Inserting Flash (shockwave Files And Animated Gifs Into DB
Dec 1, 2006
Hi
Can someone please tell me if it is possible to insert a flash movie into MSSQL 2005 and if so what would be the most appropraite data type to use for this.
Any links to tutorials on how to uplaod such fiules would be appreciated
I have an asp.net 2 app that retrieves images from a SQL Server 2005 Image field in our database. I have this working successfully apart from one problem. When I retrieve an animated gif, the animation is lost. Is there anyway around this?
I recently upgraded to Office 2007 Pro (very expensive). Every Christmas season, I include an animated GIF image in my signature for holiday mailing. This year, the image does not move due to Outlook 2007. Is there a way to correct this problem?
Hello friends, So, this is my senario... i'm using SQL 2005 reporting service which reports are shown to the client from my web-site... I've included a report viewer in my ASPX page through which i'm displaying the reports. I wanted to know if their is any way by which i can embed a flash file in my report.
Secondly, i have some reports in which I have used the matrix control. And to display the headings of the columns i've created individual text-boxes & have made them overlap on the top region of the matrix.thoe these text boxoes are getting rendered in proper places when i preview the reports during design time, but when they get rendered in my website all the heading text-boxes get scattered all 'round the report......has anyone faced such weired problems & is there any alternate way of do'in the same ??
Hi friends, i want to know something abt sql server installation and database properties as under.1) how much disk space reqd by multiuser sqlserver 2000 db to install ?2) is it possible to install sql 2K on Flash Drive ( gen connect at USB) ?3) When v create a database user Enterprise Manager , which files created by database ?4) If i Know datafiles name of a database e.g. pubs , and if v copied on cd and paste on other system which has sql 2K install , does those database works ?5) is it possible to create database on flash drive ? thanx in advance.
Hi There, Can I store flash files in the database. I have a table with one of the columns as varbinary datatype. Previously, I was saving images (as filebytes) into this column. But now I need to implement something to store the flash file. So, is it possible to store flash files in the database and retrieve them and display them in an asp.net page? Thanks a lot for your suggestion!!
I have a web server running fine together with an sql 2005 db. I use asp as my web server programming language and want to be able to display images that are stored in the database.
My question of course is how do I put images, for example an image called "image1.gif" into the database?
After having stored the images in the db, I guess that the are displayed on my web pages the same way as all text information (by writing something like <%=rs("image_column")%> ).... Anyway first I need help with how to store imgs in the database...
I am currently trying to import CSV files into a sql database table. While I have managed to get the majority of the import to work, some of the records are failing to import due validation errors. What I would like to know is, is it possible to separate out the records that failed to import from the CSV file? The CSV file is quite large so I am unable to locate these records by hand. Thanks
I have a problem. I need to insert an unknown number of xml files in a database (all files are always in the same folder), in different tables, each file has the same name that the corresponding table. For example:
Files Tables
user.xml user
purchase.xml purchase
...and so
but the number of files is not always the same, I mean, it can be 6 one day and only 4 the next day. Can I insert the data in the xml files into the tables with a Foreach Loop Container or any other way?? If it's possible, how?
I need to store a few thousand images in a sql server database. I've managed to write the asp code to retrieve images that are already in the pubs database, but haven't been able to find a satisfactory way of inserting new pictures in the first place.
At the moment we're using Notes and its great 'cos you just cut and paste them in. But now we need to take them all out and put them into sql server it's proving to be a nightmare. Any clues anyone??
Hello. I'm working with SQL Server 2005 Standard edition. I have a Java program that loads PDF files into the database. I have a table called T08_entity which, among others, has two IMAGE columns. The first Image column is for the original PDF file. The second one is for the PDF file with modified permissions (printing, saving, etc). This is made using the i-text library. The programs looks for the content of a disk folder, reads the contents of the folder, and inserts, one by one, the pdf files (besides other fields, like the name of the file, and ID, etc... but these are varchar or int fields. No problem with these. When the folder has only small files (smaller that 7-8 mb), it loads them without any problem into the database. But when the folder has bigger files (>10mb, more or less...) I get an OUT OF MEMORY error. I'm using the latest sqljdbc.jar driver (v1.2.2727). My server computer has only 1GB of RAM... but I've read that this latest driver can load big amounts of binary data using the connection property "responseBuffering=adaptive". Here is a sample of my code (at least the most relevant lines):
This is my connection code:
public String getConnectionUrl(){ return "jdbc:sqlserver://"+serverName+":"+portNumber+";databaseName=" +databaseName+";responseBuffering=adaptive;selectMethod=cursor"; }
public java.sql.Connection getConnection(){ try{
...
