Unix, Windows For Unix, And Direct Read Of .mdf File This Is A True Story
Sep 13, 2007
First, let me start by saying I know the answer to this, but due to politics any answer I give will be viewed with some disdain and disbelief.
A Unix/Network [rtdpmin one our sister agencies is trying to solve a problem that really does not need to be solved, but ....
The sister agency uses Information Builder's WebFocus on Unix. When they try to read my data warehouse in SQL Server 2000 it times out on them (on their end and they claim they cannot fix it) (This is using the supplied WebFocus ODBC/JDBC driver for SQL Server). This has lead to accusations of us not letting them read the data.
After much gnashing of teeth over "if you do data and data analysis for a living, why do I have to show you how to set-up an ODBC connection" we have shown them how to connect to the data, read it, and transfer it using MS-ACCESS, EXCEL, and more importantly SPSS. This is not good enough because they cannot figure out how to put it into WebFocus.
Their network person has come-up with the brilliant idea of reading the .mdf directly by installing Windows for Unix on the Unix side and then just pointing to the .mdf file and "reading it ".
Unless I have missed something somwhere (I will admit possible), I know you need a driver to read MS-SQL and that driver in every example I have seen could care less about the physical location of the .mdf file. It wants to know what database, what server (ip or name) and what security/login to use.
Could someone give me a more "technical answer" or even Microsoft's party line so I do not have this person mucking around with my production server trying to acomplish the impossible.
I have a windows server 2003 R2 sharing a filesystem using NFS. I have created a group and passwd file and mapped the ids' to the unix login ids' . I', able to mount but when I try to cd to the directory I get "NFS access failed for server testsrvr: RPC: Authentication error". On the win2k3 server I'm getting an event error "There was a mapping failure". I have the Admin id on the win2k3 server mapped to the unix root login .
I am currently having issues getting the odbc32ad driver configured properly so I can transfer the database off of the old Oracle 7 database (currently running SCO UNIX). I have the orignal Oracle 7 disk and installed the drivers, but I am not sure what the SA login for Oracle is, nor do I know what the "Connection String" is.
Has anyone made this transfer before? Please help.
I need to create a File DSN on AIX Unix server which can connect to MS SQL server 2005 on a windows machine.Can anyone please give me step by step procedure how to do it.Its an urgent requirement. Please help me.
We are trying to move our application from SQL2005 to SQL2005, we are using 2005 jdbc driver 1.1.
The problem we have is, when a date is retrieved from the database, only the year part got correctly, but the date is automatically set to January 1 of that year. The interesting thing is this problem doesn't occur on local development environment (developer's windows platform), it only happens when we deploy the application to production server (unix).
Hi, I have a script written in ASP to load data file (.csv) to ms sql. In the script, I have a portion of script looks like taht : ..... Do While NOT oInFile.AtEndOfStream oOutFile.WriteLine Replace(oInFile.Readline, chr(13), vbcrlf)Loop ..... After that, I will use a BULK INSERT to input data to ms sql. I am wondering how do I convert each row (data) to vbcrlf in Stored Procedure? Coz' I did not compose the convertion part, and I got no error when running BULK INSERT, but no rows are inserted :( HELP!!!! I guess it's because the file is not being converted into a correct format??
How to create a text file in UNIX format using Flat File connection manager. By default when we create a connection manager for flat files it is taking "CRLF" as the delimeter.
I beleive the format of the file will be decided based on the control line feed character at the end of each row. There are different control line feeds for different operating systems.
CR - Mac OS (Carraige return) LF - UNIX (Line Feed) CRLF - Windows. (Carriage return Line Feed)
But my problem is that the firmat may not be generated in Windows and i can't user " " as row delimeter. It could be generated in Unix and want to use LF as the row delimeter.
Questions :
1) How do i specify this kind of new line (LF ) in formatfile? 2) Is there anyway that i can specify both the delimeters and let it use which ever is appropriate ?
I was a Oracle Developer / DBA on Unix Environments all along my career, Very recently iam starting to manage a SQL Server 2005/Windows 2003 Server setup.
