I have worked soley with Sybase for almost ten years! Now I have been tasked with converting a bunch of data currently in a FoxPro database to a Microsoft SQL Server database. Short of writing some routines myself (which I don't mind doing), is there a shortcut for doing this? Any specifics would be great as it seems this could be mind boggling as far as dates go and so many other things!
i have an old database in foxpro. The table in foxpro now has been broken into more than tables in sql server 6.5 . how do i append the data to sql server database to the respective tables from the foxpro database. vineet
I didn't want to maintain similar/identical tables in a legacy FoxPro system and another system with SQL Server back end. Both systems are active, but some tables are shared.
Initially I was going to use a Linked Server to the FoxPro to pull the FP data when needed. This works. But, I've come up with what I believe is a better solution. Keep in mind that these tables are largely static - occassional changes, edits.
I will do a 1 time DTS from FP into SQL Server tables.
I then create INSERT and UPDATE triggers within FoxPro.
These triggers fire a stored procedure in FoxPro that establishes a connection to the SQL Server and fire the appropriate stored procedure on SQL Server to CREATE and/or UPDATE the corresponding table there.
In the end - the tables are local to both apps.
If the UPDATES or TRIGGERS fail I write to an error log - and in that rare case - I can manually fix. I could set it up to email me from within FoxPro as well if needed.
Here's the FoxPro and SQL Server code for reference for the Record Insert:
Is it possible to use SSIS to synchronize the data between a Foxpro .dbf and a compatible SQL Server table on a near realtime basis?
I have succesfully created an SSIS package that will insert data into the SQL Server Table but this is only useful for migrating data. What I need is a way to insure that the data in the SQL Server table matches that in the .dbf on a near realtime basis.
Or is there a way to link from SQL Server to the .dbf (similar to an Oracle DBLink).
Hi all,I am fairly new to using triggers and was seeking some help from thosethat have experience with them. I am looking to transfer data from aSQL 2000 database to a Visual FoxPro database on another computer. Iwould like to transfer about three fields of data to a VFP table eachtime an insert is made on the SQL table. I am some what familiar withthe structure of creating the trigger but here is what I would likehelp with: Selecting the SQL data to transfer, Connecting to VFPdatabase, Insert SQL data into VFP table.CREATE TRIGGER [xyz] ON [dbo].[AAA]FOR INSERT??? Select a,b,c from SQL table??? Connect to VFP Database and Table??? Insert into VFP table Values a,b,cAny information, tips, or even an example Trigger procedure would helpand be greatly appreciated.Thank you,Brett
The DTS works perfectly when I run it manually. However, when I run itas a job it fails. Before you ask if i'm running it under differentsecurity context. I have already made sure of that. I was logged intothe server through remote viewer, when I created and ran the package,as well as scheduling the job. So the accounts they're running underare consistent. They're the same accounts as the SQL Agent is runningunder and it's the sys admin account.The data source is a Fox pro database with a pull of two tables. I amusing Microsoft OLE DB Foxpro driver as my source connection and OLE DBConnection for SQL Server as my destination. I am doing a simple tableto table transformation. The path of my connection is a mapped Drive:E:Main. There are other packages and jobs within my job queue that arepointing to the same database and they seem to run fine using the abovemapped drive. The ONLY difference between this package and otherpackages are that, they're few months old and this one was created lastnight. I have also enabled logging on this package and here is thebelow error when the job fails:Package Steps execution information:Step 'DTSStep_DTSDataPumpTask_1' failedStep Error Source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxProStep Error Description:Invalid path or file name.Step Error code: 80040E21Step Error Help File:Step Error Help Context ID:0Step Execution Started: 9/23/2006 11:39:17 AMStep Execution Completed: 9/23/2006 11:39:17 AMTotal Step Execution Time: 0.031 secondsProgress count in Step: 0
i have a old database in foxpro and it has to be converted to sql server 6.5 database . the table in the foxpro has been broken into more than 1 tables in the sql server . so how can i transfer the data from 1 foxpro table to different tables in sql server 6.5. vineet
"pRecordSet" is an ADO recordset. The database column "MyColumn" is of type "decimal(19,10)".
