I have some code that sorts a column logically even if it contains both numbers and text. But I've found that SQL converts certain characters automatically....
The issue I've run across is that if my column contains the following strings(5D000,5E000,4E001) it thinks they are numeric then the THEN part of the condition causes a typecasting error....
I found out that any certain combinations of number + E or D + 0. Does anyone know a way to get around this? Try it out select isnumeric('5E0303') will return 1
Hello, I have a report that is based on a dynamic column. The column is specified by the user, and the column tyep may be text, datetime, or bigint. The user specifies the column name, and there is also a parameter that specifies the type. I allow my users to format the date via passing in a date format string, so my code looks something like:
=Switch
(
Parameters!primarycolumntype.Value = "text",
Fields(Parameters!primaryitemcolumn.Value).Value,
Parameters!primarycolumntype.Value = "date",
[DO DATE FUNCTIONS HERE, e.g. Year(Fields(Parameters!primaryitemcolumn.Value).Value)],
Parameters!primarycolumntype.Value = "numeric",
Fields(Parameters!primaryitemcolumn.Value).Value
)
The trouble I am running into is that I am getting invalid date conversion errors whenever a text value is being supplied - in other words, the code in the "DO DATE FUNCTIONS HERE" is being executed regardless of whether my primary column type parameter is text OR date. It would appear that all conversion fuctions are calculated at runtime prior to running other logic. If so, this is a bad thing for me, as that means I cannot mix data types in the same report and figure it out all dynamically. Is this true? I had always thought that the date code (in the example above, the call to Year()) would not be executed unless that statement in the switch statement was true. I've had the same luck with If statements, and Choose statements, and I've even tried using custom code.
I think my whole problem relates to a misunderstanding of how the functions are processed. Can anyone shed some light?
I have a report that contains a Chart called "SummaryChart" and a table called "DetailsTable" the data for the summary chart comes from a data set called dataSourceSummary and the data for the details table comes from a data set called dataSourceDetails.
The summary chart presents counts of items broken down by a category and the details table shows the details of the items that make up the counts in summary chart.
I have a situation where I need to sort the data in the table in a non alpha-numeric way. So I have added a user sort item to the table column header and set the SortExpression to something like the following
where SortProvider is a C# class and GetUserSortOrder is a static method the method essentially finds a row in a database, get the display order for that row and returns it.
I have tested this in another report and it works as expected.
Now finally to the problem:
What happens is when I click on the table heading, values from fields in the dataset for the chart are being passed into my method, followed by values from fields in the dataset for the table and then an exception is thrown.
The only difference between this report and ones that I have tested this on and it works is that this report has two dataregions (Chart and Table) and two datasets.
I have tried setting the ExpressionScope to DetailsTable and the SortTarget to dataSourceDetails but that results in the sort not working at all.
I would have thought that it should only be passed values from the data that it is sorting, especially considering that the data that is being passed in from the chart is a completely different field.
Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone got any ideas?
I've been reading a lot of posts on this subject. I understand that the issue is due to the fact that the subreport is only rendered once. So after the main report is sorted on another column, the cell with the subreport produces an error.
What I want to know is whether or not this is considered a defect. And if it is a defect, is it fixed in another version?
I am currently running SSRS SQL2008R2 SP2 (20.50.4000.0)
Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Procedure CompactL1RecordsFromfirstINTRAD, Line 177 Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'DECLARE rows_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT ask, dateTimed FROM iDay_Compr_GOOG WHERE DAY (dateTimed) = ' to data type int.
I get this message while executing a stored procedure. It works "half way" but skips this statement and the whole block as a result. In the table @table_name ask is declared as float and dateTimed as DateTime. Similar statements work happily in other stored procedures with no problem. Even in the same stored procedure I have places where I use DAY (dateTimed) and they seem to work as far as I can see although it is a very branched out code with many IF ... ELSE's.
