Iam using mdriven build 7.0.0.11347 for DDD project and have model designed in .ecomdl file.
In this file i have a class Job with WorkDone as one of a property. Backedup SQL table has WorkDone varchar(255) field. Now i wanted to increase length of this field and When i changed the WorkDone property length from 255 to 2000 then it modified the code file but when application runs EvolveSchema then evolving process doesn't recognize this change which leads to no scripts being generated. In the end database doesn't get this updated.
Can you please help me how to get this change persist to database. I thought to increase manually to SQL table but then if database gets change in case of new envrionment QA production then it has to be done every time, which id don't want to do.
In MDriven we dont evolve attribute changes - we only write a warning (255->2000 this change will not be evolved)
You should take steps to alter the column in the database yourself.
We should fix in the future but currently this is a limitation
To expand on my comment, VARCHAR can only be from 0-255 chars
Using TEXT will allow for non-binary (character) strings and BLOBs will allow for binary (byte) strings
Your mileage may vary with this as to what you can do with them, as I am using MySQL knowledge and knowledgebases (since you don't specify your SQL type)
See below for exaplanations of the types;
char / varchar
blobs / text
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I'm using Firebird 2.5.8 to store information for a software I designed.
A customer contacted me today to inform me of multiple errors that I couldn't understand, and I used the "IBExpert" tool to inspect its database.
To my surprise, all the calculated fields had been transformed into "standard" fields. This is clearly visible in the "DDL" tab of the database tool, which displays tables definition as SQL code.
For instance, the following table definition:
CREATE TABLE TVERSIONS (
...
PARENTPATH COMPUTED BY (((SELECT TFILES.FILEPATH FROM TFILES WHERE ID = TVERSIONS.FILEID))),
....
ISCOMPLETE COMPUTED BY ((((SELECT TBACKUPVERSIONS.ISCOMPLETE FROM TBACKUPVERSIONS WHERE ID = TVERSIONS.CVERSION)))),
CDATE COMPUTED BY (((SELECT TBACKUPVERSIONS.SERVERSTARTDATE FROM TBACKUPVERSIONS WHERE ID = TVERSIONS.CVERSION))),
DDATE COMPUTED BY (((SELECT TBACKUPVERSIONS.SERVERSTARTDATE FROM TBACKUPVERSIONS WHERE ID = TVERSIONS.DVERSION))),
...
);
has been "changed" in the client database into this:
CREATE TABLE TVERSIONS (
...
PARENTPATH VARCHAR(512) CHARACTER SET UTF8 COLLATE UNICODE,
...
ISCOMPLETE SMALLINT,
CDATE TIMESTAMP,
DDATE TIMESTAMP,
...
);
How can such a thing be possible?
I've been using Firebird for more than 10 years, and I've never seen such a behavior until now. Is it possible that it could be a corruption of RDB$FIELDS.RDB$COMPUTED_SOURCE fields?
What would you advise?
To summarize the discussion on firebird-support (and comments above):
The likely cause of this happening is that the database was backed up and restored using gbak, and the restore did not complete successfully. If this happens, gbak will have ended in an error, and the database is in single shutdown state (which means only SYSDBA or the database owner is allowed to create one connection). If the database is not currently in single shutdown mode, someone used gfix to bring the database online again in normal state.
When a database is restored using gbak, calculated fields are initially created as normal fields (though their values are not part of the backup). After data is restored successfully, those fields are altered to be calculated fields. If there are any errors before or during redefinition of the calculated fields, the restore will fail, and the database will be in single shutdown state, and the calculated fields will still be "normal" fields.
I recommend doing a structural comparison of the database to check if calculated fields are the only problem, or if other things (e.g. constraints) are missing. A simple way to do this is to export the DDL of the database and a "known-good" database, for example using ISQL (command line option -extract), and comparing them with a diff tool.
Then either fix the existing database by executing the necessary DDL to restore calculated fields (and other things), or create a new empty database, and move the data from the old to the new (using a datapump tool).
Also check if any data is missing. By default, gbak restores the data in a single transaction, so in that case either all data is present or all data is missing. However, gbak also has a "transaction-per-table" mode (-ONE_AT_A_TIME or -O), which could mean some tables have data, and others have no data.
