How To Find Ntext Datatype Columns?
May 30, 2007Dear experts,
how can i find the ntext datatype columns in a database?
please guide me
Dear experts,
how can i find the ntext datatype columns in a database?
please guide me
Hallo. I need help, how pull out some inquiry string from type "ntext" in MS SQL(it is xml document). Sring has invariable length, in note is always on other position and includes variable text (e.g .:<actionId>xx</actionId>) . Position I can find out by the help of "patindex" but I don't know what then. I tryed to write procedures, but I had trouble with declaration variables (data type). Thanks and sorry for my horrible English.
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Hi, I have a table with ntext and image datatype. I did BCP out succesfully but when I try to to BCP in, I am getting error.
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Starting copy...
SQLState = 22005, NativeError = 0
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for cast specification
SQLState = 22005, NativeError = 0
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid character value for cast specification
SQLState = 22005, NativeError = 0
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I read somewhere that I can use BULK INSERT with a format file.
Can someone suggest how to BCP in siccesfully or How does the format file looks like for this kind of task?. I am using SQL Server 2000.
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Here is my table structure..
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CREATE TABLE [dbo].[NOTIFY_TEMPLATE] (
[ID] [numeric](28, 0) NOT NULL ,
[SENDER] [varchar] (128) NOT NULL ,
[SUBJECT] [varchar] (512) NOT NULL ,
[BODY] [ntext] NOT NULL ,
[PRIORITY] [numeric](28, 0) NULL DEFAULT (2),
[ENABLED] [numeric](28, 0) NULL DEFAULT (1),
[LANGID] [numeric](28, 0) NOT NULL DEFAULT (0),
[NOTIFY_TYPE] [numeric](28, 0) NULL DEFAULT (0),
[REQUEST_TYPE] [numeric](28, 0) NULL ,
[CUSTOMIZED] [numeric](28, 0) NOT NULL DEFAULT (0)
) ON [DATA1] TEXTIMAGE_ON [DATA1]
What is the max. number of characters in ntext?
Are there any way we can format the output of ntext? Or it will just come out as one long line?
Thanks.
What would be the best process to change the datatype of ntext fields.
I assume just changing the datatype - is not the way to go?
Hi folks,
We have a nice issue here. We are running SQL 2005 Dev edition Service Pack 2 and we are trying to copy the contents of one table in a local sql server database to another table in another database on the same local sql server. We use an oledb source and a sql server destination. The table structure is exactly the same. One column is of the datatype ntext, when we try to load the contents the package will stop with the error:
OnError 11-9-2007 14:38:24 11-9-2007 14:38:24 00:00:00 The attempt to send a row to SQL Server failed with error code 0x80004005.
OnError 11-9-2007 14:38:24 11-9-2007 14:38:24 00:00:00 SSIS Error Code DTS_E_PROCESSINPUTFAILED. The ProcessInput method on component "<TABLE>" (3382) failed with error code 0xC02020C7. The identified component returned an error from the ProcessInput method. The error is specific to the component, but the error is fatal and will cause the Data Flow task to stop running. There may be error messages posted before this with more information about the failure.
OnError 11-9-2007 14:38:24 11-9-2007 14:38:24 00:00:00 SSIS Error Code DTS_E_THREADFAILED. Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC02020C7. There may be error messages posted before this with more information on why the thread has exited.
OnError 11-9-2007 14:38:26 11-9-2007 14:38:26 00:00:00 SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E07.
An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft SQL Native Client" Hresult: 0x80040E07 Description: "Error converting data type DBTYPE_DBTIMESTAMP to datetime.".
OnError 11-9-2007 14:38:26 11-9-2007 14:38:26 00:00:00 A commit failed.
Removing the column from the sql server destination will result in loading the complete table. Using an oledb destination instead of sql server destination fixes the problem. Is this a bug in the SQL server destination component?
Thanks,
Marc
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data types supported by SQL Server, except rowversion, text,
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=======The Process follows like this =========
--**************************************
--
-- Name: A relational technique to strip
-- the HTML tags out of a string
-- Description:A relational technique to
-- strip the HTML tags out of a string. Th
-- is solution demonstrates how to use simp
-- le tables & search functions effectively
-- in SQL Server to solve procedural / ite
-- rative problems.
-- This table contains the tags to be re
-- placed. The % in <head%>
-- will take care of any extra informati
-- on in the tag that you needn't worry
-- about as a whole. In any case, this t
-- able contains all the tags that needs
-- to be search & replaced.
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INSERT #html VALUES ( '<head%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<title%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<link%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</title>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</head>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<body%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</html>' )
go
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INSERT #t VALUES (
'<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Some Name</TITLE>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/style.css" TYPE="text/css" ></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" VLINK="#444444">
SOME HTML text after the body</HTML>'
)
INSERT #t VALUES (
'<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Another Name</TITLE>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/style.css"></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" VLINK="#444444">Another HTML text after the body</HTML>'
)
go
-- This is the code to strip the tags out.
-- It finds the starting location of eac
-- h tag in the HTML string ,
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-- extra properties if any. This is
-- done by locating the end of the tag n
-- amely '>'. The same is done
-- in a loop till all tags are replaced.
BEGIN TRAN
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charindex( '>' , string , patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) )
- patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) + 1 , '' )
FROM #t JOIN #html
ON patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) > 0
SELECT * FROM #t
rollback
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Hello,
I am creating triggers on th efly from stored procedure.I have table 1in db1 and table2 in db2 and i want to capture inserts ,updates and deletes in table 1 to table 2 for which triggers are getting created from SP in SQL 2000.
If i create instead of triggers then its working fine but the row will not be inserted in the main table and i need rows to be inserted in the main table.The tables is having ntext columns.Any work around for this?
Regards
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