Save large binary data effectively into your SQL Server

Sascha Peter Bajonczak
Geek Culture
5 min readApr 7, 2022

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In SQL Server many developers stores binary file data such as audio, video, or simple images. They have one in common, they will use the blob data (varbinary) to store those kinds of data. The problem with this is, that you are limited to 2GB at this. It also slows down the database performance or maybe of your complete database system.

Filestream to the rescue

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Sascha Peter Bajonczak
Geek Culture

Father, Developer,IOT passionist and urban beekeper 🍯🐝