Hi,
I have never use sql server to store binary data. Now, I need to store a .doc file into it. Which column type I should adopt?
In addition, could you provide me related articles to study?
Thanks,
Ricky.
Hi. I am currently building a blog application, and I need some advice... I have the post title, post date, post by, etc stored in a database table, however I was wondering whether I should store the actual post content in the database as well or in a text file. For example, if the posts get really long would it slow down database performance or would there not be much of a difference? Furthermore, if I wanted to keep the posts private, a text file would not be ideal as it can be accessed easily by surfers... What do you recommend?Thanks a lot
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to store several different types of documents (text, MS Word, PDF, etc.) in SQL Server 2005. What is the best way to store file attachments that have different MIME types?
Currently I'm using a table with a varbinary(max) column which works for binary files but not for text files. Do I need to have multiple columns in the table for different file types? Thanks in advance for your help.
CREATE TABLE dbo.[CM_Attachment] (
[Id] int IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[Change_Request_Id] int NOT NULL ,
[Attachment] varbinary(max) not null,
[Created_Date] datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT GetDate() ,
[Created_By] varchar(30) NOT NULL ,
[Modified_Date] datetime NOT NULL ,
[Modified_By] varchar(30) NOT NULL
)
GO
INSERT INTO CM_Attachment(Change_Request_Id, Attachment, Created_By, Modified_Date, Modified_By)
SELECT 6, BulkColumn , '', GetDate(), ''
FROM Openrowset( Bulk 'C:TestingTest Doc #1.txt', SINGLE_CLOB) -- Does not work
-- FROM Openrowset( Bulk 'C:TestingTest Doc #2.xls', Single_Blob) -- Works
-- FROM Openrowset( Bulk 'C:TestingTest Doc #3.jpg', Single_Blob) -- Works
as ChangeRequestAttachment
I'm using a bit-wise comparison to effectively store multiple values in one column. However once the number of values increases it starts to become too big for a int data type.you also cannot perform a bitwise & on two binary datatypes. Is there a better way to store the binary data rather than int or binary?
View 9 Replies View RelatedHi all,how r u everyone, guys i need a help, i have a interface in my application, adding attachments to issues, ie users can attach a file for a particular issue and if anyone have to view they ve click a link and it will download.iam using filestream and binaryreader concept in that, ie read the file using filestream and then use binaryreader.readbytes method to convert it into byte array and store it in the database in a column with a image datatype as a binary content. FileStream oImg; BinaryReader oBinaryReader; byte[] oImgByteArray; oImg = new FileStream(sFilePath,FileMode.Open,FileAccess.Read); oBinaryReader = new BinaryReader(oImg); oImgByteArray = oBinaryReader.ReadBytes((int)oImg.Length); oBinaryReader.Close(); oImg.Close(); this is the code iam using.when i use this its taking so much of time to get uploaded. so what i thought of doing is save the file in a specific folder using some postedfile.saveas(not sure of syntax) and when the user wants to view the file they can just download the file. i can do this by googling but what i want is wat abt the existing attachments in the database. so i need a help to do this........ is it possible to create a query to read the files and convert it into original file and save it in the specific folder or do i ve to create a simple interface to create do it manually , pls someone help me what to do ......thanks in advance.waiting for a reply soon Note: any unclear statement in my question kindly reply meWishes n RegardsVenkat.
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I'm just using TEXTBOX control to save data into my DB. My question is, if I have multiple lines of sentences, it does not store as what it looks like. For example;
Hello, Mike
It stores into the database as "Hello, Mike" and if I read from the database, it does not have seperate lines and shows it like this;
Hello, Mike
How can I store the contents into database and make the contents as original? (Sorry for the poor English, but I hope you understand it.)
Okay, moving to developing a small site that will be storing articles - that is a site largely consisting of html marked up articles with images. We already have an SQL Server so it is becoming the back-end.
So, since I'm not an SQL Server expert, some general advice on this would be appreciated? The articles, as I say in HTML (largely just markup for titles, and general text) would be stored in the DB? As Text datatypes?
How about the images...on disk or in SQL?
