Conversion from char to Nchar

Hello,

I am trying to convert a single code page MS Server database into a unicode database, using the unicode data types,NCHAR, NVARCHAR, NTEXT. The problem is that in the original database, indexes and constraints have been defined on the tables whose configurations need to be changed. As a result, the ALTER TABLE command fails. Are there any other alternative solutions?
Also, data from the old database needs to be preserved. The objective is to create a unicode database which keeps the old data intact as well as accepts the new data in unicode.
It would be great if you could help!
Thanks,
Sheetal.If you have enough disk space, I strongly recommend:

1) Use SQL Enterprise Manager to script your old database
2) Edit the script to change CHAR to NCHAR
3) Edit the script to change VARCHAR to NVARCHAR
4) Edit the script to change TEXT to NTEXT
5) Create a new database
6) Play the script into the new database using SQL Query Analyzer
7) Copy the data from the old database to the new one

The down side is that this new database can take about 2.5 times as much disk space as your old database, so you have to have quite a bit of space free to make this happen.

There are other ways to do this conversion, but they are a lot more complicated. If you have the disk space, this is a much simpler way to do the conversion.

-PatP|||Hello there,

Thanks very much for your speedy reply!
Excuse me if i sound like a complete beginner, but I am not really experienced with MS Server, as a result, I'm not aware of whether my approach to scripting the database is correct or not. Is it, right click on the existing database -> All new tasks -> Generate SQL Script , and if so,then , General->Show All ;Options->All checkboxes selected??
When the script is ready, i try to execute it on the 'master' DB, after renaming the existing database.
But I get errors and it doesn't execute saying it that it doesn't recognise the user defined data types and roles (while giving their names)
How can I take care of this?
Lastly, after changing the concerned fields, i.e, char to Nchar, varchar to Nvarchar and text to Ntext, which tool is used to transfer the data from the old DB to the new empty one?

Thanks again!
Sheetal.|||That's Ok, everybody has to start somewhere!

First, create a new database. If you prefer working in a GUI environment, you can do this using SQL Enterprise Manager.

Next, open SQL Query Analyzer. Connect to the database, then open the edited script. Click on the "play" button in the toolbar, or just hit Ctrl-E to execute. The script should run in the new database with no error messages.

The simplest way to move the data is probably to use the DTS Wizard. You can get to it by right clicking the Data Transformation Service in SQL Enterprise Manager.

-PatP|||Hello Pat :-)

Many thanks again for your speedy (and warm) reply!
I tried using the SQL Enterprise Manager to create a new database, and then play into it the edited version of the old DB Script, but it gives me really wierd errors everytime, like a certain table or type doesn't exist(though it does exist in the original DB), and there's no way I can find out what's going on with the automated script generation. Any tips?
If not, I wrote a piece of code which works perfectly in converting Char to Nchar :
ALTER TABLE t_nm_reports
DROP CONSTRAINT UQ__t_nm_reports__5D60DB10

ALTER TABLE t_nm_reports
ALTER COLUMN nm_dw_name NCHAR(50) /*the column which needs to be changed*/

ALTER TABLE t_nm_reports
ADD CONSTRAINT UQ__t_nm_reports__5D60DB10
UNIQUE (nm_dw_name);

But, this is a very rough and basic way of solving the problem, done manually for each concerned table. I'm looking for a piece of code which can search for the concerned tables and perform the query, all in one program. Is that possible?
Thank you for your time!

Sheetal.|||I'm going to be really, really detailed about this. Please don't be offended, I'm trying to cover everything, not insult anyone!

1) Launch SQL Enterprise Manager
2) Navigate the tree to the server of interest
3) Double click the server to connect and open
4) Double click the Databases collection to open it
5) Right click the source database
6) Click on All Tasks | Generate SQL Script...
7) Click on the Show All button in the upper right corner
8) Click in the Script all objects checkbox
9) Click the Options tab
10) In the security section:
11) Click the checkbox for Script database users and database roles
12) Click the checkbox for Script object-level permissions
13) In the Table Scripting section:
14) Click all four checkboxes
15) Click the Ok button
16) Make the appropriate choices for saving the file

This should get you a script that includes everything, in the correct order to rebuild the schema from scratch. You should be able to edit this script to change CHAR to NCHAR and VARCHAR to NVARCHAR without any problems (or at least I can't think of any).

While you can hunt down all of the "problem child" columns and fix them as you did in your example, it is a lot more work and I'm not completely comfortable that you'll get what you really want, especially from a performance standpoint.

-PatP|||Hello there,
I'm sorry but it just doesn't seem to work :-(
Everytime I try to execute the edited script in the query analyzer(against the new empty database or the source database), I get errors like a particular table/sp doesn't exist (or incorrect syntax), even though it does exist before the execution, but seems to get dropped/deleted during the execution from the source database.
Thanks for ur time, any other suggestions would be highly appreciated!

Sheetal.|||If you have foreign key definitions (look for the keyword FOREIGN to find them), you will want to move them to the end of the script. This is due to the fact that the scripting engine doesn't always respect the "dependance sequence" of the tables, so the tables aren't always created in the same order that they were originally created.

-PatP|||You may also just be able to run your script twice, ignoring any errors that state that a particular object already exists.|||You may also just be able to run your script twice, ignoring any errors that state that a particular object already exists.As long as you skip the DROPs after the first run!

