How Can I Extend The Number Of Characters In MS SQL For Text Entry?
Oct 27, 2006Using MS Access as a front end and SQL as a back end how can i get past the 4000 character limmit per table?
View 9 RepliesUsing MS Access as a front end and SQL as a back end how can i get past the 4000 character limmit per table?
View 9 RepliesI'm encountering a strange problem in all the applications I'm working on and am totally dumbfounded as to why it's occuring:From a standard web form I'm inserting a record using a stored procedure. (I'm writing this to a SQL 2000 db - where the column types and variables are all consistant) No matter what I do, the columns are padded with extra characters maxing out the field length (if it's nchar or nvarchar or char) after insert or update. I've tried Trim - ing the field.text values that I'm feeding to the @variables used in my stored procedure. I've even RTRIM() - ed the @variables within the stored procedure. No matter what I do I get extra spaces padding the end of the intended column input. Ideas anyone???Thanks in advance. - Abe
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SP4
Howdy all. Im trying to write a query that will track a data modification grouped by employer ID and transaction date. I don't know if Im asking it right so here is what I have, plus my current and desired outputs.
--drop table #foo
create table #foo
(empID int,
transDate datetime,
transType varchar(10))
insert into #foo values(1, '01/01/06 01:01:01','Insert')
insert into #foo values(1, '01/01/06 01:01:02','Update')
insert into #foo values(1, '01/01/06 01:01:03','Delete')
insert into #foo values(2, '01/01/06 01:01:01','Insert')
insert into #foo values(2, '01/01/06 01:01:02','Update')
select f.empID, Change =
(select count(transDate) from #foo f2
where f2.empID = f.empID
group by empID),
f.transDate, f.transType
from #foo f
Current results:
132006-01-01 01:01:01.000Insert
132006-01-01 01:01:02.000Update
132006-01-01 01:01:03.000Delete
222006-01-01 01:01:01.000Insert
222006-01-01 01:01:02.000Update
Desired results:
112006-01-01 01:01:01.000Insert
122006-01-01 01:01:02.000Update
132006-01-01 01:01:03.000Delete
212006-01-01 01:01:01.000Insert
222006-01-01 01:01:02.000Update
TIA, CFR
Hi,
Im a programmer for an university webportal which uses php and msssql.
When an user creates a new entry and his text is too long the entry is cut short and weird characters appear at the end of the entry.
For example:
http://www.ttz.uni-magdeburg.de/scripts/test-messedb/php/index.php?option=show_presse&funktion=presse_show_mitteilung&id=333
How can I set the text limit to unlimited?
Could it be something else?
Is there a way of splitting an entry to several text fields automatically?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me,
Chris
Hi all,
Newbie here, just wanted to get that out of the way first
and foremost.
Im trying to set up a DB in SQL 2000 that allows me to enter
lots of text into a column.
I read one site where it said to use the NTText datatype with a length
of 16. I did that, but everytime I enter alot of text into that column
I get <Long Text> and I dont know how to output that or even
read it.
Do any of you guys know how to either:
1. get the text out of the <long text> or
2. a better way to store that much data.
Thank you in advance!!!
REZ
Hello,
I am developing a message board using ASP on IIS and SQL Server 2000, and I am running into a problem.
When a user enters their post, they enter their user name, subject, and of course all of their post content. Now the post content should be an unlimited number of characters since it could end up being multiple paragraphs.
I know I could just use an ASP file system object and write the text to a file, but I wanted to save all of these paragraphs as a field in a database table so I could pull it from the database so it could be edited by the user.
Is there a way to make a field be able to take in an unlimited amount of characters?
Or is this the wrong way to do things; is it bad to have an unlimited amount of characters in a table field? Should I stick to using the ASP System File Object?
i have a field which is CHAR(20), and it is allowed to only containe number chars.
is there any collation_name can help ? or how can i set the check clause ?
Is there any way to retrieve partial contents of a database column? For example, say a column holds 5,000 characters, but I only wish to retrieve the first 50.
