How to save PDF files to SQL Server?

Hellow, everyone:

I have PDF files on local hard drive, and want to save them to the table in SQL Server. Can I execute by SQL Server? If yes, how to do that.

Someone said to create a table with IMAGE column, and write PDF files to this table. How about details for this way?

Thanks a lot.

ZYTWhile you can store files inside of SQL Server, I recommend against it. Files are a "complex data type", so you can't sort, index, compare, or do any other practical operations with them. You can however store a UNC name for a file in a database, and there are many parctical things you can do with that.

There are some reasons for considering storing files inside of SQL Server, but they are few and far between and all of the reasons that I know about are kludges to address application design flaws. If you can avoid the headaches associated with storing files inside your database, I'd recommend avoiding it!

-PatP|||Hi, Pat:

Thanks for reply.

I have to save PDF files to SQL Server, and then retreive/dispaly them. Because security issue, the PDF files are not allowed put in web server, so frontend code cannot read them. PDF files are in database server.

Can you offer codes that can write/read PDF to/from SQL Server? Thanks a lot.

ZYT