FILESTREAM in SQL Server 2008 enables SQL Server-based applications to store unstructured data, such as documents and images, on the file system. Applications can leverage the rich streaming APIs and performance of the file system and at the same time maintain transactional consistency between the unstructured data and corresponding structured data.
Introduces FILESTREAM by describing when to use FILESTREAM, how FILESTREAM storage is implemented and managed, and how FILESTREAM data can be accessed.
Provides a list of topics that show how to enable FILESTREAM on an instance of SQL Server, create databases and tables to support FILESTREAM, and how to use FILESTREAM storage from within the Database Engine.
Provides information about the interaction of FILESTREAM with database snapshots, replication, log shipping, database mirroring, full-text search, failover clustering, and SQL Server Express.