>I found this code and I've tried this before on my setup and I got it to work in a test environment.
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>Now, the project is moving forward.
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>However, it occurred to me that on my test setup, the C: drive of the SQL Server and the C: drive of where the file resides are the same.
>
>That will not be true in the production world.
>The file will be on the C: drive of the client W/S.
>Is that an issue or am I conjuring up non-existing issues (again)?
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>If is an issue, how to handle it?
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>
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>INSERT Production.ProductPhoto (
>    ThumbnailPhoto, 
>    ThumbnailPhotoFilePath, 
>    LargePhoto, 
>    LargePhotoFilePath)
>SELECT ThumbnailPhoto.*, null, null, N'tricycle_pink.gif'
>FROM OPENROWSET 
>    (BULK 'c:\images\tricycle.jpg', SINGLE_BLOB) ThumbnailPhoto
>

I got around it by copying the file from the user's hard drive to a shared folder that the server has access to, then doing the bulk upload, then deleting the file from the shared folder.