Bill,

Take a look at How to work with Image field type on SQL Server (binary data)? FAQ #7995

>I am attempting to store fax images (.TIF) to a SQL Server image column, and be able to restore the images to a .TIF file and process them in the Kodak ImageAdmin viewer.
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>I have successfully stored the images to SQL (at least it seems as though I have done so) but have had little success extracting them from SQL.
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>I have tried many different approaches that were far from effective.
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