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Linked Server in SQL 2005 Query Problem???

I have the following query in M/S SQL Server 2005 Express which runs against a Linked MySQL Server. Nothing fancy just a select query that joins the product order details table with the work order table.

select* from openquery(linked_mysql, 'SELECT PRODUCT_ORDER_DETAILS.PRODUCTID, PRODUCT_ORDER_DETAILS.UNITPRICE, PRODUCT_ORDER_DETAILS.QUANTITY, WORK_ORDERS.* FROM WORK_ORDERS INNER JOIN PRODUCT_ORDER_DETAILS ON WORK_ORDERS.WO_ID = PRODUCT_ORDER_DETAILS.WO_ID')

I get the following error when it executes ...

Msg 0, Level 11, State 0, Line 0
A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded.
Msg 0, Level 20, State 0, Line 0
A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discard

Any help will be appreciated.

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EvilPostIt

Try doing a direct select. When you have a linked server you dont need to use openquery.

SELECT * FROM LinkedServer.Database.Schema.Table

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Eric Sherman

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EvilPostIt ....

I tried this ....

SELECT * FROM linked_mysql.localhost.MyServerName.product_order_details

and got this error ...

Msg 7312, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Invalid use of schema or catalog for OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "linked_mysql". A four-part name was supplied, but the provider does not expose the necessary interfaces to use a catalog or schema.

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

>A four-part name was supplied, but the provider does not expose the necessary interfaces to use a catalog or schema.
as the error indicates, you cannot use the 4-dot-naming with MySQL providers so far.

Eric Sherman

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angelIII

The only field that would be the same between the two tables is the WO_ID but I'm not selecting it from the product_order_details tbl.

I will try your suggestion and select the individual fields from Work_Orders rather than the * to see if this makes a difference.

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EvilPostIt

Sorry havnt played with MySQL providers. I will let you 2 get on with it. :-)

Eric Sherman

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>>>>as the error indicates, you cannot use the 4-dot-naming with MySQL providers so far.<<<<<<

Well, that makes sense .... just a question on this method though ....

Using the 4-dot-naming and say if I was trying to connect to a remote server something like 11.111.111.11

How would you specify the remote server address (replacing the localhost) using the 4-dot-naming as shown below???

SELECT * FROM linked_mysql.localhost.MyServerName.product_order_details

Thanks,

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

you can leave, with some providers, the part empty of what is not needed.
as the "linked_mysql" already specified to which server you connect, you don't need the info (ip address) at all any longer

Eric Sherman

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Ok, that makes sense also ...

Regarding my original question .... When I specify the individual fields seems like the error is generated when I included fields of "LongText" from MySQL.

Any ideas on how to get around this as those are comment fields which will need to be included in the query.

Thanks,

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

LongText sounds like "blob" ... can you cast that or use LEFT() function to get a shorter string?

Eric Sherman

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Yes, that can be done. I used this work around to accomplish what you suggested.

In the MySQL ODBC Data Source there is an option to "Limit column size to signed 32-bit range".

This worked and all seems to be ok.

Thanks for all your help.

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Eric Sherman

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Thanks and you were correct on the blob or longtext fields.

Seems like the M/S Provider is unable to handle data types longer than 32bit.

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