Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not connect; Error 2

I have installed MSSQL 2005 successfuly, checked the services their are running I can connect to the

server with Intergrations Services ok. I get the following when I try to connect to the Database Engine

(provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not
open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 2)

What file is SQL looking for (net helpmsg 2)?

Thanks for the help

Did you enable remote conenctions ? Check my website for the screencast which explains how to enable the Remote connections on your instance.

Jens K. Suessmeyer

http://www.sqlserver2005.de
|||Would this be true for a standalone PC? I don't have SQL Server installed on a remote server.|||

For a standalone PC, you want to disable remote connections for TCP/IP and Named Pipes but you probably want to enable them locally (especially considering that you are trying to use named pipes here). So you should start SQL Server Configuration Manager, then go to "Protocols" then enable both TCP/IP and Named Pipes. To make sure that remote computers cannot connect to your machine -- go to SQL Server Surface Area Configuration -> Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections ->Remote Connections and turn off remote connections.

That should do it,

John

Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not connect; Error 2

I have installed MSSQL 2005 successfuly, checked the services their are running I can connect to the

server with Intergrations Services ok. I get the following when I try to connect to the Database Engine

(provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not
open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 2)

What file is SQL looking for (net helpmsg 2)?

Thanks for the help

Did you enable remote conenctions ? Check my website for the screencast which explains how to enable the Remote connections on your instance.

Jens K. Suessmeyer

http://www.sqlserver2005.de
|||Would this be true for a standalone PC? I don't have SQL Server installed on a remote server.|||

For a standalone PC, you want to disable remote connections for TCP/IP and Named Pipes but you probably want to enable them locally (especially considering that you are trying to use named pipes here). So you should start SQL Server Configuration Manager, then go to "Protocols" then enable both TCP/IP and Named Pipes. To make sure that remote computers cannot connect to your machine -- go to SQL Server Surface Area Configuration -> Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections ->Remote Connections and turn off remote connections.

That should do it,

John

n00b question - permissions from website

Hi everyone,

I've inherited a website based on the dotnetnuke frameowork.

this website also uses the reporting services from sqlserver.

When the report button is clicked in the website, the user is prompted

with a login and password (standard windows dialog)

Entering the username/password for the web site fails,

entering username/password for the machine works.

The user - of course - doesn't want to enter enything, let alone see the darn dialog box,

just wants to see the report on the screen.

Does anyone have any ideas on where to start looking for a solution to this problem?

thanks

tony

The settings for the permissions of the report service are in the service's properties in IIS settings in control panel -> administrative tools. You might be able to set it to use the same password as the rest of the website there.

