I am looking for SQL Server contact management software options. Our company is currently looking at GoldMine Sales & Marketing, but we would be interested in knowing about options that may be a little more intuitive/user-friendly. Please let me know if you have some leads.
I'm looking for a little help on a strange problem, used Business Contact Manager 2007 Database Tool to create a shared database in SQL Server 2005 on a server on the LAN, placed the database in the default instance of MSSQLSERVER then used the database tools to restore a 2003 BCM database to the newly created database in SQL. Everything worked as it should and I verified the database existed and was populated with data and all the permissions were set correctly to access the database. Then I loaded 2007 Business Contact Manager on a workstation on the LAN and attempted to use the wizard to connect to the remote database. I keep receiving errors that the database cannot be found. I have used the SQLCMD (Sqlcmd €“S €œtcp:erverNameinstanceName,portNumber€?) to verify access to the server and named instance and can connect with no problem, so it appears that would eliminate any firewall (which I turned off) problem or permission problem on the SQL Server. This is a connection between a Vista computer and a Server 2003 domain controller. DNS appears to work without a problem as a ping from the Vista machine by server name yields the correct IP. I have several databases running on the sequel server and have no problem accessing them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi, i have created a database in business contact manager which is currently been used by five toher employees. I was trying to move that database to my server. Well I found this tool online called "Business contact manager 2007 database tool". I am trying to run it on the server but it is giving me a following error:
"Cannot retrive the list of SQL Server instances. Please make sure that SQL Server 2005 or SQL 2005 Express is installed and that the service is running."
I have SQL 2005 installed on my computer and I dont have any idea how to resolve this issue. It would be great if someone could help me.
I have a database which has contact column eg. Mr Peter Smith
I am writing a new database which is to have three seperate columns.. saluation, first name and surname. What would be the best way to split the column up?? I was thinking on concentrating on the spaces??
Note: some conacts may not have saluation inc in the contact column, and in this case the saluation column should be blank...
I have a contact table and a customer table. The two tables will contain columns like First name Last Name, Date of Birth Post Code, House Number Street Name etc.
I would like to find the different combinations in which I can relate the customer and contact data. Like its is possible that the first name and last name are same but date of birth is different. This indicates that the contact and customer is the same. Now I do not know these combinations and I would like to have this set generated for me. From Integration Service (Sql Server 2005) I get the data and I would like to know the patterns in which data will differ. Is there any way of achieving this?
I am very new to Data Mining and would like to have some direction as to how to progress with this.
I downloaded Business Contact Manager. With the download an SQL server is part of the download. When I rebooted my machine. The SQL server is not connected.
It's asking for:
Server Service
How is this process completed to operate correctly?
This is probably not productive, but I've just encountered one strange problem after the other with Integration services, to the point that I'm afraid struggling any more with it is going to hurt my productivity.
It is now 2:00 . I've been trying to build a simple package since 10:00 AM
It really is a shame because it seems to have alot of promise.
I'm using execute SQL task to call stored procedures ins a sequence. I like to drag the boxes in such a way around so that the pakage is more readable. Crash! Work gone.
So I restart VS Develop. Try it again. I'm calling a stored procedure and the taks fails. Apparently has to do with truncating from a table linked by a foreign key. So I change the stored proc to handle the problem. Run it. runs fine. Go back to Inegration services. Run the corresponding task. Fails. Same message.Go back to stored procedure. Notice changes I mad diodn't get saved. Funny how did that happen?. I make the changes again. Run the procedure. Runs fine. Go back to IS run task. same message. What the??
I look at the strored procedure again. my changes are gone again. Light bulb goes on. Hey, Integration services has taking it upon itself to reverse all the changes I made to stored procedures it references. 2 hours gone.
And its still reversing my changes after a reboot. So I drop the package figuring its corrupt and start all over again, meticulously rearranging all the boxes to the way I had them before, keeping my fingers crossed all the while, that it really can't be that everythime I make a change to a stored procedure referenced by an execute SQL Task, I have to drop the package and build it again.
And I'm working under a tight deadline.
Just wanted to give you guys some insight into customer experience with the tool. I don't mean to sound irritable, buts its just I've run into 1 too many ropdadblocks with this thing and I am really missing DTS.
I'm new to SQL with 2 weeks under my belt....lol, so this may be a simple edit:
When I run the following query, I can get a list of all dups in the contact field: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SELECT full_name, COUNT(full_name) AS NumOccurrences FROM contact GROUP BY full_name HAVING ( COUNT(full_name) > 1 ) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ However: I need to make sure I am de-activating (active = 0) only the contacts where they are listed more then once within the same company table (company.company_id) and the condition is that phone is NULL. I can't seem to make it work. Does anyone have any suggestions for an UPDATE I can use?
