I'm Beginner in Sybase Sql Anywhere.
I have a "coop_db.db" file from the 2nd Party.
I want to open this file but i dont have a UserID and Password from the 3rd Party. I already tried the default authentication
UserID:"dba" and Password:"sql"
but it won't work.
Can anyone help me figure it out what's the DBA PASSWORD to this file.? Thanks, deeply appreciate your help :D.
Unfortunately, there is no way to force your way into a SQL Anywhere database if you don't know the password. I looked into this in the past and there is no backdoor, nor a forced-reset procedure like ASE has.
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Does anyone know how to create a password protected file in SQLiteStudio 3.1 ?
When I try to make a DB with type SQLCypher, trying to follow the steps in the youtube guidance, I allways end up with a file I can connect to, even without a password.
Can't find any usefull manual for this.....
When you create database, pick SQLCipher plugin, enter password. Newly created database should appear on the list of databases. Now just double click on it and it should open with no issues.
Unless you mean you cannot open it from different application?
Im in the middle of trying to migrate fro Heroku shared Postgres to Amazon RDS MySQL instance, and iv followed all the steps listed here: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgresql
The migration went through fine, all the data was transferred except iv now noticed that any characters that arent the usual english charset are now question marks, like "?????"
I have a lot of users of my app from China, Thailand etc and all of their entered data is just questions marks, as though it has no idea how to encode it.
I know Heroku replaces the database.yml, so theres no use me showing you that, and I cant see any options to configure encoding on RDS.
All I did was the usual heroku db:pull mysql2://user:pass#isntance/db
Does anyone know how im able to migrate this data without screwing up the characters for these other languages?
Cheers
Figured it out for anyone else who reads this.
You need to follow the instructions about setting your character set here: http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-configure-an-amazon-rds-instance-to-use-utf-8-925.html
But what I was missing is that I needed to drop the database completely and recreate it. The new charset applied to all new tables then.
I've got a BI Dashboard in Excel 2010 using Powerpivot, which is connected to a number queried tables on one SQL Server. When the connections were setup, I checked the box to 'save password' on each one. However, whenever my users reopen the document and go to the Powerpivot window and select 'RefreshAll' then they have to type in the password multiple times (once for each table), which is not suitable.
I have looked here and here and seem to be experiencing the same issue as a number of other people. I have started again from scratch, ensuring that the 'save password' box is definitely checked on each connection string.
The only workaround I can think of is by user Windows Authentication, but this document is intended for widespread use, and as such this will require a lot of maintenance, and will really annoy my server admin :)
Does anyone have a workaround, or any way of resolving the problem?
This solution comes close, but doesn't seem to work in my case. Might work for others though...
Solution summary:
In the main Excel window in the Data tab, choose Connections, then select the workbook connection that corresponds to your PowerPivot connection. Click on Properties, switch to the definition tab, and mark “Save password” box.
Source:
http://cpa-it.com/password-not-saved-in-powerpivot-connection-when-using-sql-authentication/#comment-10654
I've found a workaround that works for me, but might not be an ideal solution for others.
In the main Excel window, you can create a new connection using a connection file (.odc). If you create this file on a shared network drive that all users can access, and select to store the password in the connection file, the password is -actually- stored.
You can then go on and use this connection in the PowerPivot window. It will no longer ask for a password when refreshing your tables.
Of course this is only a useful workaround within a company LAN, and if there are no security implications for storing the password on a fileserver in an odc file.
I have created a program that runs off of an Access database on the company server. The program is running fine and I am about to release it to the office. Before I do this I would like to write a help file in case the users run into issues. However, I am running into problems here. In the program, each user has a security level that is retrieved from the database that allows them to have access to different features in the program. I would prefer that only certain users know about some of the features. In writing a help file for all of the features, I would like to have Microsoft Word read the security level from the database and only display the portions of the help file corresponding to the features the user has access to. I have tried using the following VBA code in the Document_Open event:
Set db = OpenDatabase(databasePath, False, False, databasePassword)
But I get an invalid password error (the database is password protected). I have verified the correct password several times now and still no luck. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Is there some other way to connect to an Access database using Word?
Why not include the help in a table with a rich text memo? Each section can be contained in a different record.
When creating such a table I generally have a help button that opens the relevant section and an extra field to allow annotation.
Does anyone have any documentation or info on the file structure of the contacts.edb file as it is used in Windows Live Mail? I can't seem to find any way to import file back into WLM (I'm told it HAS no way, and must be "backed up" via manual exports to CSV files).
Given the apparent lack of means to reimport a backed up EDB file, I figured that perhaps I could just write a program to read all the contacts out into vcards or something, and then import those. (I'm actually looking ultimately to get them into Outlook, and ditch WLM for this user, cuz I don't feel like dealing with these maintenance headaches).
Problem is that I cannot find anywhere any information on the file format/structure for WLM's EDB files.
Thanks in advance, any help GREATLY appreciated!
To anyone finding this in the future, THIS CAN BE DONE, without needing to code anything! Use this program - EseDbViewer - to export the file to a CSV file, and then you can import that where ever you want.
Note that you pretty much need the whole file structure containing the edb, not just the edb file.
Hat-tip to #MicrosoftHelps on twitter.