I am running a trace and one of the columns is start time
I want to import corresponding performance log data in the profiler
It is a new feature in 2005
however this option is disabled in the profiler
this option is at
File -> Import performance Data
Please advice on how to enable this option
thanks in advance
Hi,
We have a poorly performing SQL 2000 db. i have just defragged ( the HD, not indexes, these are done daily via SQL Agent) the data files of our server and have not found any improvement in response.
I have now got into using SQL profiler to analyse the server performance. in the results that the trace is returning there are some huge (REALLY BIG) values for the duration and cpu values but these rows have no textdata value returned (ie it is null)
why is this? for these rows, the reads and writes columns are also high.
if these rows are what is taking the cpu's time then how can i identify what the server is doing to make any changes?
any thoughts on what other values i might trace or what action i can take to find the slow down cause?
in performance manager the processors (dual Xeons) are rarely dropping below 60%.
thanks in advance
fatherjack
Everywhere I read, it states that running SQL Profiler can affect performance of your SQL Server. My question is - how much of an impact will it really make? Will I see a 1% degredation in peformance? 5%? 50%? I haven't been able to find a good answer. We currently have SQL Profiler running all day long for almost 3 years, and the databases are still humming.
Is it the amount of data you are requesting from the trace that affects performance? There are some compliance tools out there (Idera Compliance Manager, IPLocks, etc) that run a profiler trace to get data. There are other DBAs in my organization who don't want to use them because "profiler traces will degrade my SQL Server performance". How true is this really.
Any help I can get would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks.
Greetings,I have been attempting to develop a useful and functional template fordatabase tracing/profiling that will enable me to collect metrics forperformance tuning. The database is used as an OLTP database as well asrunning reports. Below is a list of my trace properties and data columns.I would be interested to see other examples and strategies for the Profiler.thanxPerformanceExecution planSecurityAudit LoginAudit LogoutSessionsExisting ConnectionStored ProceduresRPC: CompletedTSQLSQL:Batch completedDATA COLUMNSEvent classtextdataapplication nameNTUsernameLoginNamesCPUreadwritedurationclient proc idSPIDStarttime
View 3 Replies View RelatedA view named "Viw_Labour_Cost_By_Service_Order_No" has been created and can be run successfully on the server.
I want to import the data which draws from the view to a table using SQL Server Import and Export Wizard.
However, when I run the wizard on the server, it gives me the following error message and stop on the step Setting Source Connection
Operation stopped...
- Initializing Data Flow Task (Success)
- Initializing Connections (Success)
- Setting SQL Command (Success)
- Setting Source Connection (Error)
Messages
Error 0xc020801c: Source - Viw_Labour_Cost_By_Service_Order_No [1]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_CANNOTACQUIRECONNECTIONFROMCONNECTIONMANAGER. The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "SourceConnectionOLEDB" failed with error code 0xC0014019. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the AcquireConnection method call failed.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Exception from HRESULT: 0xC020801C (Microsoft.SqlServer.DTSPipelineWrap)
- Setting Destination Connection (Stopped)
- Validating (Stopped)
- Prepare for Execute (Stopped)
- Pre-execute (Stopped)
- Executing (Stopped)
- Copying to [NAV_CSG].[dbo].[Report_Labour_Cost_By_Service_Order_No] (Stopped)
- Post-execute (Stopped)
Does anyone encounter this problem before and know what is happening?
Thanks for kindly reply.
Best regards,
Calvin Lam
I am attempting to import data from Microsoft Access databases to SQL Server 2000 using the DTS Import/Export Wizard. I have a few errors.
Error at Destination for Row number 1. Errors encountered so far in this task: 1.
Insert error column 152 ('ViewMentalTime', DBTYPE_DBTIMESTAMP), status 6: Data overflow.
Insert error column 150 ('VRptTime', DBTYPE_DBTIMESTAMP), status 6: Data overflow.
Insert error column 147 ('ViewAppTime', DBTYPE_DBTIMESTAMP), status 6: Data overflow.
Insert error column 144 ('VPreTime', DBTYPE_DBTIMESTAMP), status 6: Data overflow.
Insert error column 15 ('Time', DBTYPE_DBTIMESTAMP), status 6: Data overflow.
Invalid character value for cast specification.
Invalid character value for cast specification.
Invalid character value for cast specification.
Invalid character value for cast specification.
Invalid character value for cast specification.
