I need to store XML data to database(MS SQL Server). The data type defined in the column is text.
I need to know the the equalent datatype for text. I have tried with adLongVarChar but it does not works. Also I tried with adLongVarWChar(nText). But both are not working.
Need help.
Thanks.
In case your are using SQL Server 2005 or higher then you might prefer going for the XML data type. Read more of it here http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/XMLdDataType.aspx
Also going forward avoid using ntext and text data types as they would be removed from future versions of SQL Server. Instead go for nvarchar(max) or varchar(max). Read on this here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187993.aspx
cheers
TSQL datatype for a string is varchar or nvarchar (unicode). To specify the length of the string, varchar(50).
Also note there is an XML datatype in SS 2008 (2005?).
Related
I'm working on ssis package which exports data from SQL Server to Excel. I had a problem converting non-unicode to unicode string data types. So I created a derived Column task and converted to Unicode string [DT_WSTR] 4 columns which have a type Varchar(40) in SQL Server table. It worked with these columns. But I also have a Description column of type varchar(max) and I tried to convert it to Unicode text stream [DT_NTEXT]. It did not work.
If your source is SQL Server (as you said), you can convert it directly in your SQL Query
SELECT
CONVERT(NVARCHAR(40), 'att1')
,CONVERT(NTEXT, 'att2')
Convert your VARCHAR into NVARCHAR
Convert your TEXT into NTEXT
it's faster.
P.S. To test it (Do not forget to delete or reset your previous OLE DB Input component) -> It will be forced to reevaluate your datatype
Does it help you?
The only thing that worked was to cast a Description column in Stored Procedure as varchar(1000). I checked the max length of this field and it was about 300 characters. So I made it varchar(1000) and in Derived column Unicode string [DT_WSTR]. This was a workaround, but I still want to know how to make it in ssis package without converting data type in Stored Procedure.
Does anyone know if it is possible to get the length of the contents of a varbinary field using SQL with Advantage Database Server V11?
Regards
The obvious function to look for would be LENGTH(field) or LEN(field) (see online help).
If those only work on character fields, then you can always cast.
When I upsize from Access2007 to SQL Server 2008, I have few issues...
1. text to nvarchar(255)
fields with text data type in Access are automatically converted to nvarchar(255)(I have unicode data) in sql server, but in reality the column-length is not that big so can I change the data type to nvarchar(55) or varchar(100)? Will there be any problem?
2. Date stored as text
Some tables throwed an error when tried to upsize because of the date column(mm/dd/yyyy), what I did is I changed the date/time column data type to text datatype in access, then the upsizing was successful, it converted to nvarchar(255) in sql server. I have converted nvarchar data type to date data type in sql server, but that does not show me a calendar symbol in access front-end. How to get a calendar symbol in the date field in my access front end?
I have tried the solution given in this link, but it did not work... Please give me some suggestions
text in sql server is deprecated, use nvarchar if you need to store unicode (multi lang support). Otherwise you can use varchar.
What I have is a staging table that is all nvarchar (so i can load it easily). In my live table i have a bunch of ntext items. I have the following:
obviously this isnt the whole query:
update
SLTDS_C69_Stdtable
set
[AARIssue] = convert(ntext, st.[AARIssue]),
[AttachmentIDs] = convert (ntext, st.[AttachmentIDs])
I get this error returned:
types ntext and nvarchar are incompatible in the equal to operator.
ANy idea how to fix this?
Do you want to replace the text or add to it?
INthe first case you don't need to convert at all, just set the filed to the value of the filed inthe other table. INthe second case you need to use UPDATE text.
However, you have a problem in that ntext is deprecated, you should consider converting these fields to nvarchar(max) as soon as possible unless you are still running SQL Server 2000.
Is this a repeat of this: How to update a text or ntext field in SQL Server 2000
The live table should use UPDATETEXT?
Can source code examples be kept in a SQL database while retaining all formatting (tabs, newlines, etc.)? If so what data type would be used?
Yes, use a TEXT type (or MEDIUMTEXT or LONGTEXT - you get the idea)
A BLOB type (varbinary) would definitely work, although databases shouldn't mangle text that's stored as varchar either.
The best in Sql Server: nvarchar(max)
You can upload this into a blob data type. SQL 2008 comes with the capability of storing the entire executable file in the database.