identity

How to get identities of inserted data records using SQL bulk copy

I have an ADO.NET DataTable with about 100,000 records. In this table there is a column xyID which has no values in it, because the column is an auto-generated IDENTITY in my SQL Server database. I need to retrieve the generated IDs for other processes. I am looking for a way to bulk copy this DataTable into the SQL Server database, an...

capturing user identity for an online application

We are designing an online application (college admission form) which mandates the user to upload a scanned copy of his photo along with his signature, so that this information can be used to cross verify the applicant when he appears for a exam + personal interview at a later point in time. This entire process requires a scanner for the...

Autoincrementing hierarchical IDs on SQL Server

Consider this table on SQL Server wordID aliasID value =========================== 0 0 'cat' 1 0 'dog' 2 0 'argh' 2 1 'ugh' WordID is a id of a word which possibly has aliases. AliasID determines a specific alias to a word. So above 'argh' and 'ugh' are aliases...

Compound IDENTITY column in SQL SERVER 2008

An Orders table has a CustomerId column and an OrderId column. For certain reasons it's important that an order's id is no longer than 2-bytes. There will be several million orders in total, which makes 2-bytes not enough for a global order id. A customer will have no more than several thousand orders making 2-bytes enough. The obviou...

Is there a way to make Identity Specification show up in the table designer next to the Allow Nulls column?

I would like to be able to see the Identity Specification (not as worried about seed/increment) and hate having to scroll around on the column properties panel. Is it possible to add a column next to Allow Nulls in the table designer for Identity Specification? Specifically I am concerned with MS SQL Management Studio 2008. ...

NHibernate identity : int or long

Hi, I begin my NHibernate mapping. In major cases I use int type but for some entities I need to persist million of objets. Is long type for identity will be the best choice ? ...

SQL Server and Identity column

Hi, I just noticed that if I have an identity column in a table, when I insert new rows SQL Server 2008 is automatically filling up the sequence if there are discontinuity. I mean, if in my identity column I have 1,2,5,6 if I insert other two rows in the table the system puts automatically 3,7 in the identity column. Do you know how t...

How can I set a Microsoft SQL field as identity but to START with a certain number?

Pretty newbie question. Thanks for helping. ...

Copy data from SQL Server Express keep primary key

I want to copy data from a database to another, but I'd like to keep the primary key from the original database so it won't mess with the relationships. I'm using SQL Server 2008. ...

Google's OpenID identifier is different depending on the "consumer" domain name. How to avoid potential problems if domain name needs to change in the future?

I'm currently testing an OpenID implementation, and I'm noticing that Google sends a different identifier for different consuming host name / domain name, even for the same user. For example, Google sends a different identifier when the requesting site is localhost, compared to the identifier they send when the requesting site is 127.0....

SQL Server 2008 Problem with SCOPE_IDENTITY()

My code does not update the thread field. It is null. Anyone have any ideas? INSERT INTO [Messages]([Sender], [Receiver], [Job_Number], [Subject], [MessageText], [DateSent]) VALUES(@Sender, @Receiver, @Job_Number, @Subject, @MessageText, @DateSent) SET @ThreadID = SCOPE_IDENTITY() UPDATE [Messages] SET Thread = @ThreadID WHERE Messag...

SQL Server identity issue

I have a query like below declare @str_CustomerID int Insert into IMDECONP38.[Customer].dbo.CustomerMaster ( CustomerName , CustomerAddress , CustomerEmail , CustomerPhone ) values ( ‘werw12e’ , ‘jkj12kj’ , ‘3212423sdf’ , ‘1212121′ ) select @str_CustomerID= scope_identity() After execution it returns null in my parameter. I want to ...

Optimisation <xsl:apply-templates/> for a set of tags.

How it is possible to reduce this record? <xsl:template match="BR"> <br/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="B"> <strong><xsl:apply-templates /></strong> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="STRONG"> <strong><xsl:apply-templates /></strong> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="I"> <em><xsl:apply-templates /></em> </...

How can I get identity of a disk?

I want to identify disk in c++ in my windows application. For example: I have a disk on E:\ Then I changed the disk, and replace it with another one. the name is still E:\ How can I know the disk is changed, it is not the original one? If I have no administrator priority in win7, Can I still use some method to identy different disks? ...

Howto programmatically determine ASP.Net worker process account

Hi there My web application is a product which has to deploy to a variety of web servers. Is there a way to determine the account name that the .Net worker process account is using at runtime? Using .Net 3.5, C# Thanks in advance -Pete ...

PHP OOP: Providing Domain Entities with "Identity"

Bit of an abstract problem here. I'm experimenting with the Domain Model pattern, and barring my other tussles with dependencies - I need some advice on generating Identity for use in an Identity Map. In most examples for the Data Mapper pattern I've seen (including the one outlined in this book: http://apress.com/book/view/97815905990...

C# dictionary uniqueness for sibling classes using IEquatable<T>

I would like to store insances of two classes in a dictionary structure and use IEquatable to determine uniqueness of these instances. Both of these classes share an (abstract) base class. Consider the following classes: abstract class Foo { ... } class SubFoo1 : Foo { ... } class SubFoo2 : Foo { ... } The dictionary will b...

Comparing lists of field-hashes with equivalent AR-objects.

I have a list of hashes, as such: incoming_links = [ {:title => 'blah1', :url => "http://blah.com/post/1"}, {:title => 'blah2', :url => "http://blah.com/post/2"}, {:title => 'blah3', :url => "http://blah.com/post/3"}] And an ActiveRecord model which has fields in the database with some matching rows, say: Link.all => [<Link#2 @ti...

Windows Identity framework with windows XP

How can use the Windows Identity Foundation SDK with Windows XP ? ...

Get the identity value from an insert via a .net dataset update call

Here is some sample code that inserts a record into a db table: Dim ds As DataSet = New DataSet() da.Fill(ds, "Shippers") Dim RowDatos As DataRow RowDatos = ds.Tables("Shippers").NewRow RowDatos.Item("CompanyName") = "Serpost Peru" RowDatos.Item("Phone") = "(511) 555-5555" ds.Tables("Shippers").Rows.Add(RowDatos) Dim custCB As SqlComma...