Hi,I am very, very new to SQL, so be patient.On a W2K3-server runs SQL2000 (Sp3a). I have a database in MSAccess (2003) and want to importthe data with the wizard. All went well and I got the whole database in SQL.Now I am back in VS.net and want to create a SQLAdapter and when doing that I got the warning:UPDATE and DELETE statement. Could not determin which columns uniquely identify the rows for "<Table>".The structure of "<Table>" in MSAccess was:Id (auto) as primary keyField1 (text,50)Field2 (text,50)That's all.The structure of the SQL-table after importing-Wizard:Id (int, Not Null)Field1 (nvarchar(50),Null)Field2 (nvarchar(50),Null)Why cannot SQL recognise this primary key ?Regards, Ger.
I was wondering if the only way to import MSaccess files into sql6.5 is to dump the MSaccess file into a text file and then recreate the structure in SQL6.5 and then use the bcp command to copy the data into the new structure.
There is a "text" file generated by mainframe and it has to be uploaded to SQL Server. I've reproduced the situation with smaller sample. Let the file look like following: A17 123.17 first row BB29 493.19 second ZZ3 18947.1 third row is longer And in hex format: 00: 41 31 37 20 20 20 20 20 ”‚ 31 32 33 2E 31 37 20 20 A17 123.17 10: 66 69 72 73 74 20 72 6F ”‚ 77 0D 0A 42 42 32 39 20 first row™ª—™BB29 20: 20 00 20 34 39 33 2E 31 ”‚ 39 20 20 73 65 63 6F 6E 493.19 secon 30: 64 0D 0A 5A 5A 33 20 20 ”‚ 20 20 20 31 38 39 34 37 d™ª—™ZZ3 18947 40: 2E 31 20 74 68 69 72 64 ”‚ 20 72 6F 77 00 69 73 20 .1 third row is 50: 6C 6F 6E 67 65 72 ”‚ longer
I wrote "text" in quotes because sctrictly it is not pure text file - non-text binary zeros (0x00) happen sometimes instead of spaces (0x20).
The table is:
CREATE TABLE eng (
src varchar (512)
)
When i upload this file into SQL2000 using DTS or Import wizard, the table contains:
select src, substring(src,9,8), len(src) from eng < src ><substr> <len> A17 123.17 first row 123.17 25 BB29 493.19 22 ZZ3 18947.1 third row 18947.1 35
As one can see, everything was imported, including binary zeros. And though SELECT * in SSMS truncates strings upon reaching 0x00's, still all information is stored in tables - SUBSTRINGs show that.
When i upload this file into SQL2005 using SSIS or Import wizard the result is following: < src ><substr> <len> A17 123.17 first row 123.17 25 BB29 4 ZZ3 18947.1 third row 18947.1 25
This time table is half-empty - all characters behind binary zeros in respective rows are lost.
I stumbled upon this problem while migrating my DTSes to SSIS packages. Do you think there is some workaround, or i need to turn on some checkbox or smth else could help? Please...
I have a requirement to migrate the data from an existing MS Access database to a newly designed SQL Express 2005 database . Need less to say the table structures in both are totally different.I would like to know how can i handle a scenerio where i want to map table A in access to table B in SQL express (the schema of both different and the number of columns can vary too) , how do i migrate the data from table A in Access to Table B in SQL express using SSMA?
Also i would appreciate if some one can tell me is SSMA the right tool for this , or should i use the upsizing wizard of MS Access. The constraint here is that the data needs to be migrated to a completely new schema. I just need to migrate data only and no other objects.
I setup this package to import data from a Sharepoint list to a SQL Server data table. The primary key of my SQL table is mapped to the Title column of my Sharepoint list. There is a possibility that duplicate values will be entered in the Title field of the Sharepoint list. So when importing data into my table via SSIS, my package always error-out when there it comes across duplicate values. how you others have managed data integrity when importing from a Sharepoint list with the Title column being mapped to the primary key of a table.
Can anyone point me to a white paper/discussion on the issues of gaining access to SQL2000 data from a SQL7 installation? I'm about to upgrade servers from 7 to 2000, but a few of the servers exchange data bi-directionally and the upgrade to both servers at the same time would be problematic; thus the need at some point to get at the SQL2000 data from the SQL7 server.
