Help on storing big text ?

Dear all,
I am building a news web site for oneof my customers and actually I have
question regarding the way to store huge big text document.
The web site is build using ASP.NET 1.1
I need to update or store time to time news information in an sql server
database.
For that I was wondering how this kind of information are store in fields.
For instance I have a content of a word document which can be big.
I can I store that document content in the database in order that when my
client browse to the proper page news information cames from that document.
Any sample to test it or tips ?
Do I have to store in database only the path for the document or the full
content ?
thnaks for your help
regards
sergea.. Try not to use TEXT or NTEXT datatypes for storing large textual data.
The TEXT datatype has some inherent problems associated with it. For
example, you cannot directly write or update text data using the INSERT or
UPDATE statements. Instead, you have to use special statements like
READTEXT, WRITETEXT and UPDATETEXT. There are also a lot of bugs associated
with replicating tables containing text columns. So, if you don't have to
store more than 8KB of text, use CHAR(8000) or VARCHAR(8000) datatypes
instead.
a.. If you have a choice, do not store binary or image files (Binary Large
Objects or BLOBs) inside the database. Instead, store the path to the binary
or image file in the database and use that as a pointer to the actual binary
file stored elsewhere on a server. Retrieving and manipulating these large
binary files is better performed outside the database, and after all, a
database is not meant for storing files.
Extract from http://www.sql-server-performance.c...t_practices.asp
"serge calderara" <sergecalderara@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:10BB4A34-AD64-46C6-8714-D5D032BEF7E2@.microsoft.com...
> Dear all,
> I am building a news web site for oneof my customers and actually I have
> question regarding the way to store huge big text document.
> The web site is build using ASP.NET 1.1
> I need to update or store time to time news information in an sql server
> database.
> For that I was wondering how this kind of information are store in fields.
> For instance I have a content of a word document which can be big.
> I can I store that document content in the database in order that when my
> client browse to the proper page news information cames from that
document.
> Any sample to test it or tips ?
> Do I have to store in database only the path for the document or the full
> content ?
> thnaks for your help
> regards
> serge|||Thanks for your reply
How do I add text in those fields, directly typing in without formatting.?
Or can I open word, use copy and paste the content in the field ?
regards
serge
"Jonathan Chong" wrote:

> a.. Try not to use TEXT or NTEXT datatypes for storing large textual data.
> The TEXT datatype has some inherent problems associated with it. For
> example, you cannot directly write or update text data using the INSERT or
> UPDATE statements. Instead, you have to use special statements like
> READTEXT, WRITETEXT and UPDATETEXT. There are also a lot of bugs associate
d
> with replicating tables containing text columns. So, if you don't have to
> store more than 8KB of text, use CHAR(8000) or VARCHAR(8000) datatypes
> instead.
>
> a.. If you have a choice, do not store binary or image files (Binary Large
> Objects or BLOBs) inside the database. Instead, store the path to the bina
ry
> or image file in the database and use that as a pointer to the actual bina
ry
> file stored elsewhere on a server. Retrieving and manipulating these large
> binary files is better performed outside the database, and after all, a
> database is not meant for storing files.
> Extract from [url]http://www.sql-server-performance.com/vk_sql_best_practices.asp[/ur
l]
>
> "serge calderara" <sergecalderara@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:10BB4A34-AD64-46C6-8714-D5D032BEF7E2@.microsoft.com...
> document.
>
>

Help on INI file

Hi all,
I'm building a DTS package that needs to take parameters from an INI
file. The SQL statement in the Transform task goes something like this:
select * from customer where division in ('D','I','2','3','C')
I need to pass the division 'D','I','2','3','C' part in because there
might be more divisions we need in the future or change of divisions,
we don't want to modifiy the package every time. So I set it in the INI
file like this and read it into a global variable:
[Customer]
Division = 'D','I','2','3','C'
But SQL doesn't recognize the SQL statement "select * from customer
where division in (?), where ? stands for the global variable. I tried
with setting Division = "'D','I','2','3','C'" in INI file, it still
doesn't work. The only way it works is to pass the 5 values as 5
seperate parameters and thus 5 global variables then the SQL statement
is like this:
select * from customer where division in (?,?,?,?,?)
But this defeats the purpose because I can't add another parameter in
the INI file without having to open the package and make changes.
Has anybody run into this before? Any suggestions is appreciated.
Thanks,http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql.html

Simon

Help needed?

Hi

I'm a newbie to SQL server..... l'm building a website where companies can save important data. I have a SQL server available but I'm not sure how to store the data. Should I create a new database for every user or should I store everything in the same database and then use a UserId to recognize the data and the user?

The data stored for each user are stored in tables which are exactly the same so all tables could be gathered into one table and then a UserId could tell which records belong to whom.

Hope my english isn't too bad..otherwise just ask me questions and I'll get back A.S.A.P.

Regards

Joachim

1 database will support many users. As you suggested, you would create a user table and each user would have an entry there. The primary key of that table (e.g. : UserId) would be used as a Foreign Key in other tables to identify which user owns the data. e.g. : an orders table would have a userId column to specify which user the order belonged to.

Hope this helps.

|||

hi joachim,

thats not a bad english at all.

regarding your question i suggest you take your time

studying the basic database concept such

normalization, entity integrity, domain integrity, relational integrity and bussiness integrity.

its not easy at first but it will help very much in the long run of your database career

regards

joey

Help needed about databases!

Hi

I'm a newbie to SQL server.... l'm building a website where companies can save important data. I have a SQL server available but I'm not sure how to store the data. Should I create a new database for every user or should I store everything in the same database and then use a UserId to recognize the data and the user? What about the case where I reaches let's say 1000 users in the one user per database case, it would be extremly difficult to have an overview of the databases or what?

The data stored for each user are stored in tables which are exactly the same so all tables could be gathered into one table and then a UserId could tell which records belong to whom.

Hope my english isn't too bad..otherwise just ask me questions and I'll get back A.S.A.P.

Regards

Joachim

You probably should just use a single database. Unless there are overriding issues like you distribute the database to the company. Then you wouldn't want one company to get another companies data. I'm assuming there is a single application where all the companies log in to the same site. If each company has separate sites, then you might actually need separate apps (and databases) for each.

Single app / db is easier to maintain but realize that changes for one then apply to all.

HTH.