Immediate Updating Subscription - Hangs

We have installed SQL Server 2000 on a new server running Windows 2003.
This server is the distirbution Server. It also contains a one database. THis database subscibes to data from other servers and publishes data to other servers.
One of the publications is an updateable subscription. Ths subscription is pushed to the subscriber.
The replication works fine from publisher to subscriber, but when the subscriber attempts an update it just hangs. I see no blocking on either server.
DTC is running on both servers. I executed sp_link_pubisher on the subscriber to populate the publisher login and password in the MSsubscription_properties table.
I must be missing something else.
Can anyone help?
When you say it hangs do you mean it is slow or it doesn't work?
Do you eventually get an error message saying "Access denied"?
If you get this error message, DTC on your Subcriber cannot talk to your Publisher. Its either a name resolution problem, or more likely a permissions problem. Check the accound your SQL Server agent runs under on the Susbcriber and make sure it is part o
f the local administrators group on your Publisher.
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
|||Thank you Hilary for your prompt reply.
WHat I mean by it hangs is it never completes. And it doesn't appear to time out.
I do feel it is something to do with DTC. I will investigate the account SQL Server agent runs under on the Susbcriber
and make sure it is part of the local administrators group on the Publisher.
If you cant hink of anything else in the meantime, I am all ears.
Thanks again.
|||I verified that the account the SQL Server agent runs under on the Susbcriber is part of the local administrators group on the Publisher.
I do not get an "Access denied" error. I get no response at all.
Can you suggest anything else?
-- Hilary Cotter wrote: --
When you say it hangs do you mean it is slow or it doesn't work?
Do you eventually get an error message saying "Access denied"?
If you get this error message, DTC on your Subcriber cannot talk to your Publisher. Its either a name resolution problem, or more likely a permissions problem. Check the accound your SQL Server agent runs under on the Susbcriber and make sure it is p
art of the local administrators group on your Publisher.
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
|||what does your msdtc log say. It can be found in
C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSDtc
"casey@.newsgroups.nospam" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:24BA0D29-2D9B-417D-8730-3B2920FBF11B@.microsoft.com...
> I verified that the account the SQL Server agent runs under on the
Susbcriber is part of the local administrators group on the Publisher.
> I do not get an "Access denied" error. I get no response at all.
> Can you suggest anything else?
> -- Hilary Cotter wrote: --
> When you say it hangs do you mean it is slow or it doesn't work?
> Do you eventually get an error message saying "Access denied"?
> If you get this error message, DTC on your Subcriber cannot talk to
your Publisher. Its either a name resolution problem, or more likely a
permissions problem. Check the accound your SQL Server agent runs under on
the Susbcriber and make sure it is part of the local administrators group on
your Publisher.
> Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
>
|||Helen,
The DTC log contains mostly non-displayable characters. Same for the Trace. Is there a tool I should be using to read this file?
|||My problem is resolved.
The trouble was that with Windows 2003, Enable network DTC access is not "enabled" by default. Once I enabled this, everything works fine.
Thanks for your help.

Images in Reporting Services from database

I have a data table which contains a bmp image saved as a byte array. I am trying to have this image presented in a report, however, I get a red X after I follow the wizard.

I also tried it with the SQL Northwind database and I have the same issue. I am running SQL Reporting services 2005. Any suggestions on what could be going wrong?

Joe

after placing the image you have select the image source i.e. database in your case and then you have select the field name which contains image and the MIME type as image/bmp or try image/png.

this should work

|||

I have tried with both image/bmp and image/png on northwind DB as recommended. I still get red cross. Any ideal what's wrong?

|||

I have tried with both image/bmp and image/png on northwind DB as recommended. I still get red cross. Any idea what's wrong?

|||Please read this RS BOL topic: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156342(SQL.90).aspx

Particularly read the comment near the top if the images came originally from an Access database, because in that case the actual image data is an OLE image and you have to write an expression to remove the OLE image header from the data. This also applies to the Northwind sample database.

Furthermore, I recommend to install SQL Server 2005 SP1 for Reporting Services.

-- Robert

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Images in Reporting Services from database

I have a data table which contains a bmp image saved as a byte array. I am trying to have this image presented in a report, however, I get a red X after I follow the wizard.

I also tried it with the SQL Northwind database and I have the same issue. I am running SQL Reporting services 2005. Any suggestions on what could be going wrong?

