to store up to 2^31-1 bytes of data.
SQL Server 2008 introduces the FILESTREAM attribute, which is not a data type, but rather an attribute that can be defined on a column, allowing large-value data to be stored on the file system instead of in the database.
In This Section
- Modifying Large-Value (max) Data in ADO.NET
- Describes how to work with the large-value data types.
- FILESTREAM Data
- Describes how to work with large-value data stored in SQL Server 2008 with the FILESTREAM attribute.
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