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Posted - 2004-05-03 : 10:43:10
Stefan writes "I have a table with an image column. The goal is to can save entire documents (for example .doc) which can contain text and pictures too.
On the other side I must have the posibility to interogate this filed with specific phrases (contains, freetext etc.)
I asociate to the image column a text filed where I store the field's extension. I realise the full text index to the table and to the column. But the problem is that any query I made get no rows (using contains for example).
What is my mistake? How can I interogate these kind os fields. Do you know some better ways for storing this kind of large documents and interogate them?
With text fields is ok but in text I cannot strore only text, isn't it?
Thank you very much."

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Posted - 2004-05-03 : 11:38:08
SQL server doesn't know abou tthe contents of an image field - it's just binary data so you can't do anything with it (except maybe deal with binary strings).

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Posted - 2004-05-04 : 01:06:33
But what if I add a column to indicate the content type of the binary data ,I head about full-text search can do this .Can someone help us?Best thanks!
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Posted - 2004-05-04 : 02:41:21
yes the search engine can do it.
You need a bindling column which contains the extension((.doc, .xls, .ppt, .txt, .htm)
Have a look at sp_fulltext_column.
When you add the column to the index you can specify @type_colname which references the inding column to give the type of the document in the image column.

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