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all groups > sql server connect > january 2006 > threads for january 22 - 28, 2006

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Ports to open in Windows Firewall for SQL Server 2005
Posted by michael at 1/28/2006 7:32:26 AM
I'm running the Develpers version of SQL Server 2005 on my developer machine. I want to test an application from another machine but can neither log on nor use the SQL Server Management Studio from the remote machine unless I turn off the Windows Firewall on the development machine. (I made su...more >>


Problems using SMO to impersonate SQL connection (SQL2k Dev SP4 + .NET 2.0)
Posted by Daniel Portal at 1/27/2006 4:11:27 PM
Hi there, Im trying to use SMO to impersonate a typed (not logged) user, using Windows Auth to connect SQL Server! Even though, I'm having many problems while trying to trace the exception I got! If you manage to perform a Windows Auth connection to SQL Server using an inputte...more >>

Connection Failure to SQL Server 2005
Posted by Allen at 1/27/2006 11:12:26 AM
I am trying to connect to a SQL Server 2005 instance from another machine using Query Analyzer (SQL Server 2000 version) and I am getting the following error: Server: Msg 11, Level 16, State 1 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]General network error. I can connect to other SQL S...more >>

load postscript file into sql
Posted by Jack at 1/26/2006 11:31:02 PM
We are having a website that generates postscript files when an order is placed on it. These files are placed in a folder on the network. I have been told to Load the postscript files into an existing sql database and then delete the file from the folder. If anyone has an idea on how to l...more >>

SQL Server very slow over internet...
Posted by hurricane_number_one NO[at]SPAM yahoo.com at 1/26/2006 2:45:53 PM
I have an application that uses SQL Server and can be run on mutiple computers over a local area network. One of my clients has requested to have SQL Server running at their main office and have each client machine at a different location connecting to SQL Server over the internet. I have been...more >>

SQL 2005 versions and Link DB2
Posted by Todd Heiks at 1/26/2006 9:43:54 AM
I am trying to move our SQL 7 to standard SQL 2005 (64 bit) on a dual processor 64 bit Server2003. I need to link to DB2 400 data. I installed HIS (+$5,000), but could not get it to work. I removed HIS and upgraded to SQL 2005 (64bit) Enterprise with Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2. T...more >>

have lost the ability to get in
Posted by middletree at 1/26/2006 9:38:27 AM
I never, ever cross-post, but I am desparate. This was placed in the sqlserver.server group earlier today. I installed SQL 2005 on a new machine last week. Created a database using scripts. Worked fine for a few days. It's not on my machine, but on a Win2003 Vitrual Server instance which I g...more >>

Why doesn't SQL Server 2005 work on my pc?
Posted by Federico Caselli at 1/26/2006 6:25:04 AM
Hi, I've installed Visual Studio 2005 pro SQL Server 2005 dev on a WMCE PC. When I try to connect from VS to SQL I get the following error: ---------------------------------------- A connection cannot be made to the database. Set and test the connection string. An error has occurred w...more >>



Remote connection to MSDE
Posted by laurin1 at 1/25/2006 12:54:15 PM
I'm trying to connect to the SharePoint MSDE database from Windows XP SP2 machine over Ethernet LAN. I was getting server not found or access denied, until I enabled TCP/IP via svrnetcn.exe. Now, I'm getting OK Connection failed: SQLState: '01000' SQL Server Error: 10061 [Microsoft][ODBC SQ...more >>

ADO connection options
Posted by Tom at 1/24/2006 7:21:01 PM
I noticed when connecting to SQL Server using the SQL OLEDB provider that a number of SET commands are issued. In particular SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL ON is issued, and I'd like to change that to OFF. I've set the database option to turn this off by default, but all of the client conn...more >>

Named instance connection problem
Posted by Peter Lecki at 1/24/2006 5:46:19 PM
Have an MSDE named instance which works just fine. Just installed another instance of the same and can only connect to it using OSQL locally, nothing across the network. I made sure to use all the gotcha flags during install to enable network access, etc: setup.exe DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 ...more >>

Connect to SQL Server 2005
Posted by vul at 1/24/2006 9:55:48 AM
Is it possible to register remote SQL Server 2005 in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager? Thank you Al ...more >>

SQL Server 2005 connection string problem
Posted by njaminder NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 1/24/2006 9:41:55 AM
In my connection string when using Data Source=ServerName I can get a connection to SQL Server. However, I can't connect using (local),(localhost),local or localhost. Is there any reason why this would work for SQL Server 2000 and not for 2005? Are there specific configuration setting I need t...more >>

SQL Server named instance problem with Windows Server 2003
Posted by Soheil at 1/24/2006 12:00:00 AM
Hi, I have installed SQL Server 2000 on a Windows Server 2003 machine with an instance name of "TestDB". But I cannot connect to this instance from another machines. It doen't even show up in the Enterprise Manager's "Register SQL Server" window. But if I use the default instance, it wor...more >>

Restricting access to certain applications
Posted by Gaspar at 1/23/2006 8:19:00 PM
Is it possible to restrict access to SQLServer only to selected applications (the ones I develop)?. This is why I'm asking: Suppose user "Mary" has access to certain tables for SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE, etc. I want Mary to delete records on tables only in certain conditions imposed by my...more >>

SQL Native client in Windows 98
Posted by Kirsten at 1/23/2006 7:32:07 PM
Does SQLServer 2005 Native client support windows 98? Thanks ...more >>

SQL 2000 Linked Server - Error 6: SQL Server not found
Posted by Swit at 1/23/2006 4:11:01 PM
I am new to linked servers and basically I want to query data from several tables on server A and then insert that data into a simple table on server B. I am hoping to do this from within a stored procedure on Server A rather than writing a small app. My limited research has been telling m...more >>

Linking Excel and SQL
Posted by Preacher Man at 1/23/2006 10:25:23 AM
I would like to link an Excel Spreadsheet to my SQL 2K Database. Where do I need to start? For example. I would like to have a cell in Excel that gives me the sum of Sales Orders in my SQL Database. I would also like for this to be able to change according to a date field in excel that c...more >>

login failed for user error
Posted by bruce lawson at 1/22/2006 10:17:50 PM
Hi, I'm fairly new at SQL access from an ASPNET webform and cannot seem to get the SqlConnection string to work properly. I'm running VStudio, C#, IIS 5.1, MSDE sqlserver, Net 1.1 framework. The connection code that causes the error is: SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=MYSER...more >>

Getting a permission denied - but not using that user?
Posted by jonefer at 1/22/2006 10:22:02 AM
In my database I created a SQL Server user - malphaTest In my WebConfig.xml <add key="SQLConn" value="Data Source=HIDSCFILE002;Initial Catalog=Membership;User ID=malphaTest;Password=12345;Trusted_Connection=False"/> </appSettings> The error returned when press the search button to quer...more >>


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