and would like to create views for each distinct table, using openrowset.
An added complexity is that the library name depends on the company code (i.e. BISxxSET.ALPA0A turns to BIS03SET.ALPA0A for company 03 whereas BSFFBUA.ALPA1A remains intact).
I have a large list of table names and want to create a database, and a view for each of the tables with openrowset. There are no constrains no keys nothing. Is there a fast way to achieve that?
Fellow database developers,I would like to draw on your experience with views. I have a databasethat includes many views. Sometimes, views contains other views, andthose views in turn may contain views. In fact, I have some views inmy database that are a product of nested views of up to 6 levels deep!The reason we did this was.1. Object-oriented in nature. Makes it easy to work with them.2. Changing an underlying view (adding new fields, removing etc),automatically the higher up views inherit this new information. Thismake maintenance very easy.3. These nested views are only ever used for the reporting side of ourapplication, not for the day-to-day database use by the application.We use Crystal Reports and Crystal is smart enough (can't believe Ijust said that about Crystal) to only pull back the fields that arebeing accessed by the report. In other words, Crystal will issue aSelect field1, field2, field3 from ReportingView Where .... eventhough "ReportingView" contains a long list of fields.Problems I can see.1. Parent views generally use "Select * From childview". This meansthat we have to execute a "sp_refreshview" command against all viewswhenever child views are altered.2. Parent views return a lot of information that isn't necessarilyused.3. Makes it harder to track down exactly where the information iscoming from. You have to drill right through to the child view to seethe raw table joins etc.Does anyone have any comments on this database design? I would love tohear your opinions and tales from the trenches.Best regards,Rod.
Newbie here. I've only been using SQL for about a year now and have some minor questions about sql objects that reference other objects.
We have some views which reference other views in the joins. I will call one the primary view and the one being referenced in the joins as the secondary view.
Recently we made changes to the secondary view.
After which the primary views which referenced it would not work because of this change and had to be 'refreshed' by using drop/create scripts which essentially just dropped it and recreated the exact same view. I do not recall the exact error message that was returned other than it seemed to suggest that it could no longer see the secondary view since it had been changed. Nothing in the primary view was changed in any way, just the secondary.
Some here where I work have suggested off hand that this was a recompile of the primary view because the contents of the secondary changed.
My questions are:
1. Exactly why did this happen and is there a proper name for it when it does?
2. The same problem does not seem to occur when we have stored procedures referencing views in the joins which had just been changed. Why is that?
Thanks for any help on the matter. I greatly appreciate it.
How come when I run the script: select * from openrowset ('MSDASQL', 'Driver=Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls);DBQ=\inawwwpro01d$atrUploadACK102.xls' , 'select * from [sheet1$]') from Server A I get a RESULT, and when I run from Server B I get the following error: Ad hoc access to OLE DB provider 'MSDASQL' has been denied. You must access this provider through a linked server. Both servers are using IDENTICAL SQL Logins. Both servers are SQL 2000 SP2.
When I run the script on Server B logged in as SA, then I get a Result!!!
how can i use openrowset. my aim is to develop a import and export data from diff. server . i am using vb.net 2003 , sql sever 2000. when i am running openroeset function with window or server authontication it is showing 'OLE DB provider 'SQLOLEDB' reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.
anybuddy help me , pls. tell me the right solution.
Hi! I decided to use OPENROWSET for importing data from an excel file into a sql table.When I import the data,I have a problem:
-not all the data is imported to my sql table -some values in the sql table are different from the ones in the excel file For example,a value that in the excel file is:87878787 will be in the SQL table:8.78788e+007.
