I'm trying to upgrade my MSDE to sp3a, I'm following the instructions.
c:sql2ksp3MSDE
setup /upgradesp sqlrun DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=1
But receive the following message:
Invalid product code was found. Check if product is installed.
Then
Could not find package to install on the installation media.
Any help?
Thank you.
Select @@version does not know the difference between SP3 and SP3A.
Does anyone know of a SQL statement that will let me know if I have SP3A??
Thanks.
We have the rtm version of SQL 2000 and have spent the last 2.5 hours trying to apply SP3a. Nothing on the microsoft support site has pointed us to the solution.
Basically, we start the install after shutting down the services, answer all the questions and then when it starts to copy files it fails with an error
'microsoft data access component failed (-1).
Looking in c:winntdatestup.log, the error is unknown. The c:winntsqlsrp.log file is not touched.
We tried renaming the odbcconf.dll file per a microsoft article and no joy.
We also restored mdac_type.exe file per microsoft article and no joy.
Trying to install SP1 and SP2 - same results.
Anyone got any ideas besides it's time to call Microsoft?
:confused:
I am trying to install sql server sp3a. I checked the version before and after the sp is applied, and it shows:
8.00.194
Now, according to the sp3a readme:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/support/servicepacks/SQL/2000/SP3ReadMe.asp
the following versions should show:
SQL Server 2000 Original Release 8.00.194 RTM
Database Components SP1 or Desktop Engine SP1 8.00.384 SP1
Database Components SP2 or Desktop Engine SP2 8.00.534 SP2
Database Components SP3 or SP3a, or Desktop Engine SP3 or SP3a 8.00.760 SP3
This would imply that after installing sp3a and restarting, the version reported should now be 8.00.760. However, it still shows 8.00.194. So it appears to have not really installed, althought the sp3a installation ran without incident. So, how can I get the sp3a to not just act like it installed, but actually get it to install? Also, I have shut down all mssql services and rebooted, applied patch, and rebooted again. Doesn't help.
Also, if it is really installing, is there another way to tell?
Anyway, I really need to be able to install sp3a to see if it fixes another problem I'm having. Unfortunetly, since I can't even tell if the sp3a is installing, I can't tell if it really doesn't help or not. Thanks.
Tony F
I really don't understand this, in an attempt to upgrade/install SP3a, I download the file sql2kdesksp3.exe, which from the documentation, you can either use for upgrading or new installs. I run a new install; in the new instance, I execute "select @@version" and get "Service Pack 1"??
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Our environment is currently running on SQL 2000 sp3a (win2003) and I'm having an issue with 'max worker threads', so I opened a ticket with Microsoft.
They tell me that SP3a is no longer support and I have to upgrade all our servers to SP4.
We had an issue in my previous company and I was told by a consultant that I shouldn't install SP4 because it caused a lot of issues. I'm aware of the 'AWE enabled' issue, are there any others I should watch out for?
Thanks
Hi, I've downloaded the SP3a for sql server from the microsoft website. I unpackaged the files into a folder and ran the file setup.bat. I recieved an error that setupsql.exe file was not found. I think theres a folder missing called Setup under the X86 folder. Is there a way I can fix this????????
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Now that support for SQL SP3a has been removed, how does this affect MSDE installations? We've got lots of products installed that have come with MSDE backends, all on SP3a. Is it up to the individual vendors as to whether they continue to support on this version? Backup Exec and Insight Manager are 2 that spring to mind.
thanks
Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade MSDE with SP4.
I used the following in command prompt.
setup /upgradesp sqlrun INSTANCENAME=MSDEINSTANCE SECURITYMODE=SQL UPGRADEUSER=username UPGRADEPWD=userpassword /L*v C:MSDELog.log
i got the message "Please go the control panel to install and configure system components."
What does it mean?
How to upgrade it?I have tried to edit the line with *V, and using the sa username and password, but i get the same message.
RegardsKenneth Davidsen
I just downloaded and installed MSDE2000 sp3a for winform and asp.net
quickstart tutorial. But I found it has no sample database such as pubs
and northwind. It used to have these databases. At least in last September
when .Net web Matrix came out.
If this is the case, can someone tell me where to get the sql scripts
to create Northwind database in MSDE?
Becasue the winform tutorial uses this database.
Thanks in advance!
Lei Xu
I just upgraded my desktop engine MSDE 1.0 to MSDE 2000 SP3a. Everything seemed to go well, MSSQLSERVER AND SQLSERVER Agent Services are running, problem is, I can no longer see the particular instance on the network from Enterprise Manager.
The installation instructions specified that if the Instance was to accept connections from applications on other computers not to specify the DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS parameter, so I didn't.
