I'm trying to write a DML script that updates a column but I wanted to make sure the column existed first so I wrapped it in a IF EXISTS block IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME='Client' AND COLUMN_NAME='IsClarityEnabled') BEGIN UPDATE Client SET IsClarityEnabled = 1 WHERE ClientID = 21 END So the...
I'm trying to import IIS logs into SQL Server 2008. I get this error below. Error 0xc02020a1: Data Flow Task 1: Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "cs(User-Agent)" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page.". (SQL Server ...
I was able to create an ODBC Data Source locally for my SQL Server 2008. Now I moved to anohter machine and want to connect from the new machine to that SQL Server 2008. I know by default the SQL Server 2008 will not listen for the remote connection. I have enabled its Browser and TCP/IP. Error window is like this: ...
I'm just learning the WCF entity framework (and .net in general), and I'm running into a problem specifying lock hints in an embedded SQL query. I'm trying to specify a query that has lock hints in it (e.g., "SELECT * FROM xyz WITH(XLOCK, ROWLOCK)") and I keep getting errors from the runtime that the query syntax is not valid. The quer...
I've been developing an application that talks directly to an SSAS 2005 OLAP cube. Note that I also have SQL Server 2008 installed, so the other day I did a Windows Update and decided to include SQL Server 2008 SP1 in my update. After doing that, my SSAS 2005 cube is no longer accessible from my application. I'm able to browse the data ...
I am trying to see a list of tables from Adventureworks DB from "Person" schema in Sql Server 2008. I developed teh following SP, but after running it as follows it gives me error "Incorrect syntax near ')'". Do you know how I can revise this SP or exec statement? CREATE PROCEDURE [getTableNames] @SchemaName VARCHAR(50) AS BEGIN SET ...
Please imagine this small database... Diagram Tables Volunteer Event Shift EventVolunteer ========= ===== ===== ============== Id Id Id EventId Name Name EventId VolunteerId Email Location VolunteerId Phone Day ...
I have an ASP.Net Application that sends text messages to mobile phones. It does this by sending an email. For instance, if your phone number is 555-555-5555 and your wireless carrier is Verizon, you can send an email to [email protected] and it will show up as a text message. I want to be able to include a newline in the body of t...
I have a Linq-To-Sql based repository class which I have been successfully using. I am adding some functionality to the solution, which will provide WCF based access to the database. I have not exposed the generated Linq classes as DataContracts, I've instead created my own "ViewModel" as a POCO for each entity I am going to be returnin...
A Project has multiple Tasks, which has multiple Assignments Projects (1-n) -> Tasks (1-n) -> Assignments A field on the Tasks table is Planned Hours. A field on the Assignments table is Assigned Hours. How do I get the Planned Hours and Assigned Hours for all Projects in a single query? ...
Ok, I've been trying to get this to work like all day now and I'm barely any further from when I started. I'm trying to get Ruby On Rails to connect to SQL Server. I've installed unixODBC and configured it and FreeTDS and installed just about every Ruby gem relating to ODBC that exists. (This has been updated to show the output of isq...
Hi everyone, I've got a strange one here. I have a .Net executable that, under the hood, calls a few stored procedures. For whatever reason, one of the stored procs hangs when I'm debugging. If I run the executable outside of visual studio things go fine, including this stored proc. It's when I'm debugging that this hangs, and it re...
I have a SQL Server 2000 database with a column of type VARCHAR(255). All the data is either NULL, or numeric data with up to two points of precision (e.g. '11.85'). I tried to run the following T-SQL query but received the error 'Error converting data type varchar to numeric' SELECT CAST([MyColumn] AS DECIMAL) FROM [MyTable]; I tried...
What is the Unit of Duration column in SQL Profiler? i thought it is milliseconds but in following profiler row i found it contradicting with start and end time spid=163 duration=11310646 starttime=2010-04-06 17:45:24.480 endtime=2010-04-06 17:45:35.790 reads=152 writes=2 cpu=16 eventclass=12 textdata= DELETE FROM dbo.[Icon] WHERE I...
I have a database that contains data for many "clients". Currently, we insert tens of thousands of rows into multiple tables every so often using .Net SqlBulkCopy which causes the entire tables to be locked and inaccessible for the duration of the transaction. As most of our business processes rely upon accessing data for only one clie...
Hello, I execute a select to get the structure of a table. I want to get info about the columns like its name or if it's null or if it's primary key.. I do something like this ....sys.columns c... c.precision, c.scale, c.is_nullable as isnullable, c.default_object_id as columndefault, c.is_computed as iscomputed, but for default value...
Hi, I am here to ask about a way to handle data between two databse servers. I have my one application running in my city office and another in country office. My City office has got regular[ un-interrupted ] internet connection but my country office do not have. It gets connected to internet in evening time once a day only. I have ...
I am attempting to link an Excel source to a SQL Server DB on the Go Daddy website. When I execute the sp in SQL Server, it shows it executed successfully, but no data is linked. This is the main part of my procedure: EXEC sp_addlinkedserver @server = 'XLHybrid', @provider = 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', @srvproduct ...
We are in the process of switching from the C# Guid.NewGuid() random-ish guid generator to the sequential guid algorithm suggested in this post. While this seems to work well for MS SQL Server, I am unsure about the implications for Oracle databases, in which we store guids in a raw(16) field. Does anyone have any insight as to whether t...
declare @servername varchar(2000) set @EmriServerit=(select @@servername) declare @dbname varchar(2000) set @dbname ='Test1' declare @Dir varchar(2000) set @Dir='F:\dataclient.sql' exec master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'osql -E -S ' + @servername+ ' -d ' + @dbname +' -i ' + @Dir It gives me and error: "incorrect sysntax near +" If i don'...