/// <summary>
/// Writes a BloomFilter as a byte array as well as the number of hash functions used to construct this BloomFilter
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filter">the BloomFilter to write</param>
/// <seealso cref="BloomFilter.Filter"/>
public void WriteFilter(BloomFilter.Filter<long> filter)
{
this.Write(new SqlBinary(filter.convertToByteArray()));
this.Write((short) filter.hashFunctionCount);
}