For packages that I have created to read Oracle 10g tables, that work fine with debugging in 32-bit mode, I get an error message on all string fields when I try to run in 64-bit mode. An example error message is:[OLE DB Source [1]] Error: Column "ACCT_UNIT" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.Another interesting warning included is:[OLE DB Source [1]] Warning: The external columns for component "OLE DB Source" (1) are out of synchronization with the data source columns. The external column "ACCT_UNIT" needs to be updated.I cannot even try to convert this data with a Data Conversion item because the (red) error is on the OLE DB Source item and stops there. It doesn't matter what the destination is or even if there is a destination in the package yet.I'm using Oracle Provider for OLE DB, Oracle Client version 10.203 for 32-bit and Oracle Client 10.204 for 64-bit.Oracle is 10g on a UNIX 64-bit server and the data is not unicode.I'm using SQL Server Enterprise 2008 (10.0.1600) on Windows Server 2008 Standard SP1 on a 64-bit server.The packages work fine in 32-bit mode and the data is not unicode data. When I change Run64BitRuntime to True in the Debugging Property Page, I get the error on the OLE DB Source item. I also get the error when I schedule a package to run using the SQL Server Agent.
Hi guys, I can't find what is wrong. I am copying a database via DTS and I get an error mid way "Invalid object dbo.fx_get_role_from_ownerid". But the object does exist and it has benn in production for a while now. Why would I get his error, if the object does exist?
I am trying to copy one database to another using copy wizard for SQL Server 2005. The destination database is on another server/box. I get the following errors when executing the SSIS package: "The job failed. The Job was invoked by User abcd. The last step to run was step 1 (abcd_0_Step).".
"Executed as user: BILLSVRSYSTEM. ...ion 9.00.3042.00 for 32-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved. Started: 11:30:55 AM Progress: 2008-05-05 11:30:56.81 Source: crmtest_BILLSVR_Transfer Objects Task Task just started the execution.: 0% complete End Progress Error: 2008-05-05 11:30:57.34 Code: 0x00000000 Source: abcd_abcd_Transfer Objects Task Description: Failed to connect to server crmtest. StackTrace: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ConnectionManager.Connect() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.TransferObjectsTask.TransferObjectsTask.OpenConnection(Server& server, ServerProperty serverProp) InnerException-->Login failed for user 'abcdabcd$'. StackTrace: at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.... The package execution fa... The step failed."
Can this be done? Is there something that needs to be set security wise for this to work?
When copying data to a remote SQL2K5 destination from a SQL2K5 source database, both using mixed sql server security mode, my job generates the following error:
[Transfer SQL Server Objects Task] Error: Execution failed with the following error: "Cannot apply value null to property Login: Value cannot be null..".
This occurs after the destination database tables have been truncated and replacement data from the source would begin to copy.
The same process can be successfully completed from the Management studio with a simple data export process. However, when I run the saved package again from the BI interface, I get this error.
My search engine searches have yielded numerous hits of others having the same problem with one microsoft rep indicating it was a bug and would be resolved in sp1. I am working with sp1. Oddly, there is only mention of this in the forums. No KB article from MS addresses the problem and I do not see it addressed elsewhere at sqlservercentral.
It appears that others have switched to Integrated Security and resolved the problem. However, I do not have that option with a remotely hosted database.
Does anyone have any information concerning this problem?
Hi there.We have an application that can run on a non-unicode or a unicode sqlserverdatabase.Currently the application is running in a unicode database, as anon-unicode database is less than half the size, I would prefer tohave a non-unicode database for demo purposes to be on my laptop, etcetcIs it possible to change a unicode sql server 2000 database into anon-unicode database?And if so, how would I go about doing this?Any help would be greatly appreciated.ThanksRodger
My ssis package exports .xls file data into a sql server table.
The fields in the sql server table have to be nvarchar instead of varchar.
If I use varchar then the ssis package gives an error about converting unicode to non-unicode...
Another ssis package exports .csv data into the sqme sql server table as above.
This time the sql server table fields have to be of type varchar because otherwise the ssis package gives an error about converting non-uniciode to unicode...
I basically would like to have a sql server table with varchar fields and let these packages import into it.
These packages may retrieve data from .csv or .xls.
My ssis package exports .xls file data into a sql server table. The fields in the sql server table have to be nvarchar instead of varchar. If I use varchar then the ssis package gives an error about converting unicode to non-unicode...
Another ssis package exports .csv data into the sqme sql server table as above. This time the sql server table fields have to be of type varchar because otherwise the ssis package gives an error about converting non-uniciode to unicode...
