I have a MS SQL Server Express database wich I upsized once from MS
Access. I can connect to it and get/insert data but I can't update the
field properties.
I've used Access 2003, Visual Studio .Net and SQL Server Web Data
Administrator, but I can't change the properties of existing tables. I
cán add new tables and add their properties afterwards. Since I have a
lot of tables it would be too much work too recreate them all. So how
can I edit my existing tables?
Another Newbie here...sorry if this is an easy question: How do I extract Table Properties (field names, type, length, PK/FK) from multiple tables and into an Excel spreadsheet?
Is it possible to change the database name defined in the destinatation table definition of the transformation object programmitacally?
We have different database names between dev and prod. The package was created against dev. I'm trying to copy the package to the prod server and programmatically change the database name where necessary.
In our replication environment, the subscriber is initially set up with an snapshot of the publisher database. However, after that, the subscriber and publisher are different and we can never re-initialize from a snapshot again (we purge data on the publisher to reduce the database size but do not purge the same data on the subscriber; we do this by stubbing out the stored procedures on the subscriber that purge data on the publisher).
If an article is added or dropped from the publication, using snapshot and synchronize, just these changes are propagated to the publisher (without an entire new snapshot).
However, if an Article Property is changed (change SCALL to MCALL under Statement Delivery options for the UPDATE statement), the interface REQUIRES an entire new snapshot. Is there any way I can avoid the new Snapshot? It overwrites the subscriber database and this cannot happen!
I want to transfer data from one server to another by using SSIS. i want the connection string to be dynamic and also according to the some other variable, the transforming data is changing.
Could you provide me the solution thet how i am able to change my connetction string dynamically and the other variable too.
i am using VS 2003 as front end and SQL server 2005 as a backhand.
Due to VS.NET 2003 i am able to create DTS packages but i have to migrate it and then anly i am able to use it in JOB in SQL server agent of SQL server 2005.
is that any code or any stored procedure from which i am able to migrate DTS packages to SSIS packages.
I have looked on google and haven't found a query (as of yet) to perform this function.
Essentially I am using VB.NET with Excel and have a mapping between a worksheet and a table in my database. I wrote an import function to pull the data out of excel and put it into SQL Server but I want to try catching errors before i do that.
What is the SQL query to get column sizes from a table. Meaning in a table I have column1 that is allowed a size of int(5). How do i retrieve that information from a query opposed to just looking at it in SQL Server EM??
I have some huge tables (think 200+GB for a single table) which are excellent candidates for sparse columns. The tables have many columns which are defined with decimal datatypes (13,2) with a large percentage of them (over 50% in most cases- some as much as 99%) being 0.00. Since this is very expensive in terms of storage my idea is to set all the 0.00 values equal to NULL then set them as sparse. Across 100 or so identical databases, I have 5 such tables, with 20-40 columns in each table.
1.) three steps for each column in each table in each db.
Step 1: update table to allow for nulls
Step 2: update tabe set column=null where column =0.00
Step 3 update table set sparse columns
2.)
Step 1: Create entirely new table with sparse column definitions
Step 2: copy entire table, transforming 0.00 to null for affected columns via SSIS
Step 3: drop original table, rename new table to original name
I am new to this type of programming and and have read all articles on adding an image to the database and it seems they all use sql queries to add an image but I want to add an image at design time. I am using Visual Basic 2005. I am also using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition to try the same thing. I am trying to build a Translator program for english to Brazilian Portuguese and the reason I want to add the images is so that when I translate the word cat from english to Portuguese, I can also show an image of a cat. Can anyone please help me
Can anyone help me with displaying several table properites at once. I know I can use sp_help 'tablename' to get one at time. What is the best method to get several databases at a time?
Hello. I just started using SQL Server Management Studio Express. I am creating a new table by right-clicking the "Tables" folder and selecting "New Table". Then i hit F4 to bring up the "Properties" (because I want to associate a Schema to the table, but when the "Properties" section appears, it's blank. I can't figure out a way to get anything to appear there. Any ideas? Thanks!...
Query #1:select <list of fields>from Cjoin B on C.b_key = B.b_keyjoin A on B.a_key = A.a_keywhere A.o_key = <some value>Query #2:select <list of fields>from Cwhere b_key in (select b_keyfrom Bwhere a_key in (select a_keyfrom Awhere o_key = <some value>))#1 (and other things with the same general pattern) are used inliterally thousands of places in this one client's system, and ismuch nicer to write, but seems to be rather slower than #2. Isthere any way to tweak the tables to tell the system somethinglike "hey, B, whenever you're joined to A, you should seriouslyconsider waiting for A to be filtered down to a manageable levelfirst"? And similarly for C/B.MS SQL 2000, SP3, 6.5 compat mode. These are set in stone untilwe upgrade the accounting software (highly non-trivial).
I am trying to create a hard copy of all the table definitions in the database and have not found a way to do so. The report would have all the columns for a partcular table and each property assigned to the column. For instance Customers table has CustomerId, FirstName, LastName, Phone, etc. The CustomerId is PK, Identity, Auto Increment, BIGINT, NOT NULL. FirstName is NVARCHAR(30), NULL. LastName is NVARCHAR(30), NULL. Phone is NVARCHAR(20), NULL. Can anyone point me to the right system function or sp to get this info?
