Hello,
I would like programmatically generate rdl files with image.
I am using this XML Text Writer to create the rdl file.
But i have no idea how can i carryon on this task.
Can anyone help me in this topic?
Thanks.
Hi Guys,
I've one Dafta flow task where I'm getting data from OleDb source and then doing some scripting using script component and then generating a file.
Now I would need to get the same data and apply some different things and generate another file.
Can I used this same task for doing the secondry work? If yes how woulld I put the thing in place, I would need to get the same data but I would need to use a seperate scripting and generate a seperate file?
TA
Gemma
This is my first time to create web site by using Visual web developer express 2005. I want to create company's activity member profile web page by use sql database. But I don't know how to create SQL DB and Table and I don't know code for connect to sql server, code for upload image files, data file, and code for displays images. So please tell me how to do it step by step. (I use VS web developer express 2005 with vb.net) Thank you
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Can anyone tell me if its possible to generate ER diagrams programmatically using SQL Server.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
-Akash
I'm trying to do a simple insert into a table, something like this:
insert into sometable (ID, somecolumn)
select 'Task-ID', somevalue from SomeOtherTable
where something = 'someothervalue'
(or something to that effect)
So, the SELECT would generate something that looks like this:
ID somecolumn
-- ----------
Task-ID somevalue1
Task-ID somevalue2
Task-ID somevalue3
(etc.)
Here's where my problem comes in: ID is a PK, and needs to be unique. What I need it to do is this:
ID somecolumn
-- ----------
Task-ID.1 somevalue1
Task-ID.2 somevalue2
Task-ID.3 somevalue3
(etc.)
What I don't know is, how do I programatically generate the number sequence? Note: I do not have admin rights to the table, i.e. I cannot just change a column to IDENTITY.
Also the 'Task-ID' must remain part of the ID; in other words, I can't just generate a GUID, and it needs to be easily identifiable.
What I'm hoping to do is rewrite my SQL like this:
insert into sometable (ID, somecolumn)
select 'Task-ID.' + (generated seq #), somevalue from SomeOtherTable
where something = 'someothervalue'
Is there an easy way to do this?
I have a report that I'd like to involve in delivering tons of PDFs for each of our customers for a billing cycle. There is a table that the report reads from that gives it all its data necessary for the report (which is a customer bill) and the table also has a column that has the file name for the PDF for that particular customers bill for the report. Basically each table row represents one output report (bill) and each table row has its name nicely formated for me. Writing the report is not a problem. Figuring out how to run through thousands of rows generating a PDF for each with the file name from the table is my challenge.
I would like to create either a SP or a SSIS package (that is scheduled) that can run a report for each line of data in my table and spit out a PDF file to a UNC path. It might have to generate thousands of PDFs to a UNC path that has plenty of space. There will be another SSIS package that moves the PDFs later to their proper directory.
So, is there someone who has done this before? Any suggestions? Is there a quick path to doing this, would it take a ton of time? Any tutorials out there?
Thanks,
Keith
p.s. My preference is to do this in SP's or SSIS and if I need a .NET language to do that in VB.NET, but I'd rather avoid that if I can.
I have inherited a VS 2005 database with a table that has a column of type IMAGE. I need to change the image for one of the rows in the table. I have the new image in a *.PNG file on my C: drive. What is the correct method for inserting this file into the IMAGE column.
Many thanks!
I need to write codes to access many image files and wave files and display them on the webpage. Both of these files are stored on the server (as many experts in this forum adviced) and their locations are in the SQL server database. About the wav files, I think I will have to convert them to MP3 first for fast delivery on internet. Since I am a newbie, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Hello All,Looking for an opinion on the following scenario.Lets say you need to create a report for a 1000 stores. The report format is the same but the data changes for each store.Option 1:Write an asp.net page where the user selects the store, or a store parameter is pased, hit SQL Server with a SP and display the data. - This option seem to have the advantage of flexibility and simplicity.Option 2:Write out a static XML/HTML report for each store and have the asp.net page load the static file. - This options seems to have the advantage of speed on the client side but is less flexible and more complex on the backend.Any thoughts?For option 2 is it possible to write out the XML/HTML files using SQL Server or does something custom need to be created?Thanks, Gary
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis script generates a format file for every table in a database.
It's set up for fixed width files, not too common in this world...but they can easily be modified.
Also the do not at this time handle text or image columns.
Any hints/advice here would be great.
I'll post it when I figure it out.
happy bcping..