-PatP|||So, the scripting was completed successfully,with everything done as specified except that in the Options tab, the MS-DOS(OEM) format was selected, and not the Windows ANSI format.It does give some errors because of dependent objects, which when moved before the creation of the calling procedure, works fine. But it can be a hassle if they are many in number(as in my case). Any workarounds this problem??

Also, an important question for me is to know how to find and replace a certain string, eg changing char to nchar while using the query analyzer's "Replace", passes thru every string named 'varchar' or 'character' as well, so its very time consuming.I've tried using '(space)char', but its not foolproof either. Is there any way I can search for regular expressions automatically, as doin it manually in a huge database script is not very practical. Like for eg, creating a .bat file and using FINDSTR? if I'm on the right track, please guide me further!
Thanks!
Sheetal.|||Let's try a different approach...

Modify the directions for step #14 to exclude the last check box for Primary, Foreign, and Check constraints. Build the script that way (without the constraints).

Build a second script with only the constraints.

1) Launch SQL Enterprise Manager
2) Navigate the tree to the server of interest
3) Double click the server to connect and open
4) Double click the Databases collection to open it
5) Right click the source database
6) Click on All Tasks | Generate SQL Script...
7) Click on the Show All button in the upper right corner
8) Click in the Script all tables checkbox
9) Click the Formatting tab
10) Clear all of the check boxes
11) Click the Options tab
12) In the Table Scripting section:
13) Click only the PRIMARY keys, FOREIGN KEYS, and check constraints checkbox
14) Click the Ok button
15) Make the appropriate choices for saving the file

Now you should be able to play the first script, then play the second script without running into the dependancy problems you've been having.

In terms of better editing tools, I'd use an editor that recognizes regular expressions (Elvis is free, there are lots of others), or a tool like Perl that was made for those kinds of tasks.

-PatP

conversion error

Please help.

I have an aspx page with a drop down list(ddlCategories), and a datalist(dlLinks). The drop down lists data property is a uniqueidentifier from a table.

When an item in the list is selected it fires the following:
SqlLinks.SelectParameters("CategoryID").DefaultValue = ddlCategories.SelectedValue
dlLinks.DataBind()

The sqldatasource for the datalist runs a stored procedure (below)

sp_GetLinks (@.CategoryID ?) AS

select * from links where category = @.category

My question is, what should @.Category be declared as if the category column in the table is a uniqueidentifier? And what conversion do I need to do I just can't work it out, as I keep getting the following error:

Implicit conversion from data type sql_variant to uniqueidentifier is not allowed. Use the CONVERT function to run this query.

Description:An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Implicit conversion from data type sql_variant to uniqueidentifier is not allowed. Use the CONVERT function to run this query.

Source Error:

Line 5: Protected Sub DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ddlCategories.SelectedIndexChanged
Line 6: SqlLinks.SelectParameters("CategoryID").DefaultValue = ddlCategories.SelectedValue
Line 7: dlLinks.DataBind()
Line 8: End Sub
Line 9: End Class

Source File:C:\Documents and Settings\Karl Walls\My Documents\My Webs\AFRA\links.aspx.vb Line:7

Stack Trace:

[SqlException (0x80131904): Implicit conversion from data type sql_variant to uniqueidentifier is not allowed. Use the CONVERT function to run this query.]
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +177
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +68
 System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +199
 System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +2305
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData() +31
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() +62
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) +294
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async) +1021
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result) +314
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method) +20
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method) +107
 System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteDbDataReader(CommandBehavior behavior) +10
 System.Data.Common.DbCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior) +7
 System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal(DataSet dataset, DataTable[] datatables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +139
 System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +139
 System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, String srcTable) +83
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.SqlDataSourceView.ExecuteSelect(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments) +1659
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataList.GetData() +53
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataList.CreateControlHierarchy(Boolean useDataSource) +267
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataList.OnDataBinding(EventArgs e) +56
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataList.DataBind() +62
 links.DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Documents and Settings\Karl Walls\My Documents\My Webs\AFRA\links.aspx.vb:7
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListControl.OnSelectedIndexChanged(EventArgs e) +75
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList.RaisePostDataChangedEvent() +124
 System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList.System.Web.UI.IPostBackDataHandler.RaisePostDataChangedEvent() +7
 System.Web.UI.Page.RaiseChangedEvents() +138
 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +4507

Try to modify the stored procedure as following:

alter proc sp_GetLinks @.Category sql_variant AS
select * from links where category =convert(uniqueidentifier,@.category)
go

|||

Thanks for the reply, before I saw it i removed this line

SqlLinks.SelectParameters("CategoryID").DefaultValue = ddlCategories.SelectedValue

and it worked fine

Controls pushed off to the right

This is pretty weird... any controls past the halfway horizontal point of the report get pushed into page 2. The leftmost control is not affected just those to the right of it. It's like there is an invisible tab after the leftmost control. Smaller (not leftmost controls) (not past the middle of the page) are also pushed way to the right (just not into a new page)

Is there some property (that I'm not aware of) that does this? It doesn't matter if I use textboxes or lines. I have not changed any of the default control properties. flow layout is still LTR.
In my current report I have questions and answers on separate lines...I can't place them next to each other or it screws up the pagination.

I start with a new report and it does not do this but as soon as I add 2-3 vertical pages (over 11' x 2) This starts happening.

