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Does SQL Express Support Filestream?
The Microsoft SQL Server Express database has a 10 GB space limitation and requires FILESTREAM to be enabled. If you install your own SQL Server Express instance, you must enable FILESTREAM. For a local SQL Server database, the Management Server Upgrade and Installation Wizard can enable FILESTREAM for you.
What is a Filestream?
A FILESTREAM filegroup is a special filegroup that contains file system directories instead of the files themselves. These file system directories are called data containers. Data containers are the interface between Database Engine storage and file system storage.
What is replication mirroring?
Mirroring is the copying of data or database to a different location. While replication is the creation of data and database objects to increase the distribution actions.
How to setup SQL server replication for FILESTREAM database?
In the feature selection page, select ‘SQL Server Replication’ as per the following image. Once we have installed the SQL Server replication component, we can start the configuration of SQL Server replication for the FILESTREAM database.
Can a column be replicated without the FILESTREAM attribute?
A varbinary (max) column that has the FILESTREAM attribute enabled at the Publisher can be replicated to a Subscriber with or without the FILESTREAM attribute. To specify the way in which the column is replicated, use the Article Properties – dialog box or the @schema_option parameter of sp_addarticle or sp_addmergearticle.
How does merge replication work in SQL Server?
Merge replication: In merge SQL replication, we can make changes to the data in the publisher and the subscriber as well and later all the data synchronizes between the publisher and the subscriber In this article, we are going to configure transactional SQL Server replication for the FILESTREAM database.
Where is the data stored in SQL server replication?
By default, SQL Server replication converts FILESTREAM to MAX data types. In this configuration, we cannot store the FILESTREAM data at the file system on the subscriber database. We need to change the configuration as below. Now we are ready to create the subscription. Right click on the publication and create a new subscriber.