I have to setup some scheduled tasks to copy 3-4 tables from anSQL2000 database to DB2 v. 8.1.The job must run every night replacing all data.How can this be done - with standard utilities??Please be exact - I'm new to this.Thank for any help./Jep
How can I export data from SQL2000 to XML?Is there any tools with SQL for that?I don't want to use "for xml explicit"...*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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?
We have a daily process, which copies millions of rows of data from one DB to another over Linked Server. Just checking on the best practise, are there more efficient ways than the Linked server to copy millions of rows of data from one DB to another? I checked bulk insert but that transfers the data from the file to DB not DB to DB.Â
I have created a simple package that uses a sql command to pull data from an oracle database and inserts the data into a sql 2005 table. Some of the data fields that i am pulling from contain two digits after the decimal point, however this data is lost when it gets into sql. I have even tried putting the data into a flat file, and still the data is lost.
In the package I have a ole db source connection which is the oracle database and when i do the preview i see all the data I need. I am very confused and tried a number of things to get the data into sql, but none work. Any ideas would be very helpful.
when i m importing data from excel to Sql using DTS the column which has text content was not imported as same in excel sheet. whereas a special character is appearing in between the lines. the text field contains multiple lines but the conetent is imported in single line .
I'm wondering if SSIS will be the solution to the problem I'm working on.
Some of our customers give us an Excel sheet with data they want to insert or update in the database.
I've created a package that will take an Excel sheet, do some data conversion so the data types match up and after that I use a Slowly Changing Data component to create the insert/update commands.
This works great. If a customer adds a new row to the Excel sheet or updates an existing row changes are nicely reflected in the database.
But now I€™ve got the following problem. The column names and the order of the columns in the Excel sheet are not standard and in the future it could happen a customer doesn't even use an Excel sheet but something totally different.
Can I use SSIS for this? Is it possible to let the user set the mappings trough some sort of user interface? I€™ve looked at programmatically creating the package but I€™ve got to say that€™s quit hard to do€¦ It would be easier to write the whole thing myself than to create the package trough code ;)
If not I thought about transforming the data in code before I pass it on to the SSIS package in something like XML. That way I can use standard column names and data types.
So how should I solve this problem? Use SSIS or not?
My company recently purchase a NetApp FS870 and we want to move the SQL data files for out production DB. The NetApp is a NAS. Without loggining in to the SQL Server and establishing a drive mapping.
Does anyone know how to connect SQL2K to the remote machine?
We would prefer to use UNC naming to access the share, as leaving servers logged in and open with a mapped drive is a huge secutrity hole, and presents a reliability issue too.
Hi I have a (possibly) common position where half of our IT department is SQL 2005 and the rest is SQL2000. For myself, having to work in a SQL2000 environment and needing data from a SQL2005 Cluster I came up with this solution. Also, to alert me when the process starts and completes since it is part of a scheduled process, I have it do a RAISERROR with logging to record entry and exit times. In addition, this runs out a series of PRINT statements that lets the operator know what table is currently being worked on.
Of course, any suggestions for speeding this up would be helpful!
What I have found that works for getting data (albeit slow) from SQL 2005 down to SQL 2000 is to script a fairly simple copy process -
-- it is actually pretty easy to follow if you just read the code......
-- first, we find all the views which are present, so they can be ignored when copying the raw data
CREATE TABLE #VIEWS (TABLE_NAME NVARCHAR (255) )
INSERT #VIEWS SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM OPENDATASOURCE( 'SQLOLEDB', Data Source=SQL2005server;User ID=trust_me;Password=i_know_what_i_am_doing' ) .SQL_SIS_SYSTEM.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS
-- now, we get the actual tables with data CREATE TABLE #TEMP (TBL_SCHEMA VARCHAR (12), TBL_NAME VARCHAR (255), RECCNT INT )
INSERT #TEMP SELECT TABLE_SCHEMA , TABLE_NAME FROM OPENDATASOURCE( 'SQLOLEDB', 'Data Source=SQL2005server;User ID=trust_me;Password=i_know_what_i_am_doing' ) .SQL_SIS_SYSTEM.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE' AND TABLE_NAME NOT IN (SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM #VIEWS)