Has anyone experienced this?

I have experienced this in trying to lay out textboxes next to each other. The one to the right ends up getting pushed much further to the right then I want it to. The I've found to stop this from happening is to put both of my text boxes in a rectangle and then size the rectangle to match the width of the page. Then I can place my text boxes where I want within the rectangle and they'll stay put, for the most part.

Controls pushed off to the right

This is pretty weird... any controls past the halfway horizontal point
of the report get pushed into page 2. The leftmost control is not
affected just those to the right of it. It's like there is an
invisible tab after the leftmost control. Smaller (not leftmost
controls) (not past the middle of the page) are also pushed way to the
right (just not into a new page)
Is there some property (that I'm not aware of) that does this? It
doesn't matter if I use textboxes or lines. I have not changed any of
the default control properties. flow layout is still LTR.
In my current report I have questions and answers on separate
lines...I can't place them next to each other or it screws up the
pagination.
I start with a new report and it does not do this but as soon as I add
2-3 vertical pages (over 11' x 2) This starts happening.
Has anyone experienced this?Select from the menu format->align and left/center/right. I think it should
be with alignment. because you said all the controls comes to left side of
the page.
Amarnath
"tom booster" wrote:
> This is pretty weird... any controls past the halfway horizontal point
> of the report get pushed into page 2. The leftmost control is not
> affected just those to the right of it. It's like there is an
> invisible tab after the leftmost control. Smaller (not leftmost
> controls) (not past the middle of the page) are also pushed way to the
> right (just not into a new page)
> Is there some property (that I'm not aware of) that does this? It
> doesn't matter if I use textboxes or lines. I have not changed any of
> the default control properties. flow layout is still LTR.
> In my current report I have questions and answers on separate
> lines...I can't place them next to each other or it screws up the
> pagination.
> I start with a new report and it does not do this but as soon as I add
> 2-3 vertical pages (over 11' x 2) This starts happening.
> Has anyone experienced this?
>

controlling text box location

I have a text box above a matrix and the matrix is set to start on a new
page. how do I get the text box to start on the new page also?
TIA
DeanOn Jul 6, 10:39 am, "Dean" <deanl...@.hotmail.com.nospam> wrote:
> I have a text box above a matrix and the matrix is set to start on a new
> page. how do I get the text box to start on the new page also?
> TIA
> Dean
If I understand you correctly, you can right-click the textbox control
-> select Properties -> select 'Repeat report item with data region on
every page' and then select the matrix from the drop-down menu below
'Data region:' Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant

Controlling number of rows to display in a table and matrix on one page

Is there a way to control how many Detail Rows are displayed on one page in Table and Matrix controls?

hii

do you mean to say if there are 100 rows and you want only 10 rows to be shown in one page right without any change in the formatting?

i think the rough way is that you can increase the hight of the detail section but it will change the formatting of the page.still am trying with the issue .

Thanks

Mahasweta

Control parameter help......

I'm writing a page to do some reporting off of one of our databases, and I'm using 3 control parameters for my sql query that feeds my datagrid. 2 of the ControlParameters are from dropdownlists, and one is from a RadioButtonList. The ControlParameters that reference the dropdownlists are both working well, but the one for the RadioButtonList is not.

The error I am getting is:Exception Details:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Line 1: Incorrect syntax near'@.Booga'. (I changed my ControlParameter name from DateStr to Booga to try to avoid any conflicts with reserved words.)

Any ideas? Here is a snippet of my code:

<

formid="form1"runat="server"><tablewidth="100%"><tr><tdstyle="text-align: center"><strong>DataCenter</strong></td><tdstyle="text-align: center"><strong>Time Scope</strong></td><tdstyle="text-align: center"><strong>Call Status</strong></td></tr><tr><tdstyle="height: 47px; text-align: center"><asp:DropDownListID="DropDownList1"DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2"AutoPostBack="true"DataTextField="LocationName"runat="server"/></td><tdstyle="height: 47px; text-align: center"><asp:RadioButtonListID="RadioButtonList1"runat="server"AutoPostBack="true"Font-Size="Smaller"><asp:ListItemSelected="True"Value=" 1 = 1 ">All</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItemValue="((CAST(CallLog.RecvdDate AS smalldatetime) + 1) >= (CAST(GETDATE() AS smalldatetime)))">Last Day</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItemValue="((CAST(CallLog.RecvdDate AS smalldatetime) + 7) >= (CAST(GETDATE() AS smalldatetime)))">Last Week</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItemValue="((CAST(CallLog.RecvdDate AS smalldatetime) + 30) >= (CAST(GETDATE() AS smalldatetime)))">Last 30 Days</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItemValue="((CAST(CallLog.RecvdDate AS smalldatetime) + 120) >= (CAST(GETDATE() AS smalldatetime)))">Last 120 Days</asp:ListItem></asp:RadioButtonList></td><tdstyle="height: 47px; text-align: center"><asp:DropDownListID="DropDownList2"AutoPostBack="true"runat="server"><asp:ListItemSelected="True"Value="Open">Open</asp:ListItem><asp:ListItemValue="Closed">Closed</asp:ListItem></asp:DropDownList></td></tr></table><br/><pstyle="text-align: center"><strong>Displaying All Open Tickets</strong><br/></p><asp:SqlDataSourceID="SqlDataSource2"runat="server"SelectCommand="SELECT DISTINCT [locationname] FROM [profile]"ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:Heat %>"/><tablewidth="100%"><trwidth="100%"><tdvalign="top"width="100%"><asp:GridViewID="GridView1"AllowSorting="True"runat="server"DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"DataKeyNames="CallID"AutoGenerateColumns="False"Font-Size="Smaller"Width="100%"><Columns><asp:CommandField/><asp:BoundFieldDataField="CallID"HeaderText="Call ID"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="CallID"/><asp:BoundFieldDataField="CustID"HeaderText="Customer ID"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="CustID"/><asp:BoundFieldDataField="CallType"HeaderText="Call Type"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="CallType"/><asp:BoundFieldDataField="Priority"HeaderText="Priority"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="Priority"/><asp:BoundFieldDataField="Cause"HeaderText="Cause"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="Cause"/><asp:BoundFieldDataField="CallDesc"HeaderText="Call Description"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="CallDesc"><ItemStyleWidth=40%/></asp:BoundField><asp:BoundFieldDataField="RecvdBy"HeaderText="Received By"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="RecvdBy"/><asp:BoundFieldDataField="RecvdDate"HeaderText="Call Date"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="RecvdDate"><ItemStyleWrap="False"/></asp:BoundField><asp:BoundFieldDataField="RecvdTime"HeaderText="Call Time"ReadOnly="True"SortExpression="RecvdTime"><ItemStyleWrap="False"/></asp:BoundField></Columns></asp:GridView>

