How to store HTML code in SQL server table

[Peter Afonin]

Hello,

I'm creating something like a web site builder in ASP.Net, and I need to
store an HTML code in the SQL server table. If my customer just enters an
HTML code, it is stored in the SQL server table like this: <table
cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="760"
border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;, instead of <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0"
width="760" border="0">

This significantly increases the size of the stored code.

Are there any conversion functions or something like this to avoid it? Where
this conversion should be done - in ASP.Net or SQL server? How do I convert
it back to create an HTML page?

Please note that I must use the Unicode data type - ntext, nchar etc, since
I'm using some Cyrillic characters.

I would appreciate your advice very much.

Thank you,

--
Peter Afonin

[Jeffrey Palermo [MCP]]

Peter,
ntext in SQL Server will store Html markup just fine. You are encoding
your html before storing it in the database. Find out where you are
encoding the markup and change that code. Debug your code and make sure
that you are indeed sending pure html to the database. SQL Server will not
automatically encode html, so your code is doing it somewhere.

Best regards,
Jeffrey Palermo

"Peter Afonin" <pv*@speakeasy.net> wrote in message
news:ey**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I'm creating something like a web site builder in ASP.Net, and I need to
store an HTML code in the SQL server table. If my customer just enters an
HTML code, it is stored in the SQL server table like this: &lt;table
cellSpacing=&quot;0&quot; cellPadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;760&quot;
border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;, instead of <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="760" border="0">

This significantly increases the size of the stored code.

Are there any conversion functions or something like this to avoid it? Where this conversion should be done - in ASP.Net or SQL server? How do I convert it back to create an HTML page?

Please note that I must use the Unicode data type - ntext, nchar etc, since I'm using some Cyrillic characters.

I would appreciate your advice very much.

Thank you,

--
Peter Afonin

[Henri]

What is the code you use to store the string you get in the SQL database?

"Peter Afonin" <pv*@speakeasy.net> a écrit dans le message de
news:ey**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I'm creating something like a web site builder in ASP.Net, and I need to
store an HTML code in the SQL server table. If my customer just enters an
HTML code, it is stored in the SQL server table like this: &lt;table
cellSpacing=&quot;0&quot; cellPadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;760&quot;
border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;, instead of <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="760" border="0">

This significantly increases the size of the stored code.

Are there any conversion functions or something like this to avoid it? Where this conversion should be done - in ASP.Net or SQL server? How do I convert it back to create an HTML page?

Please note that I must use the Unicode data type - ntext, nchar etc, since I'm using some Cyrillic characters.

I would appreciate your advice very much.

Thank you,

--
Peter Afonin

[Wayne Snyder]

As the other poster states, it is not SQL that is doing the encoding, it is
something else...

Also, if the html pages will be less than 4000 unicode characters, you may
prefer to strore the data in a varchar column.

--
Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
www.mariner-usa.com
(Please respond only to the newsgroups.)

I support the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) and it's
community of SQL Server professionals.
www.sqlpass.org

"Peter Afonin" <pv*@speakeasy.net> wrote in message
news:ey**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I'm creating something like a web site builder in ASP.Net, and I need to
store an HTML code in the SQL server table. If my customer just enters an
HTML code, it is stored in the SQL server table like this: &lt;table
cellSpacing=&quot;0&quot; cellPadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;760&quot;
border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;, instead of <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="760" border="0">

This significantly increases the size of the stored code.

Are there any conversion functions or something like this to avoid it? Where this conversion should be done - in ASP.Net or SQL server? How do I convert it back to create an HTML page?

Please note that I must use the Unicode data type - ntext, nchar etc, since I'm using some Cyrillic characters.

I would appreciate your advice very much.

Thank you,

--
Peter Afonin

[Peter Afonin]

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

So far when I use ntext it works OK, then I use the Literal control and
Server.Decode to write the data in ASP.Net.

Peter

"Wayne Snyder" <wa*****************@mariner-usa.com> wrote in message
news:eL**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

As the other poster states, it is not SQL that is doing the encoding, it is something else...

Also, if the html pages will be less than 4000 unicode characters, you may
prefer to strore the data in a varchar column.

