Hi I am having a problem, accessing a remote index server catalog. The name of the server has - in it, so i put the index catalog name as:
i.e num.num.num.num\name of catalog
or an-example-server
I get the following error when using an ole data connection to pull results from the index:
"Format of the initialization string does not conform to specification starting at index 39"
I tried putting single quotes and &qoute; with no luck - anyone have idea?
PS. This Microsoft Index Server Question!
I found the answer or certainly a solution. By adding an A record on the domain (with a friendly name), I managed to talk to the remote catalog without any problems. :)
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I'm trying to link an ODBC database - which I have no control on - in MS Access 2007 using a Machine Data Source - I don't know if that's relevant, from what I got this means that the access is set only on this computer -.
When I follow the wizard I can select the table but when the time comes to link it I get the error message:
The database engine can't find 'WTD.DATAPOINT_5/1000'. Make sure it is a valid parameter or alias name, that it doesn't include characters or punctuation, and that the name isn't too long
I think that the problem is that one of the field is named WTD.DATAPOINT_5/1000 and that Access interprets /as a symbol of its own.
The thing is that I don't even need the data stored in this column. Right now I don't know which way to go.
Find a way to tell Access that the / is part of the field name. (Highly improbable)
Retrieve only some fields from the table using built-in Access functions.
Set the connection manually using vba and retrieving only some of the fiels. If this is the way to go I would like some pointers as I have no idea where to start.
Solution number 2: use a passthrough SQL query.
Everything is explained in this tutorial.
Solution number 3: I tried to connect directly in VBA. The code bellow works like a charm for other tables but I still get an error for the table containing the problematic field.
Dim ConnectionStr As String
ConnectionStr = "ODBC;Driver={Oracle in OraHome92};Dbq=BLA1;Uid=BLA2;Pwd=BLA3;"
DoCmd.TransferDatabase acImport, "ODBC Database", ConnectionStr, acTable, "MyTable", "NewTable"
I've hit a brick wall on this issue and I can't seem to find or work out what is going wrong or find an answer to my problem ... I'm totally new to querying Active Directory, so I am hoping I've not done something that will warrant slapping my forehead when points me towards the solution!
So, I've uploaded images into both thumbnailPhoto and jpegPhoto and I can see in ADSI Edit that these do have a value.
I've set up a linked server (named ActiveDirectory) on our 2008 R2 Database Server and I can successfully query this and return results. If I run the query below, it returns the values fine, but once I uncomment the jpegPhoto line (commented out in the code below), I get the error ...
Cannot get the data of the row from the OLE DB provider "ADSDSOObject" for linked server "ActiveDirectory". Could not convert the data value due to reasons other than sign mismatch or overflow.
The query runs correctly with jpegPhoto uncommented if the contents of that field are never populated in the returning result set.
SELECT
objectGUID
,cn
,thumbnailPhoto
-- ,jpegPhoto
FROM OpenQuery (
ActiveDirectory,
'SELECT
objectGUID
,cn
,thumbnailPhoto
,jpegPhoto
FROM ''LDAP://XXXXX/OU=XXXXX,DC=XXXXX,DC=XXXXX,DC=com''
') AS AD
WHERE cn = 'username'
It seems strange to me that the result can be returned from the OpenQuery (I've tried OpenRowset to no avail), it fails outside of that it seems.
I have also tried all manner of CAST and CONVERT, but I'm at a loss now as to how I can actually get the contents of this field returned in my query (which I am just attempting to run in SQL Server Management Studio.
Has anyone come across this issue and overcome it?
I'm definitely hoping so!!
Thanks in advance!!
Gannon
Old issue I know but for those finding this on the googles.
As far as I can tell, for thumbnailPhoto, OLE DB Provider for Microsoft Directory Services is limited to 4k field sizes. This means if you upload a teenytiny photo, it works.
For jpegPhoto, there is a difference in the field type -
thumbnailPhoto is single valued and has a upper-Range of 102400 bytes.
jpegPhoto on the other hand is multivalued and doesn’t enforce an upper-Range
And, according to other pages on the internet -
The ADSI provider for SQL Server is rather limited - not supporting multi-valued attributes is one of those limitations.
Can someone point me to the relevant BOL info for this (odd to me) behavior?
I had to join the prod & staging copies of the same table (same db name, diff servers), for a quick query. So I simply needed a fully-qualified join.
This one errors:
SELECT top 10 *
FROM [172.26.196.105\Staging].[DbName].[dbo].[TableName]
This one works:
SELECT top 10 *
FROM [USCASQL01\STAGING].[DbName].[dbo].[TableName]
Edit: clarification ... obviously not a join, these selects were simply me assembling the fully qualified name of my staging db/table. This is not a linked server, but the one I'm connected to.
These, of course, refer to the same instance. I used the IP address\InstanceName since that is what displays in my Object Explorer, it returned an error - "Could not find server 'IP address\InstanceName' in sys.servers." True enough, sys.servers stores the computerName\InstanceName, which works.
