Does anyone know of a SQL Server product that would let me do the following?
Connect to the instance
Configure thresholds like,
1.Show databases not backed up in the last X days
2. Show databases that are full that have logs not backed up in the last
x days/hours.
3. Show jobs that have failed in the last x days.
I would then like to click a process button and have it bring back anything
that is outside those thresholds?, any thing like that in a windows
application?
I am using the code below to get all the children of a particular product and it is working fine. How to get the particular product's id in the select statement. for example, i need to show 891 in a separate column for all the records returned by the query below.
DECLARE @Hierarchy TABLE (Product_Id INT, Parent_Product_Id INT) INSERT INTO @Hierarchy VALUES (123, 234) INSERT INTO @Hierarchy VALUES (234, 456) INSERT INTO @Hierarchy VALUES (456, 678) INSERT INTO @Hierarchy VALUES (678, 891) INSERT INTO @Hierarchy VALUES (891, NULL)
I want to upgrade 5 SQL Server 6.5 production boxes to SQL Server 7. I got SQL Server 7.0 pricing and licensing list from www.microsoft.com/sql/70/gen/pricing.htm and I think I should buy 5 SQL Server 7.0 Combined Product/Version/Competitive Upgrade (Since I have been using SQL Server 6.5, I don’t need to buy the full product. Is this right?). I am not sure if the upgrade offer (the price is much lower than the full product offer $699/$1399) includes the SQL Server 7.0 both software and access license.
How can the licensing product key with which SQL Server is installed be replaced/updated? If this is possible, will the same procedure apply both to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005?
The SQL server 2005 is needed to be put for user's access as database backend for VB.net application. We need only one system for development. Which is best suited for our application?
Is there any way to change product key after installation of SQL Server 2005 or must be SQL Server reinstalled. We have used wrong one for our customer because carelessness. Any problem if customer use product with old product key, but have a legal licence for product?
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I inherited some SQL 2005 server boxes with NO CDs to be found...Is there any easy way to verfiy if these SQL boxes were trial edtions or full licensed production version...?
Hi --- I would like a few users to be query tables, run (create ?) stored procedures, etc. on a SQL 2005 Workgroup database (the sql server is on a dedicated server)...
Will the Toolkit version (or any other version) support this?
I am trying to get information of SQL Server licensed key which is installed on our servers. I am using SQL Server 2005 standard edition. Is there a way to find out the product key which is installed on servers. I did some searches and found some thirdparty software to get that information but I don't want to use them on production, is there a way which microsoft recommends.
I am having a question about SSIS. Is it a totally new product in SQL Server 2005 or it is a upgrade version of previous version DTS? Thanks a lot for any guidance for that.
I have a customer, Customer who has purchased SQL Server Standard Edition 2005 via Open License Agreement. The product key is not available with the media.
I checked with eOpen team and confirmed that SQL 2005 does not require product key or Volume License Key for installation.
however, according to the VKB article 331355 titled "eOpen License Web Site" under "Exceptions" it is mentioned as:
SQL Server: The product key is distributed with the media. If the customer did not get a product key with the media, refer them to their reseller. The product key is hidden between two shrink-wrapped CDs.
I am trying to get SQL Express 2005 installed, I have tried this on two PC's within the Domain. Both get the same error. I am the Admin, MCSE since 1999, but I DO NOT know much about SQL. Have search Google for two days, renamed DLL's, installed localy, copied off the CD, update .net, windows updates.... The PC will load SQL 2005 (full version) and 2000, but the app doesnt seem to want anything but the Express version... any ideas would help...
btd43@hotmail.com westcoastpc@gmail.com
Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition -- Error 1937. An error occurred during the installation of assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Rmo,Version="9.0.242.0",Culture="neutral",processorArchitecture="MSIL",PublicKeyToken="89845dcd8080cc91",FileVersion="9.0.2047.0"'. The signature or catalog could not be verified or is not valid. HRESULT: 0x80131045. assembly interface: IAssemblyCacheItem, function: Commit, component: {D1B86CEE-1C5E-4960-B99F-7142D1582B1B}
I am using MS Access 2003 SP2 to maintain some data tables. I use SSIS to transfer them to SQL Server 2005, Enterprise Edition.
