I am developing a resume storage system, and don't know the best way to store the resumes that come in to our company in both MS Word and text files. Should I store the files in the original format they come in, and reference the file name in the databse that points to a directory where they are stored, or should I store the text of the resumes directy in the database. There are 2 things that I must follow.
1: I need to have the documents keep their formatting.
2: I also need the capibility of conducting a full text search to pull out key words from the documents.
I have a table for articles that I want as the basis for a blog. I have a field of description where the actual article will go, I have only ever really used tables to put in 'blocks' of text, how would I go about storing/displaying data that is in my database table in a more formatted way, for example line breaks, indents etc?
I need a help with respect to the storage of documents in SQL server. Is it possible to store Word documents in SQL Server straight away ? If yes, what is the data type that is supported for this kind of storage. How do I read the data , store it & render it ( using both ado & Just TSQL)
I have developed a Job Registration page, in which, the resume attached will be stored in the database in an image data-type field. Now, the client program includes migration of the database into local server and process the resumes.
After migration to the local database, if the client wants to process the resume and save directly to the database again, is it possible? This a very urgent requirement. Currently, i am separating the resume from the database and storing in a folder with the ID as the file name. But i want to convert it to a distributed application, which needs the resume to be in the database itself.
Can anybody suggest me the method to open .doc file from the database, process it and save directly to the database?
Hi folks,I want to be able to store and retrieve UNSAVED Word documents as BLOBs. Igot all the info for storing them if they're already saved on the filesystem. But what if they're not already saved? I could save them to a tempfile first and then make it a blob, but I'd rather not put them on the filesystem at all. I could use Document.Contents to get the Range object for thewhole doc and then BLOB that, but I'm not sure that would be quite the sameas a .doc file, maybe things like Styles and the like would be missing.TIA!Dave
Hi There,Being quite new to MS-SQL I would like to ask if there is a general opinionof what approach should be taken to storing things like external documentsand images in databases.Should the actual files be stored within the database, or instead shouldlinks to the files on a file server or something similar be stored instead.For the end user I imagine it is easier to have everything stored within thedatabase, because doing it the other way in effect gives another level ofmanagement because there is the need to perhaps manually look after the fileserver with all the image files or document files on.In my particular case, I am building a database where the users use a greatmany Word documents. For example, I particular record might have a number ofdifferent Word documents associated with it.I was going to create a "Documents" table that all documents were stored in(including meta data about each document because it will be really useful tobe able to search for documents so that they can be reused).In this table I was in a dilemma as to whether to actually store thedocuments in the table. Other then the performance hit and memoryrequirements this will require, are there any other disadvantages?What are the general thoughts when a database needs to manage a lot of pdfand word documents?Thanks in advance.Dave.
Excel 2007 Documents Not Displayed in Windows XP Professional sp2 Start Menu's Recent Documents List:
Dear Microsoft Support: I can't figure out how to get recently used Excel 2007 (new file formats) documents to show up in the Windows XP Professional (sp2) Start Menu's Recent Documents List. I checked the Internet, the knowledgebase, many parts of the MS web site, etc. for an answer but can't find one. Are Excel 2007 documents supposed to show up in the XP Start Menu's Recent Document List? Is this a bug or do I have to do some sort of configuration to make it do so? If it's a bug, when will a fix be available?
Are these new Excel 2007 files filtered out like EXE files are which will not appear in the Recent Document List?
The Excel 2007 file types are listed in the Registry.
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Hi, I have this page that upload's PFD's to a table. In principle this works fine. Until I try to upload large files (3 to 4 MB)I need to even upload larger files than that. (Don't really know as of yet what users are going to come up with) I get TimeOut problems. Now some people say it is not possible to exceed a limit of about 4 MB. But that there is a workaround by changing something to the web.config file.Can somebody give me info about that, (I am quite a novice really)I tried to change it like this, but to no avail: <system.web><httpRuntime maxRequestLength="102400"enable = "True"requestLengthDiskThreshold="102400" useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="True"executionTimeout="102400"/></system.web> Thanks for any help!
