I have an Access 2016 form where data entry users copy and paste pictures into a Bound Object Frame that is linked to a SQL Server 2016 varbinary(max). Pictures are copied from Snip and Sketch. When using Access, all is wonderful. Pictures can be seen, can be put in a report, and replaced, if needed.
The problem comes in when using SQL Server Reporting Services 2016. I have tried to get these pictures out, but I don't know if they're jpg, dib, bmp, tiff, or any other format, so my question is:
What format are pictures sent to SQL Server from Access?
The copy/paste option is great for data entry, but the need to have a web based (SSRS) delivery to the customer (manufacturing floor) is paramount, so if there's a better way to store these pictures in a controlled format so I can retrieve them in SSRS, that is a solution as well.
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I currently have a Navision Dynamics installation on SQL Server 2016.
I have a requirement to display pictues from Navision Dynamics CRM on a stand alone installation of SQL server reporting services (SSRS).
This means, I do not have any of the CRM functionality available for me to use.
The Data Sets for the report is standard SQL queries.
My test query and result :
The field Content from my above query is what I want to display as the image on the report.
If I look at the SQL datatype for the Content column, it says it is an Image (data type).
However, in dynamics, it is a data type of BLOB
I have tried to do this in the report and I just get a Red Cross (X):
I have also tried the following for this field and still get the red X :
=System.Convert.ToBase64String(Fields!Content.Value)
How do I go about displaying the Content field as an Image in the report please?
See answer in this post below :
Microsoft dynamics Mediaset Datatype and SSRS
The questions is same / similar to this one.
The answer is - Change the image compression on the BLOB field to OFF and then everything else should work like in the question.
I have many SSRS reports, and all are having same issue while exporting data into CSV files. (Upgraded from VS-2005 to VS-2013)
I have some GROUP data on header while displaying the data based on condition like shown in below image:
While exporting Data into CSV format, their header data also getting download along with table-grid data. just like shown in below image (yellow shaded)
I actually want to merge those header columns with the actual data row, like shown in below image: (Yellow shaded)
EDITED:
I have found one solution to remove Header values from CSV. As setting the DataElementOutput to NoOutput (Shown in below image)
But still, not able to merge those header values into Data-Grid.
Thank you in advance
Based on the following official documentation:
Breaking Changes in SQL Server Reporting Services
Redesigned CSV Data Renderer
In earlier versions of Reporting Services, when you exported a report to a CSV file format, the data was formatted in a way that preserved the way the data appeared on the report page. For matrix data regions, this resulted in a data format that was inconvenient to import into other applications in order to continue to work with the data.
In this release, when you export a report to a CSV file, you can choose between two supported formats: Default mode and Compliant mode. Default mode is optimized for Excel. Compliant mode is optimized for third-party applications.
The earlier format for CSV files is no longer available. However, for reports that do not use matrix data regions, you can use Compliant mode to get a file format closest to the earlier CSV file format.
It looks like that the SSRS 2005 CSV renderer has gone through major changes in SSRS 2008 R2 with the support for new features.
Workaround
Check the following question, were they provided an extension to reporting services that add the old csv renderer:
Force SSRS 2008 to use SSRS 2005 CSV rendering
References and helpful links
MSDN - How to force SSRS 2008R2 to use the SSRS 2005 CSV rendering mode
Reporting Service 2008 - CSV export
How do I export a SSRS matrix to CSV without losing the structure?
I want to link an invoice template in Excel to a SQL Server database.
The invoice currently contains only a few very basic fields like user/customer/date/item-id/description/quantity/Total etc.
In future more fields will be required.
What's the easiest way to store all that invoice data in realtime to a SQL Server database when the user presses enter in the invoice?
How many tables will I need to create in SQL Server?
The end users are not tech savvy at all, I need to deploy this solution without any technical requirements from them.
Thank you.
The best way to do this is to create an SSIS package that sucks up the excel spreadsheet and captures the data say once a day. The excel file will need to be in the same location, say a network folder and the structure will also have to be the same, meaning the columns and their names once setup will have to also be the same. Otherwise, it's best to have something like a web front end or a fat32 client (basically build an app in Visual Studio or something) that allows data input directory to the SQL server.
Check out this link to learn about it:
http://knowlton-group.com/using-ssis-to-export-data-to-excel/
I am using sql server 2012, In one of the table's column I have varbinary(max) values. This column is used to hold binary values of an Image
, where all the images are resides of my application. Now I want to opent that image in sql server itself, similary
when we write select empid from employee it is displaying empid, so is there any similary way to preview image in sql server?
also any way to doc/docx files to preview in sql server?
SQL Server does not have any way of displaying data in VARBINARY columns as images. You need a different tool for this that extracts the VARBINARY data and interprets it in the correct image format.
There is a SSMS add-in called SSMSBoost that has the feature SSMS Results Grid Visualizers.
You can get fully-functional free community license or buy the professional version. Currently both versions have the same set of features.
I'm building a huge inventory and sales management program on top of Dynamics CRM 2011. I've got a lot done but I'm kinda stuck on one part:
Images are stored in the database encoded as base64 with a MimeType column. I'm wondering how I might extract those images programmatically on a schedule to be sent as part of a data transfer to synchronize another DB.
I have a SQL Server Agent job that exports a view I created. I'm thinking about writing a program that will take that resultant CSV and use it to get a list of products we need to pull images for, and then it queries the DB and saves the files as say productserial-picnum.ext
Is that the best way to do that? Is there an easier way to pull the images out of the DB and into files?
I'm hoping it will be able to only export images that have changed since say a Last Modified column or something.
I don't know C# at all, VB, PHP and JavaScript enough to do some damage though..
you should be able to achieve this in TSQL itself
OPEN cursor with qualifying records (where now>lastmodified etc)
For Each Record
Select Binary Data into "#BinaryData
Convert "#BinaryData to #VarcharData (Something like below will work)
SET #VarcharData = CAST(N'' AS XML).value('xs:base64Binary(xs:hexBinary(sql:variable("#BinaryData")))', 'VARCHAR(MAX)')
Write #VarcharData to file (on server or a network drive if the agent is configured to write out)
Close File
Next Record