I'm kinda new to SQL. I'm trying to get a print out of a specific table and its columns and column types. Is there a specific command or code that I can use to accomplish this?.
Here's a table function that returns a table variable containing various file properties (creation date, size, etc.). The one limitation to remember is that it won't work with files on mapped drives; you have to use the full \<Server><Share><Folder1..Folder n><Filename> syntax. Still, it's a pretty useful thing to have around. :)
/****************************************************************************/ CREATE FUNCTION fnc_GetFileProps
AS BEGIN DECLARE @OLEResult INT DECLARE @FS INT DECLARE @FileID INT DECLARE @Message VARCHAR (8000) DECLARE @ErrorSource VARCHAR (255) DECLARE @ErrorDesc VARCHAR (255) DECLARE @INT INT DECLARE @VARCHAR VARCHAR (1024) DECLARE @DATETIME DATETIME DECLARE @BIGINT BIGINT
-- Create an instance of the file system object EXECUTE @OLEResult = sp_OACreate 'Scripting.FileSystemObject', @FS OUT IF @OLEResult <> 0 BEGIN EXEC sp_OAGetErrorInfo @FS, @ErrorSource OUT, @ErrorDesc OUT
I am using SqlServer 2005 and I have created small sample table with culumns that have Extended properties. FirstName have [First Name] extended propery called M_Caption. Then I created a view from the table to use in an access database. My problem is, I can't get the table column extended properties to show up in the view column extended properties.
Here is the table
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[Person] Script Date: 04/07/2008 14:42:01 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Person]( [Id] [int] NULL, [FirstName] [nvarchar](50) NULL, [LastName] [nvarchar](50) NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Caption', @value=N'First Name' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE',@level1name=N'Person', @level2type=N'COLUMN',@level2name=N'FirstName' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Caption', @value=N'Last Name' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE',@level1name=N'Person', @level2type=N'COLUMN',@level2name=N'LastName'
I created this view
/****** Object: View [dbo].[View_1] Script Date: 04/07/2008 14:50:32 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE VIEW [dbo].[View_1] AS SELECT FirstName, LastName FROM dbo.Person GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_DiagramPane1', @value=N'[0E232FF0-B466-11cf-A24F-00AA00A3EFFF, 1.00] Begin DesignProperties = Begin PaneConfigurations = Begin PaneConfiguration = 0 NumPanes = 4 Configuration = "(H (1[40] 4[20] 2[20] 3) )" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 1 NumPanes = 3 Configuration = "(H (1 [50] 4 [25] 3))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 2 NumPanes = 3 Configuration = "(H (1 [50] 2 [25] 3))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 3 NumPanes = 3 Configuration = "(H (4 [30] 2 [40] 3))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 4 NumPanes = 2 Configuration = "(H (1 [56] 3))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 5 NumPanes = 2 Configuration = "(H (2 [66] 3))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 6 NumPanes = 2 Configuration = "(H (4 [50] 3))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 7 NumPanes = 1 Configuration = "(V (3))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 8 NumPanes = 3 Configuration = "(H (1[56] 4[18] 2) )" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 9 NumPanes = 2 Configuration = "(H (1 [75] 4))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 10 NumPanes = 2 Configuration = "(H (1[66] 2) )" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 11 NumPanes = 2 Configuration = "(H (4 [60] 2))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 12 NumPanes = 1 Configuration = "(H (1) )" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 13 NumPanes = 1 Configuration = "(V (4))" End Begin PaneConfiguration = 14 NumPanes = 1 Configuration = "(V (2))" End ActivePaneConfig = 0 End Begin DiagramPane = Begin Origin = Top = 0 Left = 0 End Begin Tables = Begin Table = "Person" Begin Extent = Top = 6 Left = 38 Bottom = 99 Right = 189 End DisplayFlags = 280 TopColumn = 0 End End End Begin SQLPane = End Begin DataPane = Begin ParameterDefaults = "" End End Begin CriteriaPane = Begin ColumnWidths = 11 Column = 1440 Alias = 900 Table = 1170 Output = 720 Append = 1400 NewValue = 1170 SortType = 1350 SortOrder = 1410 GroupBy = 1350 Filter = 1350 Or = 1350 Or = 1350 Or = 1350 End End End ' , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'VIEW',@level1name=N'View_1' GO EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_DiagramPaneCount', @value=1 , @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'VIEW',@level1name=N'View_1'
Hopefully I am posting this question in the correct forum. I am still learning about SQL 2005. Here is my issue. I have an access db that I archive weekly into and SQL server table. I have used the dst wizard to create an import job and initally that worked fine. field I have as the primary key in the access db cannot be the primary key in the sql table since I archive weekly and that primary key field will be imported several time over. I overcame this initally by not having a primary key in the sql table. This table is strictly for reference. However, now I need to setup a unique field for each of the records in the sql table. What I have done so far is create a recordID field in the sql table that is an int and set as yes to Identify (auotnumber). That worked great and created unique id for all existing records. The problem now is on the import. When I try to import the access table i am getting an error because of the extra field in the sql table, and the error is saying cannot import null value into this field. So... my final question is how can I import the access table into the sql table with one extra field which is the autonumber unique field? Thanks a bunch for any asistance.
