Conversion of ASP reports into RDL files

Hi,
I need to know if we have any automated process of converting reports
generated in asp and dispalyed as html format can be converted to SQL
Reporting Service rdl files.
This will reduce my effort of re designing all the asp reports into the SQL
reports.
Please need an urgent help on this.
Thanks
Raghavunfortunately no. You will have to redesign except for MS access report where
you can convert. This is because you must have used your own logic inside
your ASP files, it will be difficult to convert automatically.
Amarnath
"raghav78" wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to know if we have any automated process of converting reports
> generated in asp and dispalyed as html format can be converted to SQL
> Reporting Service rdl files.
> This will reduce my effort of re designing all the asp reports into the SQL
> reports.
> Please need an urgent help on this.
> Thanks
> Raghav

Conversion from Sybase to SQL Server 2000

Hi,
Could anyone refer me any kind of tools or process to convert from SYBASE to SQL SERVER 2000.
My complany is trying to migrate from SYBASE to SQL SERVER 2000.
Any help is greately appreciated!
Thanks.While it isn't exactly a "tool" per se, the section on migrating from Sybase to SQL-2000 in the SQL Server Resource Kit is excellent. Microsoft provides a number of executables on the CD that help with the migration process too.

-PatP|||If you would like to convert the schema, I would recommend ErWin. We did the same conversion about two years ago, and this tool was a big help. It's also nice to have for ongoing schema changes. Though, it's not cheap.

As far as the stored procedures and such, we just did ours manually. There aren't too many syntax changes needed, so it was fairly easy.

Roby2222

Conversion from Crystal Report

Hi all,
I am in the process of converting some reports from Crystal Reports to
Reporting Services.
I want to examine the value of a field in the next row. Crystal reports
provides the following functions for that purpose NextIsNull(), NextValue().
Is any equivalent method in Reporting Services?
Thanks
SamUnfortunately, no. We provide a Previous() function but not Next().
--
Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
SQL Server Reporting Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Samuel" <samuel@.photoninfotech.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I am in the process of converting some reports from Crystal Reports to
> Reporting Services.
> I want to examine the value of a field in the next row. Crystal reports
> provides the following functions for that purpose NextIsNull(),
> NextValue().
> Is any equivalent method in Reporting Services?
> Thanks
> Sam
>

Conversion

Hi,
I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR to
NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't return
values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
the areas i should concentrate the to improve performance..
Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by one
the alter scripts..
Sridhar...Changing a CHAR to VARCHAR will most likely involve each row being affected
and hence all the I/O. If you are altering more than one column per table
you might get better performance by creating a second table with the changed
columns and Inserting all the rows into it. Drop the original, rename the
new to the old and add the appropriate indexes, RI etc.. Just make sure you
have good backups first.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
<anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:297601c47e07$62bd4ae0$a501280a@.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR to
> NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
> it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
> slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
> eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't return
> values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
> the areas i should concentrate the to improve performance..
>
> Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by one
> the alter scripts..
>
> Sridhar...
>

Conversion

Hi,
I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR to
NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't return
values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
the areas i should concentrate the to improve performance..
Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by one
the alter scripts..
Sridhar...
Changing a CHAR to VARCHAR will most likely involve each row being affected
and hence all the I/O. If you are altering more than one column per table
you might get better performance by creating a second table with the changed
columns and Inserting all the rows into it. Drop the original, rename the
new to the old and add the appropriate indexes, RI etc.. Just make sure you
have good backups first.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
<anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:297601c47e07$62bd4ae0$a501280a@.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR to
> NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
> it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
> slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
> eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't return
> values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
> the areas i should concentrate the to improve performance..
>
> Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by one
> the alter scripts..
>
> Sridhar...
>

