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My question is aimed at SQL Server 2000. Part ofmy job role has swicthed to SQL Developer to Database Administrator.
To learn SQL Server 2000 (latest version available to me) I wanted to find out about courses (based in London, UK) which help teach along the lines of the following topics:
Fundamental concepts
SQL Server installation and upgrade
Database management
Backup and recovery
Alerts and jobs
Security
Replication
Monitoring SQL Server
Converting and migrating data
This is what I understand to be prior importance for the role.
My main question to you guys: Can anyone recommend a reference book which is a good desktop companion which covers all of these topics to detailed depth??
I'm running SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2003 Server. I'm aware some books may be old, but the later they are the better?
I've studied SQL at uni, covering RDMS, OLAP, Data manipulation, Data Definition. But now its to be applied to SQL SERVER 2000
There are between 10 and 15 books in the set. I recall an index, developer's book, administrator's book, and two T-SQL reference books. I don't remember what the other books were. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I had these books at my disposal at my last place of employment and I'm trying to get the same books here. If this sounds familiar to anyone, can you point me in the right direction? Thanks
With SQL 2000 and MSDE 2000, I only had to put a "." for the server name in a connection string. Now with SQL Express 2005 I have to acually reference the server instance name ".SQLEXPRESS".
Why is this?
Also, when running the command line tools for running scripts, I have to include the parameter "-S MACHINESQLEXPRESS" in the command line where as before I never used the -S parameter at all.
Anyone know why? I am curious because it is going to cause an impact on our upgrades for the client.
My only answer to these questions is that there is no SQL Agent running anymore.
Hi, I'm trying to insert the Url for the image control in the Report designer. As per your article there should be an option (radio button) in Image Wizard to use set the URL for the reports. But i do not get that option at all. All i get is these options a) - Embedded b) - Project c) - Database I do not get a URL option. My problem is that i have a URL path to the images that are stored on a Web Server. I would like to this path to be the source of the Image control. I can't make it work. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks, GJ
I am working in SSRS 2000, and I have a report using a table. In the footer of the table I want to do a calcuation. I have a textbox in the table called "SumAmtCurrent", which is a sum value for a field in my dataset. I have another field in my dataset, "TotalRevCurrent", and I would like to take this second field, subtract the value in the textbox "SumAmtCurrent", and have the result in the footer of the table. I tried to reference the textbox using ReportItems!SumAmtCurrent.Value - but that gives me the following error
"...The value expression for the textbox €˜textbox7€™ refers to the report item €˜SumAmtCurrent€™. Report item expressions can only refer to other report items within the same grouping scope or a containing grouping scope..."
Is there a way I can get this total into my report?
I am using vs 2010 to write my dtsx import scripts.I use a script component as a source to create a flat file destination file.Everything have been working fine,but then my development machine crashed and we have to install everything again.Now when i use the execute package utility to test my scripts i get the following error:
Error system.NullReferenceException: Object refrence not set to an instance reference.
In PreExecute section TextReader = new system.io.streamreader(" file name") In the CreateNewOutputRows: dim nextLine as string nextLine = textReader.ReadLine
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is there something which i did not install or what can be the error?
I'm creating a trigger in an Sql Server Project that needs to execute some code. Is it possible to reference any assembly? When I click "add reference" to the project I cannot browse to an assembly.
What are the limitations of this feature? I was under the impression you could execute any .net code.
I have a DLL coded in C# which has a one Function which returns 0 or 1 depends on the operation. I am using SQL 2005 and same functionality I want to reuse in SQL. So I have decided to use new functionality of 2005 CLR integration to avoid code redudancy.
I will create a function and that function will call internally this DLL and return value. But my problem is here that I am not able to set a reference to the C# dll. I am getting messages Sql Server Projects can refer only other sql Server projects.
I think there must be some other way to set reference. Please let me know if any one know how to achieve. Kishor
I have created a job which performs linked server inserts, the job is scheduled to run every 15min. The Job inserts to a local linked server, some data from one of our log tables. That linked server inturn gathers more data from other servers and exports that data to another application for further processing.
My problem is that I need to reference local machine (DNS Name) as a variable which can be passed along with the linked server insert. If I can get the Server name dynamically I can run this as a remote job on 2 or 20 or 200 servers and It will give the log data and the name of the source server.
QUESTION: How Do I reference the server name from within TSQL as a variable.
SELECTDISTINCTLOC.[place-ref] AS 'Place Ref' ,PLA.address1 AS 'Address1' ,PLA.address2 AS 'Address2' ,PLA.address3 AS 'Address3' ,PLA.address4 AS 'Address4' ,PLA.address5 AS 'Address5' ,PLA.[post-code] AS 'Postcode' ,LOC.[location-sts] AS 'Location Status'
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Above is a small example.
As you can see 13 Alamein Avenue is listed twice. This is because it pulls back the former and the current tenancy. I don't want to exclude former tenancies - so I want to pull back the most recent Tenancy Reference for each Place Reference.