N UP style reports

Is there a way to create N UP style reports in Reporting Services. N UP
style reports have a newspaper column style of appearance where the same
database column with different data is displayed in multiple columns across
the same page of a report.See if the multi-column functionality meets your need. A fuller discussion
about multi-column reports can be found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/RSCREATE/htm/rcr_creating_layout_v1_4uwj.asp
NOTE: Use must render multi_column reports to PDF, TIFF, or Print Preview to
see them a multi-column. Multi-column reports are rendered as a single
column if you use HTML, Excel, or Preview.
Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Reporting Services Developer - Atlanta" <Reporting Services Developer -
Atlanta@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D216D411-55A0-4014-A787-ACFA5A165C15@.microsoft.com...
> Is there a way to create N UP style reports in Reporting Services. N UP
> style reports have a newspaper column style of appearance where the same
> database column with different data is displayed in multiple columns
> across
> the same page of a report.|||Bruce, thanks for the reply. These reports are typically not printed or
exported. The data is highly dynamic and is viewed/used by our support staff
online (in HTML).
I'll read the information on the link but I'm still interested in knowing if
there is some way to detect the context of a drilldown/row group.
Thanks,
Glenn
"Bruce Johnson [MSFT]" wrote:
> See if the multi-column functionality meets your need. A fuller discussion
> about multi-column reports can be found at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/RSCREATE/htm/rcr_creating_layout_v1_4uwj.asp
> NOTE: Use must render multi_column reports to PDF, TIFF, or Print Preview to
> see them a multi-column. Multi-column reports are rendered as a single
> column if you use HTML, Excel, or Preview.
>
> --
> Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
> Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "Reporting Services Developer - Atlanta" <Reporting Services Developer -
> Atlanta@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D216D411-55A0-4014-A787-ACFA5A165C15@.microsoft.com...
> > Is there a way to create N UP style reports in Reporting Services. N UP
> > style reports have a newspaper column style of appearance where the same
> > database column with different data is displayed in multiple columns
> > across
> > the same page of a report.
>
>|||The link below provides good information -
but is there a way to overide the "snaking" behavior that is discussed ?
Crystal allows you to specify whether data for these types of reports is
displayed down the page or across the page.
When converting reports from Cyrstal to SRS, it is important to make them
look exactly the same to improve my organization's confidence in SRS. Most
people will see this as a limitation of SRS.
"Bruce Johnson [MSFT]" wrote:
> See if the multi-column functionality meets your need. A fuller discussion
> about multi-column reports can be found at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/RSCREATE/htm/rcr_creating_layout_v1_4uwj.asp
> NOTE: Use must render multi_column reports to PDF, TIFF, or Print Preview to
> see them a multi-column. Multi-column reports are rendered as a single
> column if you use HTML, Excel, or Preview.
>
> --
> Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
> Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "Reporting Services Developer - Atlanta" <Reporting Services Developer -
> Atlanta@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D216D411-55A0-4014-A787-ACFA5A165C15@.microsoft.com...
> > Is there a way to create N UP style reports in Reporting Services. N UP
> > style reports have a newspaper column style of appearance where the same
> > database column with different data is displayed in multiple columns
> > across
> > the same page of a report.
>
>

MySql SSIS Hangs with ODBC Drivers

Hi, we are writting a SQL Server Integration Services package to import data from a MySql database to a Sql Database.

We are using ODBC 3.51 Drivers to connect to the MySql Database in SSIS. The package runs perfectly in design mode. When we schedule the package to run, the package seems to hang about 1/3 of the times.

What can this be. We used to the package and ran it from a Sql Server 2005 to a Sql Server 2005 database. This setup works perfectly. When i'm doing MySql to Sql Server 2005, 1/3 of the times, it does not work.

Can anyone help me with this?

Giovan Gentile
Ayuda Media Systems

Implementation of ODBC is different by different vendors and for each different data source (after all, that was the goal of it). Therefore because an ODBC connection works fine with a particular source database is no guarantee an ODBC connection against a different database will work for your purposes- _the implementation code is totally different_.

Also, allowing implicit data type conversions (in my experience) is often the source of problems in moving data between different RDBMS implementations. Create views in the source to explicitly make any data type conversions required for the Sql Server destination. That can only help...

Ken

|||

Hello Ken,

Importing from mySQL with the 3.51 works fine for me.

Does your package "hangs" on big resulsets specifically ? If so, it could be that your datasource in configured to cache results from mySQL before making them available to the consumer. That's the default behavior.

Turning on "Allow big results" and "Don't cache result (forward cursor only)" options at the ODBC datasource level fixed the pb for me.

Hope it helps.

--

Jerome

MySql and Sql question

The vast Majority of Hosting services use MySql so my Question is " Can MySql Utilize a SQL Database without alot of additional work? " if not what needs to be done so the SQL Files can run on MySql..

Thxs in Advance ...

No - the two file types are binarily incompatible. But you can install the ODBC driver for MySQL and run a single query in SQL Server to access the MySQL data directly inside SQL Server.

Buck

MySql and Sql question

The vast Majority of Hosting services use MySql so my Question is " Can MySql Utilize a SQL Database without alot of additional work? " if not what needs to be done so the SQL Files can run on MySql..

Thxs in Advance ...

No - the two file types are binarily incompatible. But you can install the ODBC driver for MySQL and run a single query in SQL Server to access the MySQL data directly inside SQL Server.