Part of my new job is to automate to load Huge Data files/Flat Files (3/4 GB in size) into SQL Server 2005 DB.
Have these initial questions.. Since the files are too large to open at once... What sort of Command Line Interfaces people use on the Windows Boxes.. like doing a "wc" (Word Count) / GREP 'ng Files / Massaging Data Files one line at a time (Like using SED / AWK Commands).. Etc
I am very new to this board and I am not sure whether the following question belongs to this board. I will ask it anyway.
Can someone tell me where (book or web site or an example) I can go to learn how to be able to connect to a SQL Server database in a unix (in my case Solaris) environment using C/C++. I have been doing database programming using Oracle, Acess on NT with C/C++/ODBC comfortabley. I just need to learn how to go about in a Unix environment.
We have done a complex software with VB using SQL Server through ADO. Nowour customer is planning to switch from SQL Server to Unix/Aix Oracle 8 DB.I'm a newbie both in Oracle and Unix and wonder how this will affect oursoftware. Would changing the connection string be enough (I quess not).Any help would be appreciated !Jyrki HamalainenLaukaa, Finlandjyrki . hamalainen @ ids . fi
Hi we are in an envireonment where we use unix/linux mostly.. there are a lot of apps that run on this environment(eg coldfusion)now the concern for us is to be able to access the sql database on the NT/win2k boxes..what could be a solution for this are there any drives that any one can suggest for talking from unix to nt??
Is anyone has an experience with choosing between MS SQL7 (or 6.5) on NT Server box and Sybase on Unix (UnixWare 2) box to use this server as WEB server? Could you tell just a couple of advantages and disadvantages of each of those systems, or to point me at the source of useful for this compare information. Any help is very appreciated. Thanks
Has anyone tried to connect to a SQL Server 2K running on Windows 2000 from a unix machine? If so then could you provide me some help? Thanks in advance
Is it possible to insert a timestamp into a db if it's in this format?
Sep-04-13 07:13
I don't need it to stay in this format. I just need to know if I can cast it as a unix timestamp somehow & insert or if the manipulation to the datetime fomrat has to happen before inserting.
I have UNIX application, running on AIX, SUN and HP, (RISC & Itanium). This application working with Oracle, via OCI, and OCCI, (I can use ODBC as well).
I would like replace Oracle with SQL-Sever.
Does there is a way/driver to access MS-SQL Server from Unix?
We are running SCO Unix 5.0.5. We need a command line sql client that can connect to a MS SQL server running on a windows server. Can someone point me in the right direction? I don't want to write a sql client. I just want a command line sql client binary that is ready to work.
I want to do something like this in a unix shell script:
I am trying to connect Cognos to MSAS 2005 from an UNIX server (AIX). I am getting the following error:
QFS-ERR-0002 Unable to find or load the shared library '/cognos/c8/./bin/libykodp.so' (or one of its dependents) containing the provider 'MSAnalysis2005ODP'.
Is this file libykodp.so part of a SQL Server shared library (.o file) that must be installed on the UNIX server? Any pointers? Many thanks.
My program is running on UNIX, (SUN, AIX and HP), and work with Oracle. I would like to use SQL-Server instead of Oracle, but the program must run on UNIX.
Is there is a way/driver to work with SQL-Server from UNIX?
I am owrking in java developmenton solaris using weblogic6.0 Does any body know how to access sql server data from solaris. If some body knows that, can you please post me the steps that i need to do it.
I have moved a mysql table to SQL Server and the table had an int datatype storing the value of the Unix timestamp. I want to convert this datatype into a DATETIME type in SQL Server.
I've got a question about the UNIX timestamp solutions, I am using this one:
select convert(datetime, switchoffset(convert(datetimeoffset, dateadd(second, start_date, '19700101')), datename(TzOffset, sysdatetimeoffset()))) from x
This works great for today (wintertime), but when I query the past, say last week, it will still hold the current offset of my server GMT+1, where it was GMT+2.
Is there a way to get always the right date/time from a sql-query?
