How To Manipulate An User Mdf File
Nov 14, 2006I remember I was able to view, add, alter table on the mdf in either sql express 2005 or in vb.net 2005. But right now I can't do either, what do I have to to change
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User Defined Data Types - Manipulate
Mar 4, 2008I have somw tables like Product, Sales, Customer.
I used UDTs like ProductCode = nvarchar(30)
CustomerCode= nvarchar(15)
How can I modify my UDTs ?Is there any quick way for that ?
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Thanks.
How To Manipulate Dates
Aug 4, 1999Is there a way to manipulate a date variable into a specific month and day?? For example, I want whatever date the user will enter to be
changed to June 30 of the following year. So, if the variable @date is 12/12/1999, I want to change it to 6/30/2000. If the date
is 2/1/2001, I want to make it 6/30/2002
I can't use DateAdd because you need to know how many months to add or days to add. Basically, how do I retain the month and day while changing the year
the year based on a dynamic field. What I need is a DateChange function that is DateChange(mm, @month, @date) ? Is there
something like that?
Thanks,
Joyce
Help Manipulate Strings
Aug 1, 2007Hey everyone,
So I'm querying from a database where one of the fields for each entry is a city. I would like to count the ones in each city. So I'm counting and grouping on city. Unfortunately, the data is not very consistent. Some are listed as Miami, FL and others simply as Miami. I don't need the state so I can just drop it, but I can't figure out how. I was using charindex and substring, but can't get it to work because if there is no ',' then the charindex is zero and substring doesn't work correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Keith
Manipulate Various Databases With Only One Connection
Jan 10, 2007hi guys.
i want to know if is it possible to connect various databases with only one connection?
thx.
Manipulate Data Within Table
Apr 12, 2005Hil,
I posted a thread here: http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?p=1061405 but was told it might be more useful for me to post something here... should have thought about it to begin with!
The picture is in that thread so do please look at it! http://forums.devshed.com/attachmen...tachmentid=7431 should be the URL.
As you see the top 3 records start and finish at the same time, as do the last 3 records. This can then also be repeated for the next day etc etc. What I want to happen is that the top 3 courses to appear on a single line and the 2nd set of 3 to appear on a single line also.
The main SQL to retrieve the records is as follows:
Code:
sqlqry = "SELECT * FROM t_sessions a INNER JOIN t_session_times b ON a.session_id = b.session_ID"
sqlqry = sqlqry & " WHERE right(left(convert(varchar,a.session_date,113),11),8)='"+displaym +"'"
sqlqry = sqlqry & " AND a.session_supplier_id=61"
sqlqry = sqlqry & " AND a.session_status ='A'"
sqlqry = sqlqry & " ORDER BY a.session_date, b.session_start, b.session_end"
then while this recordset hasn't come to an eof(end of file) I execute:
Code:
query = "SELECT course_name,outline_name"
query = query & " FROM t_course_ref"
query = query & " LEFT JOIN t_it_outlines ON t_course_ref.course_id=t_it_outlines.course_id"
query = query & " WHERE t_course_ref.course_id="+cstr(rs.fields(1).value)
Thanks!
How To Progtammatically Manipulate Property 'Name' Of ControlParameter?
Jun 7, 2007Hi,
i want to programmatically manipulate the property 'Name' of a ControlParameter inside a InsertParameters tag.
This the aspx code: ------------------ <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<% ......... %>" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO .......)" <InsertParameters> <asp:ControlParameter Name="myname" ControlID="na" PropertyName="text" /> </InsertParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource>
code-behind: ------------
Dim a As String a = SqlDataSource1.InsertParameters.Item(0).ToString
but 'm stuck here
Thanks for help
Tartuffe
How Manipulate A DataSet That SqlDataSource Return
Apr 21, 2008hi,I have a page Price List with GridView to display only two columns of a table (Product name & price). Page size=20. I use SqlDataSource for it. <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" DataSourceMode="DataSet"In my case the SqlDataSource control return data as a DataSet object. So the DataSet object contains all the data in server memory. I need to create Print Preview page with other columns (Product name & price & Vendor and Date Issue) without paging.I'm going to save dataSet in Session and in Print Preview page use it as datasource (without having to run another query).But I have no idea how to save this DataSet in Session. I don't know the DataSet Name. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Oct 15, 2006what re the sql functions to manipulate numbers, decimals, dates..
