Hi. I am working on a dynamic website and backed up the data from our database (SQL Server) into a .bak file from our server. I want to develop the site locally on another machine (doesn't have SQL Server, but MSDE) using the database so I restored the database backup using RESTORE DATABASE FROM... (in the DOS prompt). I found a tutorial how to do this at
It did the restore successfully (or so it said) but all that it restored was the database structure (table structure, user information, etc.) but not the actual data in the database. I am using Specify (www.specifysoftware.org) as a database manager.
Could anyone help me out? Can I not go from SQL Server to MSDE? This doesn't seem to be the case because the structure restored okay.
What should I do to correct this problem?
I have a table with 201 columns . I am importing 200 columns from a file using DFT. I want update the 201th column with the fileId of the file that just imported. I am storing the fileId of the file in varFileID .
How do I go back and update the 201th column ( column name sfileId) with the varFileID value?
I can use Execute SQL Task but how will I know it's the records of the files that I just imported not other rows.
I have a record in an Excel format (Excel 2010) and I would like to bulk import that into SQL Server 2008 and also while importing, SQL Server will automatically create a new table based on the header fields or row of the source file.
I am not sure if SQL Server 2008 has this capabilities.
Hi all (newbie @ asp.net)(oldie @ ASP 3)What is the purpose of using an attached MDF database files in the App_Data folder on a web site as to importing it into the SQL server directly or creating it on the SQL server. Does a mdf database attached file purely use the SQL server as a connection interface.Is it something similiar to DSN(ODBC) Connections for ms access databases.
I imported a SQL Table into SQL DataBase, But I can not update this table even with SQL Server management Studio When I change any data on mentioned table above, Red exclamation sign appears left of the record . How can I correct this problem? Thanks.
Hi, I have imported 3 DTS from SQL 2000 to the SQL 2005 server. The wizard went fine, everything is ok. When I close the wizard window, I cannot see any of them. If I reimport it, it asks confirmation to override it. Where are the 3 DTS in the management Studio if they are not under Legacy DTS? Thanks
I am using the following SQl statement in a DTS vb file. The data is coming from an Excel spreadsheet and being put into a SQl server table.
oCustomTask1.SourceSQLStatement = "select `Order No`,`Country`,`Desc`,`Amount` from `Sheet1$` WHERE `Order No` = 1 "
I want to validate the data being put into the table to ensure no duplicates records are entered UNLESS the record has changed in any way. E.g. If record 1 had a column called "NumberOne" which changed to "Number1" change this information and move the original value to another table.
I am developing a DB with others in my group. When I import tables created on other servers to my server, the primary key and other properties do not import with the tables. Can anyone explain why this is happening? Is there a setting I have over looked?
I am in the process of importing data that is in a text format to thesql server, I want to add couple of fields and insert general data inthe fields added, this data is going to be similar to all the recordsimported. Your help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
I am making web application using Asp.net C#(Visual Studio2005). And Sql server 2000 as a back End.
Actually I am fetching data from other database(named as retailexcel but in same server). I have wriiten a view (in retailexcel database) to get required data from four table of other database. My problem is when I fetch those data(about 40000 to 50000 record) It taking to much time. I tried catch feature of asp.net2.0. Time reduced but not significantly. So I am trying to import those tables to my database (named Inventory) from that retailexcel.
Now problem is every day or two, record of those tables changes. How can I keep update my tables (which are importing from retailexcel)
We have an OLTP application with multiple one to many tables relationships that are edited client side. For Example the primary table has descriptive components. One of the multiple table have things like parts and quantity ordered linked by a record number back to the primary table.
When our client transmits their transaction, they actally running a batch job which sends all the client side tables to the SQL Server and then we are trying to issue a stored procedure server side to push this data into our 'dbo' owned server side master tables.
Our problem is generating the fully qualified table name for the from clause.
We have tried declaring a variable but the stored procedure won't compile. Tried user, user_name().
