way to read data from database already stored as question marks .that because by mistake i insert the data "arabic" from the VS as sqltext but the field in the database is nvarchar now i want to get the data back.
I am having an issue fetching Chinese characters in a XML data type. It return questions mark (?).
Below is the sample script.
DECLARE @XMLVAR XML SET @XMLVAR = '<?xml version="1.0"?> <POLICY_SEARCH xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <NAME>QA*保险1</NAME><NUMBER /></POLICY_SEARCH>'
SELECTI.xmlParam.query('./NAME').value('.','NVARCHAR(25)') NAME ,I.xmlParam.query('./NUMBER').value('.','NVARCHAR(25)') NUMBER FROM@XMLVAR.nodes('POLICY_SEARCH') AS I(xmlParam)
I have a sharepoint content database in sql 2008 R2 (WSS_Content) that is at 230Gb size, but has 40% of it is empty space. This is because we have removed a large amount of old content from sharepoint. The log file is fine. I have 60GB left in my drive that host the database files. I would like to shrink the datafile to get disk space back. I found that under the files property, the WSS_Content data file's initial size is 228702 MB (220 Gb or so).
When i try to do a shrink file (data file) from management studio, i see the 60 GB of drive space keep dropping. So i have to kill the process. what i should do to reduce this data file.
why it keep using up all the free space in the drive when i try to shrink the data file?
I am following the SSIS overview video- URL...I have a flat file that i want to import the contents onto a SQL database.I created a Dataflow task, source file and oledb destination.I am getting the folliwung error -"column "A" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types".in the origin file the data type is coming as string[DT_STR] and in the destination object it is coming as "Unicode string [DT_WSTR]"I used a data conversion object in between, dosent works very well
I have an SSIS package that pulls data from a MYSQL DB (Using RSSBus for Salesforce in SSIS to accomplish this). Most of the columns are loading properly, but I have many columns that I need to convert.
I have been using the Data Conversion dataflow task in SSIS to convert the rows.
I have 2 data conversions that work on most of the columns, but the DESCRIPTION column continues to return an error saying "Cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode types", regardless of what I choose on the Data Conversion task. So, basically I want to dump this column data into a SQL table with NVARCHAR datatypes. Here is what I am doing in my SSIS package...
1) Grab subset of data from SOURCE 2) Converts to TEXTSTREAM. (Data Conversion) 3) Converts to STRING. (Data Conversion) 4) Load Destination table. (OLE DB Destination)
I have also tried to simply convert the values to STRING, but that doesn't work either.
So, I have 2 Data Conversions working here that process most of the data correctly. What I can do to load the DESCRIPTION column?
We have a production 2012 R2 SQL server that is not part of a domain. I have a database called CSSDC. I need to backup this database and make the BAK file available to a user on a different SQL server. Security is a concern. In order for this user to restore the database, they will have to be in the fixed server role sysadmins. I know I am going to have to use the Move with replace for the filegroups for the restore. Once the database is restored it will have to be altered to read-only. I would also like to remove the existing security and only have this new user access the read-only database.
I've had some great headaches with SSIS this morning, which I have managed to get a workarounds for, but I'm not happy with them so I've come to ask for advice.
Basically, I am exporting data from an SQL Server database into an Excel spreadsheet and hitting issues with unicode and non-unicode data types.
For example, I have a column that is char(6) and have added a data conversion step to the data flow, which converts it to type DT_WSTR and then everything works!
However, this seems like a completely un-neccessary step as I should be able to do the conversion in T-SQL - but no matter what I try I keep getting the same problem.
SELECT Cast(employee_number As nvarchar(255)) As [employee_number] FROM employee WHERE forename = 'george'
ErrorValidation error. details: 1 [1123]: Column "employee_number" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
I know I have a solution (read: workaround) but I really don't want to do this everytime!
