sql-server-2005

Entity Framework deadlock problem

I'm having a strange problem with new Entity Framework for .NET 4 I have a SQL Server 2005 (EXPRESS) database and my service writes data to two tables using entity framework. Let's say tables are TableA and TableB. TableB has foreign key to TableA. In my program there are several threads that writes data in parallel. Each thread has its...

Excel Vs XML on Data Upload

I'm trying to upload Excel (2003) file into Sql server 2005. At present we are using SSIS to upload the file into a Temporary table (with defined schema) and then moving the data to their intended location using Stored procedure. This gives lots of errors due to datatype mismatch and sometimes null values are uploaded into table even t...

How to create only one backup file for a SQL Server database

I've created a Back Up Database Task for a few selected databases in my server. What I want to do is to have only one backup file for any database. The new one could overwrite the old one or create a new one and delete the old one, doesn't matter. I've checked Backup set will expire: 2 days but but evidently this doesn't do what I though...

SQL Server View Primary Key

Is there a way to give a view a primary key in sql server. I know it is possible in oracle. I am not concerned about updates its a read only view but someone else is using it in ms access so I would like the constraint that I know to be correct to be shown. ...

Altering the column in sql server

Hi I am using SQL Server 2005. When I try to set the primary key constraint for a column in the alter statement. it committed error. i used this following query, alter table "table name" modify(field__name integer(size) primary key); can u say what the error actually.. expect ur valuable answer.. if u know other methods send me the q...

Execute SQL Server scripts

How can I automate process of running all SQL scripts from given folder ? ...

SQL conditionally return history.

I have a table that has notes in it. It has a bunch of notes that automatically do different thing according to what someone does in the system. When an order is assined it makes a note that says "Order was assigned to 'name'" When an order is re-assigned it makes a note that says "Order was re-assigned to 'name'" When an order is ass...

Insert into Table select result set from stored procedure but column count is not same.

I need something like that which is of course not working. insert into Table1 ( Id, Value ) select Id, value from ( exec MySPReturning10Columns ) I wanted to populate Table1 from result set returned by MySPReturning10Columns. Here the SP is returning 10 columns and the table has just 2 columns. The following way works as long...

Sql server 2005 seems to take forever with certain standard where clauses

Here's my table schema [dbo].[Action_History]( [ActionID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [objectID] [int] NOT NULL, [object_mask] [varchar](max) NULL, [description] [varchar](max) NOT NULL, [action_by] [nchar](7) NOT NULL, [action_date] [datetime] NOT NULL, [response_required] [bit] NOT NULL, [responded_da...

T-Sql query to clean up varchar column

I have a varchar column in one of my tables with data like: 1234abc 1234abcde456757 1234abc Supervisor 1234abc456 Administrator I want to "clean it" by removing any letters and numbers immediately following them so for the above examples I want to have: 1234 1234 1234 Supervisor 1234 Administrator In another word, I want to keep th...

how to SQL SELECT & loop through each row of results with code?

I'm trying in c# to simply pull a set of rows from a SQL DB and run through each row I get a result with some code that will email me one time for each row returned. the below code should work as far as I can tell and returns no errors, I'm stumped. You can assume that the "ConnectionString" is valid and used in plenty of places on the ...

sql 2005 mirroring alerts history

Hi, We have mirroring set up between 2 SQL Server 2005 standard editions. There are also mirroring alerts set up as follows: DB Mirroring (Connection with Mirror Lost) DB Mirroring (Connection with Principal Lost) DB Mirroring (Principal Running Exposed) DB Mirroring (Synchronizing Mirror) DB Mirroring (Synchronizing Principal) Mir...

.NET, C#, SQL Server: Invalid object name with CREATE TABLE statement

I am trying to execute a CREATE TABLE which results in the following SQL exception: Invalid object name 'UserLock'. The statement looks like this: USE [db] GO CREATE TABLE [db].[dbo].[UserLock] ( [Login] [varchar](150) NOT NULL, [ExpirationDate] [datetime] NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_UserLock] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (...

How to populate dataset using sqlDataReader while storeproc returns multiple table

Hi all, I am executing a storeproc in asynchronous mode from codebehind using sqlcommands BeginExecuteNonQuery or BeginExecuteReader method . The storeproc returns multiple table as there are more than 1 Select statement. I want to get those tables in a DataSet. Is it possible? Please help. Thanks. ...

pivoting for two columns

HI, Using SQL server 2005 I have the following query: SELECT contact_id ,YEAR(date_created) AS giftyear ,SUM(amount_exc_vat) AS year_total_xGA ,SUM(amount_inc_vat) AS year_total_inGA ,COUNT(*) AS numGifts FROM gifts GROUP BY contact_id ,Year(date_created) Which returns data that looks like this: contac...

Operand type clash: int is incompatible with uniqueidentifier

I am getting an SQLException "Operand type clash: int is incompatible with uniqueidentifier" when I am trying to execute the below stored procedure from C# code. create proc sp_Get_Allfields_Account_Public @username varchar(20), @password varchar(20), @acc_num UniqueIdentifier out, @cust_name varchar(20) out, @balance float out as selec...

NVARCHAR(MAX) & Stored Procedures

Hi, I can't find an answer to this so if anyone knows of one please point me in the right direction. A friend has created a few tables for me and used nvarchar(max) on around 4 of the columns in the table. Inserts and Updates are handled using stored procedures. Am I right to worry that the executes of the stored procedures will error...

Stupid Question: MSSQL Management Studio 2008 - Database Diagrams - Which way do the keys point?

Yeah silly question. Its been a long time since I have designed a DB as a Database Diagram but the higher ups want to see it. I have totally become confused because I am a coder, not a DBA. I have a main table which contains user id, name, username, password, etc. This main table has the primary key of ID. Should sub tables (such as add...

SSRS Report - Export to CSV

I am using ssrs 2005. I have a report with two tables. table1 col11 col12 col13 1 2 3 table2 col21 col22 col23 a b c d e f g h i It renders well on the report. When I export it to CSV, its bizarre...it exports this way table1,col11,col12,col13,table2,col21,col22,col23 - The headers on the first line ...

SQL Min(Date) issue with still getting all dates

I am trying to get only records that are the min date of the orderID I have the following setup: select op.OrderID, op.id, MIN(op.Date) AS Date From OrderPermits op GROUP BY Op.OrderId op.id, MIN(op.Date) AS Date Orders has 1 to many order permits. The problem here is that I am still getting duplicate order Id's when I only want th...