From what I can see, the 'varbinary(max)' data type is not supported, and the 'image' data type is supposed to go away. Is there some other way to store large chunks (10MB to 100MB) of data into an SSEv DB?
If I have to use the 'image' data type to so this, does anyone have a code sample that would let me push an array() of numbers into an 'image' field, and unload an 'image' field into an array()?
TIA
Pat
I am an absolute beginner with SQL Server 2005 Express, and I want to make a new table in my database that stores web URLs and their Username and Password info. When I try to add a URL to the URL column, it says
Error Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider
Error Message: String or binary data would be truncated.
The statement has been terminated.
I assume this means that the URL is too long to fit in the data type I specified, but I've tried almost every single data type there is, and I keep getting the same error. I was wondering if anyone knew what was wrong.
Thanks for any help.
Hi Guys,
What approach should I use to copy content of a text file. Is BCP capable of doing this? How about SSIS?
Example of the text file's content:
Date, "20060101"
ST_Code, "101"
A_Code, P_Code, T_Code, amount, price
"0001", "1111", "0101", 550, 230
"0002", "1111", "0102", 345, 122
"2001", 0212", 0930", 410, 90
In the example above, I just want to copy the rows Date, "20060101" and ST_Code, "101" into a table.
Regards,
Lars
HI,
We are using SQLLDR to send data from SQL Server to Oracle database. This utility creates a log file. I want to know whether there is a provision to change the contents of the file. We use this utility in multiple SQL Servers to send the data to the same Oracle Server. Can we add the source server name in the file so that identifying which server does a particular log file belong to? How?
Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot..
Manoj Deshpande.
I know oracle uses UTL_FILE procedures lik putline, but microsoft?
Thank you for trying to help.
Hi,
I have a requirement where I should be reading the file (I will use File system Task for this) and the header content. I should be able to read the header, validate and when the validation succeeds , I should start process the rest of the file.
To elaborate this further, take a sample Example. Assume that the header will have the date information. In a given folder I should read the file, will check the date (header being the first line of the file). If it matches the current date, I will start processing and on completion I will archive my files.
Can someone help me on this sample. Thanks
Regards,
Explorer
Hello everyone!I'm having a problem with inserting the content of a text file into a Sql Server 2005 database.I'm reading the text file into a dataset, and works fine. What I can't do is what I suspect is the simple part: Insert all the data into a table that has exactly the same configuration that the file. I've never worked with dataset's before, and I can't seem to find the answer to this!This is what I have done so far: Dim i2 As Integer Dim j As Integer Dim File As String = Server.MapPath("..DocsFactsFORM_MAN_V3_1.txt") Dim TableName As String = "Facts"
Dim delimiter As String = "9"
Dim result As DataSet = New DataSet() Dim s As StreamReader = New StreamReader(File) Dim columns As String() = s.ReadLine().Split(Chr(9)) result.Tables.Add(TableName) Dim strs1 As String() = columns For i2 = 0 To CInt(strs1.Length) - 1 Dim col As String = strs1(i2) Dim added As Boolean = False Dim [next] As String = ""
Dim i As Integer = 0 While Not added Dim columnname As String = String.Concat(col, [next]) columnname = columnname.Replace(Chr(9), "") If Not result.Tables(TableName).Columns.Contains(columnname) Then
result.Tables(TableName).Columns.Add(columnname)
added = True Else
i += 1
[next] = String.Concat("_", i.ToString()) End If End While Next i2 Dim strs2 As String() = s.ReadToEnd().Split(Chr(13) & Chr(10).ToString()) For j = 0 To CInt(strs2.Length) - 1 Dim items As String() = strs2(j).Split(Chr(9)) result.Tables(TableName).Rows.Add(items) Next j So now I have my dataset populated with all the information, but how can I insert it into the database?If anyone can help I would appreciate very, very much!Thank you Paula
Dear friends,
I have some images inside my database. How can I export the content of an image field to a file in a Windows Directory?
Thanks!
Hi Guys,
What approach should I use to copy content of a text file.
Example of the text file's content:
Date, "20060101"
ST_Code, "101"
A_Code, P_Code, T_Code, amount, price
"0001", "1111", "0101", 550, 230
"0002", "1111", "0102", 345, 122
"2001", 0212", 0930", 410, 90
In the example above, I just want to copy the rows Date, "20060101" and ST_Code, "101" into a table.