I have an Excel Source component hooked to an OLE DB Destination component in my SSIS 2005 Data Flow Task. After I mapped the excel columns to the OLE DB table columns i get these errors below. I noticed that for the first error, the Excel Field format (when you mouse over the column name in the mappings section in OLE DB component) is of type [DTWSTR] and the corresponding SQL field from my SQL table that it's mapping to is of type [DT_STR] when mousing over that field in the mappings in the properties of my OLE DB component. All table fields in SQL Server for the table I'm inserting into are of type varchar.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Commission Agency" and "CommissionAgency" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Column "Product" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Officer Code" and "OfficerCode" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Agency Name" and "AgencyName" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Agency Id" and "AgencyID" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Tran Code" and "TranCode" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "User Id" and "UserID" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Destination [27]]: Columns "Acct Number" and "AccountNumber" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: "component "OLE DB Destination" (27)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: One or more component failed validation.
Error at Data Flow Task: There were errors during task validation.
I use Visual Studio's, integration project to load XML file into SQL Server. In the XML file, i have defined collumns as string. When i try to load XML file with parts defined in scheme as string, i get an error "cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data type.
Destinated collumns in SQL are defined as varchar and char.
I have spent countless number of hours trying to solve the issue, but to no vail. My problem is SSIS throws "cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types" when i am try to transform data from DB2 to SQL Server 2005. And please note, i tried all possibilities like changing the destination field which is in SQL Server 2005 to nvarchar and also text. But so far no help. And i also looked at previous posts which did not help me either.
I am reading text file using OPENROWSET command. The read is successful. But the UNICODE characters in the file is not showing properly in the output.I am using a sql like below:
select * FROM OPENROWSET('MICROSOFT.ACE.OLEDB.12.0','Text;Database=ppa20-igloo-fsMODELSTORECR106_GIM_UKGISourceFilesProcess;HDR=Yes;Format=Delimited(|)', 'SELECT * FROM [RUW_P_Reinsurers_Aviva_and_Others_Map.txt]')
how should I read the unicode characters correctly.
Just heard about the coming release of SQL Server 2008. Anyone here got some ideas on what are significant new features in SQL Server 2008 Database Engine compared to SQL Server 2005 Database Engine? Would be very interesting to know that.
I'm in a project to replicate a database from the production environment to another sql server.
The idea is use it for some biggest querys because in the production database we had experimenting various problems. What is the best way for do it? Transactional replication? Log Shipping? I'm reading absolutely everything but I can not get decide.
Both servers are SQL Server 2008 R2 and they are in the same LAN.
I was given a 2 GB XML file without an XSD. I need to find the element names. I know how to do that using openxml but it takes forever on a file this large. Is there a faster way to do it using xquery?
I have a requirement to read a value from table and increment it by 1. There can be multi-threads doing the same operation and would need a ROW LOCK so that read and write both are atomic. How can i put an exclusive lock on the row before I read the value from the table.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblOnboardingSequence]( [OnboardingSequenceID] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL, [Name] [nvarchar](255) NOT NULL, [NextNumber] [bigint] NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_OnboardingSequence] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED( [OnboardingSequenceID] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY] ) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
My Stored Procedure has below logic
DECLARE @NextNumber BIGINT ----------- Acquire row lock here SELECT @NextNumber = NextNumber FROM tblOnboardingSequence WHERE Name = 'TPO' UPDATE tblOnboardingSequence SET NextNumber = @NextNumber + 1 WHERE Name = 'TPO' ----------- Release row lock here
I would like to have a row lock for the row having Name "TPO" before SELECT query and release after UPDATE query. What si the best way to deal with this?
Hi all, we are now planning to upgrade our application from anon-unicode version to a unicode version. The application's backend isa SQL Server 2000 SP3.The concern is, existing business data are stored using collation"Chinese_PRC_CI_AS", i.e. Simplified Chinese. So I thought we need toextract these data out to the new SQL Server which is using Unicode (Iassume it means converting them to nchar, nvarchar type of fields for Idon't enough information from the application side, or is there ageneral unicode collation that will make even char and varchar types tostore data as Unicode?).The problem is what's the best and most efficient way to do this dataconversion?bcp? DTS? or others?thanks a lot
I have a stored procedure that updates a table. I also have an UDF that allows dirty reads (nolock).