-- then, we start copying tables over - now we tag the ones which are populated with at least 1 row. -- the first cursor loop gets all table names, the second will find row counts of source tables. -- this segment uses (ugh) cursor to loop through and gather all of the data. This cursor is at the table name level - not -- processing anything, and is used only to find tables which have a rowcount > 0 -- believe it or not, the cursors run pretty darn quickly since they arnet doing any calculations - just finding -- tables with row counts > 0
SET @QUOT = CHAR(39) SET @LBRAKT = '[' SET @RBRAKT = ']' SET @IUT = 'IsUserTable' SET @ODBC_CMD ='(' + @QUOT + 'SQLOLEDB' + @QUOT + ',' + @QUOT + 'Data Source=SQL2005server;User ID=trust_me;Password=i_know_what_i_am_doing' + @QUOT + ').SQL_SIS_SYSTEM.dbo.' PRINT 'BEGIN TABLE SCHEMA LOAD CURSOR. ' + CAST(GETDATE() AS VARCHAR (50) ) DECLARE GETEM CURSOR FOR SELECT TBL_SCHEMA, TBL_NAME FROM #TEMP OPEN GETEM FETCH NEXT FROM GETEM INTO @TBL_SCHEMA, @TBL_NAME
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN
SET @SQL = 'UPDATE #TEMP SET RECCNT = ' + '(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM OPENDATASOURCE(' + @QUOT + 'SQLOLEDB'+ @QUOT + ',' + @QUOT +''Data Source=SQL2005server;User ID=trust_me;Password=i_know_what_i_am_doing' + @QUOT + ').SQL_SIS_SYSTEM.' + @TBL_SCHEMA + '.' + @TBL_NAME +')' + ' WHERE TBL_NAME = ' + @QUOT + @TBL_NAME + @QUOT EXEC (@SQL) FETCH NEXT FROM GETEM INTO @TBL_SCHEMA, @TBL_NAME END CLOSE GETEM DEALLOCATE GETEM
I'm new to SQL and DTS packages. I am trying to import data from an excel spreadsheet to an SQL server table via DTS package. It seems that the excel task looks at the first few records in a column to determine the datatype for that column. If the first few records are text, the entire column is imported as text. If numeric, the entire column is imported as numeric. There are about 25,000 records. In one field, the most important one, about half of the records begin with letters and the rest are all numbers. It is the subscriber ID field, and some subscriber IDs are all numbers, some are letters and numbers. The entire column should be imported as text. However, when I run the transform data task from the excel connection, none of the records that are all numbers are imported. I end up correctly importing only 13,000 of the 25,000 records. The rest are imported with the subscriberID field as <NULL>. I tried using the CAST or CONVERT function in the SQL query, but get the error message "Undefined Function."
hello, I create a txt file with a bash script, and i need to use it in a DTS package. But, i don't know how i can specify the type of my column. So in the transformations task, i have an error due to an incompatible type. what can i do to fix this error ? thanks,
I am creating a DTS package that is combining several tables, converting one column of data to a new column removing all special characters, then exporting the unique data based on this column and another column, and the max of other duplicates to a new table.
Now that I have the data in this table, I want to import any data that is not in my main table.
This "CLEANED" table does not have a designated "key" column, but the table I want to import the unique items does have an ID column that is also a primary key column.
DTS seems to want me to have a Key column to reference when importing from the CLEANED table to the MAIN table.
How would I go about checking the MAIN table against the CLEANED table, having DTS import only the unique items from the CLEANED table that are not present in the MAIN table based on three columns? The rest of the columns I want to just extract the MAX data from the duplicates.
Now here is the query I use to extract the unique values from the "CLEANING" table to get the data to the "CLEANED" table, but do not know how to use this to import into the MAIN table using something similar.
Code:
select partno2, MAX (partno) as partno, alt, MAX (C_alt) as C_alt, Max (cmpycd) as cmpycd, MAX (type) as type, compFN, MAX (pndesc) as pndesc, MAX (equipment) as equipment
into tbl_CLEANED from tbl_CLEANING group by partno2, alt, compFN ORDER BY partno, compFN
The three main columns I need to check against are: partno2 alt compFN I have named the columns the same in both tables.
partno2 is the column that has been copied from partno with all special characters & spaces removed. This is the main column I am using as a reference for unique values, then if no match, I have it check against the alt column, then the comFN column. If there are no matches in any of these columns, then I want to extract the data to the MAIN table.
How can I compare these tables and import only unique info to the MAIN table?
In addition, how can I also check items that are the same in both tables and update the MAX info for the other columns (not the three I use for reference - these I need to leave alone) and update those if there is more data in the CLEANED table then in the MAIN table?
Does anyone know how to upload (bulk) data from a client (written in Excel VBA) to a remote SQL2000 database? Of coarse I tried "INSERT INTO" and rst.addnew but I noticed this is much, much slower as downloading from the same remote database.
