I have a PDF file which is stored in a database table in a column of image datatype. The PDF contains text as well as images. I just want to retrieve the text from the PDF. I am not bothered about the image. Is it possible to do this?

Kindy reply.

Select
REPLACE(
'Johns1'
, '1'
, Convert(nvarchar(max) ,
REPLICATE( 'a' , 12000) ) — It will work only till 4000
)

–Msg 8152, Level 16, State 10, Line 1
–String or binary data would be truncated.

I read a file that has 800 rows in it and string the values together

Row 1 ’1112′
Row 2 ’8711′
Row 800 ’9817′

I end up with ’1112;/’8711;/9817′

The problem is my string only holds up to Row 600 and I cannot get the entire rows to store in my @mytext.

The column in table is text

Any ideas.

If I try a straight insert I get the following error:

Operand type clash: nvarchar(max) is incompatible with image

update Tablename set contents=replace(cast(contents as varchar(MAX)),’%',’myemail@company.com’)

* The “%” kind of represents all the email ids

Is there anyway to do an update like this?

You could try one thing before you change your column type. Create a new table for your XML data and add foreign key constraint pointing to the original table. Join this new table in your query instead of reading TEXT field from the original table.

If you get this working properly with this new table you have some possibilities to optimize it even further (well, you have some these options with a single table also). You could for instance move this new table to a hard drive other that where your original table is. This could speed up the reads.

But as with everything, testing and measurements (of the performance) are the magic words here.

Now which data type should you choose… If you don’t need any actual XML functions, XPath, XML indexing or anything, I would go with VARCHAR(MAX).

Regards,
Ganesan

update mytable set description =
replace(convert(varchar(max),description),’oldstring’,'newstring’)

I am using a table for pasted resumes.

Will setting the data type of this particular column as varchar(max) help in pasting the maximum number of characters in the column. As of now iam restricting it to varchar(8000).

Are there any disadvantages of this in SQL Server 2005/2008.

Thank you,
Ash

I’m having a hard time trying to convert nvarchar(max) to a string in my VB .NET application. Would you happen to know how I could fix this?

Thanks,
Vinod

I have a issue here relelated to this. I am trying to access a “text” type and inserting that value into another table viw a stored procedure. I’ve tried to cast it, convert it, but nothing works.

My code looks somethings like this:

Declare @Critique varchar(max), @Feedback varchar(max)
…
…
…
SELECT @Critique = CAST(comments as varchar(max)), @Feedback = CAST(public_critique as varchar(max)) FROM ASCO_vEXTERNAL_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_LIST WHERE wf_task_assignment_id = @WfTaskAssignmentIDP1

– comments and public_critique are defined as text in view (also tried with table) ASCO_vEXTERNAL_REVIEW_APPLICATIONS_LIST
…
…
…
insert into WF_TASK_ASSIGNMENT_REVIEW (wf_task_assignment_review_id, wf_task_assignment_id, grantee_project_id, comments, public_critique) values (@NewID1, @WfTaskAssignmentIDP2, @GranteeProjectID, @Critique, @Feedback)

Can you please help me with this as soon as possible. I would really appreciate this.

Thanks,
Harish

Can you please tell the answer of a question. I am using sql 2005 i have more than 100 tables each table contain atleast one text/ntext column there is text. i want remove one specific text phrase.

I want replace function of sql server. But I am not able to use that can i use these function with varchar(max)

Please also provide me a solution for replace specific text from all table and all columns in a database

Thanks in advance