>@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,

If it is SQL server, then what is wrong with storing the files in the database (while physically they are separately on the disk)? You would then simply read/write them as a regular field. Check FILESTREAM attribute if file sizes are above 1 Mb.