SET @SQL = 'DECLARE rows_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT ask, dateTimed FROM '+@table_name+' WHERE DAY (dateTimed) = '+@day+' AND NOT ask = 0' exec sp_sqlexec @SQL OPEN rows_cursor FETCH LAST FROM rows_cursor INTO @askQ, @lastTableDateTime SET @SQL = 'UPDATE '+@table_name+' SET askSize = askSize + '+@askSize+' WHERE dateTimed = '+@lastTableDateTime+' AND ask = '+@askQ exec sp_sqlexec @SQL -- <== this is line 177 CLOSE rows_cursor DEALLOCATE rows_cursor
Another puzzle for me is the line number. I used Edit-->GO TO--> 177 to single the line out and it seems to point to a different exec sp_execsql @SQL statement, the one that is down the road.
I can make neither head nor tail out of it. I am sure Jens, Cetin or Andrea or whoever stumble on this post will be able to figure this out. Anyone else's help will also be appreciated.
I use the derived column to convert a string date from a flat file like this: "Jan 02 2005" into a datetime. I have seen in the forum to use: (DT_DATE)(SUBSTRING(mydate,5,2) + "-" + SUBSTRING(mydate,1,3) + "-" + SUBSTRING(mydate,8,4)) However, even if it produces a string like '02-Jan-2005', the following cast to dt_date fails. I have also tried inverting month and day, year/month/day but all with the same result:
Derived Column [73]] Error: The component "Derived Column" failed because error code 0xC0049064 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column"...
I think the cast fails bacause of the month format. Therefore the only solution would be to code in in a lookup table Jan, 01 | Feb, 02 |... ????
I'm grabbing data from a DB2 database on an AS/400.
Everything seemed fine and dandy until I started on one particular very big table. It turns out that some of the text fields in this table have characters specific to French. i.e. the funny 'oe' character and something that looks like at shrunken '<' sign.
The error being generated is:
Code Snippet Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page
The Code page on the DB2 box is 285, the default code page on the target SQL Server box is 1252. I've tried forcing the use of the default code page (1252), but the same happens.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Is there another Code page value I should try using?
Hi We have the problem with Text data type. We can insert into Text column from few work stations but not from few. This is the following error we are getting COde page translations are not supported for the text data type. From:1252 To: 850.
Is there a simple way to avoid having to use a data conversion task to convert Unicode data (from DB2) to ANSI format (for insert to Oracle)?
I'm hoping that there is a way to set the code page property on the OLEDB driver so that it implicitly converts to the format I want instead of having to explicitly force the conversion in the package.
Hello,Does anybody know what is the documented and known behavior ofinserting/updating binary columns using host variables from a client to aserver which have different code pages? Will any code page / character setconversion take place? I am particulary interested in insert/update fromsubqueries.eg:insert into t1(binarycol) select :HV1 from t2versusinsert into t1(binarycol) select :HV1||charcol from t2update t1 set bytecol=:HV1versusupdate t1 set bytecol=:HV1||'abc'insert into t1 (bytecol) values(:HV1)versusinsert into t1 (bytecol) values(:HV1||'abc')Is the conversion dependent on the context?ThanksAakash
I am using the SSIS wizard to pull data from DB2 z/os to sql server. The data flow task that is created converts the data to DT_STR Ansi 1252 before storing to sql server database. The package is blowing up on in the data conversion component...no match in found in target code page...for my city name field.
My old dts wizard didn't have this problem. The forums seem to indicate that SSIS is no longer doing some of the implicit conversions that DTS did and I may have to do more than one conversion.
What format type/code page do I use for the other conversion? The code page for my DB2 data source is 37.
I've tried several scenarios and none of them have worked. Any hints?
I have a Data Flow Task within an SSIS package where data is pulled from a Fixed Width flat file, goes through a conditional split, and sends data either to a SQL Server 2000 table, or to another fixed width flat file.
The first condition in the conditional split checks for the following; [Column 44] + [Column 45] != "D1" . If this is true, then those rows go to a SQL Server 2000 table destination. If false, then the rows go to another flat file.
The SQL Server 2000 table has a unique nonclustered index with ignore_dup_key. From what I can tell, it looks like the step fails when a duplicate record is encountered. However, it appears that the unique records still go into the table.
