Please excuse my niavety on this subject, But I have a simple question. When you have more than one SQl server 7 installation on the same network, each using different machines, does one automatically have the ability/authority to be able to stop the other server at will??
Thanks in advance for any help
Simon
Hi Friend,
Is there any way in SQL Server by which I can locate the names of all the SQL-servers on the network. I was wondering if I can execute some query on Master database to find the above info??? Any clues??
Thanks in advance
Wiz
I recently installed SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express along with SQL Server 2005 Express in my Win2K Pro m/c. The installation went off smoothly.
My server name is "ADSQLEXPRESS" where "AD" is my m/c name. When I open Management Studio Express for the first time, the "Connect to Server" dialog opens up wherein the "Server name" under the "General" tab shows "ADSQLEXPRESS". When I click the dropdown list & click the "Browse for more" option to browse for more servers, the dialog titled "Browse for Servers" opens up. This dialog shows 2 tabs - "Local Servers" & "Network Servers". Under the "Local Servers" tab, "Database Engine" is listed. When I expand it, the server name "ADSQLEXPRESS" is listed.
Under the "Network Servers" tab again "Database Engine" is listed but when I expand it, I always find 2 more than 2 network servers listed where one of them is my ISP (Internet connection provider) but where from are the other servers getting listed? I just don't have any connection with those servers. This is the first time I am seeing those server names.
Moreover the problem is after installing SQL Server 2005, my m/c is getting affected with Trojans now & then. Fortunately my anti-virus (AVG 7.0) takes care of it but I did like to just get rid of those extra network servers since I am pretty sure that one of these network servers (not the one which is my ISP) is the source of Trojans in my m/c since the Trojan attack began only after I installed SQL Server 2005 in my m/c.
Can someone please guide me how do I delete the offending network servers from the list?
Another strange thing is that the names of the network servers (except for the one which is my ISP) listed when "Database Engine" is expanded under the "Network Servers" tab in the "Browse for Servers" dialog go on changing everyday but the Trojans are always named in this format: eraseme_XXXXX.exe.
where X is any integer which goes on changing. For e.g., they will be named as erase_63728.exe or eraseme_23709.exe or eraseme_35412.exe etc..
Somebody please help me out of this predicament.
Thanks,
Arpan
Hi,
Is there any function/API in vb to retrieve all the sql servers that are avaiable on a network? Basically, i wanted to implement this facility in my application where users can select a server from list of all avaiable servers on LAN.
Thanks!
Asif
Hi,We have an ODBC/Visual-C++-6 -bases application (currently working with both MS-Access and Postgres)and want it to also cooperate with MS-SQL-server and MSDE. Since we don't want theuser to wade through the ugly ODBC-setup, we have our own dialogs (e.g. the usualfile dialog for MS-Access) and build the ODBC-connection string from the information providedby them. Now, the MS-SQL-Driver dialog has the nice feature to browse the network foravailable SQL-server instances and I like to have it, too. Is there somefunction for retrieving a list of available SQL-servers anywhere?Georg
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Does any of you know, how to get the list of all Active SQL Servers on the Network using VB ?
regards,
Anand
I am working on a computer connected to a network. I am using SQL 2000/XP on my computer so I can manage other sql servers on our network (I'll call them S1 and S2, both running SQL 2000)
I recently received a new computer running SQL 2005 Standard/Vista. When I try to connect to S1 and S2, I can’t find them anywhere. Am I overlooking some settings in 2005/vista?
I am a little inexperienced at this, so please let me know if any additional information would be helpful.
Thanks in advance
is there any way to find the number of sqlservers exists (count and name of server) in a network using sql statement or stored procedure
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I need to find out whether SQL Server client components are installed on a machine through my application.
For that I was expecting "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90" registry key. BUT If I install just native client drivers, this key is not getting created.
What could be another approch to determine whether system has required client components.
Also I need to list all the SQL Server 2005 servers available in the network. (Similar to the Servers combo box being populated while DSN creation in ODBC Admin tool). There are several approches.
1) Use NetServerEnum API
2) Use SQLBrowseConnect ODBC API
3) Use SQLDMO Object
4) OSQL utility.
Which one I should use VC++ (2005)?
Thanks in advance,
Mac
I have a question regarding the nature of virtual sql servers, specificially what protocol is used to communicate to the server when a request is made by a client.
For example, if a scheduled job is run on the virtual sql server, what determines the protocol used (e.g. TCP/IP, named pipes etc.) by SQL Server agent? Is it the client network alias set up on the virtual server?
I am asking because currently the client aliases on some of our virtual sql servers are using named pipes and I think this is causing a problem with our backups.
Thanks,
Adrian.
I want to retrive the names of sql servers running in a network through an vb6 application .
I found a API which list out the SQL server names in the network , but I am able to connect only to the main
SQL server in the network and for other instances it gives error " DBNETLIB] Connection Open () SQL server doesnˇŻt exist or access denied"
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Goldie
I can't map other sql servers without creating alias with proper port number on client network utility. Other users using same version of the client tools, MMC, SQL DMF etc. I need to map 70 sql servers on using my client tools.
