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Dec 13, 2006

Just bought a new computer, and want to install vb express. There is an icon in my system tray for Microsoft SQL Server Service Manager ver. 8.00.2039. Does this mean that I won't have to install SQL Server Express? I can't find anything in the Add/Remove programs that shows any version of SQL Server that was pre-installed.

thanks

richard

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How does OR work when mixed with AND.  This I know is elementary but my loss of SQL intellect is approaching total eclipse.
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SSIS package "ImportAL3.dtsx" starting.
Information: 0x4004300A at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Warning: 0x802092A7 at Data Flow Task, SQL Server Destination [872]: Truncation may occur due to inserting data from data flow column "SampleID" with a length of 4000 to database column "SampleID" with a length of 10.
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Information: 0x4004300A at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Warning: 0x802092A7 at Data Flow Task, SQL Server Destination [872]: Truncation may occur due to inserting data from data flow column "SampleID" with a length of 4000 to database column "SampleID" with a length of 10.
Warning: 0x800470D8 at Data Flow Task, Derived Column [1446]: The result string for expression "TRIM([Column 17]) + REPLICATE(" ",10 - LEN(TRIM([Column 17])))" may be truncated if it exceeds the maximum length of 4000 characters. The expression could have a result value that exceeds the maximum size of a DT_WSTR.
Warning: 0x800470D8 at Data Flow Task, Derived Column [1446]: The result string for expression "TRIM([Column 2]) + REPLICATE(" ",25 - LEN(TRIM([Column 2])))" may be truncated if it exceeds the maximum length of 4000 characters. The expression could have a result value that exceeds the maximum size of a DT_WSTR.
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Information: 0x40043007 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Pre-Execute phase is beginning.
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Warning: 0x800470D8 at Data Flow Task, Derived Column [1446]: The result string for expression "TRIM([Column 17]) + REPLICATE(" ",10 - LEN(TRIM([Column 17])))" may be truncated if it exceeds the maximum length of 4000 characters. The expression could have a result value that exceeds the maximum size of a DT_WSTR.
Warning: 0x800470D8 at Data Flow Task, Derived Column [1446]: The result string for expression "TRIM([Column 2]) + REPLICATE(" ",25 - LEN(TRIM([Column 2])))" may be truncated if it exceeds the maximum length of 4000 characters. The expression could have a result value that exceeds the maximum size of a DT_WSTR.
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Information: 0x400490F4 at Data Flow Task, LookupTestID [5608]: component "LookupTestID" (5608) has cached 0 rows.
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An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "Cannot fetch a row from OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)".".
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "The OLE DB provider "BULK" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.".
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E14 Description: "Reading from DTS buffer timed out.".
Information: 0x4004300C at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x402090DE at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The total number of data rows processed for file "C: empLW002785.AL3" is 1.
Information: 0x402090DD at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002785.AL3" has ended.
Information: 0x402090DC at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002786.AL3" has started.
Information: 0x402090DE at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The total number of data rows processed for file "C: empLW002786.AL3" is 1.
Information: 0x402090DD at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002786.AL3" has ended.
Information: 0x402090DC at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002787.AL3" has started.
Information: 0x402090DE at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The total number of data rows processed for file "C: empLW002787.AL3" is 1.
Information: 0x402090DD at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002787.AL3" has ended.
Information: 0x402090DC at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002788.AL3" has started.
Information: 0x402090DE at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The total number of data rows processed for file "C: empLW002788.AL3" is 1.
Information: 0x402090DD at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002788.AL3" has ended.
Information: 0x402090DC at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002789.AL3" has started.
Information: 0x402090DE at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The total number of data rows processed for file "C: empLW002789.AL3" is 1.
Information: 0x402090DD at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002789.AL3" has ended.
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Information: 0x402090DE at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The total number of data rows processed for file "C: empLW002790.AL3" is 1.
Information: 0x402090DD at Data Flow Task, Flat File Source [100]: The processing of file "C: empLW002790.AL3" has ended.
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Information: 0x40043009 at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: Cleanup phase is beginning.
Information: 0x4004300B at Data Flow Task, DTS.Pipeline: "component "SQL Server Destination" (872)" wrote 6 rows.
Warning: 0x80019002 at Data Flow Task: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (1) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
Task failed: Data Flow Task
Warning: 0x80019002 at ImportAL3: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (1) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
SSIS package "ImportAL3.dtsx" finished: Failure.

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Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Runtime.Wrapper

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