I am trying to figure out the availability of a contact by comparing their available flag to the current day of the week. IE, the contact has 7 BIT fields in the table,1 for each day of the week, being T or F depending on if they are available. I'm trying to figure out how to read the correct field based on the day of the week to see if their available (T) that day for a notification. Each field name in the table is as such: mon, tue, wed, etc. I can get the current DOW from sql and trim it to the same length and case of the field names to try and figure out which one I need to check whether that fields contents are true or not.
Hi AllI am posting this in the hopes someone has come across the same issue and found a solution. The other day i uninstalled Microsoft ISA server 2000 from my SQL / Web server. Since then i have not been able to connect to the sql server via php. I changed the php config file and pointed it at another sql server i have up for development purposes that has a recent copy of the same db and everything works properly.The errors php is throwing at me show that it is not even able to find the server at all. I have changed it several times from both the netBios name as well as the actual ip and nothing seems to work.I should also note that other than the php access issue sql seems to be working perfectly for all other users in the office that are accessing it through the accounting system.System:Ms SQL 2000Windows Server 2003php 5 on IIS 6Any ideas?ThankspT
Hello, I have changed the account in which the Sql Server process run and not I cannot log into the server with any other user account (even if they are System Admin, DBO and Domain admin...) than the one which run the SQL process.
What can I do to gain back access (with the user accounts) ?
We change from SQL Server CE 2.0 to SQL Server CE 3.0, and we got our customer complaining about the performance lost in the process that makes 50 updates in the Pocket PC with windows mobile 5.0.
Our customer says that when they used the SQL Server CE 2.0 the process was quicker.
Process:
We need to do an update to 50 rows every time we lose the focus. Those 50 update are creating a deterioration of performance.
There is any Patch to add to SQL Server CE 3.0? There is any problem updating 50 times on a row losing performance?
I am no longer able to manage SQL Server at the server explorer in Visual studio. i.e. create, modify and delete for Diagrams, Tables, Views, Stored Procs & Functions. Further more, it missing Diagram and function folder. I can only view or read data.
I am trying to find out the the Average number of contact hours per student. in Reporting Services 2005. The contact hours is the in the Totaltime field
Is this formula correct
=Sum(Fields!TotalTime.Value)/Avg(Fields!TotalTime.Value) is in the =Fields!StateServices.Value Group
Hi, this is my first post to this forum so thank you all in advance..
I am trying to design a database to store information about the Specification required by each customer. And the main problem I am having is how to store 2 instants of ContactID (from CustomerContacts table) in a seperate table called CustomerSpec.
For example each Customer has many contacts,(the Customer data is stored in a table called Customers which has a one to many relationship with the CustomerContacts table) each customer has one and only one Customer spec, and each customer spec needs to have 2 customer contacts, ie. one for Artwork and one production. (it should also be possible to have the same contact for both Artwork and production).
The problem is how to associate these contactId's with the customer spec...(if there was only one Contact per spec I could simply link the CustomerContacts table with the CustomerSpec table and drop ContactID into CustomerSpec as a foreign key.. But I am stuck to how to save more than one ID..
I have a large data set with 10s of millions of rows of contact information. The data is in CSV format and contains 48 columns of information (First name, MI, last name, 4 part address, 10+ demographic points, etc.) and I'm struggling with how I should design the database and normalize this data, or if I should normalize this data.
My 2 thoughts for design were either:
Break the columns into logical categorical tables (i.e. BasicContactInfo, Demographics, Financials, Interests, etc.) Keep the entire row in one table, and pull out the "Objects" into another table (i.e. ContactInformation, States, ZIPCodes, EmployementStatus, EthnicityCodes, etc.)
The data will be immutable for the most part, and when I get new data, I'll just create a new database and replace the old one.
The reason I like option 1 is because it makes importing easier, since I can just insert the appropriate columns from each row into the appropriate tables. Option number 2 feels like it would be faster to get metrics on the data, like how many contacts live in which states, or what is the total number of unique occupations in the data set. Plus I'll be able to make relationships between the tables, like which state is tied to which zipcode, which city is tied with which county, etc. Importing that data might be more tricky, since I don't think SQL Bulk Copy will allow for inserting into normalized tables like that.
The primary use for this data is to allow our sales force to create custom lists of contact information based on a faceted search page. The sales person would create the filter, and then I will provide them with the resulting data so they can start making business contacts. Search performance needs to be good. Insert, update, and deletes won't happen once the data has been imported.
What should I look for in designing this database? Any good articles on designing tables around wide data sets like my contact information?Â
I know this sounds bizarre, but hey... this is DTS, right?
