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A colon in the SQL Account password causes a connection to a Commerce Server 2002 resource to fail

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Symptoms

If your connection string for a Microsoft Commerce Server resource contains a colon (":") in the SQL Account password, you may have a failure in the connection. For example, the following connection string contains a colon in the SQL Account password:
Provider=CSOLEDB;Data Source=Servername;Initial Catalog=Retail_commerce;User ID=test;Password=test:pwd;

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Resolution

To resolve this problem, do not use a colon in a SQL Account password for your Commerce Server SQL connection strings.

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More information

When the failure occurs, you receive two system event messages that do not indicate the real problem. The following two messages are written to the event log:

Event Type:�Error
Event Source:�Commerce Server 2002
Event Category:�None
Event ID:�32880
Date:��8/18/2004
Time:��9:25:24 AM
User:��N/A
Computer:�SERVER
Description: In CmdConnect::Parse(), Missing catalog/catalog db name/catalog db server name, Server: SERVER\sql, Database: RETAIL_Commerce, UserID: Test_DBUser


Event Type:�Error
Event Source:�Commerce Server 2002
Event Category:�None
Event ID:�32910
Date:��8/18/2004
Time:��11:42:49 AM
User:��N/A
Computer:�SERVER
Description: Missing one or more of� = delimiters in the query.

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Keywords: KB885545, kbtshoot, kbprb

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Article Info
Article ID : 885545
Revision : 3
Created on : 9/22/2004
Published on : 9/22/2004
Exists online : False
Views : 252