Conversion

Hi,
I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR to
NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't return
values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
the areas i should concentrate the to improve performance..
Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by one
the alter scripts..
Sridhar...Can you tell us how you are performing the upgrade i.e.
Have a different database or are you performing an alter
column ?
Thanks
Peter
>--Original Message--
>Hi,
> I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR
to
>NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
>it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
>slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
>eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't return
>values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
>the areas i should concentrate the to improve
performance..
>
>Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by one
>the alter scripts..
>
>Sridhar...
>.
>|||By alter columns...
>--Original Message--
>Can you tell us how you are performing the upgrade i.e.
>Have a different database or are you performing an alter
>column ?
>Thanks
>Peter
>>--Original Message--
>>Hi,
>> I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR
>to
>>NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
>>it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
>>slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
>>eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't return
>>values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
>>the areas i should concentrate the to improve
>performance..
>>
>>Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by one
>>the alter scripts..
>>
>>Sridhar...
>>.
>.
>|||Changing a CHAR to VARCHAR will most likely involve each row being affected
and hence all the I/O. If you are altering more than one column per table
you might get better performance by creating a second table with the changed
columns and Inserting all the rows into it. Drop the original, rename the
new to the old and add the appropriate indexes, RI etc.. Just make sure you
have good backups first.
--
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
<anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:297601c47e07$62bd4ae0$a501280a@.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR to
> NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
> it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
> slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
> eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't return
> values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
> the areas i should concentrate the to improve performance..
>
> Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by one
> the alter scripts..
>
> Sridhar...
>|||Consider what Andrew has said, but also regardless of
which way you are doing it take off all indexes before you
start.
How many rows of data are you converting ?
>--Original Message--
>By alter columns...
>>--Original Message--
>>Can you tell us how you are performing the upgrade i.e.
>>Have a different database or are you performing an alter
>>column ?
>>Thanks
>>Peter
>>--Original Message--
>>Hi,
>> I am in the process writing scripts for CHAR/VARCHAR
>>to
>>NCHAR/NVARCHAR conversion..Infact i have completed
>>it..When I run these scripts against DB is verly
>>slow..This is happening when i run convert scripts
>>eaxctly..Even select name from sysobjects doesn't
return
>>values..There are heavy IO is going on the DB..what are
>>the areas i should concentrate the to improve
>>performance..
>>
>>Basically I have written cursor whic executes one by
one
>>the alter scripts..
>>
>>Sridhar...
>>.
>>.
>.
>

Controlling process priority in SQL Server 2000 - possible..?

A similar question has been asked in a different thread, but didn't get a conclusive answer. Is there a way to set process priority on a specific process (alternatively - processes started by a specific user), similar to what the Task Manager allows in Windows?

I need to archive some data from an OLTP database. Unfortunately, some of the tables are growing rather large, and copying the data, and especially removing it based on record age, is a resource-intensive operation. My database must be available 24/7, and I can't have queries timing out, or I start losing business real fast. I was thinking of firing off the archive script and setting the process priority on it to something lower than normal, so it won't interfere with my OLTP processes.

Maybe someone can suggest a better solution?

Rather than trying to change the process priority, you might want to write a T-SQL cursor that selects a subset of the data that you want to archive, then loops through the cursor, possible with a one second delay each time, to move or delete the data. This will allow you to better control the impact on your main system.|||Glenn, good point. I was actually thinking of doing both, if that was possible. I won't be able to run a copy-and-delete operation on something like 40 million rows in one shot anyhow - I'll run out of RAM. SO a cursow was going to happen regardless. But it chews up CPU. The RAM I can release by using explicit transactions for each cursor iteration, but I don't see what I can do about the CPU. The delay would help, but I have constant "write" access to the very tables that need to be archived, and I am afraid that I'll still have service interruptions unless I can lower the process priority.