<asp:SqlDataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"runat="server"SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM CallLog INNER JOIN Profile ON CallLog.CustID = Profile.CustID WHERE (Profile.LocationName = @.LocationName) AND (CallLog.CallStatus = @.CallStatus) AND @.Booga "ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:Heat %>"><SelectParameters><asp:ControlParameterControlID="DropDownList1"Name="LocationName"PropertyName="SelectedValue"Type="String"/><asp:ControlParameterControlID="DropDownList2"Name="CallStatus"PropertyName="SelectedValue"Type="String"/><asp:ControlParameterControlID="RadioButtonList1"Name="Booga"PropertyName="SelectedValue"Type="String"/></SelectParameters></asp:SqlDataSource></td></tr></table><br/><br/><br/>

<br />

</form>

Your SQL looks incomplete:

<asp:SqlDataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"runat="server"SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM CallLog INNER JOIN Profile ON CallLog.CustID = Profile.CustID WHERE (Profile.LocationName = @.LocationName) AND (CallLog.CallStatus = @.CallStatus) AND @.Booga "

What is @.Boonga supposed to be related to?

|||

That's where the ControlParameter problem is:

<asp:ControlParameterControlID="RadioButtonList1"Name="Booga"PropertyName="SelectedValue"Type="String"/>

That should be making the SQL command end with one of the date comparisons that are controlled by the radiobuttonlist control.

Continue table only on next page

Hello!
I have 3 elements in a report, a header, a body containing a table and a
footer. The header and footer does not need to be a "header" or a "footer".
I want the footer to be placed at the bottom of the page below the allocated
space for the body (regardless how many rows there are in the list) and I
want the list to continue on the next page if it exceeds the allocated space
for the body and finally I want the footer only to be on the first page. The
footer cannot be a table footer.
How can this be done?
For the footer I have tried:
1. If I use a footer to the bank giro my only choice is
"printonlastpage=false" but then, if there are 3 or more pages it would be
printed on page 1, page 2 etc but not on the last page.
2. If I use a textbox below the table containing the invoice items I cannot
find a method to only put the textbox only on the first page, it will only
be on the last page, after the invoiceitems table on the last page.
Thanks,
MariusMarius,
I posted a sample RDL for the problem you posted on June 22, 2004 - Making
an invoice. Please let me know if that proposed solution meets your
requirements. If I am not mistaken this new request deals with the same
issue.
--
Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Marius Trælnes" <marius.traelnesnospam@.nospamc2i.net> wrote in message
news:%23bKmMsdWEHA.1380@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hello!
> I have 3 elements in a report, a header, a body containing a table and a
> footer. The header and footer does not need to be a "header" or a
"footer".
> I want the footer to be placed at the bottom of the page below the
allocated
> space for the body (regardless how many rows there are in the list) and I
> want the list to continue on the next page if it exceeds the allocated
space
> for the body and finally I want the footer only to be on the first page.
The
> footer cannot be a table footer.
> How can this be done?
> For the footer I have tried:
> 1. If I use a footer to the bank giro my only choice is
> "printonlastpage=false" but then, if there are 3 or more pages it would be
> printed on page 1, page 2 etc but not on the last page.
> 2. If I use a textbox below the table containing the invoice items I
cannot
> find a method to only put the textbox only on the first page, it will only
> be on the last page, after the invoiceitems table on the last page.
> Thanks,
> Marius
>
>|||Hello!
When In Outlook Express I push "Get next 300 heaers" your response came...
:-o
Thank you! I will have a look.
Marius
"Bruce Johnson [MSFT]" <brucejoh@.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%23pQHOqgWEHA.1656@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Marius,
> I posted a sample RDL for the problem you posted on June 22, 2004 - Making
> an invoice. Please let me know if that proposed solution meets your
> requirements. If I am not mistaken this new request deals with the same
> issue.
> --
> Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
> Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
> "Marius Trælnes" <marius.traelnesnospam@.nospamc2i.net> wrote in message
> news:%23bKmMsdWEHA.1380@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have 3 elements in a report, a header, a body containing a table and a
> > footer. The header and footer does not need to be a "header" or a
> "footer".
> >
> > I want the footer to be placed at the bottom of the page below the
> allocated
> > space for the body (regardless how many rows there are in the list) and
I
> > want the list to continue on the next page if it exceeds the allocated
> space
> > for the body and finally I want the footer only to be on the first page.
> The
> > footer cannot be a table footer.
> >
> > How can this be done?
> >
> > For the footer I have tried:
> > 1. If I use a footer to the bank giro my only choice is
> > "printonlastpage=false" but then, if there are 3 or more pages it would
be
> > printed on page 1, page 2 etc but not on the last page.
> > 2. If I use a textbox below the table containing the invoice items I
> cannot
> > find a method to only put the textbox only on the first page, it will
only
> > be on the last page, after the invoiceitems table on the last page.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marius
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Consume HTTP EndPoint