1/ like if I have 123443.78654 I want to display just 2 decimals : 123443.78 or 3 decimals ..
2/ also if I want to have bankers rounding
3/ how about dates conversion : from string to date type and vice versa and adding dates, substracting dates, getting the day, the month....
what re the SQL functions to do that pls
Manipulate Data Without Using Temp Tables?
Dec 5, 2007Good morning, everyone. Maybe I'm just having a brain fart, but I'm totally new to SSIS (I dabbled very little with DTS in the 2000 days) and cannot for the love of me figure out how to achieve my goal with it:
My company needs to extract data from a variety of sources; tab-delim files, Access databases, other SQL tables and the like. I know how to do this. However, I need to perform data manipulation queries on this data before I place them into SQL tables, as I want to avoid having umpteen temporary tables that I'll need to add checking for. My predecessor did everything in Access, and has a 76-step process (yikes!) that basically will grab all the data, do some minor manipulation, and plop it into a temp table (this is still in Access, not SQL), then repeat the same thing dozens of times.
To give you an example, here's a sample of what I want to do:
- Extract several columns of data from a tab-delimited file on the local drive. This I know how to do already.
- Perform some data cleanup and manipulation functions on this data (specifically, obtain the lowest value out of three columns, with the added caveat that I make sure it's not zero to begin with). I have the SQL code for this already written.
- Store the results of this data somewhere, so I can pull it and apply additional logic to it; for example, take the lowest value I've retrieved, and update the corresponding column in another database table with it.
Basically, is there any way to avoid the use of dozens of temp tables? There's a lot of data which needs to be pulled in, manipulated, and spit back out to be manipulated by something else a little later on, and the way my predecessor did it was, as I said, to use dozens of Access "Make Table" queries for every minor thing. It's not a big deal if I need to do it, just I'm trying to consolidate the steps needed, as the old way is very inefficient. I've been at this job a month and I'm still trying to wade through all of his queries to discover just what they do, and look into combining several of them.
Forgive the slightly newbish question, but as I stated I've not worked with SSIS really. I'm in the process of learning it better, as I'm sure it can fit our needs.
How To Manipulate String In Query And Create New Field
Dec 22, 2006I'm very new to SQL server and can use some help. MyTable has ColumnA, which contains strings composed of 1 to 4 numeric characters (0 thru 9) followed by alphabetic characters. For example, "53ASDF". In my query, I need to create ColumnB, which takes the numeric prefix from ColumnA's string and prepends it with zeros, if necessary, to create a string of exactly 4 numeric characters. For example, I could get the following result:
ColA ColB
"6abc" "0006"
"457def" "0457"
"7232hij" "7232"
I have implemented a temporary solution using a CASE statement:
SELECT ColA, ColB =
CASE
WHEN ISNUMERIC(LEFT(ColA, 4)) = 1 THEN (LEFT(ColA, 4))
WHEN ISNUMERIC(LEFT(ColA, 3)) = 1 THEN '0' + (LEFT(ColA, 3))
WHEN ISNUMERIC(LEFT(ColA, 2)) = 1 THEN '00' + (LEFT(ColA, 2))
WHEN ISNUMERIC(LEFT(ColA, 1)) = 1 THEN '000' + (LEFT(ColA, 1))
ELSE ''
END
FROM MyTable
Because of additional complexities, I need to implement the solution with a loop instead of a CASE statement. Can someone please describe such a solution?
