I am using SQL Server to return a XML result set. I then perform a XSLT transformation on the returned result set to fill in HTML form text and select elements. The data returned includes the & character. This character correctly transforms, however I believe that the & is negatively impacting my form post (one of the form elements disappears from the posted data). How can I get around this?
View 1 RepliesHow do I get a CDATA section in results when using a SELECT ... FOR XML PATH? (SQL 2005 SP1)
View 8 Replies View RelatedWe have stored some special characters in our database and when we extract as XML Auto, Elements it through error illegal characters during import. I am looking and saw CDATA with Explicit option but don't know how to use it with multi tags like:
<1>
<12>
<23>
<34>
</34>
</23>
</12>
</1>
I have tried both in sql server 2000 and sql server 2005 the following code:
DECLARE @DOC VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @HDOC INT
SET @Doc='<datos><texto><![CDATA[línea átona]]></texto></datos>'
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @HDOC OUTPUT, @DOC
SELECT * FROM OPENXML(@HDOC,'datos',2) WITH (texto nvarchar(50))
I always get an error 6603 in SQL2000 and 6602+8179 in SQL2005, wich means it can't parse the 'í' and 'á' characters, though they are in a CDATA.
I have tried with <,>,@ characters and it works fine.
I have also tried using 'á' and 'í' without CDATA but I get the same message:
DECLARE @DOC VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @HDOC INT
SET @Doc='<datos><texto><línea átona></texto></datos>'
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @HDOC OUTPUT, @DOC
SELECT * FROM OPENXML(@HDOC,'datos',2) WITH (texto nvarchar(50))
Hi,
I am trying to create a XML out of sql 2005 database using FOR XML. I
need to create XML for tables which may contain data having
non-printable ascii characters (1-32 ascii character). I found FOR XML
AUTO failes to genrate this XML, but i can genrate XML using CDATA
section in FOR XML EXPLICIT. As following querie works fine for me.
SELECT
1 AS tag
NULL AS parent,
template_id AS [Emailqueue!1!user_id],
misc1 AS [Emailqueue!1!!cdata]
FROM Emailqueue WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE queue_id = -2147483169
FOR XML EXPLICIT
in above query misc1 column may contain some non printable ascii
characters.
But i need to store this XML data in some sql XML variable as i need to
pass it to store procedure which expects an xml input. While doing
following i gets an error saying "illegal xml character"
DECLARE @XMLMessage XML
SET @XMLMessage = (SELECT
1 AS tag
NULL AS parent,
template_id AS [Emailqueue!1!user_id],
misc1 AS [Emailqueue!1!!cdata]
FROM Emailqueue WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE queue_id = -2147483169
FOR XML EXPLICIT)
I am doing all this exercise for SQL service broker. For which i even
need to process same message using OPENXML on differen database server.
Again which will need well formated XML.
Let me know if something dose'nt make sense
any help is appreciated
Thanks
When I run:select * from testtableI get this error message:Invalid object name 'testtable'.However, if I run:select * from testuser.testtableIt works. I'm logged in as testuser, and testuser is the databaseobject owner and tableowner. This was a restored database from adifferent server in SQL Server 2000. The testuser login was in theprevious database. I created the same login in this new test databaseand made it database owner.I've also tried running: sp_change_users_login 'Update_One','testuser', 'testuser'It completed successfully but I still get:select * from testtableInvalid object name 'testtable'.I've also tried creating a different user and making it database ownerand when I change table object owner to this new user, I still get thesame problem. I need to specify:select * from newtestuser.testtableEven though I'm logged in as newtestuser.I also then tried changing table owner to dbo. This seems to worklogged in as either user, but I want to have the tables owned by theuser not dbo. How can I resolve this?Any help would be appreciated.Erin
View 1 Replies View RelatedI know that anything in a CDATA section will be ignored by an XML parser. Does that hold true for the SSIS XML Source?
I am trying to import a large quantity of movie information and all of the reviews, synopsis, etc are contained in CDATA. example:
<synopsis size="100"><![CDATA[Four vignettes feature thugs in a pool hall, a tormented ex-con, a cop and a gangster.]]></synopsis>
Sounds like a good one, no?
The record gets inserted into the database however it contains a NULL in the field for the synopsis text. I would imagine that the reason for this would fall at the feet of CDATA's nature and that SSIS is ignoring it.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
I'm trying to build a DTSX package that FTP's an XML file to the local file system and then imports it into an existing table.