Class.forName("com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"); con = java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(getConnectionUrl(),userName,password); if (con.getAutoCommit()) { con.setAutoCommit(false); } ... } catch(Exception e){ System.out.println("etc, etc..."); } return con; }
The following is a loop where each loop represents a file in the folder:
...And this is the insertDirectory procedure which inserts every file: the pdffile and pdffilenoperm are the IMAGE columns. The rest are varchar or int columns:
public void insertDirectorio(File archivo) {...if (archivo.isFile()){ pstmt =con.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO temp_carga "+ "(directory, name, dir_sup, filetype, pfilesize,pdffile,pdffilenoperm)"+ " values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)"); }... long tamano = archivo.length();
//INSERTS ORIGINAL FILE................ int fileLength = Integer.MIN_VALUE; is = new FileInputStream(pdffile); fileLength= (int) pdffile.length(); pstmt.setBinaryStream(6, is, fileLength);
//INSERTS FILE WITHOUT PERMISSIONS (THIS PART OF THE CODE IS LONG AND IRRELEVANT, IT JUST USES THE ITEXT LIBRARY TO MODIFY THE PDF FILE. AT THE END, I HAVE THE FILE IN AN OUTPUT STREAM, AS SHOWN HERE:) ByteArrayInputStream inputnoimp = new ByteArrayInputStream(outnoimp.toByteArray()); pstmt.setBinaryStream(7,inputnoimp,(int)outnoimp.size()); } catch(Exception e) { err = e.toString(); } } pstmt.executeUpdate(); con.commit(); pstmt.close(); this.closeConnection(); }catch(java.sql.SQLException e) { err = e.toString(); } }
Well, as I said, when I run the program, when it reads smaller files, there's no problem. But when it gets a big file, I get the OUT OF MEMORY error. I have another application that reads pdf files ONE AT A TIME, using a code very much like this one, and it reads big files (>30mb) with no problems. The problems is with this one. Any help will be appreciated. If you have any question to clarify the problem, just tell me. Thanks in advance. Eric.
I have a utility I wrote which can backup/restore my database as wellas schedule backups. This has always worked pretty well except when Itry to backup to a USB Flash Disk. When I use one of these the backupfails. If I backup to the C:/ drive then copy it over to the disk itworks fine but when SQL Server tries to do it, it can't.I am simply doing the following:BACKUP DATABASE MyDatabase TO DISK = 'E:/backup.dat_bak' WITH INITAnyone know what could be going wrong?
I hope somebody here can help on my problem. I wrote a MFC application using sql ce and is running prefectly smooth on wince and PPC 2003. But when i deploy it to Windows Mobile, the database performance drop dramatically. I knows the drop on performance is due to the I/O speed on the flash memory.(The previous mobile os are using ram instead). Is there any solution or work around which I can solve this problem.
Recently i solved the performance issues on "insert" to DB by using a commit buffer(Instead of commit to the sdf instantly). But how about the "select" performance? It's too slow which take about 3 sec to select a record from the DB.
Does Microsoft provide any suggestion on the sqlce perofrmance on windows mobile?
I have a question about using SSCE with flash memory. Our CE components equally allocate the write access to the memory location. But write access is guaranteed only 10000 times per memory cell. So I need to know
1. what changes are made to the file system if I add an entry to a table? Is this entry the only information added to the file system? 2. What happens if I delete an entry? Will SSCE optimize the data in the filesystem?
I am not sure if this is the right folder to post, but currently I'm considering using Flash as an interface, the application at www.mobik.com seems impressive, simple and sweet. But I'm wondering if I can build desktop application with flash and SQL2005 as backend for all the processing. at the same time, the flash shall be getting updates from a server. Possible?
I'm working on a project where the client wants us to create custom charts which have features not found in the standard Reporting Services charts. I would like to use flash to build this and have found an existing flash charting package for which I have the code and which I plan to expand.
Here's the problem:
The client wants to include these charts in his Reports. Is there some way to add a flash control to a report so that it will appear on the web page as a fully-functional flash presentation, which can then be included when printing or exporting?
The alternative, would be to figure out some means of generating the chart using flash outside of the report, exporting a bitmap of the chart and then saving the bitmap to a known location on the file system so It can be referenced by a report. This has some serious complications, and may not be feasible.
I'm currently developping a windows .net compact framework application which is basically a local datalogger.
Since my application will log data to the database (located on compact flash card) a few times a second over long period, I wonder if SQL Server Compact Edition offers some mechanism to reduce disk access. By example, can SQL Server compact edition wait let's say 5-10 "insert into" commands before actually write to the database located on the flash card ?.
Any ideas which could help me to reduce flash wear would be greatly appreciated !
I want to copy a database in my company's computer to my flash driver. Then I am going to copy this database to my home compuer. What is the full procedure?
I proposed on a new server that we separate Data Files, Log Files, tempDB, Backups, etc. onto separate LUNS on a SAN with High Speed Solid State Drives.I was told that with the new technology with solid state SAN's that it would decrease performance and that it did not work the same way as it did when you had RAID 5's etc.I thought that if things were cared out correctly by a SAN Administrator they would know how to configure for optimal performance.
In the For Loop, How to Iterate from Older flat files to Newer flat files based on File's Timestamp. If there are some older files in that folder, it should be processed first and then continue with the newer one.
