We have done a complex software with VB using SQL Server through ADO. Now
our customer is planning to switch from SQL Server to Unix/Aix Oracle 8 DB.
I'm a newbie both in Oracle and Unix and wonder how this will affect our
software. Would changing the connection string be enough (I quess not).
Any help would be appreciated !
Jyrki Hamalainen
Laukaa, Finland
jyrki . hamalainen @ ids . fi
I am currently having issues getting the odbc32ad driver configured properly so I can transfer the database off of the old Oracle 7 database (currently running SCO UNIX). I have the orignal Oracle 7 disk and installed the drivers, but I am not sure what the SA login for Oracle is, nor do I know what the "Connection String" is.
Has anyone made this transfer before? Please help.
First, let me start by saying I know the answer to this, but due to politics any answer I give will be viewed with some disdain and disbelief.
A Unix/Network [rtdpmin one our sister agencies is trying to solve a problem that really does not need to be solved, but ....
The sister agency uses Information Builder's WebFocus on Unix. When they try to read my data warehouse in SQL Server 2000 it times out on them (on their end and they claim they cannot fix it) (This is using the supplied WebFocus ODBC/JDBC driver for SQL Server). This has lead to accusations of us not letting them read the data.
After much gnashing of teeth over "if you do data and data analysis for a living, why do I have to show you how to set-up an ODBC connection" we have shown them how to connect to the data, read it, and transfer it using MS-ACCESS, EXCEL, and more importantly SPSS. This is not good enough because they cannot figure out how to put it into WebFocus.
Their network person has come-up with the brilliant idea of reading the .mdf directly by installing Windows for Unix on the Unix side and then just pointing to the .mdf file and "reading it ".
Unless I have missed something somwhere (I will admit possible), I know you need a driver to read MS-SQL and that driver in every example I have seen could care less about the physical location of the .mdf file. It wants to know what database, what server (ip or name) and what security/login to use.
Could someone give me a more "technical answer" or even Microsoft's party line so I do not have this person mucking around with my production server trying to acomplish the impossible.
I was a Oracle Developer / DBA on Unix Environments all along my career, Very recently iam starting to manage a SQL Server 2005/Windows 2003 Server setup.
Part of my new job is to automate to load Huge Data files/Flat Files (3/4 GB in size) into SQL Server 2005 DB.
Have these initial questions..
Since the files are too large to open at once... What sort of Command Line Interfaces people use on the Windows Boxes.. like doing a "wc" (Word Count) / GREP 'ng Files / Massaging Data Files one line at a time (Like using SED / AWK Commands).. Etc
Any Input / Direction is appreciated...
Hi,Can MS SQL work under UNIX operating system, and can it be installed on IBMAS 400.Thanks very much,Mark
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Can someone tell me where (book or web site or an example) I can go to learn how to be able to connect to a SQL Server database in a unix (in my case Solaris) environment using C/C++. I have been doing database programming using Oracle, Acess on NT with C/C++/ODBC comfortabley. I just need to learn how to go about in a Unix environment.
Wango
Is there anything (other than the JDBC / ODBC) to get access to SQL Server from UNIX?
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Is there any way to transfer a flat file from UNIX to Windows NT through an NT batch script without using FTP (and vice verssa)?
Thanks & Regards,
Raj
Hi
we are in an envireonment where we use unix/linux mostly.. there are a lot of apps that run on this environment(eg coldfusion)now the concern for us is to be able to access the sql database on the NT/win2k boxes..what could be a solution for this are there any drives that any one can suggest for talking from unix to nt??
thanks
sri
I have a date field from a Unix machine (ex. 917478174). I need to convert this date to 1/1/1999.
Any help?
Thanks!
-aw
Is anyone has an experience with choosing
between MS SQL7 (or 6.5) on NT Server box
and Sybase on Unix (UnixWare 2) box to
use this server as WEB server?
Could you tell just a couple of advantages
and disadvantages of each of those systems,
or to point me at the source of useful
for this compare information.
Any help is very appreciated.
Thanks
Hi Folks,
I need to access the MSSQL data in Oracle.
For that i need to first create the data source (ODBC Connection) to the MSSQL server on UNIX. Can anybody help me in creating the ODBC connection.
Thanks,
Amit
Has anyone tried to connect to a SQL Server 2K running on Windows 2000 from a unix machine? If so then could you provide me some help?
Thanks in advance
Is it possible to insert a timestamp into a db if it's in this format?
Sep-04-13 07:13
I don't need it to stay in this format. I just need to know if I can cast it as a unix timestamp somehow & insert or if the manipulation to the datetime fomrat has to happen before inserting.
Hi,Is it possible to connect to SQL Server using trusted connection fromunix? If yes, I'd like to know how.Regards,Thyagu.
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This application working with Oracle, via OCI, and OCCI, (I can use ODBC as well).
I would like replace Oracle with SQL-Sever.
Does there is a way/driver to access MS-SQL Server from Unix?
Hi
Is there a way in T-SQL (Server 2005) to convert unix timestamp to UTC
So want to do this:
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Thanks
I know there are many threads out there for the aforesaid reason.
