Storing Pdf Or Text Files Into Database?
Apr 14, 2010I'm now working on a application which needs some pdf files (size 200kb -1Mb) to be stored into Mysql database.
View 2 RepliesI'm now working on a application which needs some pdf files (size 200kb -1Mb) to be stored into Mysql database.
View 2 RepliesHave a question about the best approach for file storage in a SQL database. I have a table called Widgets, and each row in the Widgets table can have multiple files. I also have another table called Extensions, and again each record in this table can have many files.
Here is what I am considering:
Approach #1:
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That approach is very simple and easy to use, but I feel that I could merge the two file tables into one, then use lookup tables:
Approach #2:
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The thing is, there are no duplicate or shared files between the two types of objects. So even though I feel better about approach #2, I am concerned that I may be adding additional complexity (and using more server resources to perform the joins), than needed.
I want to upload some large files from a web page to MS SQL Sever database, I am very sure that it is sounding weird.
File sizes are around 100MB.
I am having following settings,
SessionTimeOut period = 60 Mins,
Server Operation timeout = 60 Mins,
SQL Connection Timeout = 4 mins (Not sure if this is helping)
This is page is going to be used by our client only once a week & as they are having web farm environment we are avpiding to store these files on file systems.
Currenty we are able to upload files with sizes upto 8 MB succesfully. But when we are uploading a file of 100MB it fails, its for sure that operation takes lots of time.
I am building a web site similar to Craigslist. I would like to know how to store the html formatted text (bold / italics / font size etc) in a sql 2008 database?In order words, the user would enter their text, format it with font size, bold etc and save the information. Whats the most efficient way to store that in a database?
View 6 RepliesI have to show the pdf files ,by the same time it should not get sotred in Temporary Files in the client Pc. Is there any control for this requriment.
View 5 RepliesI have to find a design decision for the following task: I have a SQL Server database and it contains a table of orders. PDF documents will be uploaded by users through a simple file upload from a web page and assigned to an order. There is not more than one document per order (perhaps no document, never more than one). For this purpose a user opens a web page, enters an order number, gets the order displayed and clicks on an upload button. So I know to which order the uploaded document belongs to.
Now I am considering two options to store the documents on the web server:
1) Extend my table of orders by a varbinary(MAX) column and store the PDF document directly into that binary field.
2) Save the PDF file in a specific folder on disk and give it a unique name related to the order (for instance my order number which is a primary key in the database, or a GUID which I could store in an additional column of the order table). Perhaps I have to store the files in subfolders, one per month, and store the subfolder name into the order row in the database, to avoid getting too many thousand files in one folder.
After the PDF files are stored they can be downloaded and viewed via browser after entering the related order number.
I'm tending towards option (1) because the data management seems easier to me having all relevant data in one database. But I am a bit afraid that I could encounter performance issues over time since my database size will grow much faster than with solution (2). Around 90% or even 95% of the total database size would be made up only by those stored PDF files.
Here is some additional information:
The PDF files will have a size of around 100 Kilobyte each
Around 1500 orders/PDF files per month
Windows Server 2008 R2 / IIS 7.5
SQL Server 2008 SP1 Express
Not quite sure about the hardware, I believe one QuadCore Proc. and 4 GB RAM
Application is written in ASP.NET Webforms 3.5 SP1
(I am aware that I will reach the 4GB-limit of the SQL Server Express edition after around 2 years with the numbers above. But we can disregard this here, either removing old data from the database or upgrading to a full license will be a possible option.)
My question is: What are the Pro and Contras of the options and what would you recommend? Perhaps someone had a similar task and can report about his experience.
I have a project where I need different versions of the same site.
I need to accomplish this by having different versions of the same resource files.
I would like to store the different versions of the same resource files in seperate projects in the same solution. Then choose which project of resource files to use when I publish or compile.
I've been searching the net everywhere and my deadline is coming up.
What is the recommended method of writing and storing class files in VS 2008, I'm using a web application?
View 2 RepliesI have a project at work where I need different versions of the same site.
I need to accomplish this by having different versions of the same resource files.
I would like to store the different versions of the same resource files in seperate projects in the same solution. Then choose which project of resource files to use when I publish or compile.
I've been searching the net everywhere and my deadline is coming up.
I am working on document management system. finding guide / code for Storing and Retrieving doc/pdf/xls files in SQL Server 2005.
View 1 RepliesI have hosted a website in Client's Server.
One of the functionality of the site is to create a PDF File on a Specific Shared Path.
The Shared path is mentioned in the Web.Config File.
If the given shared path exists in the same machine then the PDF File is created and stored in the shared path.
If the Shared path exists in the other shared network System then the PDF is not created and not stored in the shared path.