constraints and altering tables

I'm in the process of trying to convert a database such that all the strings
(VARCHAR) are converted to wide strings (NVARCHAR). I have a script that
accomplishes this by removing all the primary key constraints, converts the
necessary columns, and then replaces the constraints. The script walks the
sysnames table and stores all the constraints in a table variable, and
constructs a script to recreate all the constraings based on the 'xtype'
column from sysindexes (this is based on the system stored procedure
sp_pkeys). The script creates a constraint if the xtype is of type 'PK', or
creates an index based on the INDEXPROPERTY of the index, whether it be
unique, and either clustered or non-clustered.
This works for the most part, but I have found that there are constraints
being created on some columns that did not exist before the conversion. For
example, I have a table which has a primary key on it's identity columns
defined to automatically insert a new value at each insert incremented by 1.
After the conversion, there is an additional constraint placed on this table
which prevents a value of NULL from being added, which should be a problem
due to the IDENTITY column, yet attempting to do an insert on this table
generates an error saying that a NULL value cannot be inserted. I'm not
manually inserting anything, this should just bump the id value by one and
do the insert, but this new constraint prevents this, leaving me with a
table I can no longer insert into.
In another case, I have several varchar columns that have default
constraints (simple text strings), which are also dropped before conversion.
Upon replacing the constraints read from sysnames, I get similar errors
regarding not being able to insert nulls into these columns, which I didn't
get before, as these columns had default values.
My questions are, is it possible to exactly recreate constraints
programmatically? Is there a preffered method for converting databases from
narrow to wide character?
Thanks for any advice,
-Gary> This works for the most part, but I have found that there are constraints
> being created on some columns that did not exist before the conversion.
> For
> example, I have a table which has a primary key on it's identity columns
> defined to automatically insert a new value at each insert incremented by
> 1.
> After the conversion, there is an additional constraint placed on this
> table
> which prevents a value of NULL from being added, which should be a problem
> due to the IDENTITY column, yet attempting to do an insert on this table
> generates an error saying that a NULL value cannot be inserted. I'm not
> manually inserting anything, this should just bump the id value by one and
> do the insert, but this new constraint prevents this, leaving me with a
> table I can no longer insert into.
Is the IDENTITY property still set for the column? If so, then what does
your INSERT statement look like? If not, then your script is, well,
imperfect.|||Yes, It is still set. the insert statement does inserts using enumerated
column names.
INSERT INTO RptTable (
ShortName, FullName, Description,
StockReport, ReportFilename,
AutoprintReport, PrintDaily, PrintWly, PrintMonthly,
ExportReport, ExportDaily, ExportWly, ExportMonthly, ExportFormat,
DisplayOrder, MinDateVariable, MaxDateVariable, Visible,
ReportCategoryId, HelpFilename, CLCompliant,
Param1_Label, Param1_Description)
VALUES
(@.InstallReport_ShortName, @.InstallReport_FullName,
@.InstallReport_Description,
0, @.InstallReport_ReportFilename,
0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, @.InstallReport_ExportFormat,
50, @.InstallReport_MinDateVariable, @.InstallReport_MaxDateVariable,
@.InstallReport_Visible,
dbo.idw_get_report_category_id( @.InstallCategory_ShortName ),
@.InstallReport_HelpFilename, 0,
@.InstallReport_Var1Title, @.InstallReport_Var1Description
);
The identity is on a column called ReportId, which is defined as (at table
creation time)
ReportId int PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1)
Thanks.
-Gary
"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" <ten.xoc@.dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
news:O39thSqzFHA.1256@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Is the IDENTITY property still set for the column? If so, then what does
> your INSERT statement look like? If not, then your script is, well,
> imperfect.
>
>|||Gary,
Perhaps there is an INSTEAD OF trigger on the table (which requires that
you specify values for all non-null columns that have no DEFAULT constraint,
even if those values will not ultimately be inserted anywhere), or you have
IDENTITY_INSERT set to ON for this table.
If these guesses are wrong, please cut and paste the error message you get.
Steve Kass
Drew University
Gary wrote:

>Yes, It is still set. the insert statement does inserts using enumerated
>column names.
>INSERT INTO RptTable (
> ShortName, FullName, Description,
> StockReport, ReportFilename,
> AutoprintReport, PrintDaily, PrintWly, PrintMonthly,
> ExportReport, ExportDaily, ExportWly, ExportMonthly, ExportFormat,
> DisplayOrder, MinDateVariable, MaxDateVariable, Visible,
> ReportCategoryId, HelpFilename, CLCompliant,
> Param1_Label, Param1_Description)
>VALUES
> (@.InstallReport_ShortName, @.InstallReport_FullName,
>@.InstallReport_Description,
> 0, @.InstallReport_ReportFilename,
> 0, 0, 0, 0,
> 0, 0, 0, 0, @.InstallReport_ExportFormat,
> 50, @.InstallReport_MinDateVariable, @.InstallReport_MaxDateVariable,
>@.InstallReport_Visible,
> dbo.idw_get_report_category_id( @.InstallCategory_ShortName ),
>@.InstallReport_HelpFilename, 0,
> @.InstallReport_Var1Title, @.InstallReport_Var1Description
> );
>The identity is on a column called ReportId, which is defined as (at table
>creation time)
>ReportId int PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1)
>Thanks.
>-Gary
>"Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]" <ten.xoc@.dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
>news:O39thSqzFHA.1256@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
>
>

Consolidation of server

We have two production servers and SQL is running on both servers. The
databses in two production srevers has same name. I am in process of
consolidating server. I have to move all the datbases to another sql server
in the other box. But now i have a problem. Since dtabase name is same i am
stuck can any body help me to sort this out.
Thanks ....
You can install a separate named instance on the server, therefore you can
keep the same dbname.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...stall_259u.asp
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
"Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:861FD285-C52D-4369-9FFE-419F99028232@.microsoft.com...
> We have two production servers and SQL is running on both servers. The
> databses in two production srevers has same name. I am in process of
> consolidating server. I have to move all the datbases to another sql
> server
> in the other box. But now i have a problem. Since dtabase name is same i
> am
> stuck can any body help me to sort this out.
> Thanks ....
|||Thanks so much jens. I installed it. But i do i switch over between 2
instances. Does the same enterprise manger works.
"Jens Sü?meyer" wrote:

> You can install a separate named instance on the server, therefore you can
> keep the same dbname.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...stall_259u.asp
> HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
> --
> http://www.sqlserver2005.de
> --
>
> "Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:861FD285-C52D-4369-9FFE-419F99028232@.microsoft.com...
>
>
|||YOu habe to tregister the server within the Enterrise Manager, the
servername of a named instance is
Servername\InstanceName
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
"Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:509CBA13-244E-4C6C-BC15-1E9789FB2AAE@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thanks so much jens. I installed it. But i do i switch over between 2
> instances. Does the same enterprise manger works.
> "Jens Smeyer" wrote:

Consolidation of server

We have two production servers and SQL is running on both servers. The
databses in two production srevers has same name. I am in process of
consolidating server. I have to move all the datbases to another sql server
in the other box. But now i have a problem. Since dtabase name is same i am
stuck can any body help me to sort this out.
Thanks ....You can install a separate named instance on the server, therefore you can
keep the same dbname.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/howtosql/ht_install_259u.asp
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
--
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--
"Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:861FD285-C52D-4369-9FFE-419F99028232@.microsoft.com...
> We have two production servers and SQL is running on both servers. The
> databses in two production srevers has same name. I am in process of
> consolidating server. I have to move all the datbases to another sql
> server
> in the other box. But now i have a problem. Since dtabase name is same i
> am
> stuck can any body help me to sort this out.
> Thanks ....|||Thanks so much jens. I installed it. But i do i switch over between 2
instances. Does the same enterprise manger works.
"Jens Sü�meyer" wrote:
> You can install a separate named instance on the server, therefore you can
> keep the same dbname.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/howtosql/ht_install_259u.asp
> HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
> --
> http://www.sqlserver2005.de
> --
>
> "Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:861FD285-C52D-4369-9FFE-419F99028232@.microsoft.com...
> > We have two production servers and SQL is running on both servers. The
> > databses in two production srevers has same name. I am in process of
> > consolidating server. I have to move all the datbases to another sql
> > server
> > in the other box. But now i have a problem. Since dtabase name is same i
> > am
> > stuck can any body help me to sort this out.
> >
> > Thanks ....
>
>|||YOu habe to tregister the server within the Enterrise Manager, the
servername of a named instance is
Servername\InstanceName
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
--
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--
"Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:509CBA13-244E-4C6C-BC15-1E9789FB2AAE@.microsoft.com...
> Thanks so much jens. I installed it. But i do i switch over between 2
> instances. Does the same enterprise manger works.
> "Jens Süßmeyer" wrote:
>> You can install a separate named instance on the server, therefore you
>> can
>> keep the same dbname.
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/howtosql/ht_install_259u.asp
>> HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
>> --
>> http://www.sqlserver2005.de
>> --
>>
>> "Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>> news:861FD285-C52D-4369-9FFE-419F99028232@.microsoft.com...
>> > We have two production servers and SQL is running on both servers. The
>> > databses in two production srevers has same name. I am in process of
>> > consolidating server. I have to move all the datbases to another sql
>> > server
>> > in the other box. But now i have a problem. Since dtabase name is same
>> > i
>> > am
>> > stuck can any body help me to sort this out.
>> >
>> > Thanks ....
>>

Consolidation of server

We have two production servers and SQL is running on both servers. The
databses in two production srevers has same name. I am in process of
consolidating server. I have to move all the datbases to another sql server
in the other box. But now i have a problem. Since dtabase name is same i am
stuck can any body help me to sort this out.
Thanks ....You can install a separate named instance on the server, therefore you can
keep the same dbname.
ll_259u.asp" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../>
ll_259u.asp
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--
"Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:861FD285-C52D-4369-9FFE-419F99028232@.microsoft.com...
> We have two production servers and SQL is running on both servers. The
> databses in two production srevers has same name. I am in process of
> consolidating server. I have to move all the datbases to another sql
> server
> in the other box. But now i have a problem. Since dtabase name is same i
> am
> stuck can any body help me to sort this out.
> Thanks ....|||Thanks so much jens. I installed it. But i do i switch over between 2
instances. Does the same enterprise manger works.
"Jens Sü?meyer" wrote:

> You can install a separate named instance on the server, therefore you can
> keep the same dbname.
>
> tall_259u.asp" target="_blank">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...
tall_259u.asp
> HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
> --
> http://www.sqlserver2005.de
> --
>
> "Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:861FD285-C52D-4369-9FFE-419F99028232@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||YOu habe to tregister the server within the Enterrise Manager, the
servername of a named instance is
Servername\InstanceName
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--
"Harsha" <Harsha@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:509CBA13-244E-4C6C-BC15-1E9789FB2AAE@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thanks so much jens. I installed it. But i do i switch over between 2
> instances. Does the same enterprise manger works.
> "Jens Smeyer" wrote:
>