I store files in db in sql server 2008 by filestream. But when a column would be added to table which have filestream, properties of table would be changed. by every things change on table, retrieve files will faced to error. but store process work probably.
and filestream filegroup at following address will be empty. why?
Right click on table --> properties --> storage --> filestream filegroup
I'm wondering if there is some sql I can run to check properties on a table. This would be used to verify things like data types, allow nulls and default values have been set to avoid mistakes. This could be done manually one table and one column at a time, but it would be a lot easier to look at it in the results window.
Hello! We are having problems with a single SQL Server where the Server properties will not save, and always revert to the default. It occurs only on those tabs with "configured" and "running" options at the bottom. Other tabs will keep the settings we custom. The big problem is with the memory and processor tabs which even when we've made only a single change and stopped and started the service, reverts back to a default. Any clues - we are logged in as "sa" and have not removed the SA priviledges.
Help;Im New with a company and the sql server ismaxing out the cpu'sWe have 3 web servers load balanced....large volume of datathe current PropertiesComputer:4 amd 2.88 processors4 g MememoryRecomendations of good sql setupmemory, cpu etcThank youmike
If the column names are changed , is there are a easy way to change the referred columns in the SP's. What I am doing is going into each SP and replace the old name with the new name.
Is there no longer a graphic interface for the parameters that are output with sp_configure? There are many options that are settable that are not in the Sql Server Propreties, but these items were in the 6.5 graphic interface through EM ex. number of open objects. Is there a script to save these settings so the installation can be recreated?
DECLARE@Stage TABLE ( RowID INT IDENTITY(0, 1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED, Data VARCHAR(90), Section INT )
INSERT@Stage ( Data ) EXECxp_cmdshell 'ipconfig /all'
DECLARE@Section INT
SET@Section = 0
UPDATE@Stage SET@Section = Section =CASE WHEN ASCII(LEFT(Data, 1)) > 32 THEN @Section + 1 ELSE @Section END
SELECTMAX(CASE WHEN x.minRowID IS NULL THEN NULL ELSE s.Data END) AS Header, MAX(CASE WHEN s.Data LIKE '%Host Name%' THEN RTRIM(SUBSTRING(s.Data, 45, 90)) END) AS HostName, MAX(CASE WHEN s.Data LIKE '%Media State%' THEN RTRIM(SUBSTRING(s.Data, 45, 90)) END) AS MediaState, MAX(CASE WHEN s.Data LIKE '%Description%' THEN RTRIM(SUBSTRING(s.Data, 45, 90)) END) AS [Description], MAX(CASE WHEN s.Data LIKE '%IP Address%' THEN RTRIM(SUBSTRING(s.Data, 45, 90)) END) AS IPaddress, MAX(CASE WHEN s.Data LIKE '%Physical Address%' THEN RTRIM(SUBSTRING(s.Data, 45, 90)) END) AS PhysicalAddress FROM@Stage AS s LEFT JOIN( SELECTMIN(RowID) AS minRowID FROM@Stage GROUP BYSection ) AS x ON x.minRowID = s.RowID WHEREs.Section > 0 GROUP BYs.Section E 12°55'05.25" N 56°04'39.16"
I want to change the filegroup of a table. While we can do this in enterprise mgr, I would like to accomplish this in transact sql. We have a new configuration where the filegroups are located on different disks and to take advantage of that, I want to move the heavily accessed tables onto different groups. Example: table emp needs to be moved from filegroup Primary to file group Secondary. please help...
Its probably easier to draw this problem than describe it, so here goes:
I have a sales forecast table (A,B,C are products [PRODUCT], the dates refer to the month for which the forecast is [FORECAST_DATE], and the integer is the forecast sales qty [FORECAST_QTY])
A 01/03/2004 30 B 01/03/2004 28 C 01/03/2004 24 A 01/04/2004 11 B 01/04/2004 09 C 01/04/2004 41
I need to convert the table into a more sensible format, like this:
(NB ...Dots are just there to help with formatting - basically I'm talking about a field for FORECAST_03_2004, FORECAST_04_2004 etc etc)
Hi- apologies for asking a stupid newbie question, but I'm really stuck atthe moment. I need to change table ownership.I've got an asp script which is looking for a table owned by the dbo role,however the table was created under a different ownership. I understand theproblem, and almost understand the solution, but I can't seem to get all theway.THE PROBLEM (using [server].[database].[owner].[table])[mgbsvr1].[dnn].[dnnadmin].[aspsearch]needs to be[mgbsvr1].[dnn].[dbo].[aspsearch]I looked up the books online and found this syntax:sp_changeobjectowner [ @objname = ] 'object' , [ @newowner = ] 'owner'But I can't see how to use it, nor more importantly, where I should use it.It won't work in the query tool in Enterprise Manager. If I need to create ascript (which I've never done before), how do I execute the script?All help deeply appreciatedManning, Sydney