--
Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
www.mariner-usa.com
(Please respond only to the newsgroups.)

I support the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) and it's
community of SQL Server professionals.
www.sqlpass.org

"Peter Afonin" <pv*@speakeasy.net> wrote in message
news:ey**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I'm creating something like a web site builder in ASP.Net, and I need to
store an HTML code in the SQL server table. If my customer just enters an HTML code, it is stored in the SQL server table like this: &lt;table
cellSpacing=&quot;0&quot; cellPadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;760&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;, instead of <table cellSpacing="0"

cellPadding="0"

width="760" border="0">

This significantly increases the size of the stored code.

Are there any conversion functions or something like this to avoid it?

Where

this conversion should be done - in ASP.Net or SQL server? How do I

convert

it back to create an HTML page?

Please note that I must use the Unicode data type - ntext, nchar etc,

since

I'm using some Cyrillic characters.

I would appreciate your advice very much.

Thank you,

--
Peter Afonin

[Jeffrey Palermo [MCP]]

Wayne,
Maybe it's just a typo, but varchar cannot be properly used with unicode
and has a maximum length of 8000 characters. nvarchar has a limit of 4000
characters and should be used for all applications for maintenance purposes
(since most applications will have to support unicode in the future).
--
Best regards,
Jeffrey Palermo
Blog: http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/jpalermo

"Wayne Snyder" <wa*****************@mariner-usa.com> wrote in message
news:eL**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

As the other poster states, it is not SQL that is doing the encoding, it is something else...

Also, if the html pages will be less than 4000 unicode characters, you may
prefer to strore the data in a varchar column.

--
Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
www.mariner-usa.com
(Please respond only to the newsgroups.)

I support the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) and it's
community of SQL Server professionals.
www.sqlpass.org

"Peter Afonin" <pv*@speakeasy.net> wrote in message
news:ey**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I'm creating something like a web site builder in ASP.Net, and I need to
store an HTML code in the SQL server table. If my customer just enters an HTML code, it is stored in the SQL server table like this: &lt;table
cellSpacing=&quot;0&quot; cellPadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;760&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;, instead of <table cellSpacing="0"

cellPadding="0"

width="760" border="0">

This significantly increases the size of the stored code.

Are there any conversion functions or something like this to avoid it?

Where

this conversion should be done - in ASP.Net or SQL server? How do I

convert

it back to create an HTML page?

Please note that I must use the Unicode data type - ntext, nchar etc,

since

I'm using some Cyrillic characters.

I would appreciate your advice very much.

Thank you,

--
Peter Afonin

[Jeffrey Palermo [MCP]]

Peter, I'm glad you have it working now.

--
Best regards,
Jeffrey Palermo
Blog: http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/jpalermo
"Peter Afonin" <pe***@gudzon.net> wrote in message
news:OA**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

So far when I use ntext it works OK, then I use the Literal control and
Server.Decode to write the data in ASP.Net.

Peter

"Wayne Snyder" <wa*****************@mariner-usa.com> wrote in message
news:eL**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

As the other poster states, it is not SQL that is doing the encoding, it

is

something else...

Also, if the html pages will be less than 4000 unicode characters, you may

prefer to strore the data in a varchar column.

--
Wayne Snyder, MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
www.mariner-usa.com
(Please respond only to the newsgroups.)

I support the Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) and it's
community of SQL Server professionals.
www.sqlpass.org

"Peter Afonin" <pv*@speakeasy.net> wrote in message
news:ey**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

I'm creating something like a web site builder in ASP.Net, and I need to store an HTML code in the SQL server table. If my customer just enters

an HTML code, it is stored in the SQL server table like this: &lt;table
cellSpacing=&quot;0&quot; cellPadding=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;760&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;, instead of <table cellSpacing="0"

cellPadding="0"

width="760" border="0">

This significantly increases the size of the stored code.

Are there any conversion functions or something like this to avoid it?

Where

this conversion should be done - in ASP.Net or SQL server? How do I

convert

it back to create an HTML page?

Please note that I must use the Unicode data type - ntext, nchar etc,

since

I'm using some Cyrillic characters.

I would appreciate your advice very much.

Thank you,

--
Peter Afonin