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To BLOB or Not To BLOB: Large Object Storage in a Database or a Filesystem

While attending a class on SQL Server, I was introduced to a paper from Microsoft Research (authors are Russell Sears, Catharine Van Ingen and Jim Gray) that discusses whether to store large objects in a filesystem or in a database, depending on the size Read More...
Posted Monday, March 16, 2009 4:29 PM by josebda | 0 Comments
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SQL Server Remote Blob Store (RBS) available as part of the Feature Pack RC0 for Microsoft SQL Server 2008

As I mentioned in a previous blog post at http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/03/17/sql-server-2008-and-unstructured-data.aspx , SQL Server 2008 introduces new options to store unstructured data, in addition to the current BLOB support we have Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:20 AM by josebda | 3 Comments
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SQL Server 2008 and Unstructured Data

SQL Server 2008 introduces two new options to store unstructured data, in addition to the current BLOB support we have in SQL Server 2005. IMAGE Back in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7 days, we used the IMAGE data type to store binary large objects (a.k.a. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 12:20 PM by josebda | 3 Comments
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The Legend of the Single, Multi-Terabyte, Replicating SharePoint Database

Documents in Databases The first time I tell anyone that SharePoint Server 2007 stores documents as blobs (binary objects) in the database, people stare at me for a few seconds and usually ask: "Really?" It takes a few moments to explain that this is Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:20 PM by josebda | 1 Comments

Unique Document URLs in MOSS 2007

I'm currently working on a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation at a large customer that uses LiveLink. They need a feature not currently available out-of-the-box in SharePoint, so these are some ideas on how we're planning to do it. Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 23, 2006 8:53 AM by josebda | 1 Comments
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