I have run the select query which returned one row. There is one column in it which has got large amount of data. I want to copy the complete content of that column(varchar(max)), but I am unable to do it. It's not the xml data. I don't want to do any conversions.
View 1 RepliesI am studying indexes and keys. I have a table that has a fixed width of data to be loaded in the first column which is parsed in a view based on data types within the fixed width specifications.
Example column A:
(name phone house cost of house,zipcodecountystatecountry)
-a view will later split this large varchar string basedÂ
column b: is the source filename of the data load (varchar 256)
....
a. would there be a benefit of adding a clustered or nonclustered index (if so which/point in direction on why)
b. is there benefit of making one of these two columns a primary key (millions of records) or for adding a 3rd new column as a pk?
c. view: this parses the data in column a so it ends up looking more like "name phone house cost of house zipcode county state country" each having their own column.
-any pros/cons of adding indexes (if so which) to the view instead of the tables or both for once the data is parsed?
When executing the Script Task, I get the error shown here:
http://www.webfound.net/buffer.jpg
I'm not sure how to resolve this.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.dts.pipeline.buffercolumn(SQL.90).aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sqlserver.dts.pipeline.buffercolumn.maxlength(SQL.90).aspx
how do I change the maxlength of the buffer...if, that is the problem here?
I am getting the following error on my SSIS package. It runs a large amount of script components, and processes hundred of thousands of rows.
The exact error is: The value is too large to fit in the column data area of the buffer.
I redirect the error rows to another table. When I run just those records individually they import without error, but when run with the group of 270,000 other records it fails with that error. Can anyone point me to the cause of this issue, how to resolve, etc.
Thanks.
I have a variable nvarchar(1000) that I ma reading into the buffer of a data flow task in the script component script task. It gives me this error:
"Script component exception.........The value is too large to fit in the column data area of the buffer."
I looked at the BufferColumn members and tried to set the maxlength to 1500. But it does not help.
What is the solution?
Can someone tell me how to access the MaxLength property of a data column so I can figure out where the problem is?
Public Overrides Sub Input0_ProcessInputRow(ByVal Row As Input0Buffer)
Try
Row.PrimaryDiagnosis = Mid(Row.DiagnosisCode, 1, 8)
Catch ex As Exception
Row.Comments = "Error copying DiagnosisCode: <" + Row.DiagnosisCode + ">. " + ex.Message
End Try
Output = <aaaaa >
Thanks,
Laurence
I have a column of digits I'd like to copy into another column in thesame table. How would I do this?Thanks,Bill
View 1 Replies View RelatedHello there,I have and small excel file, which when I try to import into SQlServer will give an error "Data for source column 4 is too large forthe specified buffer size"I have four columns in the excel file, one of the column contains alarge chunk of data so I created a table in SQL Server and changed thetype of the field to text so I could accomodate this field but stillno luck.Any suggestions as to how to go about this.Thanks in advance,Srikanth pai
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Hi,
I have a problem to import xls file to sql table, using MS SQL 2000 server.
Actual main problem associated with it is xls file contain one colum having large amount of text which length is approximate 1500 characters.
I am trying to resolve it through like save xls to csv or text file then import but it also can not copy whole text of that column, like any column in xls having 995 characters then text or csv file contain 560 characater. So, it is also wrong.
thanks in advance, if any try to resolve
Hi,
I’m attempting to use DTS to import data from a Memo field in MS Access (Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider) into a SQL Server nvarchar(4000) field. Unfortunately, I’m getting the following error message:
Error at Source for Row number 30. Errors encountered so far in this task: 1.
Data for source column 2 (‘Html’) is too large for the specified buffer size.
I also get this error message when attempting to import the same data from Excel.
Per the MS Knowledgebase article located at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=281517, I changed the registry property indicated to 0. This modification did not help.
Per suggestions in other SQL Server forums, I moved the offending row from row number 30 to row number 1. This change only resulted in the same error message, but with the row number indicated as “Row number 1�. (Incidentally, the data in this field is greater than 255 characters in every row, so the cause described in the Knowledgebase article doesn’t seem to be my problem).
