SQL 2K System Table Changes (Unicode) And 6.5 Compat. Feedback Plz :)

Aug 5, 2005

Greetings all,

I am looking for feedback on the following situation :) please leave your thoughts.

Little history:
1)We are in the process of migrating some of our applications from SQL 6.5 to SQL 2k.
2)The application was written to access the system tables directly under 6.5 (don't look at me, I know microsofts standing on this, i'm just the dba not the dev)

The situation is this:
The SQL 6.5 to SQL 2k migration is going great, no problems there...

The problem is the change to Unicode for system tables etc. So when they try to run the app it freaks out when it trys to access the data in the system tables getting unicode returned instead of text.

I know Unicode is the underlying arcitecture of SQL 7.0, 2k and so on but does anyone know any possible way or trick to get around this without altering the application code?

As a DBA I have not seen or heard of being able to do anything of the sort but I have to ask to make sure there is nothing I have over looked. This is more a matter of C.Y.A. ;)

Unicode in SQL2K
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/sql_dataencoding.asp
6.5 vs 7.0 and the system table changes
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/5658/5658.html?Ad=1

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I have some long running scripts which I fire at my database using osql.(These are big files and mostly doing inserts but some also do a few otherthings.) It would be nice to have some activity indication (other than thedisk activity light) that these are running. When I used to use Oracle,their equivalent to osql had an option to print a dot (without a carriagereturn) for every "n" statements. This gave a nice "I'm alive" indicator. Ican simulate this by adding a few "print" statements in my sql, but printalways adds a carriage return. Does anyone know a way of doing a print butwithout the addition of a CR (or CR/LF)? So that a second "print" sends itsoutput to the same line as the first?I know this is a nicety and I can live without it, but it would be nice.thanks in advance,Brianwww.cryer.co.uk/brian

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Server Feedback

Jan 19, 2006

I haven't touched MSSS in a looong timeWhen a SELECT returns say 3 rows what does the feedback say ?(eg Oracle/sqlplus says "3 rows selected")What if "no data found", what is the feedback ?thanks

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Looking For Feedback: Is SQL Express Too Big?

Apr 4, 2007

I€™d like everyone€™s help is do some research into an often heard, but rarely explained, complaint related the SQL Express. Your answers will help me plan future versions of SQL Express. Feel free to respond directly in the forum or by sending e-mail to me. (Note: Remove the word online from the e-mail address in my profile or it will bounce.)
The complaint: €œSQL Express is too big.€?
I€™m trying to understand what this really means and what specific technical issues are caused by this €œbigness€?. Here are some questions to help frame your answer.
Size means size
1. Is the size of the SQL Express installer package an issue for you? (SQL Express 32 €“ 52 MB / SQL Express Advanced ~250 MB)
2. Why is this size an issue?
3. Would you be willing to sacrifice functionality to reduce the size of the installer package?
Size means disk space
1. Do the SQL Express binaries take up too much room on the hard drive?
2. Would you be willing to sacrifice functionality to reduce the amount of HD space needed?
3. Do your databases take up too much disk space?
4. Would you be willing to pay money to reduce the size of the database file?
5. How much money?
Size means memory
1. Does SQL Express take up too much memory when it€™s running?
2. What impact does this have on you?
3. SQL Express currently reduces its memory set when it is idle which results in a delay when it becomes active again? Is this a reasonable trade-off to reduce memory usage when you€™re not using the database engine?
4. Do you normally use SQL Express for single user applications (local data store) or for multi-user applications (server data)?
5. If you run SQL Express as a server, do you run it on a dedicated computer or on a computer running other programs as well?
6. What kinds of programs does SQL Express have to share with?
7. Should SQL Express give up memory resources to other programs running on the same machine?
8. Are you willing to accept a reduction in performance in order to have memory resources shared?
Size means something else
1. Is there something I didn€™t cover?
I€™ll be tracking this thread, but will try not to comment to much since this is about your feedback, not my answers.
Mike Wachal
SQL Express Program Management

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Feedback Required

May 19, 2008

I wrote a post in the connect forums almost two weeks ago, but haven't got any response yet.
So I'll post here as well, hoping that someone from the SQL team will stumble upon this.

My post is about a possible bug in SQL.
Here's the url:
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=342390

Marko

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Apr 1, 2014

I am stuck on finding a solution to transpose source data from a system via a metadata look-up table into a destination table. I need a method to transpose/pivot the source data into columns (which are by various data-types). The datatypes for each column are listed in a metadata table.

Source Data Table:

Table Name: Source

SrcID AGE City Date
01 32 London 01-01-2013
02 35 Lagos 02-01-2013
03 36 NY 03-01-2013

Metadata Table:

Table Name:Metadata

MetaID Column_Name Column_type
11 AGE col_integer
22 City col_character
33 Date col_date

Destination table:

The source data to be loaded into the destination table(as shown below):

Table Name: Destination

SrcID MetaID col_int col_char col_date
01 11 32 - -
01 22 - London -
01 33 - - 01-01-2013
02 11 35 - -
02 22 - Lagos -
02 33 - - 02-01-2013
03 11 36 - -
03 22 - NY -
03 33 - - 03-01-2013

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Jan 6, 2008

 
hi all
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