Thanks
Hi,
I was wondering what would be the best way to remove special characters like, '-', '&' '(',')','#','*', etc... from a number string. To be specific a phone Number string where the string is >= 10.
Thanks, Mark
Any one knows for sure if there is any limit on the number of characters/letters that a FLATFILE connection manager can maximally have?
Is the following name (36 letters) valid ?
Code Snippet
<DTS:Property DTS:Name="ObjectName">Load Ready Output Connection Manager</DTS:Property>
I am joining on table A AND Table B ON the accountnumber field. The accountnumber on the tblB has some invisble characters at the end, ie "12344 ". The Table A does not have these invisble chars and is "12344".
Due to the extra spaces at the end, the join fails and does not find a match for that acctno. I have used ltrim(rtrim) hoping that will elimante the extra spaces and find a match.
Heres my qry:
select * from Tbla a
inner join tblb B
on ltrim(rtrim(ACCTNO))=ltrim(rtrim(ACCT))
How do I do this, so that it finds a match and returns the acctno.
Hi,
I am using SQL Server 7.0.
I have a table with one column defined as Varchar(8000).
The table is populated with rows..
However when I do a Select * from the the Table in query analyzer I only see about 200 Characters even though each column has 8000 characters.
How can I increase the number of characters that are diplayed in the Query Analyzer?
Thankx
KP
Can any one help me, i'm building a dynamic database driven site using dreamweaver and MS SQL2000 andi'm haveing problem storing over 8000 characters in a table filed (IE: it wont let me!!) is there a special table field value that i need to set to get more characters in a table field or is this a limitation of SQL.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated
Regards
B
Here's a tricky SQL question that has definitely driven me to the end ofmy rope. I'm using Oracle 9i and I need to perform some simplemultiplication on a field and then display it with a percent sign usingthe COLUMN command. Here's the code thus far:COLUMN price format 9,999.99 HEADING 'Charged%'SELECT pricecharged * .231 as priceFROM VT_examdetailThe output from this reads:Charged%---------23.1034.6534.65....The kicker here is that I need to add a percent sign to the right of theoutput, so that it reads:Charged%---------23.10%34.65%34.65%....I thought I could do this by just adding "|| ('%')" into the SELECTstatement, but when I do this the decimal position defined in the COLUMNcommand is lost. Does anyone know another way around this?Thanks,Alex
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a column that is populated similar to below
[URL] ....
I need to extract just the 12345 portion. This will always appear after the first "=" and always be proceeded by &UL. I know how I can do this separately, which would be like
To get 12345&UL
ltrim(rtrim(
substring(
replace(cast(MyCol as nvarchar(max)),
'=',
replicate(cast(' ' as nvarchar(max)),10000)),
10001, 10000)))
And then I could run an update on the table after doing the above step using something like
SUBSTRING(MyCol,0, CHARINDEX('&',MyCol))
What I'd like to do is to have everything performed in one step, the above 2 SQL statements combined as one statement, so a separate update does not need to be ran.
hi all
does anybody know why the fields of my db with the type "text" can store max. 64 characters? i thought fields of the type "text" could save unlimited characters. is it any wrong setting?i'm using visual web developer with sql server express
Is there a way to have a memo field in a table that is larger than 255 characters? I like to have a memo field of of about 1000 characters of text.
Thanks,
Jim
I have a table of data with lines of various lengths. An example is
A Smith - Give #12345# Sydney City
B Jones and S Jones - Give #876543# Washington
I am trying to work out how to create a new column with just the number between the # symbols. The number would be between 5 and 9 numbers.
I have a large table, tblMessage, which stores e-mail messages in textfields. I need to remove the carriage returns the data in these fields,but I have not yet figured out how to do so.I thought that the way to do this would be with the REPLACE function;unfortunately, of course, the REPLACE function cannot work with TEXTfields. I tried CASTing the text field to VARCHAR(8000); however, someof the rows have more than 8000 characters in the text field, so it bombs.Here is the SQL that I tried:selectmsgID,msgSent,msgFromType,msgFromID,msgSubject,REPLACE (CAST(msgMessage AS varchar(8000)), CHAR(13), '<BR>') ASnewMessage,msgOriginal,attIDinto tblMessageNewfrom tblMessageI'm at my wit's end. Truncating the text field to 8000 character is anacceptable option, but I can't even seem to be able to do that.I'm using SQL Server version 7.