You might also like to know that the data in the Access table was exported into this table from a SQL Server nvarchar(4000) field.
Does anybody know what might trigger this error message other than the data being less than 255 characters in the first eight rows (as described in the KB article)?
I’ve hit a brick wall, so I’d appreciate any insight.Thanks in advance!
I need to update a large table, about 55 million rows, without filling the transaction log, in the shortest time as possible. The goal is to alter the table and change the data type for Text column from VARCHAR(7900) to NVARCHAR(MAX).
Since I cannot do it with an ALTER TABLE statement (it would fill up the transaction log) I'm thinking to:
- rename column Text in Text_OLD
- add Text column of type NVARCHAR(MAX)
- copy values in batches from Text_OLD to Text
The table is defined like:
create table DATATEXT(
rID INTEGER NOT NULL,
sID INTEGER NOT NULL,
pID INTEGER NOT NULL,
cID INTEGER NOT NULL,
err TINYINT NOT NULL,
[Code] ....
I've thought about a stored procedure doing this but how to copy values in batch from Text_OLD to Text.
The code I would start with (doing just this part) is the following, but maybe there are more efficient ways to do it, or at least there's a better way to select @startSeq in the WHILE loop (avoiding to select a bunch of 100000 sequences and later selecting the max).
declare @startSeq timestamp
declare @lastSeq timestamp
select @lastSeq = MAX(sequence) from [DATATEXT] where [Text] is null
select @startSeq = MIN(Sequence) FROM [DATATEXT] where [Text]is null
BEGIN TRANSACTION T1
WHILE @startSeq < @lastSeq
[Code] ....
In my quest to get the Script Component as Source to work, I've come upon an error that says "The value is too large to fit in the column data area of the buffer.". Of course, I went through the futile attempt to get debugging to work. After struggling and more searching, I found that I need to run Dts.Events.FireProgress to debug in a Script Component. However, despite the fact that the script says:
Code Block
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime
...
Dts.Events.FireProgress..
I get a new error saying: Error 30451: Name 'Dts' is not declared. Its like I am using the wrong namespace, but all documentation indicates that Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.Wrapper is the correct namespace. I understand that I can use System.Windows.Form.MessageBox.Show, but iterating through 100 items makes this too cumbersome. Any idea what I may be missing now?
Thanks,
John T
Hi,
I have two users tables. One users table has a deleted column. The other users table is made up of users based on what dept they are in etc. I would like to get the values from a column (deleted) in the first table and copy the values over to a column in the second table.
I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.
Regards,
Tony.
Hi,
I want to copy data from one column to another column within the same table. I used 'Select subquery' but no success yet.
any help.
Thanks
Query to copy column data from one table and put it in another???
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a table called 'Articles' whose columns are articleId (int), authorName (varchar) and article (binary). The primary key is articleId. I tried using DTS wizard available in Enterprise Manager 2000, to import the data from this table into a remote database table, but the data copy failed. I am thinking the binary column is causing the DTS data copy to fail.
If someone could tell me what else I could do to transfer binary data to remote database(like an example of a data transfer query), then that would help me greatly.
Hi,
I need to write a script that will be called during the database upgrade of my application. This is part of reorg of the tables. The script has to get data for say 4 columns from table A and insert it into another table B. Table B has identity insert column and remaining 4 columns matching the ones to be copied. The data is dependent on user database, hence number of records needs to be copied might be different. Also the columns can have null values.
I tried using bcp Command as follows..
bcp "select colA,colB,colC,colD from A" queryout "c: empA.dat" -t" " -r"" -c
I'm able to get the dat file, but not the format file. Can anyone tell me how to get it using query file with -c option. Also if there is better option to copy data, kindly let me know.
This is very critical. Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Ramya.
Does anyone know of a good way to copy a large database or backup of a database (~10 GB) across long distances (transatlantic) in a minimal amount of time?