Could you please look into this and guide me
Thanks in advance
venkatesh
imtesh@gmail.com
Hi there,
I have a question regarding 2 approaches importing data from a flat text file. I'm taking the approach suggested by Phil Brammer to use a checksum to see whether a row has exists, and if it does check whether it has changed.
http://www.ssistalk.com/2007/03/09/ssis-using-a-checksum-to-determine-if-a-row-has-changed
I would like to hear some opinions on 2 approaches:
1) Importing the data int a temp table first then do the data processing from the temp table.
Or
2) Importing the data by doing the data processing direcly from the text file without placing it in a temp table first.
A hunch told me that it will be faster doing approach 1 but I would like to hear some experienced opinions first
Best regards
Mike
Hi, am trying to analyze output of profiler
I execute sp_sp_alex
Profiler results
CPU = 108
READ = 0
WRITE = 109
DURATION = 1709
code from sp_alex
step 1
read data from table A into cursor
(500 rows)
step 2
fetch cursor and if values in cursor do not exixts in table B(has 1000000 rows) then insert cursor data into table B
How I undestand result provided by profiler
CPU = 108 good or bad ?
READ = 0 good ,took no time read data ,all indexes in place
WRITE = 109 mmm.... something really wrong with writing to disks , why it took so long to insert 500 records
DURATION = 1709 good or bad ?
How would you read profiler results ?
Thank you
Alex
I'm built a trace in SQL Profiler and I have selected columns "DatabaseName" and "Filename" (among others) to be displayed. When I run the trace, the columns are displayed but the values are blank. The SQLServer 2K version is 8.0.760. Is this a bug or am I missing something?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI run Profiler against my production Db to keep an eye on poorly performing t-SQL batches and SPs. There's an "Error" column in the profiler output. According to BOL (topic:Describing Events by Using Data Columns), Error = The error number of a given event. Often this is the error number stored in sysmessages.
The profiler output usually shows "0 - OK" in the error column. But it sometimes shows "1 - Error" or "2 - Abort" in this column. What do these error messages mean? I've looked around but haven't been able to find anything more detailed about what these two messages mean and how I can perhaps dig deeper to figure out what's going on. (When these values are displayed, CPU is usually taking a beating and the SPID runs this for at least 30 seconds before displaying information pertaining to this SPID).
Thanks much,
Smitha
Hello:
I am not sure how to implement the following, but I believe it entails using DTS, and hopefully it is fine that I post it here b/c ultimately I will need this backend data for my frontend .aspx pages:
On a weekly basis, I need to IMPORT some data located on a remote Oracle DB into SQL Server 2k. Since there is so much data to transfer, I would only like to transfer the data that is new to the table since the last IMPORT, i.e. a week ago and leave behin the OLD data.
Is DTS the correct way to go or do I have more control via DTS with STORED PROCEDURES? Does anyone have any good references for me?
On a similar note, once this Oracle data is IMPORTED into a certain table, I would like to EXPORT some of these NEWLY acquired rows matching certain criteria into another table for auditing purposes. For this scenario, should I implement a TRIGGER UPDATE event here on the first table?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
Hello,
i want to import data from an excel sheet into a database. While reading from the excel sheet OleDb automatically guesses the Datatype of each column. My Problem is the first A Column which contains ~240 Lines. 210 Lines are Numbers, the latter 30 do contain strings. When i use this code:
Code BlockDim sConn As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & conf_path_current & file_to_import & ";Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=NO"""
Dim oConn As New OleDb.OleDbConnection(sConn)
Dim cmd1 As New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand("Select * From [Table$]", oConn)
Dim rdr As OleDb.OleDbDataReader = cmd1.ExecuteReader
Do While rdr.Read()
Console.WriteLine(rdr.Item(0)) 'or rdr(0).ToString
Next
it will continue to read the stuff till the String-Lines are coming.
when using Item(0), it just crashes for trying to convert a DBNull to a String, when using rdr(0).ToString() it just gives me no value.
So my question is how to tell OleDB that i want that column to be completly read as String/Varchar?
Thanks for Reading
- Pierre from Berlin
[seems i got redirected into the wrong forum, please move into the correct one]
I'm moving data between identical tables and have to use a flat file as an intermediary. I thought: "No problem, SSIS can do a quick export to a file, then move the file to another server, then use SSIS to import the data to the new server."
Seems simple, right?
I'm hitting all sorts of surprising data conversion errors. I used the export wizard to create the export package. This works fine. However using the same flat file definition, the import package fails -- even when I have no destination. That is I have just one data flow task that contains only one control: the Flat File source. When I run the package the flat file definition fails with data type conversion and truncation errors. One of the obvious errors is for boolean types. The SQL field is a bit, SSIS defined the column as DT_BOOL, the output of the data are literal text values "TRUE" and "FALSE". So SSIS converts a sql datatype of bit to "TRUE" and "FALSE" on export, but can't make the reverse conversion on import?
