How do I insert/retrieve Excel files to varbinary(max) column in SQL Server 2008?

Question

I\'m trying to save Excel files into the database, I do not want to use filestream as it is required to have a server for that.

So how do I insert/update/select into

Answer 1

It depends on the data access technology you are using. For example, if you use Entity Framework, you can just save a byte array into the database using objects.