DB Design :: Can Use Another Server / Disk To Store Files Using FileTable Concept?
May 11, 2015
I tried samples of FileTable in SQL Server 2012 to store files in database. I have following questions.
1. When I right click on FileTable, and say Explore File Table Directory, I was taken to a directory. But if I search the same directory in my server/machine, the directory is not available.
2. Can I use some external server/disk as a directory for FileTable?
3. How easy is to use FileTables using .Net web applications?
Hello, I have been having a bit of trouble finding help on the safestway to move data files to a different disk on the same server. Mosthelp is about moving data files to a different sqlserver. I just wantto move the files to a different drive on the same server. Any helpwould be appreciated.Thanks,David
I am new to Full-Text Searches and FileTables. I am working on a resume search system. I created a FileTable and the Share which contains about 51,000 resumes in Word (DOC/DOCX), PDF and TXT formats that were copied over from our main file server. I followed the instructions on adding the Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0, and all searchable file types are listed in sys.fulltext.document_types.
I have a program that searches resumes by First and Last Name and/or E-mail Address. For a while, we thought it was working fine because we were getting hits, but then we noticed some Names and E-mail Addresses we new existed were not showing up in my CONTAINS queries -- but we verified the documents do exist and the Names exist in the File Name and inside the document along with the E-Mail address.
One example I'm working on now cannot find the First/Last Name with CONTAINS(name,"lastname") in a Word DOC file, but I can find the document using LEFT(name,5) = 'Smith'. It's a Word DOC file. For testing purposes, I opened the DOC file in Word, then used Save As to create a TXT and DOCX file within the same folder. Now, both of those are showing up in the CONTAINS but not the original DOC file.
Actually I am planning to prepare a repository of different files like .xls, .pdf, .doc, .ppt etc and then i will have a web interface to access these files. Can anybody guide me, How can i store these flat files in datbase.
I have html files which want to store in database SQL Server with data type image. How store and receive html file from database SQL Server by ASP.NET. Data type image is pointer 16 bit to file html. So where will content of files html with their image store ? Can I help you.
I just want to store pic.bmp file in server using image datatype but don't getting how to do that .. i want to know about both the actions storing and retrieving from the image data type.. like
create table amit ( im image, );
insert into values ()... select * form Amit will it work...
I want to control the size of ldf files and mdf files of several databases on SQL Server 2008 in my organization (manual increase), but i have a question:
What would be the best practices (best methods) for provisioning a ldf file and mdf file? Exists any generic formula?
With this i want to avoid the shrink operation and the autogrow of sql server databases...
Before going in to details i like to understand more about concept anddesign of this database. Most books go directly in to details.Please, can a current admistrator gife me information on this?Thanks in advance,Dick vd Spek email: Join Bytes!
What is the equivalent for Oracle's nested table concept in SQL Server ? Is there anything like TABLE( ) function to select from nested table as in Oracle ?
Eg in Oracle :
SELECT t.* FROM TABLE(nested_table_datatype) t;
( like the above query used in Oracle PL/SQL and 'nested_table_datatype' is a table datatype created in Oracle using 'create type ...' syntax )
I wanted to ask a question in terms of design (Performance, scalability, maintenance, flexibility etc.) is it better to refernce a document on the actual file system (on a file server) i.e. from a database link to the actual file at a disk location e.g. in the database have something like \fileserver2006 estewtext.txt or C: estewtext.txt
or is it better to store all the files in a database as blobs?
The Question i would like to ask is more in the context of desigining a document management system?
It is obvious that putting multiple database files on different physical disk is better for performance, but what about splitting the data on different files on the same disk?
I have got a database of about 20GB and only a single data file. will I benefit from splitting this file to multiple files on the same disk?
I have a sql server 7 running on a machine with two disk partitions (D: and E:).
The data files xxx.mdf and xxx.ldf are stored in D:, which has very few space available. I want to copy these files to E: but I get an error saying that it is not possible to change the source file of a database. Is it possible to do it or do i have to create another data file in E: and keep the old one in D:?
Hello -- I'm building an app that will allow users to create their own photo galleries. At this point, I'm planning on storing all photos as byte arrays in SQL server image fields. Besides the organizational benefit, is there a space benefit to doing this? That is, if I have 1MB of .jpg's, will those same images take up less than 1MB of file space within the database? One of the reasons I ask is that most hosting plans out there seem to offer more "normal" disk space than is allocated for the database, so I'm trying to make a best plan to accommodate what will probably end up being the biggest disk space consumer in my app (the photos, that is). Any other recommendations re: this scenario (hosting, best practices) are appreciated. TIA, Eric
What is the best approach that I can take for the below requirement.
I am designing a tool that basically stores the information of employees. Once a person joins any organization, they need to enter their personal details through this tool.
The basic information that a person is required to enter includes
Now to store the employee photo and their educational certificates, I wanted to know , what would be the right approach.
I have googled on this and came across the concept of Filetable in sqlsever 2012. But it behaves independent of other tables. How would I store employee details and have a reference to filetable that can store images and other docs in a physical location. Or is it a good way of storing images and docs in DB directly.
hello,all I am new to Sql 2000,I installed sql 2000 database in C disk,but Now I found my C disk space is smaller than before,So I want to move my databse(include data and structure) from C Disk to D Disk(its space is very large) . is it possible to do it ? if its can be done ,do I need to change my asp.net program source code (exp: chaneg my crystal report connectstring ) ? thanks in advanced!
can you have constraints as such [CreateBy] [nvarchar](30) NOT NULL DEFAULT (suser_sname()),on a table that has a column store index in SQL Server 2012,2014, or 2016?