I am using firebird database version 2.0. When I try to update a row, I get an error message: Attempted update of read-only database.
http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq359/ suggests I may query a blob field that uses a different character set than the connection character set.
I do query a blob field and when the blob field has a value then the updating causes the error. If there is no value in the blob then the updating is just fine.
I use IBConsole to open the firebird database and check the database metadata, I find the metadata says "Default character set NONE".
To fix the problem I firstly need to know what are the character sets used in my database.
So my questions are:
what is the character set being used for my database (Connection character set)
the data type of the blob field is MEMOBLOB, and MEMOBLOB is created as Create domain MEMOBLOB as blob sub_type TEXT segment size 80; So what is the character set use for the MEMOBLOB?
No, that is not about queries or BLOBs.
Firebird databases have a number of modes, one of them is "read-only". In this mode no any change to database is allowed.
You can use gfix utility to change this database mode. You can also use corresponding menu in IBExpert and other development tools that use Firebird Services API
The very link you posted - http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq359/ - says that:
It does not mean that the database file is read-only, but it (database) contains a read-only mark
gfix -mode read_only /path/to/database.fdb
gfix -mode read_write /path/to/database.fdb
See also https://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/gfix-dbmode.html
See also https://www.ibexpert.net/ibe/pmwiki.php?n=Doc.DatabaseProperties
Of tangential questions:
character set being used for my database
According to your text, it is NONE.
To be exact, database does not use some charset. It is every textual column (char/varchar/blob sub_type text) that do. But usually developer does not bother with specifying individual per-column charsets, so they inherit that default one.
Read also: https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/fblangref25-en/html/fblangref25-ddl-tbl.html#fblangref25-ddl-tbl-character
metadata says "Default character set NONE"
This is as close to "database charset" as can be.
Granted, that is only default one and you could override it when creating your columns, but i do not think you did. So probably all your textual columns have charset "NONE".
That is rather dangerous setting, meaning all texts in such columns are stored as raw bytes dump, and hoping application would correctly guess how to convert bytes to letters and letters to bytes.
Read more: https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/fblangref25-en/html/fblangref25-datatypes-chartypes.html
Flame Robin seems not to show charset by default, but maybe in DDL section it would.
http://www.flamerobin.org/images/screenshots/0.6.0/gtk2/property_page.png
IBExpert does: https://www.ibexpert.net/ibe/uploads/Doc/dmiles783.gif
(Connection character set)
....is not "character set used by database", it is character set used by, well, connection your application (such as IBConsole or FlameRobin or IBExpert) makes to the database.
You have to set it in every application's connection properties. Easiest option would be UTF-8, but when you have NONE-charset columns it might fail...
For example in FR: http://www.flamerobin.org/images/screenshots/0.7.1/winxp/databaseinfo.png
You can use monitoring tables to query for charset id of your CURRENT_CONNECTION, see more at https://www.firebirdsql.org/file/documentation/reference_manuals/fblangref25-en/html/fblangref-appx05-monattach.html
After I add transaction parameters for the relevant tables. It solves the problem.
The parameter value I added are isc_tpb_lock_write and isc_tpb_shared.
Thank you Arioch 'The.
I use Firebird 2.5, and I want to retrieve the following values
Username:
I used SELECT rdb$get_context('SYSTEM', 'CURRENT_USER') FROM ...
Database name:
I used SELECT rdb$get_context('SYSTEM', 'DB_NAME') FROM ...
But for server name, I did not find any client API, do you know how can I retrieve the server name with a SELECT statement.
There is nothing built-in in Firebird to obtain the server host name (or host names, as a server can have multiple host names) through SQL.
The closest you can get is by requesting the isc_info_firebird_version information item through the isc_database_info API function. This returns version information that - if connecting through TCP/IP - includes a host name of the server.
But as your primary reason for this is to discern between environments in SQL, it might be better to look for a different solution. Some ideas:
Use an external table
You can create an external table to contain the environment information you need
In this example I just put in a short, fixed width name for the environment types, but you could include other information, just be aware the external table format is a binary format. When using CHAR it will look like a fixed width format, where values shorter than declared need to be padded with spaces.