HiI have a script that uses bcp to import data from an ascii text fileinto SQL tables. The french characters are not copied properly. Theyare converted to letters of the alphabet. I tried to change all thefields to nvarchar instead of varchar and nchar instead of char, but Igot Greek characters instead.How can I fix this?Here is some code:--------------------------CREATE TABLE [dbo].[1_HLGT_HLT_COMP_f9.0] ([hlgt_code] [int] NOT NULL ,[hlt_code] [int] NOT NULL) ON [PRIMARY]GOPRINT 'HLGT_HLT'DECLARE @s as nvarchar(300)SET @s='bcp MedDRA..[1_hlgt_hlt_comp_f9.0] in ' + char(34) +'F:MedDRA9.0FrenchMedAsciihlgt_hlt.asc' + char(34) + ' -c -t' +char(34) + '$' + char(34) + ' -r$ -e' + char(34) +'F:MedDRA9.0Frenchlogshlgt_hlt.err.txt' + char(34) + ' -b250 -m50-SDEV -Usa -Ppassword -h' + char(34) + 'TABLOCK' + char(34)EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @s
Hi All, I am importing data from an oracle db and one of the columns is a nclob. I would like to truncate the value if it is more than a certain length. I want to use a derived column transformation. I cannot use the len and substring functions because it is not a string. I could convert it to a unicode string and use those functions, but I am afraid there is a size limitation (4000 characters) on it. Is there smth I am missing? Can anybody please suggest any ideas? Thanks a lot.
I have a file I'm pulling from another type of database into an Excel spreadsheet and then using my dtsx package to import the spreadsheet into my SQL database. The problem I'm having is that one of the fields coming out of the database to the spreadsheet has the thousands seperator in the field that I want to use as a numeric field without the ",". Right now I have a macro that I run on the spreadsheet to reset the field to straight numbers without commas before importing it, but would like to configure my Integration package to do it automatically.
I have used the wizard to import a DTS package from a SQL 2000 server to our new SQL 2005 server and need to make edits to reference the new server and database. I am able to see the package within the SQL Management studio under Integration Services, but I cannot find it in the Development studio?
I used a DTS package to import data from one database to a new database (different servers) and it seemed to work fine with the exception that it lost all the passwords. I got one error telling me that for security reasons, it left all passwords NULL. Sure enough - they are now all blank.
Ideas - any good articles with quick fixes ???
Thanks a bunch - I am just getting into a lot of unusual problems this week. Nancy
By the way - what happened to the SQL*Pass message boards ??? Nobody visits there now....
hi, I am importing data daily to many tables, I want to keep track of the #of rows for each import process. I already have created a trigger as follow: CREATE TRIGGER tr_bcp_log ON dbo.A FOR INSERT AS
declare @name varchar(30), @row_count int
select @name=name , @row_count= @@rowcount from inserted
insert into bcp_tracks (name,row_count) values(@name,@row_count) GO
The problem is that I am getting a row for each inserted row in table A.for instance if I have 500 rows in table A, I will get 500 rows in the log table like this table_name,#of rows A 1 A 1 A 1 etc up to 500 rows for table A
This is not what I want, I want to capture the num of rows for every bcp process , so in the log table I want to see the following : table_name, #of rows A 500 B 600 C 450 A 250 etc
I have a stored procedure which will run automatically. I've got try...catch code in the procedure, but I found a bug with the code where if there are any import errors, it doesn't recognize that that there was an error and it runs through the try code as through there was no problems. (I reported the bug). I added some code using @@rowcount to check if there were rows imported, and if not, it moves the data file to a error folder so I know there was a problem with the import. But this only checks if at least one row was imported, not if all the rows in the datafile have been imported. (i.e. if the first row imported correctly, and the second did not, it still sees it as successful). The problem is some of the data files have only one row to import and some have multiple rows. Is there a way to count the number of rows in the datafile, then count the number of rows imported, to verify they are the same number imported? Thanks, Laura
Today I tried out Integration Services and after a couple of hours of confusion I am impressed by the power of this product. I was wondering if I might get some help on the 'best practice' for the following requirements:
I have a foreach container that scans a directory and calls a data flow task for each file in the directory. The files import to the database fine, but I want to modify the procedure so it only imports files that have not yet been imported. There are a couple of scenarios:
- a file is created in the directory - a file is modified in the directory
In both cases I want to insert (or reinsert) the file. How can I modify my package to accomodate this behaviour? Storing the filename is an option, but I am not sure how to also bring in the file creation/modified dates.
I have a stored procedure which will run automatically. I've got try...catch code in the procedure, but I found a bug with the code where if there are any import errors, it doesn't recognize that that there was an error and it runs through the try code as through there was no problems. (I reported the bug). I added some code using @@rowcount to check if there were rows imported, and if not, it moves the data file to a error folder so I know there was a problem with the import. But this only checks if at least one row was imported, not if all the rows in the datafile have been imported. (i.e. if the first row imported correctly, and the second did not, it still sees it as successful). The problem is some of the data files have only one row to import and some have multiple rows. Is there a way to count the number of rows in the datafile, then count the number of rows imported, to verify they are the same number imported? Thanks, Laura
i have few fields that contain foreign characters with diacritic marks which are not getting imported correctly.
below is the import format:
- File type: ASCII - Row delimiter: carriage return and line feed {CR/LF} - Column delimiter: Tab - Text qualifier: None
Please advice.
