We have several SQL 6.5 data bases and a few Access Data Bases. We would like to build a data dictionary. Has anyone seen any 3rd party products which might help, or any ideas of how to manipulate the existing objects to do so?
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Can anyone point me in right direction as to how to prepare a DATA DICTIONARY for a
given databse ??.
And what is the usual format of preparing a data dictionary...Any help in this regard is
greatly appreciated.
Thanks
VENU
Hi
can anyone forward me the format to prepare a DATA DICTIONARY For a GIVEN DATABASE. It's Kind off very urgent
Thanks VENU
Hi
I need to document all the tables & the fields of it & the data type , the PK & FK keys & all that
Can anyone suggest the fastest method to get all the data , or some link on how the format should be
Please help
Is there any tool for data dictionary? Basically there are no
descriptions/comments to many of the columns (about 99%) in the database. Datawarehouse team does not know exactly what those columns are, where its used, how its used. No comments have been defined in the system tables. We would like to have a tool where SME's/Bussiness analysts enter the description for the columns in the production database. We have SQL Server databases, many oracle dbs, few sybase databases, ACCESS. Sometimes we might have to search for strings in the descriptions entered.
Hello,I am working on a project to reverse engineer requirements for adatabase. The database is sitting on a MS SQL Server. How would Iget a listing of all tables and columns within each table to helpcreate a data dictionary.I have developed a script in Oracle to do this, but I am just notfamiliar with MS SQL Server synthax.Thanks,Hitesh
View 6 Replies View RelatedI need to build a data dictionary for a SQL 7 DB that already exists that has over 16000 columns. What I really need is to add a comment to the table and column names.We use ERWin and have looked at the Microsoft Repository
but I would like a quick interface to create the descriptions which neither one of these have. I scripted out all the table and column objects into tables and built a simple Access Form to handle the updates. Now I need to
commite these updates to the Microsoft Repository. Has anyone seen or tried something like this?
THanks
I am adding tables to a DB. I want to put table and column descriptions in as I go.
1. Is there a "Description" property for the table? I see in the column properties list a "description".
2. Once I have my descriptions all in, indexes set etc, is there a system stored procedure that I can run that will generate the data dictionay? (With a table description.)
Thanks
I have a data dictionay table with these columns
field_name
field_type
field_size
nulls
#1
#2
#3
column1
char
20
y
1
0
1
column2
char
30
y
1
1
1
column3
int
5
n
0
1
1
How to create a table using the content of the dd table above as the structure of my new table?
cb
In SQL 2k5 every db object say table , table fields etc have extension properties . I plan to populate these extension properties with meta data related information like field description , string length , case conversion , field alignment , enum options etc .
I wish to know if anybody has done, anything like this . Can this properties be easily avaialble in .Net development , reporting services , BIDS etc . Can there be significant advantages wrt this .
I would like to get user experiences .
Hi ,all here,
Would please anyone here give me any guidance and advices for best practice of data dictionary in SQL Server 2005?
I have restored a large insurance claims database with up to more than 300 tables, massively, most of them are empty tables, many of them dont have any keys, contrains, indexes, and more difficult, there is no any data dictionary for the database which gets me stuck in the understanding of the data at the moment. Thus I think data dictionary is very important for a database.
Will anyone gives me advices for that? Really need help.
Thank you very much in advance for any help.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
Hi all
Does somebody know how to get the code of a stored procedure?
I would like to know the name of the view in the data dictionary
which holds the code of the functions or stored procedures ...
Thanks for any help
Best regards
Frank Uray
Hi,
I'm thinking of implementing a rudimentary Data Dictionary for a database using extended properties to store table and column descriptions.
Does having this information for every table and column in a database (200 tables; 2000 columns) cause any (negative) impact on database performance? I'm guessing it shouldn't but want to make sure before implementing this in the production environment.
Thanks,
Smitha
I'm developing a report which contains a number of matrixes which are ordered in a hierarchy which can be navigated using a document map. One of the matrixes contains a subreport containing a table which displays a description for the matrix and the corresponding document map label. This is working without problem already in the production environment.
Recently, after updating my machine with numerous updates and patches, this stopped functioning. I now receive the error message, "The given key was not present in the dictionary" when I run this subreport, either as part of the greater report or on its own.
I have seen the posting which recommends deleting the report.rdl.data files. This did not solve the issue.
The data and the dataset are both in sync. When I click the "Print layout" button when previewing the report in Visual Studio .Net 2005, I can view the data. This looks like a bug in the VS.NET 2005 report designer.
I am running SQL Server 2005 SP2.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards,
Bill Mueller
Is dictionary is faster r hashtable.not only which is going to take less memory
With regards
mahender
I need to sort my data more than just order it using Order by clause.
