I need to save WPF FlowDocuments to SQL Server. What is the best format for doing that? String? Blob? Does it matter in a document less than 5K words or so?
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I need to save WPF FlowDocuments to SQL Server. What is the best format for doing that? String? Blob? Does it matter in a document less than 5K words or so?
If you just want to store the FlowDocument objects in a database, without any processing, I would recommend using binary serialization, and storing the resulting byte array into a varbinary(max). This is fast and scales well.
However, if you already have the FlowDocuments as XML files, than it would be easier just to dump them into a nvarchar(max) field, with no (added) serialization/deserialization overhead. This scales trivially for values under 8k, and then performs kinda OK until you hit around the 10MB mark.