I'm using SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server Management Studio as my database.
I need to upload a set of images to the server in order to display them upon certain triggers in my system. I know that images can be uploaded to the server by means of conversion of the images to binary.
How can I upload the image directly to the server without coding it? Or the only way to do this is to load all the images upon startup then upload all of them into the server? Will it affect the performance of the system and lags will occur upon startup?
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I have built a simple silverlight app that stores the webcam captured images to the filesystem, my requirement is to store them locally in a sql server database located on a tablet so they can now or later be uploaded to a server when the network is available, this program needs to work offline. I have found the code for most of the application except the part that stores information and images to the database. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
I need some suggestions about a problem in hand. I receive some report containing some financial transactions in Excel files. The Excel data needs to be loaded to a SQLServer Database running behind fire wall. The file is transmitted to a Windows machine which does not have access to the SQL Server over port 1433.
So is there any other option to load the Excel content (we can convert it to XML if need be) other than web services.
Is it possible to use XMLBulk load under such circumstances?
In case web services is the only option what is the best practice for bulk loading data through web services.
Thanks for sparing you time.
You can use SSIS in order to convert data of your excel file to SQL Server.
SSIS run on the server and must be access to your excel file from network.
In this method windows firewall not effect to your process.
I am looking for a free DNN community edition website Backup and restore procedure working with DNN 7 and SQL server express 2008 r2.
I usually design and develop website in local PC as my connection speed to the actual server is low. And then I want to publish (deploy) the result in the server. I may need to repeat this procedure a few times as our website is always under development and I need to add new pages or update the existing ones.
I use DNN 7 community edition. I have already googled and have found plenty of commercial tools for this backup and restore. But the free methods seems to be 1.
old or
not working properly or
not a straight forward procedure or
very buggy.
I have gone e.g. through the 4 links given in
http://www.dnnsoftware.com/community-blog/cid/134680/HOW-TO-Move-a-DotNetNuke-installation
without any success.
Could you please help me 1.
how I could develop my website in local PC and then upload the
result in the server?
And later after adding a few new pages in the local PC how I could sync the result with the server?
Thank you very much in advance for your help and consideration.
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"when using SQL express, if I simply copy the entire local folder to production (including the APP_DATA folder, which contains the database)." ... How I could just save the newly registered users data in the website's database before copying entire local folder to production and restore this data after copying. In other way, I want to update the page contents and added designs but I don't want to loose newly registered users data between two consecutive website updates. I hope could find a working procedure for this because working online with server is very slow due to my connection speed and I have to keep a replica of the website in the local PC and add new pages or programs in the local PC and then update the result to the server when required. The specs of two systems are as follows:
local PC: Windows 8 Pro (with admin access)
Server (VPS): Windows web server 2008 (with admin access)
1) The easiest way to do this, when using SQL express, is to simply copy the entire local folder to production (including the APP_DATA folder, which contains the database)
2) Repeat step 1, but you'll lose any changes you made in production since the last time you pushed things up.
DNN doesn't really support this type of synchronization as a platform. They tried to offer it in their Enterprise product, but it worked so poorly they scrapped the feature.
I'm creating a VB2010 application which will require a connection to MSSQL. Should I Install SQL 2008 on my computer then use MS SQL 2008 as my data source or skip installing SQL 2008 and use MDF instead?
Also the program must have the following requirement
Program must use SQL as their database source
End user must not install SQL server on their machine
Program must be able to update (sync) the local SQL database from SQL server on the web. (User will have option to delete everything on their local database and load everything fresh from the server or to merge the update with existing data)
Programs will (most of the time) run in an offline environment. When the user have access to internet they can update the database
The program must allow user to add,edit, delete their local database while offline
Only certain user (authorized user) can update their local database back to the serverC
Is it possible to created a program that meets all the above requirement ?
If yes, can you please clarify on how can I accomplish all points
Thank you very much
use MDF instead?
An MDF file is Sql Server.
End user must not install SQL server on their machine
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Program must be able to update (sync) the local SQL database from SQL server on the web.
In that case, I recommend Sql Server Compact Edition. It is upgrade compatible to full Sql Server, which will make sync operations easier, but it does not require you to install the full Sql Server engine to the local system.
I have a feature in visual studio which I have never really understood.
I am able to 'right-click' on the App_Data folder and then I am able to select 'Sql Server Database'. I dont really understand how I can create a db using just an mdf file? I thought the sql service was responsible for manipulating these files? And that you have to create the db using the 'sql management studio' interface?
Im confised as to how we can essentially just have a lone file and run a db from it for a website?
You're application is still connecting through the SQL Server service but it can instruct the service to attach to a specific mdf file at runtime through a connection string. e.g.:
"Server=.\SQLExpress;AttachDbFilename=c:\mydbfile.mdf;Database=dbname; Trusted_Connection=Yes;"
All SQL Server databases are represented as one (or more) .mdf files and usually .ldf files as well (ldf is the log file, mdf is the data file.) An .mdf file is a file but it is highly structured and maintained by SQL Server. The way SQL Server uses this file is very different from serving up CSV data, as a simple example. SQL Server breaks the file into pages and serves the requests for reads and writes via this paging system. It is indeed like a file system within a file system. If you think about it it does all make sense. The data has to get persisted to disk and that disk persistence has to come in the form of a file or files.
When you installed Visual Studio you also installed SQL Server Express. This gives you the ability to create and use SQL Server databases.
If you were to deploy your application you would then also need to have a SQL Server (Express) install on the web-server you were using (at least because you don't want to use your development database server in production).