Jul 13, 2009 · You would need a CLR stored procedure to do this in SQL Server 2005/2008 or an extended stored procedure (but I'd avoid that at all costs unless you have to) which takes the filename and then inserts the data (or returns the byte string, but that can possibly be quite long).

Feb 9, 2009 · You can call this stored procedure each time you wish to load a binary file into your database. In this article I have shown how to store the binaries of a file in a database.

Apr 1, 2011 · Our tip discussed here just gets you started writing your own SQL CLR objects to do binary file read / write operations. Next Steps Compile, deploy, and use the ProcessBinaryFile stored procedure.

Dec 13, 2010 · I am looking for a stored procedure code that will open a text file, read in several thousand lines, and add the code to a table in the database. Is there a simple way to implement this in T-SQL?

Oct 22, 2008 · Importing binary files is always a challenge in SQL Server. New Author Sergey Benner brings us a technique using bulk loading that has worked well for him.

Jul 17, 2017 · The requirement is to be able to either import or export an image (binary) file to or from SQL Server without using third party tools and without using the BCP (Bulk Copy Program) utility or Integration Services (SSIS). The goal is to use only the database engine capabilities using simple T-SQL code. Solution

Absolutely you can insert and update binary data into a VARBINARY(MAX) field with sqlcmd by using OPENROWSET() pointing to path of file. Do note the file path cannot be dynamically concatenated or passed as a parameter but hard coded as is.

May 18, 2018 · Post the SQL command (s) that are in your -i input file. The -i parameter _Identifies the file that contains a batch of SQL statements or stored procedures. _ You should also post the create table DDL for the table you're importing into. Make sure you're using the proper sqlcmd switches - See the SQLCMD documentation.

Jun 8, 2021 · To enable loading of binary data to SQL Server instance, we need to configure the server with two options: Enable the OLE Automation Procedures option; Assing the BulkAdmin privilege to the user executing the image import process. The script below will do the task under the high-privileged user of SQL Server instance:

Jul 7, 2009 · Yes, if you create a "holding" table with just a single varbinary or image column in it, you can use the bcp utility to upload directly into this table. You'll need to know the file size in bytes before you do this, as it's the answer to one of the prompts. bcp <database_name.schema.table_name> in <your_binary_file> -S server -T