When I create a Smart Device project and and try to add a reference to SQL Server CE only the old version (3.0.3600.0) shows up. How do I get the new one (3.1) to show up?
I am trying to eliminate a scalar function by rewriting a view. I currently have a structure similar to the following:
With FirstQuery as (SELECT Trial, SBOI, TBOI, FROM TU WHERE SBOI Between 22000 and 22999 and TBOI < 10000), strt as (SELECT TOP 1 TimeOfEvent, Trial, SBOI, TBOI From TU ORDER BY TimeOfEvent),
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What I trying to do is for the Trial, SBOI, and TBOI in FirstQuery, find the Start Time and Stop Time. TimeOfEvent is an integer in milliseconds. Say I have the following data:
TrialIDÂ Â Â Â SBOIÂ Â Â Â TBOIÂ Â Â Â TimeOfEvent AÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 22000Â Â 5000Â Â Â Â Â 5 AÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 22000Â Â 5000Â Â Â Â Â 10 BÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 22000Â Â Â 5000Â Â Â Â Â 8 BÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 22000Â Â 5000Â Â Â Â Â 15
So the DISTINCTÂ output would be:
    Trial    SBOI    TBOI    StartTime    StopTime     A        22000  5000     5                 10     B        22000  5000    8                 15
The problem I am having is that strt is selecting the smallest time period. It doesn't seem to care what the current record in cte is. I thought that by using my joins, it would make it select smallest TimeOfEvent for the Trial, SBOI, and TBOI that are selected in cte. Obviously that is not the case. So, I was trying to add a WHERE to the strt Select Statement such asÂ
WHERE TrialID = FirstQuery.TrialID and SBOI = FirstQuery.SBOI and TBOI = FirstQuery.TBOI but it isn't working either.
I'm trying to update a table in MyDB1 with a value in MyDB2 on the same SQL server (2000)
UPDATE MyDB1.dbo.Users SET MyDB1.dbo.Users.InstantASP_UserID = MyDB2.dbo.InstantASP_Users.UserID FROM MyDB2 INNER JOIN dbo.aspnet_Membership a ON a.UserId = MyDB1.dbo.Users.UserID WHERE MyDB2.dbo.InstantASP_Users.EmailAddress = a.Email
I don't want to have to create a linked server. It's on the same box.
We have a stored procedure that makes a decision to pull records from one of two servers.
If one of these servers became unavailable but was no longer queried would the stored procedure still work? Doesn't SQL recompile stored procedures periodically?
Something like this:
If @ServerAIsDown=1 begin select * from ServerB.dbo.MyTable end else begin select * from ServerA.dbo.MyTable end
I have a table with constantly changing data - stock.
I want to start monitoring the value of stock at the end of each month. I can do this with a simple query, export the results to Excel and store on the network.
My question is:
Are there better ways to do this with SQL Server?
I thought of a monthly "job" that does the query and outputs to a file. (Need to be able to look at each month separately though for trend monitoring.)
Then wondered, if I should have an extra table to store the data and write queries on that in the future?
I am not new to the SQL Server world, but am somewhat new to the SQL Server 2005 world. I am just getting into the reporting tool. By just messing around for about an hour or so, I was able to get what I wanted somewhat. Basically, I'd like to get up to speed on the reporting side of things fairly quickly. So I am looking at some books, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on any.
Here is a few that caught my eye:
-MS SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services by Brian Larson -MS SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services for Dummies -Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services by Paul Turley -The Rational Guide to SQL Server Reporting Services
I am thinking the 1st two would probably be my best bet, but wanted to get you folks suggestions.
Let me know as soon as you can as I am planning on going to the book store tonight or this weekend.
Facing a strange problem, but obviously not expected earlier on, I am trying to execute a stored procedure via ADO which refrences a linked server table and I get an error specifying " OLEDB provider SQLOLEDB does not contain table "<DatabaseName>"."<owner>"."<tableName>" "
Has any one else encountered this problem before ? regards Govind
Is it possible to reference a temporary global tale (##table) of a linked server using the 4 parts "identifier": linkedserver.database.schema_name.##object_name ?? Thanks in advance for your help.
I get this error when trying to alter a stored procedure that has an insert statement referencing a new linked server I created:
INSERT INTO [servername].databasename.dbo.DirectReport ...
Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Procedure Get_Direct_Pay_Move_Data, Line 17 Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS LOGON'.
I added Administrators and my logon to the permissions of my linked server but still get this error when it tries to save my stored proc...the one which has that insert.
One of our Oracle Tables changed and I am wondering if there's any way that I can query all of our Stored Procedures to try and find out if that Oracle Table Name is referenced in any of our SQL Server Stored Procedures OPENQUERY statements?
Hello, i have a question that the sql server 2000 is install in window 2000 server. If i want to update to window 2003. Is that any problem in sql server 2000. I am worry about whether we will have problem after update. What i need to do? Many thanks.
