I'm trying to import data coming from a Paradox Database (all files *.DB are located in a folder) to Sql server 2008 with SSIS 2008.
From my OLE DB Source, I created a new Connection using Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider and then specified "Paradox 5.0" in Extended Properties but when testing the connection I get every time the same error : " ISAM Driver not found"
Any idea how to solve this ?
Thanks a lot
Run into this problem recently when trying to import Paradox 5.x files to SQL Server 2008 R2 via SSIS in Windows 7.
What was missing?
The Borland Database Engine (BDE). I have installed the 5.2.0.2 version downloaded at www.prestwood.com. You need to register into the site in order to get it. This is the name of the downloaded zip file "mprestwood_KB100537_attachment.zip".
So, after installing the BDE, solved the problem with these steps (witch i think all of you should already have tried with no success):
Create a System DSN with the Paradox Driver, using ODBC 32 bit Manager, usualy at <drive>:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe, configuring it to point to the folder where the paradox .DB files are.
In SSIS, create an ADO.Net connection manager using the previous created DSN
Configure the created connection manager to use the provider ".Net Providers\Odbc Data Provider", and in the Data source specification select the created system dsn
In a Data Flow Task, add an ADO Net Source using the created connection manager
"Automagicaly" everything goes as it should, you can see the paradox files appearing as tables, their columns, etc. Now you only have to choose your destination...
Hope this helps, i sure wasted a great deal of time to get this running... but is running, time to move on...
JB
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I have some .mdf and .ldf files of database size greater than 10 GB with me.
I want to create a MySQL database using the same.
Is there any provision in MySQL to do it?
Please consider that MySQL and SQL Server 2008 can not be installed on the same machine (or even the same network) in my current setup.
I don't have enterprise edition of SQL Server management studio in our network and will not be able to install it.
Is there any other elegant way to export data from SQL Server 2008 and import it in MySQL?
I don't think it is possible without attaching.
If you find a way how to attach it, you can use some specific migrating tools like this.
Some tools allow to create database specific queries from another solution, that need to be only executed on your side.
The MDF and LDF files belong to Microsoft SQL Server and use Microsoft's own binary format, so you cannot connect these files to other database management systems. The only approach I can think of, is to script out the database code and data from the SQL Server database to a text file (.sql file), and import this file into MySQL.
For the past few days I'm running into an error, which is well known, but I can't understand what I need to do, even after reading so many different solutions. But please let me start with the task.
A predecessor created a business critical SSIS package using SQL Server Data Tools (2005) 4-5 years ago that basically reads a large table in the database and then segregates the data categorically and pumps the data into separate tables in the same database. At the end it reads the data from these segregated/categorised data tables and exports the data into respective Excel files in a Network drive in the same folder. All these tables have different data dictionaries. All these Excel files are 97-2003 format (.xls).
The Production server is SQL 2005 and Windows 2003. and a New Development environment is created with SQL Server 2012 and Windows 2012, where I need to migrate all the databases, SQL Jobs, SSIS packages. Majority of them completed and are running without issue. I left the complex SSIS packages to the last, so I can deliver something to business to test on.
Now my task is to upgrade the package to write into Excel 2007 xlsx files. No changes at the database level. So, I created OLE DB Connections for all the Excel files and the connections appear to work fine when clicked on Test Connection in Connection dialog. All these Excel files sit in the Dev SQL Server in the same folder (\DevServer\p$\SSIS_Jobs\Process_Data) as the SSIS package. I set the Extended Properties = Excel 12.0 XML in Connection manager. But when I run the package in the BIDS, I'm getting
"Failed to acquire connection "Excel07_Con1". Connection may not be configured or you may not have the right permissions on this connection."
The package is set to 32 bit mode and MSOffice installed is 32bit and installed the Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 (32-bit) drivers. And the Dev Network drive has Full rights to EveryOne to ReadWrite.
Since this is the last step in the process, the whole job is failing because of this. I'm sure gone through lot of responses to similar questions. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks - Madhu
have you checked project properties? It might be the case that the project in BIDS the following property Runas64Bit is set to TRUE.
Thanks for your responses, I've solved the issue by recreating the package from scratch in SSDT2012. Now the package is working. I suspect it could be the Excel drivers.
Thanks for your time again. - Madhu
I'm a PHP developer by profession. I'm using Ubuntu Linux on my machine.
I don't have any idea about .Net framework and MS SQL Server Express database.
I've received a file titled project_db.bak and I have to convert it into project_db.sql in order to import the same database into MySQL.
I searched over the Internet for the solution. I found couple of answers but they are asking to use MS SQL server tools which I can not. I have to achieve this conversion in some other way.
Can someone please help me in this regard?