Hello, I have problems consuming webservice, I was following this page.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen/archive/2005/06/23/65089.aspx

but in the intelisense the method returns an array of objects[], So I have a problem with this line.

localhost.GetEmployees sd = new localhost.GetEmployees();

sd.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

DataSet ds = (DataSet)(sd.EmployeeList());> IT CANT CONVERT.

GridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];

GridView1.DataBind();

Error 1 Cannot convert type 'object[]' to 'System.Data.DataSet' c:\inetpub\wwwroot\atlas1\Default.aspx.cs 18 22 http://localhost/atlas1/

There are 2 ways to resolve this:

The example stored procedure specified on that blog site is only returning a single resultset from a SELECT statement. You can modify the CREATE ENDPOINT statement to the following:
CREATE ENDPOINT GetEmployees
STATE = STARTED
AS HTTP
(
PATH = '/Employee',
AUTHENTICATION = (INTEGRATED),
PORTS = (CLEAR),
SITE = 'localhost'
)
FOR SOAP
(
WEBMETHOD 'EmployeeList'
(NAME='AdventureWorks.dbo.GetEmployees', FORMAT=ROWSETS_ONLY),
BATCHES = DISABLED,
WSDL = DEFAULT,
DATABASE = 'AdventureWorks',
NAMESPACE = 'http://AdventureWorks/Employee'
)
go

such that the generated method signature will be:
DataSet EmployeeList();you will not need the CAST anymore;

The other solution is to modify your client code to:
object [] o = sd.EmployeeList();
DataSet ds = (DataSet)(o[0]);

Note: You really should check each of the objects in the object[] to make sure it is of the proper type before casting the object. This will prevent other cast exceptions.

Hope that helps.
Jimmy Wu

|||

I used this script

create ENDPOINT [GetEmployees]

AUTHORIZATION [LUCHO\Administrador]

STATE=STARTED

AS HTTP (PATH=N'/Employee', PORTS = (CLEAR), AUTHENTICATION = (INTEGRATED), SITE=N'localhost', CLEAR_PORT = 85, COMPRESSION=DISABLED)

FOR SOAP (

WEBMETHOD 'EmployeeList'( NAME=N'[AdventureWorks].[dbo].[GetEmployees]'

, SCHEMA=DEFAULT

, FORMAT=ROWSETS_ONLY), BATCHES=DISABLED,

WSDL=N'[master].[sys].[sp_http_generate_wsdl_defaultcomplexorsimple]',

SESSIONS=DISABLED, SESSION_TIMEOUT=60, DATABASE=N'AdventureWorks',

NAMESPACE=N'http://AdventureWorks/Employee',

SCHEMA=STANDARD, CHARACTER_SET=XML)

Now i have an 401 Error Not Authorized? I am on windows xp not on an active directory domain, so I am the only user, and I am the administrator too.

|||

Luis,

Most likely you are hitting a WinXP issue where for "Integrated" authentication type (which supports both Kerberos and NTLM), applications running WinXP do not fall back to NTLM when Kerberos support is not available.

In your scenario, since your machine is not on a domain, it most likely is not able to contact the Kerberos SPN server.

There is 2 possible solutions:
1) Alter the endpoint to only support NTLM
eg. ALTER ENDPOINT GetEmployees
AS HTTP (
AUTHENTICATION=(NTLM)
)

2) Change your client app to only support NTLM
eg. Instead of setting the credential as sd.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;set the credentials as System.Net.CredentialCache myCreds = new System.Net.CredentialCache();
myCreds.Add(new Uri(sd.Url), "NTLM", System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials.GetCredential(new Uri(sd.Url), "NTLM"));
sd.Credentials = myCreds;

This will force the client application to only support NTLM authentication type.

For additional information on specifying specific authentication types in the client application please refer to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175929.aspx

Jimmy Wu

|||

I have had similiar issues as the above users. And have used the same solutions to only receive the following error:

System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaException: Type 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/sqltypes:int' is not declared. An error occurred at , (1, 1989).