I'm very confused about how variables work in SQL Server, but made an attempt to implement a solution. Hopefully, someone can make corrections and describe how to use it with a SELECT statement. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions. This is what I started with:
DECLARE @ColBstring char(4)
DECLARE @num int
SET @ColBstring = ''
SET num = 1;
-- Get the numeric prefix from ColumnA's string
WHILE(isnumeric(substring(colA, 1, num)) = 1)
@ColBstring = (substring(colA, 1, num)
num = num + 1
-- Prepend the ColumnB string with zeros
WHILE(LEN(@ColBstring) < 4)
@ColBstring = '0' + @ColBstring
Thanks for any help,
Mike
Unable To Manipulate The Xsl Output Encoding Type.
Feb 7, 2007After generating one of my reports, I process the XML output through an XSLT stylesheet and export it to a text file. The issue is that after the export, the generated output text file begins with the special Byte-Order-Mark marker "EF BB BF" standard to Unicode files encoded in UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. I have explicitly set the attributes of the xsl output element to <xsl:output encoding="us-ascii" media-type="text/plain" method="text">, but it seems as though those are ignored when the output file is written. I cannot have these characters, because I am generating a fixed-width file for input into a legacy system.
Any suggestions or thoughts on what is causing the BOM to be written to my file, even though I have set the encoding to be different than UTF-8?
Manipulate The 'deleted Record' Flag On DBF Files
May 7, 2007Hi,
I am using OLE DB provider for Foxpro (VFPOLEDB.1) to query DBF files. I need to migrate the content of these files to a SQL Server 2005 database.
These DBF files have some (actually a lot) records marked as deleted using the DBF 'deleted' flag. When I submit a SELECT command to the OLE DB Provider, it returns me all the non-deleted records from the file.
It is very Ok as long as the 'deleted' rows actually have no more business value, but in my case, I need to do some processing on them, and even to migrate their data.
What are the options available for me to be able to query and differentiate the 'deleted' records ?
Thank you in advance,
Bertrand Larsy
Integration Services :: Derived Column Expression - Manipulate Data
Jun 4, 2015I have one column CandidatePlaced (Data type Boolean).
Using data conversion i changed data type to DT_WSTR and then i used derived column to manipulate the data. Ex. 1 = "Yes" and 0 = "No"
[Candidate Placed ?] == "1" ? "Yes" : "No"
But at end of result i got all the columns as No. Some should be Yes.
ActiveX Script In A SSIS Package - Calling An FSO To Create/manipulate Files
Jul 3, 2007I have a SQL2000 DTS package that executes vbscript to loop through a recordset which:
- runs a stored procedure and populated tables
- builds a recordset from the populated tables to write records to an Excel file
- writes status to text files with either the error or success notices
I use FSO to set up the success and error files, but the scheduled job in SQL2005 which calls the SSIS package returns the following error:
"Retrieving the file name for a component failed with error code 0x0015F74C"
I can successullly run this (vbscript) in both the SSIS package via the BI Development Studio and in MS Access (exactly the same code in both) - but not as a SSIS package called in a scheduled job in SQL2005.
I am at an impasse with this ... any and ALL assistance would be GREATLY appreciated.
TIA,
Bob
Failed To Generate A User Instance Of SQL Server Due To Failure In Retrieving The User's Local Application Data Path. Please Make Sure The User Has A Local User Profile On The Computer. The Connection Will Be Closed
Dec 7, 2006This is my first time to deploy an asp.net2 web site. Everything is working fine on my local computer but when i published the web site on a remote computer i get the error "Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to failure in retrieving the user's local application data path. Please make sure the user has a local user profile on the computer. The connection will be closed" (only in pages that try to access the database)
Help pleaseee
Manipulate Data Being Imported From Another Data Source
Sep 23, 2013I am trying to manipulate the data being imported from another data source. See below:
I need to make an IF THEN statement: If KeyDate =< 01/01/2013 THEN STATUS = 'Disposed'
Notice I am adding data in the last column as everything is 'Active'
SELECT dbo.UserConfig.Id,
dbo.UserConfig.ServerConfigId, dbo.UserConfig.DisplayName,
dbo.UserConfig.UserName, dbo.UserConfig.MailboxSMTPAddr,
dbo.UserConfig.OverrideSMTPAddr,
[Code] ....