Joe

after placing the image you have select the image source i.e. database in your case and then you have select the field name which contains image and the MIME type as image/bmp or try image/png.

this should work

|||

I have tried with both image/bmp and image/png on northwind DB as recommended. I still get red cross. Any ideal what's wrong?

|||

I have tried with both image/bmp and image/png on northwind DB as recommended. I still get red cross. Any idea what's wrong?

|||Please read this RS BOL topic: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156342(SQL.90).aspx

Particularly read the comment near the top if the images came originally from an Access database, because in that case the actual image data is an OLE image and you have to write an expression to remove the OLE image header from the data. This also applies to the Northwind sample database.

Furthermore, I recommend to install SQL Server 2005 SP1 for Reporting Services.

-- Robert

Images are not showing...

Hi,

I have two different reports and in these two reports one contains images which is working fine at development site as well as server site but when same report is called from another report using linking facility given in sql report images disappears on server site at development site it is working fine.

Can any one help me out.

Thanks in advance.

Wasim.

Is this is SQL 2005 ?

Did you install SP1 ?

|||Yes, SP1 is installed on my server.|||Is the image embedded on the report or come from URL ?|||Images are embedded.

Image from Business Object property?

Hello!
I'm using the local reporting services engine within a WinForm
application. I have a Business Object that contains a field which returns a
Bitmap. The Bitmap is created from other values within the same business
object. An example of the properties are below.
I'm binding my report to my BusinessObject and everything is going quite
well with the exception of displaying the graph bitmap within an Image
ReportItem. I've tried different Source types for the Image properties -
Database, Embedded, External but none seem to like the Bitmap within a
property on the Object Data Source.
I saw a few ways to develop a CustomerReportItem and will head down that
road but it seems like I'm missing something really simple. Any thoughts or
helpful tips are welcome.
Thanx,
Mike Q
public class MyBusinessObject
{
public decimal IndexValue
{
get
{
some calculations;
}
}
public Bitmap IndexGraph
{
get
{
Bitmap Result = Bitmap.FromFile("GraphTemplate.bmp");
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(Result);
Pen RedPen = new Pen(Brushes.Red, 5);
g.DrawLine(RedPen, 40, 0, 40, 50); // These values are calculated based on
the Index value.
return Result;
}
}
}I found the answer - instead of returning a Bitmap - return a byte[] from
the business object property
Thanx,
-q
"Mike Q" <MQuinn_q@.Yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello!
> I'm using the local reporting services engine within a WinForm
> application. I have a Business Object that contains a field which returns
> a Bitmap. The Bitmap is created from other values within the same
> business object. An example of the properties are below.
> I'm binding my report to my BusinessObject and everything is going quite
> well with the exception of displaying the graph bitmap within an Image
> ReportItem. I've tried different Source types for the Image properties -
> Database, Embedded, External but none seem to like the Bitmap within a
> property on the Object Data Source.
> I saw a few ways to develop a CustomerReportItem and will head down that
> road but it seems like I'm missing something really simple. Any thoughts
> or helpful tips are welcome.
> Thanx,
> Mike Q
>
> public class MyBusinessObject
> {
> public decimal IndexValue
> {
> get
> {
> some calculations;
> }
> }
> public Bitmap IndexGraph
> {
> get
> {
> Bitmap Result = Bitmap.FromFile("GraphTemplate.bmp");
> Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(Result);
> Pen RedPen = new Pen(Brushes.Red, 5);
> g.DrawLine(RedPen, 40, 0, 40, 50); // These values are calculated based
> on the Index value.
> return Result;
> }
> }
> }

IIF String Contains a value?

I want to create an IIF expression that changes the color of a field based on if a string value contains a 4 or 5 Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Hi,

You can write an iif() expression in the background color property of that field.

The following expression will help:

iif(instr("string5",5) or instr("string4",4),"Gray","White")

You can change the color by choosing what u require from the constants provided else custon color.

Somiya

|||Thanks, but I think I need a little more help. The value I need to look for will be in a string like "3,4,6,8" so I think I need the Like conparison function, but I'm not sure of the syntax

The psudo code is this:

If instrI(String) contains a 4 or instrI(String) contains 5 display in Red else Black

Do you know what the syntax should be for IIF with a like conparison?|||

i think the same expression should work in a way similar to Like.

An iff() expression with Like operator would be in this case:

iif(("3,4,6,8" Like "*4*") or ("3,4,6,8" Like "*5*") ,"Red",Black")

* is for any 4 preceeding and followed with any number of characters

Somiya