Hi Venu,
I belive it would only be possible if the PDF would be base64 encoded
before DB insertion, and then in NiFi it would need to be base64 decoded.
Seems possible, but adds a bit of computing overhead to the flow.
Best regards,
Endre
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 5:09 PM Venugopal Iyengar
wrote:
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Thanks Peter.
We are trying to avoid using nvarchar going forward. However, for some
schema it is implemented that way by some consultants. If you can give me
the steps to debug that would be helpful. Is it possible to get this
working by using some converters as part of the flow? I appreciate your
Hi Venu,
If I'm not wrong, you're using MS SQL Server and nvarchar / varbinary are
the database column types.
nvarchar can be used for storing character data (strings) but it is not
suitable for binary data (like pdf).
I think NiFi tries to handle the bytes of the pdf file as Unicode
characters.
Hello there,
I am using Execute SQL, Split AVro and put file processors to read some pdf
documents stored in SQL database and store that in the file system.
When I use varbinary(max) I was able to pull and view the pdf without any
issues.
When the datatype is nvarchar(max) I am unable to open t