For ALL of my local packages on a particular server, when I open them with DTS designer on my workstation, everything is fine - I can even execute them. When I log onto the server locally, and open them, the workspace is empty!!!
They are stored as local packages. As I said, I can execute them within designer on my workstation, but if I try to run them via dtsrun, I get an error saying "No Steps have been defined for the transformation Package." And when I look at them on the server, that appears to be true.
One last thing (I know you've heard this before)... Everything was working fine last week - that darn Santa.
I've run int o a perplexing problem. I have a SSRS setup on my local box. Everything has been working fine for weeks, up until now.
Recently, I had to change my password in our domain - which chouldn't be a big deal. But now when trying to connect to the report server, I get the following:
The report server cannot open a connection to the report server database. The logon failed. (rsReportServerDatabaseLogonFailed) Get Online Help
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007052E) What's odd is the fact that I'm able to connect to the database just fine via Management Studio and run queries. I haven't changed ANY settings in SSRS or IIS. And everything is set up to use Windows Integrated authorization...
Split function. I have records of multiple users, the last value of every record is a contact number (10 Digits- Numeric), I want a split function which can take the whole text and split the records on the basis of contact number.
In order words i want SQL to locate the contact number and move to the next record after that and so on till the end of the text.
create table tbl_1 (txt varchar (max))
insert into tbl_1 values ('john asfasdf 535 summit ave franklin lks nj 15521 510_644_1079 na na 5,8/12 executive, finance finance and planning far 5537 21133 8.25 126 ronald d hensor jr. 5575621596
[Code] .....
Output john jimenez 535 summit ave franklin lks nj 15521 510_644_1079 na na 5,8/12 executive,finance finance and planning far 5537 21133 8.25 126 ronald d hensor jr. 5575621596 jeffrey galione 57 allen dr wayne nj 15810 562_434_0710 na na 5,8/12 executive, technical sales and support good 8137 91630 8.25 126 eileen oneal 8258364083
I have a bunch of contacts that I've scored how well their names match to other contacts in the same business. I can programmatically figure out how to parse the results, but would like to know how to do this via SQL. My problem is for Business_fk 968976 I have 7 contacts. In the end I should have 4 contacts based on name match. For the business key listed Gerardo Lopez is in the ContactScore table twice for Contact keys 7355719 and 57028145. I then have two rows like so:
Each reference each other, and 2 is a good case, a more difficult case would have key 1 listed 10 times showing a ContactMatch_fk of 2 - 11, and then Contact_fk 2 listed 10 times with a ContactMatch_fk of 1, 3-11.I know 57028145 maps to 7355719 from the first row in the ContactScore table, so when Contact_fk of 7355719 comes up I should be able to skip it and not process that match. Hopefully that makes sense. Anyway here is the test data:
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[ContactScore]') AND type in (N'U')) DROP TABLE [dbo].[ContactScore]; GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[ContactScore] ( [ContactScore_pk]INT NOT NULL, [Contact_fk]INT NOT NULL,
I have tried a number of times to install BCM and it just does not want to reinstall and it tells me to look at log file. I cant understand what I am looking at in log file. This is a reinstall and there is very little help I can find. It does not even install SQl express?
I previously installed Office 2007. I tried to install the Business Contact Manager (disk 2) and this error appeared.
Setup failed to install the required component Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express (MSSMLBIZ). Microsoft Office Professional 2007 CD 2 cannot continue. See C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGSummary.txt for more detail.
(The results are below) I am not extremely technical (I can follow clear directions) but have tried a couple of the options I have seen on this site, none of them worked. I took off encryption and compression, i uninstalled all SQL componets in add/remove hardware and domain was already in my regedit. PLEASE HELP.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 9.00.2047.00 ============================== OS Version : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Time : Wed Feb 27 17:50:58 2008
DAMON : The current system does not meet recommended hardware requirements for this SQL Server release. For detailed hardware requirements, see the readme file or SQL Server Books Online. Machine : DAMON Product : Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files (English) Product Version : 9.00.2047.00 Install : Successful Log File : c:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGFilesSQLSetup0008_DAMON_SQLSupport_1.log -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine : DAMON Product : Microsoft SQL Server Native Client Product Version : 9.00.2047.00 Install : Successful Log File : c:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGFilesSQLSetup0008_DAMON_SQLNCLI_1.log -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine : DAMON Product : Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer Product Version : 9.00.2047.00 Install : Successful Log File : c:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGFilesSQLSetup0008_DAMON_SqlWriter_1.log -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine : DAMON Product : MSXML 6.0 Parser (KB933579) Product Version : 6.10.1200.0 Install : Successful Log File : c:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGFilesSQLSetup0008_DAMON_MSXML6_1.log -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine : DAMON Product : SQL Server Database Services Error : The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server Manually." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine : DAMON Product : SQL Server Database Services Error : The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server Manually." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine : DAMON Product : Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Product Version : 9.1.2047.00 Install : Failed Log File : c:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGFilesSQLSetup0008_DAMON_SQL.log Last Action : InstallFinalize Error String : The SQL Server service failed to start. For more information, see the SQL Server Books Online topics, "How to: View SQL Server 2005 Setup Log Files" and "Starting SQL Server Manually." The error is (1067) The process terminated unexpectedly. Error Number : 29503 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SQL Server Setup failed. For more information, review the Setup log file in %ProgramFiles%Microsoft SQL Server90Setup BootstrapLOGSummary.txt.
