How to retrieve the stored files from sql 2005

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Different type (pdf,doc,xls) of files are stored in sql 2005. How to get back into files with the type when they stored.

Posted 7-Apr-10 20:42pm

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Nicholas Butler · Answer 1 · 2010-04-07T21:14:00

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SQL Server doesn't know anything about file formats. It just stores BLOBs ( Binary Large OBjects ). You read these from the database as an array of bytes. You can save such an array to a file with the right extension using System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes( ... ).

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Posted 7-Apr-10 21:14pm

Nicholas Butler