"Help" File For User Stored Procedure
Mar 18, 2002I've been administering SQL Server for quite a while, but have managed until now to stay out of the development side. I find myself finally writing some complex SProcs. What I want to do is to create a "switch", i.e., a parameter that will output a few lines of text characterizing the SProc, with such information as required & optional parameters, potential "gotchas", and a handful of examples of usage. I want this to be able to work like this:
EXEC spMySProc '?'
or
EXEC spMySproc 'help'
This has to work even if there are multiple required parameters.
Thanks for your help!
What Is The Purpose Of The Rptproj.user File?
Dec 20, 2007I'm concluding that...
.rdl files are critical and should be recorded in source control
.rdl.data is useful only in preview (saving trips) and therefore should not be recorded in source control
.rptproj file has useful datasource, path and deployment info and should be recorded in source control
.sln contains useful solution container info and should be recorded in source control
.suo contains user specific setting/preference info and should not be recorded in source control
.rds contains important data source info and should be recorded in source control
...but cannot find info on the purpose of rptproj.user file and therefore dont know if recording such files in source control is useful.
Modify File On User Database
Jan 20, 2008Hello, I have gone to work for a new company and I have seen this company is running out of drive space on a daily basis. The DBA before me created huge databases. For example we have a database that it's created size is 103 GB. Only about 52 GB is ever needed. I know you can resize the tempdb but how about user databases? I have never tried this. Can this be done for a user database?
For tempdb
Start SQL from cmd line sqlserver -c -f -s%instance_name%
alter databse tempdb modify file
(name='tempdev',size=150)
Associate User's New Objects With Data File
Apr 20, 2007I'm currently running SQL Server 2005, and have been exploring the feasibility of grouping users to use a default file group and data file. This would be to group a set of users to have their new tables reside in a specific data file. I only see mechanisms for moving an already existing objects into a file group or to set the entire databases default file group--not a user level association or dynamic assignment of the default for that user, script, etc.
It's not looking good.
I'm looking for confimration that it's not possible or leads on doing so.
Thanx in advance
Security Issue : How To Hide SDF File From The End-user ?
Jan 5, 2008Hi There,
Do we have any way of hiding SDF file from end-user? When we are installing our application on user's machine, we have to keep SDF file somewhere but anyone who knows about SDF file can open that file in management studio and that exposes our database structure. Is there a workaround for this ? How can we prevent visibility of SDF file ?
Please help. Thanks in Advance.
Rumba.
User Instance Db File Not Get Detached After Connection Has Been Closed
Aug 21, 2007Hi experts,
I have sql express installed on my machine and i'm using visual studio to create database files. After i've build a connection to my database file thru Server Explorer (choose Add attach files) i opened Management Studio Express and found that the new database has been attached to sqlexpress database engine----technically speaking it's under the user instance which i use to run my visual studio. right?? that's totally fine.My question is, after i'v closed the connection in visual studio, that attached database file still exist.I want it to be detached immediately after i've closed the connection in visual studio.How can i do that?
I've searched through internet and was told that sp_config can solve this problem by setting the user instance time out. I ran sp_config against my database but did not find that item. Could anybody give me some directions? thanks in advance.
Is It Possible To Put The Raiseerror In A Text File Or Show It To The User After Its Been Inserted.
Oct 29, 2007I am in process of building a website where the user can upload files and then those files are loaded in to a sql server database. I am using some sprocs to scrub the data and then insert them into the production database.. And in my sprpc before and after updating or inserting a record or scrubing... i am returning the count by raising an error. or returning the rownumber where the error occured.. is there any way i can get the raise error part or whatever error i get while scrubing the data and relay it back to the user in a user freindly way or in a text file... or the best thing is can i open smalll window where i can show them what processing is goin on and alert them if there are any errors...
Any help will be appreciated.
Regards
Karen
Cann't Remove Data File From User Database
Mar 15, 2004We are running SQL server 2003 with SP3. I'm trying to
shrink a data files with the emptyfile option so I can
eventually remove the file using the alter database
command. However, I get the following error message when I
run the alter database command:
Error: the file PRADATA4 cannot be removed because it is
not empty.