My "Data Flow" for the package starts with an XML Source component and then goes to Data Conversion component and then to an OLE DB Destination component.
It all executes with out error and seems to work fine, but when I look at the data in the table after I've run the package it seems to have inserted the appropriate number of rows from the XML file but all of the column values are NULL.
All of the data in the XML file is surrounded by <![CDATA[ ]]> and I discovered that if I remove the CDATA wrapper by hand then it inserts the data properly. The only problem is that I'm not in a position to have the data provider remove the CDATA tags and some of the data in the XML file needs the CDATA wrapper or else it will not validate.
Anyone know of anything I can do to get the CDATA to import properly?
Hi All,
I'm using some xslt documents to transform the xml output of my Reports
but have come across two curiosities where the xslt filter seems to
behave unusually.
Firstly, I need the final saved file to have an xml declaration, which
I believe it should do by default. Even if I put
omit-xml-declaration="no" in the xsl:output tag I don't get an xml
declaration. At present we have a custom job that writes these
declarations back into the xml after SRS has saved it.
Secondly and more importantly, I need to have some of my output tags
wrapped in CDATA sections. I've tried using the cdata-section-elements
attribute, again with no luck.
my XSLT looks something like this (simplified for space)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" media-type="text/xml" omit-xml-declaration="no" cdata-section-elements="description"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="Report/table1/Detail_Collection/Detail">
<item>
<description>
<xsl:value-of select="@Description"/>
</description>
</item>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The output is something like:
<item>
<description>My first description text...</description>
</item>
<item>
<description>My seconddescription text...</description>
</item>
What I want is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<item>
<description><![CDATA[My first description text...]]></description>
</item>
<item>
<description><![CDATA[My secondfirst description text...]]></description>
</item>
All help gratefully appreciated.
Thanks - Andrew.
I have a strange problem. I have some code that executes a sql query. If I run the query in SQL server query analyzer, I get a set of data returned for me as expected. This is the query listed on lines 3 and 4. I just manually type it into query analyzer.
Yet when I run the same query in my code, the result set is slightly different because it is missing some data. I am confused as to what is going on here. Basically to examine the sql result set returned, I write it out to an XML file. (See line 16).
Why the data returned is different, I have no idea. Also writing it out to an XML file is the only way I can look at the data. Otherwise looking at it in the debugger is impossible, with the hundreds of tree nodes returned.
If someone is able to help me figure this out, I would appreciate it.
1. public DataSet GetMarketList(string region, string marketRegion)2. {3. string sql = @"SELECT a.RealEstMarket FROM MarketMap a, RegionMap b " + 4."WHERE a.RegionCode = b.RegionCode"; 5. DataSet dsMarketList = new DataSet();6. SqlConnection sqlConn = new SqlConnection(intranetConnStr); 7. SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql,sqlConn);8. sqlConn.Open();9. SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd); 10. try11. {12. adapter.Fill(dsMarketList);
13. String bling = adapter.SelectCommand.CommandText;//BRG 14. dsMarketList.DataSetName="RegionMarket"; 15. dsMarketList.Tables[0].TableName = "MarketList"; 16. dsMarketList.WriteXml(Server.MapPath ("myXMLFile.xml" )); // The data written to 17. myXMLFile.xml is not the same data that is returned when I run the query on line 3&4 18. // from the SQL query 19. } 20. catch(Exception e) 21. { 22. // Handle the exception (Code not shown)
Hello!
Is there an easy way to deal with this situation below when reading in data from a SQL Database:
int? myNullableColumn;myNullableColumn = Convert.ToInt32(datarow["datacolumn"]);
Where, ideally, 'myNullableColumn' would be 'null' if the value was 'DBNull.Value'. This does not work because Convert.ToInt32 will not convert 'DBNull.Value to null', but instead throws an error.
Is there a built in funtion that does do this?
Thanks!
