>>>@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/ > >Its interesting for reading files, but how to write them?