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Ad-hoc retreival of data from SQL Server varbinary column

I would like to retreive some binary data from a varbinary(max) column in a SQL Server database for debugging purposes. What is the easiest way to get this data into a local binary file, preferably without having to write a throw-away console application? I have tried using SQL Server Management Studio (with the "results to file" optio...

SQL Server: How to copy a file (pdf, doc, txt...) stored in a varbinary(max) field to a file in a CLR stored procedure?

I ask this question as a followup of this question. A solution that uses bcp and xp_cmdshell, that is not my desired solution, has been posted here. I am new to c# (since I am a Delphi developer) anyway I was able to create a simple CLR stored procedure by following a tutorial. My task is to move a file from the client file system to ...

How do I cast <T> to varbinary and be still be able to perform a CONVERT on the sql side? Implications?

Hello, I'm writing this application that will allow a user to define custom quizzes and then allow another user to respond to the questions. Each question of the quiz has a corresponding datatype. All the responses to all the questions are stored vertically in my [Response] table. I currently use 2 fields to store the response. //Res...

Are there performance problems in querying non varbinary(max) fields in a table containing varbinary(max) data?

I created a table to insert all the documents of my application. It is a simple table (let's call it DOC_DATA) that has 3 fields: DOC_ID, FileSize, Data. Data is varbinary(max). I then have many tables (CUSTOMERS_DOCUMENTS, EMPLOYEES_DOCUMENTS, ...) that contain other data (like "document description", "Created by", "Customer ID" ...). ...

Upload a file to a varbinary with SQL Management Studio

Is there any way to upload a file to a varbinary with SQL Management Studio without writting a manual SQL query ? ...

What data can be stored in varbinary data type of sql server?

I have a table in which the userpassword field have varbinary datatype, So im confused that in which form should i save the data into userpassword field because when i save varchar data it gave me error. ...

Getting a sql varbinary record using microsoft enterprise library

I have this line of code byte[] field1 = (reader.GetSqlBinary(reader.GetOrdinal("Field1")).Value; which is a SqlDataReader I am trying to convert the code to use the enterprise library data access block but cant figure out how to get a byte[] using the IDataReader. I've had a good look through the MS docs but failed to find anythin...

Primary Key - VARBINARY or BLOB or VARCHAR for UUID primary key

I am using UUID as the primary key in one of the tables. What are the pros-cons of having this field as a varchar/varbinary/blob? DB: MYSQL. TIA ...

getting Stream in and out of VarBinary(MAX) column? (SQL Server)

I have some data that I am serializing. I need to save and restore this from a VarBinary column using ADO.NET (also using Enterprise Library) under .Net 3.5 (not 4.0 yet). The only interface I seem to be able to find and get working is by using a byte[]. This requires allocating a large array to do the transfer. It seems impossible t...

MySQL: Cannot create table with VARBINARY?

I am running this query to set up a VARBINARY (I wish for it to be so, for a real reason) field for my database: CREATE TABLE `test_books` (`id` int UNSIGNED NOT NULL,`book` VARBINARY, `timestamp` int(11) NOT NULL, UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)) It hands me a standard syntax error telling me to check all the remaining code after 'VARBINARY'...

Strategies for checking ISNULL on varbinary fields?

In the past I've noted terrible performance when querying a varbinary(max) column. Understandable, but it also seems to happen when checking if it's null or not, and I was hoping the engine would instead take some shortcuts. select top 100 * from Files where Content is null I would suspect that it's slow because it's Needing to pul...

Varbinary always is null at WCF service

my DAL is something like this: Database db = EnterpriseLibraryContainer.Current.GetInstance<Database>(); mylist = db.ExecuteSprocAccessor<EMyClass>("spMySP", param1, param2).ToList(); my SP in SQL-SEVER returns 4 normal fields plus a varbinary field that is an image my EMyClass is: public class EMyClass { public int aaa { get; ...

how to determine size of row in the database

Possible Duplicate: Size of varbinary field in SQL server 2005 In my SQL2005 database, I have a table that has a column varbinary(MAX). How do I tell the size of the rows? Or as an alternative, tell the size of the varbinary field in each row? ...

Selecting not null column

I have a table with varbinary(max) column and nvarchar(max) column. One of them is null and the other has a value. I would like to return the column that has the value as a varbinary(max) column. So far I have tried this, that does not work: SELECT A = CASE A WHEN NULL THEN B ELSE A END FROM Tabl...

Script to save varbinary data to disk

I have some varbinary data stored in a table in MS Sql Server 2005. Does anyone have SQL code that takes a query as input (lets say the query guarantees that a single column of varbinary is returned) and outputs the bytes to disk (one file per row?) I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times before, but Googling comes up with mostly...