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How to fix endless reboot loop installing Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 – message: A previous installation required a reboot of the machine for changes
I have found one another solution under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9pq3fUOO3s that worked for me when I faced problems with ODBC Driver 17 installation while updating Microsoft SQL Server. It basically requires cleaning the value of PendingFileRenameOperations (replacing the multi-string value with an empty string) under the registry key Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager.
What are the functional differences between iODBC and unixODBC?
Just so you know I use and have contributed to unixODBC and I don’t use iODBC. Unicode support unixODBC follows MS ODBC Driver manager and has SQLWCHARs as 2 bytes UCS2 encoded. iODBC I believe uses wchar_t (this is based on attempting to support iODBC in DBD::ODBC) cursor library unixODBC has one, I don’t “think” … Read more
Excel: Use a cell value as a parameter for a SQL query
I had the same problem as you, Noboby can understand me, But I solved it in this way. SELECT NAME, TELEFONE, DATA FROM [sheet1$a1:q633] WHERE NAME IN (SELECT * FROM [sheet2$a1:a2]) you need insert a parameter in other sheet, the SQL will consider that information like as database, then you can select the information and … Read more
What does the SQL Server Error “String Data, Right Truncation” mean and how do I fix it?
Either the parameter supplied for ZIP_CODE is larger (in length) than ZIP_CODEs column width or the parameter supplied for CITY is larger (in length) than CITYs column width. It would be interesting to know the values supplied for the two ? placeholders.
Setting up PostgreSQL ODBC on Windows
As I see PostgreSQL installer doesn’t include 64 bit version of ODBC driver, which is necessary in your case. Download psqlodbc_09_00_0310-x64.zip and install it instead. I checked that on Win 7 64 bit and PostgreSQL 9.0.4 64 bit and it looks ok: Test connection:
Difference between ANSI and Unicode drivers of MySQL
Firstly I should say that I don’t use MySQL but I do know about ODBC Drivers. In ODBC there are different APIs for unicode and ansi. The ansi APIs end in A and the unicode APIs end in W (e.g., SQLPrepareA and SQLPrepareW). The ansi APIs accept bytes/octets for character strings and hence can only … Read more
Simplest Way to Test ODBC on WIndows
One way to create a quick test query in Windows via an ODBC connection is using the DQY format. To achieve this, create a DQY file (e.g. test.dqy) containing the magic first two lines (XLODBC and 1) as below, followed by your ODBC connection string on the third line and your query on the fourth … Read more
Reverse Engineering for Database Diagramming in Visio with SQL Server 2008
To connect Visio 2007 to a SQL Server 2008 database run the Reverse Engineer Wizard (Database/Reverse Engineer. . . ) in Visio 2007 select the ODBC Generic driver from the “Installed Visio drivers” drop-down. Then create a new data source using the SQL Native Client (2005.90.4035, 2005 SP3). You’ll get a warning stating that some … Read more