Change Data Souce

How to change shared data source in dinamic mode by parameters?
If you have a sample, please send me a link.
Thanks.
Helder Flores
Sinatecno TIYou can not change the data source in SQL 2k... however you can use linked
servers, etc and create the query on the fly, which gives you the ability to
dynamically change from one server to the next ie in the data set
if @.reportparamtype=1
select * from dbo.table1
else
select * from mylinkedserver.pubs.dbo.table1
Wayne Snyder MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
Mariner, Charlotte, NC
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"Helder Flores" <helderflores@.discussoes.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How to change shared data source in dinamic mode by parameters?
> If you have a sample, please send me a link.
> Thanks.
> Helder Flores
> Sinatecno TI
>|||It's a good way to solve this problem. Thanks Wayne.
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Helder Flores
CEO - Sinatecno TI
"Wayne Snyder" wrote:
> You can not change the data source in SQL 2k... however you can use linked
> servers, etc and create the query on the fly, which gives you the ability to
> dynamically change from one server to the next ie in the data set
> if @.reportparamtype=1
> select * from dbo.table1
> else
> select * from mylinkedserver.pubs.dbo.table1
>
> --
> Wayne Snyder MCDBA, SQL Server MVP
> Mariner, Charlotte, NC
> (Please respond only to the newsgroup.)
> I support the Professional Association for SQL Server ( PASS) and it's
> community of SQL Professionals.
> "Helder Flores" <helderflores@.discussoes.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1F5F4C61-F3FE-4D6F-88CC-6D676EA9B8E6@.microsoft.com...
> > How to change shared data source in dinamic mode by parameters?
> > If you have a sample, please send me a link.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Helder Flores
> > Sinatecno TI
> >
>
>

CDOSYS email body truncated

I have written a stored procedure, based on the sample code to send email.
Only problem is that the message body is truncated to 255 characters. Any
ideas? Thanks!
The procedure is listed below. [It has an extra sp_OAGetProperty statement
to retrieve and print the message body after it it set. When I run it, the
email is sent but the body is truncated (the 2 print statements show the
before and after).]
Is this an environment problem? Or am I doing something really stupid?
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[Send_CDOSYSMail]
@.from varchar(100),
@.to varchar(100),
@.cc varchar(100) = null,
@.bcc varchar(100) = null,
@.subject varchar(100),
@.body varchar(4000),
@.html char(1) = 'N'
/ ****************************************
*****************************
This stored procedure takes the parameters and sends an e-mail.
All the mail configurations are hard-coded in the stored procedure.
Comments are added to the stored procedure where necessary.
References to the CDOSYS objects are at the following MSDN Web site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...s_messaging.asp
****************************************
*******************************/
AS
declare @.iMsg int
declare @.hr int
declare @.source varchar(255)
declare @.description varchar(500)
declare @.output varchar(1000)
-- Tidy up the parameters
set @.from = ltrim(rtrim(@.from))
set @.to = ltrim(rtrim(@.to))
set @.cc = ltrim(rtrim(@.cc))
set @.bcc = ltrim(rtrim(@.bcc))
set @.subject = ltrim(rtrim(@.subject))
set @.body = ltrim(rtrim(@.body))
-- Create the CDO.Message Object
exec @.hr = sp_OACreate 'CDO.Message', @.iMsg OUT
-- Configure the Message Object
-- ... configure a remote SMTP server
--
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...n_sendusing.asp
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg,
'Configuration.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendus
ing").Value','2'
-- ... configure the Server Name or IP address
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg,
'Configuration.fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpse
rver").Value', '<mysmtpservername>'
-- Save the configurations to the message object.
exec @.hr = sp_OAMethod @.iMsg, 'Configuration.Fields.Update', null
-- Set the e-mail parameters.
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg, 'To', @.to
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg, 'From', @.from
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg, 'Cc', @.cc
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg, 'Bcc', @.bcc
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg, 'Subject', @.subject
-- Send the email
if @.html = 'Y'
begin
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg, 'HTMLBody', @.body
end
else
begin
exec @.hr = sp_OASetProperty @.iMsg, 'TextBody', @.body
end
print @.body
declare @.xbody varchar(8000)
exec @.hr = sp_OAGetProperty @.iMsg, 'TextBody', @.xbody OUT
print isnull(@.xbody,'?')
IF @.hr <> 0
BEGIN
exec @.hr = sp_OAGetErrorInfo NULL, @.source OUT, @.description OUT
IF @.hr = 0
BEGIN
SELECT @.output = ' Source: ' + @.source
PRINT @.output
SELECT @.output = ' Description: ' + @.description
PRINT @.output
END
ELSE
BEGIN
PRINT ' sp_OAGetErrorInfo failed.'
RETURN
END
END
exec @.hr = sp_OAMethod @.iMsg, 'Send', NULL
-- error handling
IF @.hr <> 0
BEGIN
exec @.hr = sp_OAGetErrorInfo NULL, @.source OUT, @.description OUT
IF @.hr = 0
BEGIN
SELECT @.output = ' Source: ' + @.source
PRINT @.output
SELECT @.output = ' Description: ' + @.description
PRINT @.output
END
ELSE
BEGIN
PRINT ' sp_OAGetErrorInfo failed.'
RETURN
END
END
-- Clean up the objects created.
exec @.hr = sp_OADestroy @.iMsg
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GOHello,
Based on my test, the email body is printed twice and the results are
correctly. Can you print the email body correctly?
For your reference, XPSMTP provides a SMTP based SQL Mail solution for
sending MIME based email over
SMTP, implemented as an Extended Stored Procedure.
XPSMTP.DLL - SQL Server SMTP Mail XP
http://www.sqldev.net/xp/xpsmtp.htm
I hope the information is helpful.
Sophie Guo
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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No ... as I said before it is truncated to 255 characters (in the email that
is sent and in the result returned from sp_OAGetProperty).

> For your reference, XPSMTP provides a SMTP based SQL Mail solution for
> sending MIME based email over SMTP, implemented as an Extended Stored
> Procedure.
> XPSMTP.DLL - SQL Server SMTP Mail XP
> http://www.sqldev.net/xp/xpsmtp.htm
Thanks, I will have to use that if there is no obvious reason for what's
going wrong.|||Cracked it, after some googling. I'd forgotten I was using SQL Server 7
(it's an ancient system I'm trying to support!) ... Apparently, there is a
limitation in SQL 7 that truncates all strings passed to COM objects to 255
characters. As a result, the datatypes of the parameters are limited to 255
characters, since only the first 255 characters will be passed to the CDOSYS
COM object. (It's a limitation of the sp_OA... methods.) This is no good fo
r
the body, so the work around is to use a TEXT field for this. Don't know
what the upper limit is, but it seems to work and certainly goes beyond the
255 character limit.|||Hello,
I don't know you are using SQL server 7 and I tested the issue on SQL
server 2000. I found the following articles address the issue:
278448 BUG: sp_OASetProperty Truncates Varchar Types to 255 Characters
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=278448
324146 FIX: SQL Server 7.0 sp_OASetProperty Method Does Not Accept More Than
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=324146
The following information in the BOL is for your reference:
text
Variable-length non-Unicode data in the code page of the server and with a
maximum length of 231-1 (2,147,483,647) characters. When the server code
page uses double-byte characters, the storage is still 2,147,483,647 bytes.
Depending on the character string, the storage size may be less than
2,147,483,647 bytes.
I hope the information is helpful.
Sophie Guo
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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