newbie - empty result set for all queries?

I am a newbie and have installed SQL Server myself on my home machine,
where I'm having problems.  When I run the Query Analyzer, I get an
empty result set for all queries, with the message, "The command(s)
completed successfully."  So, for instance, if I were to go to
Northwind and type "SELECT * from Employees", which we KNOW isn't
empty, all I see is "The command(s) completed successfully."  How do I
get query results?

I thought maybe the problem was permissions.  I'm logged into my local
server, which is the computer on which I'm running.  The owner is just
"ZIPPY/Owner", ZIPPY being my machine name; since I'm the only one who
uses the computer, I don't even log in, I just take the default "Owner"
account.  I start up the SQL analyzer with Windows credentials.

Anyone have a clue what I'm doing wrong?

shelah (shelah2@verizon.net)  writes:
> I am a newbie and have installed SQL Server myself on my home machine,
> where I'm having problems.  When I run the Query Analyzer, I get an
> empty result set for all queries, with the message, "The command(s)
> completed successfully."  So, for instance, if I were to go to
> Northwind and type "SELECT * from Employees", which we KNOW isn't
> empty, all I see is "The command(s) completed successfully."  How do I
> get query results?

You are not even getting an empty result set. Apparently you are in some
sort of noexec mode where the query is sent to SQL Server for validation
only.

There are a couple of ways to get this behaviour. First make sure that
you press the green arrow to run the query. The blue tick is for validation
only.

If the problem is not that simple, check Tools->Options->Connection
properties. If any of SET NOEXEC ON or SET PARSEONLY ON are checked,
uncheck them.

If this does not help, send these commands to SQL Server:

SET PARSEONLY OFF
SET NOEXEC OFF
SET FMTONLY OFF

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp

Thank you, that was an enormous help.  You were right; I was clicking
the check and not the green arrow.  A great relief to know that I have a
usable database and don't have to do some wierd chown gyrations.


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thanks it was a great help even to me
Erland Sommarskog  wrote:
> shelah (shelah2@verizon.net) writes: 
>
> You are not even getting an empty result set. Apparently you are in some
> sort of noexec mode where the query is sent to SQL Server for validation
> only.
>
> There are a couple of ways to get this behaviour. First make sure that
> you press the green arrow to run the query. The blue tick is for validatio
n
> only.
>
> If the problem is not that simple, check Tools->Options->Connection
> properties. If any of SET NOEXEC ON or SET PARSEONLY ON are checked,
> uncheck them.
>
> If this does not help, send these commands to SQL Server:
>
> SET PARSEONLY OFF
> SET NOEXEC OFF
> SET FMTONLY OFF
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>
> Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp

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