Any help is appreciated.
thanks,
Hi,
I'm trying to create a database that takes specific information from a number of databases on different servers to make some reporting that we have much easier.
I'm pretty new to SQL so I'm not sure of the best way to proceed. I read an article that suggested I use the OPENROWSET command. The problem is, the version of SQL that came with one of the programmes we use is limited and will not allow you to turn on the allow "Ad Hoc distributed Queries" so the SLQ statement will not execute.
I'm confused why it won't let me to connect through ODBC as I've created a web page that selects data from this database with no problems!
Here is the SQL statement that I've written to make sure it is the correct one (on the msdn library page it said that this was the ODBC connection):
SELECT a.*
FROM OPENROWSET('MSDASQL','DRIVER=(SQL Server);SERVER=APPOLOACT7;UID=sa;PWD=***************',
'SELECT * FROM MDCTestAndDev.dbo.TBL_CONTACT') AS a
I've also created the ODBC connection using the tool on Administration Tools>Data Sources ODBC
Any help would be greatly appreciated (also any ways of selecting from one database and inserting it into another will be helpfull)
Thanks
Hi All,I have recently published a website to our webserver and i get a sql error. We have a webserver that does not have sqlserver on it and and our database server which does. i have used the configuration utility to to setup my users and roles which created the ASPNETDB in my local App_Data folder. Is there a way to copy this database to our database server and change the references so the site refers to the new instance on the database server as apposed to the local instance when a user logs in?ThanksBryan
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Is there a way to have a select query on multiple servers ? (2 databases , each one located on a sql server)
suppose i am repliacting(Transactional Replication) to two servers using the same publications can i stop replicating to one server without disturbing the other server?
If i resume the replication to the server after two days what will happen to the two day's data?will they be replicated when i resume the replication?
Thank you
Question:
How to prevent a user/admin on one SQL 7 server, who knows the system admin password that is common to both servers, from accessing a second SQL 7 server via the SQL Server Group setup process.
Is there a way from shutting off remote access to a SQL server without limiting RPC?
All reading points towards 1) Remote Access Options, 2) Store User Independent, 3) Control Store as options to locking down a server. Would like to hear from someone that ran into this type of issue. Third party software available?
I've tried the following without any success: 1) I have deleted the second SQL server registration from the first SQL server group - but this is too easy to delete and recreate, 2) edit the SQL server registration for the remote server and force authentication - almost there if SQL prevented deletion of the registration without verifying the logon/password of the person who created it (again able to delete and recreate), 3) played around with the client utility to remove the TCP/IP pipe entry.
Anyone else pulling their hair out on this?
TIA!
Joe writes "I am trying to find whether I can have multiple SQL 2005 servers but having same security profiles and maintain them grom one place only. I prefer not to have windows authentication.
Thanks a lot"
I'm sort of new at MS SQL Server - I'm trying to gather system table information from multiple servers about backups on our site and insert the rows the query returns into a table on one central server where I'm running the stored procedure from. I have the server names stored into a table but when I attempt to connect to servers, I get an error which tells me that I need to create a linked server by using sp_addlinkedserver stored procedure. People that I work with tell me they want to do this without creating linked servers - Is there a way to accomplish? When I run the query, it only retrieves data from the local server I'm running the stored procedure on, but like I mentioned, when I attempt to connect to other servers, I get the error message that it couldn't find the server name in "syservers" and that I need to run sp_addlinkedserver. This also happens if I run the same query in OSQL from Windows command line.
Any help on this would certainly be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
I need to access a table from another server in my procedure...I am now connected to say SERVERA...I need to access another table SERVERB.TABLE2 in the same procedure...
Is there a way to do that...
I need to connect to two servers from the same procedure to get data..
Please get back
Thanks,
Hi,
I want to perform a join on two tables from two separate database servers.
Code Block
SELECT *
FROM tbl1 AS t1
INNER JOIN
"SERVERASQL2000".Production.tbl2 AS t2
ON t2.UserID = t1.UserID
Why do I get this error...
Invalid object name 'SERVERASQL2000.Production.tbl2'
thanks.
I have to maintain several SQL Server 7 DBs across multiple NT Domains (same network). How do I access the SQL Server on the second domain from enterprise manager?
Thanks!
Lia
We have a growing number of servers and databases on each server that all share the same (sub)set of sprocs and UDFs. DTS packages, which we use for data import, frequently need to be copied between the servers. What is the best way to maintain this? Ideally, I would like to be able to click a button and have a script creating or altering one or more sprocs automatically run aginst all DBs on all servers. Likewise, I'd like to be able to copy DTS packages to all servers.
We use SS2000 SP4 and plan to migrate to SS2005. We also use ASP.net 2.0 and VS 2005 SP1.
Hi,
I have zero experience running any databases that spread further than 1 machine, so I have a few theory questions here that hopefully someone can help with. Hopefully this is the right forum, I'm not sure if it classifies as 'clustering'.
