Hi,
Will SQL7 create all databases on C: drive only
from now on?
After SQL7 Beta3 installation I tried to create a new db
but in the 'Browse' window in 'Create DB' procedure
I can see only C: & D: drives (btw D: is CD-ROM).
It doesn't see my E:, F: & G: hard drives.
When I try to create my db using 'create database'
statement it again gives me an error 'path not found'.
Also, I have 512 Mb free on C: drive, but
when I create new db with 100-mb data + 50-mb log
on C: SQL7 says that I don't have enough space for
this db.
Does anybody had the same problem already?
I need to convert my Sybase db into SQL Server7
and got this problem with creating db right in the start.
I would like to make multiples copies of a database. What I used to do in MS-SQL 6.5 was create a backup of the database that I want to make copy from. Create new (empty) databases and restored the backed up database into the new databases. Another way that I used to do is to use the Database Transfer feature in the Enterprise Manager.
I want to do the same thing in MS-SQL 7 (beta 3) but it seems to me that I couldn't do that. First, there is no Database Transfer feature like that in 6.5. Next, I couldn't restore a backed up database to another database.
I know there is the Import/Export utility but it is the last thing I have to use if I don't have any other choice.
I need to move all log files for my SQL 2005 databases to another drive. I don't wish to shrink the files, I need to move the logs to another drive spindle. I did find an article (Article ID: 224071) that describes moving both the database and logs using sp_detach and then sp_attach. What is the best way just to move the logs to another drive on the same server, and that keeps the databases in their original location? Thanks.
I've created a DTS package which exec's perfectly throught the DTS interface, but when I try to run the same package in a Job using DTSRun, I'm getting the following error... #### DTSRun: Loading... DTSRun: Executing... DTSRun OnStart: DTSStep_DTSActiveScriptTask_1 DTSRun OnError: DTSStep_DTSActiveScriptTask_1, Error = -2147220482 (800403FE) Error string: Error Code: 0 Error Source= Microsoft VBScript runtime error Error Description: ActiveX component can't create object: 'CreateObject' Error on Line 15 Error source: Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) Package Help file: sqldts.hlp Help context: 1100
Error Detail Records: Error: -2147220482 (800403FE); Provider Error: 0 (0) Error string: Error Code: 0 Error Source= Microsoft VBScript runtime error Error Description: ActiveX component can't create object: 'CreateObject' Error on Line 15 Error source: Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) Package Help file: sqldts.hlp Help context: 1100 DTSRun OnFinish: DTSStep_DTSActiveScriptTask_1 DTSRun: Package execution complete.
####
The 1st part of the actual ActiveX script within the DTS package is...
I have system database and user database file are present in G,H and W drive.The process is going to be - copy data from G to S, H to T, W to U. Rename G to X, H to Y and W to Z. Rename S to G, T to H and U to W. Reboot the servers. The original G, H and W will then be X, Y and Z. The old S will be the new G, old T will be H and old U will be W. My question is that after doing this whether my SQL server will start or not
In 6.5 , I was NOT able to use mapped network drive for new database device if the MSSQLSERVER service is running under local system account, but if I changed it to using a domain a/c which has the authority to create files on mapped drive, I was able to do it.
But if I tried it in 7.0, it never work and got msg: Server: Msg 5105, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Device activation error. The physical file name 'e:est2.mdf' may be incorrect. Server: Msg 1802, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check previous errors.
Is it something that's normal for 6.5 and 7.0 ???? i.e. we can only create databases on LOCAL drives ? I am just thinking of in case we run of space locally, we can temporarily make use of remote mapped network drive. (say at time of upgrading)
I have a network drive that is mapped as Z: on my local machine. When creating a new database, that drive does not show up in the list of available paths. If I try to hardcode the drive/path info, I get an error message: "The system cannot find the path specified."
When I try to add a (SQL Server 2005 Express Edition) database to my project (I'v tried a windows application and an ASP.NET application) in Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition; It fails with an error like this : "create database failed. some file names listed could not be created (...)" but when I open the project from the real path It works. Is this a bug? Is there any solution? (In many situations there is a need for working with virtual drives. There must be some work around ...)
I need to create a SQL server database and add some tables to it. Then access it with a C# application. The problem is that the new SQL server database and it's tables must reside on an external hard drive. How do I point SQL server to this external drive, so that I can create a database on this drive and then create tables and access data on it?
I have been trying to use openrowset with a shared drive, and even though the share has "full control" permissions granted to "everyone" and the accout that SQL runs under has been granted explicit full control permissions I am unable to open the file which itself has no security on it.
Can I not use a \ path and only use mapped drives?
