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

I know this is an older post but as it still comes up high in the Google search rankings I thought I'd post an answer. Certainly in later versions of SQL (I've not tried this on 2008) you can run the following query:

SELECT      t.name AS 'table',
            c.name AS 'column', 
            fg.name AS 'filegroup_name', 
            dbf.type_desc AS 'type_description',
            dbf.physical_name AS 'physical_location'
FROM        sys.filegroups fg
INNER JOIN  sys.database_files dbf
ON          fg.data_space_id = dbf.data_space_id
INNER JOIN  sys.tables t
ON          fg.data_space_id = t.filestream_data_space_id
INNER JOIN  sys.columns c
ON          t.object_id = c.object_id
AND         c.is_filestream = 1

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