FILESTREAM 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.
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.
Remote BLOB store (RBS) for SQL Server is an optional add-on component that lets database administrators store binary large objects (BLOBs) in commodity storage solutions instead of directly on the server. This saves a significant amount of space and avoids wasting expensive server hardware resources. RBS provides a set of API libraries that define a standardized model for applications to access BLOB data. RBS also includes maintenance tools, such as garbage collection, to help manage remote BLOB data.