Does anyone else find this surprising? I would expect that what SSIS exports, it can import given all the same table and flat file definitions. Is SSIS the wrong tool to do such simple bulk copies? I'd like to avoid using BCP because this process will need to run automatically within SQL Agent so we can leverage all the error tracking and system monitoring.
I need to periodically import a (HUGE) table of data from an external data source (not SQL Server) into SQL Server, with the following scenarios:
Some of the records in the external data source may not exist in SQL.Some of the records in the external data source may have a different value at different imports, but this records are identified univocally by the same primary key in the external datasource and in SQL Server.Some of the records in the external data source may be the same in SQL.
Due to the massive volume of the import, I would like to import only the records which are different from what I have in SQL Server (cases 1 and 2 above). In fact case 2 is the most critical.
I thought of making a query with a left outer join between the data in the external data source table (SOURCE) and the data in the SQL Server table (DESTIN). The join is done on the respective primary keys (composed keys of up to 10 columns) and one of the WHERE conditions will be that the value in SOURCE is different from the value in DESTIN.
The result of this query would be exactly what I need to import.
How to do this in SSIS??? I couldn't figure out how to join tables in different data sources yet.
In fact I cannot write a stored procedure to do that, since one of the sources is in a datasources not SQL Server.
I have seen the Lookup transformation in this article http://www.sqlis.com/default.aspx?311 but this is not exacltly what I want to do.
Another possibility is to use the merge join, but due to the sorting I believe its performances would be terrible!
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Hi all,
It looks like these options are only available in the SQL Server Management Studio? I installed SQL Server Management Express Studio and I can't even find the DTSWizard.exe on my machine.
Can you please help how I can import data from excel or where can I download the SQL Server Management Studio?
Your prompt response is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!
Tram
I have one column in SQL Server 2005 of data type VARCHAR(4000).
I have imported sql Server 2005 database data into one mdb file.After importing a data into the mdb file, above column
data type converted into the memo type in the Access database.
now when I am trying to import a data from this MS Access File(db1.mdb) into the another SQL Server 2005 database, got the error of Unicode Converting a memo data type conversion in Export/Import data wizard.
Could you please let me know what is the reason?
I know that memo data type does not supported into the SQl Server 2005.
I am with SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition with SP2.
Please help me to understans this issue correctly?
I am trying to import data from an excel Sheet to SQL Database using OPENROWSET. After import I found that all the cells containing data of more than 2000 length got truncated to  255 characters only. I tried finding the solution and found that We need to have the data with length more than 255 in first 8 rows of Excel sheet. It worked for me also. But In real scenario the data that I cant do the manual work on excel. I tried out with Dot Net utility and SSIS package also but the truncation is still the issue.
INSERT into tmp_Test
SELECT
*
FROM
OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0','Excel
12.0;Database=D:Book1.xlsx', [Sheet1$])
I have data for online catalogue in SQL 7.0. The web grogrammer asked me to add a unique key for reference. I used int datatype with identity seed of 1 and increment of 1. This works fine BUT when I try to import new data I get an error because the csv file has no column and therefore no value for the unique field which will not allow null by definition.
How can I maintain a unique field to act as primary key in my data when
I want to add (and delete) data that doesn't have this field.
I tried adding the uniqueidentifier field but this gives error message.
The only work round is to delete the unigue field altogether and then add the new data and afterwards create a new unique field. At 600000 + lines of data, this is time and memory consuming
Any help appreciated,Thanks, Keith
Hello
Looks like I'am the first one to pop this forum!
But I'am a forward guy so lets get to the problem.
A problem with my replication system as occured.
I have a working SQL server that can do replication trough internet, everyting works
The problem is when I try to import large amount of data (10000 rows) to my database on the SQL server
the subscriber on my client don't get the rows. That will say imported data is not being replicated.
only rows that i have manually inserted will be replicated.
I used the import wizard that came with SQL server.
Is there a solution to this problem?
Hello all, I am using the Import Wizard to pull in data from an Excel spreadsheet. One column in particular SQL Server sees as a float data type but it contains varchar data. So I change this in the wizard but some of these values are missing when I select * from Sheet1$ in SQL Server 2005. Any ideas why this would happen? I have formatted the particular column as text in Excel.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHello
A problem with my replication system as occured.
