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Storing Rich Text In A Database
Jan 27, 2005Hey folks,
Just a quick question to ask what is the best field to store the data held in a rich text box/control. Just want to make sure that i get it right first time you know. Not sure about the amount of characters that needs held but its going to be quite a lot as this field shall contain most of my pages content.
Appreciate any help
Thanks
Turklad
Very Long Rich Text Information - Datatype?
Jul 20, 2005Sorry if this seems a little basic, but I'm putting together an applicationwhere large amounts of text will be required in a single record - way morethan 8000 characters.What's the normal way of coping with this? Splitting into multiple recordseach with a max of 8000 chars?Thanks,JC
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Nov 20, 2007This question has been asked a lot, without a definitive answer. Can you tell me if SQL Server 2008 will support rich text. I believe the November CTP does not have this functionality. It is a pretty important decision regarding my organization's adoption of the new product.
Thank you
Jason
Rich Text Field
Aug 4, 2006I currently have a simple project where we need to store paragraphs for letters that will be automatically printed and then mailed to cusomters. These letters will be created based on certain criteria.
I have the SQL database set up with two fields...the paragraphCode (which is the key) and then the paragraph. These paragraphs were originally created in Word and some of these paragraphs contain bulleting and other rich text features. I have built a small utility in ASP (using VB .Net) for our intranet to view / insert / edit these paragraphs. If a user is copying and pasting the paragraph from a Word document, what should this paragraph field's datatype be declare as? It is currently NVARCHAR(MAX).
Thanks for the information
Datatypes That Preserve Rich Text
Feb 1, 2007Hey there - I have a textbox (C# 1.1 OR 2.0) that I want to take it's contents and post to a datatype of some sort in SQL2k5 and have it preserve the breaks (return keystrokes) so when the data is presented, it can hold a paragraph form. Is this possible?something like this: <asp:TextBox id="txtContent" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="10"></asp:TextBox>Right now, I'm using nvarchar(4000) as the datatype but if I were to type, say 3 paragraphs, the data returned in the datagrid I bind that data to shows only one long string of data. For the time being, I have been puttting HTML formatting tags in the content I'm posting to the DB, but ultimately don't want to have to do that. I don't want to have to use a Text Editor (like FTB or FCKeditor) if necessary because they seem very much involved for the simple need I have which is to preserve paragraph formatting.So, is there another datatype in SQL2k5 that I should be using? Or are there simple code snippets I can utilize that will recognize a carriage return as a </p><p> tag?I'm trying to migrate to 2.0 as much as possible, so any C# code would be greatly appreciated in 2.0!Thanks for your help!iSheahan
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Aug 25, 2006Dear All
I want to create a RichTextBox, and then i want to show picture and Text at a time, suppose
Welcome to MSDN Forum
how can i accompalished this task.
Thanks
Removing Rich Text Formatting From A Field
Feb 6, 2007I have a field where the data is stored with RTF. I know SQL Reporting Services cannot display it properly. Is there way to remove the RTF formatting codes through a function to just pull out the text and displya it in the text box?
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Feb 24, 2003Does anyone know where I can find a freeware Rich Text to HTML ActiveX Control?
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Jun 28, 2007Hi,
I want to execute some queries inside a stored procedure, get the data and create from them some strings with formatted parts (bold, italic, underline, different color fonts) and save them in a text field. These strings are going to be displayed in some DBRichText control in a database application built with Delphi. Is there an easy way to create these complex rtf formats in MSSQL
or some ideas regarding this problem?
Best Regards,
Manolis Perrakis
SSRS Newbie - How To Display Rich Text In A Report
Aug 21, 2007Hi
(Note when I say "rich" text I don't specifically mean rich text, I'm refering to text with user defined bold, italic, numbered lists, colors, fonts, etc.)
We have a (new) system where we want a user to enter "rich" text notes into a single column using an editor embedded in our application (much like the editor I'm using for this forum) and have the notes displayed correctly in SSRS reports. We were thinking of storing the notes as HTML but I've just tried it and the report displays the whole HTML string, rather than marking up the text.
We are open to marking up the text using any mechanism, rich text, HTML, Word, etc. just as long as we can see it in the reports.