SQL Code:

CREATE ENDPOINT GetStores

STATE = STARTED

AS HTTP

(

PATH = '/Store',

AUTHENTICATION = (INTEGRATED),

PORTS = (CLEAR),

SITE = 'localhost',

CLEAR_PORT = 81

)

FOR SOAP

(

WEBMETHOD 'StoreList'

(

NAME='AdventureWorks.dbo.SalesStoreProc',

FORMAT = ROWSETS_ONLY

),

BATCHES = DISABLED,

WSDL = DEFAULT,

DATABASE = 'AdventureWorks',

NAMESPACE = 'http://AdventureWorks/Store'

)

GO

GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[GetStores] TO PUBLIC

VB.NET Code

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

'Create an instance of the Proxy class

Dim ws As New StoreList.localhost.GetStores

ws.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

'Bind the results of GetStores to dgStoreList

Me.dgStoreList.DataSource = ws.StoreList()

Me.dgStoreList.DataBind()

End Sub

Versions:

VS2003

SQL 2K5 sp1

WINXP sp2

|||

You mentioned that you are using Visual Studio 2003. Unfortunately, VS2003's DataSet object is not fully supported by SQL 2005 Native Web Services. For the richest programming experience, it is recommended to use Visual Studio 2005 when programming against SQL 2005 Native Web Services.

When using Visual Studio 2003 to design and implement a client application against SQL 2005 Native Web Services, the recommendation is to make the "Web Reference" against the Simple WSDL instead of the Default WSDL document. Retrieval of the Simple WSDL document is done by specifying "?wsdlsimple" as the suffix of the URL.

ie. http://myserver/myendpoint?wsdlsimple

Since you have already created the client application, it is also possible to just compile your client application with the .Net Frameworks 2.0 compiler that is installed as part of SQL 2005, or part of .Net Frameworks 2.0 (download available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx)

Jimmy Wu

|||i've been trying to make an easy mobile application(mobile5.0) using vs2005, that consume http endpoint from sql server, but each time the application try to make a connection to the endpoint, it asks for a username and password. i thought, i'll be able to solve this by granting an sql login user, using this..

USE master
GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::SQLEP_VerlagDB TO [sqlLoginUser]

.. but it didnt do much help. the endpoint also asks for user and password, if i try to open the wsdl site using browsers like firefox. where can i get this user/pass value?

and one more thing, i've tried to consume this endpoint by creating windows-app and web-app. it works! any idea how i can consume this endpoint in a mobile-app?

thanks in advance..

|||

I'm not familiar with the differences between .Net Compact Frameworks and Mobile 5.0, if there's any. SQL 2005 Native Web Services require all requests to be authenticated, this includes retrieving the WSDL document as well as SOAP requests.

If you are using .Net Compact Frameworks 2.0, you should be able to effectively re-compile your working windows-app or web-app with .Net Compact Frameworks 2.0 and everything should work.

Since you said that you have a working windows-app, I am assuming that your working app already contains code to specify the user credentials, such as:

SqlWebReference.SQLEP_VerlagDB wReq = new SQLEP_VerlagDB();
CredentialCache myCache = new CredentialCache();
myCache.Add(new Uri(wReq.Url),"NTLM",new NetworkCredential(UserName,SecurelyStoredPassword));
wReq.Credentials = myCache;

or

wReq.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

This should continue to work, if not it is working, then it is likely to be an issue with the .Net Compact Frameworks.

If you are using SQL user login credentials to connect to the endpoint, please refer to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180919.aspx for additional information.

If your scenario allows you to use a hard coded local machine user, alternatively, you can use Basic authentication over SSL. In this case, your application will look like:

SqlWebReference.SQLEP_VerlagDB wReq = new SQLEP_VerlagDB();
CredentialCache myCache = new CredentialCache();
myCache.Add(new Uri(wReq.Url),"Basic",new NetworkCredential(UserName,Password));
wReq.Credentials = myCache;

HTH,
Jimmy Wu

Consume HTTP EndPoint

Hello, I have problems consuming webservice, I was following this page.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen/archive/2005/06/23/65089.aspx

but in the intelisense the method returns an array of objects[], So I have a problem with this line.

localhost.GetEmployees sd = new localhost.GetEmployees();

sd.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

DataSet ds = (DataSet)(sd.EmployeeList());> IT CANT CONVERT.

GridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];

GridView1.DataBind();

Error 1 Cannot convert type 'object[]' to 'System.Data.DataSet' c:\inetpub\wwwroot\atlas1\Default.aspx.cs 18 22 http://localhost/atlas1/

There are 2 ways to resolve this:

The example stored procedure specified on that blog site is only returning a single resultset from a SELECT statement. You can modify the CREATE ENDPOINT statement to the following:
CREATE ENDPOINT GetEmployees
STATE = STARTED
AS HTTP
(
PATH = '/Employee',
AUTHENTICATION = (INTEGRATED),
PORTS = (CLEAR),
SITE = 'localhost'
)
FOR SOAP
(
WEBMETHOD 'EmployeeList'
(NAME='AdventureWorks.dbo.GetEmployees', FORMAT=ROWSETS_ONLY),
BATCHES = DISABLED,
WSDL = DEFAULT,
DATABASE = 'AdventureWorks',
NAMESPACE = 'http://AdventureWorks/Employee'
)
go

such that the generated method signature will be:
DataSet EmployeeList();you will not need the CAST anymore;

The other solution is to modify your client code to:
object [] o = sd.EmployeeList();
DataSet ds = (DataSet)(o[0]);

Note: You really should check each of the objects in the object[] to make sure it is of the proper type before casting the object. This will prevent other cast exceptions.

