Store unc path in database

Hi I have an application that needs to store links to files on various servers so I would like to store the unc path in the database - is it possible to get the unc path from the file browse item ?
I can load the files to the database but these files might change
Any thoughts

indhu wrote:
> storing images into database and latter fetching it shows a error. so
> what i thought is instead of storing the image directly into the
> database its better to store the image path. but my problem is how to
> store the image path into the database?can you give me an example
Convert it to a string with Path To String conversion function?
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