SQL Server binary and large-value data
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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