Extract Text From Sqlserver Varbinary (office Document)
Dec 5, 2007
Hi all,
I've the following scenario:
One Full Text Search enabled SQL Server Table with one image type field that holds document uploaded from users.
The idea is to store binary document(.doc. xls, .pdf, .ppt, html, .xml and so on) and using SQL server full text search i can retrieve record that contains certaind word or words.
I have no problems with them. So imagine i do a simple select * from Documents where a=b and i get one collumn with binary document field.
With this scenario, i want to "extract" that text from that document + 20 words left and 20 right to show user some info and help him to search desired document (not only for its type or title). Like search engines do.
But believe me, i cant find out any component, class or something to do such a thing.
I think, the hard work is done with full text search engine...Sql server has that data, but it can decode
I'm so desperate. I would accept answers such "sorry, it can't be done", from a experienced user, but i need to know
I'm chasing after a documetn that was available on one of the Microsoftwebsites that was titled somethign like "MS SQL Server Best Practices"and detailed a nyumber of best practices about securing the server.Included in this was revoking public access to the system tableobjects.Can someone post the URL where I can pick this up, or drop me a note oncontacting them for a copy of the document?
chapter1 Delegates officially are to nominate Cheney as the GOP's vice presidential candidate before he addresses the group Wednesday night. chapter2 "I think that the vice president's speech tonight is going to be about big issues, the big issues of this campaign -- the war on global terror, the president's education policy, the fact that the economy is turning up again," she told CNN's "American Morning." chapter3 She said she had known her husband since he was 14 and planned to share anecdotes that many people have not heard before in her introduction. Chapter4 Maverick Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia is scheduled to deliver Wednesday's keynote address -- a role he also played at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, which nominated President Clinton. Chapter5 In the earlier speech, Miller, then governor of Georgia, said that "for 12 dark years, the Republicans have dealt in cynicism and skepticism. They have mastered the art of division and diversion, and they have robbed us of our hope."
I wanted to import the above word doc into my sql server DB. I have two columns in the table 1.Chaptereid 2.chapter_notes chater1,chater2,chapte2,chapter3,chapter4 and chapter5 should go into chaptered column and the text followed by the chapter id should be imported into chapter_notes column.
Hello everyone ! I want to perform Full Text Search with SQL Server 2000. My documents (.doc, .xls, .txt, .pdf) are stored in a SQL Server field which is binary (the type of the column is image). I would like to know, how you can extract pieces of text from the documents. Example: I have a ASPX page with codebehind in C# making the search in a table in SQL server that is full text indexed. I make a search looking for the word "peace", than SQL server will take care about the search and return it to me the rows that match with that. But also I'd like to extract the 50 characters before and after where sql server found the word "peace" to show in the result page. Does anyone has any idea how to work around it ? Best regards. Yannick
I have a parameter value as shown below and this is dynamic and can growÂ
Example : 101-NY, 102-CA, 165-GA 116-NY, 258-NJ, 254-PA, 245-DC, 298-AL How do I get the values in the below format NY,CA,GA Â --- each state to be followed with comma and the next state NY,NJ,PA,DC,AL Â --- each state to be followed with comma and the next state
correct query that will fetch  only state names and not the numbers.
Today we moved from 32bit to 64bit computing environment. 64bit Window server 2003 and SQL 2005 are now our playing ground. And 32 bit Office 2003 is also installed. Excel in Office program plays important roll in our mission.
One of our routine task is that step 1. get Excel data files from other websites and step 2. extract specific data from them and step 3. converting them into some type of data that can be compatible with SQL
Our problem occured in step 3. To convert data, we realised taht 64 bit excel driver, which we believe is not yet available, is required.
My questions are:
1. Is 64 bit excel driver (of office 2003 or office 2007) available now?
2. Is there any way OR IS IT POSSIBLE to use 32 bit excel driver with 64bit SQL 2005? If possible, please enlighten me.
I would appreciate it very much if anybody answer my questions.
i´d like to know how can i get all PK´s and their respective table name listed in a result set. I did something similar to list all FKs (using the sysforeingkeys table), but there is no ´sysprimarykeys´. :eek:
What i am trying to do is to document the database in 2 tables, one for tables and one for columns. Similar to the sys* views, but i will add description, comments, etc. This way documentation can be viewed with a single select, or a view to the programmers. AND WE hope we can keep it up to date more easily than printed sutff.
We have an interface where we receive data from an external supplier. One of the fields in the interface is of type BLOB (the source is an Oracle database), which would be read into our MSSQL database as image. This can also be converted to varbinary, and a typical field value looks something like:
0x70697A5F8F000000789C0DCCBD0DC2301....etc. etc.