I need the, to appear so that they are sorted like in dictionary's order.
example: if I have 0.1 and 0.2 and 0.11
They need to be ordered into 0.1 then 0.11. then 2.0. etc.
I thought I could use Val() function but it wasn't a successful attempt. Anyone can help me please?
I'm using ColdFusion and this is one of the query :
<cfparam name="sort" default="goal_cd">
<cfquery name="GetTheme" datasource="#application.OUSDSN#">
Select goal.*,theme.*
From goal,Theme
Where goal_theme_id = theme_id
Order by #sort#
<cfif sort is "goal_cd">
Order by Val(#sort#) <--------------------- This doesn't work!!!
<cfelse>
Order by #sort#
</cfif>
</cfquery>
When I try to preview a SSRS report in VS 2005 I get the following error: "The given key was not present in the dictionary", however when I deploy the report and view it in the Report Manager all is fine. I have not been able to find any useful info in MSDN, what I can try?
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I have a search page that redirects to another page transfering the search terms in a querystring. In the page to display the search results I use SQL parameters to show the results. Everything runs fine until I do a page refresh or use paging to bring up another set of results.
Everytime I try to refresh/page etc. I get the following error:
Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: "@CityTown" Key being added: "@CityTown"
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: "@CityTown" Key being added: "@CityTown"
Source Error:
Line 20:
Line 21: 'Creates parameters for the WHERE statement taking the querystring contents from previous page
Line 22: dsPropertyListing.Parameters.Add("@CityTown", CityTown)
Line 23: dsPropertyListing.Parameters.Add("@Suburb", Suburb)
Line 24: dsPropertyListing.Parameters.Add("@Rooms", Rooms)
Source File: K:detailsdetailspropertylisting.aspx Line: 22
Stack Trace:
[ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: "@CityTown" Key being added: "@CityTown"]
System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add) +931
System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value) +11
ASP.detailspropertylisting_aspx.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in K:detailsdetailspropertylisting.aspx:22
System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e) +0
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +55
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +27
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731
Any sugestions that anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated. This error obviously renders the search features useless.
Thanks in anticipation,
TCM
I currently have a udf written in T-SQL that's getting way too logically complicated!
It€™s typically accessed like this:
SELECT PartNumber,dbo.PartPrice(Manufacturer, Model, AssemblageInfo, Version, CustomerDiscountLevel) FROM WorkOrders where OrderNumber=123456
The udf does some complicated manipulations on the parameters and eventually does a SELECT on a lookup table and returns the result.
If I make this a managed code udf, the logic gets much simpler to write (great!).
But, my question is:
Can I take the lookup table and embed it in the udf--so the udf doesn't have to go to the database to do the lookup?
Would I do that in a STATIC dictionary<>?
Is it wise to keep the info statically?
The lookup table consists of 3600(+/-) elements and changes exactly once a month.
The SELECT statement using the udf typically returns several thousand rows.
The SELECT is done often.
--Mark
We are working on implementing DAX formula(s) on our tabular model (SSAS 2012). When we tried to deploy the solution, deployment wizard giving us then below error:The given key was not present in the dictionary...I checked all the formula(s) that we recently implemented and all looks fine.
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Thank you very much for your kind attention.
I am wondering if it is possible to use SSIS to sample data set to training set and test set directly to my data mining models without saving them somewhere as occupying too much space? Really need guidance for that.
Thank you very much in advance for any help.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
After testing out the application i write on the local pc. I deploy it to the webserver to test it out. I get this error.
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The conversion of a char data type to a
datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.
Notes: all pages that have this error either has a repeater or datagrid which load data when page loading.
At first I thought the problem is with the date, but then I can see
that some other pages that has datagrid ( that has a date field) work
just fine.
anyone having this problem before?? hopefully you guys can help.
Thanks,
I have used both data readers and data adapters(with datasets) in the projects that I have worked on. I am trying to get some clarification on when I should be using which one. I think I am doing this correctly but I want to be sure I am developing good habits.
As the name might suggest, it seems like a datareader is for only reading data. I have read that the data adapter and dataset are for a disconnected architecture. Or, that they can be used for this type of set up. I have been using the data adapter and datasets when writing to a database and the datareader when reading from a database.
Is this how these should be used? Is the data reader the best choice for reading data? Am I doing this the optimal way from a performance stand point?
......................................................thanks in advance
We already integrated different client data to MDS with MS Excel plugin, now we want to push back updated or new added record to source database. is it possible do using MDS? Do we have any background sync process to which automatically sync data to and from subscriber and MDS?
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a requirement to implement CDC for 50+ tables to implement incremental data changes warehouse/reporting rather than exporting the whole table data. The largest table is having more than half a billion records.