Regards,
Lars
I have a table with a column [FileData] of type TEXT or XML. I need to write the content of the column to a file, using sp_OAWrite for example, but the stored procedure who needs to read the content and write it to the file does not work because the limitation is no local variable for those types. What use is that datatype if i can not use it in procedures like this?
Anyone out there who could give me a tip on how to solve that?
This delete's the directory content as well as sub directory content! Is their a way i can just set it to delete the files in the said directory and not sub directories?
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I have setup a package configuration and it ran fine; however, I would like to be able to use the script task to change content of the dtsConfig file. For example, I can get the newServerName using the SQL Task, then how can I assign the newServerName value to the DataSource in the package configuration file? Is this possible?
Thanks,
Andrew
Can someone firecct me to instructions on how to download a Binary file in a asp.net application.
I have a sql 2000 db that has a field that contains files and my users need access to them via my web app.
I get error reports in simple text files like the one below in relatively the same format. The only thing that varies is the number error reasons as there can be any number of error reasons for a file. Usually there is only one but there can be a handful. What is the best way to capture the error description and count of errors no matter how many there are? I want to take these items and update a table I have in sql server 2008r.
Report Message example:
************************************************** *****
Original File Name: some.file.YYYYMMDD.d.incr.02of02.1.dat
Source File ID: file02YYYYMMDD
File Receipt Date: 10/17/2014
Total records received: 1331136
Total records loaded: 1329987
ERROR REASONS
Error code: EBBW002 Error desc: Duplicate Record Total records: 1146
Error code: EABC001 Error desc: Invalid Length Record Total records: 1
Error code: ERRCM10 Error desc: Missing First Name Total records: 2
Total number of Errors encountered during the ODS update processing: 1149
************************************************** *****
Need help reading a binary file see below for details...
I have uploaded a csv file into a sql table.
Now i want to extract the data and insert the data in the csv file into another sql table.
What commands can i use in sql to extract/ read the data ?
Hi,
I need help please.
I have a image field in SQL called AttachData.
I need to retrieve the information and save it on my computer.
I tried the following but it fails on the line 7.
How can I write the data from sql to my computer?
Here is my table in sql:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[MailAttachment](
[MsgID] [int] NOT NULL,
[AttachName] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE Hebrew_CI_AS NULL,
[AttachType] [nvarchar](255) COLLATE Hebrew_CI_AS NULL,
[AttachSize] [int] NOT NULL DEFAULT (0),
[AttachCompSize] [int] NOT NULL DEFAULT (0),[AttachData] [image] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]1 Dim s As New _
2 System.IO.FileStream("c:emails" _
3 & "" & AttachName.ToString, System.IO.FileMode.CreateNew,System.IO.FileAccess.Write)
4
6
7 ' s.Write(CType(AttachData, Byte()), 0, CInt(AttachSize))
8
10
11 s.Close()
Hi have done the following but get the errors at the end, any ideas
Created a stored procedureALTER PROCEDURE ulfile@upload varchar(200)ASINSERT INTO results(@upload)VALUES (@Upload)RETURN after sitting for two hours I realised I had a comma after (200) then the following in the .cs file using System;using System.Data;using System.Configuration;using System.Collections;using System.Web;using System.Web.Security;using System.Web.UI;using System.Web.UI.WebControls;using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;public partial class Default3 : System.Web.UI.Page{//PostedFile Property of Type HTTPPostedFileint intDocLen = txtFileContents.PostedFile.ContentLength;byte[] Docbuffer = new byte[intDoclen];protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){ Stream objStream;//InputStream://Gets a Stream object which points to an uploaded Document; //to prepare for reading the contents of the file.objStream = txtFileContents.PostedFile.InputStream;objStream.Read(Docbuffer, 0, intDocLen);//results is the connection objectcmdUploadDoc = new SqlCommand("ulfile", results);cmdUploadDoc.