{"id":1077,"date":"2008-03-07T19:10:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/SQL-Server-2008-Changes-to-enabling-FILESTREAM-from-CTP-6-onwards.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-01T19:23:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T03:23:28","slug":"sql-server-2008-changes-to-enabling-filestream-from-ctp-6-onwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sql-server-2008-changes-to-enabling-filestream-from-ctp-6-onwards\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2008: Changes to enabling FILESTREAM from CTP-6 onwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=Verdana size=2><br \/>\n<P>Just over a month ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/sql-server-2008-enabling-filestream-through-t-sql-and-ssms\/\">posted<\/a> on how to enable FILESTREAM in CTP-5 and the pre-CTP-6 build I was working with. Now that&#8217;s all changed! CTP-6 is a hybrid of the CTP-5 method and what will eventually be the methodology in RTM. The changes were made to separate the OS-level configuration from the SQL-level configuration, so a SQL admin can&#8217;t invoke OS-level changes. This makes sense to me.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>In a nutshell, the new way of enabling FILESTREAM will be:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>OS admin enables FILESTREAM when installing SQL Server or through the SQL Server Configuration Manager<br \/>\n<LI>SQL admin enables FILESTREAM in the instance using sp_configure.&nbsp;This will always succeed, but if&nbsp;this is done before the OS-level enabling, then FILESTREAM operations will fail.<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>I won&#8217;t go into all the details as Joanna Omel (the Program Manager for FILESTREAM in the Storage Engine) has blogged about them on the Storage Engine PM team blog &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/sqlserverstorageengine\/archive\/2008\/03\/03\/filestream-configuration-and-setup-changes-in-sql-server-2008-february-ctp.aspx\">here<\/a> for her post.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>More on CTP-6 changes as I hear about them (or trip over them!)<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a month ago I posted on how to enable FILESTREAM in CTP-5 and the pre-CTP-6 build I was working with. 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