What's the precedence level in SQL server? If I add xlock,rowlock to the update statement, will the dirty read wait for the update transaction to commit, or will it perform a dirty read regardless of the locking scheme in the update statement?
We have many users with a mobile application running SQL Mobile and using merge replication to get data back to the SQL 2008 R2 database. This has worked very well for many years.
We now have a requirement to have this data reported on using Reporting Services. This is where it gets messy.
Due to a limitation of Report Builder(see this blog) we cannot provide access to users for creating their own reports. The report database is remote from the host and there is no VPN.
We hit upon the idea of creating an almost identical publication but the articles as read-only. It was only after this was done that we started having trouble with our existing mobile users.
It seems that a published article is EITHER Bi-directional OR Read-only even if they are in separate publications.
I then thought of using Transactional Publication but this too is blocked on creation with "automatic identity range support is useful only for publications that allow updating subscribers"(Merge and Transactional publication are mutually exclusive)
So in the final analysis is there a way for me to have merge replication AND some other form of SQL replication/data transfer that can have the same data transmitted readonly to a separate full SQL server database?
Select p.Id [SenderId], p.Username, up.PhotoId, CASE WHEN mr.ReadDate is null then 1 -- New message ELSE 0 -- Message has been read END AS NewMessage, p.LastLoggedIn, p.LoggedIn
[Code] ....
The above query returns me all messages (inbox functionality) that have been sent to mr.ReceipientId, the issue I have is when I send another email to the recipient the readdate field will be null, and the other emails linked to the recipient which have also been sent via me will have a readdate date. This causes duplicate rows to appear due to the case statement, I'm trying to figure out if / how it is possible to only display the one row per conversation and set newmessage to 1 if there is an un-read message otherwise show 0 ?
I am inserting updating few tables from snapshot and reading same bunch of tables from reporting using readcommitted . It is showing some deadlocks i think it is write in this situation as " x" is not compitable with "s" ,"is".
Length specified in network packet payload did not match number of bytes read; the connection has been closed. Please contact the vendor of the client library. [CLIENT: xxx.xx.xxx.xx]
Client IP address is same as the server its producing the error on. I get these messages around 12pm everyday.
I have Informix 9.4TC6 and SQL Server 2005.DB_LOCALE in Informix DB is en_US.utf8 (en_US.57372).First, I created DSN to Informix. Then tried to get data with WinSqltool and it works fine.But when I created linked server in SQL Server 2005 I have problemswith languages other than English.I get a string like: ' -|工 1/4 1/43/4It seems to me that SQL Server splits 2-byte characters in 2 1-bytecharacters.If in options of linked server we set Collation Name to exactlanguagewe want --then string data will be correct (of course only oflanguage that we choose).Do you have any suggestions?????????P.S. I don't want to use SSIS (DTS) for extraction from Informix DB
I actually am just looking for some supporting documentation on some facets of SQL Server.As far as I have always known, when anyone does a READ from a SQL Server database (SELCT * from <TABLE>), SQL Server does not create a log record...since there's no data or database structure being modified. A colleague is under the impression READ's are logged operations.
I was hoping for some information regarding table triggers. We have databases that are part of an AlwaysOn availability group on SQL Server 2012. Some of the tables have table triggers defined. There are both types of triggers, INSTEAD OF and AFTER INSERT, etc.
From my understanding of how secondary read-only replicas work, I am assuming that these triggers have no impact at all when the database is a read-only secondary replica and they only fire when the database is the primary read-write database.
However, after doing a search on the internet, I have not been able to find a definitive source of information.
I have a column in SQL server which is of type ntext. Selecting the specific column to view it in report builder, an error message appears with the following description:
- Cannot run this report. The grouping expression 'nameofcolumn' returns the datatype binary. The Grouping Expression cannot return binary data.
Report Builder recognises this as if it was an image...