If you have to store and retrieve data from a database is a string not the most effcient way? What is best?
How does this work in a real world scenario.
For example: I have a customer ie first name and last name and the CustomerID is autoincremented when initially added to the database. Now, the user could lookup and find the customer by their ID but we all know that's not practical. They don't know 231223 is John Adams, they know John Adams or Adams John.
So how do you handle this? Access is the database I am using but I think this would apply to any database.
I have a process that's going to initially generate 3-4 million PDF files, and continue at the rate of 80K/day. They'll be pretty small (50K) each, but what I'm worried about is how to manage the total mass of files I'm generating for easy lookup. Some details:
I'll have some other steps to run once a file have been generated, and there will be a few servers participating, so I'll need to watch for files as they're generated.Once generated, the files will be available though a lookup process I've written. Essentially, I'll need to pull them based on an order number, which is unique per file.At any time, an existing order number may be resubmitted, and the generated file will need to overwrite the original copy.
Originally, I had planned to write these files all to a single directory on a NAS, but I realize this might not be a good idea, since there are millions of them and Windows might not handle a million-file-lookup very gracefully. I'm looking for some advice:
Is a single folder okay? The files will never be listed - they'll only be retrieved using a System.IO.File with a filename I've already determined.If I do a folder, can I watch for new files with a System.IO.DirectoryWatcher, even with that many files, or will it start to become sluggish with that many files?Should they be stored as BLOBs in a SQL Server database instead? Since I'll need to retrieve them by a reference value, maybe this makes more sense.
I am using an Access database and vb.net 2010. I have created a table in the database with columns for title, datein, dateout and roomnymber. In vb.net 2010 I made a distinguished title = combobox, datein and dateout = DateTimePicker. When I click on F5, an error occurs: INSERT INTO Syntax Error in statement. Here's my code:
Dim sql As String sql = "INSERT INTO tcekin(title,firstname,lastname,address,country,company,roomnumber,datein,dateout,rommtype,note)" & "VALUES('" & ComboBox1.Text & _
I am a VB.net beginner. I am doing simple program that has database connection with access 2007 and i want to store the data (whatever i enter in the textbox) to the database.I did the connection as per the instruction in the msdn(i.e;datasource/database/ms access/selecting accdb file/draging and dropping the fields of the table to the form from the datasource window)I want the code to store data from vb 2008 to access 2007.
I am following some examples I have found in earlier discussions, but have run into a problem trying to save the data. I have included my code below, and everytime I reach the ExecuteNonQuery() command it generates a syntax error in the Insert command error.[code]...
I have an access databse, but the data is link to excel, so i cant changes the data inside access database. However, i just want to retrieve the data inside the access database using VB datagridview, but the system pop out an error said 'cannot find the input table or query'Is it because the data is link with excel, so access databse cannot direct take the data? Below is my code:
Dim myconnectionstring As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:mydatabase.mdb" myconnection = New OleDbConnection(myconnectionstring)
I am looking for ways to retrieve data from textfile and save it into access database. Currently, I am doing a attendance record project. I need to save the attendance record which is given in a text file to the database. The version of VB i using is VB 2008.
The content of the text file look like this: E010,2009/06,06/29/2009 7:44:45AM,06/29/2009 15:00:55PM,JUR E022,2009/06,06/29/2009 7:44:45AM,06/29/2009 15:00:55PM,JUR
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I tried to create a class and store the record but it just don't work.
I am new here and really excited to see the huge resources on this forum for vb.net. I have just started my learning of vb8 and need to create some basic applications for my personal use.I need to develop an application that can extract data from a html table and store that data into Access database. I have learned to create web browser on Visual Studio 2008. Below is the link from which I need to extract data and store into a database
how to retrieve image from access database?.. I've just finish retrieving data to the datagrid view. I want to retrieve also the image (also stored in the database as path inside the table where the data stored) in the picturebox. When i clicked the specific data in datagrid view, it will show preferred image to picturebox.
I am trying to retrieve information from one row that has four columns(name,company,address,phone) so that once it is displayed in 4 different textboxes, I can transfer to a word document.