SELECT FORMAT_CARD FROM (
SELECT '7.0' AS FORMAT_CARD
, TABLE_NAME, null AS COLUMN_NAME, 1 AS SQLGroup, 1 AS RowGrouping
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables
WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
UNION ALL
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(5),MAX(ORDINAL_POSITION)) AS FORMAT_CARD
, c.TABLE_NAME, null AS COLUMN_NAME, 2 AS SQLGroup, 1 AS RowGrouping
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns c
INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables t
ON c.TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME
AND c.TABLE_SCHEMA = t.TABLE_SCHEMA
AND TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
GROUP BY c.TABLE_NAME
UNION ALL
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(3),ORDINAL_POSITION)+CHAR(9)+'SQLCHAR'+CHAR(9)+'0'+CHAR(9)
+ CONVERT(varchar(5),
CASE WHEN DATA_TYPE IN ('char','varchar','nchar','nvarchar') THEN CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH
WHEN DATA_TYPE = 'int' THEN 14
WHEN DATA_TYPE = 'smallint' THEN 7
WHEN DATA_TYPE = 'tinyint' THEN 3
WHEN DATA_TYPE = 'bit' THEN 1
ELSE 26
END)
+ CHAR(9)+'""'+CHAR(9)+CONVERT(varchar(3),ORDINAL_POSITION)+CHAR(9)+COLUMN_NAME AS FORMAT_CARD
, c.TABLE_NAME, null AS COLUMN_NAME, 3 AS SQLGroup, ORDINAL_POSITION AS RowGrouping
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns c
INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables t
ON c.TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME
AND c.table_schema = t.table_schema
AND TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
WHERE ORDINAL_POSITION < (SELECT MAX(ORDINAL_POSITION)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns i
WHERE i.TABLE_NAME = c.TABLE_NAME)
UNION ALL
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(3),ORDINAL_POSITION)+CHAR(9)+'SQLCHAR'+CHAR(9)+'0'+CHAR(9)+CONVERT(VARCHAR(5),
CASE WHEN DATA_TYPE IN ('char','varchar','nchar','nvarchar') THEN CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH
WHEN DATA_TYPE = 'int' THEN 14
WHEN DATA_TYPE = 'smallint' THEN 7
WHEN DATA_TYPE = 'tinyint' THEN 3
WHEN DATA_TYPE = 'bit' THEN 1
ELSE 26
END)
+ char(9)+'"
"'+char(9)+CONVERT(varchar(3),ORDINAL_POSITION)+CHAR(9)+COLUMN_NAME AS FORMAT_CARD
, c.TABLE_NAME, null AS COLUMN_NAME, 4 AS SQLGroup, 1 AS RowGrouping
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns c
INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Tables t
ON c.TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME
AND c.TABLE_SCHEMA = t.TABLE_SCHEMA
AND TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
WHERE ORDINAL_POSITION = (SELECT MAX(ORDINAL_POSITION)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns i
WHERE i.TABLE_NAME = c.TABLE_NAME)
)AS XXX
ORDER BY TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, SQLGroup, RowGrouping
Brett
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I have a table structure like this
EmpID LastName FirstName Emp_Picture
100| x |T |<BINARY>
200| W |W |<BINARY>
..
..
ETC
This table has 935 rows in it with Emp_Picture Blank.
How to insert the jpeg files into the Emp_Picture Column??
Do we have run the update statement for each and every employee or is there a
way to get around this problem..
Thanks in Advance
VENU
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How do I insert images, specifically small .jpg and .gif files, to a remote SQL Server 7.0 database?
Thanks,
Greg
Hi
Can anyone tell me how to store animage file into database?
Thanks
Peter
What are the negatives, challenges and issues going to be if we choose to store 300-1000 GB worth of image, xml and PDF files (avg size 1 mb) in SQL server 2005 db.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a directory of files that I would like to upload with some datato a table so that I can store the files in the db. I'm not trying toparse files into rows, I want to stick the actual file in the column.Is there some kind of insert script, or bulk copy that I can use?I have about 150 docs and I would rather not go through the whole app,pick the file, upload it. etc.thx,M@
View 1 Replies View RelatedHello,What's the best way to store files of an arbitrary size in a SQLServer / MSDE database? Some files will be text, but most should bebinary (images, audio, and video). I'd like to be able to store allthe files directly in the database so that backing everything up is asingle operation (I can do this, right?). Data retrieval speed is notoverly critical, as the code in question will be running on the samemachine as the database and will only have a single instance of theclient application. Any advice and/or hyperlinks to whitepapers on thesubject would be appreciated.Thanks,Will GantJoin Bytes!
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Hello all,
I'm new to SSIS and have a question about the best way to generate multiple Excel files with my current package design. I have a stored procedure that I run from an Execute SQL Task in a foreach loop container, and it generates results as appropriate for each of the parameters it loops through.
What's the best way to take the result set from each of those executions and generate an Excel file from each set? How do I map that result set variable to be the input for creating a new Excel file? Is this best done as a script task somehow?
