You may want to look into the FILESTREAM attribute for the varbinary(max) column

See discusion here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13420305/storing-files-in-sql-server
and more info here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb933993(v=sql.105).aspx


>Hello comunity
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>I need to create a program in my software that can save a file (zip, jpg, doc, pdf ..) in the line of my document .
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>My database can be SQL Server 2012 or 2005.2008 and my front end is in VFP9.
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>I know that in my sql server, table must have a field of type BLOB.
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>How can I create a program in VFP9 that can open Windows explorer to SELECT the file that i want to attach , and save the file on the line where I have the cursor?
>It would also be possible later to extract the file to my hard disk in a place that i choose to open it?
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>Does anyone have or have made a program for this situation that you can share?
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>I appreciate all the help.
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>Best regards
>
>Luis Santos