Anyways, we are launching a web app that is going to start with just 1 webserver/db server. For speed reasons, after some growth we might have to have a load balanced setup with a webserver in europe and one in north america. Basically the webservers are going to be serving 100,000's of files and each time a file is served it needs to be recorded in the database.
I think that if I'm connecting my european webserver across the internet to my db server, thats killing the purpose of having a webserver in europe to make for faster responses.
I am thinking that this european web server/db serving is only going to be logging the files served. Is there a way to import them into north american database everynight ?
I'm not sure what the best approach would be for something like this, but any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks very much,
mike123
Is it possible to get an aggregate list of databases from multiple servers, without using SMO?
All target servers are running SQL Server 2005.
Ben Aminnia
Hi, I was wondering what the licensing requirement would be for following scenario:
1 active sql server installation installed on a windows failover cluster.
1 passive mirror sql server (single server).
1 passive log-shipped sql server (single server).
In the microsoft white paper it says:
When doing failover support, a server is designated as the passive server. The purpose of the passive server is to absorb the data and information held in another server that fails. A passive server does not need a license, provided that the number of processors in the passive server is equal or less than those of the active server. The passive server can take the duties of the active server for 30 days. Afterward, it must be licensed accordingly.
So do I need to buy an enterprise license for each of the additional passive servers...in the above example meaning I would need 3 licenses in total?
Thanks,
Paul
Apologies if this question has been asked before. I am about to upgrade a multiuser application based on Access97 and VB6 to C# and possibly SQL Server Express.
My customer does not want to use a server based database solution ie a single instance of SQL Server, but prefers to have a common networked dataset which is accessed via user's own individual database engines. This is because of restrictions on the installation of server based apps.
Does this scenario completely rule out the use of SQL Server Express?
Thanks
Can anyone outline some best practices for sending the same message out to multiple servers? What is the easiest way to do this?
Currently, I have a message sent from Server A to Server B, which is fired by a table insert, update, delete trigger.
The goal is to keep this table synchronized on many remote servers. It sounds like a tedious exercise to deploy the SSB messages, queues, services, etc to 20+ more sites! I am hoping there is a shortcut of some kind.
Any advice is appreciated.
I'm using EncryptByKey to encrypt data in my SS2005 database. Since our server is really slow to access from home to work on, I used the Database Publishing Wizard and installed the db to work on at home. Then I created the certificate and symmetric key in my home db.
When I pull info using the DecryptByKey on our database at work on Windows 2003 Server, no problem, the data is decrypted. However, the same data does not decrypt at home on my Windows XP computer. I'm using TripleDes on both machines for the symmetric key (AES won't work on XP).
--To create my cert and key:
USE My_DB;
CREATE CERTIFICATE MyCert
ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'some password'
WITH SUBJECT = My Data',
START_DATE = '01/01/2007',
EXPIRY_DATE = '01/01/2099';
GO
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MyKey WITH ALGORITHM = TRIPLE_DES
ENCRYPTION BY CERTIFICATE MyCert;
GO
To encrypt:
OPEN SYMMETRIC KEY MyKey
DECRYPTION BY CERTIFICATE MyCert
WITH PASSWORD = 'same password as above';
Insert my record, use scope_identity to return primary key into @CustomerID.
INSERT INTO [Customers] (EncryptByKey(Key_GUID('MyKey'), @DataToEncrypt, 1, CONVERT( varbinary, @CustomerID)))
CLOSE SYMMETRIC KEY MyKey
To decrypt:
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(3925), DecryptByKey(EncryptedField, 1, CONVERT( varbinary, @CustomerID))) as PlainTextData
FROM Customers
WHERE (CustomerID= @CustomerID)
Everything works fine when I run the decrypt query on the database on our work server. But I'm not getting decrypted data at home. Is the symmetric key or certificate machine specific? If so, that will cause a huge problem when we deploy to a production server.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I have an existing table that I want to partition across multiple servers. I am having a hard time finding an article that explains how to do it.
I am in the process of designing applying a scale out architecture to our database...but have hit this brick wall.
Any help would be great.
Thanks!
Eric Elliston
SWFLParent.com
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I have multiple SQL 2000 servers that hold data which I retrieve using a single SQL stored procedure. Unfortunately, I don't know how to retrieve this data asychronously (in parallel).
For example, I retrieve data from two linked servers using the following:
select * into #temp from openquery(SomeLinkedServer,'exec BigQueryHere')
select * into #temp2 from openquery(OtherLinkedServer,'exec BigQueryThere')
.
.
lots of manipulation of the temporary tables to get what I want, etc.
.
.
The problem I have with this is that there is no reason why the first query should have to finish before the second query begins (serially) because these are on separate servers. Is there a way to execute these so that they run at the same time?
Bill
Hello,
I am trying to create a trigger to update a table on a different database server. (Both databases are SQL server 7.0) Does anyone know the syntax of how to implement this?
Any help is appreciated!!
Thanks,
Lisa