I basically would like to have a sql server table with varchar fields and let these packages import into it. These packages may retrieve data from .csv or .xls.
i have a weird situation here, i tried to load a unicode file with a flat file source component, one of file lines has data like any other line but also contains the character "ÿ" which i can't see or find it and replace it with empty string, the source component parses the line correctly but if there is a data type error in this line, the error output for that line gives me this character "ÿ" instead of the original line.
simply, the error output of flat file source component fail to get the original line when the line contains hidden "ÿ".
In my package , I am used CDC Source transformation and received the Net changes then insert into Destination. But whatever Data coming from CDC source data type Varchar value needs to Converting Non Unicode string to Unicode string SSIS. So used Data conversion transformation to achieved this.  I need to achieve this without data conversion.
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'm connecting to a SQL Server 2005 database using the latest (beta) sql server driver (Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.1 CTP June 2006) from within Java (Rational Application Developer).
The table in SQL Server database has collation Latin1_General_CI_AS and one of the columns is a NVARCHAR with collation Indic_General_90_CI_AS. This should be a Unicode only collation. However when storing for instance the following String:
‚¬_£_ÙÚÜÛùúüû_ÅÆØåæøߣÇçÑñ_¼½¾_ЎўЄєÒ?Ò‘_прÑ?туф_ЂЉЊЋ ... it is saved with ? for all unicode characters as follows (when looking in the database): ‚¬_£_ÙÚÜÛùúüû_ÅÆØåæøߣÇçÑñ_¼½¾_??????_??????_????
The above is not correct, since all unicode characters should still be visible. When inserting the same string directly into the sql server database (without using Java) the result is ok.
Also when trying to retrieve the results again it complains about the following error within Java:
Codepage 0 is not supported by the Java environment.
Hopefully somebody has an answer for this problem. When I alter the collation of the NVARCHAR column to be Latin1_General_CI_AS as well, the data can be stored and retrieved however then of course the unicode specific characters are lost and results into ? So in that case the output is as described above (ie ‚¬_£_ÙÚÜÛùúüû_ÅÆØåæøߣÇçÑñ_¼½¾_??????_??????_????)
We would like to be able to persist and retrieve unicode characters in a SQL Server database using the correct JDBC Driver. We achieved this result already with an Oracle UTF8 database. But we need to be compliant with a SQL Server database as well. Please help.
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?
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 having a strange problem with the Copy Database Wizard. For certain databases, the copy database wizard reports an error, and the Windows event log has the following entry: Event Name: OnError Message: ERROR : errorCode=-1071636471 description=SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Unicode conversion failed". helpFile=dtsmsg.rll helpContext=0 idofInterfaceWithError={8BDFE893-E9D8-4D23-9739-DA807BCDC2AC} StackTrace: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Dts.DtsTransferProvider.ExecuteTransfer() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Transfer.TransferData() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.TransferObjectsTask.TransferObjectsTask.TransferDatabasesUsingSMOTransfer() Operator: KFKIvagodavid Source Name: msdev64___sql2005_Transfer Objects Task Source ID: {A2DBECB6-DFF1-4A10-B99F-B0603464BAE1} Execution ID: {DF2C49EC-68D9-48C1-8A99-CDF5533296C8} Start Time: 2008.05.19. 15:18:13 End Time: 2008.05.19. 15:18:13 Data Code: 0
The environment is following Source server: SQL Server 2000 SP4 32-bit (default instance) running on Windows 2003 64-bit. Target server: SQL Server 2005 SP2 64-bit (named instance) running on Windows 2008 64-bit.
To be able to reproduce the error in the simplest configuration, I just installed the pubs and Northwind sample databases for SQL 2000 (as downloadable from Microsoft) using the Attach method (instead of running the scripts) on the SQL 2000 machine. I started Management Studio 2005 SP2 on the other machine, connected to the SQL 2000 server, and from the right click menu, used Tasks > Copy Database Wizard, using the SMO option, copy everything (including stored procedures and user error messages), and chose execute immediately. For the Northwind database, everything worked fine, however for the pubs database, the error message above was returned. I have no idea how to move forward, a client of mine is having the same problem, but I could not get any closer to the problem.
I currently have a web application connected to a MSSQL 2005 database. We are signing some new clients to our web application who will be using a different language set. So were going have to change the database to Unicode? Anyone have any experience with this, or what are the steps implications involved?
