Sap r/3 to sql 2000/2005

Hi All,
We are trying to pull transation data from SAP R/3 to sql 2000 server. Should I build DTS by connecting to backend of sap R3 or do I have any way I can load data directly from SAP R3 independent of data base connected to R3.
Regards,
Kranthi

Hi Kranthi,
If you are trying to get the SAP R/3 master and transactional data into SQL server then you have many alternatives:
1. There is Visual Studio that you can use to get the SAP data in. Just follow the steps given at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc185254.aspx
2. You can use Xtract IS tools. They allow you to get data from any SAP table, infocube, SAP query, BAPI, hierarchy or a report. You can get more information at http://www.theobald-software.com/cms/en/xtract-is/xtract-is-bw-cube.html
4. Some BI connectors will be delivered in the SQL feature pack if you want to go that route. For more information, go to http://s3.amazonaws.com/jef.mindtouch.com/1007230/32/0?AWSAccessKeyId=1TDEJCXAPFCDHW56MSG2&Signature=r/U/Af2NFhN89GInha2%2bR2Tiuo4%3d&Expires=1209070349
Regards
Pravin

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I have posted a similar thread previously,sap r/3 to sql 2000/2005, and understood how to transfer data from SAP R/3 to SQL 2005, but I need to transfer data from SAP R/3 to SQL 2000 server, not SQL 2005 server.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Kranthi.

If you want to extract SAP R/3 data to SQL 2000, here are some alternatives:
1. It becomes very easy if by any chance, you are using SAP BW with SAP R/3. You can extract the data into BW using standard or custom extractors and then send it out with open hub. SQL2000 can pick the flat files from a specified location at regular intervals.
2. You can use Business Object extractors. You can get more info at:
http://www.france.businessobjects.com/pdf/products/dataintegration/rapid_marts_sap_infosheet.pdf
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There is a general solution to connect to nearly any kind of modern server application from a remote site by using simple HTTP requests. Suitable HTTP server for most needs would be:
1. Microsoft IIS
2. Java Tomcat or IBM WebSphere
3. SAP WebAS
In most cases, the IIS would probably be the one as it is installed on the Windows 2000 server anyway.
Define an Active Server Page (ASP.NET) and insert the necessary code in your favorite language to extract the data from the SQL server.
Your ASP.NET page would pack the result in the HTTP response object to be returned. In order to call the page from SAP you call the function modules HTTP_POST (using a HTTP POST request) or HTTP_GET (for HTTP GET request) on the standard RFC destination SAPHTTPA. (Pointing to a SAP utility program saphttp that resides in the SAP binary directory of your SAP database server and can be called from the command line in order to test its functionality without RFC).
Regards
Pravin

SAP 2007 A and SQL 2000

I understand that SAP no longer supports SQL Server 2000, but could someone confirm whether I can still still install and run SAP 2007 with a SQL Sevrer 2000 database?

Hi John,
please have a look at the 'Product availability' landing page (Channel Partner Portal -> Solutions -> SAP Business One -> Product Availability):
Apr 17 | Microsoft Has Retired its Mainstream Support for SQL 2000 as of April 8, 2008.
For SAP Business One users still running their installation on SQL 2000, this means no new functionality or Service Packs. Microsoft will continue to provide bug fixes and security fixes on demand only. We therefore recommend that customers upgrade their SQL installation to 2005 as soon as possible. Refer to SAP Note 928839 for additional information.
You will also see in the 'server' section that SQL 2000 is not supported for SAP Business One 2007.
All the best,
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We are shortly to upgrade our test systems to SQL 2005 for Itanium systems.
We propose to use method number II in Note 799058 - "II UPGRADE FROM MS SQL SERVER 2000 to MS SQL SERVER 2005"
The SAP components are all WAS 7.0 with Support Pack Stack 07.
Does anyone in the community have information regarding the run time of the upgrade and/or any problems?
Thanks

