Scripting Text, Image Columns
Jul 20, 2005
We have remote users running MSDE entering information into a
database. To send the data back to the home office, we've written some
routines that export the data into SQL Scripts in text files:
DELETE <table> where KeyID=<x>
INSERT INOT <table> (fields) VALUES (fields).
We then zip up these scripts, and either email or ftp the ZIPs back to
the home office, where a program opens them up and simply "runs" the
SQL statements.
The new version of my database application contains both TEXT fields
(containing rich text) and IMAGE fields (containing file attachments
like JPGs or excel spreadsheets). I'm worried that our SQL Scripter
engine (which we really like) is going to choke on the text and image
fields. Can anyone suggest a similar method to send the SQL data
around?
thanks
matt tag
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Oct 31, 2000
I am scripting a DTS Package using VB. The problem I am having is that I get the following error when I execute the package from Visual Basic:
Step Error Source: Microsoft Data Transformation Services Flat File Rowset Provider
Step Error Description:Incomplete file format information - file cannot be opened.
In the DTS Designer when I open the DataPump Transformation and click on the Destination tab I am prompted With the Define Columns dialog. I define the columns and click execute. The package works properly after doing this when executed from Enterprise Manager. Does anyone know how to script the file definition creation??? I have searched high and low through BOL and other resources and am not finding anything. I doesn't seem like it should be this hard to figure out so, maybe I am missing something.
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Jun 9, 2006
Hi,
I'm trying to get the text of all my SPs saved into text (*.sql) files. My first thought was to use sp_helptext and bcp the table to a text file but this isn't working (see my other post) so thought I'd try another method.
I can get the code from syscomment.text and concatenate the varchar(8000) field together in a text field. Unfortunately this isn't as easy as just text = text + newtext, how is this done?
Or am I doing it all comletely the wrong way? BTW, I have over 150 SPs so I can't save them individually.
Thanks!
Nick
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Jul 5, 2000
Hi
I inserted images into X Table .. But I am not able see the images from Crystal Reports ... Can anyone tell me the reason???
I inserted the images with an insert statement...like this
INSERT INTO TEST TABLES(Emp_Picture) Values('c:ImagesTest.jpeg')
Is this the right way to insert are do we have to manipulate anything
before inserting......
Any help in this regard is appreciated...
Thanks
VENU
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Aug 26, 2005
how to put both text and image into SQL 2000?
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Feb 10, 2007
Hi ,
I am trying to write some code that Fetch,Add & updates a text field of a table in my SQL Server 2000 database.
Does anybody have any sample statements that will help me update that field
with larger amounts of data?
limitation:
Columns with TEXT data type do not support commonly used string functions such as
LEN, LEFT, RIGHT, and so on.
Can u tell me function for :
To get length of data of text type
To Add/Update string to it
To search string in it
To ltrim / rtrim the value..
Thanks
Yogesh
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Mar 16, 2004
Hi to all
Is there any option in sql server DTS or any other third party tool that can script data. By scripting data i mean that....
if a table "Employee" contains 50 rows, i want the tool to write 50 insert queries for me so that i can run in it anywhere.
Problem is i have to insert data in a remote server where i cannot use DTS. I just have a text area to write my query and press the run button..
Hope u understand my problem. In case of any explanation please reply. Waiting for your response. Thanx in advance.
by to all
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Aug 22, 2006
With this discussion here http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=70328
I started to thinkn about Microsoft really calculated checksum value.
This code is 100% compatible with MS original. That is, the result is identical.
You can use it "as is", or you can use it to see that MS function does not produce that unique values one could expect.