MS Sql Server typically generates binary backups, so what you have I guess is a backup. To restore it to a "querable" state you will need MS tools or RESTORE statment someway executed against the Motor (that you will need). Once it was "restored" (that is the reverse to a MS backup) you can dump (in MySql terms) with a tool or with a script
Create a Virtual Machine Windows 7 or better.
In the VM make sure you have a second network card that's set to a private network with your Host so you can connect to your Host MySQL you will need a User in your MySQL Server setup that allows connections from your remote network
in this VM install SQL Server, and SQL Server Management Studio & Navicat from that you can then restore the .bak file, once you have it restored. you will need another external tool that allows you to export as another format for this i use Navicat export is as another format. you can then connect to your MySQL Server and import that exported file.
I am trying to access a Visual FoxPro Database through MS Access 2013 on a Windows 7 Machine, but I am getting this error.
"specified driver could not be loaded due to system error 0. The operation completed successfully(Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver C:\Windows\system32\vfpodbc.dll).(#160)"
I tried installing Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2 but I am getting the same results.
Any help is much appreciated.
You cannot use OLEDB with Access, can you? If you can then it is straight forward with VFPOLEDB driver.
You cannot use VFP ODBC driver if database version is later than VFP6.
If you are in a need to downgrade to access (which I never classify as a "database") then you could use Excel in between. Excel can import data using OLEDB (but strangely access can't, go figure). Or if you know how to write VBA code in access then maybe you could utilize the OLEBD driver from there too.
Another option might be to get the data to SQL server express via OleDb, then from SQL server to access (yet a bigger downgrade).
Another option would be to use code for this. If it were from VFP it would be as easy as 1,2,3 creating a cursor adapter or remote view to access and pumping data there. With C# too you can create connections to both sides, read from one and write to the other.
If I were you, I wouldn't choose to downgrade to access, but maybe upgrade to postgreSQL, MS SQL, ...
PS: Check out Advantage Database Server. It was supporting ODBC for VFP (local server version for free). That might be your option.
PS2: Access can import XML, right? Maybe you would want to export VFP data as XML and import from there.
I have two database files named as .mdf and .ldf which are created in SQL Server 2012 and now on my pc I installed Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 Express.
When I try to attach these database files to SQL Server 2008 it gives me error.
The database 'C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT SQL
SERVER\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\CMS_DB.MDF' cannot
be opened because it is version 706. This server supports version 655
and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported.
Could not open new database 'C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT SQL
SERVER\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\CMS_DB.MDF'. CREATE
DATABASE is aborted.
An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file C:\Program
Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\DATA\CMD_DB.mdf failed. A
database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened,
or it is located on UNC share.
When open database in ssms 2008 then error :
Attach database failed for Server 'MATRIX-PC\SQLEXPRESS'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
Additional information:
An exception occured while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.
(Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
The database 'C:\USERS\RAJ\DESKTOP\COLLEGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM(.NET 4.5)\ COLLEGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM\BIN\DEBUG\CMD_DB.MDF' cannot be opened because it is version 706.
This server supports version 655 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported.
Could not open new database 'C:\USERS\RAJ\DESKTOP\COLLEGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM(.NET 4.5)\COLLEGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM\BIN\DEBUG\CMD_DB.MDF'. CREATE DATABASE is aborted.
(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 948)
No, you can only move forward.
This means, you can restore the database from 2005 or 2008 to 2012 version but can not do it in reverse order. The next most popular question I receive is if we can’t restore a SQL Server 2012 database to earlier version what is the next best option?
I have personally faced this issue once before and I had manually created T-SQL script using Script and Data Generator Wizard in SQL Server 2012 and rebuild my database in
SQL Server 2008R2. If you have many different databases which you want to address, you can use SSIS to
automate the script generation.
As noted if you want to access a 2012 db from 2008 you will have to migrate the database back to 2008. This will only be possible if you have not used 2012-specific features in the db. If you have and still want to perform the migration you should first try and identify these where they occur and fix those first.
As noted above one option is to generate T-SQL scripts and use these to regenerate the db in 2008. However for a large db this could be time consuming and hard work to get to actually work.
A better option than using the SSMS scripting wizard is to use a similar tool available on Codeplex called SQL Database Migration Wizard - http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/releases/view/32334. You want the latest version v4.x to work with SQL Server 2012.
The tool is originally intended to be used for migrating databases between SQL Server and Azure. However the tool works just as well between SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2008. The trick is to set SQL Server rather than Azure as the target in the advanced options.
The reason this is a better option than the SSMS scripting wizard is that it uses BCP for the data transfer rather than TSQL and so is much more efficient. I migrated a 7GB database in about 2 hours with this with most of the time spent drinking tea while the machine worked away. Importantly, it all just worked with no requirement for me to start editing files to fix problems like too many commands, timeouts etc.