When in 'SQL Server Configuration Manager' I see, under 'SQL Server Services', 2 items that look like SQL Server's: SQL Server (sqlexpress) SQL Server (mssqlserver) Does that mean I have 2 versions installed at the same time? The 'SQL Server (mssqlserver) is currently stopped). ...
Hi, We are designing a SQL Server database with link tables for many-to-many relations. The question is are there any best practices for naming these kinds of tables for use with the entity framework? Let's say there's a table Customer and Address Then there is a link table between them, what do we call it? CustomerAddress ? Or some...
I am working on a script, that needs to be run in many different SQL servers. Some of them, shared the same structure, in other words, they are identical, but the filegroups and the DB names are different. This is because is one per client. Anyway, I would like when running a script, If I chose the wrong DB, it should not be executed. I...
How do I see the currently executing SQL statements in SQL Server? I've poked around in SQL Server Management Studio, but I don't see anything "canned". ...
Can anyone show me a way of converting SQL Server data-types (varchar for example) to .Net data-types (String for example). I'm assuming that automatic conversion is not possible? I have an 'EntityProperty' object and would like it to have an appropriate 'Type' property (string, decimal, int32 etc), at the moment this property is just a ...
I have a table in SQL Server 2005. I want to show all domain name in a dropdownlist maintaing the same hierarchy. i.e Law Engineering --civil --Mechanical Medical --Dental ----Cavity --MBBS I need to append '--' according to the domain level. Is it possible using a sql query. or alternatively can I have any other ...
Hi I have situation where I need to change the order of the columns/adding new columns for existing Table in SQLServer2008, It is not allowing me to do without drop and recreate. But That is in production system and having data in that table. I can take backup of the data, and Drop the existing table and change the order/add new column...
I have a view (actually, it's a table valued function, but the observed behavior is the same in both) that inner joins and left outer joins several other tables. When I query this view with a where clause similar to SELECT * FROM [v_MyView] WHERE [Name] like '%Doe, John%' ... the query is very slow, but if I do the following... SELE...
Hello How to check a value IS NULL [or] = @param (where @param is null) Ex: Select column1 from Table1 where column2 IS NULL => works fine If I want to replace comparing value (IS NULL) with @param. How can this be done Select column1 from Table1 where column2 = @param => this works fine until @param got some value in it and if is...
For starters, I am no DBA and I am working on rebuilding the indexes. I made use of the amazing TSQL script from msdn to alter index based onthe fragmente percent returned by dm_db_index_physical_stats and if the fragment percent is more than 30 then do a REBUILD or do a REORGANISE. What I found out was, in the first iteration, there ...
Today I run this select 'exec sp_refreshview N''['+table_schema+'].['+table_name+']''' from information_schema.tables where table_type = 'view' This generates a lot of: exec sp_refreshview N'[SCHEMA].[TABLE]'. I then copy the result to the query editor window and run all those execs. How do I do this all at once? I would like to have...
I need to look up all households with orders. I don't care about the data of the order at all, just that it exists. (Using SQL Server) Is it more efficient to say something like this: SELECT HouseholdID, LastName, FirstName, Phone FROM Households INNER JOIN Orders ON Orders.HouseholdID = Households.HouseholdID or this: SELECT Ho...
I need to take data between certain dates. But I get the following error. AdsDateStarted : 03/18/2010 01:51:38.000 AM AdsDateENded : 09/13/2010 05:00:00.000 PM formatdate function converts today's date to 3/22/2010 format. SQL = "SELECT * FROM Ads" SQL = SQL & " WHERE AdsActive = 1 AND AdsAreasID = "& rtt &" AND CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),...
I may be approaching this problem from the wrong angle but what I'm thinking of is some kind of performance monitor tool for SQl server that works in a similar way to code performance tools, e.g. I;d like to see an output of how many times each stored procedure was called, average executuion time and possibly various resource usage stats...
I have a table of data which represents a series of events that persons do over time, sometimes people do the same thing several times in a row. How to select a result using MS SQL 2008 that shows only disambiguated sequences of those events? Source data: Person Event Time 1 2 1 1 2 20 1 2 33 2 ...
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...
Does anyone konw whether I can load .net 4.0 assemblies from SQL Server 2008? In particular, we are looking at SQL Reporting, with Custom Data Extensions. I have noticed that hte SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Studio does not seem to support VS2010 at the moment. If I release my CDE's as .net 4.0 assemblies, will I even be able...
I'm just restoring a small database(-5MB) but it is taking a lot of time? Is it standard or darkness is a feature? ...
I have a database which users should not be able to alter data in unless they use the specific app. I know best practice is to use windows authentication however that would mean that users could then connect to the database using any other data enabled app and change values which would then not be audited. Unfortunately SQL 2008 with i...
In an ASP.NET application, I have a small number of fairly complex, frequently used operations to execute against a database. In these operations, one or more of several tables needs updates or inserts based a logical evaluation of both input parameters and values of certain tables. I've maintained a separation of logic and data access, ...