Re: Thoughts - Saving Word documents in SQL Server?

From: Andy (Andy_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/06/05


Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 02:41:04 -0800

Thanks for your input Rob.
Its a web based system we're thinking of. Did you open the word document in
IE its self or allow the user to save it offline?

Kind regards,]
Andy

"Rob Meade" wrote:

> "Andy" wrote ...
>
> > Has anyone had any prior experience of saving word documents in a
> > database,
> > and does this sound like a reasonable thing to provide?
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> I've written two simplistic web based document management applications in
> the past for my current employer and neither of them saved the actual
> document into sql server, instead, we saved the file to a file storage area,
> renamed it with a unique id, and stored the information about the document
> in the database, upon retrieval of a file we simply renamed it on the fly.
>
> I can't offer much help with regards to saving a file into SQL alas, but the
> above is a suggestion.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>
>
>



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