The most important question for me is, if the regional settings of the database server or the regional settings of the client PC are considered during the conversion from the string to the decimal value. For example in standard French regional settings the "." would not be recognized as decimal separator.
I am also wondering if the language of the database instance, in which this data is saved, is considered during this conversion or any other settings of this database instance.
So my general question is: Does anybody know exactly what rules apply during the above mentioned conversion?
my question is : how do I query data from the linked foxpro database?
more: I have linked a visual foxpro server to my sql server database by using the addserver clause. Two server is in a local network. My linked foxpro server named 'fox'. its datasourse is not a dbc file, but a directory of dbf files ,and its full path is d:foxpro object. In the directory ,there are three table,'show2003.dbf','sysu.dbf','szszj.dbf'. And the .dbf files are not in any database. They are just three files in the same directory. There is no dbc file. Now I can see the table list on the right page of the linked server. But there is something wrong with my sql clause.
sample:
select * from fox..sysu
then the message is: server: message 7313，level 16，status 1，row 1 the appointed constructure or directory to the provider is inefficacious 'MSDASQL'
I know I may use 'openquery',or 'openrowset'. The problem is that variable is not valid in 'openquery' and 'openrowset'. But I must use variable. so ,please give me some advice.
This is my very first post to this forum. How to use the INSERT INTO... SELECT FROM query to export MS SQL 2000 data into FoxPro 2.6 DBF file? I want to write a VB 6.0 program, and already connected to MS SQL 2000 Database by MS SQL ODBC connection. Now I want to Export this MS SQL data to FoxPro 2.6 DBF. I found ROWSET option, but don't know how to use it for FoxPro. Please help me.
Since my foxpro OLE driver has been rendered useless by service pack 1 for sql server 2005 I am forced to use the .net data provider for odbc.
I am importing a number of tables.. each time I add the DataReader Source to the dataflow and connected it to the OLE DB Destination I get a load of the good old "cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types" errors...
So I'm having to do derived column transforms, for each and every column that it coughs up on.
Using expressions like (DT_STR,30,1252)receivedby to convert the "recievedby" column to a DT_STR,
Some of these tables have 100 string columns.. so I'm getting a bit sick of the drudgery of adding all these derivations...
Is there any way to tell this provider to stop deciding that the strings in the foxpro tables are unicode?
I am trying load data from multiple Foxpro tables which are under a folder. I can have multiple folders with 17 foxpro tables. I was able to do it in DTS using ActiveX script. Here is the ACtiveX script.
'********************************************************************** ' Visual Basic ActiveX Script '************************************************************************ Option Explicit Dim conObj,DSNGosfbill,comObj,objRs,HostServer Dim sFolder,sFileFolder, Details,subFolderoccur,sFileFolderDBF,sFileFolderFPT,CheckFile,dFiles,Fil Dim fso, folderObj,subFolderList,dFolderObj Dim objPackage,oStep,objPackage_1,oStep_1,ConnObj_001,ConnObj_004,ConnObj_031,ConnObj_032,ConnObj_033 Dim ConnObj_Hclaimb, ConnObj_HProv, ConnObj_Hids, ConnObj_HCodes, ConnObj_HSpan, ConnObj_002, ConnObj_HCHGB Set conObj = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") HostServer =DTSGlobalVariables("gvServer").Value
