Physical location of FILESTREAM data

Question

How could I know the physical location (so I can see it in Windows Explorer) path of a FILESTREAM data that I\'ve just inserted into DB?

Answer 1

As Pawel has mentioned, it is not a good idea to access the FILESTREAM files using Windows Explorer. If you are still determined to go ahead and explore this, the following tip might help.

The FILESTREAM file names are actually the log-sequence number from the database transaction log at the time the files were created. Paul Randal has explained it in this post. So One option is to find out the log sequence number and look for a file named after that in the file stream data container.