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We have quite a strange problem, we have some SP's in our project which is functioning quite well all these days. Suddenly one day we got an error in the SP stating "Invalid Table Name", when we opened the SP and saw in some places the Tablename was replaced with Junk Characters inside the SP !!!!!!!
For Ex: Inside the SP we have the following SELECT query
"SELECT F1 FROM SampleTable"
the above query is getting replaced with
"SELECT F1 FROM SampleTa?le"
The junk character actually appears like a box!!!.. we were absolutely clueless why this was happening. Then if we change the SP once agin and run it starts to execute but only for a short time and the problem comes back once again. When we went through the SQL logs we got this error repeatedly:
"Error: 17805, Severity: 20, State: 3
Invalid buffer received from clients"
We came to know a little about this problem from kb articles in MS that when you are calling an SP from .Net u should specify the parameter data types explicitly and u should not use SQL Client in Finalise method all which we have not done in the application.
Tha SP was using #Table which we replaced to @Tablevariables but still we got the problem once, we are monitoring with the same Table Variables.
We are using SQL Server 2000 SP4. We have got stuck with this problem for days now . Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Everybody,
I have a table with one column of text data type. This table contains around 1200 records(each row is 60 characters only). My task is, I have to append all these records into a single record(Concatenation of records from other table) to another table.
For that I have created table(destination table) with one column of text datatype. Using the 'UPDATETEXT' function I am able to append 133 records(each row of 60 characters) from the other table into a single row of my destination table. After that I am not able to append my records further. It is giving the following error.
"
Server: Msg 7135, Level 16, State 4, Procedure gene1_proc, Line 26
Deletion length 60 is not in the range of available text, ntext, or image data. The statement has been terminated.
"
Why I have created 'text' instead of char or varchar datatype is, it can accept more than 8000 characters. But here in my case it is not accepting more than 8000 characters. The problem is coming from 134 (133*60 = 7980 characters) records onwards.
Can anybody guide me how to proceed with this?.
tks in advance,
Sam
I'm adding data to a text column, and whenever I have a backslash at the end of a line it disappears. Here's an example:
Code:
INSERT INTO MyTable (TextCol) VALUES ('some text
some more text
yet more text')
The on the first line is fine- the on the 2nd line just disappears. If I add a 2nd backslash on the end of the line, one is inserted. If I add a space to the end of the line, everything works as normal. I can fix this client-side, but before I do I'd really like to know what's going on?
Hello,
I have a select statement that looks like this:
SELECT TOP 10 [Id], [Abstract] FROM NewsArticles
Abstract is a TEXT Column. I'd like to limit it to 50 characters... how would I do that.
Thanks,
-- shawn
We just implemented a full-text index on our product master table,however the users are now screaming because they cannot search on someof the special characters that are commonly found in our productdescriptions, specifically the #, %, and period (.)These characters are not in the Noise file, so no luck in justdeleting them from there, but somehow, the full-text is automaticallyignoring those characters, and we would like for the full-text to notignore these characters.Any insight or help would be appreciated.Thanks
View 1 Replies View RelatedI think this may have been asked for million times... but for some strange reason, i couldn't find anything related about that in this forum......
So, just wondering if there is any way to handle special characters like "&" in full text search ?
like "AT&T" ?
cause when I do a simple select * contains AT&T, it won't return any result ...
thank you in advance.
Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to get sql server NOT to ignore the colon when performing a full text search (CONTAINS) for a string "sometext:". At this moment the query works, only the results are not narrowed to the ones containing the specified colon. I've read about this and I saw that these kind of characters (word breakers and stemmers) are ignored and want to know if there's a way to work around this (obviously performing well - so LIKE fails the test). Thanks
View 2 Replies View RelatedIf I create a row with a nullable text column whose initial value is null and then update the column with a value that is exactly 256 characters long, the value remains null. Once I update the column to any other value (including null), it works as expected. I have not yet seen a way around this.