I have a problem with Insert and Update Unicode data to database I can send Unicode data using string with N prefix (Ref 001)
Below I write some line of my SP But It does not write Unicode data to table, it writes like ???????? How to insert data using n prefix with Declared Variable? How can avoid this problem? Any other method to pass unicode data using SP? Please help me...
column UnitName nvarchar
Sample Stored Procedure (SP) SP header:
CREATE PROCEDURE ltrsp_AddEditUnit @UnitID char(4), @UnitName nvarchar(20), @UtrID int
Insert:
INSERT INTO ltrtb_Unit (UnitID,UnitName,UtrID) VALUES (@UnitID,@UnitName,@UtrID)
Update: --- UPDATE ltrtb_Unit SET UnitName=@UnitName, UtrID=@UtrID
WHERE UnitID=@UnitID
Ref 001:
found a method to insert unicode data to table (Using N' prefix), but I want to add using declared variable
INSERT INTO ltrtb_UserLevel (UserLevel,Description) VALUES (1,N'Unicode String') From the URL, http://databases.aspfaq.com/general/why-do-some-sql-strings-have-an-n-prefix.html
But I need to know how to pass the data using stored procedure
I am using SSIS to extract data from one oracle server to another. When i use this SSIS package in another Server, it gives me Unicode conversion error to non unicode for some Columns which are VARCHAR2 type. I have to then used drived column and use conversion, but my question is why this error from i migrate my SSIS package to another server.
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 built a large package and due to database changes (varchar to nvarchar) I need to do a data conversion of all the flat file columns I am bringing in, to a unicode data type. The way I know how to do this is via the data conversion component/task. My question is, I am looking for an easy way to "Do All Columns" and "Map all Columns" without doing every column by hand in both spots.
I need to change all the columns, can I do this in mass? More importantly once I convert all these and connect it to my data source it fails to map converted fields by name. Is there a way when using the data conversion task to still get it to map by name when connecting it to the OLE destination?
I know I can use the wizard to create the base package, but I have already built all the other components, renamed and set the data type and size on all the columns (over 300) and so I don't want to have to re-do all that work. What is the best solution?
In general I would be happy if I could get the post data conversion to map automatically to the source. But because its DataConversion.CustomerID it will not map to CustomerID field on destination. Any suggestions on the best way to do this would save me hours of work...
Adedoyin Akinnurun writes "i have a database that is running using regular ascii characters.. i am trying to migrate this database to support several other languges(globalization). I need ideas on how to migrate this database to UTF 8 . Someone suggested converting all the varchar and char to nvarchar and nchar .. but i have a lot of data on the system and this might take a lot of time.. Any ideas would be appreciated !!!!"
We have recently been looking into creating our SQL Server 2005 database as a unicode database using UTF-8 encoding. However initial search's suggest that SQL Server 2005 does not support the creation of UTF-8 db's and only supports UCS-2. Is this the case? If so then why is it not supported as most other vendors (Oracle, IBM) support it. If it is possible to create a UTF-8 database could you provide some details on how to go about this?
How to maintain Database User Permissions when copying the Database from One SQL Server to another(Either through backups or sp_detach). The reason is the login sid is different in the target server and as a result the database user is not able to map to the login existing in the target server. The only way I can correct this is through dropping and recreating the user's again and assign the permissions, or change the system catalog - sysusers to remap the login to the user in the database. I do not wish to use the sp_addalias as it is available only for backward compatibility. Is there a better way of doing this ?
Hi all,I am using a Strongly Typed DataSet (ASP.NET 2.0) to insert new data into a SQL Server 2000 database, types of some fields in db are nvarchar. All thing work fine except I can not insert unicode data(Vietnamese language) into db.I can't find where to put prefix N. Please help me!!!
I am getting the following error when executing a Copy SQL Server Objects Task. If it helps these objects are User Defined functions and also this had worked in the past it is only after changing the destination server to one that is offsite, has a different OS then the source and also runs as a DC. We are running SQL 2000 Server Standard with Spk 3a on both boxes.
Step 'DTSStep_DTSTransferObjectsTask_6' failed
Step Error Source: Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42S02) Step Error Description:[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'dbo.GetRightsAbbreviations'. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'dbo.GetRights'. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'dbo.GetTerritoryAbbreviations'. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'dbo.GetTerritories'. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'dbo.GetShow'. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'dbo.GetTvEpisodes'. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'dbo.GetTvSegments'. [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'dbo.GetTvSegmentsString'. Step Error code: 800400D0 Step Error Help File:SQLDMO80.hlp Step Error Help Context ID:1131
