Right way to store Image in database through Entity Framework <p>I have converted an image to a byte array using below code to store it in Database </p> <pre><code> if (Request.Content.IsMimeMultipartContent()) { var provider = new MultipartMemoryStreamProvider(); await Request.Content.ReadAsMultipartAsync(provider); foreach (var file in provider.Contents) { var filename = file.Headers.ContentDisposition.FileName.Trim('\"'); var attachmentData = new AttachmentData (); attachmentData.File = file.ReadAsByteArrayAsync().Result; db.AttachmentData.Add(attachmentData); db.SaveChanges(); return Ok(attachmentData); } } </code></pre> <p>Here File column in DB is of type "varbinary(max)" and in EF model it is byte array (byte[]).</p> <p>Using above code I was able to save the image in the File column something similar to "0x30783839353034453437304430413143136303832....." (This length is exceeding 43679 characters which is more than default given to any column so the data got truncated while storing it)</p> <p>I have to change the default length(43679) of column to store it in database.</p> <p>Am I doing it the correct way to retrieve and store image in Database. I was also thinking to store the image as "Base64 String" but 43679 will still exceed.</p> <p>I am using Angular JS to show the image on front end which uses WebAPI to fetch and save the image as ByteArray in database.</p>