Hey 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
This 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
I 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
Hey 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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I want to create a RichTextBox, and then i want to show picture and Text at a time, suppose
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how can i accompalished this task.
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Sorry 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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or some ideas regarding this problem?
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Hi
(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
hi
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
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"[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. "
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An odd question from me, I know, but this time, I assure you a twist.
I have a group that wants to store images in either a database or a file share, in order to make a certain website able to run on a load balanced web farm. These images are around 1KB each in size, and have a lifespan of exactly one use (think of graphs). I went a-googling, and found no shortage of articles that say "don't do it, but here's how you can do it", but I did not find any real hard statements as to why to not do it. Needless to say, this is hurting the case for not putting these images in the database. I have found an article that says images over 8KB will have worse performance, but I can not use that factoid here. For the moment, I have the developers leaning toward the fileshare, because they will be writing transaction logs all day, which will be more work than the fileshare needs to do....I think. The best I can do, is cut the text/image datatype overhead, and have them create the table as varbinary(2000), but even then, I don't like the look of the idea.
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