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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004514 More actions · Answer 1

Jack Corbett (9/2/2009)
Hey, I stumped Gail! Wasn't intentional but when TEXT/NTEXT/IMAGE was mentioned I wondered about Filestream.

Looks like the answer is 'No'

-- Document is a varbinary(max) Filestream column

Create Index idx_TestingFileStreamInclude ON Production.Document (rowguid) INCLUDE (Document)

Msg 1999, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

Column 'Document' in table 'Production.Document' is of a type that is invalid for use as included column in an index.

A normal varbinary(max) is perfectly valid as an include

Create Index idx_TestingVarbinaryInclude ON Production.ProductPhoto (ThumbnailPhotoFileName) INCLUDE (ThumbNailPhoto)

Works fine.

I looked in Books Online, both under filestream and under Create Index, limitation wasn't mentioned anywhere I looked. Didn't hunt too much, easier to try it out.

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 2

Gail,

Thanks for looking it up. I didn't think you could. I think I might have read something about in Paul Randal's blog.

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95461 More actions · Answer 3

%^$^&%#&

Forgot all about the 24 hrs of SQL. Sounds like the presenters did a good job.

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The Dixie Flatline SSC Guru Points: 53354 More actions · Answer 4

I love this one.

Q: Can I use this syntax in SQL?

A: No

Q: Why not?

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 5

Hey Jack,

FILESTREAM support is pretty patchy - the list of core features that don't support it, or support it with caveats is long indeed.

Quite apart from the fact that the data is stored on the file system, the datasize could exceed the 2GB maximum, and FILESTREAM data never makes it to buffer pool anyway (which would make integration with the indexing system tough!) I'm not sure what the case for using it would be anyway. Data which averaged 1MB or more in size wouldn't be a great choice for an INCLUDE: you'd get better performance streaming from the file system. Data which averages 256MB or less might be a different story in some edge cases, but then you wouldn't use FILESTREAM in the first place - just plain varbinary(max).

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Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 6

Shall I ? , i feel mean , but at the same time it is quite simple.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx

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GSquared SSC Guru Points: 260824 More actions · Answer 7

Dave Ballantyne (9/3/2009)
Shall I ? , i feel mean , but at the same time it is quite simple.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx

I get a Page Not Found error from that address.

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 8

Bob Hovious (9/3/2009)
I love this one.
Q: Can I use this syntax in SQL?
A: No
Q: Why not?

Because I said so! 😛

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 9

GSquared (9/3/2009)
Dave Ballantyne (9/3/2009)
Shall I ? , i feel mean , but at the same time it is quite simple.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx
I get a Page Not Found error from that address.

I think this is the url: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx#bm782245

Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 10

GSquared (9/3/2009)
Dave Ballantyne (9/3/2009)
Shall I ? , i feel mean , but at the same time it is quite simple.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx
I get a Page Not Found error from that address.

Sorry the was a CRLF after the URL marker....

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 11

Dave Ballantyne (9/3/2009)
Shall I? I feel mean ,but at the same time it is quite simple.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx

Yikes!!!!

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 12

Lynn Pettis (9/3/2009)
GSquared (9/3/2009)
Dave Ballantyne (9/3/2009)
Shall I ? , i feel mean , but at the same time it is quite simple.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx
I get a Page Not Found error from that address.
I think this is the url: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic781960-338-1.aspx#bm782245

Although he seems a bit confused, I vote no. You've already handed him the answer earlier in the thread, he just hasn't tried it. Perhaps reference him to your earlier suggestion again, without explicit code?

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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184394 More actions · Answer 13

Paul White (9/3/2009)
Hey Jack,
FILESTREAM support is pretty patchy - the list of core features that don't support it, or support it with caveats is long indeed.
Quite apart from the fact that the data is stored on the file system, the datasize could exceed the 2GB maximum, and FILESTREAM data never makes it to buffer pool anyway (which would make integration with the indexing system tough!) I'm not sure what the case for using it would be anyway. Data which averaged 1MB or more in size wouldn't be a great choice for an INCLUDE: you'd get better performance streaming from the file system. Data which averages 256MB or less might be a different story in some edge cases, but then you wouldn't use FILESTREAM in the first place - just plain varbinary(max).
Paul

Thanks Paul.

It all makes sense, but it would be nice to have it documented somewhere, especially since TEXT/NTEXT/IMAGE are mentioned.

Jack Corbett
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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 14

Jack Corbett (9/3/2009)
It all makes sense, but it would be nice to have it documented somewhere, especially since TEXT/NTEXT/IMAGE are mentioned.

Oh I agree. But don't hold your breath for Books Online to be updated - I've waited three years so far for PARSENAME to be documented as non-deterministic...link - and that's with a written acknowledgement that it is incorrectly stated as always deterministic, and would be changed 'in the next BOL refresh'. Sigh.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 738663 More actions · Answer 15

Paul, I'd raise this issue again, and actually I'll make a note of it. They do update things, but it's a big book. I'm not surprised things fall through the cracks.