With text/varchar/image data, call with SELECT BINARY_CHECKSUM('abcdefghijklmnop'), dbo.fnPesoBinaryChecksum('abcdefghijklmnop')
With integer data, call with SELECT BINARY_CHECKSUM(123), dbo.fnPesoBinaryChecksum(CAST(123 AS VARBINARY))
I haven't figured out how to calculate checksum for integers greater than 255 yet.CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fnPesoBinaryChecksum
(
@Data IMAGE
)
RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE@Index INT,
@MaxIndex INT,
@SUM BIGINT,
@Overflow TINYINT
SELECT@Index = 1,
@MaxIndex = DATALENGTH(@Data),
@SUM = 0
WHILE @Index <= @MaxIndex
SELECT@SUM = (16 * @SUM) ^ SUBSTRING(@Data, @Index, 1),
@Overflow = @SUM / 4294967296,
@SUM = @SUM - @Overflow * 4294967296,
@SUM = @SUM ^ @Overflow,
@Index = @Index + 1
IF @SUM > 2147483647
SELECT @SUM = @SUM - 4294967296
RETURN @SUM
ENDActually this is an improvement of MS function, since it accepts TEXT and IMAGE data.CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fnPesoTextChecksum
(
@Data TEXT
)
RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE@Index INT,
@MaxIndex INT,
@SUM BIGINT,
@Overflow TINYINT
SELECT@Index = 1,
@MaxIndex = DATALENGTH(@Data),
@SUM = 0
WHILE @Index <= @MaxIndex
SELECT@SUM = (16 * @SUM) ^ ASCII(SUBSTRING(@Data, @Index, 1)),
@Overflow = @SUM / 4294967296,
@SUM = @SUM - @Overflow * 4294967296,
@SUM = @SUM ^ @Overflow,
@Index = @Index + 1
IF @SUM > 2147483647
SELECT @SUM = @SUM - 4294967296
RETURN @SUM
END
Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden
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Aug 29, 2006
Hello Everyone,
We receive this error with ADO.NET (on a SQL Server 2000):
The query processor could not produce a query plan from the optimizer because a query cannot update a text, ntext, or image column and a clustering key at the same time.
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
at ?OnExecuteNonQuery@dtbmsq_Statement_c@@$$FUAE?AW4dtb_Result_t@@PAUdtbsql_Connection_ip@@PAH@Z(dtbmsq_Statement_c* , dtbsql_Connection_ip* Connection, Int32* NbRowsAffected) in s:ogl20061srcodbmsqdtbmsqdtbmsq_statement_c.cpp:line 598
N.B. The update concerned only update one row.
Is it a known restriction? Is it a restriction from ADO.NET or from the database server?
Is it documented somewhere?
Regards.
Carl
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Jan 10, 2005
Hi
I have a table with image data type column. I would like to store photos (images in .jpg format) in the table. I am using ADODC to connect VB.NET with MS-SQL server 2000.
Thanzzzzzzzzzz... :rolleyes:
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Jul 10, 2006
I did some quick Googling and didn't find the article of my dreams here. Any experience with storing files in the db in 2005? Any opinions?
Here's the deal. We have our new 'Enterprise' software being designed and written in St. Petersburg (not FL) and I'm reviewing the design for dealing with letters and forms that are generated as hard copy from our business (by the thousands per month) and sent to clients for review, signature etc. Then they are returned by fax or snail mail.
The current design has all of these being stored in image data type columns in the database--storing saved files of the actual outgoing stuff and saved files of the stuff that comes in (scanned copies or the files from our fax server).
This screams 'BAD IDEA' based on our experience doing this in SQL Server 2000. We get things like 23 page faxes from Dr's offices, large packets of FMLA forms returned, etc. In 2000 they tended to get rather large when stored in the DB and caused us all kinds of headaches when Microsoft changed how it recognized and displayed certain types of files, e.g. tiffs.
Further, the outgoing stuff is largely boilerplate with added fields from the db--name, address, a few dates. My proposed design for outbound notifications and forms was to keep only references to the template used, the date created, and an id to link it to the personal info of the schmoe to whom it was sent--essentially, store which document template and then just enough data to map to the variable content that is pulled from the db. Then you can recreate the file that was printed and mailed at any time in the future, but you don't actually save the .doc (or Word .xml) anywhere, not in the file system, not in the db.
The current developers feel this is way too much work to design--and it is certainly more effort than just generating .docs/.xml files via a merge with Word and then stuffing those into the database. They also argue that having them in the db makes them 'more secure' and more 'accessible' to users around the globe.
Does anyone know if the image storage is any better in 2005 than 2000? The .docs & .tifs we used to store just about tripled in size when we put them in the db in 2000. Plus there were the defrag issues and generally it was an unsatisfying experience.
Does anyone know what the advantages/disadvantages of generating Word .xml files might be? Can they be stored as xml data type in SQL Server? Perhaps this is a better option?
If anyone has the time to digest this, please send opinions.
Thanks!
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Feb 8, 2008
Hello everyone.
I have an interesting problem. We have a SQL database with a field that is an image type. In it are records where the image field are text files. What I would like to do is look at these files and stream them line by line and do some processes for each line read.
