upgraded to 7.0 and all was fine until...
we run a job that pull selected fields from a table and writes them to a dos text file.
(tables get loaded via bcp)
Pre-7.0, all varchar data was correctly output without any padding.
NOW, all varchar fields are padded with spaces on output.
tried toggling the Set ansi_padding switch before creating table def, didn't work.
HELP! (please?)
fw
I have upsized some tables from ms access (using the wizard) which has created many nvarchar fields. I know the system doesn't need unicode characters so I straight away changed them to varchar and the system is all working but am now deciding on which ones to change to char as I understand you get a performance gain. I am trying to do this without changing much ms access front end code so don't want to deal with rtrim I am thinking change the ones I can guarantee the length of. These happen to be the primary keys.
My questions are is this the correct way of doing things, am I correct in assuming I would have to rtrim alot in program code if I changed all to char.
Finally and. most importantly what about a single character field which could be null can I make this a char(1) and it will still return null if empty as it would as a varchar(1). I suppose this question is how does the padding work is it the character followed by a number of nulls (ascii 0 I think).
Sorry for the multiple questions but I think they are all related
I have a table on two different servers, the only difference that I can see is that on server A columns first (varchar 32) and last (varchar 32) have ANSI_PADDING set ON and on server B those columns are OFF. No idea why this is true: I didn't specify that the table be set up this way and they both followed similar creation/upgrade paths.
I execute "select last+first from <table>" on server A and the result looks like:
<last1> <first1>
<last2> <first2>
...
On server B I get
<last1><first1>
<last2><first2>
Now the docs say ANSI_PADDING has nothing to do with this behavior; in fact if I copy the data on server B to 2 new columns with ANSI_PADDING ON I get the same results. But that's the *only* thing that was different in syscolumns. What is causing the different output behaviors on these two servers? Thanks.
Hi,
I'm using SQL Server 7.0. I am importing data from an EXCEL spreadsheet. I need to pad my agent_id column from the spreadsheet with zero's. Here are the values from the spreadsheet:
agent_id
--------
123
4567
112233
9
This is what I need to see in my database column:
agent_id (char(6))
--------
000123
004567
112233
000009
Is there a setting on the column in SQL Server 7.0 that I can set to pad the column with zero's?
Thanks in advance,
Darrin
I have a search box to look up using a number as an identifier. Currently my query is where x = @enteredNumber, but some place where a user might get the number it is padded with zeros. We can have them just see the number and retype it.
EG: 000000123 would be entered as 123.
But, I would like to let them copy and paste, but then strip the zeros (left padding only).
EG:
@num = stripPadding(@enteredNumber)
IE:
@num = stripPadding(000000123)
@num = 123
ok people, this is getting seriously frustrating! Please help!
As mentioned in a previous post, one of my batch jobs is printing fields with padding added, even when
the table column is defined as varchar.
I've been to the knowledge base, read the article on ansi padding, ran the test scripts.
But when I ran the select to display the columns,
THE OUTPUT FOR BOTH TABLES WAS IDENTICAL!!!
Apparently the SET ANSI_PADDING ON/OFF option had no effect!
What am i doing wrong? What is missing? Do i have to run the Set Ansi Padding option in the Master DB
context? Have I unknowingly overridden the option somewhere else? Must I brush up on my COBOL
for a career change?
HELP!
fjw
Hi All,
Is there equivalent of LPAD in SQL 2000 similar to that in Oracle?