Hello Maria,
In reply to your post and your email:
The process to perform the migration you describe is relatively easy. While note 799058 is relevant, you should first have a look at the System Copy Guide, which applies to your system. These guides can be found on SAP Service Marketplace:
Release & Upgrade Info  Installation & Upgrade Guides  SAP NetWeaver  SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s)
Click on Installation, a new window opens. Check section Installation - SAP NetWeaver Systems
You will see links to system copy guides for Service Release1 and Service Release 2, and separate entries for ABAP only systems, Java only systems and double stacks.
For example: the SR2 guide for ABAPJava has the title: System Copy for SAP - Systems Based on SAP - NetWeaver 7.0 SR2 - ABAPJava
Each of this guides has a brief chapter on copying a MSSQL database. Please carefully read the guide and the SAP notes it refers to. The overall procedure for an ABAP only system will look like this:
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2. Prepare your new servers (Windows, SQL2005 installation following the SAP guidance on collation et cetera).
3. Detach the SQL2000 database from your old system, copy the datafiles to the new machine and attach the database to the new SQL2005 server.
4. Follow the system copy guide and run sapinst to install the SAP central instance and configure the database.
Copying the Java stack is a little bit complicated, because you have to create an export of your Java data on your old system first. This is explained in great detail in the system copy guide.
Best regards,
Christian

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Hi,
Microsoft is about to release "SQL 2005" in Nov05. Has anybody in here thought of installing/upgrading SAP on MS-SQL's latest version of the database server. On doing some research on the net I noticed that Microsoft has already upgraded their SAP R/3 environment to the beta edition of SQL Server 2005. I did not find any information on SAP having certified SQL Server 2005 yet.
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Hi Jay,
Past experience says SAP won't support a new platform (e.g. DB, OS, etc) until they have had a chance to test it. Your official SAP document for what is supported is in the Product Availability Matrix. http://service.sap.com/pam
With that said, that doesn't mean that you can't try it out. Of course not in a test environment. You get some very good learning experiences from trying. But don't enter a customer message about a non supported platform.
Good luck,
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B1 and SQL Server 2005 performance with 3.000.000 invoice-lines per year

I would like to know if SAP Business One with SQL Server 2005 could work with the following information:
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What do you think?
Do you know any B1 customer working with that amout of data?

> Hi,
>
> I think a good SQL2005 tuning (done by a good DBA)
> will improve performance. Number of records like that
> shouldn't hurt that kind of DB engine...
Hi,
I'm sure that MSSQL2005 can handle the amount of records & transactions in question. Even MSSQL 2000 can do it. However, any DB engine can be put on its knees with the combination of 2-tier application architecture and badly designed queries. B1 is a case in point. I wouldn't go into such a project without decent preliminary load testing and explicit commitment for support from SAP B1 dev team.
I have heard from implementation projects where B1 simply couldn't handle the amount of data. I've also participated in some presales cases for B1 where we decided not to take a project because we saw that B1 couldn't handle the amount of data (while the other features of B1 would have been more than enough for the customer). The one you're currently looking at seems like one of those.
Henry

Downgrade to sql 2000

Hi,
We are doing a system migration from one hardware platform to another. We do this by installing a new SAP server + SQL server on the new hardware, detaching the data from the source system, attaching on the target system and running STM.
Source system setup is: Win2003, SQL2000, SAP ECC 6.0
Target system setup is: Win2003, SQL2005, SAP ECC 6.0 <-- SQL server 2005 was erroneously chosen by us
Now, the question is: How can we downgrade the target system to SQL 2000? Do we have to re-install the system all over, or is it sufficient to delete SQL 2005 and install SQL 2000?
Has anyone tried this?
Go-live is Friday, so we are in a hurry
Thanks
Thomas

