I just discovered that a bigint column in one of my tables is getting it's values truncated when I run a DTS job to copy the data to another database. The DTS job is designed to refresh our test environments from our production database. All the other tables copy fine. This include another table that also contains a bigint column. But this one table consistenly has a problem where 60 or so records are translated from positive number to negative values. The only explaination I came up with was truncation at some point.
I have a table "abc" with there fields of same data type 'x','y','z'. 'x' is the primary key for the table 'abc', what I supposed to do is to copy the values under field 'y' to field 'z' irrespective of the values already with 'z'.
I'm guessing this is a fairly straight forward need, but want to make sure I am using the correct set of tasks:
In the dataflow, some values I need to carry forward from the previous row, such as a balance that I need to carry forward for the current customer record. This is similar to a running total, only I am not summing anything, but just carrying over from the previous records value (assuming dataset is sorted correctly, first by customer #, then by date).
Do I need the Dervied Column transform, and use a variable to store the previous value, or is there another transform that would be better suited?
I have a table that I would like to add new values to only if those values are not already in the DB.
The table has one Name column which has a unique key, so I only want to insert records if the new value for the name is not already in the database.
I could send everything to a loading table and then delete the duplicate records on that loading table and then copy the remaining records to my final destination, but I think that there should be a cleaner way.
How come no matter what I do SQL server always truncates my dates when they are saved to the database? I save a complete date like 1/1/1900 6:13:42 and no matter what I do it always truncates the seconds off of all my dates, so I always get 1/1/1900 6:13:00. It makes no since because when I save the record the seconds are there, but when I pull it back up they are always gone.
I am using (or trying to) xp_readmail to import email into a table for further processing. I am using the following line to bring the email into a table (this is part of a larger stored procedure):
insert email_import exec master.dbo.xp_readmail
However, the email message is always truncated at 250 characters.
BOL says:
[@message =] 'message' Is the returned body or the actual text of the mail message. message is text, with no default.
I am at a loss here and I really need to get the entire message body into the imprt table so that I can parse the subject line to identify the row in the destination table to update with the email message body. Anybody have any ideas?? Thanks...
The sql database has an ntext (16) field which contains "information" and is used as a free form turnover log. When I bring this data into an ASP page the "information" gets truncated.
I have tried getchunk, however all formatting on the field is lost. I have tried putting the field at the end of my query - no change. I have tried querying the data as a separate sqlrs connection - no change. I have tried using substring to break it down, the first substring works, however I get errors on the second (Expression result length exceeds the maximum. 8000 max, 12000 found).
I also tried to use substring in sql query anaylzer - and only get the first ~4180 characters.
Is there a way to split this field into multiple nvarchar fields in my temporary table in sql and then concatenate back together in asp report???
I am having DTS problem exporting from a table to a text file (my 600 character table column is truncated to 255 characters in the output text file). I don't why this is happining nor how to get the DTS not truncate to 255 characters. Is this a bug? A limitation? How do I get around this problem? .......I am running SQL Server 7 SP1 and database is in 6.5 compatability mode.
I have two fields - both defined as money. When I divide them, SQL Server truncates the result after the 4th decimal point. So SQL Server says: 370.45 / 3,391,517.85 = 0.0001 I want to achieve: 370.45 / 3,391,517.85 = 0.00010922837... etc. The field the result is going into is defined as decimal(20,18)
I've tried using "cast(1stmoneyfield as decimal(20,18)) / cast(2ndmoneyfield as decimal(20,18)) as dividednumber", but SQL Server reports back errors about null values and Arithmetic overflow and terminates.
I'm at a loss as to how to solve the problem. Any suggestions please?
We have an application that uses ASP pages to get data from a SQL 7.0 database. One of the stored procedures that is called brings back a comment field that is a varchar(2000). For some reason, when this SP is called from the ASP page, the field is truncated at 255 characters. If the SP is run in the Query Analyzer, all 2000 characters are brought back (after we reset the default length in QA).
Is there any way for the ASP page to bring back more than 255 characters?
Alex writes "Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Version - SQL server 2000 SQL Enterprise Mgr Version 8.0
I am currently developing a backend SQL db for an ASP website. I am only learning, so quite new to it all & would appreciate some help with the following;
I currently have a form that updates a recordset in my SQL db. This is working fine, except for the fact that when the form loads and the db tries to write the field value into my text box, e.g. Address: 20 Harbour Drive, the field value is truncated at the space and it writes the address as 20 in the text box.