Vb stores an image (bitmap/jpg) in a SQL2000 image field. For somereason it doubles the size by adding 00 for each byte. But sometimes itdoesn't add 00 (0000.0000) but 01 or 20 or ?? and also the byte thatshould be transferd is changed...So SQLImageData = Imagebyte + 00and sometimesSQLImageData = CHANGEDImagebyte + xx.Some example data: (hex notation):A1 => A1 0003 => 03 00-----------91 => 18 2083 => 92 018C => 52 01Could anybody give me an explanation, because I need to know what ishappening, so I can remove te extra bytes added......I have already a image when I remove the extra bytes, but with somewrong data (on the place where things like 8C => 52 01 happen)....Thx,Geronimo
Hello. I want to ask about the possibility of copying both a tablestructure and it's contents from aSQL server table to a table within MS access. The problem cannot besolve with a permanent table structure at the target location.The names of the columns are essentially data with the application andso are subject to change. I am targeting a solution using SQL QueryManager.The approach I have tried (with failure) isSELECT *INTO <linkedserver table>FROM <local table>This should create and copy. However, I am not sure if this isachievable with this approach.Refer to the dialogue;-------------------------------------------------------USE MASTERGOEXEC sp_addlinkedserver@SERVER = 'Freddie',@PROVIDER = 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',@SRVPRODUCT = 'OLE DB Provider for Jet',@DATASRC = 'C: empHMIS_Recipe.mdb'-- I am not sure if this is requiredEXEC sp_addlinkedsrvlogin 'Freddie', false, 'sa', 'Admin', NULLSELECT * FROM Freddie...FRED -- This is OKSELECT * INTO #Temp FROM Freddie...FRED -- This is OK-- This fails - Refer errorSELECT * INTO Freddie.FRED65from #tempServer: Msg 2760, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Specified owner name 'Freddie' either does not exist or you do not havepermission to use it.-- This also fails and I thought reflected the above select with naming- Refer errorSELECT * INTO Freddie...FRED65from #tempServer: Msg 117, Level 15, State 1, Line 2The object name 'Freddie...' contains more than the maximum number ofprefixes. The maximum is 2.EXEC sp_dropserver 'Freddie',@droplogins = 'droplogins'------------------------------------------------------------Thank you.Regards JC...
I had to upgrade to SQL2005 when my customer did so. Everything went OK until I had to load additional data to the datamart. The SQL2000 task to load data from flat text files was straight forward and literally took me seconds tyo set up and execute and has never given me problems. I have now spent 3 days straight trying to do the same in SQL2005 going in ever wider circles. I have got SSIS up and going, I saved a dtsx package that won't run without a multitude of errors ranging from truncation errors (which I tried to avoid by meticulously ensuring all field definitions on the import and export side are defined and correct) to errors relating to not being able to connect to the database I am working on or of not having the right security access. I am at my wits end. I need help!
Hi, Does anyone know how to deal with image data type within stored procedure when using SQL2000? I have a table and there is an image data type column. In this table I need to make a copy of one row within a table through a SP /it means to retrieve the whole row within SP, change another columns data (but, that the image is not modified) / and save the modified row back to the same table. Problem is, that within SP is not alowed to use local varaibles of image data type. Does anyone know a solution for this? Please. Thank you.
i have sql2000 & sql2005 on the same machine. I am unable to register my localhost in sql2000, get an access denied error. How can I make my localhost use sql2000 database?
I have a process that calls a proc that BCP's a delimited file into a table. Well the SOX police say a header and footer must be added to the file. Needless to say this screws my BCP process. Does anyone know how to strip a header and footer record from a text file using transact sql or have any other suggestions to strip the records?
I am trying to import data from excel into my server, but get this error message:
Error during transformation 'directcopyXform' for row number 1. Errors encountered so far in this task 1. TransformCopy 'DirectCopyXform' conversion error: Conversion invalid datatypes on coulumn pair 19 (source column '*9' (DBTYPE_WSTR( destination column 'F19' (DBTYPE_R8)
we are trying to import data from a flat file using an uptick (`) as a column separator and {CR/LF} as a record terminator. There is a variable number of columns for each record. The initial record in the flat file has 3 columns. Upon processing this record, the import sets all records to 3 columns and does not read the column separators past the second column (even though there may be up to 7 columns in the record).
This method worked ok in DTS2000 and it works with Excel. Any suggestions?
