DB Backup Is Not Being Restored To Another DB - Specified Cast Is Not Valid
May 12, 2015
I have been experiencing "Specified cast is not valid" error while restoring backup of DB. Version of SQL server management tool from which I am taking the backup is "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP1) - 10.50.2500.0 (Intel X86) Jun 17 2011 00:57:23 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Express Edition with Advanced Services on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (WOW64) (Hypervisor) ". And restoring to the same version tool.
I have tried all the workarounds like TSQL, Upgrade the version of restoring DB to higher version, MDF and LDF files generation. But they are not working.
im doing a sum on a table and it either returns a number in decimal format or 'null' . The problem is when it returns null i want it to just make the text say '0.00'. So i did a test on the object that if it returns NULL just print '0.00' but if it is not null it tells me that there is a number there and i want to store that as a decimal and print it out. But i get an error for a type cast when im not it should not even be going to that part of the code. In the code below the first executescaler will return null so it should just go straight to the else. But it gives me the type cast error in the if that shouldnt be seen. The error and code are below. //Borrower NSF FEES cmd.CommandText = "select sum(itemamount) from postmtdtls where loanid='" + LoanID + "' and Transactioncode = '310'"; object temp = cmd.ExecuteScalar(); if (temp != null) { decimal B_NSFFees = ((decimal)cmd.ExecuteScalar()); borrowerPayoff_NSFFees.Text = String.Format("{0:#,#.##}", B_NSFFees).ToString(); //Borrower NSF FEES } else { borrowerPayoff_NSFFees.Text = "0.00"; //borrowerPayoff_NSFFees.Text = "0.00"; } Server Error in '/WebSite5' Application. Specified cast is not valid. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.Source Error: Line 774: if (temp != null) Line 775: { Line 776: decimal B_NSFFees = ((decimal)cmd.ExecuteScalar()); Line 777: borrowerPayoff_NSFFees.Text = String.Format("{0:#,#.##}", B_NSFFees).ToString(); //Borrower NSF FEES Line 778: }Source File: c:ProgrammingFilesWebSite5InvestorPool.aspx.cs Line: 776 Stack Trace: [InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.] InvestorPool.GetLoanInfo(String LoanID) in c:ProgrammingFilesWebSite5InvestorPool.aspx.cs:776 InvestorPool.MortAccountText(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:ProgrammingFilesWebSite5InvestorPool.aspx.cs:660 System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox.OnTextChanged(EventArgs e) +75 System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox.RaisePostDataChangedEvent() +124 System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox.System.Web.UI.IPostBackDataHandler.RaisePostDataChangedEvent() +7 System.Web.UI.Page.RaiseChangedEvents() +138 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +4507 Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42
Can't seem to find why I'm getting this error: Specified cast is not valid. Ok, using a stored procedure for SQL Server 2000 and here is the main part of it: SELECT id, rank, firstName, lastName, service, status, createdTime FROM accessRequest WHERE lastName LIKE @tLastName AND firstName LIKE @tFirstName And the C# code behind from the class file: SqlDataReader spResults; conn.Open(); spResults = command.ExecuteReader(); while( spResults.Read() ) { AccessRequestSearch request = new AccessRequestSearch( (int)spResults.GetInt32( 0 ), spResults.GetString( 2 ), spResults.GetString( 3 ), spResults.GetString( 1 ), spResults.GetString( 4 ), spResults.GetString( 5 ), Convert.ToDateTime(spResults.GetString( 6 ))); searchResults.Add( request ); // Add to Array List } spResults.Close(); The part in red is where I think it's happening because that is what I just added to the request. createdTime in the table is set as DateTime. Can anyone see what I am missing here? More info is available if needed. Thanks, Zath
I get the above error everytime I try to export to Excel; exporting to PDF works fine.
The only way I can get rid of the error is by deleting all the data from within the report (not ideal!). Anyone got any ideas on what could be causing this?
I have a backup of DB with version Microsoft sql 2012 and i need restore this data base on instance Microsoft sql 2008 R2 when i try restore database on SQL server 2008 R2  i have the error:
This error is pretty persistent. I re-installed VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 but did not help. Every time I try to open a Script Task editor it gives me the same error regardless of the project or package. DO I NEED TO REBUILD MY SYSTEM ?