When I view the detail page, no problems, the recordset was updated, but when I go back to the update page, the record values are truncated again as though the ASP page thinks the space is some kind of delimiter?
The size property of my textbox element is the same as the varchar datatype size in the SQL table.
I'm importing from a SQL table that has data fields typed as numeric(18,2) and the OLEDB data source component converts the data to integers (as viewed in the data viewer). I've preceeded the column names with (DT_NUMERIC,18,2) with no results. When the data gets saved to a table with the field typed as money, it appends .00. The truncation of pennies (decimal) results in the diminution of the daily results as much as $1,000. How do I pass the pennies through the OLEDB data source component? Is this truncation by default,or is there something I'm missing in the configuration? thanks.
In t-sql 2012, data is obtained from [Inputtb].lockCombo1 where it is defined as varchar(8). The data is copied to test.dbo.LockCombination.combo where the field is defined as varchar(8). This copies all the data except the last right column.
Basically a value that is '12-34-56' intially from [Inputtb].lockCombo1 ends on in st.dbo.LockCombination.combo looking like
'12-34-5'. In this case the last value of '6' is missing. I have tried to use various string functions to obtain the entire value that should be  '12-34-56' and ends up looking like '12-34-5'.
Here are 2 sqls that I have used and I get the same results:
1. UPDATE LKC SET LKC.combo = lockCombo1 FROM [Inputtb] A JOIN test.dbo.School SCH ON A.schoolnumber = SCH.type and A.schoolnumber = @SchoolNumber JOIN test.dbo.Locker LKR ON SCH.schoolID = LKR.schoolID AND A.lockerNumber =
[Code] ....
I can not change the definition of the columns since these are production settings.
Thus can you should me modified sql that will end up with the entire value of 8 characters in the [Inputtb].lockCombo1 column?
Installed SQL Server 2014 CU1. While testing sp_send_dbmail I noticed the query results, when attached are cut off or truncated. Max file size has been 64k -65k. I set the max file size to 104857600 and set @query_no_truncate = 1.
I can't paste text (directly into table row via enterprise manager) into a varchar (5000) field, truncates after about 960 char. Length of string trying to paste is about 1400 characters including spaces. No special characters (one apostrophe). Error happens intermittently.
As the titel suggests I am having quite a strange problem
I have installed an Enotebook on our domain server at work and it uses MSQL express 2005. When I ask it to automatically connect using window authentication to connect it works on windows XP machines with DomainUSERNAME. However when I try the same thing on Windows vista it tells me the logon failed with "DomainUSERNAM". I change it to SQL Authetifcation and type the same username fully (I have added the user via active directory as a SQL user) then it works
Basically it looks like the windows username is sent from Vista missing the last letter.
I have Googled this a lot and have not really found an answer. Am I mearly being very stupid or is this a known issue. Can anyone give me a suggestion as to why this might happen?.
I created a stored procedure based custom conflict resolver in SQL 2005, I return the winning result set and also save that result set to a test table to compare the values. The values saved to the test table are correct but some of the values saved as the conflict winter are truncated.
Example a char(3) filed is updated at the subscriber as €˜111€™ and updated at the publisher as €˜222€™, in my custom conflict resolver if I use the value from the subscriber the conflict resolver updates the field as €™11 €˜, if I use the publisher value the conflict resolver updates the field as €™22 €˜. Now the same records is saved to the test table correctly as either €˜111€™ or €˜222€™ depending on the logic I used. So the result set has the correct values, its after the custom conflict resolver is called where the values is somehow truncated. Has anybody run into this before and what steps can I take to avoid this.
Hey, quick question here. In my database for my webapp (The one I showed you guys in my previous post), in my stickies table, I am using a column called StickyId for the PK, and it is of type int. My concern is that eventually, I may get to a point with more then 2 million records in the stickies field. I am looking at using the bigint datatype for StickyId instead, but it takes up twice the memory. So I have two questions:1. Can I declare the StickyId column as type int for now, and if my DB ever starts approaching the 2 million mark, access my DB and change it over to a bigint type? Aka, will MS SQL convert the exisiting int values into a bigint and be transparent to the app and the users?2. Does the bigint always use 8 bytes to store its value? Aka does it pad, so that if I stored the value of '1' would that take the same space as if I stored the value '43563636'? Or is it more like varchar, only taking up the space that that particular value needs?Thanks in advance guys!
