Store elements of Imap into BLOB fields using IPersistStream

Question

I have an IMap (include elements: text, line) and I want to store it into a field of a table in SQL, so I can load it again later. I used below codes, but I got an the error :

public class Test 
{
  IStream stream;
  IMap myMap;
  void Save()
  {
    IPersistStream perStream;
    IMemoryBlobStream memoryStream = new MemoryBlobStreamClass();
    stream = memoryStream as IStream;
    perStream = (IPersistStream ) myMap ;
    perStream.Save(stream, 0);  
  }
  void Load()
  {
     IMemoryBlobStream memoryStream = new MemoryBlobStreamClass();
     IPersistStream pstm = new MapClass();  
     pstm.Load(stream); **// throw error: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.**

     myMap = (IMap)pstm;     
  }
}

Are there anyone can help ?

Thanks and regards,

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I found out one way to save elements to an binary file and can load it again later as below codes:

void Save (AxPageLayoutControl pageControl)
{
                IPersistStream perStream;
                IMemoryBlobStream memoryStream = new MemoryBlobStreamClass();

                IGraphicsContainer graphicsContainer = pageControl.ActiveView.GraphicsContainer;
                graphicsContainer.Reset();
                IElement pElement = graphicsContainer.Next();
                while (pElement != null)
                {
                    if (pElement is IMapFrame)
                    {
                        perStream = (IPersistStream)pElement ;
                        perStream.Save(memoryStream, 0);

                        memoryStream.SaveToFile("C:/image.bmp"); 
                        break;

                    }
                    pElement = graphicsContainer.Next();
                }
}

void Load (AxPageLayoutControl pageControl)
{
            IPersistStream perStream;
            IMemoryBlobStream memoryStream = new MemoryBlobStreamClass();
            IGraphicsContainer graphicsContainer = pageControl.ActiveView.GraphicsContainer;
            graphicsContainer.Reset();
            IElement pElement = graphicsContainer.Next();
            while (pElement != null)
            {
                if (pElement is IMapFrame)
                {

                    memoryStream.LoadFromFile("C:/image.bmp");
                    perStream = (IPersistStream)pElement;
                    perStream.Load(memoryStream);
                    IMapFrame frame = new MapFrameClass();
                    frame   = (IMapFrame)perStream;
                    pElement = (IElement)frame;
                    break;

                }                
                pElement = graphicsContainer.Next();
            }
            pageControl.ActiveView.PartialRefresh(esriViewDrawPhase.esriViewGraphics, null, null);
}

But, I am finding a way to convert IPersistStream or IMemoryBlobStream to byte[] format, so I can store in SQL Server and load later. Are there anyone know this ?

Thanks and regards,