However, we know that the origin only contains text, and we even know the text from the GUI they supply us with. The text could typically be "Delayed by 3 minutes because of water damage" or something like that.
What I want to do, is to extract that text from the field.
First, I have stored the incoming data stream in a table, where one column is of type varbinary(max). It looks like this goes swell. But I don't know which command to use in order to get the text extracted.
I have tried these:
1) select master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr(Myfield) from Mytable -> Returns just the text "0x70697A5F8...." which I have no interest in
2) select cast(Myfield as varchar(max)) from Mytable -> Returns just Chinese signs.
3) select cast(Myfield as nvarchar(max)) from Mytable -> Returns just Chinese signs.
4) declare @ptrval varbinary(16) select @ptrval = TEXTPTR(MyField) from MyTable  -- with MyField defined as image READTEXT MyTable.MyField @ptrval 1 30 -> Returns just the text "0x697A5F8...." which I have no interest in
Of course, since only text is stored in this field, the field should never have been defined as BLOB in the first place. But the source system is external, and it's a standard system, so we may not alter it in any way.
Hi, I was wondering if any SQL Server gurus out there could help me...I have a table which contains text resources for my application. The text resources are multi-lingual so I've read that if I add a html language indicator meta tag e.g.<META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="ES">and store the text in a varbinary column with a supporting Document Type column containing ".html" of varchar(5) then the full text index service should be intelligent about the language word breakers it applies when indexing the text. (I hope this is correct technique for best multi-lingual support in a single table?)However, when I come to query this data the results always return 0 rows (no errors are encountered). e.g.DECLARE @SearchWord nvarchar(256)SET @SearchWord = 'search' -- Yes, this word is definitely present in my resources.SELECT * FROM Resource WHERE CONTAINS(Document, @SearchWord)I'm a little puzzled as Full Text search is working fine on another table that employs an nvarchar column.Any pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,Gavin.
Hi, I was wondering if any SQL Server gurus out there could help me...
I have a table which contains text resources for my application. The text resources are multi-lingual so I've read that if I add a html language indicator meta tag e.g. <META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="ES"> and store the text in a varbinary column with a supporting Document Type column containing ".html" of varchar(5) then the full text index service should be intelligent about the language word breakers it applies when indexing the text. (I hope this is correct technique for best multi-lingual support in a single table?)
However, when I come to query this data the results always return 0 rows (no errors are encountered). e.g. DECLARE @SearchWord nvarchar(256) SET @SearchWord = 'search' -- Yes, this word is definitely present in my resources. SELECT * FROM Resource WHERE CONTAINS(Document, @SearchWord)
I'm a little puzzled as Full Text search is working fine on another table that employs an nvarchar column.
Any pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Gavin.
I'm designing a Job Recruitment Website, in which the admin person searches for the right candidate for the job using certain keywords . Each jobseeker will be uploading his CV (ms word doc) during registration .How can i search for keywords in the word documents. I just want the candidate reference once i found keyword match in the word docs.I heard about the indexing and blobs in sql server? But dont know much about it Are these the only solutions ?Is there any better approach for this ?Any help will be greatly appreciated
How can I delete the file(sql text document)? When I tired to delete the file, the message is displayed 'There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use.'
hi, guys Does anyone know how to change the Document Map root text? For example, i have report, the file name is sc.rdl, and then the root is sc. Apparently this is not good. I am thinking is there a way to change it.
I've created a dataset with 27 measures and 20 query parameters. When attempting to load the report containing this dataset I'm shown the message;
'Document contains one or more extremely long lines of text. These lines will cause the editor to respond slowly when you open the file. Do you still want to open the file.'
If I do open the file it does indeed respond very slowly or even hangs.
I can manually format the XML code but amending the code in any way (i.e. using the layout designer to move a chart) removes my formatting and re-introduces the problem.
Are these an unreasonable amount of measures / parameters?
Environment; VS2005 v8.0.507 MSSQL 2005 9.00.1399.06 Build 3790 SP2 Windows Server 2003 SP2
I am working the Books Online documentation for the full-text search feature of SQL Server 2005 Express Advanced and having a problem following the instructions.
I made sure to choose the "Full Text Search" option during installation of VB 2005 Express Advanced.
I downloaded, installed, and attached the AdventureWorks database successfully.
