sql-server

Finding all tables and fields on "many" side of relations with a certain table

in Sql Server 2005, I have a master table, and several other tables which are related to this master through several one to many relations. How can I find all tables and fields which are in relation with the primary key in the master table, on "many" side? I know I can extract this by querying views from INFORMATION_SCHEMA, but I don't ...

What is the scope of CONTEXT_INFO in SQL Server?

I am using CONTEXT_INFO to pass a username to a delete trigger for the purposes of an audit/history table. I'm trying to understand the scope of CONTEXT_INFO and if I am creating a potential race condition. Each of my database tables has a stored proc to handle deletes. The delete stored proc takes userId as an parameter, and sets CON...

How do I make software that preserves database integrity and correctness?

I have made an application project in Visual Studio 2008 C#, SQL Server from Visual Studio 2008. The database has like 20 tables and many fields in each. I have made an interface for adding deleting editing and retrieving data according to predefined needs of the users. Now I have to Make to project into software which I can deliver...

Speed up a web service for auto complete and avoid too many method calls.

So I've got my jquery autocomplete 'working,' but its a little fidgety since I call the webservice method each time a keydown() fires so I get lots of methods hanging and sometimes to get the "auto" to work I have to type it out and backspace a bit because i'm assuming it got its return value a little slow. I've limited the query results...

Access as a front-end to SQL Server - ADO vs DAO?

I have a project that will be using Access 2003 as the font-end and the data being stored in SQL Server. Access will connect to SQL Server via linked tables with all the database logic (stored procedures, views) within SQL Server. Given this setup, would it be better to use ADO or DAO within Access? Is it just a matter of preference or ...

How to index small words (3 letters) with SQL Full-text search?

I have an Incident table with one row that has the value 'out of office' in the Description column. However the following query does not return that row. SELECT * FROM Incident WHERE CONTAINS( (Incident.Description), '"out*"' ) The word 'out' is not in the noise file (I cleared the noise file completely and I rebuilt the index). Is ...

Violation of primary key constraint, multiple users

Lets say UserA and UserB both have an application open and are working with the same type of data. UserA inserts a record into the table with value 10 (PrimaryKey='A'), UserB does not currently see the value UserA entered and attempts to insert a new value of 20 (PrimaryKey='A'). What I wanted in this situation was a DBConcurrencyExcep...

help with t-sql self join

Based on the following table ID Date State ----------------------------- 1 06/10/2010 Complete 1 06/04/2010 Pending 2 06/06/2010 Active 2 06/05/2010 Pending I want the following ouptut ID Date State --------------------------- 1 06/04/2010 Complete 2 06/05/2010 Active So date is the ea...

SQL Count unique objects defined by parameters

I have a table with: id | parameter 1 | A 1 | B 2 | A 3 | A 3 | B That represent objects defined with the values as: 1 -> A,B 2 -> A 3 -> A,B I want to count the number of objects with different parameters using a SQL query, so in this case it would be 2 unique objects as 1 and 3 have the same parameters. There is no const...

Tools to update tables in SQL server 2000/2005

Is there any handy tool that can make updating tables easier? Usually I got an Excel file with the original value in one column and new value in another column. Then I write a formula in Excel to create the 'update' statement. Is there any way to simplify the updating task? I believe the approach in SQL server 2000 and 2005 would be dif...

ASP.NET MVC with SQL Server backend returns old data when query is executed

My ASP.NET MVC web app has a weird issue. In VS debugging mode it works as expected, but when I publish it to dedicated web server (windows 2003, IIS6) a sql query returns previous data even though underlying data was already updated through the same connection. It looks like as if a query returns cached data. What might be the problem? ...

SQL server virtual memory usage and performance

Hello, I have a very large DB used mostly for analytics. The performance overall is very sluggish. I just noticed that when running the query below, the amount of virtual memory used greatly exceeds the amount of physical memory available. Currently, physical memory is 10GB (10238k bytes) whereas the virtual memory returns significantly...

How to Check all stored procedure is ok in sql server?

How to check all stored procedure is ok in sql server if I drop a table or fields? ...

How should I access to SQL Server DB?

I have been reading that direct access to a SQL Server database over the Internet is insecure, so I am wondering what intermediary I can and should use between the client and the server. What are the best practices in terms of security and performance? ...

what is the optimal database connection strategy

i have a asp.net mvc website which runs a number of queries for each page. Should i open up a single connection or open and close a connection on each query? ...

SQL Query that can return intersecting data

I have a hard time finding a good question title - let me just show you what I have and what the desired outcome is. I hope this can be done in SQL (I have SQL Server 2008). 1) I have a table called Contacts and in that table I have fields like these: FirstName, LastName, CompanyName 2) Some demo data: FirstName LastName CompanyName...

UNIQUE CONSTRAINT on a column from foreign table in SQL Server 2008

I have two tables: create table [dbo].[Main] ( [ID] [int] identity(1,1) primary key not null, [No] [int] not null, [Sign] [char](1) not null ) create table [dbo].[Names] ( [ID_Main][int] primary key not null, [Name][nvarchar](128) not null, constraint [FK_Main_Users] foreign key ([ID_Main]) references [dbo].[Ma...

What's the best way to calculate similarity between rows in a table based on association?

Suppose each Person has a collection of favorite Books. So I have a table for: Person Book The association between Person and Book (joint table for MxN) I want to fetch the Persons that are similar to a Person1 based on the favorite Books overlaping. That is: The more books they have in common, the more they are similar. I don't ha...

SQL View with Data from two tables

Hello! I can't seem to crack this - I have two tables (Persons and Companies), and I'm trying to create a view that: 1) shows all persons 2) also returns companies by themselves once, regardless of how many persons are related to it 3) orders by name across both tables To clarify, some sample data: (Table: Companies) Id Name 1 Ba...

Generating Random Records Date Wise

I work for a non-profit organization where we send volunteers to aided schools everyday. I am creating a site to display this info and am using SQL server express. I want some help regarding a query so here's my first post We have 15 volunteers currently who will go to 4 different schools to teach. Here are some conditions: We have to...