How to insert binary data (like images/documents) into a SQL Server database with SQL Server Management Studio?

If you quickly want to insert some binary data (like images, word documents, pdfs) into a database writing a front-end application for this talk might be a bit of an overkill… Fortunately, this is a pretty straight-forward talk in SQL Server Management Studio :-)

The following example updates the Categories table of the good ol’ Northwind database to store the images, updates two categories with images and adds another category and an image.

/* Add anadditional column to the Categories table to store the image */
ALTER TABLE dbo.Categories ADD
     CategoryPicture VARBINARY(MAX) NULL
GO
/* update thetable to insert some images */
UPDATE Categories
SET CategoryPicture =
     (SELECT * FROMOPENROWSET(BULK N'C:\Temp\Beverages.jpg', SINGLE_BLOB) AS CategoryImage)
WHERE CategoryID = 1
UPDATE Categories
SET CategoryPicture =
     (SELECT * FROMOPENROWSET(BULK N'C:\Temp\Condiments.jpg', SINGLE_BLOB) AS CategoryImage)
WHERE CategoryID = 2
GO

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