How do I enable Filestream in SQL Server 2016?

How do I enable Filestream feature?

Enabling FILESTREAM Right-click the instance, and then click Properties. In the SQL Server Properties dialog box, click the FILESTREAM tab. Select the Enable FILESTREAM for Transact-SQL access check box. If you want to read and write FILESTREAM data from Windows, click Enable FILESTREAM for file I/O streaming access.

How do I use SQL Filestream?

To use FILESTREAM, you must create or modify a database to contain a special type of filegroup. Then, create or modify a table so that it contains a varbinary(max) column with the FILESTREAM attribute. After you complete these tasks, you can use Transact-SQL and Win32 to manage the FILESTREAM data.

What is Filestream feature in SQL Server?

FILESTREAM, in SQL Server, allows storing these large documents, images or files onto the file system itself. In FILESTREAM, we do not have a limit of storage up to 2 GB, unlike the BLOB data type. We can store large size documents as per the underlying file system limitation.

How do I create a Filestream enabled database?

To create a FILESTREAM-enabled database1In SQL Server Management Studio, click New Query to display the Query Editor.2Copy the Transact-SQL code from the following example into the Query Editor. This Transact-SQL code creates a FILESTREAM-enabled database called Archive. ... 3To build the database, click Execute.