I want to show my online pdf document to client (like e-paper PDF document display.)
But after display the online pdf document to client then the document will be store on client Temporary Internet Files.
How to avoid storing in local Temporary Internet Files after viewed online pdf document in asp.net?
I want to secure my pdf document ?
Any possibility to avoid storing PDF documents in local Temporary Internet Files?
Input: - 3 excel files storing them into global temporary tables after reading cell by cell.
Requirement is to process inputs files and generate a single excel report.
After report gets exported, data in tables in should be deleted (i am using global temp tables for this).
But the problem is, two users are unable to generate report simultaneously.
Is this problem with global temporary tables?
I have MS SQL Server 2008 and I would like to store formatted text from a rich textbox. Formatted in the sense that I want to store a multiple choice question's formatting, an example would be like this:What is 2 + 2?
4 6 2 8
Then when I retrieve it from the SQL database it saves its formatting.
I'm building a web system and various clients will have alternate text for default instances throughout the site. One place is the main nav but there are others. The default may be "project" but they may want to call it "event".I'm heading down the road of calling all the terminology settings (there's a list of about 15) and creating an ArrayList that has the id and either the default or their replacement as the items in the ArrayList.I've also got a enum key list called TermKey that has the defaults and the corresponding ID number.
Throughout the code I'll reference TermKey.Project and then do one of these things that I see as options.
1-pull the text from the session (if the client has set it to "event" then the text "event" will be waiting for the call there)2-pull the text from the database every time I need it.3-pull the client's list each time a page loads.Some thoughts on the impact each way or if there is a best practice for
My Visual Studio 2005 program doesn't open CSS files properly - when I open them in VS, it opens them as a text file. It is annoying because if I do something wrong, it doesn't show up the error and I have to sift through it all to try and find out what is wrong. Plus it doesn't show up the hints for the attributes.
View 5 RepliesIs it possible to display a list of descriptive phrases (say pulled from a lookup table in a database) but store a code in another table? I'm a beginner at ASP.NET but have some experience with SQL Server. If so, how can I do it?
View 9 RepliesI have a requirement to allow users in a content management system to create their own image maps through a gui interface, which I have accomplished. But instead of saving the image map to the page code, I want to save the image map code to a database (sql), which I've also accomplished. When I started down this road in my head I was thinking the whole time that I'd just add the "usemap" attribute at runtime shown below where promo1.ImageMap holds the entire map code:
if(promo1.HasImageMap) imgPromotion1.Attributes.Add("usemap", promo1.ImageMap);
I guess I didn't think it though well enough, because it seems that "usemap" only expects the name of the existing map to use from the page code, and not the map code as a string.
how to apply the map from the database to the image at run time?
I dont know whether this simple task or not, but I tried to search in google but couldn't find anything.
I've a asp.net form and user enters some data in the text boxes provided. Whenever user submits the form, browser will save that form data. I don't want this form data to be saved in browser. How can I restrict the browser saving this form data without touching the browser settings?
Application is developed using asp.net and normal text boxes are used here.
i am a beginer and i want to know how to store images in the database tables like pictures of the pizzas and when the user selects one of the pizza from the dropdownlist he sees the image of the selected pizza.
View 2 RepliesI get a Exception while Storeing current datetime in sqlserver 2008.
UI-Sliverlight 4.0
BAL-WCf
DAL-ADO.Net Entity FrameWork
Tools-VS 2010
In Sqlserver 2008 DataBase one columns of a table is CreatedDate Having datatype :-datetime When i am passing Created Date as DateTime.Now i.e.( objRFEProxy.mCreateDate = DateTime.Now;) in sliverlight codebehind it through error. InnerException {"The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value. The statement has been terminated."} System.Exception {System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException}
I'm working on a blog and want to show my posts in eastern time zone. i figured that storing everything UTC would be the proper way. This creates a few challenges though:I have to convert all times from UTC to Eastern. This is not a biggie but adds a lot of code.And the "biggie" is that I use a short-date time to reference the posts by passing in a query, ala blogger. The problem is that there is no way to convert the short date time to the proper UTC date because I'm lacking the posted time info.
View 4 Repliesi am reading image from database (sql server) by using handler and getting it in memory stream. now i want to store that image on server in the folder named Images.
View 2 RepliesI have a stored procedure which is working fine and also code in my vb class, which when I click on save, looks as though it has executed but no information is saved into the database....
My code used to save the data into the database is below.
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Since I'm using Postgresql and can't use LINQ to SQL, I wrote my own wrapper classes.
This is a part of the Student class:
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It works now! I replaces all Run methods in the Student class with DB.Run
But I want to know if it will work fine with a lot of people online, not me only. I'm not sure how static things work with ASP.NET, maybe it'll eat a lot of memory?..