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Error Locating Server/Instance Specified - Tried everything I can find
Hello SQL experts, I am sort of at my wits end at this point and was hoping someone from the community could help me, I have referenced several discussions on this community and still have not found a solution that worked for my situation. I am trying to set up a automatic backup solution for a SQL Express Server so I can't use the SQL Agent to schedule a backup. Below is a batch script for sqlcmd I am trying to use to create the backup and as soon as I have it working, I plan on scheduling it as a task that will be executed weekly. I have also included the SQL query that works just fine when run from inside SSMS and creates the backup as expected. Batch file script: Echo off REM ================================================================ REM BackupDatabase.bat REM ================================================================ REM --- Configuration --- SET SERVER_NAME=.\FTVIEWX64_SRSS SET USER_NAME=xxxxxx SET PASSWORD=xxxxxx SET SQL_SCRIPT=C:\Users\Public\Documents\xxxx_BackupDatabase.sql REM --- display timestamp --- echo [%date% %time%] Starting database backup... REM --- Run SQLCMD --- sqlcmd -S %SERVER_NAME% -U %USER_NAME% -P %PASSWORD% -i "%SQL_SCRIPT%" IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 ( echo [%date% %time%] Backup completed successfully. ) ELSE ( echo [%date% %time%] Backup FAILED! Error code: %ERRORLEVEL% ) pause SQL Query being used: -- BackupDatabase.sql DECLARE @BackupFileName NVARCHAR(255); SET @BackupFileName = N'D:\SQLdbBackup\XXXX_' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), GETDATE(), 112) + N'.bak'; BACKUP DATABASE XXXX TO DISK = @BackupFileName WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'Full Backup of XXXX', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10; GO When I run the batch file I get this in the sqlcmd window as an error code: The necessary services all seem to be running fine as you can see below: The sqlcmd version is as follows: SQL server version is as follows: Connections for the server are configured as follows: Any and all help would be greatly appreciated so I can resolve the issue and get regular backups scheduled for this server. Thanks and Kind Regards, Dan
Sql to calculate quarterly/annual aggregation aside of monthly numbers
Hi, I am struggling to calculate amounts based on mtd amounts w/o using a cursor. Any idea? create table #raw(quarter int, name varchar(10), year int, month int, amount decimal(19,2)) insert #raw(quarter, name, year, month, amount) values(1, 'aa', 2025,1,2.0),(1, 'bb', 2025,1,4.0),(1, 'cc', 2025,1,1.0), (1, 'aa', 2025,2,6.0),(1, 'bb', 2025,2,8.0), (1, 'aa', 2025,3,10.0),(1, 'bb', 2025,3,2.0),(1, 'dd', 2025,3,4.0), (2, 'ee', 2025,4,9.0),(2, 'bb', 2025,4,3.0),(2, 'cc', 2025,4,3.0),(2, 'aa', 2025,4,1.0), (2, 'ee', 2025,5,15.0),(2, 'bb', 2025,5,1.0),(2, 'cc', 2025,5,2.0),(2, 'aa', 2025,5,7.0), (2, 'cc', 2025,6,8.0),(2, 'aa', 2025,6,9.0) Annual calc is easy, but not sure how to add quarterly number aside: select mtd.quarter, mtd.name, mtd.year, mtd.month, mtd.amount, sum(ytd.amount) as ytd from #raw mtd join #raw ytd on mtd.name = ytd.name and mtd.year = ytd.year and mtd.month >= ytd.month and mtd.quarter >= ytd.quarter group by mtd.quarter, mtd.name, mtd.year, mtd.month, mtd.amount order by 1,3,4,2 Goal is to get a report like this:problem restoring a backup
I have a backup file (xxxx.bak) in my c:\trmp directory. When I launch SSMS signed on as "sa" and try to restore this database, i get this window: I am not able to enter anything for "Database" and the dropdown is empty. Then if I switch it to "Device" I get this window: Now, under "Destination" I am able to enter a database name, i.e. the name I want the database to be referred to after I restore it. However, note the message at the top of the window: No backupset selected to be restored. How do I resolve this issue? Murray
How to create a view with unique record based on date
I have an EMPLOYEE table that looks like this: EmployeeID,Name,PositionID,HireDate,PositionStatus E001,Chelsey,P123,2013-11-23,Terminated E001,Chelsey,P234,2019-03-13,Active E002,Mike,P345,2014-03-23,Terminated E002,Mike,P345,2021-10-13,Terminated E003,James,P543,2015-01-12,Active E004,Samantha,P895,2018-12-13,Terminated E004,Samantha,P430,2020-05-21,Terminated E004,Samantha,P945,2022-06-16,Active E005,Kayla,P459,2023-03-13,Terminated As you can see, the EmployeeID can have duplicate. The reason for this is, there's a secondary ID called PositionID, which essentially describes the employee's role. For example, whenever an employee gets promoted, or moves to a different department, a new record will be created for them with the same EmployeeID but a different PositionID. When that happens, the Position Status of the older role gets set to Terminated, and the new one gets set to Active. The HireDate represents the date teh employee started working in that role. I would like to create a VIEW to filter this to have only the unique employees, based on the HireDate. If there are multiple records for the same employee, I want the view to show only the record with the most recent HireDate. The resulting table should look like this: What's the best way to go about this?Rounding issue - expected or bug?
Hello, we use SQL Server 2019 and we got some unexpected rounding issues. See example: It is only example with numbers, in our situation there were sub selects with data types: 0.4399 = decimal(20,4) 33.00 = decimal(20,2) 1 = smallint. My question is, why in first and fifth selects is result only with 2 decimal and not 4 based on first number with data type decimal (20,4)? I have tested it with latest cumulative update. Thank you for your answer. Pavol
SQL Query
Hi All, I have 2 tables ConfigurationTable and Data table. I require combine value like below output Source tables: Target Output: Sql Scripts: CREATE TABLE CONFIGTABLE(Productcode VARCHAR(10), Linkedvalue VARCHAR(10)) INSERT INTO CONFIGTABLE VALUES ('A', 'PEN') ,('C', 'PENCIL') ,('B', 'BOOK') ,('M', 'MOUSE') CREATE TABLE DATATABLE (FIELDVALUE VARCHAR(50), ORDERID INT,NAME VARCHAR(20)) INSERT INTO DATATABLE VALUES ('321', 9, 'COMPUTER') ,('THIS PEN IS', 1, 'A') ,('Country', 5, 'BOOK') ,('Great village in a', 4, 'B') ,('MINE', 2, 'PEN')
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