I am trying to work out for below piece of query
TO_CAHR(LPAD(columnname,20,'0'))
vishu
Bangalore
Hi everyone,Please excuse me if this has been asked before or sounds a bit dim.This is a question asked on another forum but the solutions beingoffered are focussing on programming rather than letting the DB serverdo the work, which I'm not sure is the most efficient solution.However, my confession is I dont use SQL server so can't help themdirectly with the syntax. Hopefully you can help me help them and learna little about SQL Server in the process.Trying to right pad a first name field so the padded string is a totalof 30 chars. It will be output concatenated with the last name field,and each field separated with a "|". So that when output it readssomething like:fname | mylastnameSyntax given was:select id,substring((last_name+','+rtrim(' '+isnull(level,'))+''+rtrim(isnull(first_name,'))+space(30)),1,30)+ ' | ' as student_namefrom studentIssue: It appears this is padding correctly but the spaces are notrendering in the browser. (I have no way to check this as I don't usesqlserver. However, I can understand that multiple spaces are not goingto render in the client browser, if indeed the query is padding withspaces.Question: Instead of using space(), can replicate() be used and aunicode space representation rather than an actual space be used? Or,is there a better way that will ensurethe padding shows in browser?I guess a fixed width font would also need to be used otherwise the30-char blocks could wind up being different widths, which would defeatthe purpose.If there is something I've missed, or you have any suggestions, I'mkeen to learn.TYhanks in advance,Lossed
View 13 Replies View RelatedI need a table similar to Fig-1 on my report. The subtotal and total lines need top padding and solid border at top and bottom. I€™m currently using bottom padding of 20pt on the sub total row and setting the border style property of the sub total and total rows to solid at top and bottom. But the problem is that the sub total rows are being padded first and then the border at the bottom is being set to solid. As a result, my table looks something similar to figure 2, which is not acceptable to my customer. I also tried by setting the top padding of the lines below subtotals, but it doesn't give me what I need. Any way I can set the border before padding? Appreciate your help.
Figure-1
A
10
B
20
C
30
Sub Total
60
D
20
E
10
F
50
Sub Total
80
TOTAL
140
Figure-2
A
10
B
20
C
30
Sub Total
60
D
20
E
10
F
50
Sub Total
80
TOTAL
140
Hi,
I need a simpler way of doing this:
I've a number column which I need to show as a 3 digit field in a string:
Example:
number =1; string = 010
number =10; string =100
is there any function that can do this string manipulation?
Currently I'm using a CASE statement to check the length of this number column,
if its single digit I use:
SUBSTRING(('0' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,CONVERT(INT,ISNULL(D.Number,E.Number)))+'0'),1,3)
else I use
CONVERT(VARCHAR,CONVERT(INT,ISNULL(D.Number,E.Number)))+'0')
Is there a better way of doing this?
Thanks,
Subha
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
dbCommand.CommandText = queryString
dbCommand.Connection = dbConnection
Dim dbParam_Category As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_Category.ParameterName = "@Category"
dbParam_Category.Value = Category
dbParam_Category.DbType = System.Data.DbType.StringFixedLength
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_Category)
Dim dbParam_ApplicRole As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_ApplicRole.ParameterName = "@ApplicRole"
dbParam_ApplicRole.Value = ApplicRole
dbParam_ApplicRole.DbType = System.Data.DbType.StringFixedLength
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_ApplicRole)
Dim dbParam_NewsType As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_NewsType.ParameterName = "@NewsType"
dbParam_NewsType.Value = NewsType
dbParam_NewsType.DbType = System.Data.DbType.StringFixedLength
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_NewsType)
Dim dbParam_Description As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_Description.ParameterName = "@Description"
dbParam_Description.Value = Description
dbParam_Description.DbType = System.Data.DbType.StringFixedLength
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_Description)
Dim dbParam_News As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_News.ParameterName = "@News"
dbParam_News.Value = News
dbParam_News.DbType = System.Data.DbType.StringFixedLength
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_News)
Dim dbParam_Hyperlink As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_Hyperlink.ParameterName = "@Hyperlink"
dbParam_Hyperlink.Value = Hyperlink
dbParam_Hyperlink.DbType = System.Data.DbType.StringFixedLength
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_Hyperlink)
Dim dbParam_Email As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_Email.ParameterName = "@Email"
dbParam_Email.Value = Email
dbParam_Email.DbType = System.Data.DbType.StringFixedLength
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_Email)
Dim dbParam_BirthDate As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_BirthDate.ParameterName = "@BirthDate"
dbParam_BirthDate.Value = BirthDate
dbParam_BirthDate.DbType = System.Data.DbType.Date
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_BirthDate)
Dim dbParam_KillDate As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_KillDate.ParameterName = "@KillDate"
dbParam_KillDate.Value = KillDate
dbParam_KillDate.DbType = System.Data.DbType.Date
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_KillDate)
Dim dbParam_Parent As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_Parent.ParameterName = "@Parent"
dbParam_Parent.Value = Parent
dbParam_Parent.DbType = System.Data.DbType.StringFixedLength
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_Parent)
Dim rowsAffected As Integer = 0
dbConnection.Open
Try
rowsAffected = dbCommand.ExecuteNonQuery
Finally
dbConnection.Close
End Try
Return rowsAffected
End Function
Hi all-
I'm inserting 4-digit codes into my db table where the column is a smallint type. Some of these codes begin with 0's, like "0003". How can I format the val in this column to always have the extra 0's in front?