Thanks
below works...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
below doesn't work...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=\cluster02FileManager5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
I am using Visual Studio 2008 and have created a .mdf database within my project. I want to be able to do a few things and I am not quite sure where to start. The program I am writing manages rental properties. Thus, each rental property that the user owns needs its own sql express database. For this to work:
1. I need to be able to dynamically create a database for each property that the user owns. Is it best to do this as described here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399420.aspx ? Or is it best to have a template database and then make a duplicate of the database using the File.Copy() method.
If it is best to do it programatically as shown in the link above, how do you create relationships between tables?
2. I need to be able to dynamically add users to the database via c# code. How does one do this? Is it possible do through LINQ?
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks
Help me please! I've installed SQL Express 2005 on my XP. I'm trying to create a database but I keep getting the error no matter what I do.
Msg 1802, Level 16, State 4, Server MYCOMPUTERSQLSERV, Line 1 CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors. Msg 5123, Level 16, State 1, Server MYCOMPUTERSQLSERV, Line 1 CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 5(error not found) while attempting to open or create the physical file 'C:Program FilesExos9300DatabaseExos93.mdf'.
Hi, I am a beginner of Reporting Service. I am trying to create a report using multiple databses. For example, I want to create a report called RevenueByCustomer, so I need to get data from the Customer Table of CRM database, which contains customer information, and I also need to get data from Transaction table of Sales database, which contains all the revenue information. In order to get data from both database, I have created two dataset. One is Customer dataset, which get all required customer data from CRM database, and the other is Revenue dataset, which gets data from Sales database, they used seperate datasource (because each datasource only contains one database connection). Now my problem is how can I make them be displayed in one report ? It seems to be like a Master-Detail report, I need to sum up all trasactions for a particular customer and also need to display the customer name with each TotalAmount, but how can I make these two dataset can be merged together or used an extra query to do it?
Please help me, thanks a lot
This Query below is used to calculate the total amount for each customer in Revenue dataset:
SELECT CustomerID, sum(TotalAmount - TotalTaxAmount) AS TotalExcTax, sum(TotalAmount) AS TotalIncTax FROM TransactionMaster WHERE (Updated >= @Start) AND (Updated <= @End) Group By CustomerID
the other one here is used to get customer code and name in Customer dataset:
I seem to be having a number of problems using managment studio (MS) against my locally installed SQL 2005 Standard Edition. E.g. when I create a default database using MS it says...
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio ------------------------------
Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&LinkId=20476
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
------------------------------
The server could not load DCOM. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 7404)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.1399&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=7404&LinkId=20476
However, the hyperlinks are less than helpful. I also get problems doing various maintance work from MS. I don't think its a database engine problem 'cause I can do all the work via TSQL DDL but the interface is so much easier to use (or should be). BTW it's running on XP Pro (firewall problem?).
I seem to be having a number of problems using managment studio (MS) against my locally installed SQL 2005 Standard Edition. E.g. when I create a default database using MS it says...
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio------------------------------ Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&LinkId=20476 ------------------------------ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo) ------------------------------ The server could not load DCOM. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 7404) For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.1399&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=7404&LinkId=20476
However, the hyperlinks are less than helpful. I also get problems doing various maintance work from MS. I don't think its a database engine problem 'cause I can do all the work via TSQL DDL but the interface is so much easier to use (or should be). BTW it's running on XP Pro (firewall problem?).
I am trying to move a log file from one drive to another.
What I have done is add another file to my file group. So now my log has a file on the 'e' drive and one on the 'f' drive. I now want to remove the file on the 'e' drive. I have emptied the file on the 'e' drive. When doing the command:
ALTER DATABASE Uniprodruntime REMOVE FILE m_rk_runtime_log
I get the following error message..
Server: Msg 5020, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The primary data or log file cannot be removed from a database.
I have also gone into enterprise manager and tried to delete the file and it does nothing.
1: TempDB keeps getting filled. Restart of the server has not fixed it. I shrink it, but the space gets filled again. Now I can't even shrink it anymore 2: TempDB is at the wrong location. Its current location is this :C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb
How do I change its location?
C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.SQLPROD6MSSQLDATA empdb Correct location of TempDB should be: TempDB(T:) But its not there
We have two databases with same schema and tables (same table names, basically main DB and a copy of the main DB). following is example of table names from 2 DBs.