Do any know how to call ws-ftp or other ftp from ssis? Or any other way to go around SSIS FTP tool?
That will take care of the problem.
We are running SCO Unix 5.0.5. We need a command line sql client that can connect to a MS SQL server running on a windows server. Can someone point me in the right direction? I don't want to write a sql client. I just want a command line sql client binary that is ready to work.
I want to do something like this in a unix shell script:
# sql -s 10.1.2.3 -u username -p password -f sqlcommandsinafile.txt -o sqlresults.txt
Any help would be appreciated....
Dear all,
I am trying to connect Cognos to MSAS 2005 from an UNIX server (AIX). I am getting the following error:
QFS-ERR-0002 Unable to find or load the shared library '/cognos/c8/./bin/libykodp.so' (or one of its dependents) containing the provider 'MSAnalysis2005ODP'.
Is this file libykodp.so part of a SQL Server shared library (.o file) that must be installed on the UNIX server? Any pointers? Many thanks.
Best regards,
Pedro Martins
Hi,
My program is running on UNIX, (SUN, AIX and HP), and work with Oracle.
I would like to use SQL-Server instead of Oracle, but the program must run on UNIX.
Is there is a way/driver to work with SQL-Server from UNIX?
*new in SQL-Server area...
Thanks
Hello !
I am owrking in java developmenton solaris using weblogic6.0
Does any body know how to access sql server data from solaris.
If some body knows that, can you please post me the steps
that i need to do it.
Thanks
Veena
How can i connect to the MS SQL server ruuning on Windows NT from a SOLARIS machine.?
Is there any client software available for this?
Hi all,
I have moved a mysql table to SQL Server and the table had an int datatype storing the value of the Unix timestamp. I want to convert this datatype into a DATETIME type in SQL Server.
Any ideas how I could do it?
Thanks in advance.
Is it possibel to run a DTS job to read a file from unix server?
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select convert(datetime, switchoffset(convert(datetimeoffset, dateadd(second, start_date, '19700101')), datename(TzOffset, sysdatetimeoffset())))
from x
This works great for today (wintertime), but when I query the past, say last week, it will still hold the current offset of my server GMT+1, where it was GMT+2.
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A common problem in moving data between SQL Server and UNIX systems is converting to/from the SQL Server datetime format to the UNIX time format.
There are several UNIX time formats, but the most common is a signed 32-bit integer that represents time as the number of seconds between 1970-01-01 00:00:00 and a given time. The functions in the script can be use to convert between SQL Server datetime and this UNIX time format.
For more information on UNIX Time, please read this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
For more information about SQL Server date/time conversions, refer to this link:
Date/Time Info and Script Links
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64762
The conversion of UNIX Time to SQL Server datetime is fairly trivial using the SQL Server DATEADD function, and this is the logic used by the F_UNIX_TIME_TO_DATETIME function in the script:
declare @UNIX_TIME int
select @UNIX_TIME = 1111111111
-- Using dateadd to add seconds to 1970-01-01
select [Datetime from UNIX Time] = dateadd(ss,@UNIX_TIME,'1970-01-01')
Results:
Datetime from UNIX Time
------------------------------------------------------
2005-03-18 01:58:31.000
(1 row(s) affected)
The conversion of SQL Server datetime to UNIX Time is more complex. SQL Server datetime is accurate to milliseconds so is necessary to either truncate or round off the time to a whole second. The function in the F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME script rounds the time down if milliseconds is less than 500 and up otherwise. A second problem is that UNIX Time is an integer, so it can only represent time from 1901-12-13 20:45:52 through 2038-01-19 03:14:07. The range of SQL Server datetime is 1753-01-01 through 9999-12-31, so the function in the script has logic to return a NULL if the datetime is outside the valid UNIX Time range. Another minor issue is that the SQL Server DATEDIFF function will not cover the full range of an integer value with seconds, so it is necessary to have additional logic in the function do cover the time from 1901-12-13 20:45:52 to 1901-12-14 00:00:00.
The function names created by this script are:
dbo.F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME( @DAY )
dbo.F_UNIX_TIME_TO_DATETIME( @UNIX_TIME )
The script also includes code to test and demo the functions.
if objectproperty(object_id('dbo.F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME'),'IsScalarFunction') = 1
begin drop function dbo.F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME end
go
create function dbo.F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME
( @DAY datetime )
returns int
as
/*
Function: F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME
Finds UNIX time as the difference in seconds between
1970-01-01 00:00:00 and input parameter @DAY after
rounding @DAY to the neareast whoie second.
Valid datetime range is 1901-12-13 20:45:51.500 through
2038-01-19 03:14:07.497. This range is limited to the smallest
through the largest possible integer.
Datetimes outside this range will return null.