Hi All, I would like to know, how the datetime will be stored in the sqlserver datetime column. Because some time i am giving the date in dd/mm/yyyy and sometime mm/dd/yyyy. while give the date in mm/dd/yyyy works fine but not in the another case. and also while i execute a query on query analyser it shows the datetime in yyyy/mm/dd format. So anyone can please tell me how the dates will be stored in the datetime column of sqlserver database? Thanks in Advance. Regards, Dhanasekaran. G
I am currently running SQL Server 2000 Standard on my production system, and I am looking to upgrade the system to Windows 2000 Adv. Server. I would also like to upgrade SQL Server 2000 Standard to SQL Server 2000 Enterprise to utilize more than 2GB of memory. Can anyone tell me what is the best way to upgrade the system, and please provide some feedback on your experiences with the upgrade. Thanks in advance.
We are experiencing a problem with Sql Server 2000 linking to anAccess 97 file. We have two machines that link to this .mdb file, andwe recently upgraded one to newer hardware, SP3a, MDAC 2.8, etc. Thelink on this upgraded machine no longer works, giving this message:Server: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error.[OLE/DB provider returned message: Cannot open a database created witha previous version of your application.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80004005: ].The link on the older machine still works. We decided to tryconverting a copy of the file to Access 2000 to see if the newerpatches/drivers/whatever no longer supported 97. We set up a link onboth machines to this file, and they both work. However, on theupgraded machine, the following error is receievedServer: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' reported an error.[OLE/DB provider returned message: System resource exceeded.]OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0'ICommandText::Execute returned 0x80004005: ].when making 1-3 connections to the the linked server, while the oldermachine supports at least 7 simultaneous queries connecting to thelinked server and still hasn't produced that error.Does anyone have any idea if there is a known issue with linking toAccess 97/2000 files under MDAC 2.8, Jet 4.0, etc? Any light anyonecan shine on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
Does any one has any clue for this error ? I did went through a lot of articles on this error but none helped . I am working in Visual studie 2005 and trying to upload image in sql database through a simple form. Here is the code
using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Web.Configuration; using System.IO; public partial class Binary_frmUpload : System.Web.UI.Page {protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { }protected void btnUpload_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {if (FileUpload.HasFile == false) { // No file uploaded!lblUploadDetails.Text = "Please first select a file to upload..."; } else {string str1 = FileUpload.PostedFile.FileName; string str2 = FileUpload.PostedFile.ContentType; string connectionString = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["GSGA"].ConnectionString; //Initialize SQL Server Connection SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connectionString); //Set insert query string qry = "insert into Officers (Picture,PictureType ,PicttureTitle) values(@ImageData, @PictureType, @PictureTitle)"; //Initialize SqlCommand object for insert. SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(qry, con); //We are passing Original Image Path and Image byte data as sql parameters. cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@PictureTitle", str1)); cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@PictureType", str2));Stream imgStream = FileUpload.PostedFile.InputStream; int imgLen = FileUpload.PostedFile.ContentLength;byte[] ImageBytes = new byte[imgLen]; cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@ImageData", ImageBytes)); //Open connection and execute insert query. con.Open(); cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); con.Close(); //Close form and return to list or images.
} } }
Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.Source Error:
Line 32: Line 33: string str2 = FileUpload.PostedFile.ContentType; Line 34: string connectionString = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["GSGA"].ConnectionString; Line 35: Line 36: //Initialize SQL Server Connection Source File: c:UsersManojDocumentsVisual Studio 2005WebSitesGSGABinaryfrmUpload.aspx.cs Line: 34 Stack Trace:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] Binary_frmUpload.btnUpload_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:UsersManojDocumentsVisual Studio 2005WebSitesGSGABinaryfrmUpload.aspx.cs:34 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) +105 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +107 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +7 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +11 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +33 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +5102
When I try and run Report Builder Reports i get this error message "Object reference not set to an instance of an object. "
I can run reports locally but not from Report manager
here is the stack trace info
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.WebRequestHelper.GetExceptionForMoreInformationNode(XmlNode moreInfo, XmlNamespaceManager namespaces) +18 Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.WebRequestHelper.ExceptionFromWebResponse(Exception e) +358 Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ServerReport.ServerUrlRequest(Boolean isAbortable, String url, Stream outputStream, String& mimeType, String& fileNameExtension) +482 Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ServerReport.InternalRender(Boolean isAbortable, String format, String deviceInfo, NameValueCollection urlAccessParameters, Stream reportStream, String& mimeType, String& fileNameExtension) +958 Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ServerReportControlSource.RenderReport(String format, String deviceInfo, NameValueCollection additionalParams, String& mimeType, String& fileExtension) +84 Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ExportOperation.PerformOperation(NameValueCollection urlQuery, HttpResponse response) +143 Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.HttpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +75 System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +154 System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.210
Thanks in advance. What is maximum SQL Server database (*.mdf) file size with SQL Server 2000 as part of Microsoft Small Business Server 2000? (Database files were limited to 10 GB in SBS 4.5 with SQLServer 7.0... has this changed?).