set comObj=CreateObject ("adodb.command") set comObj.ActiveConnection =conObj Function Main() Dim Dir_Name,DirFlag Dir_Name = "" DirFlag = "N" Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If fso.FileExists(checkFile) Then Else Details = "***** Success.Lst file is missing in Batch folder. BATCH job may not be successfull or there are no folders in UNZIP directory to process. Check the batch run.*****" Call Write_Log Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Failure Exit Function End If Set folderObj = fso.GetFolder(sFolder) Set subFolderList = folderObj.SubFolders For Each subFolderOccur in subFolderList DirFlag = "Y" Dir_Name = subFolderOccur.Name Call Process_Dir(1,subFolderOccur.Name) Next If DirFlag = "N" Then Details = "***** No directories to process in SSI UNZIP folder*****" Call Write_Log End If If DirFlag = "Y" Then Call Process_Dir(2,Dir_Name) If objRs.Eof Then Details = "***** No directories to process in SSI UNZIP folder*****" Call Write_Log End If While not objRs.EOF set sFileFolder = fso.GetFolder(sFolder & objRs("zip_file_name")) Details = "***** Start-Time " & sFileFolder & " " & Date & " " & Time & "*****" Call Write_Log Call Update_Process_Flag("L",objRs("zip_file_name")) '*******Execute the package for each directory****************' '********* Call the Package**************' Set objPackage = CreateObject("DTS.Package") Set objPackage_1 = CreateObject("DTS.Package")
Set ConnObj_001 = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATH001") ConnObj_001.DataSource = sFileFolder
Set ConnObj_002 = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATH002") ConnObj_002.DataSource = sFileFolder
Set ConnObj_004 = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATH004") ConnObj_004.DataSource = sFileFolder Set ConnObj_031 = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATH031") ConnObj_031.DataSource = sFileFolder Set ConnObj_032 = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATH032") ConnObj_032.DataSource = sFileFolder Set ConnObj_033 = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATH033") ConnObj_033.DataSource = sFileFolder
Set ConnObj_Hclaimb = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATHCLAIMB") ConnObj_Hclaimb.DataSource = sFileFolder
Set ConnObj_HProv = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATHPROV") ConnObj_HProv.DataSource = sFileFolder Set ConnObj_Hids = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATHHIDS") ConnObj_Hids.DataSource = sFileFolder Set ConnObj_HCodes = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATHCODES") ConnObj_HCodes.DataSource = sFileFolder Set ConnObj_HSpan = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATHSPAN") ConnObj_HSpan.DataSource = sFileFolder
Set ConnObj_HCHGB = objPackage.Connections("SSIPATHCHGB") ConnObj_HCHGB.DataSource = sFileFolder
objPackage.Execute For Each oStep In objPackage.Steps If oStep.ExecutionResult = DTSStepExecResult_Failure Then Details = "***** GOSFBILL_SSI_Staging_Load failed. " & Date & " " & Time & "*****" Call Write_Log Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Failure Exit Function End If Next
For Each oStep_1 In objPackage_1.Steps If oStep_1.ExecutionResult = DTSStepExecResult_Failure Then
Details = "***** GOSFBILL_SSI_Update_FileSource failed. " & Date & " " & Time & "*****" Call Write_Log Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Failure Exit Function End If Next
'********************************************' Details = "***** End-Time " & sFileFolder & " " & Date & " " & Time & "*****" Call Write_Log objPackage.Uninitialize objPackage_1.Uninitialize Set objPackage = Nothing Set objPackage_1 = Nothing sFileFolder = "" sFileFolderDBF = "" sFileFolderFPT = "" objRs.MoveNext Wend objRs.Close End If Call Close_Conn Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Success End Function Sub Process_Dir (Para_cntl,Dir_Name) comObj.CommandText ="dbo.Usp_Process_Dir" comObj.commandtype = 4 comobj.parameters.Refresh comobj.parameters("@Para_Cntl")= para_cntl comobj.parameters("@Dir_Nm")= Dir_Name comobj.parameters("@File_Type")= "SSI" If (Para_Cntl = 1)Then comObj.Execute() Else If Para_Cntl = 2 Then Set objRs = comObj.Execute() End If End If
End Sub Sub Update_Process_Flag(P_Flag,Dir_Name) comObj.CommandText ="dbo.Usp_Process_Flag" comObj.commandtype = 4 comObj.parameters.Refresh comObj.parameters("@Process_Flag")= P_Flag comobj.parameters("@Dir_Nm")= Dir_Name comObj.Execute() End Sub Sub Write_Log comObj.CommandText ="dbo.usp_etl_write_log" comObj.commandtype = 4 comobj.parameters.Refresh comobj.parameters("@Text")= Details Comobj.parameters("@NDC_SSI_IND")= "SSI" Comobj.parameters("@Process_Stage")= "Staging" comObj.Execute() End Sub
Sub Close_Conn Set comObj = Nothing Set objRs = Nothing conObj.Close Set conObj = Nothing Set fso = Nothing Set folderObj = Nothing Set subFolderList = Nothing End Sub
When I migrated this code to SSIS, its not working. How can I achive this functionality in SSIS. Any one pls help me.