Hi!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?
I was wondering if any one could help me, I need to store large amounts of data in my database, at present I have it set to nvchar (8000), I've looked around and noticed you can use text which stores up to 2 million, but is slow in displaying the information.
Any ideas or points in the right directions would be great.
I have a table that I'm inserting a file into and using the Image data type to store the binary object. Now the code below works fine for files around 1.5 MB, but anything larger and it's like the code won't even execute and I get a Page Not found error. I'm in the process of running some traces to find out what's going on in the backend, but I'm assuming there's something amiss with my code. The Image data type should handle files that size with no problem but for some reason it isn't. Does anyone see anything wrong? Thanks Dim iLength As Integer = CType(File1.PostedFile.InputStream.Length, Integer) If iLength = 0 Then Exit Sub 'not a valid file Dim sContentType As String = File1.PostedFile.ContentType Dim sFileName As String, i As Integer Dim bytContent As Byte() ReDim bytContent(iLength) 'byte array, set to file size
'strip the path off the filename i = InStrRev(File1.PostedFile.FileName.Trim, "") If i = 0 Then sFileName = File1.PostedFile.FileName.Trim Else sFileName = Right(File1.PostedFile.FileName.Trim, Len(File1.PostedFile.FileName.Trim) - i) End If conn = New SqlConnection(eco) conn.Open() cmd = New SqlCommand("INSERT INTO ECO_Attachments (ECOID, FromType, DocName,OldRev,NewRev,NtLogin,DisplayName, FileName, FileSize, FileData, ContentType) VALUES (@ECOID, @FromType,@DocName,@OldRev,@NewRev,@NtLogin,@DisplayName, @FileName, @FileSize, @FileData, @ContentType) ") cmd.Connection = conn Try File1.PostedFile.InputStream.Read(bytContent, 0, iLength) With cmd .Parameters.Add("@ECOID", SqlDbType.Int) .Parameters.Add("@FromType", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 50) .Parameters.Add("@DocName", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 250) .Parameters.Add("@OldRev", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 50) .Parameters.Add("@NewRev", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 50) .Parameters.Add("@NTLogin", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 100) .Parameters.Add("@DisplayName", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 200) .Parameters.Add("@FileName", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 255) .Parameters.Add("@FileSize", SqlDbType.Real) .Parameters.Add("@FileData", SqlDbType.Image) .Parameters.Add("@ContentType", SqlDbType.NVarChar, 50) .Parameters("@ECOID").Value = ECOID .Parameters("@FromType").Value = From .Parameters("@DocName").Value = DocName .Parameters("@OldRev").Value = OldRev .Parameters("@NewRev").Value = NewRev .Parameters("@NTLogin").Value = NTLogon .Parameters("@DisplayName").Value = DisplayName .Parameters("@FileName").Value = sFileName .Parameters("@FileSize").Value = iLength .Parameters("@FileData").Value = bytContent .Parameters("@ContentType").Value = sContentType .ExecuteNonQuery() '.ExecuteScalar() End With Catch ex As Exception Response.Write(ex) 'Handle your database error here conn.Close() End Try
How do you all recommend storing ordered pairs in SQL Server 2005? I plan to add one record for every data point but this will generate many records and requires an extra field to relate the points together. Are there any better ways to do this? Can the data still be searchable or does it have to be unpacked first?
We are in the middle of re-designing few tables (namely transaction tables) that would store very large data and would be hosted on cloud (Azure). The old design of this product breaks transaction tables into monthly tables. i.e. say ORDERS Table would be physically broke into twelve monthly tables over a year like ORDERS0115 (mmyy), ORDERS0215 and so on.