CREATE TABLE #SourceDatabase (SourceColumn1 VARCHAR(50)) INSERT INTO #SourceDatabase VALUES('TABLE1') , ('TABLE2'),('TABLE3') , ('TABLE4'),('TABLE5') , ('TABLE6') SELECT * FROM #SourceDatabase DROP TABLE #SourceDatabase CREATE TABLE #ArchiveDatabase (SourceColumn2 VARCHAR(50)) INSERT INTO #ArchiveDatabase VALUES('TABLE1') , ('TABLE2'),('TABLE3') , ('TABLE4'),('TABLE5') , ('TABLE6') SELECT * FROM #ArchiveDatabase DROP TABLE #ArchiveDatabase
We need a T_SQL statement that can create one view for each table from both the databases(assuming both databases have same number of tables and same table names). so that we can run the T_SQL on a thrid database and the third DB has all the views (one view for each table from the 2 DBs). and the name of the view should be same as the tables name. and all 3 DBs are on the same server.
the 2 temp tables are just examples, DBs have around 1700 tables each. so we ned something like following for each table.
CREATE VIEW DBO.TABLE1 AS SELECT * FROM [SourceDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE1] UNION ALL SELECT * FROM [ArchiveDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE1] CREATE VIEW DBO.TABLE2 AS SELECT * FROM [SourceDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE2] UNION ALL SELECT * FROM [ArchiveDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE2] CREATE VIEW DBO.TABLE3 AS SELECT * FROM [SourceDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE3] UNION ALL SELECT * FROM [ArchiveDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE3] CREATE VIEW DBO.TABLE4 AS SELECT * FROM [SourceDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE4] UNION ALL SELECT * FROM [ArchiveDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE4] CREATE VIEW DBO.TABLE5 AS SELECT * FROM [SourceDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE5] UNION ALL SELECT * FROM [ArchiveDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE5] CREATE VIEW DBO.TABLE6 AS SELECT * FROM [SourceDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE6] UNION ALL SELECT * FROM [ArchiveDatabase].[dbo].[TABLE6]
For large databases is it a good idea to create indexes for fields that are used in Where statements? Does that improve performance and reduce overhead?
I need to create a new table on a SQL Server 2005 Database, but the data needed for the table is kept in different databases on different servers.
Half the data is on the SQL 2005 database, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem, but the other half is on a SQL Express database on a different server, is it possible to write a T-SQL query to retrieve this data on the other server?
Normally I use a create table + insert into kind of query to create custom tables but I don't know how to connect to the SQL Express server/database using T-SQL (if it's possible at all?) to do this.
Any tips, hints, ideas very welcome. Please use small words and short sentences.
Being a very novice SQL Server administrator, I need to ask the experts a question.
How do I go about moving a database from 1 drive to another? The source drive (C is local to the server, but the target drive (E is on a Storage Area Network (SAN), although it is still a local drive for the server. I want to move the database from C: to E:. Can someone provide me with instructions?
How can I copy a SQL 7 database from one server to another? Please tell me all the ways because I've tried the obvious and it doesn't work. (backup and restore - won't go from one server to another, DTS transfer object Wizard - does a whole pile of errors and doesn't do stored proceedures and trigures). Thanks for help in advance. Also, what is the email address to post to the listserv and where is the FAQ for SQL7? Most of my listserv's tell you where to post right at the bottom of the digest I get - any chance you guys would do that with this list? Thanks again.
Hi, I am trying to open or create a sqlexpress database within Visual Studio 2005 Professional in the App_Data folder. If I attempt either method, I get the following dialog box:Required Components MissingConnections to SQL Server files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2005 to function properly. Please verify the installation of the component or download from the URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=49251 The link above just takes you to the download page for Sql Server Express 2005. I have both SQL Server 2005 Developer and SQL Server 2005 Expression instances running. The existing database will work properly in my web application, however I cannot access it through Visual Studio.As background, I did have a problem connecting to the database via the web application, receiving a "Failed to generate a User Instance of SQL Server" error. But I was able to fix that by renaming my SQLEXPRESS folder in C:Documents and SettingsuserLocal SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftMicrosoft SQL Server Data. When the web page ran, it created another SQLEXPRESS folder.However, I cannot figure out why I am having the other issue.Thanks in advancePatrick
How to backup half of dbs from a server on C drive and the other half on D drive and vice versa, first half on D drive and other half On C drive using only one job and one stored procedure??
Using scheduling from job add 2 schedules to the job so first schedule backup first half to C and second half to D , the second schedule backup first half to D and second half to D.
I'm trying to create an email report which gives a result of multiple results from multiple databases in a table format bt I'm trying to find out if there is a simple format I can use.Here is what I've done so far but I'm having troble getting into html and also with the database column:
Dear Readers,Is it possible, like in Access, to link to tables in other SQL databases that are on the same server? I have a query that I originally had in Access that queered from multiply databases. It did this by having those other tables in the other databases linked to the database that had the query.