I have tried regular file copies, BCP, DTC, my own handwritten extraction utility, PCAnywhere, and several file splitters, all to no avail. To complicate things, the source is SQL 7 with a different code page from the destination, which is SQL 2K. The file copies always seem to get interrupted after several hours.
We have a situation that requires converting all INT columns from source database to BIGINT in destination.
By ‘copying’ term, I consider any operation like insert-select, merge, asynchronous replication or any other that will get all data synchronized until some moment in time, i.e. 2015-12-31 10:00 PST when downtime is planned. Before that moment it isn’t important if data in source and destination DB are in sync.
Copying process starts early enough to allow appliance of any technique/technology – there’s enough time to find best solution.
Requirements:
1. Destination database is superset of source, having all tables and all columns plus few more columns in few tables. Additional columns have default NULL or they are computed. INT columns in source are BIGINT in destination.
2. If source and destination are not in sync at the moment downtime begins, it is allowed to have few minutes to wait for synchronization. For instance, if transaction logs from last hour or so need to be shipped, that would be ok. If large table need to be synchronized by comparing row-by-row, it’s not ok.
3. Source database performance must not be compromised by any copying if it’s done before scheduled downtime. There are couple of options I have in mind involving MERGE command but its appliance might be limited by current DB design. Additionally, based on business logic, I cannot be absolutely sure if some row, created while ago, wasn’t changed meanwhile.
For some large tables, there is no indicator at all when any row has changed – I cannot rely on IDs nor there is column like ‘[date last changed] DATETIME’
I have been reading about various kinds of replication, i.e. log shipping but I’m not clear if any of these is applicable. Key points, if there is replication involved, are copying process must start from empty destination database plus synchronization must not compromise source DB performance So, how to do this using any kind of replication?
To do this successfully do I need to backup the Service master, Database master, and database itself from the the Source server, then restore all three of them on the destination server?
(I'm concerned that restoring the source Service Master key to a new target server with an existing sql 2005 install will screw things up big time.)
TIA,
Barkingdog
Hi, All,
I have agentID in product table.
Now I add agentID column in transaction table. Now I want to copy all agentID from product table to transaction table based on the order_id
in both table. Can you show me an example?
Thanks
Betty
I have a Data Flow Task that extracts some data using a DataReader Source and loads it to a Raw File Destination. I am getting the following error message:
[DataReader Source [2357]] Error: The value was too large to fit in the output column "LASTCOL" (2558).
I thought that using a Raw File Destination would avoid this type of problem. How can I resolve this issue?
I'm trying to store a binary data file in my database. I've tried data types image, varchar(max) and text. I don't get error message on loading the data but as soon as the text file exceeds 32,000 bits a query returns an empty data set.
Is this a SSMS display problem and the data is really there? Or is this another one of Microsoft's memory bugs?
I have a table that currently holds about 5 million records. We add an average of 5,000 new records per day, all of them from overnight batch jobs. I guess it's not that big, but there are two text columns that hold a couple KB each, so the total size isn't exactly small either. The data is created from medical billing data we receive overnight. We get two reports- patient demographic information and a physician's dictation relating to that patient. This data is always one to one, and the purpose of this table is to store the data as we originally receive, which is why both reports are in the same table. After we extract the details from the report, (which are by this point always reduced to text documents) we need to keep not only the data but the original documents, hence the two text columns. We considered moving the large columns to their own table, which would just have an ID field and the column, but the powers that be really wanted all this in the same table. Nothing new goes into the table during day- it's all SELECT statements.
I need to add a column to this table. It's just a small char(7) column, NULLS allowed, of course. We bill for several clients, and reports from different clients become available at different times, so there's really no down time overnight. Altering the table during the day is out of the question. So how can I add a column while the table is active?
My best idea so far is to use SELECT *, NULL AS NewColumn INTO NewTable to create a copy of the table (using a cast to get the correct datatype) during the day, when no new data is going in, and replacing the old table with the new by simply changing the names right after everyone goes home. But this could still cause slowdowns while it builds the copy, and leave the problem of re-creating indexes (there are several). There ought to be some graceful way to tell it to add the column to the existing table and play nice with ongoing traffic.