We are in the opinion that keeping the entire transactions in one Table is better. Would like to know what's the best practices for transaction tables like the one mentioned above? Is it better to use one table with partitions. I read somewhere that partitions can slow down SELECT queries if not designed and thought properly.Since this would be hosted on cloud (Azure), do you think some additional things are to be taken care? How a site like Amazon keeps their transactions tables?
Hello,Currently we have a database, and it is our desire for it to be ableto store millions of records. The data in the table can be divided upby client, and it stores nothing but about 7 integers.| table || id | clientId | int1 | int2 | int 3 | ... |Right now, our benchmarks indicate a drastic increase in performanceif we divide the data into different tables. For example,table_clientA, table_clientB, table_clientC, despite the fact thetables contain the exact same columns. This however does not seem veryclean or elegant to me, and rather illogical since a database existsas a single file on the harddrive.| table_clientA || id | clientId | int1 | int2 | int 3 | ...| table_clientB || id | clientId | int1 | int2 | int 3 | ...| table_clientC || id | clientId | int1 | int2 | int 3 | ...Is there anyway to duplicate this increase in database performancegained by splitting the table, perhaps by using a certain type ofindex?Thanks,Jeff BrubakerSoftware Developer
Hello 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?
Can somebody provide me an argument on how nicely formatted and indented procs perform better. I am currently formatting a 1000 line proc just to understand what it does ... Maybe your argument will help convince my development team to write neat procs :)
Hi,Is there a way to get stored procedure texts out in a formatted waylike defncopy in Sybase????? The way they print it out reallysucks............RegardsSubhas
Hello,I need to create a database to hold documents information.1. Basically, I need the following information for each document: Title, Description, LastUpdated, Category, Type, Url Should I create tables for Category and Type? And link them to my documents table? What type of relationship should I use?2. I also need to know how many downloads each document had Should I add a column in my documents table? Then I would increase it one by one. Or should I create a new table which would register each download.3. I need to let users to rate each document from 1 to 5. How should I implement this?Thank You Very Much,Miguel
I'd like to create an XML document from within SQL 7.0. Is the do-able? I know it's build into SQL 2K. But how is it done (or can it be done) in SQL 7.0.
Yesterday I installed MS SQL 2000 for the first time and have no idea what I'm doing.
I have been sent a database and asked to convert this to MS Access, for most of the data that is ok and I have already managed to do this. My problem is that the database contains MS Word documents stored in some of the tables (field type - image). I need to extract these from the database and get them back to individual Word files, ideally with a file name that relates them to the primary key of the table from which they came.
I have less that 24 hours experience with SQL server and would be very grateful if anyone can explain how I can do this.
I have been experimenting with SQL Server 2005 partitions. I loaded a terabyte of information into 2 tables. The first holds the document information and the second holds the actual binary document (in this case pdf). Most of the documents are about 1 megabyte in size, but the largest is 212 megabytes.
SQL Server has no problem storing the blobs. The problem occurs when I attempt to get the data.
I did some quick tests to test how fast I could pull the documents out. The largest took about 24 seconds. The 1 meg documents are sub-second.
Here is how the 212 meg doc breaks down:
Time to load datatable: 18.79 seconds Time to load byte array: 3.84 seconds Time to Write and open document: 0.01 seconds
If I access the file from a file server, the time is 0.04 seconds to begin showing the document.
As you can see, the longest time period is related to retrieving the data from SQL, and it is much slower that launching it from disk across the network. (note: the sql server and file server used to test are next to each other).
My question is, how can I speed up the access from SQL Server? I believe the keys are "partition aligned". Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I will add the table definitions and partition information as a reply since only 5000 chars are allowed in the post.
This may be a stupid question but I'll throw it out here, is it possible to use sql 2005 to split up pdf files into individual files by a field on the form or an index?
We have a document library that we display on report manager. When we open a pdf document there is a print icon, but when we open an Excel document or a Word document, there is no ablility to print. The user must save the document locally and then reopen it to print from Word or Excel. Is there a setting somewhere that can be set to enable printing on the Excel and Word docs?
