Does anyone have a good strategy or technique for preventing database drops in SQL Server 2000? I know in 2005 DDL triggers rock, but in 2000 what can you do to audit who drops a database why keeping the same permissions intact.
Jason
I have used DTS in SQL Server 2000 to import an MDB filed (MS ACCESS) of a table. When the table is imported the primary key is lost and the memo field data is completely gone.
I use the tranformation option in the DTS wizard to add the primary key and make sure the data type for the memo field is varchar and has a size of 8000. I need that large size since I am storing lots of html code.
When I preview the data I see the html code that is supposed to get imported. However, when I return all rows from the table in Enterprise Manager the field is empty.
So I tried to manually copy the data from the MS Access Database into SQL Server. Could not figure out if SQL Server has an interface like MS Access to simply copy data into a table. So I linked to the tables from MS Access to the SQL Server table.
When I opened the linked table I see the data in the description field. However, if I return the rows from within SQL Server no data is present.
I have some ASP code trying to read the data in the SQL Server table. However, nothing is returned and when I run the SQL Statement, nothing gets returned. The SQL statement returns all rows. All the other data is present but nothing in the description field.
What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions anyone, please!
TIA
OK, I know about this: [URL] ....
But the script has "ALL SERVER".
What I want is a trigger that is specific to my DB called "JunkStuff". I only want to block a servername from connect to my super dooper DB "JunkStuff".
Hi all,
I tried to use dbo.tables of Northwind database in SQL Server Express to do SqlCommand to populate a DataTable in DataSet. The SqlCommand failed in the project execution and I found that Northwind database in SQL Server Express is busted and gone (just the name "Northwind" remained in the SQL Server Management Studio Express). How can I prevent it from happening in my "SqlCommand-SqlConnection" project? Please help and advise.
I tried to repair my "Northwind" database by using the SQL2000SampleDb.msi of Northwind and pubs Sample Databases for SQL Server 2000 downloaded from the http://www.microsoft.com/downloads. My "pubs" database is still in my SQL Server Management Studio Express. How can I just repair my "Northwind" database by using the Microsoft SQL2000SampleDb.msi program? Please help and advise this matter too.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Chang
Please forgive my ignorance, I am by no means a SQL Expert, but have encountered a strange issue.
I have 6 SQL Servers, Primarily SQL 2005 (one older SQL 2000) all loaded on Windows Server 2003 SP1.
We use the servers for a proprietary database that we created which is the backend to a software package we sell.
The issue I have is: We have added a Security account to the servers, and in one case we have granted rights for this account to the TempDB system database. However, whenever we restart this server SQL drops this user account, thus severing connectivity for the app that is relying on that account.
I have set the account as DB-Owner etc, but nothing sems to keep it on re-start.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
We are using BCP in a Process task. The value for the path to BCP's error log requires double quotes around it. We initially put this value in a configuration file, and that worked fine. Yesterday, we eliminated the config file and tried to use the "Set Values" tab of the SSIS SQL Server Agent job to pass in this value.
The package variable was assigned the value of the path -- all except for the leading double quote. The closing quotation mark was included in the value.
We tried adding a second double quote at the beginning of the value, but that caused the job to fail immediately.
