Newbie - Store jpg file in Image Data Type Field

I assume that this is really simple to do once you know how to do it.
I have a very small table, only 5 rows and two columns. Column 0 is
an integer from 1 to 5, and column 1 is supposed to store an image
corresponding to each of the values in column 0. I have the five
different image files in a jpg format. I tried simply copying and
pasting these files into the table, but that didn't work. Can
somebody tell me how to save these jpg files in the table so that I
can use them in my VB.NET application?
Thanks,
Randy
SQL 2000?
"Randy" <spam.eastland@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I assume that this is really simple to do once you know how to do it.
> I have a very small table, only 5 rows and two columns. Column 0 is
> an integer from 1 to 5, and column 1 is supposed to store an image
> corresponding to each of the values in column 0. I have the five
> different image files in a jpg format. I tried simply copying and
> pasting these files into the table, but that didn't work. Can
> somebody tell me how to save these jpg files in the table so that I
> can use them in my VB.NET application?
> Thanks,
> Randy
>
|||Actually, SQL Server Management Studio Express
|||In SQL Server 2005 you can use OPENROWSET with the SINGLE_BLOB option, like
this:
CREATE TABLE Foobar (
image_data VARBINARY(MAX));
INSERT INTO Foobar
(image_data)
SELECT image_data
FROM OPENROWSET(
BULK N'C:\image.jpg',
SINGLE_BLOB)
AS ImageSource(image_data);
HTH,
Plamen Ratchev
http://www.SQLStudio.com
|||Thanks, but I don't know how to implement this. I'd like to actually
store the files within the datatable rather than referencing them from
a file location. Is that possible? Otherwise, can you explain this
to me in further detail?
Thanks again.
Randy
|||That will store them in the database, it is insert script. You do it onces
they are there for access. If you want to do it from .NET code.. I don't
have .NET example, but here is example on how to do it in VB6, maybe you can
convert it.
Private Sub InsertFile()
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
Dim Index As Long
Dim strSQL As String
Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset
Dim mstream As ADODB.Stream
strSQL = "SELECT * FROM TableName"
Set rs = New ADODB.Recordset
rs.Open strSQL, cn, adOpenDynamic, adLockOptimistic
Set mstream = New ADODB.Stream
mstream.Type = adTypeBinary
mstream.Open
mstream.LoadFromFile FileNameToLoadWithFullPath
rs.AddNew
rs.Fields('FileData').Value = mstream.Read
rs.Update
rs.Close
End Sub
Mohit K. Gupta
B.Sc. CS, Minor Japanese
MCTS: SQL Server 2005
"Randy" wrote:

> Thanks, but I don't know how to implement this. I'd like to actually
> store the files within the datatable rather than referencing them from
> a file location. Is that possible? Otherwise, can you explain this
> to me in further detail?
> Thanks again.
> Randy
>
|||You just need to run this as a query in SQL Server Management Studio. It
will actually store the image data into the table, the reference to the file
location is needed just to load the images.
Here is a more detailed example that may fit better your case. The code
below creates a table with keys and then updates the image column for each
key (based on your initial post I assume this is what you want to do).
CREATE TABLE Foobar (
keycol INTEGER,
image_data VARBINARY(MAX));
-- Insert the keys.
INSERT INTO Foobar (keycol)
SELECT 1
UNION ALL
SELECT 2
UNION ALL
SELECT 3
UNION ALL
SELECT 4
UNION ALL
SELECT 5;
UPDATE Foobar
SET image_data = (
SELECT image_data
FROM OPENROWSET(
BULK N'C:\image1.jpg',
SINGLE_BLOB)
AS ImageSource(image_data))
WHERE keycol = 1;
UPDATE Foobar
SET image_data = (
SELECT image_data
FROM OPENROWSET(
BULK N'C:\image2.jpg',
SINGLE_BLOB)
AS ImageSource(image_data))
WHERE keycol = 2;
-- Continue to load all images...
SELECT keycol, image_data
FROM Foobar;
DROP TABLE Foobar;
HTH,
Plamen Ratchev
http://www.SQLStudio.com
|||Thanks to both of you. I'm working with Plamen's query and got it to
execute successfully, however I'm still not all the way there. A
couple of questions:
1. I can see that the table was created in the Results pane, but I
don't know where this table is actually stored. Of course, the table
is of no use until I can make it part of my db, and I don't see it
listed among the tables in the db. How can I create this table so
that it is a permanent member of my db?
2. In the Results pane, I see a two column table. Column 1 is called
keycol and col 2 is called image_data, as created by the query. There
are five rows, each of which contains an integer value from 1 to 5 in
keycol, also as created by the query. However, the fields in
image_data are blank, at least as viewed through the Results pane.
I'm not sure if the images have actually loaded correctly. To
clarify, I changed the query language to include tha path names for
each of the 5 images that I am trying to import, so I don't think that
is part of the problem.
Thanks a lot for sticking with me on this. I'm sorry that I am so
clueless, but working direclty in SQL Server is completely new to me.
Randy
|||Ignore that last reply. Apparently, I wasn't looking at refreshed
view of the db. The table is there, as are both columns. There was
no data in the table, so I added the key column values and just ran
the UPDATE part of the query, which seems to have populated the
image_data values. Now, i just have to figure out how to pull this
onto my VB form. When I look at the table data, it just says <Binary
Data> in each of the fields, so I'm not certain that I have everything
in place just yet. If I have trouble, I'll re-post.
Thanks for everybody's help!
Randy
|||"Randy" <spam.eastland@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks to both of you. I'm working with Plamen's query and got it to
> execute successfully, however I'm still not all the way there. A
> couple of questions:
> 1. I can see that the table was created in the Results pane, but I
> don't know where this table is actually stored. Of course, the table
> is of no use until I can make it part of my db, and I don't see it
> listed among the tables in the db. How can I create this table so
> that it is a permanent member of my db?
If you just copied my sample query, then at the end of it there is a DROP
TABLE statement. You can comment it out or remove it and then run again to
keep the table. This is the line you need to comment out or remove:
--DROP TABLE Foobar;

> 2. In the Results pane, I see a two column table. Column 1 is called
> keycol and col 2 is called image_data, as created by the query. There
> are five rows, each of which contains an integer value from 1 to 5 in
> keycol, also as created by the query. However, the fields in
> image_data are blank, at least as viewed through the Results pane.
> I'm not sure if the images have actually loaded correctly. To
> clarify, I changed the query language to include tha path names for
> each of the 5 images that I am trying to import, so I don't think that
> is part of the problem.
>
You cannot see the image in the result pane, but rather the binary
representation. If you just right click the table and select Open Table, you
should see something like <Binary data> in the image_data column. If you run
the query and look in Result, you should see something like 0xFFD8... If you
see NULL, then the images were not uploaded successfully. I would suggest to
check the path for the files and if the file names are correct.
HTH,
Plamen Ratchev
http://www.SQLStudio.com