I'm a little green with this, can anyone suggest a place to start troubleshooting?
I urgently need tom use SP3a upgrade the instance of SQLServer200MSDE runing on my local machine but I am having problems in doing so.My first problem is that when I start the set up procedure I get themessage"A strong SA password is required for security reasons. Please useSAPWD switch to supply the same"Currently the sa password isAbc/def/ghk1Which I think is a 'strong password' according to the microsoft rulesathttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/...sword_tips.mspxI would be grateful if someone could confirm that Abc/def/ghk1 is astrong password.If anyone could point me to some published informal help on installingSP3a then that would also be very helpful (I do of course have the MSread me file). If anyone has a sample command line entry for theupdating then I would find that extremely useful. There is oneinstance of MSDE on my machine, named NetSDK.Best wishes, John Morgan
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View 1 Replies View RelatedHi(sorry this has turned into a bit of an epic...thought I'd as theexperts!)SQL 2k, sp3a. Dual xeon 2.4. 2 gig ram. everything on a 3 disk raid 5.Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: )Problem seems to be some extended procs that seemed to be running fineon a 'vanilla' install on a different server now seem to be failing.Failures occuring c 6 - 10 hours.Sometimes the failure logs as the xp failure with severity 20 that Ikindof expect :s. other times absolutely nothing is logged.There are a variety of error messages - or sometimes nothing at all.http://www.mapinfo.com/common/docs/.../SWMSS48_RN.pdfdescribes one of our issues, which seems to come out on the restartafter a failure:Error event id is 19011, Message "SuperSocket info:ConnectionListen(Shared-Memory (LPC)) : Error 5."That site suggests:[color=blue]>Workaround>Suggested solutions include:>• Obtain a hotfix from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com). You will[/color]need to >cite the 94302[color=blue]>reference number.>• Turn off shared memory in the client network configuration utility[/color]to >disable shared[color=blue]>memory.>• Replace the SQL Server SSMSLPCN.DLL with the SSMSLPCN.DLL[/color](8.00.540) from >SQL[color=blue]>Server 2000 Service Pack 2.[/color]- but I cant find any sensible information which describes this tocorrelate! Searching MS for that number (94302) came up with zip.The dll version we are running is 2000.80.760.0, although earlierversions are elsewhere on the server (disk images).Interesting to note that we seem to be able to replicate the 'leakage'of improperly closed handles on this version, but not on the oldserver runningthat dll version 2000.80.194.0. This I understood to have been fixedin sp3.On one failure we caught the following (involving our extended procs):2004-02-15 15:03:31.40 spid58 Error: 0, Severity: 20, State: 02004-02-15 15:03:31.40 spid58 Stored function'xp_Contest_CalculateScores' in the library 'e:sqlxpga_procs.dll'generated an access violation. SQL Server is terminating process 58..2004-02-15 15:04:32.14 spid64 Error: 0, Severity: 20, State: 02004-02-15 15:04:32.14 spid64 Stored function 'xp_XML_GetSubTree'in the library 'e:sqlxpga_procs.dll' generated an access violation.SQL Server is terminating process 64..2004-02-15 15:04:48.48 spid53 Using 'dbghelp.dll' version '4.0.5'*Dump thread - spid = 53, PSS = 0x472d7200, EC = 0x725fc098*Stack Dump being sent to e:sqlMSSQLlogSQLDump0001.txt* ************************************************** ******************************* BEGIN STACK DUMP:* 02/15/04 15:04:48 spid 53This was followed about a minute later by:2004-02-15 15:04:55.75 spid53 Stack Signature for the dump is0x1CC032652004-02-15 15:04:55.75 spid53 SQL Server Assertion: File:<recbase.cpp>, line=1378Failed Assertion = 'm_offBeginVar < m_SizeRec'.2004-02-15 15:04:55.89 spid53 Using 'dbghelp.dll' version '4.0.5'*Stack Dump being sent to e:sqlMSSQLlogSQLDump0002.txt2004-02-15 15:04:56.01 spid53 SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 2292generated fatal exception c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SQLServer is terminating this process.* ************************************************** ******************************* BEGIN STACK DUMP:* 02/15/04 15:04:55 spid 53As a side issue we have a number of 'initialisation of notify failed'notes.Any one have any clue about this?Might the DLL need rolling back?Is sp3a knacked for extended procs?Is there some daft setting I've missed :/Any good events to track in particular?Cheers all!
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI got this message from
Backup Exec for Windows Servers Environment Check 1.0 for SBS1
QUOTE
An instance of Microsoft SQL 2000 was found that is not updated to Service Pack 3a.