I have a three tier system using SQL server 2000, we are currently experiencing IO bottle necks on our SCSI Raid 10 array, which holds the Data and the logs in separate partitions.
So my options as I understand it are:
Get Enterprise edition
or
Get another physical raid 10 array and separate the logs and data i.e. data on one array and logs on the other array.
I would like to try the latter but I am totally unsure how much difference this will make or whether it will make any difference at all.
Does anyone know how much performance increase I will get from using two arrays as opposed to one?
Any other advice on this scenario would be greatly appreciated.
I am looking to store the different forms and data in our database. We have several different forms and contains different information. I am looking for different approaches to model this table structure.
Also, I need to make sure the table structure will allow for new forms.
I have a very large database running in a production environment. The backup files are getting to be very difficult to manage. They are at 70gb as of now and growing at a rate of 10gb per month. This is due to document images being stored in the database in one table. I have read a little about a new feature in SQL Server 2012 called Filetable. Can we migrate to SQL Server 2012 and convert to the filetable structure, will this decrease the size of the backups? Would backup of the document images be taken care of by our nightly file system backups now?
*CV to CVEducation is 1 to Many. CVEducation(CVID) is a foreign key
This is my table named - Level
*LevelID is stored in CVEducation. So, we can know - This education is Diploma or Degree or Masters or so on
This is my table named - StudyField
*StudyFieldID is stored in CVEducation. Som we can know - What kind of Education they have.
This is the example of Job Vacancy 1
1- Need Diploma in Chemistry OR Degree in Chemistry.
2- CGPA at least - 2.5
*May be need to store 2 rows with each CGPA
This is the example of Job Vacancy 2
1- Need Diploma in Commerce OR Diploma in Economics OR Degree in Biology
2- CGPA at least - 2.8
*May be need to store 3 rows with each CGPA
How to design my table to store Job Vacancy Minimal Requirement? I know, there's some cases we cannot computerized. But, at least some of Job Vacancy Requirement we can computerized.
I'd like to create a table that will store different order items. Several order items make up one single order. Order items can have 0 or more children (max depth will never be deeper than one). Order items can have up to 150 attributes/values. The way I think this should be done is using XML column instead of the EAV type of model. My table structure currently looks like this:
* child_order_item_id (PK) * parent_order_item_id (FK to child_order_item_id) * order_id (FK to Order table) * product_id (FK to Product table) * price * attribute_XML
How my attribute_XML should look like or how to validate the xml.
Hi All, I want to store files (any kind of file) in DB and retrieve them.What is the best method to do it and also please post sample code as I have never done that. Thanks, Kumar.
Has anyone used sql 7 to store image data? Is it easy to load .tiff files into a sql database using the image datatype? If anyone knows how to do this, please reply.
Hi FriendsCan anyone tell me how to store uploaded files from the user to the SQL database and later give an option of downloading the file probably in the form of a GridView control. How do we write code to allow the user to download the uploaded files. I have written code to upload and store the files into a folder, however, I'm not able to collect data from the folder later and the folder is only accessible offline using the server system which I do not want to happen. Can anyone help me with this?Thanks
I am almost done with a simple page to have a user select a file (using the FileUpload object), give it a short description and associate it with an item from a listbox. Thensave these pieces of data to a new row in a SQL DB. My issue... The SQLSmd.ExecuteNonQuery FAILS... I have got all the fields able to connect and almost save... but for the actual "document" field errors out. The user can select any type of file (image, word, excel, Powerpoint, etc) for storage into the DB. I am not storing a referance to a file or the path to a file but the actual file in SQL.In the DB I have the field (Document) set to a type of VarBinary(8000) in the table. Here is thethe corrisponding code in my app... Dim bArray As Byte...bArray = FileUpload1.PostedFile.InputStream.ReadByte()... SQLCmd.Parameters.Add("@Document", Data.SqlDbType.VarBinary, 8000).Value = bArray...iReturn = SQLCmd.ExecuteNonQuery() ERRORThe first section of the stact trace... [InvalidCastException: Invalid cast from 'System.Byte' to 'System.Byte[]'.] System.Convert.DefaultToType(IConvertible value, Type targetType, IFormatProvider provider) +867 System.Byte.System.IConvertible.ToType(Type type, IFormatProvider provider) +37 System.Convert.ChangeType(Object value, Type conversionType, IFormatProvider provider) +408 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter.CoerceValue(Object value, MetaType destinationType) +896
We've a requirement from our client for converting their paper documents in electronic format. In order to do so, we need to know whether SQL Server 6.5 has a capability of storing documents in HTML or Word(6.0 or later) or PDF format into the database?
In my enviornment i have one database with 6 ndf files and 5 ldf files and one mdf file.Actuvally what i am looking is to merge 6 ndf files into one ndf file and 5 ldf files into one ldf file.is it possible to do like this? , i tried using MOVE and TO option while backup is restorating but getting below error messages.
ERROR: Msg 3176, Level 16, State 1, Line 4 File 'J:NDFabc.ndf' is claimed by 'Finance_data2'(4) and 'Finance_data1'(3). The WITH MOVE clause can be used to relocate one or more files.