For now we will work around this problem by putting the quotes around the value in a Script task inside the package.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Thanks,
Ron
How do I prevent SQL Server 2000 from posting successful backupcompletion messages to the Windows 2000 Application Event Log?I have scheduled jobs which backup my transaction logs on 50+ databasesand it always writes to the Windows 2000 application event log uponcompletion.Due to the frequency of the jobs it only takes a day for theApplication Log to fill up, which is causing other jobs to get hung upwhen trying to write to it. On my Windows 2000 server, I have theapplication log event viewer setting correctly set as:"When maximum log size is reached - Overwrite events as needed" but forsome reason this setting no longer applies like it did for the pastthree years. SQLServerAgent and MSSQLSERVER both run under a localAdmin account, without a domain.When I researched how prevent SQL Server from logging this type ofmessage, I found that I can use sp_update_alert to disable thismessage, but I cannot findthe message_id to correctly disable this message. In sysmessages, themessage I am trying to suppress iserror:18265severity:10dlevel:128description:Log backed up: Database:%1, creation date(time): %2(%3), first LSN: %4, last LSN: %5, number ofdump devices: %7!d!, device information: (%8).mslangid:1033I tried calling sp_update_alert as follows:exec sp_update_alert @name = 'Log backed up: Database: %1, creationdate(time): %2(%3), first LSN: %4, last LSN: %5, number of dumpdevices: %7!d!, device information: (%8).', @enabled = 0but got the error message:Server: Msg 14262, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_update_alert, Line105The specified @name ('Log backed up: Database: %1, creation date(time):%2(%3), first LSN: %4, last LSN: %5, number of dump devices: %7!d!,device inf') does not exist.Looks like it can only handle 128 characters.How can I disable this message from being logged in the ApplicationLog? Or alternatively, how can I get the event viewer to behave asexpected and"Overwrite events as needed"?Thanks,Mike Orlando
View 9 Replies View RelatedBased on our database infrastructure, we need to secure our SQL databases. The security issue concerns on allowing a limited number of Domain Admin users to access the SQL databases.
We tried certain ways, based on the documents in the Microsoft web site, but we couldn€™t reach to the point of preventing the Domain Admin users accessing the SQL databases.
Thanks in advance.
I have few tables, which are replicated and partitioned. They also have archival process. I want to avoid having to run that same process on the subscriber.
Replication of partition switching is easy. However I am not sure how to replicate merge range and empty filegroup/file drops.
There the following article options:
Copy file group associations
Copy table partitioning schemes
Copy index partitioning schemes
I am not sure if these are enough to implement the replication of merge range and empty filegroup/file drops.
I could not find and option to copy partition functions.
Hi,
How can prevent from stoping sql-server sevice and copying database,
note user has a access right to pc/server.
Kind Regards,
sasan.
Are there ways in SQL server to deny connecting to a instance? Basically i am looking for a way where data is accessed only through application , even the DBA's shouldn't have access to the data though they are sysadmins? Someone told me this is possible in SQL 2014? This is only for individual access, i know i can put some encryption in app layer.
View 9 Replies View RelatedOn certain servers, I don't want developers to be able to create assemblies.
Unfortunately, the command
sp_configure 'clr enabled', 0
only prevents the CLR-type from being executed, not its creation.
I am unable to rename nor put triggers on
sys.assemblies,
sys.assembly_modules,
sys.assembly_files, and
sys.assembly_references .
I would prefer the user know the boundaries well before implementation.
Has anyone succeeded at this?
how to prevent the insertion of the same entry of an unique value into the database?
assume that I have a primary key username " abc" in the database
and then I insert the "abc" again ,the debuggging error msg pops out saying the primary key cannot be duplicated..
how can I do an if--else statement to check the database against this unintentional inputs of the same unique data " abc"???
We have a user with read,write and execute permissions.
But this user with is used by a windows application,Is able to backup on the Database server(On C: drive).
How can I prevent it to backup on the server.
Hello,
We utilise SQL scripts, executed via sqlcmd.exe, to upgrade the schema and common data of our database(s) when we deploy new versions of our software to a production site. At the moment we simply wait until after hours to do the upgrade and ask nicely for all users to not use the system for a while.
Obviously, asking nicely doesn't always work, and there is also the issue of scheduled server tasks and web services / web sites that operate against the database 24/7.
What are our options for putting the entire server (or preferrably just one database) into a semi-offline state so that users and services cannot connect to it while our script connects and performs the upgrade? I imagine there may be several approaches each with their own pros and cons.
If you could point me in the right direction or perhaps mention what strategy has worked for you, it would be greatly appreciated. We perform these upgrades from hundreds of kilometers away via VPNs and Remote Desktop so we can't just unplug the network cable :).
Thank you.
