I have a table Table1 which has a Col called "Msg" datatype image<binary>. Msg alreay has the plain text or RTF text as a image datatype (binary)If I execute the following query "Select Msg from Table1 where id =3" then this query is returning the following ASCII/Binary data.Msg = "0x7B5C727466315C616E73695C616E7369637067313235325C64656666305C6465666C616E67313033337B5C666F6E7474626C7B5C66305C6673776973735C66707271325C66636861727365743020417269616C3B7D7B5C66315C6673776973735C66707271325C666368617273657430204D6963726F736F667420"Can any body tell me how can I convert the above binary data to plain text from my query?Thanks for any reply.
I am using a varchar datatype for PIN number to handle zero at start. Now i want to do mathematical calculation to encrypt the PIN so i need to convert that varchar datatype to int so that zero should not be discarted after conversion. i.e. 0123 and 123 must not be treated as same PIN.
Please kindly give me a way out. I am using RSA encryption.
Hi, I have a talbe with a column type varchar(8000). i am facing problems sometimes as it corsses the limit also have the problems with special characters. so i went through few articles and been advised to use xml datatype. but when i am changing comumn name from varchar (8000) to xml as: alter table tblStudentForm alter column FormDetails xml not null i am getting following error: Msg 9400, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 XML parsing: line 46, character 402, unexpected end of input The statement has been terminated.
Need to fetch the date from parent table to chile table. This is the script ....
case When @AccountingDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@AccountingDate , 101) END, Case When @InventoryDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@InventoryDate,101) END, Case When @StatusDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@StatusDate,101) END, Case When @LastInstallmentDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@LastInstallmentDate,101) END, Case When @RetailFirstPayDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@RetailFirstPayDate,101) END , Case When @LeaseFirstPayDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@LeaseFirstPayDate,101) END , Case When @DayToFirstPayment IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@DayToFirstPayment,101) END , Case When @EntryDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@EntryDate,101) END , Case When @DealBookDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@DealBookDate,101) END , Case When @RealBookDate IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE CONVERT (varchar,@RealBookDate,101) END
Hi I have a varchar(8000) and currently XML files are stored in varchar(8000).Some times when i am doing manuplactions in my varchar column i am getting with special characters error. so now i want to keep my column varchar(MAX) and when i am doing calculations i will convert my varchar datatype to xml datatype. By doing this i hope there wont be any special character problems. When i am doing calculations with the wellformed xml i am getting error for both convert and cast methods as below I am trying to do convert(xml,MyVarcharColumn) Implicit conversion from data type xml to nvarchar is not allowed. Use the CONVERT function to run this query. Also i tried with casting and getting same problme. is there any way to convert
I'm trying to convert a column in my source table of datatype varchar(6) to a column of datatype int in my destination. I tried using the Derived Column/Data Conversion transformations but none of them worked. So, I tried using the following C# (credits to the original poster) and getting an error during compilation.
Note: "MyCol" is the Input Column I've specified in the Script Component and "CleanCol" is the Output column I've specified as datatype [DT_I4].
public override void Input0_ProcessInputRow(Input0Buffer Row) { int colOut = 0; if (!Int32.TryParse(Row.MyCol, out colOut)) { Row.CleanCol_IsNull = true; } else { Row.CleanCol = colOut; } }
The best overloaded method match for 'int.TryParse(string, out int)' has some invalid arguments
The other expression I've tried was:
ISNULL(MyCol) ? (dt_i4)"" : (dt_i4)MyCol
From the above code, you might have understood that the source field has some blank records as well in the MyCol field.
What is the best possible way to do the conversion from a String to Int or fixing the error from the above.
I have a table that contains a lot of demographic information. The data is usually small (<20 chars) but ocassionally needs to handle large values (250 chars). Right now its set up for varchar(max) and I don't think I want to do this.
How does varchar(max) store info differently from varchar(250)? Either way doesn't it have to hold the container information? So the word "Crackers" have 8 characters to it and information sayings its 8 characters long in both cases. This meaning its taking up same amount of space?
