Please can anyone help me - I am trying to establish whether there are any reserved symbols in SQL passwords
eg % £ " $ ( / < * etc
The SQL BOL has a list of reserved words but I cannot find a list of reserved symbols.
We have a problem where by for example if the main part of the password is "test" and my user wants to add a punctuation mark into this we get "You are attempting to use an invalid character message"
Specifically
"test$" is accepted "$test" is not accepted
None of "te+st" "+test" "test+" are accepted.
Has anyone else come across this and found a list of the logic that produces these results so I can point my users in the right direction?
MyCommand = New SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * From Tbl_Table where Type = '" & TestType.tostring & "' ", MyConnection)
----------- Then I have this one which I am very proud of because I can retrieve any word or part of word from the Item-field:
Test_Text=(Session("session-Text").tostring)
Dim val1, val2, val3 as string val1 = Test_Text val2 = "%" val3= val1 + val2
MyCommand = New SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * From Tbl_Table where Item Like '%" & val1 & " %' OR Item Like '%" & val3 & " %' ", MyConnection)
------------ The problem is: When I try to merge these two in one big "AND" row as shown below, It only cares of picking up the Test_Text string and ignores totaly the TestType one! I guess it is a matter of punctuation, can any one help me? Thanks.
MyCommand = New SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * From Tbl_Table where Type = '" & TestType.tostring & "' AND Item Like '%" & val1 & " %' OR Item Like '%" & val3 & " %'", MyConnection)
Has anyone had to deal with removing punctuation (commas, apostrophes,etc.) from a column? What is the most efficient way to have thesecharacters automatically removed from the column?
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I have a block of xml that I wish to update in my sql database. The problem I have is the the data has double and single quotation marks in it and all my attempts to send this to my sql database gives me errors reguarding the quotation marks. Is there a way I can send the xml to the database without these problems. I am using the xml in the sql database to make it easy to read and right the xml as xmldatasource does not allow reading and writing easily. this section shows the problem, i am loading xml from a file and trying to insert this into the sql database XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(Server.MapPath("xml/wt.xml"));reader.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None;XmlDocument xmlDocF = new XmlDocument();xmlDocF.Load(reader);this.SqlDataSource1.UpdateCommand = "update [data] set [linkXML] '" + xmlDocF.InnerXml+ "' where [index] = 1" ;this.SqlDataSource1.Update();reader.Close(); pls help
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Hi All, I am trying to insert symbols in a field of a table.
I am using the datatype nvarchar for the field. However when i tried to insert a statement with the symbol pi, it comes out as following: (A) 100? cm2 (B) 140? cm2 (C) 200? cm2
All the pi symbol are converted to ?.
Can ne 1 tell me how i can store such strings in the field.
Here's the output when I type .reload in windbg (minus warning messages):
20:266> .reload
DBGHELP: C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8SmartDevicesSDKSQL ServerMobilev3.0wce500armv4isqlceqp30.dll - OK DBGENG: C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 8SmartDevicesSDKSQL ServerMobilev3.0wce500armv4isqlceqp30.dll - Mapped image memory SYMSRV: C:SDKsMS_SymbolFilessqlceqp30.pdb79F8C010CB11435E99474335288548601sqlceqp30.pdb not found SYMSRV: C:SDKsMS_SymbolFilessqlceqp30.pdb79F8C010CB11435E99474335288548601sqlceqp30.pdb not found SYMSRV: http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols/sqlceqp30.pdb/79F8C010CB11435E99474335288548601/sqlceqp30.pdb not found DBGHELP: sqlceqp30.pdb - file not found *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for sqlceqp30.dll - DBGHELP: sqlceqp30 - export symbols
Why can't it find the .pdb file on the symbol server and where else should I look?
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"550""""N""FAIR OAKS"""
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I know, you're not supposed to used reserved keywords but the person who initially created this didn't know. We would prefer not to change the column name as this would require tons of changes in the code & COM object.
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