Regards,
- Jason
A server I'm working on has a very unique situation, where user tables and production tables reside on the same database. Users update / create tables or populates these tables, so it can't be a table-specific trigger. However, they give a new meaning to "kamikaze pilots" as it's not uncommon for them to "accidentally" update / insert / delete 500,000,000 + records in a single statement. I've tried educating them to use batching, but to no avail, so now I'm forced to stop these statements BEFORE they execute, based on rowcount, as they fill up the database log so quickly that it goes into recovery mode (It has a 200GB log file - insane, I know).
I recon the mosts transactions allowed should be 1,000,000 records in a single statement. Looking for database trigger to stop them from executing statements with large records?
vendor did a full backup for his database and put some folder not being backed up by TSM, he is the owner of the database, and delete his backup later. The backup is not copy only, all the differential and log backups taken are based on his FULL backup. so they cannot be restored.
QUESTION: To prevent this happen in the future, what is the normal practices? or any way to prevent db_owner to do the ad-hoc full backup? I am thinking of using DENY backup database, or write a policy  claiming no responsibility if vendor make it happen again.
Hi everybody,
I have an application in dotnet that uses sql express.
This application will be deployed on the user computer and I have to find a way to prevent the user to be able to read the data and access the structure of the database.
Is there a way to do this ? Even if the user is a local administrator of the computer ?
That's a difficult question, isn't it ? ;-))))
Thank you for your possible ideas,
Ciao,
Aurore
I represent a software development house and we have developed a client server system based on SQL Server. Most of our customers have already purchased Enterprise License of SQL Server, therefore they own the SA Login and Password. We are bound to attach our Database with their Server on their machine.
My question is how can we stop a System Administrator of SQL Server to view our Database Structure, Queries, Data installed on their SQL Server on their machine.
Our database structure is a trade secret and we cant reveal the structure to the client.
please answer this question by email to me at farhandotcom@gmail.com
Thanks & Regards
Farhan
We have a database that we are preparing to set up Merge replication on. We often make schema changes via T-SQL, many of these changes are made to tables on which an ALTER TABLE statement will not do (rather the creation of a temporary table, copying of the data, deleting the original table then renaming the temp table).
My question is how this will affect Merge replication. I have not been able to find anything that is very clear on this. From what I gather, if a table needs to be dropped that is participating in a merge replication, I need to go through the manual process (manual, as in calling the necessary system stored procedures) of removing the the article from any publication (and subsequent filtering), make the modifications, then re-add it to the publication and filtering.
Is this correct? If so, a new snapshot needs to be created, correct? If so, I have a follow-up question regarding that snapshot.
If a new snapshot needs to be created, what happens during replication/synchronization? Meaning, since it is a new snapshot, does the client (subscriber) see the whole thing as new or is it smart enough to recognize that only that one table i have changed needs to be synched?
I am quite new to replication, as you can tell, so please forgive the rambling. I ask these questions because I have heard different answers on both questions...so I would like to get the correct answers.
Greatly appreciated...
Is there a way to have SSIS monitor a folder for file drops? I have been unable to determine which object/task to use for this. We need the ability to have it monitor for files being dumped by other systems, pick those up and then process them. Thanks for your assistance.
- DeKlown
We've implemented mirroring between two identical servers. Sporadically, the mirroring session will drop and the ERRORLOG reflects the errors below at the exact time the mirroring session becomes suspended. We do not manage our back end network since we use a dedicated hosting environment at a remote location. Is this issue solely caused by network connectivity issues, or are there other factors at work?
2007-07-16 04:24:37.24 spid23s Error: 1453, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-07-16 04:24:37.24 spid23s 'TCP://192.168.215.92:5022', the remote mirroring partner for database 'evestment', encountered error 1204, status 4, severity 19. Database mirroring has been suspended. Resolve the error on the remote server and resume mirroring, or remove mirroring and re-establish the mirror server instance.
2007-07-16 04:24:48.46 spid23s Error: 1479, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-07-16 04:24:48.46 spid23s The mirroring connection to "TCP://192.168.215.92:5022" has timed out for database "evestment" after 10 seconds without a response. Check the service and network connections.