The warehouse use a daily copy of OLTP db (daily DB refresh). How can I accomplish this. Is there a downside in implementing CDC just for the sake of taking incremental changes on the tables?
Is there any performance impact if we enable CDC on OLTP db?
Can we make use of the CDC tables on the environment we do daily db refresh so that the queries don't hit OLTP database?
What is the best way to implement CDC to take incremental changes for reporting.
Hi,This is driving me nuts, I have a table that stores notes regarding anoperation in an IMAGE data type field in MS SQL Server 2000.I can read and write no problem using Access using the StrConv function andI can Update the field correctly in T-SQL using:DECLARE @ptrval varbinary(16)SELECT @ptrval = TEXTPTR(BITS_data)FROM mytable_BINARY WHERE ID = 'RB215'WRITETEXT OPERATION_BINARY.BITS @ptrval 'My notes for this operation'However, I just can not seem to be able to convert back to text theinformation once it is stored using T-SQL.My selects keep returning bin data.How to do this! Thanks for your help.SD
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using Script Component to load data into Oracle DB due to the poor performance issue. Now, I found it will missing some data during the transmission. Please see the screenshot below:Â
SQL Server：
Oracle:
DDL:
create table Person
(
BusinessEntityID Integer,
FirstName nvarchar2(50),
MiddleName nvarchar2(50),
LastName nvarchar2(50)
);
Result:
I follow up this article:Â [URL] ....
VB Script:Â
Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Math
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper
[Code] ..........
Hi all, i got this error:
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: "component "Excel Source" (1)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_NEEDSNEWMETADATA".
and also this:
[Excel Source [1]] Warning: The external metadata column collection is out of synchronization with the data source columns. The column "Fiscal Week" needs to be updated in the external metadata column collection. The column "Fiscal Year" needs to be updated in the external metadata column collection. The column "1st level" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "2nd level" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "3rd level" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The "external metadata column "1st Level" (16745)" needs to be removed from the external metadata column collection. The "external metadata column "3rd Level" (16609)" needs to be removed from the external metadata column collection. The "external metadata column "2nd Level" (16272)" needs to be removed from the external metadata column collection.
I tried going data flow->excel connection->advanced editor for excel source-> input and output properties and tried to refresh the columns affected.
It seems that somehow the 3 columns are not read in from the source file?
ans alslo fiscal year, fiscal week is not set up up properly in my data destination?
anyone faced such errors before?
Thanks
When I execute the below stored procedure I get the error that "Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int".
USE [FileSharing]
GO
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[xlaAFSsp_reports] Script Date: 24.07.2015 17:04:10 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
[Code] .....
Msg 8115, Level 16, State 2, Procedure xlaAFSsp_reports, Line 25
Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.
The statement has been terminated.
(1 row(s) affected)
is there a step by step paper to get there? here is what i need to consider. I Iwill have many customers that will need their own set of records and access pages "branded for their company" each customer will have many clients. I am hosting this application on a windows 2003 server with SQL 2005 server enterprise.
I am using windows authentication, I have created a username in windows, then i added the windows user in SQL management studio in security, granted "DB Read" and "DB write" and again under the database security tab. still from the web authentication fails. i must be nissing a step or two?
I expect to set up a username for each database as i setup new customers.
RE: XML Data source .. Expression? Variable? Connection? Error: unable to read the XML data.
I want my XML Data source to be an expression as i will be looping through a directory of xml files.
I don't see the expression property or the connection property??
I tried setting the XMLData property to @[User::filename], but that results in:
Information: 0x40043006 at Load XML Files, DTS.Pipeline: Prepare for Execute phase is beginning.
Error: 0xC02090D0 at Load XML Files, XML Source [108]: The component "XML Source" (108) was unable to read the XML data.
Error: 0xC0047019 at Load XML Files, DTS.Pipeline: component "XML Source" (108) failed the prepare phase and returned error code 0xC02090D0.
Information: 0x4004300B at Load XML Files, DTS.Pipeline: "component "OLE DB Destination" (341)" wrote 0 rows.
Task failed: Load XML Files
Information: 0xC002F30E at Bad, File System Task: File or directory "d:jcpxmlLoadjcp2.xml.bad" was deleted.
Warning: 0x80019002 at Package: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (2) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
SSIS package "Package.dtsx" finished: Failure.
The program '[3312] Package.dtsx: DTS' has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Thanks for any help or information.
I setup this package to import data from a Sharepoint list to a SQL Server data table. The primary key of my SQL table is mapped to the Title column of my Sharepoint list. There is a possibility that duplicate values will be entered in the Title field of the Sharepoint list. So when importing data into my table via SSIS, my package always error-out when there it comes across duplicate values. how you others have managed data integrity when importing from a Sharepoint list with the Title column being mapped to the primary key of a table.
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