An instance of Microsoft SQL Server was found that is not updated to the correct service pack. Using this SQL Server instance with Backup Exec may cause errors. To install Backup Exec successfully, upgrade this SQL Server to Service Pack 3a, or select another instance.
Instance: SBSMONITORING, Version: 2000 SP 3a
Instance: SHAREPOINT, Version: 2000 SP 3a
Instance: BKUPEXEC, Version: 2000 SP 3a
Instance: PADMINISTRATOR, Version: 2000 SP 3a
Instance: MICROSOFT##SSEE, Version: 2000
UNQUOTE
My Question is how to upgrade the instance : "MICROSOFT##SSEE, Version: 2000" to SP 3a?
Hi,
Recently when i try to upgrade my current MSDE 2000 (SP3a) to SP4, the system just keep on failing me. Here is the scenario:
1. Download the MSDE2000 SP4 from microsoft
2. Extract the SP4
3. Run the following command in either the command prompt or via a batch file:
echo off
echo "Start to Upgrade MSDE SP4 ... "
setup.exe /UPGRADESP SQLRUN INSTANCENAME=JSNG SECURITYMODE=SQL UPGRADEUSER=sa UPGRADEPWD=Th3B3st /L*v c:MSDE_Log.log
echo "SP4 Upgrade Process completed!"
4. Once the above batch file was runned, the standard SQL configuration screen (gathering information) will be triggered.
5. However after a while the installation will just stopped.
6. When i checked on the log, i have found out that the failure of installation is due to the system has failed to configure the server. PFB for the last few rows of the verbose log:
=== Logging stopped: 8/22/2006 17:36:49 ===
MSI (c) (90:88) [17:36:49:865]: Note: 1: 1729
MSI (c) (90:88) [17:36:49:865]: Product: Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine -- Configuration failed.
MSI (c) (90:88) [17:36:49:865]: Grabbed execution mutex.
MSI (c) (90:88) [17:36:49:865]: Cleaning up uninstalled install packages, if any exist
MSI (c) (90:88) [17:36:49:865]: MainEngineThread is returning 1603
=== Verbose logging stopped: 8/22/2006 17:36:49 ===
7. When i check the MSI Installer Event ID at Microsoft site, it just said that this is the server configuration problem and i cant find any solution.
Any forumers here experience the above before? Mind to share some thoughts?
FYI, my current MSDE configuration is as follow:
- MSDE 2000 Release A (SP3a - 8.00.760)
- Installed Instance = JSNG
Thanks.
regards,
JS
I am getting an error when installing SP3a of MSDE. I get the error message "The instance name specified is invalid." This is the first SQL database installed, so there is no instance name. I have tried "default" and "MSSQLSERVER" as instance names without success.
your help is appreciated.
Server : w2k server sp4
Tablet : w2k sp4
Sql Server 2000
A few days ago we upgraded our servers and tablet pc's with sql server sp3a. At the same time we also changed the publisher and it now uses a static filter to reduce the number of records in the tablet database. Since we have done this we have been getting an error message when we try to synchronize via the windows synchronization manager on our tablet pc's. The error message is "mobsync.exe has generated errors and will be closed by windows. You will need to restart the program. I looked up the error message and it is a stack overflow. This does not happen every time but about 50% of the time. We can always sync from within enterprise manager and everything works fine every time.
If any one has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it and thank you in advance.
Can anyone give me some sugguestions here.Connection is declared at the start of the applicationSet rsFZReport.ActiveConnection = connThen a function repeatly opens recordsets like this -rsFZReport.Open sRS, , adOpenStatic, adLockReadOnly, adCmdText....reporting code etc...If rsFZReport.State > 0 ThenrsFZReport.CloseSet rsFZReport= NothingendifUsing VB Watch debugger, the close and set nothing do NOT release anymemory. It just keeps increasing. The application connects to multipledatabases and many tables, so its uses about 10Mb/minute.(I don't think its of relavance but Form.show uses memory but form.unloaddoesn't release any back)I've installed SP3a and MDAC 2.8 to no avail. Anyone have any ideas or knowwhat I can do?msado27.tlb 2.80.1022.0MSSQL Server SP3a (3 has a memory leak apparently)VB6, SP6Sqlsrv32.dll caused a leak on NT4 SP6, but upgrading it on my win2k SP4server/workstation (they are both and the same) to thisSqlsrv32.dll 2000.85.1022.0doesn't help.Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=theServer;Initial Catalog=theDB;UserID=uid;Password=thepwd;OPTION=3;connect timeout=240;
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View 3 Replies View RelatedUsed to work fine:
(windows 200 server, sql server 2000, JDBC driver SP2.)