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Cannot show the editor for this task. (Microsoft Visual Studio)
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Specified cast is not valid. (Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa.DT)
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at Microsoft.VisualBasic.Vsa.Dt.VsaIDE.get_ExtensibilityObject() at Microsoft.SqlServer.VSAHosting.DesignTime.get_ExtensibilityObject() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.ScriptTask.ScriptTaskUI.Dispose() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Tasks.ScriptTask.ScriptTaskMainWnd.Dispose(Boolean disposing) at System.ComponentModel.Component.Dispose() at Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design.DtrPackageDesigner.DoDefaultActionForTask(TaskHost task)
I have a datagrid script where I modify data in an sql dbase in asp.net, when i hit the "update" button, I get a Specified cast is not valid error on my 'descript' declaration, whereas 'descript' is a multiline text box and a varchar datatype (everything else is either a char or a datetime datatype). Am I assigning 'descript' a wrong datatype? Tried making it a nvarchar, still get same result'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''Sub MyDataGrid_UpdateCommand(s As Object, e As DataGridCommandEventArgs ) Dim conn As SQLConnection Dim MyCommand As SQLCommand Dim strConn as string = "Server=sql.mydomain.com;Initial Catalog=mydb;User ID=DBxxx;Password=xxxxx;" Dim company As textbox = E.Item.cells(2).Controls(0) Dim address As textbox = E.Item.cells(3).Controls(0) Dim city As textbox = E.Item.Cells(4).Controls(0) Dim state As textbox = E.Item.cells(5).Controls(0) Dim county As textbox = E.Item.cells(6).Controls(0) Dim zip As textbox = E.Item.cells(7).Controls(0) Dim phone As textbox = E.Item.cells(8).Controls(0)'''''' the following line declaring the descript var is the line of the error Dim descript As textbox = E.Item.cells(9).Controls(0) Dim web As textbox = E.Item.cells(10).Controls(0) Dim email As textbox = E.Item.cells(11).Controls(0) Dim datesold As textbox = E.Item.cells(12).Controls(0) Dim dateexpire As textbox = E.Item.cells(13).Controls(0) Dim strUpdateStmt As String strUpdateStmt =" UPDATE CPAs SET" & _ " company = @company, address = @address, city = @city, state = @state, " & _ "county = @county, zip = @zip, phone = @phone, descript =@ descript, " & _ "web = @web, email = @email, datesold = @datesold, dateexpire = @dateexpire" & _ " WHERE cpaID = @cpaID" conn = New SqlConnection(strConn) MyCommand = New SqlCommand(strUpdateStmt, conn) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@company", company.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@address", address.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@city", city.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@state", state.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@county", county.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@zip", zip.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@phone", phone.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@descript", descript.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@web", web.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@email", email.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@datesold", datesold.text)) '', dateexpire =@dateexpire MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@dateexpire", dateexpire.text)) MyCommand.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@cpaID", e.Item.Cells(1).Text )) conn.Open() MyCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() MyDataGrid.EditItemIndex = -1 conn.close BindDataEnd Sub'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''netsports
Hi.. Please help me resolve this error "Cast from string 'OPEN' to type 'Double' is not valid.". Error here If CallStatus = 10 Then ....Code:Public Sub UpdateCallStatus() Dim CALLID, RequestorID, CommentsFromITD, MessageFromITD, MessageToITD, CallStatus, strSQL As String CALLID = Request.QueryString("CallID") RequestorID = Session("USER_ID") CommentsFromITD = lblcomments.Text MessageFromITD = lblmessage.Text MessageToITD = txt_desc.Text CallStatus = Trim(Request.Form(ddl_callstatus.UniqueID)) Dim ObjCmd As SqlCommand Dim ObjDR As SqlDataReader Try If CallStatus = 10 Then strSQL = "UPDATE CALLS SET STATUS_ID=" & CallStatus & " WHERE CALL_ID= " & CALLID & "" ObjCmd = New SqlCommand(strSQL, ObjConn) ObjConn.Open() ObjDR = ObjCmd.ExecuteScalar() gbVariables.insertuserevents(CALLID, RequestorID, "Call Closed") Response.Redirect("UserCallClosed.aspx") ObjConn.Close() Else strSQL = "UPDATE CALLS SET STATUS_ID=" & CallStatus & " WHERE CALL_ID= " & CALLID & "" ObjCmd = New SqlCommand(strSQL, ObjConn) ObjConn.Open() ObjDR = ObjCmd.ExecuteScalar() ObjConn.Close() strSQL = "SELECT STATUS_LABEL FROM STATUS WHERE STATUS_ID = " & CallStatus & "" ObjCmd = New SqlCommand(strSQL, ObjConn) ObjConn.Open() ObjDR = ObjCmd.ExecuteScalar() ObjConn.Close() gbVariables.insertuserevents(CALLID, RequestorID, CallStatus) CallStatus = "" End If Catch ex As Exception lblmsg.Text = ex.Message.ToString End Try End SubThanks...