Should I not be using SSIS for this task? I thought I would just create a package and schedule it to run daily with SQL Agent, and it would autogenerate the Excel files as needed.
Thanks for your advice!
Help!!
I need to store a few thousand images in a sql server database.
I've managed to write the asp code to retrieve images that are already in the pubs database, but haven't been able to find a satisfactory way of inserting new pictures in the first place.
At the moment we're using Notes and its great 'cos you just cut and paste them in. But now we need to take them all out and put them into sql server it's proving to be a nightmare. Any clues anyone??
Anyone have any luck using "Upload multiple files to SQL Server Image column"
www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3444771
Hi,
There is one manual process done by my friend. The process is " In query analyser, she runs a sql query and the resultset of Sql query, she copies and pastes into a excel workbook".
I wanted to write a SSIS package to automate it and providing a UI, in which she can give connection details and paste the SQL query and the package will in turn generate excel workbook in the target path". I thought of trying ExecuteSQL task, but the output resultset of ExecuteSQL task cannot be mapped dynamically to excel source(correct me if I am wrong). If I use Dataflow task, then also whether dynamic mapping of SQL output to Excel destination input is possible?
Can you please tell me the best approach for achieving the above functionality?
Thanks,
Venkataraman R
Hey,
I'm looking for a good way to rewrite my T-SQL code with 'bcp' to SSIS package, any help would be greatly appreciated?
I have table1 contain account numbers and output-filename for each account,
I need to join table2 and table3 to get data for each account in table1, and then export as a txt file.
Here is my code using bcp (bulk copy)
DECLARE @RowCnt int,
@TotalRows int,
@AccountNumber char(11),
@sql varchar(8000),
@date char(10),
@ArchPath varchar(500)
SET @RowCnt = 1
SET @date = CONVERT(CHAR(10),GETDATE(),110)
SET @ArchPath = '\D$EDATAWorkFoldersSendSendData'
SELECT @TotalRows = count(*) FROM table1
--select @ArchPath
WHILE (@RowCnt <= @TotalRows)
BEGIN
SELECT @AccountNumber = AccountNumber, @output_filename FROM table1 WHERE Identity_Number = @RowCnt
--PRINT @AccountNumber --test
SELECT @sql = N'bcp "SELECT h.HeaderText, d.RECORD FROM table2 d INNER JOIN table3 h ON d.HeaderID = h.HeaderID WHERE d.ccountNumber = '''
+ @AccountNumber+'''" queryout "'+@ArchPath+ @output_filename + '.txt" -T -c'
--PRINT @sql
EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @sql
SELECT @RowCnt = @RowCnt + 1
END
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!
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...
As part of a web site I allow users to store documents in SQL Server 2000 using an Image column on a table. After the file is saved the user can open the document through the browser. This works great for most file extensions such as ".XLS" or ".DOC" but fails when attempting to open ".MSG" files (saved outlook messages). XLS documents will open in Excel and DOC documents open in Word, but MSG documents open in Notepad and display what appears to be binary data. I'm trying to figure out if this is a SQL Server issue or some sort of ASP/ASP.NET webserver issue.
If I attempt to open an MSG file stored directly on the web server, the file opens correctly using the "Microsoft Outlook View Control", but when attempting to open the same file saved in SQL Server, it attempts to open in notepad.
Any ideas?
I have been fighting with this all day. If you can point me in the right direction I'd appreiciate it. I need to load about 500 jpg files into a table. The table has 3 columns an "ID", "Filename" which has the filename of the jpg in it already, but not the unc path, and a ("Photo" Image Datatype)column which is not populated yet. I need to store the Image file in the photo field so that I can run reports in reporting services and so on and so forth. I am not sure how to complete this task.
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I got a user who is requesting a weekly report to be exported in csv (comma delimited) format. But this process will run weekly using schedule job and he wants the file to save to a certain directory on the network. Two part questions...
1. Is there a way to create a .csv file programmatically after runing the query?
2. How would I save the .csv file to a specified directory on the network?
TIA
Hi
When images are uploaded and stored directly into a sql database as binary data (eg in the club starter kit) how can those images be accessed and displayed.
When I open the images table in VWD and select display data, the cells holding the image data hold a <binary data> tag. What I want to be able to do is get at that data, or actually get at the image so that it is displayed. My reason is this, at the moment the only way to access the images in the sql database after they have been uploaded is to log into the website and view them as an administrator of the site. It would be much simpler if I could access the database directly and view the contents of the images table.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I want to be able to load and unload, byte-for-byte, a file to and from a field of data type IMAGE in a SQL Server CE database. The files are larger than 8000 bytes so IMAGE appears to be the way to go data type wise.
