Thoughts - Saving Word documents in SQL Server?

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From: Peter The Spate (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:29:35 -0800

We actually save our word documents as a binary column in
SQL Server.

Technically it was quite easy to do using VB.NET.

Peter

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>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>One of our departments would like to store their
contracts (currently in
>word format) in a database. Proposed changes can be made
by other departments
>but must be approved by the contracts people. Therefore
changes between the
>old version of the document and the new version must be
easily viewable.
>
>Has anyone had any prior experience of saving word
documents in a database,
>and does this sound like a reasonable thing to provide?
>
>I hope this doesn't seem like a daft question, but its a
route we haven't
>taken before and I'm trying to see whether its a non-
starter.
>
>Many thanks for any thoughts.
>
>Andy
>
>.
>

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