sql-server-2005

Will this force a reinitialize in Merge Replication Topology?

I need to add a couple of columns to a table that is a part of a replication set. It is not a constraint coulumn or a part of any article filters and it allows NULL. I have a pretty good idea that I can run this --> ALTER TABLE tblPlanDomain ADD ReportWageES VARCHAR (100) NULL and NOT force all my clients to reinitialize but I was hopin...

Get hostname when reading Service Broker Queue (SQL Server 2005)

I am trying to configure auditing on my SQL Server using Service Broker. I did all the configuration needed to capture the DDL Events (queue, routes, endpoints, event notification). It is working properly except that I am not able to get the hostname of the client from where the DDL event originated from. Using the service broker's act...

Insert multiple values using INSERT INTO (SQL Server 2005)

In SQL Server 2005, I'm trying to figure out why I'm not able to insert multiple fields into a table. The following query, which inserts one record, works fine: INSERT INTO [MyDB].[dbo].[MyTable] ([FieldID] ,[Description]) VALUES (1000,N'test') However, the following query, which specifies more t...

Error: A SQLParamenter wtih ParameterName @myparm is not contained by this SQLParameter Collection

Good Morning, I'm working on an ASP.NET 3.5 webforms application and have written the following code: Protected Sub btnSubmit_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSubmit.Click Dim connectionString As String = WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("Diel_inventoryConnectionString").ConnectionStrin...

How to make additional columns on pivot of sql table in SQL Server 2005?

After getting such a great feedback from my last question. Maybe someone can help me with this problem also. I have to rotate a given table from an SQL Server but a normal pivot just doesn't work (as far as i tried). So has anybody an idea how to rotate the table into the desired format? Just to make the problem more complicated, the l...

Asp.Net Random Error

At random times, twice in the past two weeks, the we application will start to error and not work until I recycle the app pool in IIS. The specific error and stacktrace are: System.Web.HttpUnhandledException: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. ---> System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of typ...

Sql Server Backup and move backup file: How to cope with file permissions?

With our product we have a simple backup tool for the sql server database. This tool should just make a full backup and restore to and from any folder. Of course, the user (usually an administrator) needs permission to write to the target folder. To avoid the problem of not being able to perform a backup to a network drive, I write the...

Problem with Full text Searching

I am searching in resumes weather the word is exist or not i am using the below query Case1: select top(10) c_resume_text from sntbl_candidates where contains(c_resume_text,'"a/dm"') in the above example only it is not working properly .It showing resumes even though there is no text like that. In Messages i am getting the followi...

How to execute T-SQL for several databases whose names are stored in a table

Hey guys, so here's the deal. I have several databases (SqlServer 2005) on the same server with the same schema but different data. I have one extra database which has one table storing the names of the mentioned databases. So what I need to do is to iterate over those databases name and actually "switch" to each one (use [dbname]) an...

Put stored procedure result set into a table-- any shortcuts besides INSERT INTO...EXEC?

Hi everyone, I'm creating a temp table that's the result of a stored procedure's result set. Right now I'm using the create table statement, followed by insert into....exec. It gets the job done but I was curious if there are other ways of going about this? I wish it were possible to run a select into, with the stored procedure's res...

Execution time of ALTER COLUMN

Having a table with 60 columns, and 200 rows. Altering a BIT column from NULL to NOT NULL, now has a running execution time of over 3 hours. Why is this taking so long? This is the query that I'm execution: ALTER TABLE tbl ALTER COLUMN col BIT NOT NULL Is there a faster way to do it, besides creating a new column, updating it with va...

Multiple SSRS servers share one DB?

Hello, Can multiple SSRS share the same DB? We're getting into an SSRS customization scenario, which may adversely affect our existing SSRS features, and I wanted to see if it was possible. Thanks. ...

SQLBrowser will not start

SQL Server 2005 x64 on Windows Server 2003 x64, with multiple instances (default + 2 named). Engineers moved server to a different domain. Since then, cannot get SQLBrowser to start. Still able to query the default instance, and can access named instances by port (TCP:hostname,port#). When on server, can use SSMS to connect to the instan...

SQL Server Mapping a user to a login and adding roles programmatically

In my SQL Server 2005 server I create databases and logins using Management Studio. My application requires that I give a newly created user read and write permissions to another database. To do this I right-click the newly created login, select properties and go to User Mapping. I put a check beside the database to map this login to th...

SQL Server: replace sequence of same characters inside Text Field (TSQL only)

I have a text column varchar(4000) with text: 'aaabbaaacbaaaccc' and I need to remove all duplicated chars - so only one from sequence left: 'abacbac' It should not be a function, Procedure or CLR - Regex solution. Only true SQL select. Currently I think about using recursive WITH clause with replace 'aa'->'a', 'bb'->'b', 'cc'->'c...

T SQL Count question

I'm making a report at work which looks at 5 columns which all contain v1aa, v1ab and v1ac. What I want to do is count up all the v1aa in the 5 columns and show the results (and the same for v1ab and v1ac) An example of how I like it to be displayed as is as follows :- Amber = 3 (v1aa code) Blue = 2 (v1ab code) Red = 1 (v1ac code) ...

When recompiling a stored procedure are dependency stored procedures also recompiled?

I have a stored procedure that basically calls 7 or 8 other stored procedures. I'd like know if recompiling the outer stored procedure will cause the 7 or 8 to also be recompiled? ...

doublechecking: no db-wide 'unicode switch' for sql server in the foreseeable future, i.e. like Oracle

Hi all, I believe I know the answer to this question, but wanted to confirm: Question Does Sql server (or will it in the foreseeable future), offer a database-wide "unicode switch" which says "store all characters in unicode (UTF-16, UCS-2, etc)", i.e. like Oracle. The Context Our application has provided "CJK" (Chinese-Japanese-Kor...

SQL Server: Migrate Stored Procedures between Databases, Instances

I just copied my current database to a new database to find out only the tables are copied, How do I copy all stored procs the same way in one go? I do not want to create each stored proc one by one again running create queries Thank you in advance This is in MS SQL ...

SQL Server: Granting db_datawriter on all databases

I want to manage permissions and access to a SQL Server database server on a development machine. I've created a local windows group (called DBReaderGroup) and assigned various people to it. The group was created as a SQL Server login successfully: create login [MYMACHINE\DBReaderGroup] from windows My goal is to grant this group read/...