Comments on: SQL SERVER – Install Samples Database Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012

By: pavan

pavan — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:18:36 +0000

I have created a cube in SSSAS. And Now I want to create reporrt using that cube.
In report I have to create cascading parameters (Example: I have two parameter country and city.
So If I select country then their respective Citys should come in City parameter )

So any one of you could you please let me know that How Can I create cacscading parameter?

Should I create some hierarchy in SSAS?
Or I have to do something at report level ??

By: Mukul

Mukul — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:45:42 +0000

Thanks Tresor..It worked!!
:)

By: Napo

Napo — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:52:27 +0000

Make sure that if u running SQL Server Service under NT Service\MSSQLSERVER, that same user has access to the folder where your .mdf files are.

By: Amir

Amir — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:28:58 +0000

Thanks a lot!!!!

By: BOND

BOND — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 23:21:11 +0000

i down loaded the adventureworks 2012 for sql 2012 FROM your link but humanresources.employee table is not giving me the the table with employeeid, managerid and so on. instead it gives me businessEntityID, MARITAL STATUS, GENDER, BIRTHDATE, HIREDATE etc etc… i don’t know if i downloaded something wrong.

By: lokesh

lokesh — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:23:56 +0000

Thanks alot Tresor.. you saved my day..

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:10:22 +0000

Thank you very much for this extremely helpful post! I encountered only 2 issues which I quickly figured out. The first was the script failed the first time I ran it because it said I did not have permissions; so I had to go to the data file I downloaded, right click on it, go to Properties>Permissions and give myself Full Control. I then re-ran script and got the desired results that matched what you show. Second, maybe just because I was tired, I didn’t see the AdventureWorks database automatically appear in my SQL Management Studio window as you show – then realized I had not connected to it. Once I did, and selected the database, all was good. These might be trivial for experienced SQL users, but wanted to pass along for any other amateurs like me :) Thanks again – great job and VERY helpful!!!

By: laranto

laranto — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:51:33 +0000

Thank you very much for you instruction :)

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:30:57 +0000

[...] Install Samples Database Adventure Works for SQL Server 2012 Though, looks very simple but it is not that easy for everyone to install SQL Server Sample Database AdventureWorks. In this blog post, I explain with the script how one can do this efficiently as well have attached a video along with it. This video is the second most viewed video of the whole series. [...]

By: Bayprince

Bayprince — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:10:18 +0000

I’m getting an incorrect syntax error on ‘FOR ATTACH_REBUILD_LOG’;
It states it’s expecting an ‘ID’. What ID ?

Help! I’m a REAL novice at this.

By: Sherif Shousha

Sherif Shousha — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:41:49 +0000

Just add full permission to your domain account on the directory where the MDF file exists

By: Shan

Shan — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:29:19 +0000

Hi Pinal Dave,
You are rocking… Ur blogs help me to resolve so many work place issues. Great. I have a query regarding Adventure works project. Does it comes with UI ? I mean front end as well ? I need a sample application which uses MS SQL to understand. Any pointers to this is really appreciated.

Thanks again for great blogs :)

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:04:48 +0000

Make sure you have all needed permission or the file actually exist

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 06:50:36 +0000

I copied file path of exact location of .mdf folder, Operating System error 2?
Can you please explain.

Thanks
Chalrotte

Msg 5120, Level 16, State 101, Line 1
Unable to open the physical file “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\SQLDATA\AdventureWorks2012_Data.mdf”. Operating system error 2: “2(The system cannot find the file specified.)”.

By: HydTechie (@HydTechie)

HydTechie (@HydTechie) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:25:58 +0000

I am also getting this error[Msg 5120, Level 16, State 101, Line 1
Unable to open the physical file “c:\AdventureWorks2012_Data.mdf”. Operating system error 2: “2(The system cannot find the file specified.)”.], can somebody help us out here??

1. made sure admin and logon user has full control on directory, Tried from custom folder and also from C:\ SQL path
2. Try to attach through IDE, same error..

thanks in advance,
HydTechie

By: lesacbanane

lesacbanane — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:24:53 +0000

What a great post, thanks Pinal

By: J.M.-Schubert

J.M.-Schubert — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:00:16 +0000

Now you have help me again,again and again on so many questions about SQL-Server. Now and here a gread THANKS!!!!!! for your work. J.M.-S.

By: SQL SERVER – Restoring 2012 Database to 2008 or 2005 Version and 2 other Most Asked Questions « SQL Server Journey with SQL Authority

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:31:05 +0000

[...] Q 1: What is AdventureWorks and where can I get it? A 1: AdventureWorks is sample database build by Microsoft for running sample/demonstration queries for the user. You can get that from CodePlex. I have written an article about this subject earlier and have created video as well. [...]

By: SHanthi

SHanthi — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:20:35 +0000

Msg 1813, Level 16, State 2, Line 2
Could not open new database ‘MyAdventureWorks’. CREATE DATABASE is aborted.
Msg 948, Level 20, State 1, Line 2
The database ‘MyAdventureWorks’ cannot be opened because it is version 661. This server supports version 655 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported.

By: Khan

Khan — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:50:02 +0000

this isn’t working…help

while (dataReader.Read())
{
int departmentId = dataReader.GetInt32(0);
string Name = dataReader.GetString(1);
string GroupName = dataReader.GetString(2);
Console.WriteLine(
“DepartmentID: {0}\nID: {1}\n{2}\n”, Name, GroupName);
}

By: Stone

Stone — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 04:22:09 +0000

Nice post.It works well.thanks.

By: nimesh

nimesh — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:13:03 +0000

Worked for me. Excellent. I ran SSMS aas administrator.

By: Rami El-Chafei (@rchafei)

Rami El-Chafei (@rchafei) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:58:35 +0000

running the SQL management console as “administrator’ fixed the Operating system error 5: “5(Access is denied.)” issue .. Thank you all

By: sawsan

sawsan — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:35:12 +0000

Msg 5120, Level 16, State 101, Line 1
Unable to open the physical file “c:\AdventureWorks2012_Data.mdf”. Operating system error 2: “2(The system cannot find the file specified.)”.

I have this Error the file in c

By: Apr

Apr — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:05:54 +0000

This helped too…

Thanks