We also need to consider viewing the same notes via Crystal reports.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Michael
Storing Statistical Information
Jan 16, 2007Hi everyone, I am storing statistics for different affiliate and merchant sites, and I have a few questions about how to store it. My first idea was to create a serializable array and store it in a statistics column with the rest of the site information. I could even have two columns, one being an archive, and one being the current month. I know these arrays would get quite large, but they would only be retrieved when someone was looking at the statistics. Is this a viable way to do it? The other idea I had was to create tables for each site and ad and store the statistics as rows in each objects respective table. While easy, I didn't know if it was a bad idea to have a very large amount of tables, ie., one for every advertisement and site signed up for the affiliate program. Thanks for all your expertise in advance and I look forward to contributing to this great community. Dave
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Mar 26, 2008MS SQLJust to confirm, I need to store the number of hours a user has spent doing something, am I correct using the smalldatetime field for the MS SQL database?I will eventually need to be able to calculate totals using SQL Reporting Services so it's important that the hours add up correctly (to 60 minutes, not 100).ASP.NETI'm trying to find the correct sort of formatting to use? Short time stores the time as 9:50AM, which isn't what i'm after.I need to store the hours as in 1 hour, or 01:00:00 (1 hour, 0 minutes, 0 seconds) or just 01:00 for 1 hour. I do need minutes but seconds are not required.I can't find the right formatting for this, would Long time be more suited?
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Apr 9, 2001Hello,
We are just setting up SQL Server 2000 and wanted to keep track of all our server settings(everything needed for worst case scenario). Does anybody have a standard template that we could follow to record all our info?
Thanks!
Storing Locale And Culture-information
Dec 9, 2006Hi, I'm creating a web application with membership and such. And I have some problem figuring out how to store locale and culture data. My application needs to know the following three things for every user: country (or region), prefered language and their timezone. Now, the country and language can easily be stored as a CultureInfo string (such as "en-US" or "sv-SE"). However, i'm probably going to need two columns in my database if say a person lives in the US (and therefore applies to US registration fees, etc) but want the site displayed in swedish (my app implements global resources). So i guess (if no one objects to the above) my question is how do I store the timezone-data? There is ofcourse a System.Timezone class, but I'm not sure how to implement it. I obviously want my site to display the correct local time (all datetimes are stored as universaltime though). Is there a "universal" timezone-standard? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. /David N.
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Feb 15, 2005I was planning on running a service where thousands of text messages are stored. Obviously I'd want to make the most of my DB space, and was wondering if there's some way for SQL to compress text down to the smallest space possible. If not, is there some kind of ASP component I could download to do this? Failing that, I could always write a simple one, which takes the most common letter combinations, and shortens them down to a single character.
Any advice?
Storing A Text File?
Apr 21, 2008Hello,
In SQL 2005, what is the best way to take a text file and store it in a table field, then later extract that file to a directory with original name and format intact?
Thanks!
--PhB
How To Declare Sql Column For Storing Text?
May 5, 2005Hi Everyone,
I have a simple webform with a text box with multiline enabled and a submit button, in vb.net. Inside the text box, when you are typing text with let's say adding carriage returns, spaces etc. How to i save the text to a database? By that, i mean, how to i declare the column in my database, varchar, text ...?
Also, when retrieving the saved text back to the textbox, will it keep the formatting because that's what i am trying to do? Or, what is the best way to keep text formatting in a database?
Thanks for the help,
Kevin
Storing And Indexing Very Large Text
Jul 31, 2005Hi!I want to store some really big text in my database (for my articles). The approximate size will be from 500 to 40000 characters. I was thinking of using the database 'text' datatype.I have heard that reading these text fields is slower and decreases the performance. Moreover is it advisable to index this for searching purposes?
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Mar 2, 2000I'm sorry, but I'm a definite newbie. How can I store really long pieces of text other than as the 'text' datatype, which is too short in SQLS7?
Please help! It's key to my site admin system for importing third party wysiwyg-generated pages into our system....
Thanks,
John E.
Error Storing Data In Text File???
May 27, 2008The error I recieve is as follows:
"[Flat File Destination [13]] Error: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "SDATA" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.". "
"[Flat File Destination [13]] Error: Cannot copy or convert flat file data for column "SDATA". "
"[DTS.Pipeline] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED. The ProcessInput method on component "Flat File Destination" (13) failed with error code 0xC02020A0. The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure. "
"[DTS.Pipeline] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC02020A0. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited. "
"[DataReader Source [207]] Error: The component "DataReader Source" (207) was unable to process the data. "
"[DTS.Pipeline] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRIMEOUTPUTFAILED. The PrimeOutput method on component "DataReader Source" (207) returned error code 0xC02090F5. 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. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure. "
"[DTS.Pipeline] Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited. "
I am selecting data from an OBDC then copying it to a text file an I always get this error, but when I change the destination to a excel file it works perfectly. But the whole point of the package is to copy to a text file.
