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SQL Server 2008 continues the improved support for large object (LOB) data that was introduced in SQL Server 2005. This improvement is driven by Microsoft’s vision for data as well as customer demand. When SQL Server 2000 was first released, it was estimated that all the digital data in the world totaled 1 petabyte (1 million terabytes). Estimates done in 2007 revised that figure to upward of 7 petabytes of digital data stored around the world. Today it appears that everyone has his own personal terabyte, much of it unstructured data. Documents today are born digitally, live digitally, and die digitally—they live their entire life inside a database and sometimes never have a paper representation.
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© 2009 Michael Coles and Hilary Cotter
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(2009). Indexing BLOBs. In: Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1595-0_6
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