DB/Reporting :: Remote Access Of A SQLEXPRESS Database Using VB2008?
Jun 24, 2008
I'm currently designing a client application that connects to a SQL Server 2005 database. My app is being used to display data, allows users to run reports and stats on the data. It is being developed using VB2008. Within my VB2008 project, the connection string to the DB is made via SQLEXPRESS.
The road block that I'm running into right now is that it only allows me to connect to a local DB file (.mdf) only. I tried to connect to a different DB file on a server within the same network domain, and it generated the following error:
"The file "U:Data.mdf" is on a network path that is not supported for database files. An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file U:Data.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share." (where U: is a mapped network drive).
The intention is to have the DB reside on a server, where there is another application that runs as a service to collect the data and then populates this DB. Then my app would just connect to the database, and allows users to run reports based on the data in the DB.
I heard that this is the limitation of SQLEXPRESS: it will not allow connection to a remote database. This is true? If so, is there anyway that I can get around this limitation?
The main reason that I chose SQLEXPRESS in the first place is that because of the licensing issue. The company that I work for do not want to make the users of our software app have to purchase additional license for the full-blown SQL Server Enterprise edition. I also heard that SQL Server Enterprise edition does allow you to connect to a remote DB (.mdf) file.
Trying to move from an Access MDB file to an SQLExpress(2005) MDF file and getting lots of problems. I have model my MDF file Like my Access MDB file ,same file name,same number of columns, same columns property,same columns name, see out of the 13 columns 8 have default value, I think I am getting a syntax problem when inserting the data into the table, being new to SQL Express I don't know how to write the proper SQl syntax
See my code for inserting and updating (using Access.mdb) which I whoud like transpose to SQL
'// Insert a record into the database for the node. sSql = "INSERT INTO [TreeViewItems] (bRoot, dLastModified, iImageIndex," & _ "iParentID, iSelectedImageIndex, iSort, sName, sFullName) VALUES " & _
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Here is my code
Imports System.Data.OleDb Public Class Main_Form Dim con As OleDbConnection Dim cmd As OleDbCommand
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Private Function FillTable(ByVal TableToFill As DataTable, _ Optional ByVal OleDbAdpToUse As OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter = Nothing) As Integer ' fills the table by using OleDbDataAdapter.Fill(aTable)
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