I've written an SSIS package which has two DataFlow tasks running simultaneously, importing the data from two separate ASCII files into two staging/prep tables: one Tasks imports records into an ORDER table while the other Task imports the ITEM-level records into an ITEM table.
Starting several days ago, the ITEM DF Task began importing a partial set of records even though the ASCII file clearly showed more records were available.
For example, in today's processing, here is the message from SSIS: << [ITEM Ascii File [1695]] Information: The total number of data rows processed for file "\webserv01globalscapeusr vr logstandarditem.txt" is 217361. >> yet i only found 10,401 rows -- and they all appeared to be the bottom 10,401 rows of the incoming ASCII file.
I cannot see any other untoward messages about SSIS encountering a problem.
There are no Error Output restrictions on the ASCII file.
The ASCII row preceding the 10,401 rows i DID get looks OK.
Can anyone suggest a possible place to look which might explain this "jumping" over the nearly 207,000 rows?
Thanks very much.
Seth J Hersh
XML looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?>
<hist key="ABC">
<r date="2006/04/21" time="08:53:04" seq="1029">123</r>
<r date="2006/04/21" time="09:21:40" seq="1613">123.25</r>
<r date="2006/04/21" time="09:37:22" seq=" 89">194.21</r>
<r date="2006/04/21" time="09:37:22" seq=" 91">194.21</r>
<r date="2006/04/21" time="09:37:22" seq=" 93">194.22</r>
<r date="2006/04/21" time="09:37:22" seq=" 95">194.22</r>
</hist>
In SSIS it reads all the date, time, seq etc but I lose that super critical "key" in the outputted data flow. If I look at the XSD in visual studio it shows 2 tables related via a "nested heirarchy"... "hist" and "r" with "key" being an attribute in the hist table and all the rest as attributes in the "r" table. However in SSIS it only shows one table so I can't get at that key :(
Any idea how to remedy? I keep messing around with the XSD file but that hasn't gotten me anywhere thus far...
Thanks
I ought to know how to do this, but it escapes me at the moment. I need to write an insert statement for a table that will be based on a complex select query. The select query may return rows that are already in the target table. In that case, I don't want duplicates created, but I don't want the query to error, either. I can't remember how to set that up.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy server (SQL 2005 SP2) typically runs with a procedure cache usage of about 92% or higher... lately it seems like at some point in time during the day it just drops to anywhere between 50% and 65%... with this comes horrible server performance and many snowball effects. If I clear the procedure cache it will go up only about 10% for a minute or two. The only way I can get it to recover completely seems to be restarting the SQL service. Then it will be fine till the next incident. The database is a read only (not set to read only but no updates other than replication). and the same SPs are run over and over and over throughout the day. also did notice that the compiles of the SPs goes up drastically at this point also. not sure if this is part of the cause or part of the effect.
CPU is normal. response from anything (even sp_who) is slow.
i do not understand the way procedure cache works completely so I thought I would ask for some direction.
Any ideas where to look or where to start???
Any thing I can do to catch this when it happens would be great.
thanks a head of time.
Hi all,
I am importing SQL 2000 tables from a developer install of SQL 2000. There are no destination tables to append just new tables being brought in.
I use the All Tasks > Import (DTS) service to do this. I have noticed that the Identity columns do not maintain the Identity attributes. I have to reset them after I import new tables. Is this normal? or is there a bug here?
I checked the MS KB with no success.
Anyone have some info on this?
Thanks.
We are having some unusal problems with an upgrade to SQL Server 2005. I've come across two other people who have had this type of issue but I haven't found a resolution. We are running SQL Server 2000 in production and we have installed SQL Server 2005 on new hardware. We have been working for about a week to verify that all of out existing applications will work properly with SQL 2005.