Also my concern will be running queries off of it, does a varchar(max) choke up queries because the fields cannot be properly analyzed? Is varchar(250) any better?
Should I just go with char(250) and watch my db size explode?
Usually the data that is 250 characters contain a lot of blank space that is removed using a SPROC so its not usually 250 characters for long.
I have a field in a table that stores date of birth. The field's datatype is char(6) and looks like this: 091703 (mmddyy). I want to convert this value to a datetime datatype.
What is the syntax to convert char(6) to datetime?
Hi,I created a table with one column being that of an 'image' data type. The problem is I don't know how to insert an image into that column. Pleas Help.
I don't know much about the image data type in sql server 7.0. is there any article on the net which i can read. i want to store some images in the database and don't know how to do that?
Hi!! Im psyche34. :confused: I was confused on what to do on a Image datatype. I had created a dummy database name "DUMMY_DB" On that database I created a table name TB1 having a fields name: Picture as image Text as text through queries I insert a value to each field but the problem I can't insert a value on column Picture.
What value would I insert on the field "Picture" Is it the directory where the picture was stored??
Hi, I have a table with ntext and image datatype. I did BCP out succesfully but when I try to to BCP in, I am getting error. ---------- Starting copy... SQLState = 22005, NativeError = 0 Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for cast specification SQLState = 22005, NativeError = 0 Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for cast specification SQLState = 22005, NativeError = 0 ------------------ I read somewhere that I can use BULK INSERT with a format file. Can someone suggest how to BCP in siccesfully or How does the format file looks like for this kind of task?. I am using SQL Server 2000. --------- Here is my table structure.. ----------- CREATE TABLE [dbo].[NOTIFY_TEMPLATE] ( [ID] [numeric](28, 0) NOT NULL , [SENDER] [varchar] (128) NOT NULL , [SUBJECT] [varchar] (512) NOT NULL , [BODY] [ntext] NOT NULL , [PRIORITY] [numeric](28, 0) NULL DEFAULT (2), [ENABLED] [numeric](28, 0) NULL DEFAULT (1), [LANGID] [numeric](28, 0) NOT NULL DEFAULT (0), [NOTIFY_TYPE] [numeric](28, 0) NULL DEFAULT (0), [REQUEST_TYPE] [numeric](28, 0) NULL , [CUSTOMIZED] [numeric](28, 0) NOT NULL DEFAULT (0) ) ON [DATA1] TEXTIMAGE_ON [DATA1]
I have image type col.I'm trying to do the following,DECLARE @Data varbinary(16)SET @Data = (select imageCol from Table1 where id=3)As image datatype returns varbinary value, so I want to store image col value to a varbinary variable(or any other type variable, eg., varchar). But getting following error,========================================Server: Msg 279, Level 16, State 3, Line 2The text, ntext, and image data types are invalid in this subquery or aggregate expression.========================================Is there anyway to store image datatype value to a variable?Cheers.
Is there any method to find out the size of an image datatype currently in the database. For example I have 2 tables that contain the same image, but the archive table is not displaying the same as the main. I am thinking the image file was corrupted somehow but don't know how to check this out. Any ideas?
I have a table with an IMAGE datatype. Without using xp_cmdshell and bcp, is it possible to get this image to disk? We do have the OLE procedures enabled so I can use those to create in instance of the Scripting.FileSystemObject and write to disk but how do I convert the image datatype to something I can store on disk and it actually be a readable format? If it helps, we only store this particular field in JPEG format in the database.
Hi all,I have a database with 40GB of binary objects stored in image columnsin two tables.Our database server is also used for another 15 databases.SQL Server caches the image-column, causing the cache-hit-ratio todramatically decrease, since fetching a couple of binaries from theimage-column uses up thememory, and throws other cached objects out of the cache.Is there a way, and could someone tell me how, to avoid caching ofspecificcolumns/tables?Regards///Magnus
Hi,I want download photos (image datatype) from a SQL-2000 databaseinto windows based jpeg files (one for each record). Just wondering isthere any way of doing this without using TEXTCOPY?Michael