I am trying to find out name of the backup file database was restored from (I am restoring from DISK), something similar to physical_device_name in backupmediafamily. restorehistory doesn't have this information. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Hi All,I have to a few backups restored from a set of backup files. Thebackup files have been removed from the drive because of some storageconstrains...For some data comparison reasons, I need to figure out the actual dateof these backup files that is used to restore these databases. Isthere any system table I can query to figure the actual backup timesof these databases...Any help will be much appreciated.. Thanks in advance.- Aravin
According to BOL, you can initialize a transactional subscriber by restoring the Publisher's backup to the Subscriber DB. But any timestamp columns must be converted to binary(8) and indexed views must be converted to tables. But are there other things you must do? What about identity columns? Triggers?
Hello I have restored a SQL 2000 backup of my database, ever since my web applications are unable to use any of the stored procedures. I get the following error: Could not find stored procedure 'xxx'.
If I use enterprise manager and go to the procedures tab the procedure appears there.
Any ideas what is up?
PS: The username has been changed, before the backup it was "user1" now its something else. For some reason it still shows that the procedure object is owned by "user1". Could this be the problem?
Hello, I am using an SQLDataReader called DrCoInfo to check if any matching records exist in a table.
My code is as such:
Line 119:DrCoInfo = comm1.ExecuteReader() Line 120:While DrCoInfo.Read() Line 121: If DrCoInfo("DateOfMan") <> "" Then Line 122: BValid = True Line 123: End If
However, it fails to work with the message :System.InvalidCastException: Cast from string "" to type 'Date' is not valid.
I missed the ability to restore based on a time (10/23 6pm) due to our purge cycle in our production environment, but I was able to obtain the 10/18 full backup, the 10/23 differential backup, and the 4, 10/23 trans. log backups. I moved all the fore mentioned files to a staging environment, and now I am trying to restore all of the files to 10/23 6pm and I get :
"The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward" error.
I have a question regarding the backup to use in case of consistency errors.
I'm backing up my dbs daily and logs hourly with 'verify the integrity of the backup when completed' checked. Today I found out one of my tables has 1 page id error (dbcc checkdb message from yesterday), I'm wondering if I can use yesterday's full backup even if it's done after the dbcc, that way I don't have to apply a lot less log backups. In other words, does or does not the full backup inherit the corruption if it is done after consistency errors and the backup passes the integrity verification.
I just restored my SQL server 2000 database on the SQL server 2005. after this i ran the Service broker sample ("Hello World") on this database by changing the AdventureWorks name to the new database name. The "setup.sql" runs fine. When i run the "SendMessage.sql" i was not getting any rows in the output (The message was not getting inserted into the queue). I checked the Service broker is enabled on this databased using the query "select is_broker_enabled from sys.databases where name = 'newdbname' " It was 1. I even tried the ALTER DATABASE SET ENABLE_BROKER. but it didnt work.
When i tried the sample on a newly created database it worked fine.
Is there any solution to make the restored database to work for service broker.
We replicate a SQL2000 database (DataBaseA) to a SQL2000 database (DataBaseB) by using the Restore function and hasn't change its logical name but only the physical data path and file name. It is running fine for a year. We use the same way to migrate the DataBaseB to a new SQL2005 server with the Restore function and the daily operation is running perfect. However, when we do the Backup of DatabaseB in the SQL2005, it just prompt the error message
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The backup of full-text catalog 'DataBaseA' is not permitted because it is not online. Check errorlog file for the reason that full-text catalog became offline and bring it online. Or BACKUP can be performed by using the FILEGROUP or FILE clauses to restrict the selection to include only online data. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
Please note we left the DataBaseA in the old SQL2000 server.