Hope that helps.
Jimmy Wu

|||

I used this script

create ENDPOINT [GetEmployees]

AUTHORIZATION [LUCHO\Administrador]

STATE=STARTED

AS HTTP (PATH=N'/Employee', PORTS = (CLEAR), AUTHENTICATION = (INTEGRATED), SITE=N'localhost', CLEAR_PORT = 85, COMPRESSION=DISABLED)

FOR SOAP (

WEBMETHOD 'EmployeeList'( NAME=N'[AdventureWorks].[dbo].[GetEmployees]'

, SCHEMA=DEFAULT

, FORMAT=ROWSETS_ONLY), BATCHES=DISABLED,

WSDL=N'[master].[sys].[sp_http_generate_wsdl_defaultcomplexorsimple]',

SESSIONS=DISABLED, SESSION_TIMEOUT=60, DATABASE=N'AdventureWorks',

NAMESPACE=N'http://AdventureWorks/Employee',

SCHEMA=STANDARD, CHARACTER_SET=XML)

Now i have an 401 Error Not Authorized? I am on windows xp not on an active directory domain, so I am the only user, and I am the administrator too.

|||

Luis,

Most likely you are hitting a WinXP issue where for "Integrated" authentication type (which supports both Kerberos and NTLM), applications running WinXP do not fall back to NTLM when Kerberos support is not available.

In your scenario, since your machine is not on a domain, it most likely is not able to contact the Kerberos SPN server.

There is 2 possible solutions:
1) Alter the endpoint to only support NTLM
eg. ALTER ENDPOINT GetEmployees
AS HTTP (
AUTHENTICATION=(NTLM)
)

2) Change your client app to only support NTLM
eg. Instead of setting the credential as sd.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;set the credentials as System.Net.CredentialCache myCreds = new System.Net.CredentialCache();
myCreds.Add(new Uri(sd.Url), "NTLM", System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials.GetCredential(new Uri(sd.Url), "NTLM"));
sd.Credentials = myCreds;

This will force the client application to only support NTLM authentication type.

For additional information on specifying specific authentication types in the client application please refer to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175929.aspx

Jimmy Wu

|||

I have had similiar issues as the above users. And have used the same solutions to only receive the following error:

System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaException: Type 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/sqltypes:int' is not declared. An error occurred at , (1, 1989).

SQL Code:

CREATE ENDPOINT GetStores

STATE = STARTED

AS HTTP

(

PATH = '/Store',

AUTHENTICATION = (INTEGRATED),

PORTS = (CLEAR),

SITE = 'localhost',

CLEAR_PORT = 81

)

FOR SOAP

(

WEBMETHOD 'StoreList'

(

NAME='AdventureWorks.dbo.SalesStoreProc',

FORMAT = ROWSETS_ONLY

),

BATCHES = DISABLED,

WSDL = DEFAULT,

DATABASE = 'AdventureWorks',

NAMESPACE = 'http://AdventureWorks/Store'

)

GO

GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::[GetStores] TO PUBLIC

VB.NET Code

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

'Create an instance of the Proxy class

Dim ws As New StoreList.localhost.GetStores

ws.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

'Bind the results of GetStores to dgStoreList

Me.dgStoreList.DataSource = ws.StoreList()

Me.dgStoreList.DataBind()

End Sub

Versions:

VS2003

SQL 2K5 sp1

WINXP sp2

|||

You mentioned that you are using Visual Studio 2003. Unfortunately, VS2003's DataSet object is not fully supported by SQL 2005 Native Web Services. For the richest programming experience, it is recommended to use Visual Studio 2005 when programming against SQL 2005 Native Web Services.

When using Visual Studio 2003 to design and implement a client application against SQL 2005 Native Web Services, the recommendation is to make the "Web Reference" against the Simple WSDL instead of the Default WSDL document. Retrieval of the Simple WSDL document is done by specifying "?wsdlsimple" as the suffix of the URL.

ie. http://myserver/myendpoint?wsdlsimple

Since you have already created the client application, it is also possible to just compile your client application with the .Net Frameworks 2.0 compiler that is installed as part of SQL 2005, or part of .Net Frameworks 2.0 (download available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx)

Jimmy Wu

|||i've been trying to make an easy mobile application(mobile5.0) using vs2005, that consume http endpoint from sql server, but each time the application try to make a connection to the endpoint, it asks for a username and password. i thought, i'll be able to solve this by granting an sql login user, using this..

USE master
GRANT CONNECT ON ENDPOINT::SQLEP_VerlagDB TO [sqlLoginUser]

.. but it didnt do much help. the endpoint also asks for user and password, if i try to open the wsdl site using browsers like firefox. where can i get this user/pass value?

and one more thing, i've tried to consume this endpoint by creating windows-app and web-app. it works! any idea how i can consume this endpoint in a mobile-app?

thanks in advance..

|||

I'm not familiar with the differences between .Net Compact Frameworks and Mobile 5.0, if there's any. SQL 2005 Native Web Services require all requests to be authenticated, this includes retrieving the WSDL document as well as SOAP requests.

If you are using .Net Compact Frameworks 2.0, you should be able to effectively re-compile your working windows-app or web-app with .Net Compact Frameworks 2.0 and everything should work.

