URGENT HELP PLS: Select Substring('NY',status/1024&&1+1,1) From Master..sysdatabases Where Name=DB_NAME()
Jul 20, 2005
Hi Everyone,
All the very best for 2004!!
i need urgent help with this problem, the users are about to skin me
alive!!
we have an access front end with linked to sql server 2k tables.
when a user tries to insert a record into one of the tables it
"randomly" returns a generic ODBC error and fails to save. on other
occasions the same record will save.
a trace was applied and the following select seemed to appear right
after the insert statement whenever it failed:
select substring('NY',status/1024&1+1,1) from master..sysdatabases
where name=DB_NAME()
i had a look at other articles in the groups re this select statement,
but could not find a clear answer.
i have tried the insert statements as both SQL pass throughs and just
plain docmd.runsql's
can someone help me with the following:
* what is the purpose of the select?
* what other investigations can i do to get more info on why this
should be happening?
* how can i stop it?
the table i am doing the inserts into is showing as have a numeric
data type field in sqlserver, but the linked table shows this numeric
field as text - could this be the problem?? this field is not used in
the insert statement.
i could not find any references in the MS knowledge base.
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select name, crdate from master.dbo.sysdatabases where name like 'xxx3%'
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I have a table which has a field called Org. This field can be segmented from one to five segments based on a user defined delimiter and user defined segment length. Another table contains one row of data with the user defined delimiter and the start and length of each segment. e.g.
Table 1
Org
aaa:aaa:aa
aaa:aaa:ab
aaa:aab:aa
Table 2
delim
Seg1Start
Seg1Len
Seg2Start
Seg2Len
Seg3Start
Seg3Len
:
1
3
5
3
9
2
My objective is to use SSIS and derive three columns from the one column in Table 1 based on the positions defined in Table 2. Table 2 is a single row table. I thought perhaps I could use the substring function and nest the select statement in place of the parameters in the derived column data flow. I don't seem to be able to get this to work.
Any ideas? Can this be done in SSIS?
I'd really appreciate any insight that anyone might have.
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Order Status is determined from Order Stage as follows:
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Here's the code :
update sysdatabases set status = 0 where name = 'RAS'
Does anyone out there know what I can do to fix this db? TIA! Bob S.
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