Two java processes, one sending messages (using jdbc and sql as temp storage), second is receiving and placing on msmq.
After installing SP3a for SQL server, under high load (200 a sec) there are missing messages in msmq.
Installed everything from scratch on separate machine, works fine until SP3a is applied.
Any help is highly appreciated
my mssql never be used much
and i had a firewall to blocked the port of mssql to internet
but i don't that why tonight the sql server non-stop keep full loading the cpu suddenly until now!
please help me
Here's my situation:I have an ODBC DSN setup for Timberline Data (An accounting packagethat uses pervasive.sql) on my sql box. I set up a linked server usingthe supplied timberline odbc driver. I have two sql instances setup,the default instance and a named instance. On the default instance,the linked server works great no matter who is logged in using it (allauthentication is NT integrated). However on the named instance onlythe NT account that the MSSqlserver$NAMED service is logged in undercan utilize the linked server. All others get a ODBC error:"error 7399: OLE DB Provider 'MSDASQL' reported an error. AccessDenied. OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'MSDASQL'IUnknown::QueryInterface returned 0x80070005: Access Denied.]."Far as i can tell, both instances are setup the same, except that oneis the default and one is a named instance.Why the different results for the default instance vs a named instance.Any ideas?Thanks
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We just upgraded 2 sql servers from sql server 2000 sp3a to sql server 2005 build 2153, and merge rep exists between these 2 servers.
However, after sql server upgrade, we had to reinitialize merge replication and now the merge agent is reporting 2 errors
1)
Error messages:
The Merge Agent failed to upgrade triggers, metadata and stored procedures on the Subscriber to versions compatible with SQL Server 2005. Restart synchronization, and if this failure continues to occur reinitialize the subscription. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199403)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147199403
Invalid column name 'metadata_select_proc'. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 207)
Get help: http://help/207
Invalid column name 'delete_proc'. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 207)
Get help: http://help/207
2)
Command attempted:
{call sp_MSensure_single_instance (N'Merge Agent Name', 4)}
Error messages:
The merge process could not connect to the Publisher 'Server:database'. Check to ensure that the server is running. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199368)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147199368
Another merge agent for the subscription(s) is running or the server is working on a previous request by the same agent. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 21036)
Get help: http://help/21036
looking inside the sp_MSensure_single_instance stored procedure, it's trying to obtain an exclusive lock on resource 'Merge Agent Name' but fails and returns -1
this is the stored procedure executed by sp_MSensure_single_instance and @retcode = -1 and thus cannot obtain exclusive lock on resource
EXEC @retcode = sys.sp_getapplock @Resource = 'Merge Agent Name',
@LockMode = 'Exclusive',
@LockOwner = 'Session',
@LockTimeout = 0,
@DbPrincipal = 'MSmerge_PAL_role'
so i think it's failing because for some reason MSmerge_PAL_role database role does not have enough rights to obtain exclusive lock on necessary resources
i've tried many things to fix this, including scripting out and dropping all merge rep, turning off replication db option and reapplying replication create scripts on the server, and even manually deleting the MSmerge_PAL_role database role but still doesn't work
can anyone help?
Thanks
What's up with this?
This takes like 0 secs to complete:
update xxx_TableName_xxx
set d_50 = 'DE',modify_timestamp = getdate(),modified_by = 1159
where enc_id in
('C24E6640-D2CC-45C6-8C74-74F6466FA262',
'762E6B26-AE4A-4FDB-A6FB-77B4782566C3',
'D7FBD152-F7AE-449C-A875-C85B5F6BB462')
but From linked server this takes 8 minutes????!!!??!:
update [xxx_servername_xxxx].xxx_DatabaseName_xxx.dbo.xxx_TableName_xxx
set d_50 = 'DE',modify_timestamp = getdate(),modified_by = 1159
where enc_id in
('C24E6640-D2CC-45C6-8C74-74F6466FA262',
'762E6B26-AE4A-4FDB-A6FB-77B4782566C3',
'D7FBD152-F7AE-449C-A875-C85B5F6BB462')
What settings or whatever would cause this to take so much longer from the linked server?
Edit:
Note) Other queries from the linked server do not have this behavior. From the stored procedure where we have examined how long each query/update takes... this particular query is the culprit for the time eating. I thought it was to do specefically with this table. However as stated when a query window is opened directly onto that server the update takes no time at all.
2nd Edit:
Could it be to do with this linked server setting?
Collation Compatible
right now it is set to false? I also asked this question in a message below, but figured I should put it up here.
