Data explosion brought a need to store both structured and un-structured data together in the database so that the benefits of the database system (like transactional support, backup and restore support, integrated security support, Full-Text Search support, etc.) can be leveraged. SQL Server 2008 introduced the FileStream data type to store unstructured data, such as documents, presentations, videos, audios and images, on the file system with a pointer to the data in the database.
Storage of un-structured data in FileStream improves the performance by leveraging the NTFS APIs streaming along with additional benefits of the database system.
SQL Server 2012 enhanced this capability even further by introducing FileTable, which lets an application integrate its storage and data management components to allow non-transactional access, and provide integrated SQL Server services - including full-text search and semantic search - over unstructured data and metadata. I am going to talk about these two new features in detail, for more information click here.
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