How to Show Data Saved as a Long-Blob in MySql

In this article I would like to show how we can load data that was stored as a long-blob in the database.

Whether it is useful or not I don't know but as I had a requirement in my project to load data which I saved as a blob I am writing this article.

Data in my-sql:


Final output that we get:



As my file has certain conditions as shown in the image I loaded according to that, if anyone wants to modify it then he can do that as needed.

Creating the required table (I used my-sql):

CREATE TABLE `tblachmaster` (
`Id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`FedTaxId` varchar(9) DEFAULT NULL,
`File_Name` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,
`File_Data` longblob,
`Date_Time` timestamp NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`Id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=3 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1$$

Code that used to load the data

protected void GridView1_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        int id = 0;
        string strLine = string.Empty;
        string[] lines = null;
        if (e.CommandName == "Image")
        {
            GridViewRow row = (GridViewRow)((Control)e.CommandSource).Parent.Parent;
            Label l = (Label)GridView1.Rows[row.RowIndex].Cells[1].FindControl("Label1");
            id = Convert.ToInt16(l.Text);

            string selectSQL = "Select File_Data from tblachmaster WHERE Id IN (" + id + ")";

            MySqlCommand cmd1 = new MySqlCommand(selectSQL);
            cmd1.Parameters.Add("@_id", SqlDbType.Int).Value = id;
            DataTable dt1 = GetData1(cmd1);
            if (dt1 != null)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < dt1.Rows.Count; i++)
                {
                    Byte[] bytes = (Byte[])dt1.Rows[i]["File_Data"];
                    string text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes);
                    lines = Regex.Split(text, "\r\n");
                    strLine = convertArrayToString(lines);
                }
            }
            DataTable table = new DataTable();

            table.Columns.Add("RecordTypeCode", typeof(string));
            table.Columns.Add("Content", typeof(string));
            foreach (string strcontent in lines)
            {
                if (strcontent != string.Empty)
                    table.Rows.Add(rectype[(strcontent.Substring(0, 1))], strcontent);

            }
            dynamicGridView.DataSource = table;
            dynamicGridView.DataBind();
            popup.Show();

        }
    }