FILESTREAM
FILESTREAM is a Microsoft SQL Server feature that enables storing unstructured data, such as images, documents, and videos, in the Windows file system while maintaining transactional consistency with the relational data stored in SQL Server. It works by pairing a varbinary(max) column declared with the FILESTREAM attribute with a dedicated FILESTREAM filegroup. Data stored in that column is written as files on a designated NTFS directory, with a pointer kept in the database to maintain transactional integrity.
In a FILESTREAM-enabled database, a FILESTREAM filegroup points to a directory on disk. When a row contains
Setup involves enabling FILESTREAM at the SQL Server instance level, enabling FILESTREAM for the database, creating
Usage considerations include Windows/NTFS requirements, and the fact that FILESTREAM data is not supported in memory-optimized