So let's say a client machine uploaded a file called myfile.txt into this database.
I would like the asp.net (vb) application tkae this file and read each line and do some processing.
I looked at memorystream and streamreader but just can not figure this out. Can you please help? Thank you Kameron
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Jan 18, 2005
i write a small web application to save word files in sql server and i store it as an image datatype
i need to do operation such as search within these files for any word
is there any One Can help me with that ???????????????????????????? Important
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Nov 20, 1998
If I have a table that I want to create a clustered index on. For example sake, say that I have 2 columns in the table. Col1 is char(2), col2 is text (or image). If I create a clustered index on col1, the database needs 1.2% times the size of the table to create the clustered index. Does this include the size of col2, being that text and image data is stored in a separate page chain....?
thanks for your time!
Tim
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Sep 18, 2005
I have a table that contains the following two columns:BITS (image(16))BIT_LENGTH (int(4))When I look at the table, I see "OLE Object" in the BITS column. Whatsyntax should I use in a SELECT statement to convert the binary imageinfo contained in "BITS" into simple text that I can read? What roledoes the BIT_LENGTH field play?
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May 31, 2007
I am saving large text document in an image type of column in a SQL Server 2000 table.
How will I set up searching of words/ phrases for data stored in this column?
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Mar 16, 2005
Hi,
I am having difficulty in indexing a Table when it contains a PDF file in an Image column. Basically I have a table with a unique id, some other fields, and an Image column. The Image column contains uploaded files from a web application. Full-text indexing works fine for all types of files that I have uploaded into this table which includes (.doc, .xls, .ppt) but I get the following message in my Event Viewer if one of thee files is a PDF file.
One or more documents stored in the Image columns with extension '.pdf' did not get full-text indexed because loading the filter failed with error '1x01'.
I have searched Microsoft's site and implemented their prescribed fixes but none has worked including installation of SP3 of Sql Server and/or modifying the registry key to run the Sql server indexing procedure as a single threaded process.
Has anyone experienced this problem? Please help.
Thanks
Kamal
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Jan 17, 2005
First I recieve this error when I upload a photo and click on the save button.
'ODBC - update on a linked table 'PersonMisc' failed.'
Then this error appears after I click ok.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server] The READTEXT and WRITETEXT statements cannot be used with views[#285][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver] Warning: Partial insert/update The insert/update of a text or image did not succeed.[#0].
Is there a size limit on the pictures I am uploading?
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Mar 13, 2012
I need to trim (removing white spaces) the data or text in a column which is of type IMAGE.
I would like to achieve this through a PL/SQL procedure or function.
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Apr 17, 2006
Hai Friends...
I am using sql server 2000. i have one table with columns
empid notnull
empfname not null
empmname null
emplname not null
while i am writing a simple procedure to get the employee middel name(empmname) it is giving the error message like this
Server: Msg 7105, Level 22, State 6, Procedure emp_statistics, Line 11
Page (1:70), slot 18 for text, ntext, or image node does not exist.
Connection Broken
plase help me Urgent
Thanks and Regards
Krishna Mangamuri
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Aug 13, 2007
I'm trying to write SSIS packages to import DB2 6000 tables to SQL Server 2005 tables. The package vendor has defined CLOB and BLOB datatypes for columns in the DB2 tables, and going through the Data Flow tasks from OLE DB for DB2 to OLE DB for SQL Server, it tries to map CLOBs to TEXT columns, and BLOBs to IMAGE columns. The vendor has no conversion utility available, so I have to write the SSIS packages. However, the task generates a goodly number of errors just trying to open the OLE DB DB2 dataset. Errors like the following:
Error: 0xC0202009 at Set 5 1 2, DB2 vendor_master [7127]: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft DB2 OLE DB Provider" Hresult: 0x80040E21 Description: "Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.".
Error: 0xC0208265 at Set 5 1 2, DB2 vendor_master [7127]: Failed to retrieve long data for column "COMPETITOR_COMMENT".
Error: 0xC020901C at Set 5 1 2, DB2 vendor_master [7127]: There was an error with output column "COMPETITOR_COMMENT" (8866) on output "OLE DB Source Output" (7138). The column status returned was: "DBSTATUS_UNAVAILABLE".