When I check the 'Progress' tab of the package, the following steps seem to be suspect;
[Populate Staging [786]] Information: The final commit for the data insertion has started. [Populate Staging [786]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server" Hresult: 0x80004005 Description: "Duplicate key was ignored.". [Populate Staging [786]] Information: The final commit for the data insertion has ended. [DTS.Pipeline] Error: The ProcessInput method on component "Populate Staging" (786) failed with error code 0xC0202009. 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. [DTS.Pipeline] Error: Thread "WorkThread0" has exited with error code 0xC0202009. [DTS.Pipeline] Information: Post Execute phase is beginning.
..and..
Task 2 Isolate Suspect Records and Insert Known Good Records failed
In one case, the source flat file had 74,101 rows. Each row tested true in the conditional split, and all but one row made it into the SQL Server table. The step failed, and the 'Progess' section containted the entries mentioned above.
The Connection Manager for the SQL Server table destination uses the Native OLE DBMicrosoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server.
Is the 'error' that occurs when a duplicate row is encountered causing the Data Flow task to fail, or could it be something else?
Thank you for your help. Please let me know if you need more information.
We are performing merge replication between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Mobile with more than 1100 handheld, and recently replications are terminating with eror code 80040E19. We can only avoid the problem by deleting the related user's partition directory and reruning the related user's dynamic snapshot.
We have a vendor who has an SSIS package that executes a DTS package. We've asked that they migrate the DTS code completely to SSIS, but that is something that will not be done in the near future. The package is scheduled to run every 5 minutes through a SQL Server scheduled job. 95% of the time the package executes without an error, but occassionally the following error is reported.
Date 10/2/2007 7:35:00 AM Log Job History (Pyxis - Data Load)
Step ID 1 Server DEVSQL1V5 Job Name Pyxis - Data Load Step Name Run SSIS Package Duration 00:00:03 Sql Severity 0 Sql Message ID 0 Operator Emailed Operator Net sent Operator Paged Retries Attempted 0
Message Executed as user: Domain_NameSQLService. The return value was unknown. The process exit code was -1073741819. The step failed.
When I look at the DTS and SSIS package logs no errors are reported and each log indicates the package completed successfully.
Any ideas what this exit code is indicating or how to further troubleshoot the problem?
I have a report where I am giving the users a parameter so that they can select which field they would like to sort on.The report is also grouping by that field. I have a gruping section, where i have added code to group on the field I want based on this parameter, however I also would like to changing the sorting order but I checked around and I did not find any info.
So here is my example. I am showing sales order info.The user can sort and group by SalesPerson or Customer. Right now, I have code on my dataset to sort by SalesPerson Code and Order No.So far the grouping workds, however the sorting does not.
SSRS 2012 - VS2010...The report compares two years with a sort order on a value that has been engineered based on text switched to int. Â When sorting A-Z this is the result in the horizontal axis is: 5th, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th..When sorting Z-A the result in the horizontal axis is:5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, PreK..Z-A is correct but A-Z sorting shows 5th as the start and end. Â The magnitude of the PreK location is correct but the label is wrong on the A-Z sort order. Â The sorting is implemented using the Category Group sorting option.
SQL Server Express update KB921896 fails to install with error code 00002b2. I've tried this update several times with no luck. HELP offered is no help. Can't find this error code, and there is no text with the code.
Hi All,I am trying to delete rows from a table using a SQL statement similarto this:DELETE FROM TableA where ID1 IN(Select ID1 From TableB where ID2>= @min and ID2<=@max)Basically I want to delete all rows from TableA that have an ID in arange in TableB. This is done in a stored proc.When I look at the execution plan, it is using the indexes as I wouldhope for. The problem is that it is doing a sort which accounts for73% of the cost. I do not need to sort the results. I don't care whatorder they are deleted in.How can I prevent the sort from occuring? I need this delete to occuras fast as possible.Thanks In Advance
Hi all, I have a stored procedure that generates the following SQL WHERE clause UserName LIKE 'Adi234%' AND Fname LIKE 'David%' AND LName LIKE 'Justin%' AND It is good except that it i can not remove the last AND which is not neccessary at the end of the clause. I want to remove the last AND that come up at the end, my code places AND after each data field(UserName, Fname, Lname) .