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;//Add the Params which in the Stored Proc cmdUploadDoc.Parameters.Add("@upload ", SqlDbType.VarChar, 200);//Set Params ValuescmdUploadDoc.Parameters[0].Value = txtTitle.Text;//Set the "@Doc" Param to be Docbuffer byet ArraycmdUploadDoc.Parameters[1].Value = Docbuffer;cmdUploadDoc.Parameters[2].Value = strDocType; }private void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e){string strDocExt;//strDocType to store Document type which will be Stored in the Databasestring strDocType;//Will be used to determine Document lengthint intDocLen;//Stream object used for reading the contents of the Uploading DocumnetStream objStream;SqlConnection results;SqlCommand cmdUploadDoc;if(IsValid){if(txtFileContents.PostedFile != null){//Determine File TypestrDocExt = CString.Right(txtFileContents.PostedFile.FileName,4).ToLower();switch(strDocExt){case ".doc":strDocType = "doc";break;case ".ppt":strDocType = "ppt";break;case ".htm":strDocType = "htm";break;case ".html":strDocType = "htm";break;case ".jpg":strDocType = "jpg";break;case ".gif":strDocType = "gif";break;case ".im":strDocType = "im";break;default:strDocType = "txt";break;}//Grab the Content of the Uploaded DocumentintDocLen = txtFileContents.PostedFile.ContentLength;//buffer to hold Document Contentsbyte[] Docbuffer = new byte[intDocLen];//InputStream://Gets a Stream object which points to an uploaded Document; //to prepare for reading the contents of the file.objStream = txtFileContents.PostedFile.InputStream;//Store the Content of the Documnet in a buffer//This buffer will be stored in the DatabaseobjStream.Read(Docbuffer ,0,intDocLen);//Add Uploaded Documnet to Database as Binary//You have to change the connection stringBooksConn = new SqlConnection("Server=66.179.84.110;UID=******;PWD=******;Database=******");//Setting the SqlCommandcmdUploadDoc = new SqlCommand("ulfile",results);cmdUploadDoc.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;cmdUploadDoc.Parameters.Add("@upload ",SqlDbType.VarChar,200);cmdUploadDoc.Parameters[0].Value = txtTitle.Text;cmdUploadDoc.Parameters[1].Value = Docbuffer ;cmdUploadDoc.Parameters[2].Value = strDocType;Results.Open();cmdUploadDoc.ExecuteNonQuery();Results.Close();}//End of if(txtFileContents.PostedFile != null)}//End Of if(IsValid)}//End of Method btnSubmit_Click} And the form code <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default3.aspx.cs" Inherits="Default3" %><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><head id="Head1" runat="server"><title>Untitled Page</title></head><body><form id="frmUpload" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" runat="server"><span>Title</span><asp:textbox id="txtTitle" runat="server" EnableViewState="False"></asp:textbox><asp:requiredfieldvalidator id="valrTitle" runat="server" ErrorMessage="* Required" ControlToValidate="txtTitle">* Required</asp:requiredfieldvalidator><span>Document to Upload</span><input id="txtFileContents" type="file" runat="server" name="txtFileContents"></></><asp:button id="btnSubmit" Text="Submit" Runat="server" OnClick="btnSubmit_Click"></asp:button> </form></body></html> however when I try and view in browser I get the following Line 21:
Line 22:
Line 23: Stream objStream;
Line 24: //InputStream:
Line 25: //Gets a Stream object which points to an uploaded Document; I have trawlled the net, MSDN and anywhere else I can find to see what it is and nothing. eventually changed Stream.objstream to System.IO.Stream objStream; And now getting the following error Line 29:
Line 30: //results is the connection object
Line 31: cmdUploadDoc = new SqlCommand("ulfile",results);
Line 32: cmdUploadDoc.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
Line 33: //Add the Params which in the Stored Proc Can anyone help?
Hello all,
I'm trying to easily change a value in 80 ssis configuration files from "localhost" to "myservername". I downloaded WinGrep to do this, but it's balking on some of the files, saying that they are binary files.
Does anyone know how to make the *.dtsconfig files NOT binary in SSIS?
Any suggestions GREATLY appreciated.
I won't go into the reason I have my servername in 80 places...
