Exporting Primary Keys Into Access

Hi There

I have an SQL database which I need to export into Access, I know how to this however the Primary Key's does not transfer over and more importantly once exported I cannot set the primary key to auto number as their is already information in the table.

I know I can just set up the table, with a primary key set to an autonumber and import the other fields but as the primary key's are foreign keys in other tables I need the rows in the access table to have the same ID number as in the SQL database.

Hope the above makes sense to someone and any help would be greatly appreciated.you should be able to import key values into an access autonumber column with no problem

i've tested it sucessfully, and it works

what error did you get?|||Thanks for the feedback, it works fine now. I was advised wrongly elsewhere that it couldn't be done.

Very simple in the end!|||you gotta be careful with stuff you find on the internet, eh

Exporting Binary Data from MSSQL to MySQL

I have a MSSQL table with Primary Keys, Company_Id, set as a binary
value. I used the dts Transform Data Task and to create a new table in
MySQL.
The default create code comes up with:
CREATE TABLE `New Table` (
`Web_Edited` tinyint unsigned NULL,
`Company_Id` date NOT NULL,
`Rn_Descriptor` varchar (80) NULL, ...
Why is the Company_Id set to date and not varbinary?
Secondly, if I change the create statement
...`Company_Id` date NOT NULL, ...
to
... `Company_Id` varbinary(8) NOT NULL, ...
then on the Transform Data Task's Destination Tab, the Company_Id is
displayed as longtext. And then I specify that the Company Id column
is the only column I wanted in the transformation, and executed the
trasformation.
I get an error stating this:
The number of failing rows exceeds the maximum specified.
TransformCopy 'DTSTransformation__1' conversion error: General
conversion failure on column pair 1(source column 'Company_Id'
(DBTYPE_BYTES), destination column 'Company_Id' (DBTYPE_STR))
But I already specified the Company_Id column as a binary, and I even
checked the mysql table's strucutre and it was also set to varbinary(8)
Please help.Hi
I don't know much about MYSQL, but this may be a driver issue, are you using
ODBC? If mysql can import text files you may want to try using BCP and then
importing from MYSQL.
John
"datenisis@.gmail.com" wrote:

> I have a MSSQL table with Primary Keys, Company_Id, set as a binary
> value. I used the dts Transform Data Task and to create a new table in
> MySQL.
> The default create code comes up with:
> CREATE TABLE `New Table` (
> `Web_Edited` tinyint unsigned NULL,
> `Company_Id` date NOT NULL,
> `Rn_Descriptor` varchar (80) NULL, ...
> Why is the Company_Id set to date and not varbinary?
> Secondly, if I change the create statement
> ...`Company_Id` date NOT NULL, ...
> to
> ... `Company_Id` varbinary(8) NOT NULL, ...
> then on the Transform Data Task's Destination Tab, the Company_Id is
> displayed as longtext. And then I specify that the Company Id column
> is the only column I wanted in the transformation, and executed the
> trasformation.
> I get an error stating this:
> The number of failing rows exceeds the maximum specified.
> TransformCopy 'DTSTransformation__1' conversion error: General
> conversion failure on column pair 1(source column 'Company_Id'
> (DBTYPE_BYTES), destination column 'Company_Id' (DBTYPE_STR))
> But I already specified the Company_Id column as a binary, and I even
> checked the mysql table's strucutre and it was also set to varbinary(8)
> Please help.
>sql

Exporting Binary Data from MSSQL to MySQL

I have a MSSQL table with Primary Keys, Company_Id, set as a binary
value. I used the dts Transform Data Task and to create a new table in
MySQL.
The default create code comes up with:
CREATE TABLE `New Table` (
`Web_Edited` tinyint unsigned NULL,
`Company_Id` date NOT NULL,
`Rn_Descriptor` varchar (80) NULL, ...
Why is the Company_Id set to date and not varbinary?
Secondly, if I change the create statement
...`Company_Id` date NOT NULL, ...
to
... `Company_Id` varbinary(8) NOT NULL, ...
then on the Transform Data Task's Destination Tab, the Company_Id is
displayed as longtext. And then I specify that the Company Id column
is the only column I wanted in the transformation, and executed the
trasformation.
I get an error stating this:
The number of failing rows exceeds the maximum specified.
TransformCopy 'DTSTransformation__1' conversion error: General
conversion failure on column pair 1(source column 'Company_Id'
(DBTYPE_BYTES), destination column 'Company_Id' (DBTYPE_STR))
But I already specified the Company_Id column as a binary, and I even
checked the MySQL table's strucutre and it was also set to varbinary(8)
Please help.Hi
I don't know much about MYSQL, but this may be a driver issue, are you using
ODBC? If MYSQL can import text files you may want to try using BCP and then
importing from MYSQL.
John
"datenisis@.gmail.com" wrote:
> I have a MSSQL table with Primary Keys, Company_Id, set as a binary
> value. I used the dts Transform Data Task and to create a new table in
> MySQL.
> The default create code comes up with:
> CREATE TABLE `New Table` (
> `Web_Edited` tinyint unsigned NULL,
> `Company_Id` date NOT NULL,
> `Rn_Descriptor` varchar (80) NULL, ...
> Why is the Company_Id set to date and not varbinary?
> Secondly, if I change the create statement
> ...`Company_Id` date NOT NULL, ...
> to
> ... `Company_Id` varbinary(8) NOT NULL, ...
> then on the Transform Data Task's Destination Tab, the Company_Id is
> displayed as longtext. And then I specify that the Company Id column
> is the only column I wanted in the transformation, and executed the
> trasformation.
> I get an error stating this:
> The number of failing rows exceeds the maximum specified.
> TransformCopy 'DTSTransformation__1' conversion error: General
> conversion failure on column pair 1(source column 'Company_Id'
> (DBTYPE_BYTES), destination column 'Company_Id' (DBTYPE_STR))
> But I already specified the Company_Id column as a binary, and I even
> checked the MySQL table's strucutre and it was also set to varbinary(8)
> Please help.
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