SQL Server - How to insert into Varbinary(Max) column?

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I have a table that looks as follows below. I don't really want to create a C# application to insert rows into this table, if I can avoid it, because of the VarBinary column. My intent is to store a Crystal report .RPT file in this column. Is there a T-SQL statement I can execute to insert/update rows into this table, and include an .RPT file?

CREATE TABLE [Report].[MesReport](
    [MesReportID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [ParentID] [int] NOT NULL,
    [ReportTitle] [nvarchar](80) NOT NULL,
    [ReportName] [nvarchar](80) NOT NULL,
    [DatabaseServer] [nvarchar](80) NOT NULL,
    [DatabaseName] [nvarchar](50) NOT NULL,
    [Login] [nvarchar](80) NOT NULL,
    [ReportFile] [varbinary](max) NULL,

Martin Smith · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-03 14:43:10Z

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You can get it into a variable like

DECLARE @VB varbinary(max)
SELECT @VB =BulkColumn FROM OPENROWSET(BULK
     N'C:\YourReport.rpt', SINGLE_BLOB) AS Document

that you can then use in an insert statement

answered Aug 3, 2010 at 14:43

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