Error: 0xC0209029 at Set 5 1 2, DB2 vendor_master [7127]: The "output column "COMPETITOR_COMMENT" (8866)" failed because error code 0xC0209071 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "COMPETITOR_COMMENT" (8866)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
Error: 0xC0047038 at Set 5 1 2, DTS.Pipeline: The PrimeOutput method on component "DB2 vendor_master" (7127) returned error code 0xC0209029. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing.
Error: 0xC0047021 at Set 5 1 2, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038.
Error: 0xC0047039 at Set 5 1 2, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" received a shutdown signal and is terminating. The user requested a shutdown, or an error in another thread is causing the pipeline to shutdown.
Error: 0xC0047021 at Set 5 1 2, DTS.Pipeline: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047039.
Information: 0x40043008 at Set 5 1 2, DTS.Pipeline: Post Execute phase is beginning.
In this case, 'COMPTETITOR_COMMENT' is defined as a CLOB(2 M) column format in the DB2 database table, and the output format in the SQL Server 2005 table is defined as a TEXT column.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
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May 16, 2007
Hi!
i have a problem with my replication.
I have two SQL 2005 SP2 Server and want to use the transaction replication with updateable subscriber. Now the problem is that i can do any changes on the master server. But if i want to change a record on the subscriber which contains a ntext, text, oder image column - then i geht the error that the field will be NULL on the master.
Is there any solution to fix this problem? I dont wan`t to change the datatype vom ntext to varchar(max) !!
greetings
Holger
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Oct 10, 2006
SQL ERROR - I need DISTINCT but can use it with image,ntext, text - How To work around??? ! more - How to Work around - MIN() I cant use it when having text in SELECT statement The text, ntext, or image data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT.
Description: An
unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web
request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the
error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The text, ntext, or image data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the
current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of
the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
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Nov 19, 2015
I tried creating Toggle Option over a Text box to Show the Image on Click but Since the Toggle refreshes the entire report user faces performance issue. Is there any other option to avoid the Toggle Refreshing the report or to show an image on Click of an Text Box?
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Oct 6, 2004
Hi folks,
Table:
a int,
b int,
c int,
d text
I need to change my AFTER - Trigger from this (example!):
select * into #ins from inserted
to something like
select *(without Text / nText / image -columns) into #ins from inserted.
So I tried to build a string like this: (using INFORMATIONSCHEMES)
select @sql = 'select a,b,c into #ins from inserted'
exec(@sql)
a,b,c are not of Text, nText or Image datatype.
After executing the trigger, I get an error, that inserted is unknown.
Does anyone know how to solve this ?
Thx.
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Feb 19, 2008
"Short" Story Version:
I have a VS 2005 Web Appplication solution that uses SQL Server Reporting Services 2005. One of the projects is a Report Server Project. In this project I have an RDL file that has:
1.)a non-shared XML DataSource (no credentials),
2.)a DataSet with a Command Type of Text and a Query String that is as follows:
<Query>
<XmlData>
<Root>
<LOAD LOAD_ID_PREFIX="" LOAD_ID="" TRUCK="" DIAGRAM=""/>
</Root>
</XmlData>
</Query>
3.)a field that comes from the Database that is of VarBinary(Max) that is a JPEG Image
What happens is, is that by doing #2 above, at design time I can create tables and hook into my datasets and get the report all designed out the way I want. Then at runtime, I have a Stored Procedure that uses the "FOR XML AUTO" option so that I can represent my results from the database in an XML fashion which will allow me to replace the XML Schema in between the Root tags above (in #2) with my actual data (which still has the same schema). I then save the modified RDL to a database table field and move on to happily ever after......in this case, not. In this case, since an VarBinary is involved, unless I want to get a pointer back for the Diagram Column, I have to use the "FOR XML AUTO, BINARY BASE64" option. This returns an Encoded string to represent the Binary value that was in the Database....and this is the partial source of my angst....read on.
My approach that I described above worked flawlessly in all cases where an image wasn't involved. This report is the only report in the whole system I am working on that will have an image and it is the last one being done, so that's why I didn't run into this earlier.
I have tried all kinds of things at different levels, but the thing that I have tried that seemed to me to have the most potential was to use Embedded Code to take the Encoded ASCII Value and convert into something binary that the SSRS Reporting Engine likes (so my image will show), but I have been unsuccessful thus far. The error message I keep getting now from my Embedded Function is: "Invalid length for a Base-64 char array", which I have not been able to resolve thus far....and I do know that the Binary value in the database is good becuase I can see it in pages in my application otherwise.