Here is the errors i'm getting:
- Executing (Error)
Messages
Error 0xc02020a1: Data Flow Task: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "Country_str_local_long_name" returned status value 4 and status text "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 "Country_str_local_long_name" (37)" failed because truncation occurred, and the truncation row disposition on "output column "Country_str_local_long_name" (37)" specifies failure on truncation. A truncation error occurred on the specified object of the specified component. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0202092: Data Flow Task: An error occurred while processing file "L:Country.txt" on data row 6. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047038: Data Flow Task: The PrimeOutput method on component "Source - Country_txt" (1) returned error code 0xC0202092. 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. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047021: Data Flow Task: Thread "SourceThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047038. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047039: Data Flow Task: 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. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0047021: Data Flow Task: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0047039. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
I have imported some tables from msaccess but as the datetime field from access is different from SQL Server I had to change all columns type from datetime to varchar...
Now in SQL Server i'm trying to convert this data into datetime, and I'm using cast(field as datetime) and sql give me this message..."The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value."
how can I select these rows that are giving me errors ??? OR is there a way to convert this data ??
I don't know if in this data it will give the error... but as the table is too big...I can't post everything here...
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I got the problem...
I have data like 4/11/2006 9:23:19 AM and others like 11/21/2005 6:02:13 PM
So the first one 4/11/2006 9:23:19 AM it converts without problem, but wrongly...cause the month is "4" and not "11" the other one 11/21/2005 6:02:13 PM it tries to convert the month as 21 and not as 11....
Is it possible to import an SAS PMML 2.1 compliant neural network model directly into SSAS 2005? Are there other or all SSAS models (e.g. Decision Trees) that can be created from an imported SAS PMML 2.1 compliant source?
I'm importing floor machine data from SQL7 into SQL2005 using SSIS. I import the SQL7 data into a SQL2005 master table and then attempt to match the import data with the data in a current table for either update or insert of new machines. The SQL2005 master table was imported from a SQL2000 database. When I run the first Lookup import, it does not recognize the PK matches between the SQL7 import and SQL2005 master and imports all the SQL7 as new machines. The first Lookup branches to a second lookup that checks for changes in the SQL2005 master. When I run the package a second time, the second Lookup treats all the records as updates when it gets to the second Lookup, but should treat these as found. Any suggestions as to why this process is not working properly would be appreciated. Is there a way I can embed a picture of the process from SSIS in this post? Thanks
I'm not sure if it's the setup I did wrong, but I can't seem to get my text datatype in my database to store more than 900 characters. I'm trying to setup a news database for my website, which will populate the information into a datagrid. To test, I manually added a news item in the database through the visual studio 2003 gui. I immediately noticed a problem as the I was getting an error after a long news item saying:
"The value you entered is not consistent with the data type or length of the column, or over grid buffer limit."
I couldn't find anthing to set the buffer limit and the datatype is "text" filled with simple text in the column. As a further test, I simply entered 12334567890123... up to 900 characters and still recevied the error.
I would appreciate someone leading me in the right direction on this one.
After designing a SSIS package in Visual Studio 2005 that had two connection manager defined to keep the password. After I deployed the package to a file system. I then Imported the .dtsx file after making a Integration Services connection in Sql Server Management Studio. When I tried to run the package it failed when it tried to make the connection. When I edited the connection manager connection string and added the password and the package ran fine but it does not retain the password!. I need to have this package scheduled to run daily so I need to know how to have the package keep the password in the connection string. I have seen other posts on this issue but not seen a good solution. Could someone point me to the proper MSDN article that would explain how to implement this ? Is it a SQL Server configuration issue or a property in Visual Studio SSIS design time ?
I am trying to change the computer name of a machine running MSDE but I get an error when SQL Server starts. With regular SQL when I change the name of a computer I re-run setup and setup fixes this problem. MSDE can only be installed from unattended mode so I can’t rerun setup and fix the problem.
My question is "How do I change the name of a computer running MSDE with out reinstalling MSDE"
I have 1 table with a huge amount of data that I recive from someone else in a flat file format. I want to be able to filter through that data and scrub it and find out the good data and bad data from it.
I'm scrubbing the data using different stored procs that i've created and through a web interface that the user can pick which records they wish to create.
If I were to create a new table for clean records, what is the syntax to keep Appending to that table through the data that i'm obtainig via the stored procs that i've created.
Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appriciated in advance
