Tag: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

FILESTREAM – Considerations, Restrictions and Limitations

There are considerations, restrictions and limitations to use FILESTREAM. They are listed below:

Works as it is or with some considerations

  1. SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) – uses DT_IMAGE SSIS, can use import and export column transformation
  2. Log Shipping – supports – both primary and secondary servers must run MS SQL Server 2008 or above
  3. SQL Server Express – supports
  4. Full Text Indexing – works if there is an additional column in the table with filename extension for each BLOB
  5. Failover clustering – FILESTREAM filegroup must be on a shared disk, enable FILESTREAM on each node hosting FILESTREAM instance

Limited work

  1. Replication – use NEWSEQUENTIALID(), Merge Replication synchronization over https using Web Synchronization has 50 MB limit
  2. Distributed Queries and Linked Server – can not use PathName() for four part name
  3. Contained Database – requires extra configuration outside database, hence not fully contained

Does not work

  1. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) – does not work
  2. Database Snapshots – does not work with FILESTREAM filegroups
  3. Database Mirroring – does not support

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