I am working in 6.5 SP3.
Hi, i have a query that goes like this
select *
from Users
where UserName Like =@Username;
the values for 'UserName' go like this
Adrián
Jesús
Fernández
Güero
all of them have spanish accents. is there a way to make the "like" value to ignore the spanish characters? (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, etc)
That is because the user will not always write "Jesús" they will write "Jesus" or they will not write "Adrián" they will write "Adrian"
so is there any way to tell the SQL Server engine to ignore those characters?
thanks!!!
Hi all,I am quite experimented with SQL Server, but not that much with fulltext indexing. After some successful attempts with english fields, I'vedecided to try it with Japanese characters. I don't know why, but itseems to have a strange behaviour.As in this screenshot(http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/980/jap3xt.gif), the CONTAINSfunction does not seem to return only fields with an exact word matchof the given "word" (query), but also strange results which does noteven correspond to the query. Can anybody help me with that one?Thanks! :)ibiza
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Recently to help improve search times across one of our catalogs we implemented a full text index. So far this has worked wonders and improved our speeds 20 fold!
However recently we hit a snag with certian searches. Our catalog contains parts with descriptions such as 3'x2'. We have taken out single characters and numbers from our noise files, but they don't seem to contain special characters (ie . , " ' / ). So it seems that each one of these characters acts as a work breaker. Is there a way we can structure our search to include these characters, or is there another file to modify to allow these characters?
Currenty our call, simplified, looks like this:
select * from catalog where freetext(description,'3''x2''')
Thanks for the help!
I have the following problem. My SQL Query that i wrote works but the result that is displayed in Query analyzer cuts most of my long text that I want in my result. The long text string is approx about 400 characters and the type is varchar of the field. Any ideas??
SELECT '510', PRODCLASSID
, '1', COMPONENTID,'ENG'+SPACE(2),'#'+SPACE(254),'#'+SPAC E(254),'#'+SPACE(254),'#'+SPACE(99),externalid,
'Desc1' = CASE
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,1,2) = 'MF'
THEN 'Full machine warranty : parts, labour, mileage and others covered at warranty rates applicable at the time of repair. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,1,2) = 'MP'
THEN 'Full machine warranty, parts only : parts covered at warranty rates applicable at the time of repair. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,1,2) = 'PF'
THEN 'Power line warranty : parts, labour, mileage and others covered at warranty rates applicable at the time of repair. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,1,2) = 'PP'
THEN 'Power line warranty, parts only : parts are covered at warranty rates applicable at the time of repair. '
END
+
CASE
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)- 3,4) = '2018'
THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 18 month or 2000 HRS, whichever comes first. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '3024'
THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 24 month or 3000 HRS, whichever comes first. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '4030'
THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 30 month or 4000 HRS, whichever comes first. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '5036'
THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 36 month or 5000 HRS, whichever comes first. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '6042'
THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 42 month or 6000 HRS, whichever comes first. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '8054'
THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 54 month or 8000 HRS, whichever comes first. '
WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '1074'
THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 74 month or 10000 HRS, whichever comes first. '
END
+ 'Flexible warranty is handled according to the procedures described in ESPPM 3-10.'
+
CASE
WHEN prodclassid IN ('P1','P11','P8','P9')
THEN ' (mileage limited to 300 km)'
WHEN prodclassid IN ('P7')
THEN ' (mileage limited to 200 km)'
ELSE NULL
END
+
SPACE(5000 - LEN('Desc1'))
.......
Hi,
I am tryin to run an SSIS package from an Excel Spreadsheet to MS SQL Server 2005.
I receive the error: Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page (full report is below).
I found this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2562259&SiteID=1
and have set the destination column to nvarchar(max), and I have also set the TruncationRowDisposition = RD_IgnoreFailure on the destination column, with no luck.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Operation stopped...