The file that I'm trying to remove still has 62 extents on it.
I looked MS Knowledge base 254253 and 279511 on this problem but they say it is corrected by SQL server 7.0 with service pack 3.
commands that I'm running are as follows:
1) USE PRA
DBCC TRACEON(8901)
DBCC SHRINKFILE ('PRADATA4', EMPTYFILE)
DBCC TRACEOFF(8901)
2) USE PRA
GO
ALTERDATABASE PRA
REMOVE FILE PRADATA4
GO
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Share A RSS File For Applying AD-USER To Folder SECURITY?
Mar 19, 2008Has anyone written a RSS file that is used to add new Active Directory User/Group to SSRS, and applying security ROLES such as BROWSER?
I have new IT AD group that I need to apply to ALL folders on my PROD, QA and DEV servers. Way too many folders to do via SSMS or Web interface.
Would you be willing to share the RSS file?
Is It Enought To Copy The .MDF File To The Server When I Use The Built-in 2.0 User Management?
Jan 23, 2006Hello,
Sorry my newbie question, but I didn't find how to install my ready asp2.0 application (VS2005) to the target Win2003 server. I use SQL Express 2005 both in my dev machine and the Win2003 server. I simply copied all the .aspx and .mdf file there and I made a virtual directory in the server's IIS. My application works corretly without the database, but when I try to log-in it says: wrong user name or password. With Management Studio Express I made a SELECT to see my built-in users (I added these users in my dev machine before the deploying), and I found them correctly. But when I try to log-in via my application it seems as if it would be empty. Then I made a simply page with createUserWizard to try adding new users in the server but the SQL said: the database is read-only (in the IIS I enabled all rights (eg. read, write, run)).
Is there a special way to deploy my SQL file or the whole application? Sorry, I am not enough familiar with it
Import Excel Data From User-selected Source File
Dec 4, 2007Is it possible to import data from an Excel spreadsheet using OPENROWSET or OPENDATASOURCE without having to explicitly define the filepath of the source file? Currently, I have this piece of code within a sproc:
INSERT INTO [dbo].[ProductionRequirementDetail]
([ProductionRequirementHeaderID], [SKU], [Quantity])
SELECT @ProductionRequirementHeaderID,
[SKU],
[LAMPS]
FROM OPENROWSET ('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0; Database=C:WeeklySchedule.xls', 'SELECT * FROM [Master$C5:Q65536]') AS XL
LEFT JOIN [dbo].[PartMaster] ON (RIGHT([XL].[CODE], 7) = [PartMaster].[SKU])
WHERE [SKU] IS NOT NULL
AND [CODE] IS NOT NULL
AND [LAMPS] IS NOT NULL
AND [LAMPS] > 0
AND [LampTypeID] = @LampTypeID
I would like to remove the hardcoded reference 'Database=C:WeeklySchedule.xls' and replace it with a parameter for the filepath. Is this possible? This is in SQL Server 2000. Also, if there is a way to do this with DTS I'd be open to doing it that way too.
SQL 2012 :: Allow Authenticated User To Query Excel File Via Linked Server?
May 25, 2014I have a 3rd party dashboard application that I can only use SQL authenticated logins to connect to the database.
I'm trying to create a query within the application that will directly access an excel file through a linked server.
As a test, I login to SSMS as the sql auth user to run the linked server query below but the following error is returned:
select *
from Corporate...[Sheet1$]OLE DB provider "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0" for linked server "Corporate" returned message "Cannot start your application. The workgroup information file is missing or opened exclusively by another user.".
Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The OLE DB provider "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0" for linked server "Corporate" reported an error. Authentication failed.
Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0" for linked server "Corporate".
When I login as a Windows auth user, I can successfully run the above query.
I noticed within the linked server's security definition that I cannot specify a windows auth user as the mapped Remote User or as the Remote login
I've tried creating a Credential object with the identity of the windows user and assign that object to the sql auth user but to no avail. I still get the same error
I am using SQL Server express so the option of an automated server agent job to import the excel file is not available.
