putting Word docs, etc in DB

We have a project when multiple people in the company will
want to look at Word documents, other text files, maybe
Excel spreadsheets.
Would it be best to put the location of the files in a
database and have our network mappings set up for anyone
in the company can see these files
or
Has anyone put the actual Word document in a SQL Server
(store the binary data in an Image data type) and then
tried using that to bring up the Word document? I think
storing the data from the file into an Image data type
should be fine, but I'm not sure how you'd get Word to
work with the data in the database and display the
contents.
The first option will work but there are some networking
issues. I'm just wondering if a database solution might
work and how you'd do that.
TIA,
Doughttp://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2149
"Doug" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have a project when multiple people in the company will
> want to look at Word documents, other text files, maybe
> Excel spreadsheets.
> Would it be best to put the location of the files in a
> database and have our network mappings set up for anyone
> in the company can see these files
> or
> Has anyone put the actual Word document in a SQL Server
> (store the binary data in an Image data type) and then
> tried using that to bring up the Word document? I think
> storing the data from the file into an Image data type
> should be fine, but I'm not sure how you'd get Word to
> work with the data in the database and display the
> contents.
> The first option will work but there are some networking
> issues. I'm just wondering if a database solution might
> work and how you'd do that.
> TIA,
> Doug