- Initializing Data Flow Task (Success)
- Initializing Connections (Success)
- Setting SQL Command (Success)
- Setting Source Connection (Success)
- Setting Destination Connection (Success)
- Validating (Success)
- Prepare for Execute (Success)
- Pre-execute (Success)
- Executing (Success)
- Copying to [cisense_new].[dbo].[_Details] (Error)
Messages
Error 0xc020901c: Data Flow Task: There was an error with output column "Name" (66) on output "Excel Source Output" (60). The column status returned was: "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.".
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc020902a: Data Flow Task: The "output column "Name" (66)" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output column "Name" (66)" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047038: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRIMEOUTPUTFAILED. The PrimeOutput method on component "Source 1 - owners$" (52) returned error code 0xC020902A. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047021: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "SourceThread1" has exited with error code 0xC0047038. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047039: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADCANCELLED. Thread "WorkThread0" received a shutdown signal and is terminating. The user requested a shutdown, or an error in another thread is causing the pipeline to shutdown. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread was cancelled.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047039: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADCANCELLED. Thread "WorkThread2" received a shutdown signal and is terminating. The user requested a shutdown, or an error in another thread is causing the pipeline to shutdown. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread was cancelled.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047039: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADCANCELLED. Thread "WorkThread1" received a shutdown signal and is terminating. The user requested a shutdown, or an error in another thread is causing the pipeline to shutdown. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread was cancelled.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047021: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "WorkThread2" has exited with error code 0xC0047039. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047021: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047039. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047021: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "WorkThread1" has exited with error code 0xC0047039. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc02020c4: Data Flow Task: The attempt to add a row to the Data Flow task buffer failed with error code 0xC0047020.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047038: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRIMEOUTPUTFAILED. The PrimeOutput method on component "Source 2 - trademarks$" (128) returned error code 0xC02020C4. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047021: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "SourceThread2" has exited with error code 0xC0047038. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc02020c4: Data Flow Task: The attempt to add a row to the Data Flow task buffer failed with error code 0xC0047020.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047038: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRIMEOUTPUTFAILED. The PrimeOutput method on component "Source - details$" (1) returned error code 0xC02020C4. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047021: Data Flow Task: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
- Copying to [cisense_new].[dbo].[_Owners] (Stopped)
- Copying to [cisense_new].[dbo].[_Trademarks] (Stopped)
- Post-execute (Success)
Messages
Information 0x402090df: Data Flow Task: The final commit for the data insertion has started.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Information 0x402090e0: Data Flow Task: The final commit for the data insertion has ended.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Information 0x402090df: Data Flow Task: The final commit for the data insertion has started.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Information 0x402090e0: Data Flow Task: The final commit for the data insertion has ended.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Information 0x402090df: Data Flow Task: The final commit for the data insertion has started.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Information 0x402090e0: Data Flow Task: The final commit for the data insertion has ended.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
- Cleanup (Success)
Messages
Information 0x4004300b: Data Flow Task: "component "Destination - _Details" (26)" wrote 14454 rows.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Information 0x4004300b: Data Flow Task: "component "Destination 1 - _Owners" (92)" wrote 13304 rows.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Information 0x4004300b: Data Flow Task: "component "Destination 2 - _Trademarks" (186)" wrote 10005 rows.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Hi,
I have tried to extract data from Pervasive SQL into MS SQL Server using DTS. Due to the server has been set as Chinese language region, the MS SQL is also set as 'Chines_PRC_CI_AS' by default. After the successful extraction and transfer, I have exported the data out to Excel format. Due to different location, I have copy and transfer the data into another reporting server which is having MS SQL 2005.
When trying to import the data into the server, it prompted an error '[Data Conversion 1 [168]] Error: Data conversion failed while converting column "DESC" (166) to column "Copy of DESC" (187). The conversion returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.". '. After checking and finding, I found it was due to the chinese characters that are contained inside the data files.
I have tried to change the collation setting inside MS SQL 2005 with the same setting as the MS SQL 2000, but it still not working. Please help and advice.
Thank you and cheers.
Best regards,
Francis