I have the need to upload a file via a webpage and then save that file into the database. I would also like to retrieve it and show it to the user.
Can someone show me an example of how this should be done. Also I am concerned of the pros and cons of saving files in the database. Is there a performance hit on the server? Will it make the database unstable? Has anyone had problems doing this?
Any suggestions, samples, and/or help are welcome.
I was thinking about saving some files in a SQL Server DB and then reading those back to the client for download. Any warnings that I should know about before doing so? The files will generally be at most 2mb in probably .pdf format. I've heard bad things about doing this in Access...but then again, SQL Server isn't access.
If i want to save, images, video clips or movies ......(multimedia stuff) in the SQL Server. Any idea how can i save them and call them. I also, want to know if that the effecient way to the task or there are other ways to di it???
I have a small project to be done in which I need to fetch the pdf file from a my system and save it in database and also fetch the name of it and save it in the database.
In my system, I generate invoices as PDF for my clients and I need to email them and save them on the database. What is the best approach for achieving that?!
Shall I save the files path in the SQL server 2000 as ( varchar ) and save files in a folder in the server or there is another approach?! is there any recommendation or advice about the procedure to send emails shall i save them first then send them or ...!??
has anyone got any opinions on the pros/cons of storing mp3 files in the database instead of the file system ? How could this be done ? Would it be a binary data type ?
Hi! I want to save and retreive some files on sqlserver. I want to save the files in binary format on sqlserver and I want to get back them in their format.Is it possible in c#? If possible please help me to do this. I already succeeded to save a file in binary format, but i am getting problem to retreive that in its format. Thanks in adance
Can someone provide information or a link to information regarding the pros and cons of saving files directly into a SQL 2005 database? I'm actually for saving files to a database (cleaner implementation then just saving the location then having to get the file, etc), but my project manager is not convinced so I need to make an argument for (or against depending on what I actually find out) using varbinary data type. Thanks.
I'm trying to do something which I hope can be accomplished relatively simply.
I have a report similar to bank statements let's say. When run, it currently prints out each person's statement into one file, with page breaks sepearating each person's statement. What I need to do, is when the report is run, save each person's report into a seperate file for the purpose of emailing to them later.
I could easily modify my report to just output for one particular person, but I'm not sure if there's a way to "bulk render" all the reports and have them saved to sepearate files.
I should also add that I'm using an MS Access Data Project (ADP) as the front end to my app - connected to a SQL Server 2005 DB. I currently display the reports by embedding a web browser object into an Access form and rendering the report via HTML.
i work on sql server 2005 at home and have created a database with several tables and dabase diagram , now how do i transfer it to sql server 2000 which i work on at work , can somebody point me in the right direction in which this is done any hlp appreciated
Hi.. I want to convert .dbf files to sql server 2000 tables.. without using any tools. I need to create a different structure for sql server tables other than contains in the .dbf files. May be the dbf files contain only 3 columns. but i need 5 columns and some calculations to determine the values of some fields to insert into sql server table... i need to code this using c# in asp.net.. can u help me? thanks in advance.. Fraijo
I created some MDF/LDF in SQL 7.0 containing my DB. After that I did not deatch it from the SQL server 7.0 and physically formatted the H.Drive. SQL Server 7.0 data directory is still on D drive, I just formatted the C drive. Before that NT 4.0 and SQL server 7.0 were running but now I installed WINDOWS 2000 Server and SQL server 2000 on this machine.
Is there any way to access the previous DBs (MDF/LDF) and put it into the SQl server 2000.
I created some MDF/LDF in SQL 7.0 containing my DB. After that I did not deatch it from the SQL server 7.0 and physically formatted the H.Drive. SQL Server 7.0 data directory is still on D drive, I just formatted the C drive. Before that NT 4.0 and SQL server 7.0 were running but now I installed WINDOWS 2000 Server and SQL server 2000 on this machine.
