Using SQL Server as Image store

Question

Is SQL Server 2008 a good option to use as an image store for an e-commerce website? It would be used to store product images of various sizes and angles. A web server would

Answer 1

Check out this white paper from MS Research (http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?msr_tr_id=MSR-TR-2006-45)

They detail exactly what you're looking for. The short version is that any file size over 1 MB starts to degrade performance compared to saving the data on the file system.