>@All,
>
>We are investigating whether it would be possible to return a file somewhere that the SQL server service has access to by calling a stored procedure.
>We do not want to store the file itself in the database, but we want to return and store the through simple calls through ODBC.
>
>Is there anything like that possible ? Wihtout using CLR ?
>
>Walter,
Perhaps this can be of help:
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1643/using-openrowset-to-read-large-files-into-sql-server/
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António Tavares Lopes