Hello - I'm currently trying to debug an attachments issue in my company's CRM implementation. To do so it will be helpful for me to understand the architecture of the CRM attachments functionality. There are 2 most likely approaches:
1. The file is saved as a byte[] to the database. The file is returned to the client as a byte stream.
2. The file is stored on the file system and a pointer to the file is stored in the database. When the file is requested a lookup is performed in the database to get the pointer and then the file is returned directly from the server filesystem.
Can anyone here validate which approach CRM 2011 uses as its architecture for managing system attachments?