Is there any way to access the previous DBs (MDF/LDF) and put it into the SQl server 2000.
HI!I am importing .txt files. How can i check the errors? I have created alog file, but the problem is that i lose some characters.I import for example:CodeABCFZHJHNfrom a text file, but sometimes Code can be 4 caracters longI import this 3 characters long now. When i add the same structuredtext file with some rows lenght 4, it skips the last character, but iget nothing in the log file.please helpxgirl
Anybody nows a tool to analyze LDF files in MS SQL Server 2000?I mean, a tool that converts a LDF file in a set of SQL transactions?(similar to dbtran in sybase)thanks!
I am a new user of SQL Server 2000. Please point me where I am able to get good online sources to be familiar with the SQL Server 2000. I wanted to import the primary file (MDF)and a log file (LDF), which are stored on two different floppy disks into the local SQL server 2000. Please direct me where I should start. Your help is greatly appreciated.
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've used sql 2000 to create reports. Now i have almost 100 reports with lot of history (snapshots). Now i've developed the same reports in 2005 (basically upgraded the reports). If i upload the new reports, the 2000 history will be lost. Is there anyway that i can upgrade to 2005 and save the history ??
Hi!I have a large project that is due to complete this week. In order tocomplete it I need SQL Server 2000 installed on a remote server. Mydisk is corrupt and to order another media disk would damage mydeadline. I have the licence and serial key, but now need good installfiles. I am even ready to buy another retail box, if I can find asupplier that would give me a download site for the media, while I waitfor the shipment!Please PLEASE help!Regards,Barry
I have a 500-MB full installation CD for SQL Server 2000. All I needis to install "Client Connectivity" component (about 272K) on a bunchof workstations for users across the nation.How do I reduce the installation file size, by eliminating most of theunwanted files?Thanks.
I'm trying to upgrade from SQL Server 2000 to 2005. The problem I am having is that when I try to attach the existing db files I get a message that says "database cannot be upgraded because it is read only or has read only files...."
Thing is... there is no write protection on the files.
Can anyone advise me on how to overcome this problem so that I can attach the db, please?
1. How do I store audio and video files in sql server 2000. 2. Is it possible to store and retrieve audio and video files using t-sql 3. Which is the most efficient way to store and retrieve audio and video files in sql server
I am trying to automate a basic task using SQL Server 2005 Express.
Currently I have a query script that I run and then save the results as a CSV file. I need to do this on a daily basis and so I am looking to find out how best to go about this. There are a multitude of third party tools that claim to be able to do this - can anyone recommend this or enlighten me of the best way to set up this automation.
I've created a linked server (and set up the corresponding schema.ini file) in order to perform bulk-inserts from some CSV text files into SQL tables (from my standpoint the text files are just for reading purposes). The linked server works fine (I can select the data in the files without a problem).
Now the question: is possible to automatically detect when one or more of those files change in order to start the import process automatically? Something like having a trigger created on the CSV files Or there's no easy way to do that so I have, to say something, to create a Job that periodically checks if the files have changed programatically (say, recording each file's timestamp everytime is imported and comparing the recorded value with the current one, or whatever)?
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.
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?
How can I save UTF-8 strings in SQL Server 2005? I don't want to use nvarchar as it would take a lot of space and most of my text will be in latin characters (and it doesn't fully support all unicode code points anyway as it uses UCS2, I'm talking about the supplementary plane here which I know is very rarely used and most unicode fonts don't support it but it's still possible to be used at least in the future). I read in this KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232580) that my only option is to use varbinary, I'm worried though whether this could affect performance as I never used varbinary before .. I read in the same article that I cannot use varchar to store UTF-8 which I can't really understand, doesn't varchar use the whole 256 values to save character data according to the code page used? what makes UTF-8 characters not valid for being stored as varchar strings? (what I mean here is that I can do the conversion manually from varchar to UTF-8 but I only want to save the data in the varchar columns) Any suggestions are highly appreciated..