I'm using VB 2008 but pseudocode for any VS language would be awesome.
I was able to do this without much effort using ADODB and its stream object, fetching a recordset object and updating the appropriate data field one "chunk" of bytes at a time. I cannot for the life of me find a way of doing this using, for example, a SqlCeResultSet.
I've tried using ADODB to connect to a SqlCe SDF database file, using a connection string that I found online, and am able to write action and select queries successfully against the database... but when I try and return a recordset that is updatable, it returns an error. So no help there.
I've searched other threads in the forums, and online in general, and I've found information on loading/unloading graphic files using a memoryStream and the toArray method thereof, but this will not work as many of the files I want to load and unload as BLOBs are not graphical in nature. FileStreams do not implement the toArray method, so I can't just stream an arbitrary file's worth of bytes that way. I also do not want to change the original file in any fashion--e.g., a hash of the source file should be identical to the file after it has been loaded into the data field and then unloaded into a new file.
Any thoughts? Your help is MUCH appreciated!
There is a SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 Clustered Instance that has Transactional Replication. It is by no means a large replication setup in terms of data/article count. SQL Server was recently patched to SP3 and is current on Windows 2008 R2 Patches.
When I added a new article to replication (via 2014 SSMS GUI) it seems to add everything correctly (replication tables/procs show the new article as part of the publication).
The Publication is set to allow the snapshot to generate for just new articles (setting immediate_sync & allow_anonymous to false).
When the snapshot agent is run, it runs without error and claims to have generated a snapshot of 1 article. However the snapshot folder only contains a folder for the instance (that does have the modified time of the snapshot agent execution) and none of the regular bcp/schema files.
The tables never make it to the subscribers and replication continues on without error for the existing articles. No agents produce any errors and running the snapshot agent w/ verbose output provides no errors or insight into any possible issues.
I have tried:
- dropping/re-adding the article in question.
- Setting up a new Snapshot Folder
- Validated all the settings and configurations
I'm hesitant to reinitialize a subscriber since I am not confident a snapshot can be generated. Also wondering if this is related to the SP3 Upgrade, every few months new articles are added to the publication and this is the first time since the upgrade to SP3 that it has been done.
Hello,
I need to know how I can programmatically set a Flat File Connection Manager's Column Delimiter value.
The Data Warehouse project I am working on, receives daily information feeds that could contain one of two delimiters. Which is just dumb...anyways, as it is now we have two seperate Data Flow Tasks which handle these two delimiters. Currently we have a script taks that "sneak previews" each incoming flat file to determine which delimiter it has, and direct our flow to the correct Data Flow Task to handle it.
I do not want to have to maintain 2 DFTs. How can I get around this problem?
Even if there is a way to do this by passing variables/setting expressions in the Flat File Connection manager, I would do that. Does not necessarily HAVE to be a pure programmatic approach.
ANY help would be greatly appreciated!
Feel free to email me at ccorbin@topcoder.com with any questions, or leave me some good news here :)
THANKS!
Chris Corbin
Software Developer
TopCoder Inc.
Hi,
i want to import flat file data to sql server. i created a package in vb.net. if the import table column is identity means i got
Failure inserting into the read-only column "ID".
Column metadata validation failed.
"component "OLE DB Destination" (10)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
One or more component failed validation.
There were errors during task validation. error.
how can i rectify this error? or how can i ignore the identity column in coding.
thanks & regards,
sivani
I am programmatically creating a package in c#. I need this package to contain a flat file connection manager. I have been successfully able to create the connection manager with the following code:
Package p = new Package(); //New package
ConnectionManager cm = p.Connections.Add("FLATFILE"); //Add a flat file connection manager
cm.ConnectionString = "C:DevmyTestFile.txt"; //Set up the connection string
At this point, I want to configure the flat file specific properties of the connection manager (RowDelimiter, HeaderRowDelimiter, etc.). The problem is that the properties collection of the ConnectionManager object is read only. I think I could access the inner object of the connection manager and set the properties in the following way:
ConnectionManagerFlatFileClass ffClass = (ConnectionManagerFlatFileClass) cm.InnerObject; //Get the inner object
ffClass .RowDelimiter = "{LF}"; //Set the properties here
Even if this would work, I do not like the solution b/c the BOL states that the ConnectionManagerFlatFileClass "supports the SQL Server 2005 infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code". Does anyone know the "right" way to set these properties?
Many thanks in advance!
David
We have the following requirement :
1. In daily basis auto loop through each item in the invoice table.
2. passing invoice number into a Summary SSRS report as parameter.
3. Auto download ALL generated PDF reports into a window folder with a special file name format i.e. <INVOICE_NO>_<DATE>.pdf
how to achieve this via SSRS, Store Procedure or Power Shell?