We have several old VB applications that open a connection to the database and reuse it for days on end. We can test these apps against the production 2000 server and they run fine, when they connect to the 2005 server the connections work fine for 5 - 15 minutes then we get an error trying to execute a command and are told that the connection doesn't exist. (One interesting note, there is only one line of code in the whole program that connects to the database but we have seen 3+ connections from the app when we check in Management Studio for SQL 2005.)
Just to get though the tests we put in some error handling to reconnect if the connection is lost. When we do this the application ends up re-connecting only once, the new connection never has a failure even after hours of testing and we see a 300% performance improvement.
We can reliably cause this problem by stopping the sql server, starting it, waiting a few minutes, then running our app. After one run of the app the problem seems to go away for a while and we can't re-create it nearly as consistantly. Only occasionally will the initial connection fail and every time it does it will be after 5-10 minutes of activity.
Both machines are connected to the same switch and we have ruled out networking issues. We are only seeing this problem with VB6 apps, the VS2005 apps run great. We are looking for the cause of this connection behavior and a fix for it because we don't have the time to fix code in dozens of VB apps because the connections are not stable. Granted the practice of holding a connection open isn't good to begin with but with legacy code you have to work with what you're dealt.
Any thoughts as to why ADO connections from VB6 to SQL 2005 would not be stable?
Problem description
There are two sql servers with the same database in different locations with replication running on them. Users in the two locations insert or update date on there own database through an ms access application . The data are replicated to both servers.
Someone wanted a copy of the database and they dropped replication, but users continue to modify and add data on both servers and so replication could not be back again without merging the two databases as one again and restarting replication.
My job was to merge the databases and make replication work and after allot of work all is fine.
I copy and attached the database on my pc that I set up as a server and did the job. Then I went back on both servers that had replication running before I attached the database and set the subscriber and publisher and all was fine to that point.
The database has six groups with permissions on them and many database users on each location. Both the groups and the users show on the database.
I create a new login and user and I add him to the groups to get the permissions.
Now back on a user pc I login with the new user name run the ms access application and try to add some new records, but I get errors that I cannot insert null values to two of the fields in several tables in the database.
This was not happening before and the database was recording the values in those fields namely the user name and the date that the new record was created.
After some reading I found out that I might need to set the groups and permissions on the views and tables from the beging but Im not an expert.
Any ideas?
Thanks allot
George
Suppose I have a database storing some confidential information, such
as legal information, medical or financial records, etc., and a
Web site with a membership system so that only authorized users can
view the information.
I understand I can encrypt the information, and the user's passwords,
so that if the database is compromised it still shouldn't be possible
for an outsider to view the confidential information.
However, what about people who have legitimate access to the database,
such as the DBA, Web developer, etc., but who should not be able to
view the confidential information? For example, even though the
user's password was encrypted, what would stop the DBA from replacing
the user's password with his own (encrypted) password, then logging in
and viewing the user's info, then copying back the original encrypted
password? Or, adding a new user for himself with whatever
permissions he chooses?
Need some information regarding SQL Server locking.Requirement is to run SQL Statements for reports (read-only) that willnot lock-out other people trying to update (write lock). For this, wetried the following to make the db connection not deny write locks(our report code will not have a read-only lock).ADODB.ConnectionObj.Mode =adModeShareDenyNoneBut this made our connection bumped whenever someone tried to update.Tried enabling dirty reads by doing:ADODB.ConnectionObj.IsolationLevel =adXactBrowseEven this made our connection bumped whenever someone tried to update.Is there a way to achieve what is needed without having a seperatedatabase for reports?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using SQL Server 2012 Bi edition.
I created a model in Visual Studio 2012 and when I process the model, most tables (the ones that should) process 77,546 records and that is reflected in VS.
However, when I deploy the model to the server it is only deploying 76,500 records for those tables.
Where those 1,046 records went to? Is there a setting that limits the records to be deployed? My base tables in the Data Mart have 77,546 records, just as in my Visual Studio model.
I am trying to move a database which I wrote in SQL Server 2005 to a SQL Server 2000 database.
I'm not sure the best way to do this.......
Can anyone enlighten me?.....