sql-server

On Update: Auto Update Date/Time Field

Hello all, Is there an equivalent of MySQLs on update field for SQL server? With both DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP clauses, the column has the current timestamp for its default value, and is automatically updated. What I am looking for is to have a date/time field and every time I update a reco...

Export view data programmatically in Access/SQL Server

We have an Access application front-end connected to a SQL Server 2000 database. We would like to be able to programmatically export the results of some views to whatever format we can (ideally Excel, but CSV / tab delimited is fine). Up until now we've just hit F11, opened up the view, and hit File->Save As, but we're starting to get re...

Creating a SQL update query based on multiple columns and records in same table

I have got a table which contains 5 column and query requirements: update row no 8 (or id=8) set its column 2, column 3's value from id 9th column 2, column 3 value. means all value of column 2, 3 should be shifted to column 2, 3 of upper row (start from row no 8) and value of last row's 2, 3 will be null For example, wit...

Data Mining - Predictive Analysis

We are looking at acquiring Data Mining software to primarily run predictive analysis processes. How does SQL Server Data Mining solution compares to other solutions like SPSS from IBM? Since SQL Server DM is included in SQL Server Enterprise license - what would be the justification to spend extra couple 100K to buy separate software ...

SQL Server Collation / ADO.NET DataTable.Locale with different languages

Hi all, we have WinForms app which stores data in SQL Server (2000, we are working on porting it in 2008) through ADO.NET (1.1, working on porting to 4.0). Everything works fine if I read data previsouly written in Western-European locale (E.g.: "test", "test ù"), but now we have to be able to mix Western and non-Western alphabets as we...

Snapshot agent obliterates conflicts

We are using merge replication in SQL Server 2000. We have a snapshot agent that runs every night that updates the publication snapshot. About six months ago we updated from SQL Server 7.0 to 2000 (that's not a typo). We noticed a sharp decline in conflicts at that time but could not track down the reason. We finally found that the d...

Coping Indexes from old database to new one?

Hi, I converted an old sql server database from 2000 to 2005 and forgetten to add old indexes to the new db. is there any way to copy the old indexes to the new db? any help? ...

Change write-host output color based on foreach if elseif outcome in Powershell

I'm trying to change the color of write-host output based on the lastrunoutcome property of SQL Server jobs in Powershell....as in...if a job was successfull, the output of lastrunoutcome is "Success" in green....if failed, then "Failed" in red. I have the script working to get the desired job status...I just don't know how to change th...

TSQL - create a stored proc inside a transaction statement

I have a sql script that is set to roll to production. I've wrapped the various projects into separate transactions. In each of the transactions we created stored procedures. I'm getting error messages Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 4 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'procedure'. I created this example script to illustrate Begin...

Storing And Using Microsoft User Account Credentials in SQL Server 2008 database

I'm not exactly positive how to word this for the sake of the title so please forgive me. Also I can't seem to figure out how to even google this question, so I'm hoping that I can get a lead in the right direction. Part of my software(VB.NET App) requires the ability to access/read/write a shared network folder. I have an option for th...

Creating a SQL lookup

I’m in the process of cleaning up a database table. Due to the way some of the data needed to be processed, now I need to go back and perform a “reverse lookup” on the data. For example, a field for one of the records is set to “car” and I need to set that record’s tranportmode field to “1” (for “car”). The lookup tables are already crea...

is there a downside to putting N in front of strings in scripts? Is it considered a "best practice"?

Let's say I have a table that has a varchar field. If I do an insert like this: INSERT MyTable SELECT N'the string goes here' Is there any fundamental difference between that and: INSERT MyTable SELECT 'the string goes here' My understanding was that you'd only have a problem if the string contained a Unicode character and th...

How to generate script/stored procedure to copy data from one database to another

I had to restore may database to 1 day erlier, so My database is missing data from a day before, and this databse has been used by users since the restoration. How do I generate script/stored procedure to copy just the missing data from the backup database into my current database. There are PK and FK relationships that need to be con...

get index name within specific table name

I need to check if this index not exist in specific table name not in all tables because this select statement select all indexes under this condition. IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name from sysindexes WHERE name = 'IDX_InsuranceID') CREATE NONCLUSTERED INDEX [IDX_InsuranceID] ON [dbo].[QuoteInsurances] ( [InsuranceID] ASC )WITH (PAD_IND...

How does DATEDIFF calculate week differences in SQL Server 2005?

I would like to calculate the difference in weeks between two dates, where two dates are considered part of the same week if their preceding Sunday is the same. Ideally, I'd like to do this using DATEDIFF, instead of learning an elaborate idiom to calculate the value. But I can't tell how it works when weeks are involved. The following ...

DataGridView live display of datatable using virtual mode

I have a DataGridView that will display records (log entries) from a database. The amount of records that can exist at a time is very large. I would like to use the virtual mode feature of the DataGridView to display a page of data, and to minimize the amount of data that has to be transferred across a network at a given time. Polling...

SQL Server: preventing dirty reads in a stored procedure

Consider a SQL Server database and its two stored procs: *1. A proc that performs 3 important things in a transaction: Create a customer, call a sproc to perform another insert, and conditionally insert a third record with the new identity. BEGIN TRAN INSERT INTO Customer(CustName) (@CustomerName) SELECT @NewID = SCOPE_IDENT...

Finding Common Phrases in SQL Server TEXT Column

Short Desc: I'm curious to see if I can use SQL Analysis services or some other SQL Server service to mine some data for me that will show commonalities between SQL TEXT fields in a dataset. Long Desc I am looking at a subset of data that consists of about 10,000 rows of TEXT blobs which are used as a notes column in a issue tracking ...

converting mysql database to sql server

i have a mysql database: /* MySQL Data Transfer Source Host: 10.0.0.5 Source Database: jnetdata Target Host: 10.0.0.5 Target Database: jnetdata Date: 5/26/2009 12:27:33 PM */ SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; -- ---------------------------- -- Table structure for chavrusas -- ---------------------------- CREATE TABLE `chavrusas` ( `id` int(1...

sql server: create table taking forever!

i am doing this: CREATE TABLE person ( num INT NOT NULL , firstname VARCHAR(20) NULL , lastname VARCHAR(30) NULL ); sql server is just saying "debbuging" and it's not doing anything is there a problem with the syntax or what? ...