You can follow these steps:
Configure ExternalFileAccess in firebird.conf (for this example, you'd need to set ExternalFileAccess = Restrict D:\data\DB\exttables).
You can then create a table as
create table environment
external file 'D:\data\DB\exttables\environment.dat' (
environment_type CHAR(3) CHARACTER SET ASCII NOT NULL
)
Next, create the file D:\data\DB\exttables\environment.dat and populate it with exactly three characters (eg TST for test, PRO for production, etc). You can also insert the value instead, the external table file will be created automatically. Inserting might be simpler if you want more columns, or data with varying length, etc. Just keep in mind it is binary, but using CHAR for all columns will make it look like text.
Do this for each environment, and make sure the file is read-only to avoid accidental inserts.
After this is done, you can obtain the environment information using
select environment_type
from environment
You can share the same file for multiple databases on the same host, and external files are - by default - not included in a gbak backup (they are only included if you apply the -convert backup option), so this would allow moving database between environments without dragging this information along.
Use an UDF or UDR
You can write an UDF (User-Defined Function) or UDR (User Defined Routine) in a suitable programming language to return the information you want and define this function in your database. Firebird can then call this function from SQL.
UDFs are considered deprecated, and you should use UDRs - introduced in Firebird 3 - instead if possible.
I have never written an UDF or UDR myself, so I can't describe it in detail.
I am producing a comma-separated file in S3 that needs to be copied to a staging table in a redshift database using the postgres COPY command.
It has one boolean field. With every sensible way I can think of to represent the boolean value in the file, redshift copy complains, usually with "Unknown boolean format".
I'm going to give up and change the staging table field to a smallint so that I can proceed with the copy and translate the value on the load from staging to the final redshift table, but I'm curious if anyone knows the correct incantation.
A zero or one works just fine for us.
Check your loads carefully, it may well be another issue that's 'pushing' invalid data into your boolean column.
For instance, we had all kinds of crazy characters embedded in our data that would cause errors like that. I eventually settled on using the US character for the record separator.
Check to make sure you're excluding the headers during the COPY command.
I ran into the same problem, but adding the ignoreheader 1 option (ignores 1 header line during import) solved the issue.
I have an ssis package where I am using an OLEDB source linking to SQL Server 2005 table. All columns except a date column are NVARCHAR(255). I am using an Excel destination and using a SQL statement to create the sheet in the Excel workbook, the SQL is in the excel connection manager (effectively a create table statement that creates a sheet) and is derived from the mapping of the columns from the DB.
No matter what I have done I keep getting this unicode --> non-unicode conversion error between my source and destination. Tried conversion to string[DT_STR] between S > D, removed it, changed SQL Table VARCHAR to NVARCHAR and still get this flippin error.
Because I am creating the sheet in Excel with a SQL statement I do not see any way to actually pre-define what the data types of the columns will be in the Excel sheet. I imagine it would be a default meta data but I do not know.
So between my SQL table destination and the creation of my Excel sheet with this SSIS sql statement how can I stop this error coming up?
My error is:
Error at Data Flow Task [OLE DB Source [1]]: Column "MyColumn" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
And for all nvarchar columns.
Appreciate any help
Thanks
Andrew
The below Steps worked for me:
right click on source task.
click on "Show Advanced editor".
Go to "Input and Output Properties" tab.
select the output column for which you are getting the error.
Its data type will be "String[DT_STR]".
Change that data type to "Unicode String[DT_WSTR]".
save and close.
Add Data Conversion transformations to convert string columns from non-Unicode (DT_STR) to Unicode (DT_WSTR) strings.
You need to do this for all the string columns...
The missing piece here is Data Conversion object. It should be in between OLE DB Source and Destination object.
First, add a data conversion block into your data flow diagram.
Open the data conversion block and tick the column for which the error is showing. Below change its data type to unicode string(DT_WSTR) or whatever datatype is expected and save.
Go to the destination block. Go to mapping in it and map the newly created element to its corresponding address and save.
Right click your project in the solution explorer.select properties. Select configuration properties and select debugging in it. In this, set the Run64BitRunTime option to false (as excel does not handle the 64 bit application very well).