Ok, I have a table with about 47000 records in it. I have the following query for that table:Select ReportType =
Case
When ReportType = 1 Then 'Uniquery Report'
When ReportType = 2 Then 'SABRE Report'
When ReportType = 3 Then 'Menu Report'
Else Null
End,
ReportNameTo_,
Frequency.Frequency as Frequency,
ReportDate,
ReportDescription
From Report
Inner Join Frequency on ( Report.ReportFrequency = Frequency.FID )
Where ( Active = 1 )
And ReportDate = ( Select Max ( ReportDate ) From Report Where ( Active = 1 ) )
And ReportID = ( Select Max ( ReportID ) From Report Where ( Active = 1 ) )
The idea is that i need to get only the last report based off of unique reportname. I added a computer column to the table to give me the ReportNameTo_, since my deliminator is the _. Now my issue is that I have 1 records showing (the last record added to the table), which is right for the query that is written, but wrong for what I want. I need to only return the last record for each unique ReportNameTo_. So as an example, my table has the following ID, ReportNameTo_, Date fields the data looks something like this:
1, 123_, 1/1/20082, 123_, 1/1/20083, 124_, 1/1/20084, 124_, 1/1/20085, 125_, 1/1/20086, 125_, 1/1/20087, 126_, 1/1/20088, 126_, 1/1/2008
I only want to return the following:
2, 123_, 1/1/20084, 124_, 1/1/20086, 125_, 1/1/20088, 126_, 1/1/2008
Hope someone out there can let me know how to do this... I am almost there, just not all the way.
Hello!
Just looking for advise on dealing with duplicates in database.
I have a contact table that have a bunch of duplicated customer records.
My goal is to combine all duplicated records into one record.
This involves couple tables:contact,contact history ,calendar.
All tables related by common column "accountno".
What would be the best approach for this?
Thank you,
Lena
I have the following query in a stored procedure. If there are no rows in the history file, it returns a null. If there some setting or function that would have it return a zero if no rows are found? I use the variable to do arithmetic later on and a null messes everything up.
select@MarketTotal = sum(isnull(MarketValue,0))
fromhistory
whereEmpUID = @EmpUID and
Shares > 0
Thanks,
Ken Nicholson
Hi i have the following :
select agent, name, surname, address, cust1_text01, cust1_text02, phone1,
case call_type_id
*when NULL then ''
else call_type_id
end as 'call_type_id'
from Record_T
* I have also tried when NULL then space(1)
yet the query still returns NULL when this field is empty ?
the idea is to always return data, even if the field is NULL to
replace it with an empty space or spaces.
Hello,
Question 1:
In my senario i've developed a system which utilizes 2 database, i've writen queries like db1.dbo.table1 join db2.dbo.table2 etc... Now that db2 is getting huge, client wants to shift it to another server.
I don't know how to modifiy my queries to cope with such situation. Could somebody plz tell me on how to you write queries involving two databases from different servers.
Question 2:
I'm maintaining second database (db2) to keep track of records of db1 which have been processed by my software, so that when db1 gets added with more records i can compare db2 table with db1 table to identify which records are new.
db1 is not my database and i don't have any control over that, (it's some erp db), is there any way of identifying which rows have been processed. Can the need for db2 be eliminated?
I'm using SQL Server 2005
Thank You,
Sandeep.
hi ive got a inert sub where i grab values from text boxes etxthe values are passed to a stored procedure however , one of these fields is a date field , but the field is not required ...so on this line if the date text box is left blank i get an error , not a valid date .Parameters.Add("@actiondate", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = txtActionDate.Texti have tried ( the actiondate field can take nulls ..)if txtActionDate="" then .Parameters.Add("@actiondate", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = nothing else.Parameters.Add("@actiondate", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = txtActionDate.Textend if but this doesnt workwhat is the best way of allowing blank values to be passed to the stored procedure( it doesnt fall over with normal text / varchar fields ) thanks
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to make a stored procedure in SQLServer Express.The question is related to this stored procedure / transact - sql. I think i am doing something wrong with datetime.Here is the stored procedure.The error i am getting is that:Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 20Syntax error converting datetime from character string. ===================================== DECLARE @websiteID intDECLARE @dateFrom datetimeDECLARE @dateTo datetimeDECLARE @sortbystring varchar (20)set @websiteID = 1set @dateFrom = Convert(datetime, '2007-02-07 12:01:00')set @dateTo = Convert(datetime, '2007-03-07 11:59:00')set @sortbystring = 'Campaign'IF ISNULL(@dateTo, '') = ''begin SET @dateTo = @dateFromendSET @dateTo = DATEADD(d, 1, @dateTo)DECLARE @str CHAR(400)LINE 20: SET @str = 'SELECT dateEntry, c.name as Campaign, e.firstname as FirstName FROM entry e, campaign c WHERE e.campaignID = c.id ' + 'AND c.websiteID = @websiteID' + 'AND (ISNULL(' + @dateFrom + ', '''') = '''' OR e.dateEntry BETWEEN '' + @dateFrom + '' AND '' + @dateTo + '') ' + 'AND e.IP NOT IN (SELECT IP FROM IP) ' + ' ORDER BY dateEntry DESC'print (@str)===============================================
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a stored procedure that takes less than 1 second in sql query analyzer to return my results.
