sql-server-2008

Best practice stock management when payment of customer failed using SQL Server and ASP.NET

Hi there, I am currently building a webshop for my own where I want to increment the product-stock when the user fails to complete payment within 10 minutes after the customer placed the order. I want to gather information from this thread to make a design decision. I am using SQL Server 2008 and ASP.NET 3.5. Should I use a SQL Server ...

deploying vb.net app with database on server

I have an application that accesses a sql server 2008 database. The server and database is stored on my local harddrive and I would like to learn to scale this up to having multiple users in our office access the application which I will i deploy on a server. For now the database will stay on my pc until I am ready to put it on a dedicat...

dynamiclly schedule a lead sales agent

I have a website that I'm trying to migrate from classic asp to asp.net. It had a lead schedule, where each sales agent would be featured for the current day, or part of the day.The next day a new agent would be scheduled. It was driven off a database table that had a row for each day in it. So to figure out if a sales agent would show o...

How to connect my APP to SQL Server?

I have 1 PC (Windows Server 2003 + SQL Server 2008) and 2 PCs (MS SP2 + my APP) how I can let my APP connects to sql server 2008 on other PC My APP will connect to server to store data in SQL Server 2008 and read/delete/edit (basic operations) what is the best way to do that? NOTE: my APP is written in C# (.NET Platform) ...

How to connect to SQL Server from another computer?

Hi, I want to connect from home using SQL Server 2005 to another PC. I had a look on the msd...but before connecting it says I should connect to another computer using the computer management and it didn't work out....I can only connect to computers from my workgroup? Thanks, Luisa ...

help with sql-server query - dates

Hi I have this table: id|date ---- 1 | 10/11/2009 2 | 13/11/2009 1 | 20/12/2009 3 | 21/12/2009 1 | 30/12/2009 If I stand on the last record (id=1) and I need to see the last date where id=1 is appear --> will show me: 1 | 20/12/2009 What query will do it ? Thanks in advance ...

How to adjust SQL LIKE function?

I want to make this kind of query: create procedure something @name varchar(13) as begin select * from WORKER where NAME LIKE "%@name%" end For input @name=ho, I want output every row that contains NAME wich sounds "ho", for example HOuse, soHO, broHOw... ...

Questions on SQL Server 2008 Full-Text Search

I have some questions about SQL 2K8 integrated full-text search. Say I have the following tables: Car with columns: id (int - pk), makeid (fk), description (nvarchar), year (int), features (int - bitwise value - 32 features only) CarMake with columns: id (int - pk), mfgname (nvarchar) CarFeatures with columns: id (int - 1, 2, 4, 8, et...

Time DataType in Sql Server 2005

I've created small database under SQL Server 2008. Now i wanted to move it to SQL Server 2005 and it doesn't work since it doesn't have Time datatype. What option do I have to store only time in SQL Server 2005. I've written small TimeSheet application which needs to write hours and minutes mostly in format like 05:30:00 (hh:mm:ss) but s...

MERGE -v- UPSERT

Hi, I have an application I’m writing in access with a SQL server backend. One of the most heavily used parts is where the users selects an answer to a question, a stored procedure is then fired which sees if an answer has already been given, if it has an UPDATE is executed, if not an INSERT is executed. This works just fine but now we...

SQL Identity column increases by 2 or 3

I have a new clustered database and I've been moving data into the tables from our old database. When I import the data, everything works fine, but when I manually insert a record the Identity column does not follow the next identity number. So, for example, I import 100 records into the table and the Identity column shows 1-100, but i...

sql restoring database takes 10 minutes and going!

I'm just restoring a small database(-5MB) but it is taking a lot of time? Is it standard or darkness is a feature? ...

SQL Server 2008 pivot without aggregate

I have table to test score data that I need to pivot and I am stuck on how to do it. I have the data as this: gradelistening speaking reading writing 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1 399.4 423.8 0.0 0.0 2 461.6 508.4 424.2 431.5 3 501.0 525.9 492.8 491.3 4 521.9 517.4 488.7 486.7 5 555.1 581.1 547.2 538.2 6 562.7 545.5 498.2 530.2 7 560...

testing database application remotely

With advice from users here I was able to deploy an application that connects with sql server 2008 database on to a server. I have the connection string with data source pointing to my machine since the database is stored on my machine temporarily. I do not have access to another machine and wanted to test the application so I remotely c...

SQL Concurrent test update question

Howdy Folks, I have a SQLServer 2008 database in which I have a table for Tags. A tag is just an id and a name. The definition of the tags table looks like: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Tag]( [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [Name] [varchar](255) NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [PK_Tag] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [ID] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX = ...

'The default schema does not exist' on deploy of SQL CLR assembly onto SQL Server 2008

I'm deploying an example SQL CLR stored procedure which has a SQL CLR type as parameter using Visual Studio 2008 and menu Project -> Deploy. public partial class StoredProcedures { [Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlProcedure] public static void TakeTariff(TariffInfo tariffInfo) { } } public class TariffInfo { public SqlDecimal...

How to refactor T-SQL stored procedure encapsulating it's parameters to a class

On my SQL Server 2008 I have a stored procedure with a large number of parameters. The first part of them is used in every call and parameters from the second part are used rarely. And I can't move the logic to two different stored procedures. Is there a way to encapsulate all this parameters to a class or struct and pass it as a store...

How to check existence of user-define table type in SQL Server 2008?

I have a user-defined table type. I want to check it's existence before editing in a patch using OBJECT_ID(name, type) function. What type from the enumeration should be passed for user-defined table types? N'U' like for user defined table doesn't work, i.e. IF OBJECT_ID(N'MyType', N'U') IS NOT NULL ...

SQL Server 2008 - Bit Param Evaluation alters Execution Plan

I have been working on migrating some of our data from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to 2008. Among the usual hiccups and whatnot, I’ve run across something strange. Linked below is a SQL query that returns very quickly under 2000, but takes 20 minutes under 2008. I have read quite a bit on upgrading SQL server and went down the usual paths ...

Re-indexing table; update with from

The query says it all, I can't find out the right syntax without without using a WHILE loop UPDATE Webtree SET Webtree.Sorting=w2.Sorting FROM ( SELECT BranchID, CASE WHEN @Index>=ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Sorting ASC) THEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Sorting ASC) ELSE ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY Sorting ASC)+1 ...