Dates ... don't you HATE dates in databases / SQL?

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:01:40 +0000

Ok so today I had to move the odd million records into a SQL database. A couple of thousand jumped across happily and then it all went wrong! The error message complained of wrong data types, but my dates seemed perfectly happy and the fact that they came from a date field in another database gave me confidence that that is not the case.

It turns out that SQLServer installs itself with US date systems, which is fine if you live in Yankland, but if you sit on freezing island called the UK then it causes headaches…

So to fix it I ran the following command:

sp_configure 'default language'

Which told me for sure I am configured as a Yank seeing the results came in as zero 0, the code for them Yanks… ok to change this you simlpy run the following:

 sp_configure 'default language', 1
   reconfigure with override

Which  sets you up for the UK. If you need the codes for other countries - Google is your friend!

Hope it helps someone - I know I will probably refer back to this page soon enough!

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BNG / Brittish National Grid projected Data in Google Earth / Bing etc (Web Mercator) using ESRI

Right so I’ve just wasted half a day on the web trying to get some data shifted for use in Google earth using ArcView. Nobody had a clear answer as to why I always had an offset / shift in data. There is a long answer which I won’t go into now, but here’s the solution to get around this:

Save your data in LAT/LONG first!
toolbox > datamanagement > projections and transformations > feature > project > geographic > OSGB1936

Now that it is in Lat Long you can convert to web mercator and apply a transformation. Applying a transformation is REALLY important. I found the petroleum one the be the best! So do the same steps, but project as > Projected > World > Web Mercator (Aux Sphere) and fill in the geographic transformation / choose the petroleum one from the drop down.

Ahooi

Dates ... don't you HATE dates in databases / SQL?

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