Please could you help me, your replies will be greatly appreciated.
Storing Text Data In A Binary Field
Jul 23, 2005This may be a stupid question but I can't find an easy answer for what Iwant to do. I need a blob data field that can store both binary and textdata like the sql_variant field. I am using vb.net to populate a sql table.I want to store both string and binary data.
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Sep 12, 2006As we all know, there is a 8060 bytes size limit on SQL Server rows. Ihave a table which requires a number of text fields (5 or 6). Each ofthese text fields should support a max of 4000 characters. We currentlystore the data in varchar columns, which worked fine untill ourappetite for text fields increased to the current requirement of 5, 6fields of 4000 characters size. I am given to review a design, whichesentially suggests moving the text columns to a separate TextFieldstable. The TextFields table will have two columns - a unique referenceand a VARCHAR (4000) column, thus allowing us to crossreference withthe original record. My first impresion is that I'd rather use the SQLServer 'text' DB type instead, which would allow me the samefunctionality with much less effort and possibly better performance.Can anyone advise on advantages and disadvantages of the two optionsand what the best practice in this case would be.Any advise will be well appreciated.Tzanko
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May 14, 2008hi
in my front end i have one text area where user can input his sql statements. for samller data its working. the data type of coulmn is Text in sql server 2005. but problem is when i try to store this data its showing error.i meant not storing data at all. if i cut some of line from this then in this case it stores the data .what should i do to overcome this problem
thanx a lot.
DECLARE @sTemp VARCHAR(10)
DECLARE @nMemberID INT
DECLARE @nPartnerID INT
DECLARE @nDocumentTypeNo INT
DECLARE @nDocumentFormat INT
DECLARE @sEmailAddress VARCHAR(200)
SET @sTemp = '{*MEMBERID*}'
IF UPPER(@sTemp) = 'NULL'
SET @nMemberID = NULL
ELSE
SET @nMemberID = CAST(@sTemp AS INT)
SET @sTemp = '{*PARTNERID*}'
IF UPPER(@sTemp) = 'NULL'
SET @nPartnerID = NULL
ELSE
SET @nPartnerID = CAST(@sTemp AS INT)
SET @sTemp = '{*DOCUMENTTYPENO*}'
IF UPPER(@sTemp) = 'NULL'
SET @nDocumentTypeNo = NULL
ELSE
SET @nDocumentTypeNo = CAST(@sTemp AS INT)
SET @sTemp = '{*DOCUMENTFORMAT*}'
IF UPPER(@sTemp) = 'NULL'
SET @nDocumentFormat = NULL
ELSE
SET @nDocumentFormat = CAST(@sTemp AS INT)
SET @sEmailAddress = '{*EMAILADDRESS*}'
IF EXISTS(SELECT *
FROM ProtocolSettings
WHERE ((@nMemberID IS NULL AND MemberID IS NULL) OR MemberID = @nMemberID)
AND ((@nPartnerID IS NULL AND PartnerID IS NULL) OR PartnerID = @nPartnerID)
AND ((@nDocumentTypeNo IS NULL AND DocumentTypeNo IS NULL) OR DocumentTypeNo = @nDocumentTypeNo)
AND ((@nDocumentFormat IS NULL AND DocumentFormatNo IS NULL) OR DocumentFormatNo = @nDocumentFormat)
AND ProtocolSettingNo = 307)
BEGIN
UPDATE ProtocolSettings
SET SettingValue = @sEmailAddress
WHERE ((@nMemberID IS NULL AND MemberID IS NULL) OR MemberID = @nMemberID)
AND ((@nPartnerID IS NULL AND PartnerID IS NULL) OR PartnerID = @nPartnerID)
AND ((@nDocumentTypeNo IS NULL AND DocumentTypeNo IS NULL) OR DocumentTypeNo = @nDocumentTypeNo)
AND ((@nDocumentFormat IS NULL AND DocumentFormatNo IS NULL) OR DocumentFormatNo = @nDocumentFormat)
AND ProtocolSettingNo = 307
END
ELSE
BEGIN
INSERT INTO ProtocolSettings (ProtocolSettingNo, MemberID, PartnerID, DocumentTypeNo, DocumentFormatNo, SettingValue)
VALUES(307, @nMemberID, @nPartnerID, @nDocumentTypeNo, @nDocumentFormat, @sEmailAddress)
END
Retrieving Form A Text Box And Using Information In SQL Statement
Mar 8, 2008Hi everyone,
So what I am trying to do is to have a simple textbox where the person enters a code.
