Question

I’m developing for showing videos and I need to save the video on Sql Server and displaying them with Html5 in my views, is it possible to do so? doea it make any diffrence with downloading files? does it cause much overhead on my server? thanks

Answer 1

If you’re determined to use SQL to store this, then you might want to consider the SQL Server FileStream storage option (Only available in SQL 2008+). There is very little support for this in Entity Framework though, so you would probably want to use something like SqlFileStream object in .NET (assuming you’re using .net)

Here’s a decent article on the subject. But again, I would strongly recommend not store it in the database.

http://lennilobel.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/using-sqlfilestream-in-c-to-access-sql-server-filestream-data/