Thanks!
Is there a function in transact sql to pad a column with leading zeros?
Similar to the LPAD function in Oracle.
HI Guys, I have a question. I have to output 2 implied decimal amount fields (AJ_Dollar_Amount & AJ_Amount). I have defined they as decimal (13, 0) and decimal (17, 0) respectively. I was told to use the following func to pad the field, but it is not working. How should I define field(s) or rewrite the Cast statement to get it to work?
Right('0000000000000' + Cast(AJ_Dollar_Amount as varchar (13)), 13),
Thank you,
Hi,I've got a field that stores numeric values, representing a tracking number.I've also got a stored procedure that will extract this field and return itto a client. However, I would like to return it slightly differently to theway in which it is stored. Basically, I want to return it as TRK000nnn -Where TRK is the string "TRK", 000 is zero-padding up to 4 zeros, and nnn isthe number itself - results would look something like this:Tracking Number Formatted Value1 TRK0000124 TRK0002443321 TRK43321At the moment, a typical query could look something like this.SELECT ("TRK" + CAST(trackNo AS varchar(10)))FROM TB_QueueBut I'm not sure how to go about the zero padding. This would be easiest todo on the client, but it is impractical (there are many client programs thatwill use this stored procedure, and the format that it is returned as mayneed to be altered in the future).Many thanks,Rowland.
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Michael.
Anyone notice that the padding property doesn't seem to work as nice as RS 2000? When I select more than one cell or row, and try to set the padding to 1,1,1,1, by typing the values in the property field (as opposed to expanding it and entering it in each side), it sometimes it gives me the following error:
'RptPaddingConverter' is unable to convert 'Microsoft.ReportDesigner.Drawing.ReportPadding' to 'System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.InstanceDescriptor'.
Other times it works. This has always worked in RS 2000. It is more of a time-consuming annoyance than anything because then I have to go into each cell individually and change the padding, one by one.