When I run the SSIS package from within Visual Studio 2005, the package runs without error.
When I try to run the same SSIS package by double-clicking on it in my File System (which invokes the Execute Package Utility, Version: 1.0) none of the tables get copied. Instead all I receive is a message for each table,
Error: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PRODUCTLEVELTOLOW. The product level is insufficient for component "Data Conversion 1" (49).
The only data conversion I perform is double-byte characters to single-byte characters.
Bob Bojanic, MSFT, made a few suggestions about this in another thread -- but I have created this new thread to help focus on this specific issue. In particular, he asked if we have installed the complete SSIS support for SQL Server 2005, Enterprise Edition, and my network support and database support staff assure me that such complete SSIS support was installed.
Are others having this problem?
Dan
(I just took a look at some of the transformations in the Data Conversion task, and many of them are using an Output Alias identical to the Input Column name. Might that be causing the problem? I will try changing the Output Alias for some tables and see if they then transfer correctly. The "identical name" Output Alias values were created by the Migration Wizard for a DTS 2000 package.)
While I am trying to install SQL server 2005 I get the following message - "Machine does not have a product that matches the installation package". The installation does not occur.
I am using Windows 2000 Professional SP4 and using 32 bit installer - SQLServer2005SP2-KB921896-x86-ENU.exe
Hello I installed MS SQl 2005 the eval version and it has expired. I have bought a copy now and i need to put the product keys in without having to reinstall the program. Is there anyway i can do this with having to reinstall SQl again.. Any help would be great
To retrieve all products of type 'A', one must know the table name, in this case 'productA'.
Here is one method.
Create a table that contains the table name that corresponds to each product type, thus the stored procedure only needs to recieve the type_id which can be used to obtain the name of the respective table.
I am installing SQL Server x64 on a new server, and I was told to use the same license key we have for the other servers... but no one seems to know where it is. Is there any way I could see the license key for one of the working boxes so I could put it on the new one?
I have a field with numbers (double datatype) as values and I want a aggregate function that gives me the product of all the values in that field. Is there a way to do that in SSRS?
We are building a system that has mobile clients (laptop with XP and tablet with XP). These clients have data moving back and forth to a centralised n-tier server based system. The communications is proprietory and are very low bandwidth (5 KByte/sec).
We've decided that the best approach to handling both the reference data (ranging from trivial to a complex list of items - about 2 million rows) and the day-to-day operational data is with a database product rather than attempting to handle it ourselves within code.
The question is - what SQL platform to use? SQL Everywhere seems to be a fairly good choice except that it does not seem to support stored procedures. SQL Express is another possibility but there are concerns about the size of the footprint and managing the database engine and the database itself.
The users of the mobile client are considered computer illiterate and would not be able to manage any database administrative tasks. They only come back to base every three to six months. History has shown remote management of the machine has proven difficult (if not impossible) via the low bandwidth connection.
The machines have 512MB of RAM and only 40GB of disk. They have to support XP, Office, our client, and our GIS client. What is the best answer?
When I was setting up my new SQL server I entered the CD-KEY off of the wrong license. I don't want to have to uninstall everything to reinstall it with the new CD-KEY.
Is there a way to change the CD-KEY after installation?
I have a search box on my website which is used to search the products database. I will be using the search text in an SQL stored procedure that uses LIKE statements. The search string could realistically contain any character. How do I prevent SQL injection when any search string is reasonably feasible? .
I know "select distinct ProductId from Product " selects one product only one time how can i apply the same logic in a query like give bellow SELECT I.QuoteRequestItemId, I.ProductId ,P.StorePartNumber from QuoteRequestItem I left join Product P on I.ProductId = P.ProductId ie product with same productId should be considered only oncethere should not be more than one row with same productId
I have a SQL statement with two left outer joins which connects 3 tables. Vendors, Tracking & Activity. For whatever reason, even though each is a one-to-many relationship, I am able to join 2 tables (from Vendors to Tracking) without an issue. when I then join Activity, I get a Cartesian product.I suspected that 'DISTINCT'.
SELECT DISTINCT CASE WHEN `vendor`.`companyname` IS NULL then 'No Company Assigned' ELSE `vendor`.`companyname` END AS companyNameSQL, `tracking`.`pkgTracking`, CASE