Hi, I am trying to write the output of an sql query to a text file using bcp. Now the problem am facing is i have to format the text like i the following order... <DATETIMESTAMP>08:39 Thursday, March 15, 2007</DATETIMESTAMP><CATEGORY>Quarterly Sales</CATEGORY><HEADLINE>Quarterly Corporate Earnings (03/15/07)</HEADLINE><BODY> Quarterly Corporate Profits (03/15/07) PER-SHARE ($) NET EARNINGS (mil$) REV. (mil$)COMPANY CURRENT YEAR-AGO CURRENT YEAR-AGO CURRENT YEAR-AGOabc 0.33 n/a 8.60 (13.30) 144.40 112.50 bcdf 0.16 (0.15) 7.80 (7.40) 101.90 81.20 gha n/a n/a (90.00) (80.00) 488.00 462.00 qwqw (0.10) (0.15) (3.30) (4.30) 2.90 2.20 Copyright(c) 2007 mycompany.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved</BODY> Would somebody please advice whther this sort of formatting is possible with bcp..Please give some pointers am completely stuck....the company data is coming from a database table...am using sql 2005...
I get this message in the SQL Server logs after I restore a db. I copied this backup from another server is that why it's telling me it formatted incorrectly? The strange thing is in QA it restores successfully but when I look @ EM it's remains in Loading mode and never completes
The backup data in 'D:SQLServerMSSQLackupjan_prod_db_20050214173 0.BAK' is incorrectly formatted. Backups cannot be appended, but existing backup sets may still be usable.
Hi All, I am kindly seeking for help. I have a table(MyTable) which is defined as (date datetime, ID char (10), and R, P,M,D&Y are all float) and the layout is as following: Date ID R P M D... Y 1/1/90 A 1 2 3 4... 5 1/2/90 A 2 3 4 5... 1 ... 2/11/05 A 3 4 5 6... 2 1/1/90 B 1 2 3 4... 5 1/2/90 B 2 3 4 5... 1 ... 2/11/05 B 3 4 5 6... 2 ... The expected query results look like: ( this results from Date, ID and R fields) Date A B 1/1/90 1 1 1/2/90 2 2 ... 2/11/05 3 3
The SQL I wrote: select date, ID, A=sum(case when ID=A then R else 0 end), B=sum(case when id=B then R else 0 end) from MyTable Group by date
I would also like to get another set of results with the same format but from date,ID and P fields: Date A B 1/1/90 2 2 1/2/90 3 3 ... 2/11/05 4 4
select date, ID, A=sum(case when ID=A then P else 0 end), B=sum(case when id=B then P else 0 end) from MyTable Group by date
The problem with that is if I have thousands of ID in MyTable I have to "hard code" thousands times and the same problem with the fields/columns. Is there any easier way to do this? I also would like to insert the results into a table/view which will be refreshed whenever MyTable gets updated.
Any suggestion/comments are highly appreciated! shiparsons
I have 265 word documents which I use with mail merge to create a master document.We are going to auto generate this master document going forward so I want to store these 265 word documents, these range in size from 10kb to 50kb. As I mentioned these are formatted and also contain a merge field/marker so what I will be doing is using a value in the database, my application will take the document which is stored as a string/blob and will replace the "merge field" with the value from the database.
I can write an application to import each of these documents but I am not sure whats the best way to store them in order to be able to find and replace the merge marker.Also I will be joining a number of these together to make the master document. So for example I take 10 of these and I replace the marker fields in these with the values from the database, I will then push that string out to a PDF/Word document for printing.
I need to export data to a worksheet and format the resultant sheet appropriately. I kow server side automation is a no-no. What would be the best alternative to accomplish this?
Hi, I have the requirements to add the attachment, so i am saving the documents in sqlserver. now i am facing the problem with openning the document. can any body suggest me how to open the documents which are stored in sql server