Andy
I am importing data from binary data files into SQL Server. This is the code I am using:
Do While Not EOF(1)
Get #1, , NonStdCurrRecord
adoRS.AddNew
adoRS!Field1 = CDate(NonStdCurrRecord.Field1)
adoRS!Field2 = CSng(NonStdCurrRecord.Field2)
adoRS!Field3 = CSng(NonStdCurrRecord.Field3)
adoRS!Field4 = CSng(NonStdCurrRecord.Field4)
adoRS!Field5 = CSng(NonStdCurrRecord.Field5)
adoRS!Field6 = CSng(NonStdCurrRecord.Field6)
adoRS!Field7 = CSng(NonStdCurrRecord.Field7)
adoRS.Update
Loop
Unfortunately, it takes about 8 mins to import a file with 180k records. Is there a faster way to do this?
I need to implement a file system for an application that allows me to roll back to a point in time. I can do this with either a journaling file system (Unix based such as JFS) or with a database file system such as Oracle Internet File system (now Oracle Content Services). I would MUCH prefer to use SQL Server but cannot find anything that supports this other than a 2000 ppt referencing the then up and coming SQL Server .NET File System.
The application(s) in question are older and store data in proprietary data files and need to access a local (or mapped) drive in standard form (d:programsmyprogram).
Does SQL Server 2005 or 2008 support this type of access? I have searched but cannot find anything to support this.
Thanks.
B.W.
hello!
I am curious to know how I can find the length of a binary in Sql Server. The length doesn't work on binaries.
ie
select length(binary)
from Binarytable
I want to have an SSIS package that processes a file in the normal insert, update style. But at the end I want to store the file as a binary field to another table for archive purposes. I am having trouble finding a good way to do this. Any samples, ideas, or articles would be appreciated.
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I am trying to save a binary file to database with the following code:
public static void memorystreamToDb()
{
MemoryStream mst = new MemoryStream();
UnicodeEncoding u = new UnicodeEncoding();
string Textn = "Test";
byte[] b = u.GetBytes(Textn);
mst.Write(b ,0,Textn.Length );
BinaryReader reader = new BinaryReader(mst);
byte[] file = reader.ReadBytes((int)mst.Length);
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection("Some Connection String"))
{
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("INSERT INTO temp (examplefile) Values(@File)", connection);
command.Parameters.Add("@File", SqlDbType.Binary, file.Length).Value = file;
connection.Open();
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
reader.Close();
mst.Close();
}
or with the other method from a real file (not memory stream)
public static void Addfile(string path)
{
CommonMethods_class k = new CommonMethods_class();
byte[] file = GetFile(path);
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(k.Get_connection_string()))
{
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("INSERT INTO temp (examplefile) Values(@File)", connection);
command.Parameters.Add("@File", SqlDbType.Binary, file.Length).Value = file;
connection.Open();
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
}
and after running each of them seams that the file have been saved; but I can not retrive the files. I have tried some solutions from msdn but inside the created file is empty. the point that i really look for it is to just working with memory not in the disk before saving. and then retriving each field that I want.
looking forward your points
thank you in advance
Hello all,
I am exporting data from AS/400 into an xml file and then importing the data from the xml file into an SQL database. I am getting the error: "The statement has been terminated. String or binary data would be truncated" when there are characters like "," or "&" in the xml. How can i solve this problem? Almost all my records have characters like that because they include comments and i can't disallow the users from entering these characters (especially ",").
Thanks,Mike.
I have been trying to store binary file in a folder from the SQL Server.
Here is the code I am using to do this but, it is not working. It doesn't show any error only shows 1 row(s) affected. The folder remains empty after running this query.
I have already configured server using
EXEC master.dbo.sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
RECONFIGURE
SP_CONFIGURE 'Ole Automation Procedures', 1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO
DECLARE @File VARBINARY(MAX),
[Code] .....
I am using FileUpload control in ASP.net 2.0 to upload files and store them into SQL server database as an image. I am fine with MS office files, image files and etc. We have Product Center (Proe) engineering software to configure parts and the files generated through this software have PLT extension when I store these files, the file type is Plian/text. I am using Fileupload.PostedFile.Content to get the file type. How can I store PLT, TIF files in SQL server? Please help.
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