Hi,
Thanks for your interest.
Yes. First of all SQL 2005 is 'wrong' because the source system is on collation "bin" whereas the target system must be on collation "bin2" if it is an SQL server 2005. The source systems cannot have "bin2" installed because it will require downtime in the source system and we can't have that.
We have done a test where we run the target system SQL 2005 with collation "bin" and then attach the database. That works fine, apart from loads of messages coming out of transaction SICK:
DB CHECK Wrong Database collation. Perform SQL2005 after upgrade steps. Please see note 126973
DB CHECK DB CHECK DB CHECK DB CHECK DB CHECK DB CHECK DB CHECK DB CHECK DB CHECK DB CHECK
Severe problems were detected during initial system check.
Please, do not use that system before fixing these problems.
I have checked the mentioned note, and also notes 600027, 62988, 126973, 799058, 924288 and 1291861. None of them seem to fix the problem. So we decided to forget about the SQL server 2005 for the weekend and instead go for a 1:1 correlation between source and target systems, and then plan for a SQL 2005 upgrade later.
What are your thoughts? Can SICK be fixed?

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We are developing a legal management product on SAP platform
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The landscape of the planned development environment has a total of 8 servers. We understand that a separate MS SQL Server 2005 ( Question :- Enterprise / standard / Developer ??? ) edition is required for all the servers Each server will run its own instance. Each server will have 2 Intel Xeon CPUs with quad cores.
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2) Does SAP ECC work on SQL Server 2005 Developer edition ?
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Thanks a ton !

1) Please let us know which edition is best suitable for us for above scenario .
SAP ONLY supports Enterprise edition.
2) Does SAP ECC work on SQL Server 2005 Developer edition?
No SAP willnot work on SQL Server 2005 edition.
3) Can we have one instance of SQL Server be used and multiple databases for dev, qa and prod be created from it.
Yes, technically it is possoble. But not at all recommended by SAP.
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can anyone let me know which table in sql 2000, 2005 and 2008 lists all server level logins in a sql instance? Is it the same view/table per version (i.e. 2000--2008)?
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I get error when connecting to the Database at 88% of the installation.
Please help. Thank you.

I do not think you can install miniSAP 4.6D on MS SQL server 2005 express.
1) you need the up todate patch to run on MSSE. If SAP did the work to allow it to run, it would be patch 55+. As supplied it is patch zero.
2) You can install on MSDE (MS SQL server 2000) patch 4. Look for my post INFO: Installing MiniSAP 4.6D on a named instance of MSDE (MS-SQL).
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Upgrade R/3 4.7 110 from SQL 2000 to ECC 6.0 /SQL 2005

Dear Experts,
We are currently running R/3 4.7 110 with kernel 640 32 Bit Non Unicode on Windows Server 2000/ MS SQL 2000 Platform. We are planning to Upgrade the same to ECC 6.0 on Windows 2003/ SQL 2005 on New x64 Bit Hardware.
I was earlier planning to Upgrade the OS/DB in first Phase moving the same R/3 4.7 on Windows 2003 Server /MS SQL 2005 and then Upgrade it to ECC 6.0 in second phase. But to my surprise when I checked PAM, I found that R/3 4.7 110 is not at all supported on SQL 2005 ( though R/3 4.6 C is)
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Jitendra Tayal

We had the same issue.
So I checked with SAP.
This was their reply.
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Note 905634 - Release planning for Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Note 799058 - Setting Up Microsoft SQL Server 2005
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Database restore from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 for SBO 2005B

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I am facing some problems in regards to the restore of SBO Database from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005.
Let me explain you the problem.
See I am using SAP B1 2005B with patch level 38 in my laptop with SQL 2000. I have made an company in this and done work in it as a production company and now I want to restore this company in the server which has SQL 2005. How to do it.
I have taken a backup in my laptop from SAP B1 Server Suite Manager which has SQL 2000 and sucessfully backed up but when I am trying to restore in the server which has SQL 2005 I am getting the following error in SQL 2005 in server :-
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Hi,
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in the options tab tick overwrite database, and, change the file locations in the restore as directory to the file locations of the new database. the file names must be the same too.
you can change the original file names after the restore.
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thanks,
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HOM: MS SQL Server 2000 - MS SQL Server 2005 [sp sap_use_var_MAX]