Buck

My Very Own SOAP / Web Service Report Viewer

Well, I've finally done it! The first fully functional prototype of the
report viewer control for Reporting Services 2000 is complete. I am
working on a project that cannot wait until RS 2005, so we bit the
bullet and wrote our own component (URL access will not work for a
number of reasons).
Alon with report selection, I have implemented:
1) Parameter selection (including linked params)
2) Page navigation
3) Zooming
4) Refresh
5) Export to: PDF, Excel, CSV, TIFF, XML, MHTML
6) Printing
I have received a lot of help from the RS community, so may thanks to
those of you who frequent this group!
Kulgan.Congratulations!
I have been struggling to build one too. Would you mind sharing your
code/ideas on how to go on about it?
TIA.
Marlon
"Kulgan" <nickamckenna@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121180309.308222.314710@.g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Well, I've finally done it! The first fully functional prototype of the
> report viewer control for Reporting Services 2000 is complete. I am
> working on a project that cannot wait until RS 2005, so we bit the
> bullet and wrote our own component (URL access will not work for a
> number of reasons).
> Alon with report selection, I have implemented:
> 1) Parameter selection (including linked params)
> 2) Page navigation
> 3) Zooming
> 4) Refresh
> 5) Export to: PDF, Excel, CSV, TIFF, XML, MHTML
> 6) Printing
> I have received a lot of help from the RS community, so may thanks to
> those of you who frequent this group!
> Kulgan.
>|||Unfortunately the code belongs to the client I have done the work for,
but I will be doing an open source version shortly (when I return from
holiday in a couple of weeks).
I will keep you posted!
In the meantime, if you get stuck, email me and I'll help wherever I
can.
Cheers,
Kulgan.|||Yes, thats great! I have the exact same issue that I need to resolve, i.e.
using the viewer through SOAP. I would love to see how you did this!
"TechnoSpyke" wrote:
> Congratulations!
> I have been struggling to build one too. Would you mind sharing your
> code/ideas on how to go on about it?
> TIA.
> Marlon
> "Kulgan" <nickamckenna@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1121180309.308222.314710@.g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Well, I've finally done it! The first fully functional prototype of the
> > report viewer control for Reporting Services 2000 is complete. I am
> > working on a project that cannot wait until RS 2005, so we bit the
> > bullet and wrote our own component (URL access will not work for a
> > number of reasons).
> >
> > Alon with report selection, I have implemented:
> >
> > 1) Parameter selection (including linked params)
> > 2) Page navigation
> > 3) Zooming
> > 4) Refresh
> > 5) Export to: PDF, Excel, CSV, TIFF, XML, MHTML
> > 6) Printing
> >
> > I have received a lot of help from the RS community, so may thanks to
> > those of you who frequent this group!
> >
> > Kulgan.
> >
>
>|||Me too.
tnx.
Tom.

My Reports folder

Hi everyone,
I reinsralled my reporting services (on sql 2000) and i have a problem:
i added users and if one user create folder everyone else can see his
folder. also the my reports folder is not created auto like it was.
cant i create a folder that only i can see?
thanksThe folder that all of the My Reports are in is Users... If everyone can
see this, then either everyone is an administrator, or you need to reduce the
permissions on the Users folder.
To have the My Reports folders created automatically you must
Check the Enable My Reports box from the SIte Settings menu item on the top
left of Report Manager. There you can also setup the permissions that
individuals have on their My Reports folder.
Hope this helps
--
Wayne Snyder MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
I support the Professional Association for SQL Server ( PASS) and it''s
community of SQL Professionals.
"Ruby Nadler" wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I reinsralled my reporting services (on sql 2000) and i have a problem:
> i added users and if one user create folder everyone else can see his
> folder. also the my reports folder is not created auto like it was.
> cant i create a folder that only i can see?
> thanks
>

My Report feature

Currently - our Reporting Services site is setup so that all Domain Users can access it. We are starting to use Report Builder now. I have enabled the My Reports folder feature that that creates a user folder for anyone that logs onto the site. Is there a way to just create the user folders for certain people?

Yes. You do not have to use the "My Reports" function at all. Just create a folder for each user under the Home folder and then assign them at least browser rights to that folder. Also, be sure they have browser rights to the Home folder or they will not be able to see their own folder as this follows a hierachial structure.