I have a working SQL server that can do replication trough internet, everyting works
The problem is when I try to import large amount of data (10000 rows) to my database on the SQL server
the subscriber on my client don't get the rows. That will say imported data is not being replicated.
only rows that i have manually inserted will be replicated.
I used the import wizard that came with SQL server.
Is there a solution to this problem?
I need to import data from a SQL Server (2000) to a SQL Server (2005 Express).I need some data only, and the database structure is different between the 2 databases.How should I do that? What's the best practice?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi!
There are various ways to import data in the sql server enterprise, but i want to import data through code, if it is possible, please help me..
I'm trying to import data into an SQL Server (7.0) and I'm wondering which Source (Microsoft Data Link, Microsoft ODBC Driver for Oracle, Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server, etc.) -- I THINK we would use the SQL Server driver but I'm not sure... to use and where to go from there? So far, I get seem to get things to work in my favor. I appreciate any help :)
View 2 Replies View RelatedWorking with SQL 7.
I wanted to upsize an Access 97 database (serves as backend of db app so contains tables only) to SQL 7. I used Import Data from Data Transformation Services from the Tools menu. The import procedure worked well except it stashed the tables in the Master db. That's probably because I didn't create a new db to import them into.
How to recover from this is my question. It is a new install of SQL 7.
Thanks
Juan
Hi!I am using SQL Server 7.0.My query goes as follows
There are two tables Table1 and Table2 both of which have a column companykey
which have PK and FK relationship
I have imported data from a *.CSV file into Table2
Table2 has many to one relationship with Table1 in the sense for each company in Table1 there can be more than 1 employees in Table2
Now I want to insert only the value of column CompanyKey from Table2 to Table1 and also some other columns values like employeekey from Table2 to regiskey column in Table1.
Now how do I do this???
I need this very urgently...
Hi,
I do a monthly import in MSSQL 2K. The file contains 7.000.000 rows. These rows are loaded in to a special (preload) database. After the import several modifications are performed before it's uploaded to production.
The importfile is a comma-seperated file, fields are enclosed by double-quotes (seems to be an issue for BCP?)
If I'm right, there are 3 options to import:
1) data transformation
2) Bulk insert
3) BCP import
Could someone give me a more detailed explanation what the differences are between those methods? What's the fastest? disadvantages?
Thanks in advance!
How can i import data from Visual Fox Pro Tables into SQL Server 7.0 using Transact SQL. Thanks.
João Pedro Carvalho
A problem with my replication system as occured.
I have a working SQL server that can do replication trough internet, everyting works :D
The problem is when I try to import large amount of data (10000 rows) to my database on the SQL server
the subscriber on my client don't get the new inserted rows. That will say imported data is not being replicated. :o
only rows that i have manually inserted will be replicated.
I used the import wizard that came with SQL server.
Is there a solution to this problem?
We have a database in sql server. Now in the front end, we have two fields called “latefee and latefeeDateReceived”. When next time the people get another late fee. They just replace the old one and enter the new one. But now we want to keep all the history. Keep whatever they get the late fee. I am thing maybe need to create another table called “latefee” to contain these value. Is is good idea? As later they may want to get a report for all the late fee in one company. The thing is, I need to retrieve the current latefee and latefeeDateReceived and import to “latefee” table. But I need to create primary key for the latefee table. How can I import? Only one thing is I can import the data first, then add primary key. If I import later, how can I import. (Explain, the data retrieved have fields called “CID, Latefee, latefeeDataReceived”. But the table “latefee” has four fields called, lateID, CID, Latefee, latefeeDateReceived. When I import, it is always failed. Anybody can give me an idea? Many thanks.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi everybody,I want to import data from different server.According to my system. when we sell anything to our customer we upload all the information to webserver from our local server. This job we are doing it manually right now. but i want to upload the information automatically. when my agents sell something and they submit as sell i want to send a copy of information to my webserver automatically. Is there any trigger which can insert data into different server or schedule which can import data from different server. Please help me
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have two databases identical in structure but with different data (staging database and a production database). There is a bunch of data in the staging database that needs to be moved to the production database. The data is in two tables and a foreign key link exists between them. The ID's in the tables of both databases started with '1' and started incrementing, so if I import all the data into production, there will be duplicate ID's.
Is there an easy way to combine these tables? I'm not really a dba, but familiar enough with sql from an admin standpoint.
Thanks for any advice
Hi All,
I'm working on a DTS to import data from excel files in a SQL database. The thing is, the excel files never have the same structure, meaning, never the same number of columns,sheets as we have to define a destination table and a transformation, do you know a way to do that?