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I have external lists connected to a sql server database. Since the last day, some of the lists do not display data; the lists are empty, only headers are shown. (Some lists still display data, though.) But the database tables contain data. I have changed nothing about connection properties or permissions. Has anyone encountered this problem before?

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Does SQL Server Profiler show the requests being made to the database? Does ULS show any errors? – TZHX Dec 11 '12 at 15:45
And does running the command that the BCS sends give results? – TZHX Dec 11 '12 at 16:11
sql server profiler shows requests in all cases. – AGuyCalledGerald Dec 11 '12 at 16:22
Try refreshing their External Content Types, go through the steps of making External Content Type and data source again... This usually happens when a column is missing from the view/table! – Arsalan Adam Khatri Dec 11 '12 at 17:49

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I had the same issue.

My first try was to create an additional Read List operation without the Wildcard filter.

I set that as default Read List operation, and created a list based on this. That worked, but my picker in for instance External Columns no longer had my wildcard filter.

I then sat my first Read List operation (with the wildcard filter) back to beeing default Read List op. Now they both worked ok.

In the end I found out I could just use default value of % on my wildcard filter. (This is for SQL Server)

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The problem was that I had a wildcard filter in the readlist operation of the external content type. Although it had "ignore filter" checked with null value and default value was "none". I am not sure why this does not work.

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