Hi AllCan you please help me with a few queries on adding a header line andpadding rows out.I apologise profusely for not providing the DDL for this, but I don't haveit. All I have is stored procedure that I'm trying to edit to make thefront-end app display the right data.The relevant part of the stored procedure that I'm working on is as follow:Declare StockHelpCursor Scroll Cursor ForSelect s.StockID,ISNULL(sd.ShortDescription, s.StockID) +space(30-len(ISNULL(sd.ShortDescription,s.StockID))) +pl.name +space(10-len(str(pl.name,10,3))) +sp.currencyid + str(sp.sellingprice,10,3) +space(10-len(str(sp.sellingprice,10,3))) +str(sq.quantityinstock)From Stock s, StockDescriptions sd, StockQuantities sq,StockPrices sp, PriceLevels plWhere (s.StockID Like @theID) And(ISNULL(sd.ShortDescription, sd.StockID) Like @theName) And(s.StockID=sd.StockID) And(s.StockID=sq.StockID) And(s.StockID=sp.StockID) And(sp.PriceLevelID=pl.PriceLevelID) And(sd.LanguageID=@theLanguageID) And(sp.CurrencyID=@theCurrencyID)Order By s.StockIDOpen StockHelpCursorPLEASE NOTE: this query works fine apart from the following problems:1) Creating a header line - I need to insert a header line to this cursorfor the field headers, as the app is stripping off this header. I wasthinking of creating a var, sticking it in-between the Declare and theSelect part and inserting these field headers, but I don't know how to dothis. Any ideas?2) Padding the results - As you can see from the script, I have tried to padout the above fields as the app's output window is basically a textbox, butthey just don't line up.NOTE: I'm using the 3 in the str(xxx,10,3) bit to make my numbers show at 3decimal places.Could you please give me some pointers on how I can pad these out correctly.ThanksRobbie
View 7 Replies View RelatedGood day gentleman,
Is it possible to pad columns of Int data type with zeros?
I currently have a primary key column of data type Int which is auto-incremented by 1. My problem is I need to pad the auto-incremented ID's with ten zeros so, 0000000009 instead of 9.
I can pad the ID's in the c# dataaccess layer, but i need to generate/store them padded in the database to allow direct reporting.
I am using Enterprise Manager and i can see a Formula field when the table is in design view, can i use this? i am just guessing here.
Any comments or pointers would be a big help.
I have a table like
[A]-------------[B]
[0]-------------[0.012345]
[1]-------------[0.002345]
[0.2145]------[0.1457]
I need both columns A and B to be padded with zeros at the end upto 9th place after decimal so the output should look like:
[A]------------------------[B]
[0.000000000]-----------[0.012345000]
[1.000000000]-----------[0.002345670]
[0.214500000]-----------[0.145700000]
Note: total number of digits = 10 not including '.'decimal
I tried this but just getting 11 zeros.. it work when i want zeros in the left but not on the right
select right(REPLICATE('0', 11) + CAST([table] AS VARCHAR(11)),11)
from #table
Hi Guys
Is there an easy way to pad identity column values with zeros to the left (0001, 0010,0100, etc) or I will just have to format them before displaying
George
Hi,
This might sound obvious, or a newbie question, but how are trailing blanks treated by SQL2005 on varchar columns?
I have a column where two rows only differ by a trailing blank. If write a select and a where clause on the column, anly trailing blanks seem to be trimmed. I tried the ansi padding setting but it doesn't change anything. Is it a question of collation? I have default collation on the server set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS...
The problem also seems to arise when I try to create a unique index on the column, where both values are considered equivalent...
I give here a sample based on the BOL for set ansi_padding. I was expecting each of the select statements below to retrun only one row...
Cany somebody please explain why they all return two rows?