Hi Folks,I am trying to load data from a table in MS Access to SQL Server 2000using T-SQL OPENROWSET. When I select data from the remote database (MSAccess) using SQL Query analyzer, the columns do NOT appear in the sameorder as seen in Access directly.For e.g. if Access table has columns Cy, Cx, Cz the output in Queryanalyzer appears as Cx, Cy, Cz. It appears to arrange the fieldsalphabetically. This causes problems when I do a 'insert into select *from' as the field definitions do not agree.Is this a bug or is there a setting in Access/SQL which I am missing?Also, please let me know if there is a workaround for this issue.Thanks in advance!Bhaskar
Hello There,I'm trying to create a view that has calculations dependent oncalculations, where the problem resides is that each time I make acalculation I must create an intermediate view so I can reference aprevious calculation.for example lets say I have my_table that has columns a & b. now I wanta view that has a & b, c = a + b, and d = c + 1.this is grossly simplified, the calculations I actually use are fairlycomplex and copying / pasting them is out of the question.so what I have is my_view_a which makes column c, and my my_view_finalwhich makes column d (however, in my real application I have 5 of theseviews, a/b/c/d/e/)is there anyway I can consolidate all these views into one? I wasthinking of using a stored procedure with temp tables or somethingalong those lines.I just which I can use the aliases that I create for c in d in onestep.any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to use OPENROWSET in SQL Server to connect to my Access database, but I keep getting the following error:
OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error. [OLE/DB provider returned message: The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file 'X:SetupDatabaseKDB_X2.mdb'. It is already opened exclusively by another user, or you need permission to view its data.] OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80004005: ].
I have checked the database, it is not in use, and there is no password set on the database that would prevent me from getting access to it. Any ideas? Here's the syntax I'm using:
SELECT * FROM OpenRowset('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'X:SetupDatabaseKDB_X2.mdb';'Admin';'', subPSEL_PList))
I having an excel file called TEST.XLS (in c: drive) which has 3 columns (c0,c1,c2) & 8 rows c0 c1 c2 1 a A 2 b B 3 c C 4 d D 5 e E 6 f F 7 g G 8 h H
In sql server i have one table called TEST which has three columns c0 char(10) c1 char(10) c2 char(10)
when i runnig the following query
select * into TEST from openrowset('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Excel 8.0;Database=C:TEST.xls;HDR=YES', 'select * from [Sheet1$]')
i am getting error like this
Server: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error. [OLE/DB provider returned message: The Microsoft Jet database engine could not find the object 'Sheet1$'. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and the path name correctly.] OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' IColumnsInfo::GetColumnsInfo returned 0x80004005: ].
Version : Sql server 2000 & Excel 2002
Anybody having any idea why this error occuring? thanks in advance... Philkos
I am having trouble exporting the correct data from sql server to an excel spreadsheet using 'OPENROWSET'
The problem is that although the data from my sql table is say : 'a',1,2,3 , the excel spreadsheet sees the data as : 'a','1,'2,'3 ..1,2,3 are of course numbers NOT text, its just that the driver has put a single appostraphy before the number !
I know there is a bug with the ISAM driver but has anyone managed to solve this or has anyone have any alternatives ?
I'm doing an openrowset query on an excel sheet. (Using SQL Server 2005) Everything works great, except that I have one column that has both numeric and text data in the spreadsheet. The query returns that column as datatype varchar but puts nulls in the rows that have numeric data in the spreadsheet.
Any suggestions?
I run:
select * from openrowset('microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0', 'Excel 8.0;database=[filepathandname], 'select * from [Sheet1$A4:G5000]')
Hy Forum !I tried to do somsthing like this:CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.maches ASselect * from openrowset('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','C: empFehler.mdb'; 'Administrator'; ' ' , Fehlerliste)This user 'Admistrator' exists and there is no password for the .mdbfile. In the end the syntax checker tells me:Fehler 7303: Datenquellenoblekt von OLE DB Provider'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' konnte nicht initialisiert werden.I'm using Access 2000 and SQL Server 7.Thank you
I have an excel file on a web server on a different location to the sql server. I want to use OPENROWSET to query the excel file, but it doesn't seem to like using a URL.
Is this the case, or am I doing it wrong? Works fine when I use a local address (eg c:excelfile.xls) when testing locally, but I need to use a URL in production.
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=http://mydot.com/excelfile.xls','SELECT * FROM [page1$]')
I have an access database from which i want to use data in sql server if a table has column with values like 6.32404E-244 i've got an error message like:
OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' for linked server '(null)' returned invalid data for column '[Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0].Stoc_Max'
a simple select like 'SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(.....,table) gives me this error.