I am hoping someone can shed light on this odd behavior I am seeing running a simple UPDATE statement on a table in SQL Server 2000. I have 2 tables - call them Table1 and Table2 for now (among many) that need to have certain columns updated as part of a single transaction process. Each of the tables has many columns. I have purposely limited the target column for updating to only ONE of the columns in trying to isolate the issue. In one case the UPDATE runs fine against Table1... at runtime in code and as a manual query when run in QueryAnalyzer or in the Query window of SSManagementStudio - either way it works fine.
However, when I run the UPDATE statement against Table2 - at runtime I get rowsaffected = 0 which of course forces the code to throw an Exception (logically). When I take out the SQL stmt and run it manually in Query Analyzer, it runs BUT this is the output seen in the results pane...
(0 row(s) affected)
(1 row(s) affected)
How does on get 2 answers for one query like this...I have never seen such behavior and it is a real frustration ... makes no sense. There is only ONE row in the table that contains the key field passed in and it is the same key field value on the other table Table1 where the SQL returns only ONE message (the one you expect)
(1 row(s) affected)
If anyone has any ideas where to look next, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
Hi SQL fans,I realized that I often encounter the same situation in a relationdatabase context, where I really don't know what to do. Here is anexample, where I have 2 tables as follow:__________________________________________ | PortfolioTitle|| Portfolio |+----------------------------------------++-----------------------------+ | tfolio_id (int)|| folio_id (int) |<<-PK----FK--| tfolio_idfolio (int)|| folio_name (varchar) | | tfolio_idtitle (int)|--FK----PK->>[ Titles]+-----------------------------+ | tfolio_weight(decimal(6,5)) |+-----------------------------------------+Note that I also have a "Titles" tables (hence the tfolio_idtitlelink).My problem is : When I update a portfolio, I must update all theassociated titles in it. That means that titles can be either removedfrom the portfolio (a folio does not support the title anymore), addedto it (a new title is supported by the folio) or simply updated (atitle stays in the portfolio, but has its weight changed)For example, if the portfolio #2 would contain :[ PortfolioTitle ]id | idFolio | idTitre | poids1 2 1 102 2 2 203 2 3 30and I must update the PortfolioTitle based on these values :idFolio | idTitre | poids2 2 202 3 352 4 40then I should1 ) remove the title #1 from the folio by deleting its entry in thePortfolioTitle table2 ) update the title #2 (weight from 30 to 35)3 ) add the title #4 to the folioFor now, the only way I've found to do this is delete all the entriesof the related folio (e.g.: DELETE TitrePortefeuille WHERE idFolio =2), and then insert new values for each entry based on the new givenvalues.Is there a way to better manage this by detecting which value has to beinserted/updated/deleted?And this applies to many situation :(If you need other examples, I can give you.thanks a lot!ibiza
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Set objRS = strSQL1.Execute
strSQL1 = "SELECT * FROM BannerRotor where BannerID=" & cstr(BannerID)
objRS.Open strSQL1, objConn , 2 , 3 , adCmdText
If not (objRS.BOF and objRS.EOF) Then
objRS.Fields("Exposures").Value =objRS.Fields("Exposures").Value + 1
objRS.update
End If
objRS.Close
The .execute Method works fine
strSQL1 = "UPDATE BannerRotor SET Exposures=Exposures+1 WHERE BannerID=" & cstr(BannerID)
objConn.Execute strSQL1
W2003 + IIS6.0
Pls advice?
If I have a table with 1 or more Nullable fields and I want to make sure that when an INSERT or UPDATE occurs and one or more of these fields are left to NULL either explicitly or implicitly is there I can set these to non-null values without interfering with the INSERT or UPDATE in as far as the other fields in the table?
EXAMPLE:
CREATE TABLE dbo.MYTABLE(
ID NUMERIC(18,0) IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
FirstName VARCHAR(50) NULL,
LastName VARCHAR(50) NULL,
[Code] ....
If an INSERT looks like any of the following what can I do to change the NULL being assigned to DateAdded to a real date, preferable the value of GetDate() at the time of the insert? I've heard of INSTEAD of Triggers but I'm not trying tto over rise the entire INSERT or update just the on (maybe 2) fields that are being left as null or explicitly set to null. The same would apply for any UPDATE where DateModified is not specified or explicitly set to NULL. I would want to change it so that DateModified is not null on any UPDATE.
INSERT INTO dbo.MYTABLE( FirstName, LastName, DateAdded)
VALUES('John','Smith',NULL)
INSERT INTO dbo.MYTABLE( FirstName, LastName)
VALUES('John','Smith')
INSERT INTO dbo.MYTABLE( FirstName, LastName, DateAdded)
SELECT FirstName, LastName, NULL
FROM MYOTHERTABLE