PRINT 'Testing with ANSI_PADDING ON'
SET ANSI_PADDING ON;
GO
CREATE TABLE t1 (
charcol CHAR(16) NULL,
varcharcol VARCHAR(16) NULL,
varbinarycol VARBINARY(8)
);
GO
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('No blanks', 'No blanks', 0x00ee);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('Trailing blank ', 'Trailing blank ', 0x00ee00);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('Trailing blank ', 'Trailing blank', 0x00ee00);
SELECT 'CHAR' = '>' + charcol + '<', 'VARCHAR'='>' + varcharcol + '<',
varbinarycol
FROM t1
where varcharcol='Trailing blank';
GO
SELECT 'CHAR' = '>' + charcol + '<', 'VARCHAR'='>' + varcharcol + '<',
varbinarycol
FROM t1
where varcharcol='Trailing blank ';
GO
PRINT 'Testing with ANSI_PADDING OFF';
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF;
GO
CREATE TABLE t2 (
charcol CHAR(16) NULL,
varcharcol VARCHAR(16) NULL,
varbinarycol VARBINARY(8)
);
GO
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES ('No blanks', 'No blanks', 0x00ee);
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES ('Trailing blank ', 'Trailing blank ', 0x00ee00);
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES ('Trailing blank ', 'Trailing blank', 0x00ee00);
SELECT 'CHAR' = '>' + charcol + '<', 'VARCHAR'='>' + varcharcol + '<',
varbinarycol
FROM t2
where varcharcol='Trailing blank';
GO
SELECT 'CHAR' = '>' + charcol + '<', 'VARCHAR'='>' + varcharcol + '<',
varbinarycol
FROM t2
where varcharcol='Trailing blank ';
GO
DROP TABLE t1
DROP TABLE t2
I have a question relating to the ANSI_PADDING setting on some existing tables in a SQL Server 2008 R2 database I am working with. When I generated the tables originally I basically programmatically created them by building CREATE scripts within my code. Since I did not explicitly set ANSI_PADDING to ON all these tables they seem to have been created with ANSI_PADDING as OFF. Some of these tables, which I now need to add columns to, contain varchar(n) and varbinary(n) columns.
When I try to alter the tables through Management Studio, SQL Server gives me a warning: "One or more tables have ANSI_PADDING 'off' and will be recreated with ANSI_PADDING 'on'" - this seems to be generated by the ALTER statement which by default sets ANSI_PADDING to ON. Another iteration of the same warning - "Columns have different ANSI_PADDING settings. New columns will be created with ANSI_PADDING 'on'".
From what I read regarding ANSI_PADDING it seems ON is definitely the way to go. I just need to know if changing the value may result in any of the existing data in the table to be changed or may have any other unintended side effect, as this may cause problems for me.
I am getting a data loaded in a DB table to a character field padded from the right with hexadecimal zeros 0x00. How to get rid of it?
Thank you.
I am attempting to create a snapshot replication publication.
When the snapshot is generated, any table that consists of all numeric columns creates a script with SET ANSI PADDING OFF
I googled around a bit and found that if a DDL trigger is in place on the database, it will cause this to happen.
I dropped the triggers, re-created the publication and subscription, same thing.
Hi,
I am trying to write to a fixed format flat file using Flat File Destination Data Flow Component. I have all required information gathered from more than one sources. But when I tried to format the columns to a big string that will make up one line in the flat file, I could not figure out how to do that. Couple of issues that I am facing are:
How to padd different columns? For example, One interger column has could be 1 to 10 character long in my case. When I convert to string, dont know how to padd the remaining characters i.e. if the value of integer is '1234', it should be written to file as '1234 ' . Which transformation is best in this case, if available?
How to convert T-SQL datetime to a specific date and time format to write in the flate file? I have to write these date formats depending upon one of the parameters passed.
Also, I dont want to put a delimiter at the end of each column, just the new line characters at the end of each record.
Some of the columns has some unwanted characters (like new line characters) how to find them and remove them from the string.
Can we directly write columns to a specific position in the flat file? e.g. col 1 a position 1 and col2 starts at postion 20 etc.
Your co-operation will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Paraclete
Please help!!!We had a sql server 7 DB, with a char 8 field, in which some of thedata was only 7 characters in length.Via a type 4 JDBC driver, we got back a NON space padded String.This server got upgraded to sql server 2000. Now, via the type 4 JDBCdriver, we get a String padded field!!I understand there is a ODBC setting for ANSI padding on/off, but thetype 4 doesn;t use the OdBC-JDBC bridge...so configuration could beaffecting the data coming back?No one here can work out why. Any ideas?
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I have looked far and wide and have not found anything that works to allow me to resolve this issue.
I am moving data from DB2 using the MS OLEDB Provider for DB2. The OLEDB source sees the column of data as DT_TEXT. I setup a destination to SQL Server 2005 and everything looks good until I try and run the package.
