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Uploading Images to a Database
Introduction
Uploading images to a Sql Server database is extremely easy using ASP.NET and C#. This article will show you how to upload Images (or any Binary Data) to a SQL Server database using ASP.NET and C#. The next part in this series, Retrieving Images from a Database, will show you how extract images from a database.
Building the Database Table
We start out by building our database table. Our image table is going to have a few columns describing the image data, plus the image itself. Here is the sql required to build our table in SQL Server or MSDE.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[image] (
[img_pk] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[img_name] [varchar] (50) NULL ,
[img_data] [image] NULL ,
[img_contenttype] [varchar] (50) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[image] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_image] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED
(
[img_pk]
) ON [PRIMARY] GO
I'm a great fan of having a single column primary key, and making that key
an Identity column, in our example, that column is img_pk. The next column
is img_name, which is used to store a friendly name of our image, for example "Mom
and Apple Pie". img_data is actually our image data column, and is where
we will be storing our binary image data. img_contenttype will be used to record
the content-type of the image, for example "image/gif" or "image/jpeg" so
we will know what content-type we need to output back to the client, in our
case the browser.
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This may sound weird but I think I'm the only one not having perfect success with this.
I'm getting a System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
on the line
I'm not sure why I'm getting this error. I copied the code verbatum and then added references for my other fields that I'm pulling in.
I have no idea what the stack trace is all about, like I understand stacks, but the way these are formatted makes no sense to me, although here's what's in it maybe you guys will know.
((my button is exactly the same just named BtnUpload as opposed to UploadBtn.))
If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. It's been driving me nuts I've run into a bunch of other errors that I've fixed, mostly missing a ";" but I've taken care of them all, this is the only one I haven't figured out yet (well unless there's more after this one is fixed)
Thanks in advance for the help
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Better control of file updates. On file server, anybody can update files without letting anyone know about it. If you store a file inside SQL database, it will show who last updated files, inform users when it expires, requiring updates and so on. I administer 230 manual documents that shows original creator, date of implementation, maintainer and updated date. Very useful and uniform in updates and maintenance.
i have been able to implement this and i now upload all sorts of documents including images into my sql server database. i now need to retrieve the document in the original format (.doc, .xls, .jpg, etc). pls, i do i achieve that?
Hello,
I need some more idea on this topic. What is benifit to store data into SQL server (means into BLOB chartype in SQL). Why can not we just store file on to PC and just add link name into SQL.
Please can anybody give me this ans.
Thanks
Ok,
Im sorta new to ASP.Net and Ive got the image upload to blob working ...
But for this to be moreso practical, it would be nice to see the ability to upload into another field, the thumbnail automatically generated from the blob data. (or when it gets uploaded).
Can someone help or point me in the right direction?!?!
Im desperate
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