Hi guys,
Procedure
Homogeneous System Copy on SQL Server
Source Platform
Windows 2003 Server x86
SQL Server 2000 SP4
SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2
SAP R/3 4.7 x200
SAP Kernel 6.40 Patch 347 x86 (Sep 10 2010)
SAP_BASIS 620 Patch 69
Target Platform
Windows 2008 Server x64
SQL Server 2005 SP3
SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2
SAP R/3 4.7 x200
SAP Kernel 6.40 Patch 347 x64 (Sep 10 2010)
SAP_BASIS 620 Patch 69
Symptom
When running STM (SAP Tools for SQL Server) on the target server I get the following error:
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Further Analysis
I'm able to start the SAP system.
Tx SICK returns the following:
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Troubleshooting
Note 126973 - SICK messages with MS SQL Server
Solution:
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Note 1291861 - SICK message: Wrong long datatypes
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setuser 'dev'
exec sap_use_var_MAX
Msg 2812, Level 16, State 62, Line 2
Could not find stored procedure 'sap_use_var_MAX'.
Request
I'm thinking if any one of you is able to access an SAP system on SQL Server (2005 or other) with the above mentioned stored procedure present you could scipt it to a txt file and post it here in order for me to create it manually on my system.
I've checked several SAP Notes on this subject and none of them explains how to create this store procedure from scratch, they all just assume it's already there and tell you to execute it.
Thank you.
Bruno Pereira

I was able to solve this issue just now the following way:
- A friend of mine scripted it to a file which I then used to create the sap_use_var_MAX on the target database.
Here is a copy of that file:
USE [<SID>]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
create proc [<sid>].[sap_use_var_MAX] as
begin
declare @tabname sysname
declare @colname sysname
declare @datatype sysname
declare @nullflag nvarchar(1)
declare @cmd nvarchar(1024)
declare @n_altered int
declare c cursor for
    select t.TABLE_NAME,c.COLUMN_NAME,c.DATA_TYPE,
              nullflag = substring(c.IS_NULLABLE,1,1)
      from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS c,
           INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES t
      where c.TABLE_NAME = t.TABLE_NAME AND
            c.TABLE_SCHEMA = t.TABLE_SCHEMA AND
            t.TABLE_TYPE like '%TABLE%' AND
            c.TABLE_SCHEMA = schema_name() AND
            c.DATA_TYPE IN ('text','ntext','image')
      order by t.TABLE_NAME,c.COLUMN_NAME
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set @n_altered = 0
fetch next from c into @tabname,@colname,@datatype,@nullflag
while (@@fetch_status <> -1)
begin
    if (@@fetch_status <> -2)
    begin
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                  N'] alter column [' + @colname +
                  N'] '
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      else if @datatype = N'ntext'
        set @cmd = @cmd + N'nvarchar(MAX)'
      else
        set @cmd = @cmd + N'varbinary(MAX)'
      if @nullflag = N'N'
          set @cmd = @cmd + ' NOT NULL'
      else
          set @cmd = @cmd + ' NULL'
      -- print @cmd
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    end
    fetch next from c into @tabname,@colname,@datatype,@nullflag
end
close c
deallocate c
select convert(varchar,@n_altered) + N' columns were altered'
end -- sap_use_var_MAX
Mind you, you'll have to change <SID> and <sid> acoordingly, considering also if your db is dbo schema or sid schema owned!
Thank you for your help nonetheless!
Bruno Pereira

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I have an installation of SAP4.7SR1 /MSSQL2000 on a windows 2003 server.
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Antonio Voce.

Hi,
yes it is possible to install SQL2000 and SQL2005 on same server but there are certain special considerations that you should be aware of
look at following blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlblog/archive/2006/09/27/co-existence-of-sql-2005-with-sql-2000.aspx
also look http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143694.aspx
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I have a scenario in which we are going to upgrade SQL server 2000 to SQL server 2005 in SAP an environment.
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