SQL Server supports the ability for clients to store objects within tables.Create Field that data type Image and Initialize byte array with a null value initially.Use FileInfo object to get file size.Open FileStream to read file.Use
store and retrieve image in a SQL Server database with vb.net.:Well, the application in vb.net seems to have a database which can accessed by the LAN computers so the SQL Server 2005 database allows remote computers to share its database once the other computer application requests database from the server.So, every other computer has to store and retrieve images in SQL Server 2005. For example, comp1 has to store images taken into the server and retrieve it like tableadapter.
I am using bindings and tableadapters to store the details in database and retrieving information from db. Please if you have code or anything which is working for me, please post it here... how to store image and retrieve it SQL Server through vb.net provided there's LAN computers who are also sharing the SQL Server database.
code on storing path image and retrieve path into image using mysql database and vb.net/vs 2008. I only know how to make a browse button and get the image into hard disk and display it in picturebox. I'm done with the the problem is how to store the path and retrieve the path into image.
I like the PHP way of doing things but, it seems I am stuck with using a Collection of Object's to store/retrieve the data I need. I have my Collection loaded with my Objects's and the code to iterate through the collection, my problem is I am unable to retrieve the "key" as it would be called in PHP (I believe in this case it is actually the name of the object).
Consider the following example:
Dim xDoc As XPathDocument = New XPathDocument(fName) Dim xNav As XPathNavigator = xDoc.CreateNavigator()
Dim sender As XPathNodeIterator
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As you can see, I am navigating an XML document, and creating an Object with some Key/Value pairs. The Object would look something like this if it were in JSON:
When I iterate though the Collection I can only get the value of the object, but I need the Key, in this instance I want "name","address1","city","state" to be stored in a variable for each iteration.
I need to store/retrieve a bit from a data table of 3.268.760 bits long.
Using w As New BinaryWriter(File.Open("test.bin", FileMode.Create)) for x = 1 to 3268760 For i = 1 To 3268760[code]....
the w.write(?) stores a boolean value meaning 0/1 for false/true values, but Vb.net seems to use an whole byte to store this data which is too expensive for my table (3.268.760^2).Is there a pratical way to store/retrive single bits from a file using vb.net? (meaning as little as possible conversion to other types).
I'm trying to build something called a structure which will store data it retrieves from a text file. I have the structure set up like this: Structure Employee Dim FirstName As String Dim LastName As String Dim ID As String Dim Hours As Integer Dim Wage As Decimal Dim EarnedPay As Decimal End Structure [Code] ..... How to set these operations up?
I have determined thanks to the last q & a that there is something wrong with my "save to db" code as well as my "retrieve to picture" code. Even If I manually save the pic in the db it stil wont retreive. This is code i patched together from 3 or 4 examples around the net.
Dim filename As String = txtName.Text + ".jpg" Dim FileSize As UInt32 Dim ImageStream As System.IO.MemoryStream[code]......
I am building an application with an Access database, using Visual Basic 2010 and am not sure where the best place to store that database is. I am looking forward to creating an install file and want to make sure that the database is in the right place.
The following is the code i used to get the value from textbox to listbox and store all the listbox values to the access database at the runtime.In the database, i have only one field called num which is been set as a multivalue field using the lookupwizard. But actually what happens is ,no error is occurred,but the value is not updated in the batabase.
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Imports System.Data.OleDb Public Class Form1 Dim conn As OleDbConnection[code]...
how to store a hash in my Access Database. Now I have generated a hash by salting a user password with the User ID (not highly secure I know, but plenty for my purposes). I have also stored the hashed values in the database as Base64 strings (manually, I haven't yet developed the module to do that automatically), however, when I go to retrieve the hash from the database I receive the hex code in place of the string. This is the code for the login button:
Sub prcLogin() 'Log User in Dim ds As New DataSet Dim blnCorrect As Boolean
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But when I run this instead of returning a value like "rlzhYoiO4+vpdJdsrFq5Sj9VBJ+FFYhIg9V5+z+jeNI=" which I stored in the database, it returns a value like "5C6BED0D94
There is an OLE object column that contains images in my access database. I'm trying to create a program that reads the images from that ole column and store the images to a file. Currently, I have a program that creates an image file but the image is blank.[code]
I need a way to store just the time only to my access database. the datetimepicker isn't working because there is no way to have a null date.I found this and it seems to be exactly what I need.When I try to convert it to vb2008 i get a few errors I can't figure out.
