sql-server

Help with Service Broker error message

I am getting this error in my sys.transmission_queue table whenever I attempt to send a SQL Service Broker message between two different SQL Server servers. (i.e. the databases are on two different physical machines) Dialog security is unavailable for this conversation because there is no security certificate bound to the database prin...

ODBC continually prompts for password

I have an application built in Access 2003 that uses a system DSN ODBC to connect to a SQL Server. The ODBC uses SQL authentication. When the application is started, the user is prompted to authenticate into the database. I have another computer set up within the same domain that has Access 2007 installed on it. I log in using the same ...

How to Auto-Increment Non-Primary Key? - SQL Server

CREATE TABLE SupplierQuote ( supplierQuoteID int identity (3504,2) CONSTRAINT supquoteid_pk PRIMARY KEY, PONumber int identity (9553,20) NOT NULL . . . CONSTRAINT ponumber_uq UNIQUE(PONumber) ); The above ddl produces an error: Msg 2744, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Multiple identity columns specified for table 'SupplierQuote'. On...

How Do I Escape Apostrophes in Field Valued in SQL Server?

I asked a question a couple days ago about creating INSERTs by running a SELECT to move data to another server. That worked great until I ran into a table that has full on HTML and apostrophes in it. What's the best way to deal with this? Lucking there aren't too many rows so it is feasible as a last resort to 'copy and paste'. But, even...

SQL CLR enabling

I would like to get some opinion on production SQL environement enabling CLR 1) What are the disadvantagies of doing something like this. 2) I also would like to know the adoption of something like this. 3) Anything best practices we need to keep in mind when we implement CLR based SP and Triggers. ...

ms sql use like statement result in if statement

declare @d varchar set @d = 'No filter' if (@d like 'No filter') BEGIN select 'matched' end else begin select 'not matched' end the result of above is always not matched can anybody tell me why and how can I use the like or '=' result in my stored procedure. thanks ...

Recursive CTE Problem

Hi, I am trying to use a recursive CTE in SQL Server to build up a predicate formula from a table containing the underlying tree structure. For example, my table looks like: Id | Operator/Val | ParentId -------------------------- 1 | 'OR' | NULL 2 | 'AND' | 1 3 | 'AND' | 1 4 | '>' | 2 5...

Why does select SCOPE_IDENTITY() return a decimal instead of an integer?

So I have a table with an identity column as the primary key, so it is an integer. So, why does SCOPE_IDENTITY() always return a decimal value instead of an int to my C# application? This is really annoying since decimal values will not implicitly convert to integers in C#, which means I now have to rewrite a bunch of stuff and have a lo...

BULK INSERT with inconsitant number of columns

I am trying to load a large amount data in SQL server from a flat file using BULK INSERT. However, my file has varying number of column, for instance the first row contains 14 and the second contains 4. That is OK, I just want to make a table with the max number of columns and load the file into it with nulls for the missing columns. I c...

Creating multiple instances of a generic database

Hi all, currently I'm trying to have a setup where a generic database is distributed to students. They would develop an application using this database (Say a shopping cart application), submit their project onto our server, and then it would be graded automatically. These databases are being run in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. We're usi...

Interacting with Sql Server jobs programmatically

I would like to be able to interact with a Sql Server job programmatically through a web page. What is the best way to do this? Through SMO? The job will take a long time to run, so it needs to fire and forget, and I would also like to be able to stop it. If SMO, can anybody point me to an easy tutorial? Google gave me some fairly bas...

Microsoft SQL Count problem

Hey smarties. I'm having trouble with the following SQL statement. I know that I can't do a GROUP BY on the OnlineStatus column, and it makes sense because it's a function call, not an actual column in my table. How would I modify this so that I can get a count of how many users are online? SELECT CASE dbo.fnGetWebUserOnlineStatus(W.Id)...

LINQ Query Returning Multiple Copies Of First Result

I'm trying to figure out why a simple query in LINQ is returning odd results. I have a view defined in the database. It basically brings together several other tables and does some data munging. It really isn't anything special except for the fact that it deals with a large data set and can be a bit slow. I want to query this view ba...

sql server deadlock issue on a single table..................

I have one table let's say "xxx "in sql server 2000 . One .exe is inserting data into that table "xxx" through sql job. But once data is inserted , one stored procedure is reading the data from that "xxx table "and inserting/updating into other two tables and updating back the status into the same "xxx" table. Now, client says that mult...

ASP.NET Template Selector/Builder - Dynamic CMS

I am currently building my own CMS for various reasons that could take a long to explain... However i am looking for a dynamic solution to create templates for pages within the CMS and all areas must be editable via the administration area, maybe large text areas broken into multiple areas, text and image area on a page etc. Following ...

How do I Parameterize a null string with DBNull.Value clearly and quickly.

I got tired of writing the following code: /* Commenting out irrelevant parts public string MiddleName; public void Save(){ SqlCommand = new SqlCommand(); // blah blah...boring INSERT statement with params etc go here. */ if(MiddleName==null){ myCmd.Parameters.Add("@MiddleName", DBNull.Value); } else{ ...

Bizarre WHERE col = NULL behavior

This is a problem one of our developers brought to me. He stumbled across an old stored procedure which used 'WHERE col = NULL' several times. When the stored procedure is executed it returns data. If the query inside the stored procedure is executed manually it will not return data unless the 'WHERE col = NULL' references are changed t...

In T-SQL how to display columns for given table name?

I am trying to list all of the columns from whichever Adventureworks table I choose. What T-sQL statement or stored proc can I execute to see this list of all columns? I want to use my C# web app to input one input parameter = table_name and then get a list of all the column_names as output. Right now I am trying to execute the sp_col...

SQL Server: how to insert to temporary table?

I have one Temporary Table CREATE TABLE #TEMP (TEMP_ID INT IDENTITY(1,1)) And I would like to insert records to that table, How can I?I do as follow: INSERT INTO #TEMP DEFAULT VALUES But sometimes it doesn't work. What it might be?And I would like to know lifetime of temptable in SQL Server. Please Help me! Thanks all! ...

How to record different authentication types (username / password vs token based) in audit log

I have two types of users for my system, normal human users with a username / password, and delegation authorized accounts through OAuth (i.e. using a token identifier). The information that is stored for each is quite different, and are managed by different subsytems. They do however interact with the same tables / data within the syste...