I am extracting data from SQL Server 2005 to flat file destination. I am using SQL Command to specify the data selection query. One of my query uses Replicate function to derive a column value. When I execute this package it fails with the error "Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "value" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page".
The reason for the problem is that, it is taking the InputColumnWidth of the flat file destination as 8000 and I specified the OutputColumnWidth as 4.
If I change the OutputColumnWidth to 8000, it is working without any error but resulting in the column width of 8000.
I tried using DerivedColumn Transformation's Type cast and DataConversion Transformation but still I am getting the same error in the respective Transformation components.
I have a table ("MyData") with string columns that have nvarchar data that looks like this:
ColA -------- 42/90 78/109
I plan to do a mathematical grouping on the numerator (eg: 0-10,11-20,21-30, etc... ), So I need to grab the numerator and turn it into an int. For reasons I can't get into, I have to do this in pure T-SQL.
So my question: How would I write a select statement that regex pattern matches "^([0-9]+)/" on ColA and returns integers instead of text?
E.g. THis Query:
SELECT [magic t-sql syntax] as Converted_ColA from MyData
Hi, I am less of a technical but more of a analyst professional and right now investgating on various tools / options for the new conversion project I will be leading in insurance client. One of the tools that client want to use is SSIS but the source and target database is not on SQL server but plans are to build a staging SQL server database for transformation. Does SSID supports this kind of ETL process where both source and target system are non SQL servers.
There is an issue at my company that creates a lot of confusion. Some people blame the slowness of queries on the FoxPro database, so we're considering to migrate to MS SQL Server.
What is the real difference between MS SQL Server and MS FoxPro?
Isn't MS SQL Server supposed to be faster? (It's a high-performance and very mainstream database, where I personally never knew anybody who used FoxPro). Some people claim that FoxPro performs faster in benchmarks. Is it true? If it is, why don't most people use FoxPro?
Also, when buying the database software for the server, which one is more expensive?
Is there a switch I can use to force a bulk insert and if data is truncated, I'm good with that. The truncated data, in this case, is not data I can use anyway if it is long enough to be truncated.
I need to keep the field at VARCHAR(23) and if I expand it, I won't be able to join on it after the file load completes. I'd like the data to be inserted (truncated if need be) and then I'll deal with the records that are truncated after I load the file.
I am doing a Case statement to create a unified field for account type and vendor, in the code below I am receiving the error in the subject, because the account numbers have alpha characters in the string, I need to make them as OTHER if the first 2 left chars are Alpha, I thought how I have ISNUMERIC would do that but I am still getting the error.
I am also including example of how the account_numbers are formatted.
I want to know if there is an way to SET an index when send a query using the OpenQuery function to a FoxPro database using a linked server in the MS-SQL that points to a System DSN with the MS ODBC Driver to FoxPro.
Today was my first day to use DTS. I tried to transfer a Visual FoxPro Database to my SQL Server. I noticed that I am getting errors on the data that contains date fields. So, for testing purposes I transformed the Visual FoxPro fields that contained datefields into char fields. And this works, but obviously I cannot hunt around in a huge database looking for datefields in tables and change them manually. Plus, by changing to char fields I noticed that those fields that are empty are transformed as 1899-12-30. :p
Hi all, I'm having issues with a FoxPro linked server.
I've set up a linked server to a FoxPro dbc using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro. When I'm on Management Studio on my server the link appears to be working fine and a stored procedure I've created to get the indo from the dbc and put it into a temp table works fine.
However, when I try to execute the sp on management studio on my local machine I get the following error:
OLE DB provider "VFPOLEDB" for linked server "tern" returned message "Invalid path or file name.". Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Procedure usp_SSRS_007, Line 28 Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "VFPOLEDB" for linked server "tern".
And I also get a similar error when I try to test the connection of the linked server on my local machince.
This is now driving me nuts , so many many thanks in advance for any help!!!