Hi there! My question is: I use a bigint data type as a primary key in my database, so 1. Can I define bigint autoincrement as unsigned? 2. In case of possible, what type should I use in C# code that equal to bigint unsigned - ulong? 3. In case of impossible, what type should I use in C# code - long? Thanks
i am creating an application which the number of records will be beyond 100000 so i need to set the primary keys to bigint instead of int i need to know about the performance and difference will it affect the performance much and second will i have to change any code like delete,update
SELECT CASE WHEN Member.CuApplicationDocFK = 'NULL' THEN 'Existing' ELSE 'New' END AS MemberType FROM Member
But the problem is Member.CuApplicationDocFK is bigint type. When I run the query it gives a error message saying "error converting data type varchar to bigint.
The documentation seems to suggest that I can store either a signed or unsigned value in bigint. If I want to store an unsigned value how do I go about it?
This select qry runs for abt 20 mins, I think convert to bigint is causing the slowness. Underlying tbl has abt 50000 recs. Pl note that I am runnign this in SQL SERVER 2005, Where it takes abt 20 mins. However when I run this on SQL Server 2000, it takes only 4 mins.
ANy ideas to speed up this qry.
select distinct convert(bigint,c.loannum) as loannum ,c.ampsstatus ,((convert(char(10),c.insdate,110) )) as MaxInsdate from Conversion_AllStatus_History2007 c where ((convert(char(10),c.insdate,110) )) =(select max((convert(char(10),a.insdate,110) )) from Conversion_AllStatus_History2007 a where convert(bigint,a.loannum)=convert(bigint,c.loannum))
How to handle the situation if a primary key (a field set as identity) of type bigint gives an overflow problem?
Is there any way to reuse identities if a primary key field is set as identity from the database settings? (we can do this if we donot set the primary key field as identity from the datbase and handle it from front end)
I have an SQL back-end with and Access front end. A table in my SQL db hasan auto-num field (integer) that has exceded 70000+ entries. I can add nomore to this table unless I convert that field from INT to BIGINT. Ofcourse, Access doesn't seem to know what a BIGINT is... suggestions?
I am attempting to build our first set of packages populating or DW. All of our source system primary keys are bigints (on the main tables at least). SSIS seems to have a problem dealing with bigint values, i.e. having to assign variables as doubles rather than int64, having to cast returning bigint values as float, or bigint sproc output parameters as double. It is all a bit messy (and possibly the most frustrating part of SSIS for me) - does anyone know if this problem is due to be fixed in any forthcoming release?
this is more of a theoretical question and not necessarily for best practice...though if reliable and efficient, i'd use it.
a lot of my sprocs return xml and are then processed in xslt...so when i need to sort by date (in xslt), i pass the datetime to a function that ultimately returns a bigint...it seems to work, but i'm not 100% confident...
can anyone confirm that the resulting integer values can be relied on for sorting?
function return: cast((cast(@dt as binary(8))) as bigint)
small test:
sql Code:
Original - sql Code
declare @i int, @d datetime declare @t table (id int identity, dt datetime, bd binary(8), bi bigint) set @i=1 set @d = getdate() while @i between 1 and 20 begin insert @t(dt, bd, bi) select @d, cast(@d as binary(8)), cast((cast(@d as binary(8))) as bigint)
set @d = dateadd(mi, @i, @d) set @i=@i+1 end
select * from @t order by bi
DECLARE @i int, @d datetimeDECLARE @t TABLE (id int identity, dt datetime, bd BINARY(8), bi bigint) SET @i=1SET @d = getdate()WHILE @i BETWEEN 1 AND 20BEGIN INSERT @t(dt, bd, bi) SELECT @d, CAST(@d AS BINARY(8)), CAST((CAST(@d AS BINARY(8))) AS bigint) SET @d = dateadd(mi, @i, @d) SET @i=@i+1END SELECT *FROM @tORDER BY bi
I am attempting to write a conversion of our product for Compact Edition; we already provide it based on SQL Server. The database interface uses ADO through a Python-win32com adaptor, and has worked fine so far. (Note: *not* ADO.net, just plain old COM)
Now, a curious thing happens. When inserting new data through a Recordset, everything works fine - except for columns defined as bigint. There are no exceptions thrown, but when you read the columns back they contain nothing but zeroes. Do the same to any other column type - I've tried integer, numeric, float, nvarchar and ntext so far, and they all seem to work just fine. It does not seem to be conversion-related either, since I've tested the exact same data to various column types. And using bigint on regular SQL Server works just fine.
The code involved is quite unspectacular, and simply switching the column types to integer would solve the immediate problem, but causes potential future issues since we normally store internal IDs in bigint columns, and the values may grow quite large.
