How to get size of an file stored as image in SQL Database

[Dino Buljubasic]

I want to get the size of a file stored in SQL Database (as image data
type).

Anybody knows how to do this?

Any help will be greatelly appreciated

[gaidar]

Get data from the database into binary array and calc in't length.
"Dino Buljubasic" <di**@noplaceli kehome.com> wrote in message
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I want to get the size of a file stored in SQL Database (as image data
type).

Anybody knows how to do this?

Any help will be greatelly appreciated

[Dino Buljubasic]

No I can not do that. I need the size of image so I can set my
progress bar so it displays how much of that image has been downloaded
so far. If I store it ino an array, then what is point of having
progress bar, the image is already fetched from the database.

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:12:53 +0300, "gaidar" <ga****@vbstree ts.ru>
wrote:

Get data from the database into binary array and calc in't length.
"Dino Buljubasic" <di**@noplaceli kehome.com> wrote in message
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I want to get the size of a file stored in SQL Database (as image data
type).

Anybody knows how to do this?

Any help will be greatelly appreciated

[Dino Buljubasic]

just to correct my self:

I need this information so I can set my progress bar to show download
progress.

Thank you

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:47:53 GMT, Dino Buljubasic
<di**@noplaceli kehome.com> wrote:

I want to get the size of a file stored in SQL Database (as image data
type).

Anybody knows how to do this?

Any help will be greatelly appreciated

[Bob Hollness]

Dino Buljubasic wrote:

just to correct my self:

I need this information so I can set my progress bar to show download
progress.

Thank you

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:47:53 GMT, Dino Buljubasic
<di**@noplaceli kehome.com> wrote:

I want to get the size of a file stored in SQL Database (as image data
type).

Anybody knows how to do this?

Any help will be greatelly appreciated

Then store the size of the file in the database.

Bob

[Cor Ligthert]

Dino,

You make me curious, I know that I can get an image from a database using a
datareader, using an executescalar, using a dataadapter.

Non of those give me the change to see any progress even when I know how
large the image is.

How do you do that?

Cor

[Dino Buljubasic]

I really appreciate help but I don't need help on how to go arround
the problem but how to solve it.

I can not store size to the database because database already exist
with thousants of records in it. I am not in the position to go
throught every record find sizes of images and update the database.

thank you

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:33:48 +0100, Bob Hollness <bo*@blockbuste r.com>
wrote:

Dino Buljubasic wrote:

just to correct my self:

I need this information so I can set my progress bar to show download
progress.

Thank you

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:47:53 GMT, Dino Buljubasic
<di**@noplaceli kehome.com> wrote:

I want to get the size of a file stored in SQL Database (as image data
type).

Anybody knows how to do this?

Any help will be greatelly appreciated

Then store the size of the file in the database.

Bob

[Dino Buljubasic]

I am using FileStream and BinaryWriter to load the image and write it
to a byte array.

I write chunks of binary data to array in a while loop. At the end I
can get the size of that array but I need the size before I start
downloading it so I can calculate progress inside my progress bar.

Unfortunatelly, creators of the database did not store size of images
saved to database in a column, so I can not fetch that information.

Any Ideas how to solve this?

Thank you, appreciate your help

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:35:50 +0100, "Cor Ligthert"
<no************ @planet.nl> wrote:

Dino,

You make me curious, I know that I can get an image from a database using a
datareader, using an executescalar, using a dataadapter.

Non of those give me the change to see any progress even when I know how
large the image is.

How do you do that?

Cor

[kjhklhkh]

SELECT DATALENGTH(imag ecolumn) FROM sometable

"Dino Buljubasic" <di**@noplaceli kehome.com> wrote in message
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I want to get the size of a file stored in SQL Database (as image data
type).

Anybody knows how to do this?

Any help will be greatelly appreciated

[Cor Ligthert]

WhatEverYourNam e is,

I made a piece of code (sample) from your SQLString which test it direct.

\\\
Public Class TestLength
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlCo nnection("Serve r=(local);" & _
"DataBase=North wind; Integrated Security=SSPI")
Dim sqlstr1 As String = "SELECT DATALENGTH(Phot o) " & _
" FROM Employees WHERE EmployeeID = 3"
Dim sqlstr2 As String = "SELECT Photo FROM Employees WHERE
EmployeeID = 3"
Dim cm As New SqlClient.SqlCo mmand(sqlstr1, conn)
conn.Open()
Console.Write(c m.ExecuteScalar .ToString & vbCrLf)
cm.CommandText = sqlstr2
Console.Write(( DirectCast(cm.E xecuteScalar, Byte()).Length) .ToString
& vbCrLf)
conn.Close()
End Sub
End Class
///

Now I still needs to know how Dino does the reading.

Cor