I checked to ensure that the database was enabled for full-text search, but could not follow the instructions for indexing a table within the database. Here are the instructions from Books Online: To enable a table for full-text indexing
Expand the server group, expand Databases, expand User Databases, and expand the database that contains the table you want to enable for full-text indexing.
Right-click the table that you want to enable for full-text indexing.
Select Full-Text index, and then click Enable Full-Text indexing.
Another document notes:
To create a full-text index on a table, the table must have a single, unique not null column. For example, consider a full-text index for the Document table in Adventure Works in which the DocumentID column is the primary key column.
When I right-click the Document table (Production.Document) in the AdventureWorks database, there is no option to "Select Full-Text Index" or "Enable Full Text indexing".
Am I missing something here?
How do I get the the table indexed for full text search?
I have a Full Text index on a table with an image field that is successfully indexing .doc, .pdf and .rtf files.
Keyword searching this is no problem.
What i want to be able to do is perform a similarity search. by this i mean pass in a Key_ID (documentID) and have the database return a list of Key_IDs (documents) which are similar.
By similar i mean contain mostly the same keywords in roughly the same quantities
Hi, I was wondering if any SQL Server gurus out there could help me...I have a table I'm trying to apply a full text catalog to, however no results are ever returned due to the text column being cataloged being of varbinary(max) that's being populated from a converted nvarchar(max) value - I've narrowed it down to this specifically, populating with non nvarchar text seems to work fine.To re-create the problem quickly...If I populate the column viaCONVERT(varbinary(max), 'test text')then there is no problem, I get results as expected.However if I populate the column viaCONVERT(varbinary(max), CAST('test text' as nvarchar(max)))no results are ever returned.Is this a bug with SQL Server 2005 Full Text Indexing? I'm happily creating full text catalogs when an nvarchar is not getting converted into a varbinary.I'm setting the Document Type column to '.html' (I've tried changing this to '.txt' in case it was a fault with the html ifilter but the problem persists so I believe I can rule this out).The reason I need to convert an nvarchar to varbinary is that the table holds multi-lingual text and I'm adding a html meta tag <META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="ES"> to the beginning in order for the full text indexing word breaker to select the correct language to catalog the text with. The aim being to provide more relevant searches in users native languages (I've read a few articles that describe this technique, but it's the first time I've tried to apply it).Any pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,Gavin.
Hi, I was wondering if any SQL Server gurus out there could help me...
I have a table I'm trying to apply a full text catalog to, however no results are ever returned due to the text column being cataloged being of varbinary(max) that's being populated from a converted nvarchar(max) value.
To re-create the problem quickly...
If I populate the column via CONVERT(varbinary(max), 'test text') then there is no problem, I get results as expected.
However if I populate the column via CONVERT(varbinary(max), CAST('test text' as nvarchar(max))) no results are ever returned.
Is this a bug with SQL Server 2005 Full Text Indexing? I'm happily creating full text catalogs when an nvarchar is not getting converted into a varbinary.
I'm setting the Document Type column to '.html' (I've tried changing this to '.txt' in case it was a fault with the html ifilter but the problem persists so I believe I can rule this out).
The reason I need to convert an nvarchar to varbinary is that the table holds multi-lingual text and I'm adding a html meta tag <META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="ES"> to the beginning in order for the full text indexing word breaker to select the correct language to catalog the text with. The aim being to provide more relevant searches in users native languages (I've read a few articles that describe this technique, but it's the first time I've tried to apply it).
Any pointers / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Gavin.
UPDATE: Below is a T-SQL script you can run to demonstrate the effect I'm experiencing...
Code Snippet
-- Create test database CREATE DATABASE FullTextTest GO USE FullTextTest GO
-- Create test data table CREATE TABLE TestTable ( pk UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL CONSTRAINT tablePK PRIMARY KEY, varbinarycol VARBINARY(MAX), documentExtension VARCHAR(5), ) GO
-- The below single entry WILL BE FOUND (the text source is being entered directly) INSERT INTO TestTable (pk, varbinarycol, documentExtension) VALUES (NEWID(), CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX),'<META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="EN">test entry 1'), '.html')
-- The bellow two entries below WILL NOT BE FOUND (the text source is taken from an NVARCHAR(MAX) value) INSERT INTO TestTable (pk, varbinarycol, documentExtension) VALUES (NEWID(), CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX), CAST('<META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="EN">test entry 2' AS NVARCHAR(MAX))), '.html') INSERT INTO TestTable (pk, varbinarycol, documentExtension) VALUES (NEWID(), CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX), CAST('<META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="EN">test entry 3' AS NVARCHAR(MAX))), '.html') GO
-- Create the full text catalog sp_fulltext_database 'enable' GO CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG TEST AS DEFAULT GO CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX ON TestTable (varbinarycol TYPE COLUMN documentExtension LANGUAGE 1033) KEY INDEX tablePK GO
-- NOTE: You might need to give the catalog a chance to build before running the script below.