Why would one work and not the other? IOW, Why can't it resolve the IP/Instance name in TSQL when it resolves it just fine in the Object Explorer? BTW, we frequently are storing IP's in sys.servers, this one just happened not to be.
Also, I recall from SQL Server7 (way back in the day), a utility that would allow you to create friendly-name aliases for ip's. Can't find it now, does it still exist?
TIA
This is because the first part of a four part qualified name is a reference to a linked server by name, not by an IP or network name. So, if you don't have the linked server set up, then you get the error you encountered.
For adding linked servers, you want to be looking at sp_addlinkedserver.
This is the BOL Page that describes how the four part names work.
I'm attempting to run a simple statement against an Access DB to find records.
Data validation in the records was horrible, and I cannot sanitize it. Meaning, it must be preserved as is.
I need to be able to search against a string with white space and hyphen characters removed. The following statement will work in Access 2010 direct:
select * from dummy where Replace(Replace([data1],' ',''),'-','') = 'ABCD1234';
Running it from an ODBC connection via PHP will not. It produces the following error:
SQL error: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Undefined function 'Replace' in expression., SQL state 37000 in SQLExecDirect
Creating a query in the database that runs the function and attempting to search its values indirectly causes the same error:
select * from dummy_indirect where Expr1 = 'ABCD1234';
I've attempted to use both ODBC drivers present. ODBCJR32.dll (03/22/2010) and ACEODBC.dll (02/18/2007). To my knowledge these should be current as it was installed with the full Access 2010 and Access 2010 Database Engine.
Any ideas on how to work around this error and achieve the same effect are welcome. Please note, that I cannot alter the database in way, shape, or form. That indirect query was created in another mdb file that has the original tables linked from the original DB.
* Update *
OleDB did not really affect anything.
$dsn= "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=c:\dummy.mdb;";
I'm not attempting to use it as a web backend either. I'm not a sadomasochist.
There is a legacy system that I must support that does use Access as a backend. Data gets populated there from other old systems that I must integrate into more modern systems. Hence, the creation of an API with Apache/PHP that is running on the server supporting the legacy system.
I need to be able to search a table that has an alphanumeric case identifier to get a numeric identifier that is unique and tied to a generator (Autonumber in access). Users have been using it a trash box for years (inconsistent data entry with sporadic notations) so the only solution I have is to strip everything except alphanumeric out of both the field value and the search value and attempt to perform a LIKE comparison against it.
If not replace() which is access supported, what ODBC compatible functions exist that I can use do the same kind of comparison?
Just to recap, the Access db engine will not recognize the Replace() function unless your query is run from within an Access application session. Any attempt from outside Access will trigger that "Undefined function" error message. You can't avoid the error by switching from ODBC to OleDb as the connection method. And you also can't trick the engine into using Replace() by hiding it in separate query (in the same or another Access db) and using that query as the data source for your main query.
This behavior is determined by Access' sandbox mode. That linked page includes a list of functions which are available in the default sandbox mode. That page also describes how you can alter the sandbox mode. If you absolutely must have Replace() available for your query, perhaps the lowest setting (0) would allow it. However, I'm not recommending you do that. I've never done it myself, so don't know anything about the consequences.
As for alternatives for Replace(), it would help to know about the variability in the values you're searching. If the space or dash characters appear in only one or a few consistent positions, you could do a pattern match with a Like expression. For example, if the search field values consist of 4 letters, an optional space or dash, followed by 4 digits, a WHERE clause like this should work for the variations of "ABCD1234":
SELECT * FROM dummy
WHERE
data1 = 'ABCD1234'
OR data1 Like 'ABCD[- ]1234';
Another possibility is to compare against a list of values:
SELECT * FROM dummy
WHERE
data1 IN ('ABCD1234','ABCD 1234','ABCD-1234');
However if your search field values can include any number of spaces or dashes at any position within the string, that approach is no good. And I would look real hard for some way to make the query task easier:
You can't clean the stored values because you're prohibited from altering the original Access db in any way. Perhaps you could create a new Access db, import the data, and clean that instead.
Set up the original Access db as a linked server in SQL Server and build your query to take advantage of SQL Server features.
Surrender. :-( Pull in a larger data set to your PHP client code, and evaluate which rows to use vs. which to ignore.
I'm not sure you can do this with ODBC and your constraints. The MS Access driver is limited (by design; MS wants you to use SQL Server for back ends).
Can you use OLEDB? that might be an option.
I have a production server and I standardized the names of all the DBs on the server to
projectName.whatever
The problem is I have one database named
projectName_logging
I want to rename it to
projectName.Logging
(OCD a bit?)
The problem is there are connection strings that all say projectName_logging. Is there a way to say if a connection is projectName_logging to automatically redirect it to a catalog now named projectName.logging ?
As requested by the OP, I'm making my comment an answer.
Sounds like what you really want is a synonym for a database name, which doesn't exist, but you can vote for the feature here.