That's close to evil!

Nice post!

Shane, that question made my eyes hurt!

Hugo, that answer is why I love reading the QOTD, the follow on discussion is always worth reading. But I only see a closing...

Agree on all the above, but wanted to add that "planning for unexpected transparency" isn't a bad idea. Keep only the data you need to keep, play fair with employers...

What does it take to identify and mitigate those risks? Is it having CU1 or SP1? 6 months on the market? Even if you're upgrading from 2008 to 2012 there...

Spelled subscription wrong:-)

Its interesting to see MS moving to the subscription model and doing so at reasonable prices. For most employees Im not sure it matters - they get a...

Joe, it's hard for me to visualize that change. My instinctive thought is that going in that direction is wrong, we should stay focused on the problem domain of data...

Eric, that's interesting, never thought about it in that way. Still thing if I agree, seems like one category missing - I just dont know what it is yet!

Sean, agree your example is a valid one. Some people found it useful even with all the limitations, the rest of us look at it and wait/hope for the improvements...

Jeff, I've always been a fan of storing them in the db, but it's never one size fits all. The system I support now has 200+ TB - yes, TB...

Jiri, I'm glad you enjoyed the questions! I may write about it (should have done it at same time I wrote the questions). You may this free book useful: https://www.red-gate.com/community/books/art-of-filestream.

Dale, all you can do is evaluate and go for what looks best overall. Sometimes it works out, sometimes not. I think the hardest part is getting over it and...

No fun without a red herring or two:-)

Makes my day if I can make it seem like its worth digging into!

Filestream - especially the streaming option - is worth some time. Filetable intrigues me. I still want...

Just another reminder how easy it is to get it wrong when writing these!