I run this same SP in ASP.NET using a calendar control and using perf monitor I notice that for me from my dev machine my cpu utilization is sometimes over 40%.Is there any tweaks I can do to help decrease CPU utilization.
I'm looking for opinions here:
I have a stored procedure that has one required variable, and two optional variables, like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_tariff_rule
@tariff_id INT,
@start_date DATETIME = NULL,
@end_date DATETIME = NULL
...etc...
I want the procedure to process
1) all data is no dates are presented
2) all data after the start date, if no end date is supplied
3) all data before the end date if no start date is supplied
4) all data between the start and end dates if both are supplied
Now, instead of an elaborate conditional, I added this to the WHERE clause of my SQL statement:
AND ((@start_date IS NULL OR service_date >= @start_date) AND (@end_date IS NULL OR service_date <= @end_date))
It works fine, but I want to know if anyone has a different/better way of doing it, or if there is a big bug waiting to happen here.
I typically don't like to create multipurpose routines in my code, but this is a better approach for my in a non-object-oriented world of SQL.
In SS 2000 it seems that there is no variable data type that can hold more than 8000 characters (varchar) or 4000 unicode characters (nvarchar). I've seen posts where multiple variables are spliced together to extend this limit. I am looking at performing string manipulations in an sproc and I need to be able to deal with the full 2GB/1GB limit of text and ntext field types. Is this possible? How do you deal with that?
View 14 Replies View RelatedHello all. Got bit of a long winded question here...........so here we go lol.
OK.......ive got data on an Excel spreadsheet. Ive set the spreadsheet up as a linked server and i'm creating a set of insert statements from it by using the following code:
SELECT 'INSERT INTO TRAINREC (COURSE_NAME) VALUES ('''+
EMPLOY_REF + ''', '''+
FROM AtriumDD...['Employee Training Records$']
For most records this generates a correct insert statement.........for example:
INSERT INTO TRAINREC (EMPLOY_REF, COURSE_NAME) VALUES ('153', 'NMA Panel');
However.........my problems start when the value for course name is containes an ' character. If it does the insert statement generated is incorrect. For example:
INSERT INTO TRAINREC (EMPLOY_REF, COURSE_NAME) VALUES ('139', 'Annual Accounting in Lloyd's Market');
can anyone suggest any ideas on how to get round this? Also if i havent explained it clearly enough just let me know and i can try and expand on it.
Thanks for reading.
I have a stored procedure as a recordsource from a contacts table. Inthis example, users can enter parameters to limit contacts by firstletter of last name or company name or keywords:Example:@myName nvarchar(30) = null,@Alpha char(1) = nullSELECTContacts.ContactID, ContactType,CASE WHEN Contacts.ContactType = 0THEN Contacts.CompanyNameELSEisNull(Contacts.LastName,'?') + ', ' +isNull(Contacts.FirstName,'?')ENDAS CNAMEFROMContactsWHERE(Keywords Like '%' + @myKeyword + '%' OR @myKeyword is Null)So far, so good, but...The problem is I want to also give the user the option of filteringalphabetically by first letter. I can't figure out how to deal withnulls in this example (user doesn't enter anything as parameter@Alpha):AND(@Alpha = CASE ContactType WHEN 0 THEN Left(LastName,1) ENDOR@Alpha = CASE ContactType WHEN 1 THEN Left(CompanyName,1) END)Any help is appreciated,LQ
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi,
I just realized something. In the old DTS package I am migrating, there is an ActiveX script that checks for a certain condition in a row. If the condition is true, then it does:
DTSTransformationStat_SkipRow
I just can't believe there isn't an equivalent functionality in SSIS.
However, so far, I have tried the following:
1.) Redirect file error output (on all columns in the file)
2.) Use a conditional transform to search for a text string in a column (the "bad" row has different text in it)
And still, I keep getting errors that there is an "impartial row" in the file. Yes, I know that - why doesn't the error redirection catch this? Why doesn't the conditional expression catch it either?
Am I missing something here? Is it just buggy? I find it hard to believe I have to work around something that worked just fine in DTS.
Thanks
What methods work for storing empty dates? I've read that some people pick an old date and use it to represent empty. I'm not fond of the idea, because then I'll have to strip that date whenever I display the field in my UI.