I've created an asp.net page that takes the content of text boxes and writes them to a sql table.
The problem is that when I examine the resulting data in the SQL database, I find that the fields written to have had padding added (up to the maximum size of the fields).
I was under the impression that fields of type NVARCHAR did not store padding (only the no of characters being stored).
I've checked it's not the text boxes on the aspx page by explicitly posting values instead of the boxes content and the same thing happens.
Help
example of function i'm using to post data:
Function AddNews(ByVal Category As String, ByVal ApplicRole As String, ByVal NewsType As String, ByVal Description As String, ByVal News As String, ByVal Hyperlink As String, ByVal Email As String, ByVal BirthDate As Date, ByVal KillDate As Date, ByVal Parent As String) As Integer Dim connectionString As String = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("AuthentConnection") Dim dbConnection As System.Data.IDbConnection = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(connectionString) Dim queryString As String = "INSERT INTO [News]([Category],[ApplicRole],[NewsType],[Description],[News],[Hyperlink],[Email],[BirthDate],[KillDate],[Parent]) VALUES (@Category,@ApplicRole,@NewsType,@Description,@News,@Hyperlink,@Email,@BirthDate,@KillDate,@Parent)" Dim dbCommand As System.Data.IDbCommand = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand
I have lot of SQL logins which do not have access to any databases . They do not show any database access when i check their properties . My server is SQL 7.0 with SP 3 .
I want to clean up those logins with the help of script instead of deleting every login manually which is time consuming as i have to check the database access before deleting the login.
Is there any where script available or any other way to delete these unnecessary logins ? Also will it be a problem on the SQL Server if i delete those logins at one command ?
Here is a simplified version of my problem: I am inserting data into a table using a stored procedure. The table has an identity column that increments with each insert. When I use erroneous data in the other fields the insert fails….no surprises there! But when the next insert occurs with valid data I find that my identity field has increased even with those inserts that failed, so my sequence has jumped a few numbers. How do I get the identity inserts to roll back if the rest of the data in a row doesn’t insert successfully? Marcha x
I have created a publication from SQL Server 7.0 and subscribed the publication it to one of the SQL 2000 server std. edition .
Now there are some entries in the subscription list at the subscriber which need to be deleted . The list shows the name of the publication , the database name and the date .
I wanted to know hoe can we delete those unwanted entries. If i select the entry and right click on it , there is no delete option .
Are those entries to be deleted from one of the tables at the subscriber or the publisher ? If yes, then what is the name of the table ?
I wanted to remove an extra transaction log file that was no longer required, and ran the following against the database...
DBCC Shrinkfile (DB_Name_log2, Emptyfile); go alter database [Db_Name] remove file DB_Name_log2; go
I got a successful removal message. But if I go into the properties of the database, and click on files, it still shows up. Why is this and how can I get rid of it?
I have a need to create a report that has a graph at the top and a table at the bottom. The graph at the top can optionally be made hidden because they cause problems when exported to Excel as images. However, when I set the Hidden property of the graph to true, positions of all items on the report remain absolute. Meaning of course that the table that is located half-way down the page remains half-way down the page and there is a lot of nothing on the first half where the graph used to be.
It would be desirable to have the ability to have the table move up when the graph is not visible, however it obviously doesn't do it automatically and also refuses me the ability to change the position with an expression.
I am applying hourly differential backup to the backup server from production with the following command. This command makes the database on standby server into read only mode.
RESTORE DATABASE ARSYSTEM FROM DISK = 'E:SQL backup from productionsql_full_backup' WITH MOVE 'arsystem' TO 'd:ardataarsystem.mdf' , MOVE 'arsystem_log' TO 'D:ARLOGARsystem' , STANDBY = 'E:SQL backup from productionSQL daily diff back up'
Now I want to run a command which will put the database in write mode. I have created a job which would make the datbase Write mode. This job runs successfully sometimes and fails sometimes. I need to ensure that the job always succeeds. When it fails, how do I troubleshoot and what is the possible fix?
