Can I Edit SDF Files Without Full SQL Server License?
Jun 11, 2007
I'm trying to open an SDF file. After many searches on the net, it appears that there are two ways to do this:
Open the file in VS 2005
Open the file in SQL Server Management StudioI don't have, and don't plan to purchase, a license to full SQL Server 2005. I do have Visual Studio 2005 Pro. When I open an SDF file in Visual Studio, I get the following (oh so informative) error:
The operation could not be completed. Unspecified error
Since I don't have full SQL server, I downloaded SQL Server Management Studio Express. There's one major problem: the Server type combo box is disabled in the "Connect to Server" dialog. Try as I might, I can find no mention anywhere as to why this is the case. I'm guessing that functionality isn't supported in the Express version of the tool, but as far as I can tell, nobody thinks it might perhaps be reasonable to document why this combo box is disabled. It certainly doesn't show up in the document that shows up when I click the help button on this dialog.
Could somebody at Microsoft please tell me if it is even possible to edit these files without buying a full SQL Server license? I'm trying to use SQL Server Compact Edition to replace legacy code that uses an MDB file (via ADO) for a desktop application. From everything I have read, this is the officially recommended thing to do. But if I now have to buy a full SQL Server lincense to accomplish what used to be a simple double click on an MDB file, then there's something seriously wrong.
I have a VERY Legitmate use to install sql 4 workgroups on a pc without licensing it. I am making a disk image for MANY pcs to be imaged and load licensing after the imaging is completed.
I have been able to do this with Windows XP Professional, MS Office 2003 and a couple non-Ms programs. The information for MS software even came from their KB, so I know what I am doing is legit. I just can't find any information on doing this for my sql app.
In SQL2005 (SP2) I have a standard user (User1) who owns some jobs. He has been granted the "SQLAgentUserRole" in the MSDB database so he can see his jobs and run them. He has all the normal permissions (Select, Update, Insert, Execute, Delete, View References) to the schemas in the database he works in.
Here is my problem. When a developer who is logged in as User1, tires to edit a job step that has an output file (which was initially moved from another server by a DBA with SA rights) he gets the following error message.
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) ------------------------------ Only a sysadmin can specify '@output_file_name' parameter for a jobstep. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 14582) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.3156&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=14582&LinkId=20476
I have tired all kinds of permissions (like granting the user SQLAgentOperatorRole) but it is still a no go. If I (as the DBA) remove the job step's output file, then he can edit it. He can also edit other job steps in the job, as long as they do not have output files associated with them.
How can I let the job owner use output files with their job steps and not make them SA. It just does not make sense.
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2007-10-22 06:01:34.07 spid28s The component 'offfilt.dll' reported error while indexing. Component path 'C:WINDOWSsystem32offfilt.dll'. 2007-10-22 06:01:34.07 spid28s Error '0x80030109' occurred during full-text index population for table or indexed view '[dbname].[dbo].[tablename]' (table or indexed view ID '862626116', database ID '10'), full-text key value 0x000013A1. Attempt will be made to reindex it.
I am able to perform full text searches if I inform SQL Server the file is a text file but when I set the correct type as a csv the file does not get indexed.
Also nocticed that I have two IFilters one that comes with SQL and the other with Office they have the same name and just the one that is on system32 handles CSV files, office files are processed correctly.
This are the IFilter locations: C:WINDOWSsystem32offfilt.dll C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.4MSSQLBinnofffilt.dll
I have a valid CSV but when I run the FiltDump.exe command I get: C:Temp>FiltDump 1075555.csv FILE: 1075555.csv Error 0x80030050 loading IFilter
This is the type of error log I get from SQL Server: 2007-11-20 15:30:18.46 spid24s Warning: No appropriate filter was found during full-text index population for table or indexed view '[FileStorage].[dbo].[Document]' (table or indexed view ID '6', database ID '162099618'), full-text key value 0x00000002. Some columns of the row were not indexed.
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