Working with Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) Using SQL Server and ADO.NET

July 28, 2008

Sometimes, your data is not limited to strings and numbers. You need to store a large amount of data in a SQL server table. Documents, raw files, XML documents and photos are some examples. SQL sever provides special data types for such large volumes of data. In this article, I will discuss how to read and write Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) using SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET.

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