*/
begin
declare @wkdt datetime
-- Return null if outside of valid UNIX Time range
if @DAY < '1901-12-13 20:45:51.500' or @DAY > '2038-01-19 03:14:07.497'
return null
-- Round off datetime to nearest whole second
select @wkdt = dateadd(ms,round(datepart(ms,@DAY),-3)-datepart(ms,@DAY),@DAY)
-- If date GE 1901-12-14
if @wkdt >= 712return datediff(ss,25567,@wkdt)
-- Handles time GE '1901-12-13 20:45:52.000 and LT 1901-12-14
return -2147472000-datediff(ss,@wkdt,712)
end
go
if objectproperty(object_id('dbo.F_UNIX_TIME_TO_DATETIME'),'IsScalarFunction') = 1
begin drop function dbo.F_UNIX_TIME_TO_DATETIME end
go
create function dbo.F_UNIX_TIME_TO_DATETIME
( @UNIX_TIME int )
returns datetime
as
/*
Function: F_UNIX_TIME_TO_DATETIME
Converts UNIX time represented as the difference
in seconds between 1970-01-01 00:00:00 to a datetime.
Any valid integer -2,147,483,648 through 2,147,483,647
can be converted to datetime.
*/
begin
return dateadd(ss,@UNIX_TIME,25567)
end
go
go
/*
Demo functions F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME and
F_UNIX_TIME_TO_DATETIME by converting a datetime
to UNIX time and back to datetime.
*/
select
[Input Datetime] = convert(varchar(23),DT,121),
[UNIX Time] = dbo. F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME(a.dt),
[Datetime from UNIX Time] =
-- Convert datetime to UNIX time an back to Datetime
convert(varchar(23),
dbo. F_UNIX_TIME_TO_DATETIME(dbo. F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME(a.dt)),121),
Note = .a.note
from
(
selectDT = getdate(),
Note = 'Current date'
union all
selectDT = dateadd(ms,500,getdate()),
Note = 'Current date + 500 ms'
union all
selectDT = dateadd(ms,750,getdate()),
Note = 'Current date + 750 ms'
union all
selectDT = '1901-12-13 20:45:51.500',
Note = 'Earliest datetime function can convert'
union all
selectDT = '2038-01-19 03:14:07.497',
Note = 'Last datetime function can convert'
union all
selectDT = '2001-09-09 01:46:40',
Note ='UNIX time 1000000000'
union all
selectDT = '2005-03-18 01:58:31',
Note = 'UNIX time 1111111111'
union all
selectDT = '2009-02-13 23:31:30',
Note ='UNIX time 1234567890'
union all
selectDT = '1901-12-14 00:00:00.000',
Note = 'Date time dateadd second limit'
union all
selectDT = '1901-12-13 23:59:59.000',
Note = 'Date time dateadd outside second limit'
union all
selectDT = '1901-12-13 20:45:51.497',
Note = 'Date time function cannot convert - low end'
union all
select
DT = '2038-01-19 03:14:07.500',
Note = 'Date time function cannot convert - high end'
union all
select
DT = '1753-01-01 00:00:00.000',
Note = 'Min Datetime'
union all
select
DT = '9999-12-31 23:59:59.997',
Note = 'Max Datetime'
) a
Results:
Input Datetime UNIX Time Datetime from UNIX Time Note
----------------------- ----------- ----------------------- --------------------------------------------
2006-05-29 23:34:11.517 1148945652 2006-05-29 23:34:12.000 Current date
2006-05-29 23:34:12.017 1148945652 2006-05-29 23:34:12.000 Current date + 500 ms
2006-05-29 23:34:12.267 1148945652 2006-05-29 23:34:12.000 Current date + 750 ms
1901-12-13 20:45:51.500 -2147483648 1901-12-13 20:45:52.000 Earliest datetime function can convert
2038-01-19 03:14:07.497 2147483647 2038-01-19 03:14:07.000 Last datetime function can convert
2001-09-09 01:46:40.000 1000000000 2001-09-09 01:46:40.000 UNIX time 1000000000
2005-03-18 01:58:31.000 1111111111 2005-03-18 01:58:31.000 UNIX time 1111111111
2009-02-13 23:31:30.000 1234567890 2009-02-13 23:31:30.000 UNIX time 1234567890
1901-12-14 00:00:00.000 -2147472000 1901-12-14 00:00:00.000 Date time dateadd second limit
1901-12-13 23:59:59.000 -2147472001 1901-12-13 23:59:59.000 Date time dateadd outside second limit
1901-12-13 20:45:51.497 NULL NULL Date time function cannot convert - low end
2038-01-19 03:14:07.500 NULL NULL Date time function cannot convert - high end
1753-01-01 00:00:00.000 NULL NULL Min Datetime
9999-12-31 23:59:59.997 NULL NULL Max Datetime
(14 row(s) affected)
Edit: Fixed minor bug that caused an overflow, instead of returning NULL, if input to function F_DATETIME_TO_UNIX_TIME was >= 9999-12-31 23:59:59.500.
CODO ERGO SUM
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This is a unix server. I'm able to delete the files using other FTP clients but the FTP client in the SSIS package cannot delete the files. I read on many places on the interent that this is a known MS bug. Let me know if there is some sort of work around for this. I'm using SQL servewr 2005 SSIS packages to accomplish this task..
Thanks
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thanks
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