sql-server-2005

sql server 2005 delphi 2010 dbexpress connection

Trying to connect to sql server 2005 with delphi 2010 gives me the following error after configuring the data explorer: 'Borland.data.TDBXError: DBX Error: Driver could not be properly initialized. Client library may be missing, not installed properly, or wrong version' I know there is a work around by installing the sql server 2008 man...

Upgraded activerecord-sqlserver-adapter from 2.2.22 to 2.3.8 and now getting an ODBC error

I have been using MSSQL 2005 with Rails for quite a while now, and decided to bump my gems up on one of my projects and ran into a problem. I moved from 2.2.22 to 2.3.8 (latest as of writing) and all of a sudden I got this: ODBC::Error: S1090 (0) [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Invalid string or buffer length I'm using a DSN connection wit...

SQL Server indexes not working

I've set some indexes on an a test server and on my own machine, and it worked great. But when I tried to put the data on a production server (copying all the test data through import/export wizard, and after setting the primary keys, and then the FK and indexes), the indexes seems not to be working. They are there, but the queries are...

Why doesn't SQL Server have a pure date and pure time data type?

I have a few SQL Server tables with a datetime field that really only has to contain dates... and the fact that it's a datetime object violates data integrity, because it's possible for data to be inserted with a time - which isn't really valid for this field. The result is that we have to convert it and strip off the time every single t...

send dbmail on @@error from sql server 2005

Hi, I am trying to send database mail when error occurs inside the transaction.My setup for dbo.sp_send_dbmail is correct , when I execute the proc I do get an email within 1 min. However when I try to use dbo.sp_send_dbmail inside another proc within transactions than I do not get the email. Sql server does show in the result window ...

Export large amount of data from Oracle 10G to SQL Server 2005

Dear all, I need to export 100 million data rows (avg row length ~ 100 bytes) from Oracle 10G database table into SQL server (over WAN/VLAN with 6MBits/sec capacity) on a regular basis. So far, these are the options that I have tried and a quick summary. Has anyone tried this before? Are there other better options? Which option would be...

SQL Server INSERT ... SELECT Statement won't parse

I am getting the following error message with SQL Server 2005 Msg 120, Level 15, State 1, Procedure usp_AttributeActivitiesForDateRange, Line 18 The select list for the INSERT statement contains fewer items than the insert list. The number of SELECT values must match the number of INSERT columns. I have copy and pasted the select...

Why does RIGHT(@foostr, 0) return NULL when @foostr is varchar(max)?

In SQL Server 2005 If I want to find the right-most one character of a varchar(max) variable, no problem: declare @foostr varchar(max) set @foostr = 'abcd' select right (@foostr, 1) ---- d If I want to find the right-most zero characters of a string literal, no problem: select right ('abcd', 0) ------------------ It returns an e...

An expression of non-boolean type specified in a context where a condition is expected, near 'END'.

So maybe someone can point me in the right direction of what is causing this error? I've been fighting with this for a couple of hours and searching the web, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. It's included as part of a stored procedure, I don't know if that matters, if it does I can include that as well. Tables and fie...

Sharepoint SSRS: Unexpected Error Encountered

We are running an intranet website hosted on Sharepoint 2007, serving reports to users via SSRS. Recently, our users are experiencing error when trying to access certain reports with the error message "An unexpected error has occurred". After trying many things, to cut a long story short we manage to temporarily solve the problem by man...

tsql getdate conversion

Hi, I know that when i do the following, it converts getdate to int select cast (getdate() as int) Getdate output on my server is "2010-06-11 14:42:20.100" and the int to which the above command is converting to is 40339. What is this integer? Did this int consider minutes and seconds? i am confused. Please help. Regards Manjot ...

how can i get data from excel via "select statement" in sql 2005?

is there any method to get data from excel to sql ? i think that we can do without any writing C#codes. For example : select * from MyExcellFile.xls.Sheet1. Or may be any wizard in sql? ...

how can i solve "The OLE DB provider "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0" has not been registered."?

i try to use get excel data from excel file. i am using office 2007 and sql 2005. i writed below codes: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Addresses_Temp] ( [FirstName] VARCHAR(20), [LastName] VARCHAR(20), [Address] VARCHAR(50), [City] VARCHAR(30), [State] VARCHAR(2), [ZIP] VARCHAR(10) ) GO INSER...

Find records IN BETWEEN Date Range

Please see attached image I have a table which have FromDate and ToDate. FromDate is start of some event and ToDate is end of that event. I need to find a record if search criteria is in between range of dates. e.g. If a record has FromDate 2010/15/5 and ToDate 2010/15/25 and my criteria is FromDate 2010/5/18 and ToDate is 2010/5/21...

Can I encrypt value in C# and use that with SQL Server 2005 symmetric encryption?

To be more specific, if I create a symmetric key with a specific KEY_SOURCE and ALGORITHM (as described here), is there any way that I can set up the same key and algorithm in C# so that I can encrypt data in code, but have that data decrypted by the symmetric key in Sql Server? From the research I've done so far, it seems that the IDEN...

How can I create a SQL table using excel columns?

I need to help to generate column name from excel automatically. I think that: we can do below codes: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Addresses_Temp] ( [FirstName] VARCHAR(20), [LastName] VARCHAR(20), [Address] VARCHAR(50), [City] VARCHAR(30), [State] VARCHAR(2), [ZIP] VARCHAR(10) ) v...

Deadlock in SQL Server 2005! Two real-time bulk upserts are fighting. WHY?

Here's the scenario: I've got a table called MarketDataCurrent (MDC) that has live updating stock prices. I've got one process called 'LiveFeed' which reads prices streaming from the wire, queues up inserts, and uses a 'bulk upload to temp table then insert/update to MDC table.' (BulkUpsert) I've got another process which then rea...

service broker message process order

Everywhere I read says that messages handled by the service broker are processed in the order that they arrive, and yet if you create a table, message type, contract, service etc , and on activation have a stored proc that waits for 2 seconds and inserts the msg into a table, set the max queue readers to 5 or 10, and send 20 odd messages...

Anyone know a program to automatically dump a bunch of test (dummy) data into a sql database?

Possible Duplicate: Tools for Generating Mock Data? I am running SQL Server 2005 and I want to dump some dummy data into a large table with about 50 columns (I did not design it :P) - anyone know a tool to do this automatically? I want the rows to have all sorts of different data, and I would rather not write a script if ther...

Finding all tables and fields on "many" side of relations with a certain table

in Sql Server 2005, I have a master table, and several other tables which are related to this master through several one to many relations. How can I find all tables and fields which are in relation with the primary key in the master table, on "many" side? I know I can extract this by querying views from INFORMATION_SCHEMA, but I don't ...