Then I need to have that code in an SQL statement like: SELECT Participant_Code FROM Contacts WHERE (this is where im stuck, I need to have something like WHERE Participant_code = code (code is the textbox ID))
After this is done I need to keep this code from page to page, because I will need to add data from other textboxes to the database.
Thanks
Which Is Better? Storing Data In The Database OR Storing It In The File System
Dec 29, 2006Hello there,I just want to ask if storing data in dbase is much better than storing it in the file system? Because for one, i am currenlty developing my thesis which uploads a blob.doc file to a web server (currently i'm using the localhost of ASP.NET) then retrieves it from the local hostAlso i want to know if im right at this, the localhost of ASP.NET is the same as the one of a natural web server on the net? Because i'm just thinking of uploading and downloading the files from a web server. Although our thesis defense didn't require us to really upload it on the net, we were advised to use a localhost on our PC's. I'll be just using my local server Is it ok to just use a web server for storing files than a database?
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May 23, 2007Hello,
I have some troubles with IBM WebSphere Application Server using MS SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver. I always get the error e.g.
java.lang.SecurityException: class "com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDatabaseMetaData"'s signer information does not match signer information of other classes in the same package
I found this Feedback but it seems to be closed.
A temporary solution for me was to delete the meta-inf directory of the JAR-File, but that can't be the solution.
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Simon
Storing SID's In SQL 7.0
Dec 16, 1999I need to store a user ID of whoever made the last change to a record in a table. I have added a field with a default set to 'suser_sid()'.
Is it wise to store SID's in a database table if you are using NT authentication? My concerns are that if the user is deleted by the NT system administrator then I lose data integrety also if the database is backed up and restored onto a different machine with different users it won't work at all.
I'd be grateful for any help with this.
Rich
Client Found Response Content Type Of Text/html, But Expected Text/xml.
Jan 15, 2008Hello there!
I installed and configured SQL Server 2005 reporting services. When I try to connect to it using SQL Server Management Studio, I get the following error:
Client found response content type of "text/html", but expected "text/xml".
What should be done to overcome this?
Does anyone have any idea about this?
Thanks in advance
Hemant
Client Found Response Content Type Of 'text/html', But Expected 'text/xml'.
May 6, 2008
Hi,
In my VB .Net application , when I am trying to fire a SSRS report on my local machine . Its giving the error ".Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'."
The request failed with the error message:
--
<html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted
</body></html>
--.
the error is being thrown at the code line...
reportviewer.serverReport.getParameters()
I have reportserver as
https://ReportServerforApplication.abc.com/abc_ReportServer
I have admin rights on my machine but still the problem persists. Am i missing some user group?
Could someone Please help me with this.
Thanks In Advance
Gaurav
Adding A Full Text Search Across Multiple Tables (with Text Fields)
Sep 7, 2007Hi, i'm trying to do a full text search on my site to add a weighting score to my results. I have the following database structure:
Documents: - DocumentID (int, PK) - Title (varchar) - Content (text) - CategoryID (int, FK)
Categories: - CategoryID (int, PK) - CategoryName (varchar)
I need to create a full text index which searches the Title, Content and CategoryName fields. I figured since i needed to search the CategoryName field i would create an indexed view. I tried to execute the following query:
CREATE VIEW vw_DocumentsWITH SCHEMABINDING ASSELECT dbo.Documents.DocumentID, dbo.Documents.Title, dbo.Documents.[Content], dbo.Documents.CategoryID, dbo.Categories.CategoryNameFROM dbo.Categories INNER JOIN dbo.Documents ON dbo.Categories.CategoryID = dbo.Documents.CategoryID
GOCREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX vw_DocumentsIndexON vw_Documents(DocumentID)
But this gave me the error:
Cannot create index on view 'dbname.dbo.vw_Documents'. It contains text, ntext, image or xml columns.
I tried converting the Content to a varchar(max) within my view but it still didn't like.
Appreciate if someone can tell me how this can be done as surely what i'm trying to do is not ground breaking.
SQL Server 2000 Full Text Search (extract Pieces Of Text)
Sep 12, 2007Hello 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
Error: The Data Types Text And Text Are Incompatible In The Equal To Operator.
Apr 25, 2006I get this error:
The data types text and text are incompatible in the equal to operator.
when trying to execute this query
SELECT id FROM users WHERE username=@userName
Any Ideas?