How to insert a blob into a database using sql server management studio

Question

How can I easily insert a blob into a varbinary(MAX) field?

As an example:

thing I want to insert is: c:\\picture.png
the table is mytable

Answer 1

Do you need to do it from mgmt studio? Here's how we do it from cmd line:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Binn\TEXTCOPY.exe" /S < Server> /D < DataBase> /T mytable /C mypictureblob /F "C:\picture.png" /W"where RecId=" /I