sql-server-2008

SSAS Reporting Services - Set specific language / translation

Hi all, in the data warehouse there's a default language for the measures, and I added a translation for German captions. In a Visual Studio Report Server project, when creating a query with my German OS, the cube and its measures are displayed in German language. When dragging measures to the mdx query windows, the default measure name...

Create MSI for slipstream SQL Server 2008 install

I am looking at creating an MSI that will check/install the prerequisites of SQL Server 2008 and after the prerequisites are installed I will start my slipstream 2008 install. I am currently trying to do this through VS 2008 Deployment Projects, but I cannot just simple add the folders of the SQL slipstream into the setup project withou...

Debugging a local SQL Server 2008 stored proceedure from Visual studio 2008

Hi all, There are a few posts about this question around but most concern remote debugging - here everything is on same machine. Visual studio 2008. I have a data connection to localhost SQL Server 2008 using Windows authentication with an admin account - this account is a member of sysadmin in SQL server. I double click stored proc an...

asp:QueryStringParameter and empty query string parameter

I haveasp:GridView displaying client requests using asp:SqlDataSource. I want to limit displayed information by client: View.aspx has to display everything, View.aspx?client=1 has to display only requests from client ID #1. So I'm using <asp:QueryStringParameter Name="client" QueryStringField="client" /> for query "EXEC getRequests @c...

SQL Server 2008: Using Multiple dts Ranges to Build a Set of Dates

I'm trying to build a query for a medical database that counts the number of patients that were on at least one medication from a class of medications (the medications listed below in the FAST_MEDS CTE) and had either: 1) A diagnosis of myopathy (the list of diagnoses in the FAST_DX CTE) 2) A CPK lab value above 1000 (the lab value in th...

How do you work with the hierarchyid data type in a dataset or object

Hello, I would like to work with the hierarchyid in a dataset or custom object. I am not sure how to get parents, children, siblings and other functions when the data is in memory. I can do it within the database but once the info is pulled out of the database into a dataset and cached -- how do you work with it then? ...

SQLSTATE 08001 error

Our SQL Server 2008 got freeze.and not able to connect the databse and we restrted the server(windows 2008). Even we were not able to login windows(Restrted via HP ILO). Anybody face this issue and have a resolution? [165] ODBC Error: 0, Login timeout expired [SQLSTATE HYT00] [298] SQLServer Error: 258, Shared Memory Provider: Timeout ...

How to create nonclustered index in Create Table?

Create table FavoriteDish ( FavID int identity (1,1) primary key not null, DishID int references Dishes(DishID) not null , CelebrityName nvarchar(100) nonclustered not null ) This results in Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'nonclustered'. I referred to the MSDN help for the create table syntax. I am not sure wha...

Restore Database from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2005

I have created a set of tables (around 20) in SQL Server 2008 and entered around 1000 records to appropriate tables. But the issue is that I want that same tables with all the entered data into SQL Server 2005 (SQLEXPRESS). Obviously it won't work by taking a backup and restore it into SQL Server 2005 as it won't support backward compa...

How can I (both) create a row and accessing that row in the same 'Stored Procedure'?

Hello, I'd like to get the value of the id column for an object just after I've created it. But I don't want to run another query for that. My book for beginner (SQL Server 2008 for Dummies) says that there are 2 tables (inserted and deleted) that hold the last row(s) that have been inserted, updated, or deleted. Unfortunately, only T...

How to do OrderBY on XML column in SQL SERVER 2008

I am creating a comma separated value of columns specified in the dbName attribute of the XML below. Now I want to concatenate those columns on the basis of the Position attribute. DECLARE @varXML AS XML = '<gridFormat> <column property="FacilityInternalID" dbName="Pname" HeaderText="TAT Healt...

Bulkcopy inserts with DBCC CheckIdent

Our team needs to insert a cruel amount of data into our SQL Server 2008 database. We're looking for a good solution. Now we came up with one, but I have doubts with it, simply because it doesn't feel right. So I'm asking here if this seems like a good solution. Extra challange is that it's a peer-to-peer replicated database over 4 serve...

SQL Server copy all rows from one table into another i.e duplicate table

I want to keep a table as history and replace it with an empty one. How can I do this through the management studio? --Jonesy ...

SQL Server 2008 and SP1

Hi, I have a server where I installed SQL Server 2008 and after I applied the SP1. Now, I want also to add the Analysis Services to this instance by using the "Add or remove features...". My questions are: Is it possible to add the Analysis Services on a server with SP1 already installed? How can I apply the SP1 also to the new Anal...

How to find the parent using the hierarchyid data type

This code here does not work when I try to find a single parent node declare @val hierarchyid select @val = dbo.GetHierarchyIDbyID(30) --get the parent select * from NodeHierarchy where @val.GetAncestor(NodeHierarchyID) = 1 How would you go about finding the parent? ...

I can no longer attach database to SQL 2008 server named instance

My program has been working for a long time. After trying to use SMO in my program to do a database restore I can no longer attach my database to my named instance. I keep getting the following: "Cannot open user default database. Login failed.\r\nLogin failed for user ...". At first I could not attach to it in Management Studio eith...

Materialized path pattern VS Hierarchyid

I am reading the SQL server 2008 bible and it says the materialized path pattern is significantly faster then the hierarchyid. Is this really true? How can I make the hierarchyid have equal or better performance. ...

How to change identifier quote character in SSIS for connection to ODBC DSN

I'm trying to create an SSIS 2008 Data Source View that reads from an Ingres database via the ODBC driver for Ingres. I've downloaded the Ingres 10 Community Edition to get the ODBC driver, installed it, set up the data access server and a DSN on the server running SSIS. If I connect to the SQL Server 2008 Database Engine on the server ...

Sql Server Management Studio 2008 - Insert string with more than two lines

Hi I want to paste a string with more than two lines into a nvarchar(max) cell (right click a Table in Sql Server Management Studio 2008 --> Edit Rows). Unfortunately only the the first line of the string is pasted into the cell. I know, I could write a Insert/Update script for that, but it's not what I'm looking for. I need a quick w...

Copy a Table's data from a Stored Procedure

I am learning how to use SQL and Stored Procedures. I know the syntax is incorrect: Copy data from one table into another table on another Database with a Stored Procedure. The problem is I don't know what table or what database to copy to. I want it to use parameters and not specify the columns specifically. I have 2 Databases (Master...