Since you said that you have a working windows-app, I am assuming that your working app already contains code to specify the user credentials, such as:

SqlWebReference.SQLEP_VerlagDB wReq = new SQLEP_VerlagDB();
CredentialCache myCache = new CredentialCache();
myCache.Add(new Uri(wReq.Url),"NTLM",new NetworkCredential(UserName,SecurelyStoredPassword));
wReq.Credentials = myCache;

or

wReq.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

This should continue to work, if not it is working, then it is likely to be an issue with the .Net Compact Frameworks.

If you are using SQL user login credentials to connect to the endpoint, please refer to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180919.aspx for additional information.

If your scenario allows you to use a hard coded local machine user, alternatively, you can use Basic authentication over SSL. In this case, your application will look like:

SqlWebReference.SQLEP_VerlagDB wReq = new SQLEP_VerlagDB();
CredentialCache myCache = new CredentialCache();
myCache.Add(new Uri(wReq.Url),"Basic",new NetworkCredential(UserName,Password));
wReq.Credentials = myCache;

HTH,
Jimmy Wu

Consume DataReaderDest from asp.net page?

I have seen the other posts about how to use Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.DtsClient to run a package and get back the DataReader results. But this fails when run from a client mahcine that does not have SSIS installed. I want to have this page on a web server run the package on a remote Sql Server machine and get back the results but have so far failed. Any one got this working?

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string path = @."C:\Documents and Settings\Brandon\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Integration Services Project5\Integration Services Project5\FuzzyLookup.dtsx";

DtsConnection connection = new DtsConnection();
connection.ConnectionString = string.Format(@."-f ""{0}""", path);
connection.Open();

DtsCommand command = new DtsCommand(connection);
command.CommandText = "DataReaderDest";

IDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.Default);

DataSet set = new DataSet();
set.Load(reader, LoadOption.OverwriteChanges, reader.GetSchemaTable().TableName);

_grid.DataSource = set;
_grid.DataBind();

connection.Close();

}

You have to install the SSIS components on the machine where you are executing the SSIS package (which does require a license of SQL Server).

Consume DataReaderDest from asp.net page?

I have seen the other posts about how to use Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.DtsClient to run a package and get back the DataReader results. But this fails when run from a client mahcine that does not have SSIS installed. I want to have this page on a web server run the package on a remote Sql Server machine and get back the results but have so far failed. Any one got this working?

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string path = @."C:\Documents and Settings\Brandon\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\Integration Services Project5\Integration Services Project5\FuzzyLookup.dtsx";

DtsConnection connection = new DtsConnection();
connection.ConnectionString = string.Format(@."-f ""{0}""", path);
connection.Open();

DtsCommand command = new DtsCommand(connection);
command.CommandText = "DataReaderDest";

IDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.Default);

DataSet set = new DataSet();
set.Load(reader, LoadOption.OverwriteChanges, reader.GetSchemaTable().TableName);

_grid.DataSource = set;
_grid.DataBind();

connection.Close();

}

You have to install the SSIS components on the machine where you are executing the SSIS package (which does require a license of SQL Server).

Constructing a datatable

Hi,

I am experimenting to make a datatable in C# code in a page. This table should be a disconected table with Only valid for the present session.

I try the following code:

publicpartialclassDefault2 : System.Web.UI.Page

{

DataTable DT =newDataTable("TEST");

protectedvoid Page_Load(object sender,EventArgs e)

{

if (!IsPostBack)

{

DataColumn Col1 =newDataColumn("Col1");

Col1.DataType =typeof(Int32);

Col1.AllowDBNull =false;

DT.Columns.Add(Col1);

DataColumn Col2 =newDataColumn("Col2");

Col2.DataType =typeof(string);

Col2.AllowDBNull =true;

DT.Columns.Add(Col2);

DataColumn Col3 =newDataColumn("Col3");

Col3.DataType =typeof(DateTime);

Col3.AllowDBNull =true;

DT.Columns.Add(Col3);

GridView1.DataSource = DT;

}

}

protectedvoid Button1_Click(object sender,EventArgs e)

{

for (int i = 1; i < 20; i++)

{

DataRow MyRow = DT.NewRow();

MyRow["Col1"] = i;

DT.Rows.Add(MyRow);

}

}

}

For one reason or the other. if I click the button I get the message that Col1 dus not make part of the table TEST. It turns out that there are no columns added to the table. altroug the code in the page load part has been run. I suppose I have to do something with the session state to make my DataTable persistent, but I have no idea what. Can somebody help me out?

Thanks!

Rob

You've got the right idea. If you want to save your DataTable within the Session, just change your 'DT' reference to something like this:

private DataTable DT{get{if (this.Session["DT"] ==null){this.Session["DT"] =new DataTable("Test");}return this.Session["DT"]as DataTable;}set {this.Session["DT"] =value; }}

|||

Great! It works. Only one more question. The Datagrid is not updating the records. Do you maybe have also a solution for that?

many thanks

rob

|||

What do you mean by not updating the records?

|||I have put a gridview on the form, and thougt that with the statement

GridView1.DataSource = DT;

I would automaticly see the rows from the data table in de gridview.

But ASP always works the unexpected ways. . .

|||

Add this to the bottom of your Button1_Click event:

GridView1.DataSource =this.DT;GridView1.DataBind();

|||

I thank you very mutch. It works great.

regards Rob