Last week I get interesting task to develop. The task was to search input text in PDF file stored in database as FileStream. The task implementation took me some time so I decided to share it with other developers. Here we are going to use SQL Server 2008 R2 (x64 Developers Edition), external driver from Adobe, Full-Text Search technology and FileStream technology.Because this sems a little bit comlicated let`s make this topic clear and do it step by step. 1) Enable FileStream - this part is pretty easy, just check wheter You already have enabled filestream on Your SQL Server instance - if no simply enable it as in the picture below. Picture 1. Enable filestream in SQL Server instance. 2) Create SQL table to store files - mainly ther will be PDF file stored but some others is also be allright. Out table DocumentFile will be created in dbo schema and contain one column primary key with default value as sequential GUID. Important this is out table contains FileSt...
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