We have lots of OPENROWSET usage here, all with embedded user id's and passwords. In an attempt to find a way to eliminate such a foolish practice I created a system DSN on my PC and tried to use it to connect to our sqlserver 2000 database as follows:
SELECT a.* FROM OPENROWSET('MSDASQL','DSN=TargetDB', 'SELECT * FROM table1') AS a
Server: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 OLE DB provider 'MSDASQL' reported an error. Authentication failed. [OLE/DB provider returned message: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.] OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'MSDASQL' IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80040e4d: Authentication failed.].
I thought the reason to create an ODBC system data source was to not have to enter credentials in code but use the credentials in the system DSN. I guess I was wrong. Is there any way to not embed user id's and passwords in OPENROWSET code? Having user id's and passwords in code is dangerous and foolish and I am surprised people do it.
Hi everyone, I have some doubts about OPENROWSET T-SQL function . According to my knowledges about this, openrowset function provide us to use a data from a different Server only that time that we use this function. After we use this function, there is no any linked server trace on the local server. So is this true ? I see that everyone use different parameter for this function. For instance, everyone firstly use OLE DB name and then the second srvprovider name changes programmer to programmer, so why ? And lastly, I wonder about the relationship between ad hoc method and openrowSet function.
Hi! I'm using OPENROWSET to import data from an excel file into a MS SQL table.I got it to work.....Now,my problem is that not all the data from the SQL table is imported and some values are different than the ones in the excel file. For example,in the excel file,I have the value:87987845.In the SQL table,the value is:8.79878e+007.Any idea on what causes this?
I have to loop through number of tables on a remote servers. Now i have witten a script(simple sql script) which loops though tables names and gets data using OpenRowSet().
My alternative way is through SSIS, keeping RetainSameConnecion=True, and then looping.
My question is,
Does calling OpenRowSet, creates a new connection each time the statement is executed? If Not, then how's SSIS better in this case? (please confirm that, since i was not able to see any audit login/logout in profiler)
I'm intersted only to see if the login happens three time, but i'm not able to see that. Also, there was no Audit Logout. Does SQL Server automatically pool connections ? If i run Openrowset 3 times, shouldn't it open & close connection 3 times ?
I have a text file, that I need to import to SQL. I am trying to do this using OPENROWSET. This is the qry i use below.
select * from OpenRowset('MSDASQL', 'Driver={Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv)}; DefaultDir=c:edge;', 'select * from vwConstrLendingLoanDefiDetailReady.txt')
I have created a System DSN, For the microsoft text driver. Anyhow it throws this error:
Server: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 OLE DB provider 'MSDASQL' reported an error. [OLE/DB provider returned message: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified] OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'MSDASQL' IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80004005: ].
Seeing that the old system table syslang is no longer updateable(Not even in DAC) i decided to take a look at the definition of it, just to see where the languages are stored.(out of curiosity)
can someone tell me why the upper part of the dynamic sql doesn't work while the lower does? i use openrowset to connect to Oracle. thanks!
declare @abc varchar(10)
select @abc = 'table20070921'
execute ('select a.* from OPENROWSET(''MSDAORA'',''SCHEME1'';''USER'';''PASSWORD'', ''select * from ' + @abc + ' where flag = ''abc'') as a')
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 2 Incorrect syntax near 'abc'. Msg 105, Level 15, State 1, Line 2 Unclosed quotation mark after the character string ') as a'.
I'm working with SQL 2005 and I want to connect to other server but i can't use linked server option because of secutirty policies.
In the remot server I have a stored procedure which retrieve me information depending on one header and the date i'm consulting. Then I use that information in my local server and i need to automate the process.
I have been trying with OPENROWSET and it works ok, but just with the first header, when I execute it with other header it doesn't work.
Select * from OPENROWSET('SQLOLEDB',Server; 'user';'pwd', 'Exec servidor.esquema.sp_Consulta 2,''20070101'',''20071031''') ______________________________
Mens. 7355, Nivel 16, Estado 1, Línea 1
The OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "(null)" supplied inconsistent metadata for a column. The name was changed at execution time.
Another issue i want to solve is that i want to sent the date as a parameter, 'cause i need the information montly. I was reading that the openrowset and opendatasource are macros not functions, I think that's why it doesn't accept parameters in the string of the query, but now i don't know how to do to work with all the information (remote and local) without OPENROWSET, OPENDATASOURCE, LINK SERVER or an SSIS.