In the first step of my SSIS package I need to get files from FTP and dump it/them in a local directory, but it's more than that, the logic is like this: 1. If no file(s) found, stop executing and send email saying no file(s) found; 2. If file(s) found, then compare it/them with existing files in our archive folder; if file(s) already exist in archive folder, stop executing and send email saying file(s) already existed, if file(s) not in archive folder yet, then transfer it/them to the local directory for processing.
I know i have to use a script task to do this and i did some research and found examples for each of the above 2 steps and not both combined, so that's why I need some help here to get the logic incorporated right.
Thanks for the help in advance and i apologize for the long lines of code!
example for step 1: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Script Task ' Write scripts using Microsoft Visual Basic ' The ScriptMain class is the entry point of the Script Task.
' The execution engine calls this method when the task executes. ' To access the object model, use the Dts object. Connections, variables, events, ' and logging features are available as static members of the Dts class. ' Before returning from this method, set the value of Dts.TaskResult to indicate success or failure. ' ' To open Code and Text Editor Help, press F1. ' To open Object Browser, press Ctrl+Alt+J.
Public Sub Main()
Dim cDataFileName As String Dim cFileType As String Dim cFileFlgVar As String WriteVariable("SCFileFlg", False) WriteVariable("OOFileFlg", False) WriteVariable("INFileFlg", False) WriteVariable("IAFileFlg", False) WriteVariable("RCFileFlg", False) cDataFileName = ReadVariable("DataFileName").ToString cFileType = Left(Right(cDataFileName, 4), 2) cFileFlgVar = cFileType.ToUpper + "FileFlg" WriteVariable(cFileFlgVar, True) Dts.TaskResult = Dts.Results.Success End Sub Private Sub WriteVariable(ByVal varName As String, ByVal varValue As Object) Try Dim vars As Variables Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForWrite(varName) Dts.VariableDispenser.GetVariables(vars) Try vars(varName).Value = varValue Catch ex As Exception Throw ex Finally vars.Unlock() End Try Catch ex As Exception Throw ex End Try End Sub Private Function ReadVariable(ByVal varName As String) As Object Dim result As Object Try Dim vars As Variables Dts.VariableDispenser.LockForRead(varName) Dts.VariableDispenser.GetVariables(vars) Try result = vars(varName).Value Catch ex As Exception Throw ex Finally vars.Unlock() End Try Catch ex As Exception Throw ex End Try Return result End Function End Class
example for step 2: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services Script Task
' Write scripts using Microsoft Visual Basic
' The ScriptMain class is the entry point of the Script Task.
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime
Public Class ScriptMain
' The execution engine calls this method when the task executes.
' To access the object model, use the Dts object. Connections, variables, events,
' and logging features are available as static members of the Dts class.
' Before returning from this method, set the value of Dts.TaskResult to indicate success or failure.
'
' To open Code and Text Editor Help, press F1.
' To open Object Browser, press Ctrl+Alt+J.
Public Sub Main()
Try
'Create the connection to the ftp server
Dim cm As ConnectionManager = Dts.Connections.Add("FTP")
It works remotely if I run it via command prompt. But when I add this to a TSQL job on my remote SQL instance, it runs without deleting anything. What I'm missing?
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I cannot import any SSIS packages nor crete any new folders under stored packages. I hve googled the news groups and looked at BOL to no avail. HELP!!!!
I am trying to insert data into two different tables. I will insert into Table 2 based on an id I get from the Select Statement from Table1. Insert Table1(Title,Description,Link,Whatever)Values(@title,@description,@link,@Whatever)Select WhateverID from Table1 Where Description = @DescriptionInsert into Table2(CategoryID,WhateverID)Values(@CategoryID,@WhateverID) This statement is not working. What should I do? Should I use a stored procedure?? I am writing in C#. Can someone please help!!
I am thinking about replacing the INSERT data scriptfiles that I have with XML files. This way I can open the XMLfile using an XML Editor and see the values in a GRID andmake changes easier.Do you see any problem with this approach?I managed to put together some code that is exportinga SQL table with its data to an XML file and also a codethat reads the XML file's data and inserts it into a table.Now I am researching on XSD, td:datatype, DTD...(I am new to XML) in order to figure out how I canuse a single xml file that will hold both the sql serverfields, the datatypes and their values.If you have links to some sample code that has anythingto do with the datatype export and import I am workingon, can you please share them with me?Most importantly what do you think about the idea of usingXML files vs sql scripts?Thank you
I am wanting to reduce the amount of Virtual Log Files I have. In reading through the Online Book Documentation, I realize that I have forgotten to move the Transaction Log Files to a different drive. Now that the server is in production, I wanted to get some input about the best way of making this change.
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Hi! I'm using replication with two database on SQL 2000,when begin, the log files size is 50mb and the data files size is 150mb. But now the log files size is 2Gb and the data files size is 4Gb. I would like to decrease the log files and the data files ??? How do i do this??? (I using Truncate and shrink doesn't change ) Thanks!!!
I need to write codes to access many image files and wave files and display them on the webpage. Both of these files are stored on the server (as many experts in this forum adviced) and their locations are in the SQL server database. About the wav files, I think I will have to convert them to MP3 first for fast delivery on internet. Since I am a newbie, any help would be appreciated. Thanks,