Storing images
I've read the documentation, but I'm in a quandry as to the best way of
storing images.
Is it in a blob field?  blob fields seem to lack necessary information like

I am fresh college graduate who has done C and C++ during college
times.After that i had done a C# course from one of our local computer
institute.The course is BCM which ran for 1 year.But now when i am
looking for job the questions asked in interview are really very very

or this is the  newsgroup to ask dot-net com+ questions?

I use a parameter to do a sql-update command. But the field in mysql is of
type varbinary and the vb.net is a string. I get it back from the database
with reader.getstring and it looks the same. Is this a good method?
I wanted to read it back trough reader.getsqlbinary but the ...

I need to have a array() of byte stored in a varbinary field in mysql. (and
get it back). But how to pass it from VB to MYSQL in a update statement. Saw
samples with @variables but i cannot get it working.
Please help,

I need to put information from variables (not only strings) to a mysql
database using update. But no I found out that stored procedures are not
there in mysql 4.
Please help,

I need to fill a DataSet with Parent/Child data. I will use Northwind as an
example. The DS needs to have 2 data tables (Customers and Orders) and a data
relation to link them.
The Select Command of the data adapter for the Customer table has a complex

I want to show a row number in each row of a datalist.
How can I do that?

cmd.Connection = conn
cmd.CommandText = "CREATE PROCEDURE gert (OUT param1 INT) BEGIN SELECT *
FROM tabel1; END"
cmd.ExecuteScalar()

I have a business rule that says if a user selects the value 20 for item A
that item B must have a value of 0.  I am looking for the best way to
implement this rule.
TIA

First for the setup:
I work for a museum, we have an exhibit hall that has a number of
interactiv
es that all store their data in a dbaseIII db.  All of the exhibits are

I have a stored procedure that insert data into a sql table.  I need to get
the record identity for another process.  When I execute the program I get
this message " System.FormException: Input string was not in a correct
format". The line with *** is where the proglem crashed, ...

I'm making an App in which a form is bounded to a table in a database,
and with some arrow keys, you can move through the rows of the
database.
At the moment I do a request to the database each time an arrow is

I am getting a SQL Server Error: 8629
   "The query processor could not produce a query plan from the optimizer
   because a query cannot update a text, ntext, or image column and a
   clustering key at the same time."

We have a legacy C++ app that has two worker threads. Each will
separately instantiate .NET objects using COM interop. One thread does
simple SQL statements and the other does larger SQL inquires. Both use
the same connection string to create their OracleConnection. Both