Hi All,
I'm trying to transfer data from DB2 Database to SQL Server 2005.
Well, i used the OLE DB Source, the Data Conversion Component and the OLE DB Destination component.
I have five Data flows with this configuration above. But I am receiving an error message from one of them.
Please check below the error message:
"[Source Table TARTRATE [1]] Error: The value was too large to fit in the output column "ADJ_RATE_PCT" (60). "
"[Source Table TARTRATE [1]] Error: The "component "Source Table TARTRATE" (1)" failed because error code 0xC02090F8 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "ADJ_RATE_PCT" (60)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component."
Could you please help me with this issue?
Thanks in advance.
Thiago
I am trying to copy an entire column of pricing into another price column.
Basically we use item_prc_1, item_prc_2, item_prc_3 to set different pricing structures. There are 52000+ SKUs in this table and I want to copy all item_prc_1 data to item_prc_2.
I also want to be able to constrain the data copied based on item_cat which contains the items category marker.
Brooks C. Davis
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Hey Guys
i need to add a datetime column to an exisitng table that has like 1.2 million records and its being accessed frequently
but i cant afford to stop the db at all
whenever i do : alter table mytable add Updated_date datetime
it just takes too long and i have to stop executing the query after a couple of mins
I am running sql express 2005 sp2. db size is over 3 gb but still under the 4 gb limit
can u plz advice on how to add this column. its urgent!!
thanks in advance
We have a table to 100M rows and up until now we were fine with an non clustered index a varchar(4000) because we never went above 900 bytes (yes it is a bad design).We have the need to support international character sets now so the column was updated to nvarchar(4000) and now we have data past the 900 byte limit.
The data is long, seems useless but is needed by the business and they need to be able to search "where bigcolumn like 'test%'". With an index, even with a huge amount of data, it was 'fast'. Now of course without an index it is unusable. The wildcard is always at the end of the search. I made a full text index on the column and basic queries such as: select * from ourtable where contains(bigcolumn, 'AReallyLongStringofTextHere') works fine unless there is a space in the data. We loose thousands of returned rows because of spaces in the data.
I have tried select * from ourtable where contains(bigcolumn, '"AReallyLongStringofTextHere that includes spaces"') but not all of the data is returned. I get 112 rows with the contains statement. The table scanning statement of "select * from ourtable where bigcolumn like 'AReallyLongStringofTextHere that includes spaces%' returns 1939 rows.I understand that a full text index is breaking the long string up since it contains spaces. Is there a way to retain the entire string as 1 index entry or is there a way to fix my query to return all of the rows?
when the datatype is text?Hi, I'm trying to copy 1 row/column value into another in the same table.UPDATE MyTable SET Column2 = (SELECT Column2 FROM MyTable WHERE Column1 = 1)WHERE Column1 = 2This works OK when the datatype of Column2 is varchar, but not when it's text.It fails with:The text, ntext, and image data types are invalid in this subquery or aggregate expression.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a master table with more than 2000 records and have just add a new column. What i want to do is just want to copy the data of a field (say create_date, to the new field, establish_date). But i have no idea to do this.
Please help.
hi guys,
i have a column named, source and another column named, osource in the table master. how do i copy the contents of source to osource? the database is MS Access.
thnxs
David
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT TOP 1 1 FROM dbo.syscolumns WHERE id = OBJECT_ID(N'dbo.Employee) and name = 'DoNotCall')
BEGIN
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Employee] ADD [DoNotCall] bit not null Constraint DoNot_Call_Default DEFAULT 0
IF ( @@ERROR <> 0 )
GOTO QuitWithRollback
END
It just takes a LOT of time in SQL Server Management studio. I have to cancel the query and cancelling takes a whole lot time. I am using SQL Server 2008.
What is the use of the Copy Column in SSIS please help me
give me the example
regards
koti