{"id":611,"date":"2010-02-04T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/Filestreams-Remote-Blog-Storage-and-SQL-Server-2008-R2.aspx"},"modified":"2013-02-22T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T02:42:21","slug":"filestreams-remote-blob-storage-and-sql-server-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/filestreams-remote-blob-storage-and-sql-server-2008-r2\/","title":{"rendered":"Filestreams, Remote Blob Storage, and SQL Server 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAs long as I&#39;m blogging about filestreams&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFolks always want to know if the filestream information can be stored on a remote share. They look kind of disappointed when they hear that the filestream filegroup must exist on a local (to the SQL Server instance) drive. However&#8230; (isn&#39;t there always a however?)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor SQL Server 2008, the SQL Server team released a companion feature to filestream called remote blob storage (RBS). RBS consists of a set a stored procedures and an SDK that allows you to store your blob on a remote blob store. The SDK works differently than the filestream storage feature. And, to use the feature, you need a RBS blob store provider. Looking around, EMC<sup>2<\/sup> has an RBS provider for the Centera product line. And there&#39;s a sample provider and code to use it up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/sqlrbs\">on CodePlex<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe SQL Server team released the first version of RBS as part of the SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey&#39;d always said they&#39;d be bridging the gap between filestream storage and RBS in future. We&#39;ll&#8230;the future is soon (or now, depending on how much you like CTPs). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/default.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">November CTP of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack<\/a> comes with an RBS provider for Filestream. You still have to use the RBS APIs, but you can have your (filestream) cake and eat it too. Remoting. There&#39;s little info right now, but there are a number of postings on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlrbs\/\" class=\"broken_link\">RBS team&#39;s blog<\/a>.&nbsp; Including a comparison of filestream storage and RBS. In addition, RBS&nbsp;&amp; filestream&nbsp;appears to hook into SharePoint 2010, but I&#39;ll leave the description of that to the <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ee748607(office.14).aspx\">SharePoint 2010&nbsp;documentation<\/a> (which has just been updated today).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd, BTW, if you were going to ask &quot;Are features that appear in the SQL Server Feature Packs supported?&quot;, the answer is yes. 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