This aside, is there anyone out there that knows how to take the value of a VarBinary(Max) field and insert it into the Text (XML) DataSet in the markup of an RDL file....and have it appear correctly when the report is rendered in something like the standard Report Viewer Control (or even when being previewed at design time inside of Visual Studio for that matter)?
Just to be clear, the root of my problem, as I see and understand it, is that I have a VarBinary value in a database that is being converted to a string (ASCII...I am presuming) due to how I am writing my stored procedure and then needs to go back to something else binary that the SSRS Engine will accept so that I can see my Image in the report when I render it.
I am wishful that someone out there understands my problem and has run into this and has a solution......but I am wishful of winning the lottery, too, and that hasn't happened yet...............
Thanks.
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Apr 7, 2008
I wonder if anyone can help.
I do not understand the error message but I do know it is associated with a specific table and one of its indexes. If I try to drop the index that is the error message I get.
I have copied the data from the table to a new table and rebuilt the indexes on the new table and everything is working fine.
The bad table is now renamed to myTable_BAD. I now want to delete it but can't as everytime I enter
drop table myTable_BAD
I get Page (1:404399), slot 5 for text, ntext, or image node does not exist.
So here is my question
How can I delete this Bad table?
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Oct 7, 2015
I'm developing an SSRS report using VS2013 Premium with SSDT - BI v12.0.2430.0. SSRS is hosted on a SQL 2014 instance.The underlying database table has a varchar(max) field which stores text and embedded image data from a third-party application. I can extract this text, save it as an html file and open that in a browser. It renders complete with any embedded image.Meanwhile, the report textbox has its Placeholder Properties, Markup type set to HTML. Yet when I run the report, the text is displayed but any embedded image is not.Is there any approach I can take, perhaps transforming the varchar(max) data to another format in the query for my dataset, that can show the text and any embedded image in my report? Or is it that the TextBox control is limited, not unreasonably, to text only? If so, is there another control I could use, perhaps custom or third-party?
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Sep 12, 2007
Hi,
I'm using the SSRS report designer within VS2005 and I have a .rdl report that I have placed a background form as an image background. I then have text placed on top of the form, the problem is that everything is aligned within the report designer layout view but when I go to view the report in report preview the text no longer remains vertically aligned within the background form.
This is very frustrating, and almost makes it impossible to marry up a form with report data. Any help would be appreciated.
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Oct 21, 2007
Can you not add a text column to a full text index?? If I change it to a nvarchar it works fine but if I change it to a text column it wont index. Anyone know how to fix this?
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Apr 26, 2002
I need to separate data within one column into two.
For example I have a column in one table that contains first and lastnames separated by a space. I need to export that data in to another table (or create a view) that has a lastname and firstname column.
I'm unable to specify character lengths within the substring statement because obviously the data varies so it was suggested I use the instring function within it. However instring doesn't seem to be a recognised function.
How come something so simple within excel is causing me such a headache in SQL.
I would really appreciate any suggestions.
Many Thanks
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Nov 10, 2005
I actually extracted a set of from an email to excel then to a SQL Server table
I'm trying to update a column in a database to clean out everything except the name "George Jeffrey"
bodytext1 column :-
" The following person is leaving the department, please update your records accordingly. Person Leaving: George Jeffrey/Users/DVC Division/Agency: People and Community Advocacy Date Leaving: Thursday 10, November 2005 "
I tried to use the replace method
update test.dbo.test
set bodytext1 = REPLACE(bodytext1,'The following person is leaving the department','')
but this error came out
Server: Msg 8116, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Argument data type text is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.
Is there another way to do this ?
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi,This is driving me nuts, I have a table that stores notes regarding anoperation in an IMAGE data type field in MS SQL Server 2000.I can read and write no problem using Access using the StrConv function andI can Update the field correctly in T-SQL using:DECLARE @ptrval varbinary(16)SELECT @ptrval = TEXTPTR(BITS_data)FROM mytable_BINARY WHERE ID = 'RB215'WRITETEXT OPERATION_BINARY.BITS @ptrval 'My notes for this operation'However, I just can not seem to be able to convert back to text theinformation once it is stored using T-SQL.My selects keep returning bin data.How to do this! Thanks for your help.SD
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