I have an rdl file that I am downloading off a sharepoint site. Is there any way to convert an .rdl file to excel 2007? I want to read the report data in excel rather than on the share point site.
You can convert RDL file to Excel 2007 file with Aspose.Cells for Reporting Services API ans this API now supports SQL Server 2014 also.
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I'm getting files four days a week through my Dropbox folder and I need to add that data to my sql server.
In the past I've been using FTP to transfer files, but I'm not sure if FTP will work with Dropbox and I don't know how to do it.
I've had some experience with SSIS in the past and I'm pretty sure that SSIS could do this task, but I'm not able to add integration services extension to my SQL Server.
Does anyone have any idea what would be the easiest way to transfer these files to the database?
There are some third party components that allow you to read from Dropbox:
Kingswaysoft SSIS Dropbox Source Component
CDATA - Dropbox SSIS Components
Or you have to use an HTTP connection manager to download the file using Dropbox api:
http://www.sqlis.com/post/Downloading-a-file-over-HTTP-the-SSIS-way.aspx
I'm trying to use SQL Server Management Studio to access my Visual Studio database which is saved in my documents folder. When I paste my path into the Attach database dialog, I get this error:
TITLE: Locate Database Files - LAPTOP\SQLEXPRESS
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C:\Users\Flaxbeard\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Contacts\Contacts
Cannot access the specified path or file on the server. Verify that you have the necessary security privileges and that the path or file exists.
If you know that the service account can access a specific file, type in the full path for the file in the File Name control in the Locate dialog box.
And if I navigate manually to C:\Users\Flaxbeard, nothing shows up on the right. What is my issue?
Try putting the directory in quotation marks
I have an application that needs to open an excel file. However, when I run it, i get this error. I have already granted all permissions necessary to the file and the folders housing the file. Are there any other causes for this exception? My application is built on Visual Studio 2005 in VB and it is housed on a windows 2003 server. I've already tried refreshing the IIS as well.
Thanks!
Jennifer
Turns out the application on the server was pointing to a different version of the spreadsheet where the columns had been modified. I copied the spreadsheet that was on my local machine and copied it on to the new server (renaming the previous spreadsheet). Once the application was pointing to the correct spreadsheet, it worked.
Recently my Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 server went down, and all I have is the mdf and ldf. Am I correct in assuming that the aspx files are embedded in these database files? I have attached the db to a local sql, and have access to it. However, I need to access some of the aspx files that were created in sharepoint. How do I go about extracting these files? I've been using MS SQL Manager Studio Express to sift through the data. However, the ASPX pages that have the real content (not the structure of SP) is needed.
Thank you
Yes, all your content is in the content database. Don't bother trying to pick apart the database structure - there is an easier way:
You will need a WSS 3.0 farm, perhaps a clean install on a new machine. Then attach your mdf/ldf files in SQL Server (use Management Studio or T_SQL). Then create a web app in WSS and attach the database to the web app in SharePoint Central Administration. You will probably also need to change the site admin in Central Administration. You can then go back into your site and get at your aspx files.
You need to restore your site from the database. There is no need to extract files from the database. Once you set up a site, all content will appear again.
I haven't done this for some years, but articles like KB 833797 show you the basics
It's also effectively the same as a SQL Server migration so this too
And some Google links
I am doing a project of a web enabled database. I have created the database file in my PC.
Now when I just want to open .mdf i.e. of the database I created, I cannot open it in other PC. I even had copied the .ldf file i.e the log file to that PC.
Since I need to transfer the database to the Server later, I don't know how I will dump the database in that server from my PC so that the company can use it.
The basics of using mdf file is like this:
Create a new database using SQL Server (set the path for the file as you wish)
If you wish to move the file elsewhere,
detach the database from your server
copy/move the file to wherever you wish
attach the file as database in SQL server
You are not supposed to open the file by double-clicking as mime setting or attachment of extensions migh not be there in the target machine.
Why don't you use the decent method to copy/move database?