I need help to import data from FoxPro tables to SQL server 2005. I want to be able to use SSIS Pkgs in 2005. We already have Foxpro Drivers installed on the 2005 Server. Pl let me know what data source connections shud I use to be able to extract data from Foxpro .dbf tables into sql server 2005?
I have a question and hope that someone can help me. I use of accountview application and now that are stored in the Foxpro database. I want to copy the data in my sql server, but not with ODBC but with SSIS. But I dotnow how this works. Can someone explain me step by step? if I with the OBDC do see only virtual tables and I do not want that. I want the complete bases tables in my sql-server copying Please Help me!!!!!!!!!
Hello, I have a question and hope that someone can help me. I use of AccountView application this application use of the Microsoft Visual FoxPro database. We have on another server Sql-server. Me question is how I am possible foxpro and Sql-server to each other cross-belt Len (linken) Or can I import the database from foxpro in sql-server?
I have problem to execute query with interval date.
If try this query I don't have problem and the output is correct:
SELECT * FROM dotable WHERE dotableDate BETWEEN CONVERT (datetime, '01/01/2015', 121) AND CONVERT (datetime, '09/01/2015', 121);Instead if try this I have error: SELECT * FROM dotable WHERE dotableDate BETWEEN CONVERT (datetime, '25/01/2015', 121) AND CONVERT (datetime, '28/01/2015', 121);
[Err] 22007 - [SQL Server]The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.
I know that the DTS Wizard is supposed to be able to handle heterognous data imports but I can't get it to work with a free FoxPro table. I have to export to a text file and then import from the text file and spend an hour renaming columns and farting around with datatypes.
CAN I GET A FOXPRO TABLE INTO SQL SERVER DIRECTLY OR NOT? HOW DO I DO IT?
I don't fully understand some of the questions the DTS Wizard is asking. Can anybody give me a blow by blow account before I ring the Samaritans?
Thank you and Happy Christmas - it may be my last if I can't speed up these imports. Either I'll jump under a bus or my boss will make mince pies out of me.
Hi,I have a large FoxPro table with an index that I need to be Queried from SQLServer by OLE.DB or ODBC. If I query the DBF directly a search takes 1Minute +. Is there a way I can call the data from the table and use theexisting FoxPro Index?ThanksSteve
I am trying to add a FoxPro linked server to MS SQL 2005, and I can't seam to create a linked server that works. What am I doing wrong in linking the server?
I have an ODBC connection that worked but not OLEDB; how can I do this with OLEDB (either VFPOLEDB or Jet, if it will work) and not ODBC.
This is what I thought was right
Code Snippet
sp_addlinkedserver 'test',
'FoxPro',
'VFPOLEDB',
'C:DataSomeDatabase.dbc',
NULL,
NULL,
NULL
But it gives the error:
Cannot create an instance of OLE DB provider "VFPOLEDB" for linked server "test".
Also I know in MS SQL 2000 once you linked a server you could view it in EM, but when I linked the VFP via ODBC I could query agianst it, but I could not open it in Mangament Studio.
I've downloaded and installed the latest VFPOLEDB (12/04) on 2 separate SQL Server boxes.
In both cases, If I connect to SQL Server with Query Analyzer as (local) while on a box, the linked server to my foxpro database works fine with openquery().
However, If I'm at one box and attached to SQL Server on the other box, the openquery() fails.
--this works on either (local) box SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(VFP, 'select * from tislists') Go
--but, the same openquery() above doesn't work if the box I'm running it from is attached to the SQL Server on the other box. I get:
Server: Msg 7302, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Could not create an instance of OLE DB provider 'VFPOLEDB'. OLE DB error trace [Non-interface error: CoCreate of DSO for VFPOLEDB returned 0x80040154]. ===================== One other approach I tried that works while on the (local) box, but fails when attached to the SQL Server on the other box:
select * from openrowset('MSDASQL', 'Driver=Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver;SourceType=DBF;SourceDB= \hdmcpdctis1 isrnddata ', 'select * from [tislists.DBF]')
With error: Server: Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 OLE DB provider 'MSDASQL' reported an error. [OLE/DB provider returned message: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Driver does not support this function] OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'MSDASQL' IDBInitialize::Initialize returned 0x80004005: ]. ===========================