Details:
SQL Server Express 2012
Office version: Excel 10
Provider: Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0
Transact SQL :: Cannot Perform Shrink File Operation Inside User Transaction
Sep 18, 2015I am getting an error about "Cannot perform a shrinkfile operation inside a user transaction", but I don't have a shrinkfile command in my procedure. Does SQL hang on to that command if it was received earlier in a different procedure?
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May 27, 2008We are running Microsoft SQL 2005 Express.
All queries on our Production database are timing out. Viewing the error log file the following show up over and over again:
Autogrow of file 'tempdev' in database 'tempdb' was cancelled by user or timed out after 3937 milliseconds. Use ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH value for this file or to explicitly set a new file size.
Autogrow of file 'Prod' in database 'Production' was cancelled by user or timed out after 33156 milliseconds. Use ALTER DATABASE to set a smaller FILEGROWTH value for this file or to explicitly set a new file size.
Our production database is about 1 gig in size with 3.5 million records. I tried setting the autogrow from 30% which it was before to 100MB, but no luck, still timing out and getting the errors above. Permission should be all good, nothing has changed.
There is about 50gigs of available disk space as well, so that's not the problem. Thanks for the help.
How To Query A Dbo.file Of User-defined Database That Has The Nvarch Type In A Column?
Nov 3, 2007Hi all,
In my SQL Server Management Studio Express, I have the following Database "ChemAveRpd", Table "dbo.LabTests", and Content of the Table:
dbo.LabTests Column_name Type Length Prec Scale
AnalyteID int 4 10 0 (Primary Key)
AnalyteName nvarch 510
CasNumber nvarch 510
Result numeric 5 8 2
Unit nvarch 510
SampleID int 4 10 0 (Foreign Key)
AnalyteID AnalyteName CasNumber Result Unit SampleID
1 Acetone 123-456-9 134.0 ug/L 1
2 Bezene 666-12-8 2.0 ug/L 1
3 Cobalt 421-008-7 10.0 ug/L 1
4 Acetone 123-456-9 201.0 ug/Kg 2
5 Bezene 666-12-8 1.0 ug/Kg 2
6 Cobalt 421-008-7 22.0 ug/Kg 2
7 Acetone 123-456-9 357.0 ug/L 3
8 Bezene 666-12-8 9.0 ug/L 3
9 Cobalt 421-008-7 56.0 ug/L 3
When I ran the following T-SQL code:
USE ChemAveRpd
GO
SELECT *
FROM dbo.LabTests as LabResults
Where AnalyteName = Acetone
GO
I got the following error:
Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
Invalid column name 'Acetone'.
Please help and tell me what right syntax I should write for [Where AnalyteName = Acetone] to generate a listing of LabResults for Acetone.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Chang
SQLEXPRESS Backup File Losing NETWORK SERVICE User When Copied
Mar 11, 2008I'm using the methods of the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo namespace within a .NET application to create a backup file from a SQLEXPRESS database. I can then restore the database from that backup device using methods in the same namespace. Here is a snippet from the restore code:
srv = New Server("MYPCSQLEXPRESS")
db = srv.Databases("washmaster")
Dim bdi As New BackupDeviceItem(BackupFileName, DeviceType.File)
Dim recoverymod As RecoveryModel
recoverymod = db.DatabaseOptions.RecoveryModel
rs.NoRecovery = False
rs.Devices.Add(bdi)
rs.Database = "washmaster"
rs.ReplaceDatabase = True
srv.KillAllProcesses("washmaster")
rs.SqlRestore(srv)
This works great as long as I used one of the backup files that I created directly on the disk. However, my application has a utility that allows the user to copy the backup files onto another drive, such as a CD or a thumb drive and when I try to restore from the copy of the backup, I get the following exception:
....Cannot open backup device..[filename]...Operating system error 5(Access is denied.)
The reason I get this error is that the "NETWORK SERVICE" account was removed from the file permissions when the file was copied.
How can I copy a backup to another drive and preserve the "NETWORK SERVICE" account? If I can't do that, is it wise to try to add the account back to the file before using it to restore or is there a better way?
Thanks,
SJonesy