I get the error:
[OLE DB Source [277]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft DB2 OLE DB Provider" Hresult: 0x80040E21 Description: "Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.".
[OLE DB Source [277]] Error: Failed to retrieve long data for column "LIST_DATA_RCVD".
[OLE DB Source [277]] Error: There was an error with output column "LIST_DATA_RCVD" (324) on output "OLE DB Source Output" (287). The column status returned was: "DBSTATUS_UNAVAILABLE".
[OLE DB Source [277]] Error: The "output column "LIST_DATA_RCVD" (324)" failed because error code 0xC0209071 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "LIST_DATA_RCVD" (324)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: The PrimeOutput method on component "OLE DB Source" (277) returned error code 0xC0209029. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing.
Any suggestions on how I can get the large string data in the varchar column in DB2 into the varchar(max) column in SQL Server 2005?
I am trying to create a store procedure inside of SQL Management Studio console and I kept getting errors. Here's my store procedure.
Code Block
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sqlOutlookSearch]
-- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here
@OLIssueID int = NULL,
@searchString varchar(1000) = NULL
AS
BEGIN
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
-- interfering with SELECT statements.
SET NOCOUNT ON;
-- Insert statements for procedure here
IF @OLIssueID <> 11111
SELECT * FROM [OLissue], [Outlook]
WHERE [OLissue].[issueID] = @OLIssueID AND [OLissue].[issueID] = [Outlook].[issueID] AND [Outlook].[contents] LIKE + ''%'' + @searchString + ''%''
ELSE
SELECT * FROM [Outlook]
WHERE [Outlook].[contents] LIKE + ''%'' + @searchString + ''%''
END
And the error I kept getting is:
Msg 402, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqlOutlookSearch, Line 18
The data types varchar and varchar are incompatible in the modulo operator.
Msg 402, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sqlOutlookSearch, Line 21
The data types varchar and varchar are incompatible in the modulo operator.
Any help is appreciated.
For the life of me I cannot figure out why SSIS will not convert varchar data. instead of using the table to table method, I wrote a SQL query so that I could transform the datatype ntext to varchar 512 understanding that natively MS is going towards all Unicode applications.
The source fields from Access are int, int, int and varchar(512). The same is true of the destination within SQL Server 2005. the field 'Answer' is the varchar field in question....
I get the following error
Validating (Error)
Messages
Error 0xc02020f6: Data Flow Task: Column "Answer" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc004706b: Data Flow Task: "component "Destination - Query" (28)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc004700c: Data Flow Task: One or more component failed validation.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0024107: Data Flow Task: There were errors during task validation.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
DTS used to be a very strong tool but a simple import such as this is causing me extreme grief and wondering of SQL2005 is ready for primetime. FYI SP1 is installed. I am running this from a workstation and not on the server if that makes a difference...
Any help would be appreciated.
I have a table that contains a lot of demographic information. The data is usually small (<20 chars) but ocassionally needs to handle large values (250 chars). Right now its set up for varchar(max) and I don't think I want to do this.
How does varchar(max) store info differently from varchar(250)? Either way doesn't it have to hold the container information? So the word "Crackers" have 8 characters to it and information sayings its 8 characters long in both cases. This meaning its taking up same amount of space?
Also my concern will be running queries off of it, does a varchar(max) choke up queries because the fields cannot be properly analyzed? Is varchar(250) any better?
Should I just go with char(250) and watch my db size explode?
Usually the data that is 250 characters contain a lot of blank space that is removed using a SPROC so its not usually 250 characters for long.
Any insight to this would be appreciated.
Hi All,
I am working on a column chart type (stacked column sub-type) report.
Our customer requires us that the space(padding) between the columns should be a constant(including the space between the Y-axis and the first column). I know how to set the width of the columns, but I really don't know how to set the width of the space between them. The columns just varies the space between them automatically according to the number of the columns (the number of the columns is not certain).
Thanks a lot in advance!
Danny