| title | SQL Server binary and large-value data |
|---|---|
| description | Describes how to work with large value data in SQL Server. |
| ms.date | 08/15/2019 |
| ms.assetid | e00827b3-7511-4b2d-91d7-851ca86cc6b5 |
| ms.prod | sql |
| ms.prod_service | connectivity |
| ms.technology | connectivity |
| ms.topic | conceptual |
| author | David-Engel |
| ms.author | v-daenge |
| ms.reviewer | v-kaywon |
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SQL Server provides the max specifier, which expands the storage capacity of the varchar, nvarchar, and varbinary data types. varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) are collectively called large-value data types. You can use the large-value data types to store up to 2^31-1 bytes of data.
SQL Server 2008 introduces the FILESTREAM attribute, which is not a data type, but rather an attribute that can be defined on a column, allowing large-value data to be stored on the file system instead of in the database.
Modifying large-value (max) data in ADO.NET
Describes how to work with the large-value data types.
FILESTREAM data
Describes how to work with large-value data stored in SQL Server 2008 with the FILESTREAM attribute.