Hi all I am trying to install SQL server 2000a I install per the instructions but when I go to plesk to create a SQL database I get the following error message: Unable to create database: Unable to create database-dependent object:Database Microsoft SQL server is not running. I am running a Windows 2003 duel processor server. I would also like to know if I can upgrade to service pack 3a from 2000a or do I need to install service pack 2 first. Also should I install service pack 4? Thanks Cruiser859
I have a test server where I was experiencing security/rights anomalies. I tried disabling the BUILTINAdministrators account, closed SEM, and when I reopened it, I could not access my Server (all databases,etc.are on local machine). I thought I could just use the SQL accounts (sa, etc.) to connect, but they all fail?? I tried creating a new registration, and that didn't work either. Since I deleted the old registration, and I cannot reconnect, what are my options(short of restoring image)? If I re-install SQL will all my databases still be there? Is there another way to get access back?? Any help would be appreciated.
I updated my SQL Server 2005 db server with Windows 2003 SP2 and other windows updates and now other applications are loosing their connections to the SQL server after a period of inactivity.
The ERP software and MSSS Managment Studio loose their connections if the connection sits idle for a couple of hours. When in Management Studio I get the following error: Msg 10054, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.)....
Has anyone seen this? Do I need to add SP1 for MS SQL 2005?
I would like to Use the SQL Tab in the Filter Selection of the View-Modify Current View Option in Outlook 2003. I am specifically trying to create a statement that only displays those Contacts that have a Modified Date that is different than the Created date. In other words I want to view all the records that have been modified at any time after the date of their creation.
I have been unable to create a SQL statement that compares the Created and Modified fields in the Contacts. Would you please explain and show what the correct syntax is in order to compare the values of two fields within a given Contact?
These are all examples of what I have tried and that have not worked. I cannot find documentation for this anywhere only small articles here and there that are not enough for me to develop a complete answer from:
(("urnchemas:calendar:created" >= '1/1/2001 12:00 AM' AND "urnchemas:calendar:created" <= '12/31/2001 12:00 AM') AND ("urnchemas:calendar:created" <> "urnchemas:calendar:lastmodified" )) ("urnchemas:calendar:created" <> "urnchemas:calendar:lastmodified" )
(("urnchemas:calendar:created" >= '1/1/2001 12:00 AM' AND "urnchemas:calendar:created" <= '12/31/2001 12:00 AM') AND ("DAV:getlastmodified" >= '1/1/2001 12:00 AM' AND "DAV:getlastmodified" <= '12/31/2007 12:00 AM'))
Hi there, I just upgraded from SQL2000 to 2005 and noticed that any DB engines you register do not get re-registerd when you restart the Management Studio, you have to reconnect every time you start Management Studio! SQL2000 used to keep your server connections. Am i missing something or is this just how it works now!? Thanks Ben
I am attempting to set up an always on cluster on VMware for testing. setting up everything through the Failover cluster is fine, the trouble comes when I try to set up the AlwaysOn availability group. Whenever I attempt to specify a network location I receive the following error: Operating System Error 1265(The system cannot contact a domain controller to service the authentication request..).
I looked up this error and most sites point towards a Windows 8 homegroup issue. Since this is a on a domain, I don't think it is relevant. I also added the service accounts from server A to Server B and visa versa. I even added the computer objects to its opposite partner..I have attempted to use "Join Only" and do a manual copy.
We try to install Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007 and get installation failed without any error. It simply refers to the log file. I have posted below the last 40 lines of this huge log file. The information in there are not vary help full since it refers to error codes that nobody seem to be able to explain. Now this is happening on 3 brand new dell computers running XP Pro. I would be happy for any assistance to either explain the error coded (if any MS guy is monitoring this) or maybe someone had a similar problem and could let me know some options on what I could try to get this resolved and my program installed.