Instead of adding an earlier suggested Data Conversion you can cast the nvarchar column to a varchar column. This prevents you from having an unnecessary step and has a higher performance then the alternative.
In the select of your SQL statement replace date with CAST(date AS varchar([size])). For some reason this does not yet change the output data type. To do this do the following:
Right click your OLE DB Source step and open the advanced editor.
Go to Input and Output Properties
Select Output Columns
Select your column
Under Data Type Properties change DataType to string [DT_STR]
Change Length to the length you specified in your CAST statement
After doing this your source data will be output as a varchar and your error will disappear.
Source
I have been having the same issue and tried everything written here but it was still giving me the same error.
Turned out to be NULL value in the column which I was trying to convert.
Removing the NULL value solved my issue.
Cheers,
Ahmed
No-one seems to mention this but, converting varchar to nvarchar in the source query also solves the issue.
On the above example I kept losing the values, I think that delaying the Validation will allow the new data types to be saved as part of the meta data.
On the connection Manager for 'Excel Connection Manager' set the Delay Validation to False from the Properties.
Then on the data flow Destination task for Excel set the ValidationExternalMetaData to False, again from the properties.
This will now allow you to right click on the Excel Destination Task and go to Advanced Editor for Excel Destination --> far right tab - Input and Output Properties. In the External Columns folder section you will be able to now change the Data Types and Length values of the problematic columns and this can now be saved.
Good Luck!
I experienced this condition when I had installed Oracle version 12 client 32 bit client connected to an Oracle 12 Server running on windows.
Although both of Oracle-source and SqlServer-destination are NOT Unicode, I kept getting this message, as if the oracle columns were Unicode.
I solved the problem inserting a data conversion box, and
selecting type DT-STR (not unicode) for varchar2 fields and DT-WSTR (unicode) for numeric fields, then I've dropped the 'COPY OF' from the output field name.
Note that I kept getting the error because I had connected the source box arrow with the conversion box BEFORE setting the convertion types. So I had to switch source box and this cleaned all the errors in the destination box.
When creating table in SQL Server make your table columns NVARCHAR instead of VARCHAR.
I think people are missing this. In my case I had 100 character columns to convert between Oracle and MS Sql. All this stuff about Data Conversion and Advanced Editor is incredibly tedious if you have a 100 separate character columns to assign. Plus SSIS being SSIS, it will sometimes reset all your 100 advanced editor changes even if you set VALIDATEEXTERNALMETADATA to false, incredibly obnoxious. I wouldn't mind doing the Data Conversion if there was some value to it but 20 years ago ETL tools used to take oracle character to ms sql characters without fussing. What Bakalolo and Zafer say is the answer if you have a lot of character columns and you can live with nvarchar, just declare all your output ms sql columns (nvarchar) and your data task will automatically assign your oracle fields into ms sql fields with no manual overrides. I have also found that the new Oracle Source (2021) doesn't complain about a unicode conversion to varchar in ms sql. A colleague just told me that the ssis wizard (it may be only in vs 2019+) to assign oracle character to ms sql varchar will do the assignments automatically with no override, but I haven't tried that personally.
2022 update - I think this is just vs 2019 created packages and later. An ado.net task reading a varchar ms sql table going to oledb (and ado.net I think) ms sql varchar will throw the unicode error. If you switch the input task to oledb reading ms sql varchar table you won't have to do the advanced editor overrides for the varchar fields. If you don't want to do advanced editor overrides (who does?) try different tasks and more oledb tasks.
I just encounter same issue, I solve it in my SQL request : using convert directly
CONVERT(NVARCHAR(50),'') AS MyVarName
I need to put an empty (or fix size string) into excel file. Converting force type of MyVarName from DT-STR to DT-WSTR (unicode)
I know this is a very old post but I ran into the same issue and found that I had to manually select the conversion component output alias as the mapping in the excel destination component. Since the names of the OLE DB Source match the excel column names it was mapping it to the OLE DB and not to the Output Alias. Such as SourceID column from the OLE DB component being named Copy of SourceID after conversion. I don't see the original question saying they specifically selected the new alias name just that they mapped to DB columns. #Serge Voloshenko post comes the closest but also does not mention to make sure the mapping happens. To a new SSIS user this might be overlooked.