Please help on how we can delete the Full-text catalog from DatabaseB so we can do a backup
Can someone help me, I have this DB that needs to be restored. I have the full backup and the differential backup. When I'm trying to restore my differential backup it prompts me this error "System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to rollforward. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)". Then I try to create a test DB and restore my full backup there, it was succesfully restored and now try to restore my differential backup since I need the newest backup I received that error. I have already used the option leave the database non-operational but still the same.
If I dump a replicated Db and restore it onto another DB, how do I switch off replication from the restored DB. I believe there were some scripts developed for this in 6.5.
A DB has 2 users: dbo + user1. User1 is also uses user1 login I created a DB backup on the first server copied it on the second & restored on the second into existing DB. The problem is that after that user1 is not in the list of the restored DB on the second server & I can not include it in the DB & grant access to user1 login to the same DB and error message is "15023 User or role "user1" already in exists in the current DB.
Im running SQL 7.0 in production with no SQL service pack applied. I am trying to copy the database over to a test box running SQL 7.0 SP3. Both servers are NT 4.0 with SP6.1a. When I restore the database on the test box, I do not get the Users restored but I do get the Tables and other items. The SQL backup Im restoring from is a complete backup. Could the fact that the server Im restoring on is SQL 7.0 SP3 and it came from a pure SQL 7.0 server?
Hello, Is it possible to use a dump from a database to do a restore of a db on a different server?
I have a SQL 2000 server and having been given a file called test.dmp (I am not sure what SQL version this is). Can I use this to do a restore to a new db I have created on my server? If so what method do I use?
The consultant hired as our Remote DBA for SQL Server 2005 recently changed the recovery model on our user database from Full to Simple. He explained this was necessary because the transaction log was growing very large and backing up the database when the model was set to Full was not shrinking it. Now, the master database and the msdb database are backed up daily along with our user database.
When we need to restore our user database, do we need to restore the master database and the msdb database too? What order should the databases be restored in?
I'm wondering if a db from an sql server 2000 restored on a sql 2005 server will use algoritms from sql 2000 or sql 2005. It seams to work quite well with a few exceptions, it's only for test anyway.
I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I could not see it.
--BACKUP CERTIFICATE EncryptTestCert -- TO FILE = N'c:backupEncryptTestCert.cer' -- WITH PRIVATE KEY -- ( FILE = N'c:backupEncryptTestCert.pvk', -- ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = N'T0yp0calypse' -- )
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However, the return data just contains nulls, instead of the original decrypted data. You can see above that I deleted the certificate, but then restored the certificate from backup. However, it doesn't work.
I have recently restored a backup of a SQL Server 2000 Database (from my production server €“ which is a shared hosting service) on my dev machine so I can do some testing. The issue I am having is with the permission of objects. Some of the objects were created with the dbo user and some with another login (myLogin). The ones that were created with dbo work fine on my dev machine. The others do not work unless I prefix them with €œmyLogin€?€¦ I get an €œInvalid object name€? if I don€™t prefix them. This is problematic because there are hundreds of stored procs and tables that I would need to modify in order to use them on my dev machine.
Can anyone tell me how to create a new user with the necessary permissions so I can execute my procs and access tables without having to prefix them?
Hope this makes sense €“ please let me know if it doesn€™t.
Hi I have an sql server 2005+sp2 instance and a db on it. I have create a database master key (specifying a password so it WILL NOT get encrypted by the server master key) on my database and backed it up
CREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'test' go BACKUP MASTER KEY TO FILE = 'c:Genesis_DBMasterKey.key' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'test'
Then I have created a asymmetic key without specifying a password therefore the key will get encrypted bt the database master key.
CREATE ASYMMETRIC KEY card WITH ALGORITHM = RSA_512
Problem: as a recovey plan if I restore the database on the same or other instance (althogh the asymmetic key is part of backup) the decrypt doesn€™t work. I have tried to create a bank database restore tha databse master key and recreate the asymmetric key, but I€™m afraid I€™m still not having any luck with it, as it does not decrypt.
My main issue is that is any case if I have to recover the database , how do I have to make sure that encryption/Dycription will work? Thanks
