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  Nimit

  March 7, 2009 1:21 am

  Here we can find how to retrive image from SQL Server.

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  Jerry Hung

  March 7, 2009 2:05 am

  I am sure i can Google around, but I have been lucky enough to never deal with BLOB objects in DB, so I’ll let others share

  Just want to mention, FILESTREAM in SQL Server 2008 is a cool feature to allocate actual BLOB objects OUTSIDE the database, while keeping reference pointers INSIDE the database

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  Ron

  March 7, 2009 6:05 am

  I don’t know if there is any way to do this in T-SQL but the CLR procedure below should do the job.

  using System;
  using System.Data;
  using System.Data.Sql;
  using System.Data.SqlClient;
  using System.Data.SqlTypes;
  using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server;
  using System.IO;

  public partial class StoredProcedures
  {
  [Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlProcedure]
  public static void usp_RetrieveBlobData(string query,string outpath)
  {
  using(SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(“context connection=true”))
  {
  connection.Open();
  SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(query, connection);
  SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();

  using (reader)
  {
  while(reader.Read())
  {
  FileStream fs = File.Create(outpath);
  BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(fs);

  byte[] file = (byte[])reader.GetSqlBinary(0);

  bw.Write(file);

  bw.Close();
  fs.Close();
  }
  }
  }
  }
  };

  I threw this together real quick, so I know the code can be cleaned up.

  The first parameter is the sql query and the second is the output path. Make sure the CLR procedure’s permission level is set to external.

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  riteshshah

  March 7, 2009 9:25 am

  Hi Pinal,

  Let me give you congratulations for having a great honor to take part in Microsoft Global Summit.

  I am pleased that I am taking an opportunity to answer in your blog. After reading your blog I felt to create one detail example for same. I just created it on my blog at:

  or

  Hope to see you soon and eager to know your experience from your own alluring words by your mouth. However, I get some of that from you blog.

  Thanks,

  Ritesh Shah

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• 

  Lam

  March 7, 2009 2:44 pm

  — Added by Lam
  — Last modified 209.03.07
  — Using TextCopy in MSSQL$instancename\Binn for retrieving image.

  — 0. xp_cmdshell is turned on from sp_configure
  sys.sp_configure ‘xp_cmdshell’, 1
  RECONFIGURE;

  GO
  — 1 Declaration
  DECLARE @sql VARCHAR(500),
  @server sysname,
  @user sysname,
  @pwd sysname,
  @db sysname,
  @table sysname,
  @column sysname,
  @whereclause VARCHAR(500),
  @filename VARCHAR(100),
  @filepath VARCHAR(500)

  — 2. Config
  SET @server = @@SERVERNAME
  SET @user = ”– input login here
  SET @pwd = ”– and pwd
  SET @db = DB_NAME()
  SET @table = ‘ImageTest’
  SET @column = ‘Image’
  SET @whereclause = ‘”WHERE ID = 1″‘
  SET @filename = ‘ImageFromSQL.jpg’
  SET @filepath = ‘C:\tmp\’

  — 3. Set textcopy path from path environment variable(manually)
  — And set sql string
  SET @sql= ‘TextCopy ‘ +
  ‘ /S ‘ + @server +
  ‘ /U ‘ + @user +
  ‘ /P ‘ + @pwd +
  ‘ /D ‘ + @db +
  ‘ /T ‘ + @table +
  ‘ /C ‘ + @column +
  ‘ /W ‘ + @whereclause +
  ‘ /F ‘ + @filepath + @filename +
  ‘ /O ‘ +
  ‘ /Z ‘ — for debuging

  EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @sql –,no_output if wanna see the debug
  GO

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  mayur dongre

  August 29, 2009 2:23 pm

  hello sir
  i am making window application for my college project i want to insert all primary in combobox i am using this code

  private void machineinformation_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
  //
  cn = new SqlConnection(“server=.;integrated security=True;database=kata”);
  cn.Open();
  txtcap.Text = “connection Open”;
  //for connection

  //

  string count_qr = “select count(*) as ‘Total Rows’ from machine”;
  cmd = new SqlCommand(count_qr, cn);
  dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
  int count=0;
  if (dr.Read())
  {
  count = int.Parse(dr[0].ToString());
  }
  dr.Close();

  string combsrno_qr = “select srno from machine”;
  cmd = new SqlCommand(combsrno_qr, cn);
  dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
  int i = 0;
  if (dr.Read())
  {

  while (count > 0)
  {

  combsrno.Items.Add(dr[i].ToString());
  i++;
  count–;
  }
  }

  //for insert srno in combsrno

  }

  this give error
  plese corret it or send me as posible as
  and also tell me that can we use sqldatareader to store rows

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