Any other ways to do this? I'm using SQL Server 2005 and C#.
Thanks!
hi,
I'm building a C# database application that access a remote sql 2005 database. For the moment I am using sql express edition. My application will be running in several REMOTE camps which only have an internet connection via sattelite. The sattelite connection has a very high latency. I am wondering what workarounds or solutions are available for this situation. All applications need to access the same database and preferebly be notified when changes take place on the database.
Thanks in advance.
Hi EveryoneVery new to .net and currently dipping my toes in the water with a small application, but getting to the point -
I have a form which has somel text fields that expect a date but which are not a required field so in other words the user can leave them blank.
The code behind page stores the information using a stored procedure which I add parameters to in the following fashion -
SqlParameter userdate = new SqlParameter();userdate .ParameterName = "@dtdate";userdate .SqlDbType = SqlDbType.DateTime;userdate .Direction = ParameterDirection.Input;userdate .Value = dtdate.Text.ToString();cmd.Parameters.Add(userdate);
Now if I leave the text field dtdate blank I receive an error because the above expects a date.
If I remove the line userdate .SqlDbType = SqlDbType.DateTime; I don't recieve an error but my stored procedure saves the date as 01/01/1900 or similar.
I believe this is because in my stored procedure the paramger dtdate is defined as @dtdate datetime
Obviously I want to have it so that if the user leaves the text field empty then no date is saved in the database and was wondering how other people tackle this scenario.
Hello,
I have a question, i loaded 2 files into SQL and the files have some cells that have the same model number.
how can I merge the cells together that have the same model number and (if possible take the avarage of their cell called price)
(and combine their other cell called stock)
and make it into one cell.
Any help would be very very apriciated. Thank you.
i tryed this but it does not work
SELECT Model_number FROM Products
Join Where Model_number='3CM3C1670800B'
I have also Tryed this, IT SHOULD work but I have an error someWhere:
delete from Productsfrom part_number a join
(select part_number, max(part_number) from part_number group by part_number having count(*) > 1) b
on a.part_number = b.part_number and part_number < b.part_number
Hi
post a sample code
create table testNull(
a int not Null,
b varchar(5),
c varchar(5) )
insert into testNull (a,b,c) values(1,'Alex','test')
insert into testNull (a,b) values(2,'Alex2')
1. select * from testNull
-- return 2 rows
2. select * from testNull
where
a <> 3
and
b <> 'C1'
and
c <>'C2'
-- return ONLY 1 ROW !!!
3. select * from testNull
where
a <> 3
and
b <> 'C1'
and
isNull(c,'') <>'C2'
query 2 will retun only 1 row, because value of column c is Null
Question
Is any setting could be changed on db or server level to prevent errors with missing row in 2-nd query , or I have use isNull operator for every column acepting Null as value ?
Hi,
I have a problem with dealing with result sets returned from stored procedures.
I have a procedure like:
CREATE PROCEDURE SampleProcedure
AS
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM SampleTable
END
GO
By executing this stored porocedure is returned result set containing data from SampleTable table. (EXECUTE SampleProcedure)
The returned resultset can be seen in Query Analyzer and can be handled from ADO.NET without any hesitate.
But I can't use this result set from other stored procedure. I tried:
SELECT * FROM (EXEC SampleProcedure)
But there is sintax error in select statement.
Does anybody know, how to store the result set into a teporary table or select it by SELECT statement?
Thanks.
MarF.
If I subtract 14 days from a datetime field, will the time of day that I run this query affect the resultset? I am running the query during "normal business hours", 8 am - 5 pm, and the records are entered during this time frame as well.
ddave
I have run into a problem when searching for a Movie title that is a number (like the movie name 21)
This is an access database and the Movie_Name is a text field
The SQL I am using is
Select * from Movie_Data where Movie_Title = ‘” & Movie_Name & “’”
This works perfectly for everything except when the Movie_Name = a number
Is there a way to make this search work with both characters and numbers?
Hi there,
I am getting a headache trying to research what to do when you have a large number of parameters to include in a query. For example, if I have a large number of checkboxes for the user to pick criteria for a report and they select several, I'm assuming it would be bad practise to say:
WHERE Field = "a" OR Field = "b" OR Field = "c" OR Field = "d" OR Field = "e" OR.....etc etc etc
Is there a good solution for this, given that the number of parameters may vary dramatically depending on what the user selects to include in a report?!
I'm running SQL Server 2000 with an ASP front end.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Matt