[thelist] MS Access to SQL Server: METAFILE Images

[Wade Armstrong]

Basically, you just need to set the content-type so that the browser knows
you're sending binary data and not just a string of characters. Check out:

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/060100-1.shtml

Wade

on 9/26/01 4:46 PM, James Aylard at webmaster at equilon-mrc.com wrote:

> Rory,
> 
>> But I know it is a pain and somewhat inefficient to go storin' a bunch 'o
>> images in SQL Server... the filesystem is much more efficient here.
> 
>   Agreed. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to extract these images
> from the Access database, even using DTS, since they are not a standalone
> file format (such as bmp). They are, from all appearances, OLE objects. And
> OLE objects -- aside from cutting, pasting, and inserting them -- are
> something about which I know next to nothing.
>   This is for an IE 5.x Intranet, so if anyone knows how to display an OLE
> object within the browser, I'm listening...
> 
> James Aylard
> 
>