Use this tag for questions specific to the 7.0 version of Microsoft's SQL Server.
Questions tagged [sql-server-7]
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How can I check for average concurrent events in a SQL table based on the date, time and duration of the events?
I have a set of call detail records, and from those records, I'm supposed to determine the average concurrent active calls per system, per hour (at a precision of one minute). If I query 7pm to 8pm, I should see the average concurrent calls for the…

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Is it possible to restore a SQL 7 DB to SQL 2008?
I have an old SQL 7 DB .bak file I am trying to work with now. I tried to restore the backup in SQL 2008, but it said that it was unable to work with the file. Does anyone know how I could restore this DB?

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Hamming distance in ancient Microsoft DBMS
The Problem
I want to find image duplicates and similar images in MS SQL Server 7.
Edit
I got it running using sql cursors - it's slow but it works, thanks again for the comment. See my answer for the solution I came up with.
Specifically ...
I…

mfeineis
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How to Restore a old Backup from SQL Server 7 SP4 to newest SQL Server versions?
I'm trying to restore an very old code of mine, in that time the database was ms access and then I upgraded to SQL Server 7 SP4, now I want to restore those old backup, but SQL Server 2014 does not allow this..
So I would like to know how can I get…

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JDBC driver for SQL Server 7.0?
I need to retrieve datas from the SQL Server 7.0 through java.
I have tried the following drivers
msbase.jar
mssqlserver.jar
msutil.jar
sqljdbc.jar
sqljdbc4.jar
These jars works fine for the SQL Server versions 2000 and above, but for the version…

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Help with a complex self referency query accross multiple colums
I am having difficulties with a complicated (for me any way) query.
The table I'm querying has 3 colums, ClientID (int Not Null), ProductID (int Not Null) and ExpiryDate (smalldatetime nullable)
Given two client ID's Master and Consolidated I need…

Jon P
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SQL Server Error: Cannot sort a row of size x, which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8094. But I'm not sorting
I understand that the "Cannot sort a row of size 9754, which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8094." from SQL server is caused by a row that has over 9k characters in it, which is greater than the page size limit in SQL Server 7. But I'm not…

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Migrating From SQL Server Server 7 To 2005, What should I get excited about?
The company I work for has decided to join the 21st century and upgrade our main database cluster from SQL Server 7 to SQL Server 2005. As a web developer what new whiz-bang features of SQL Server 2005 should I get excited about or get to…

Jon P
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Is there any mechanism to connect to sql server 7 from visual studio 2008?
We are currently moving our SQL Server 7 based database to SQL Server 2000 (Yeah progress) However in the mean time we have to support our SQL Server 7 database product. We currently have access to Visual Studio 2008 and I know that native support…

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best way to import data from SQL Server 7.0 to 2005
I have a table in a SQL Server 7.0 database with columns like:
Column_1 varchar(10) null
Column_2 int null
Column_3 varchar(15) null
Column_4 float(53) null
Column_5 float(53) null
Column_6 …

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Data sync from different SQL Server versions databases
So I have an SQL Server 7.0 database that must not be upgraded, it only gets data read and written in it, and I created an SQL Server 2008 R2 database which is the same structure, I want to synchronize the data between both, so whatever addition,…

Mohamedali Hamdi
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Speeding up partitioning query on ancient SQL Server version
The Setup
I've got performance and conceptional problems with getting a query right on SQL Server 7 running on a dual core 2GHz + 2GB RAM machine - no chance of getting that out of the way, as you might expect :-/.
The Situation
I'm working with a…

mfeineis
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Error updating using SqlCommand
Error executing the code, I am using C# & SQL Server 7 / 2000.
Steps I am doing are:
get all the tickets
then I read each ticket
pass to web service method for validation
if the return is true I need to update a table.
Please review my code,…

Benk
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Is there any ORM tool for sql server 7.0?
I have a sql server 7.0 database and I will implement a web service above it. How do I access the data without writing any sql query?

Sessiz Saat
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SQLServer7 + VB6 EXE File does not run on Win7
How can I use my old VB6 customized SQLServer database application in Windows 7?
I can not upgrade my old VB6 EXE file.