-- Now do a search that SHOULD RETURN 3 ROWS of data, but ONLY 1 ROW IS RETURNED SELECT CAST(varbinarycol AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) FROM TestTable WHERE CONTAINS(varbinarycol, 'test')
What would the syntax be to insert a column to the right of this one, and extract the first 8 digits from the data in the DATEID column and insert that into the new column DATE, therefore making it easier for me to query against an actual date?
I have a long text in 'Quote' column as below and i have to extract Trip Duration, Destination and Base Rate from this text. The ‘Base Rate’ will be repeated throughout the text if there is more than one traveler and I only need the first instance.
Begin Quote Calculation<br /> <br />....<br /> Agent Id: 001<br /> Trip Duration: 5days<br /> Relationship Type: Individual<br />....nDestination: AreaTwo<br /> <br ...../>Resolved Trip Type To: 1 with Trip Subtype: 0<br /> Resolved Relationship: Individual....... /> *Base Rates*<br /> Base Rate: 6.070000<br />.....Resolved Trip Type To: 2 with Trip Subtype: 0<br /> Resolved Relationship: Individual....... /> *Base Rates*<br /> Base Rate: 9.070000<br />.....
Result
Trip Duration: 5 days Destination: AreaTwo Base Rate: 6.070000
I need to pull certain text from a large varchar field with up to 2 GB-per-instance capacity based on COCustServ
Example Entry: 'KSAUNDERS COCustServ 4/11/2006 5:58:31 PM -- patient called to verify exp date based on letter he received. SJOY RN 3/27/2006 3:46:56 PM -- Test Ordered: 70460/36yof MANTHONY COCustServ 3/27/2006 4:52:58 PM -- site called to chk sts.'
I will need to pull text in two seperate columns before COCustServ (username) and after COCustServ (date) which could appear multiple times in the same entry. In this case I will need to pull
First of all I am a novice here. I am working on a table with a column of URL. I want to seperate the data in the URL delimited by '/'. Eg: http://www.simpletech.com/upgrades/aopen/s661fxm/s661fxmintelp4/
Here I want aopen as manufacturer, s661fxm as model_number and intelp4 as submodel_number. I solved this problem in Oracle using substring and instring. But I have no ides how to achieve this in SQL server. Please..advice me. Thanks in advance.
I need to extract specific text elements from a varchar column. There are three keywords in any given string: "wfTask," "wfStatus" and "displayReportFromWorkflow." "wfTask" and "wfStatus" can appear multiple times, but always as a pair and will each be followed by by "==" (with or without surrounding spaces). "displayReportFromWorkflow" is always followed by "(" and there can be spaces on either side. The text elements will be between a pair of double quotes, and following one of keywords. For each row, I need to return the task, status and report name.
Output: rowID, Task, Status, ReportName ----- --------- ------- ------------------------ 1, Issuance, Issued, General Permit 2, Issuance, Issued, Capacity Letter Type III 2, Review, Denied, Capacity Letter Type III
I started with a string splitter using the double quote character, referencing elements "i" and "i+1" where the text like '%wfTask%' or '%wfStatus%' or '%displayReportFromWorkflow%', but the case of multiple task/status in a row has confounded me so far.
Is there a quick way to extract a full dump of 50 tables to 50 corresponding text files?
i.e.
table_a has to be extracted to table_a.txt
table_b has to be extracted to table_b.txt
table_c has to be extracted to table_c.txt etc.
I don't want to have to add each one separately by hand in the DTSX package designer. I can't see any way to do it in a loop (because you have to do the field mapping). I can't seem to get the DTS Wizard to help - it only seems to be able to handle one table-to-text extract at any one time. And I've tried editing the DTXS file directly (in XML) but it looks like it's going to be rather complex, even if I only do it to define the connection managers. Feel free to suggest any better way to do this, though the specification has already been agreed, so I'm unlikely to be able to change it. Thanks
dear all, I have a text file that contains data that i need to insert into sql server... the file size is about 800 MB .. and contains about 17,000,000 lines .. some one told me that there is a way in sql server to import this data automatically by writting some scripts ... the file looks like this
xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx yyyy .. yyyyy "I Need only These fields (the Ys).. I don't care about the rest of the file" yyyy .. yyyyy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
