sql-server-2005

[Sql-Server]what data type to use for password salt and hash values and what length?

I am generating salt and hash values from my passwords by using, string salt = CreateSalt(TxtPassword.Text.Length); string hash = CreatePasswordHash(TxtPassword.Text, salt); private static string CreateSalt(int size) { //Generate a cryptographic random number. RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider(); b...

How many Stored Procedures created everyday ( problem in converting Datetime )?

I make a query that return to me the count of Stored Procedure that created everyday as follow SELECT convert(varchar, crdate, 103) as Date,Count(*) as Counter FROM sysobjects WHERE (xtype = 'p') AND (name NOT LIKE 'dt%') Group by convert(varchar, crdate, 103) and its already work but dates appear in string format that i can't...

Problem with user logins after db Restore

I have two SQL 2005 instances that reside on different networks. I need to backup a database from instance A and restore it to a database in instance B on a weekly basis so that both databases hold the same data. After the restore, logins SIDS on database B are changed and therefore users can't log into database B and connection strings...

Saving data to a text file and loading it into a datagrid in C#

I need to Pass some data to a text file and save that text file in a SQL Server 2005 database. Then I'll need to be able to load that textfile into a C# WinForms DataGrid. How do I do that in C#? ...

What's the steps for SQL optimization and changes without reflect live system ?

we have a big portal that build using SharePoint 2007 , asp.net 3.5 , SQL Server 2005 .. many developers work in it since 01/2008 and we are now doing huge analysis for current SQL Databases [not share-point DB ] to optimize and enhance it. The main db have about 330 table and 1720 stored procedure (SP) created from 01/2008 till now Ma...

select last row of table

How to select last row of table in SQL SERVER 2005 ...

Authentication in SQL server

Which authentication sql server is more secure windows or sqlserver authentication? Why? ...

T-SQL query with date range

Hi, I have a fairly weird 'bug' with a simple query, and I vaguely remember reading the reason for it somewhere a long time ago but would love someone to refresh my memory. The table is a basic ID, Datetime table. The query is: select ID, Datetime from Table where Datetime <= '2010-03-31 23:59:59' The problem is that the query resu...

Software loading error problem

VB6 & SQL Server 2005 When i run the Windows based Software exe file, it is showing the login page, after login page - no screen is displaying, I checked the task manager, in task manager it is showing as software as running, But there is no page is appearing. Is any firewall blocking or some other issue. But software is running wi...

SQL server 2005 :Updating one record from 2 identical records

I have 2 records in a table in SQL Server 2005 db which has exactly same data. I want to update one record.Is there anyway to do it?Unfortunately this table does not have an identity column and i cant use a direct update query because both will be updated since data is same.Is there anyway using rowid or something in SQL server 2005 ? ...

Passing delimited string to stored procedure to search database

How can i pass a string delimited by space or comma to stored procedure and filter result? I'm trying to do something like - Parameter Value -------------------------- @keywords key1 key2 key3 Then is stored procedure i want to first find all records with first or last name like key1 filter step 1 with first or last name...

SQL: without a cursor, how to select records making a unique integer id (identity like) for dups?

If you have the select statement below where the PK is the primary key: select distinct dbo.DateAsInt( dateEntered) * 100 as PK, recordDescription as Data from MyTable and the output is something like this (the first numbers are spaced for clarity): PK Data 2010 01 01 00 New Years Day 2010 0...

Storing XML in SQL 2005 XMLNS issue

I'm trying to store XML in SQL 2005. I have a very simple table with an Id and a XML column. When the XML contains the attribute xmlns my searching doesn't work. This is my XML; insert into XMLTest (ItemXML) values ( '<MessageType> <ItemId id="ABC" xmlns="ss" /> <Subject>sub</Subject> </MessageType> ') And this is my Query...

return only the last select results from stored procedure

The requirement says: stored procedure meant to search data, based on 5 identifiers. If there is an exact match return ONLY the exact match, if not but there is an exact match on the not null parameters return ONLY these results, otherwise return any match on any 4 not null parameters... and so on My (simplified) code looks like: crea...

Use SQL to clone data in two tables that have a 1-1 relationship with each other

Using MS SQL 2005, Table 1 ID | T1Value | T2ID | GroupID ---------------------------------- 1 | a | 10 | 1 2 | b | 11 | 1 3 | c | 12 | 1 4 | a | 22 | 2 Table 2 ID | T2Value ---------------- 10 | H 11 | J 12 | K 22 | H I want to clone the dat...

Tell SQL Server the error is "handled" in try...catch

I'd like to indicate to SQL Server 2005, in my BEGIN CATCH...END CATCH block that the error is "handled"... That is, clear the error. Is that possible? Consider this: begin transaction begin try begin transaction select cast('X' as bit) commit transaction end try begin catch rollback transaction select...

Full text index requires dropping and recreating - why?

Hi all, So I've got a web app running on .net 3.5 connected to a SQL 2005 box. We do scheduled releases every 2 weeks. About 14 tables out of 250 are full text indexed. After not every release, but a few too many, the indexes crap out. They seem to have data in there, but when we try to search them from the front end or SQL enterpris...

Would this rollback/stop all records from inserting?

Hi I been going through this tutorial http://www.codeproject.com/KB/linq/BulkOperations_LinqToSQL.aspx and them make a SP like this CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[spTEST_InsertXMLTEST_TEST](@UpdatedProdData nText) AS DECLARE @hDoc int exec sp_xml_preparedocument @hDoc OUTPUT,@UpdatedProdData INSERT INTO TBL_TEST_TEST(NAME) SELECT...

Where can I get a machine readable representation of world currencies and their symbols?

I'm using ASP.Net and would like to display currencies based on a country. I've had a look at http://www.xe.com/symbols.ph, http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php and http://www.iso.org/iso/support/faqs/faqs_widely_used_standards/widely_used_standards_other/currency_codes/currency_codes_list-1.htm Is there anywhere I can get something that I ca...

Optimising a query for Top 5% of users

On my website, there exists a group of 'power users' who are fantastic and adding lots of content on to my site. However, their prolific activities has led to their profile pages slowing down a lot. For 95% of the other users, the SPROC that is returning the data is very quick. It's only for these group of power users, the very same SP...