See faq #7995 How to work with Image field type on SQL Server (binary data)?

Sergey,

Interesting article -- I think I will use a remote view!! The only drawback on using a remote view is that it is a web application and I have read that sharing a remote view can lead to some contention issues (in all my desktop apps, the users get there own copy of the remote view DBC).

There will only be 2 to 4 COM servers (using webConnection), so I don't know if the contention issue is serious or not for this scenario.

Thanks for the speedy reply.

Kevin