Thanks in advance.
The error message is
Cannot apply the backup on device 'E:SQL backup from productionSQL daily diff back up' to database 'ARSYSTEM'. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3136) RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 3013). The step failed.
The steps for the job are as follows with the failing step highlighted in bold.
copy /y "\172.31.9.12Remedy BackupackupSQL backupsql_full_backup" "E:SQL backup from productionsql_full_backup"
copy /y "\172.31.9.12Remedy BackupackupSQL backupSQL daily diff back up" "E:SQL backup from productionSQL daily diff back up"
xp_cmdshell 'net stop "bmc remedy action request system server"'
exec rp_kill_db_processes 'ARSYSTEM'
RESTORE DATABASE ARSYSTEM
FROM DISK = 'E:SQL backup from productionsql_full_backup'
WITH
MOVE 'arsystem' TO 'd:ardataarsystem.mdf' ,
MOVE 'arsystem_log' TO 'D:ARLOGARsystem' ,
NORECOVERY
Failing step
RESTORE DATABASE ARSYSTEM
FROM DISK = 'E:SQL backup from productionSQL daily diff back up'
WITH
MOVE 'arsystem' TO 'd:ardataarsystem.mdf' ,
MOVE 'arsystem_log' TO 'D:ARLOGARsystem' ,
RECOVERY
xp_cmdshell 'del /f "E:SQL backup from productionsql_full_backup"'
xp_cmdshell 'del /f "E:SQL backup from productionsql daily diff back up"'
xp_cmdshell 'net start "bmc remedy action request system server"'
I have scheduled the following hourly diffential restore job too which never fails.
RESTORE DATABASE ARSYSTEM FROM DISK = 'E:SQL backup from productionsql_full_backup' WITH MOVE 'arsystem' TO 'd:ardataarsystem.mdf' , MOVE 'arsystem_log' TO 'D:ARLOGARsystem' , STANDBY = 'E:SQL backup from productionSQL daily diff back up' EXEC MASTER..XP_CMDSHELL 'del /f "E:SQL backup from productionSQL daily diff back up"'
I am creating a report query that returns all unreconciled P/O lines. I am near completion but I am unable to find a way to remove the reconciled records.
I have included a script to produce some sample table, data & query.
The recordset dispalys 6 rows. All reconciled Supplier Invoices are duplicated and have transaction codes 40, 50 and reconcile code of 9 (5024, 921689471).
All unreconciled only appear once and have transaction codes 40 and reconcile code of 0 (4835 & 921978016). These are the only records that I want to show.
This a microsoft SQL 2000 server. I have a DB with mutliple tables that have a column called "Date_stamp", which is used as a primary ID. Here is my problem: Some of tables have a bad datetime entry for the "Date_stamp". The bad entry is '2008-3-18". I need to delete this entry from every single table that has a name similary to 'Elect_Sub%Daily'.
I know how to get the user table names from the DB as follows:
SELECT name FROM dbo.sysobjects WHERE xtype = 'U' and name like 'Elect_Sub%Daily'
What I need to do is have a query that will basically scroll through the tables name produced by the above query and search and delete the entries that read '2008-3-18".
delete from tableName where Date_Stamp = '2008-3-18'
I have a third party app that passes parameters (main dataset query) from the app to SSRS. Â Unfortunately, when the parameters are passed from the app they will contain equal signs ("=") in front of each parameter. Â For example, the parameters that may be passed to the main dataset query should be:
"HYDRO, OKO, ONEPL, TECHNI"
However, the parameters that are passed from the app, get to SSRS as:
"=HYDRO, =OKO, =ONEPL, =TECHNI"
Again, this is for the main dataset query and there may be one parameter or there may be any number of them.
Basically, I need to strip the "=" signs from the parameters. whether there is one parameter or ten.
I believe that I will need a custom function to strip the equal signs?
