Accepted Practice To Query The Built-in Aspnet Membership Tables ?
Jul 17, 2007
I'm a relative newbie to ASP.NET development (web development in general) so please forgive the ignorance. ;-)
Ok, I'm using VWD to design and test my application and I'm using the standard membership provider system. I've read in various places not to muck around with the aspnet_* tables as it can cause havoc hehe. Therefore, I've created my own Member table to accommodate more fields that the aspnet_Users table does not have (since I don't want to mess around with that table) such as address, city, town, zip, birth date, etc. Obviously, I have a field in Member that corresponds to the userId primary key in aspnet_Users. Now, there are times when I need to display the username of a person's profile on a page.
SELECT aspnet_Users.UserName<br>FROM aspnet_Users, Member<br>WHERE querystringid=Member.memberId AND Member.userId = aspnet_Users.UserId
Now, this seems fine and dandy when there are few entries in the aspnet_Users table, but what if I tried that query when aspnet_Users grew to a hypothetical one million entries?? Does anyone know if those fields in aspnet_Users are properly indexed? I can't seem to determine one way or another with VWD's database explorer. I don't want to run the risk of a full table scan. But if those fields aren't indexed, I don't know if I should modify that table in any way.
I know this may sound like a silly question but, my project currently uses two databases, the aspnet membership db and our application db. What I'm wanting to know is if there is a way to combine them without lossing any current functionality from either one? Also what if any gotchas there might be?
Hello everyone! Following are the things that I have to do :1) Create a "Friendlist" of every user registered. ( one user can have many friends)2) Create "Communities" which can have various users registered to them. How do I go about doing this in ASP.net..?! Please help!
Hi, I have limited control on the server I use. I can not create data bases but can add tables and edit the data base that has been created for me. So what I would like to do is be able to use a tool such as aspnet_regsql through SQL Server Express to add the tables that Membership would automatically create. Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be great
Hi, this might be a newbie question as I don't know too much about databases.My web host only lets me have 1 database, so I am trying to rename all the tables with a prefix, then import them to the server. I'm using MsSql-2005, VWD, Management Studio Express.My error when I run the .sql script is:Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure vw_aspnet_MembershipUsers, Line 3Invalid object name 'dbo.aspnet_Membership'.Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure vw_aspnet_Users, Line 3Invalid object name 'dbo.aspnet_Users'.Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Procedure vw_aspnet_Profiles, Line 3Invalid object name 'dbo.aspnet_Profile'....I suspect that it is because I renamed the "aspnet_Membership" table to "Company1_aspnet_Membership" (I made a database diagram, then renamed the aspnet tables in Properties). Has anyone run into this before? Does anyone know how to fix it?
I have a website that uses an SQL 2005 Express database, with the added aspnet_users, aspnet_roles tables etc' inside it. (That is not an .mdf file, but in the databse itself)
Are there any guidelines for moving this kind of database to the deployment server, which also has SQL Express ?
Kimberly Tripp describes a recipe for switching partitions in and out, thru the use of staging tables, when it comes time to "slide the window" on a partitioned table. She says that the clustered index (on staging) must be the same as that chosen for the partitioned table itself but she doesnt discuss whether or not all of the non clustered indexes need to be the same too once the ALTER TABLE Orders SWITCH PARTITION 1 TO OrdersOctober2002 and ALTER TABLE OrdersOctober2004 SWITCH TO Orders PARTITION 24 run. For the data being switched out, I wouldnt want to do anything extra. For the data being switched in, I'd like to understand if she is implying that all other indexes would be built automatically as a result of the 2nd ALTER statement?
Kimberly's article is at http://www.sqlskills.com/resources/Whitepapers/Partitioning%20in%20SQL%20Server%202005%20Beta%20II.htm#_Toc79339965
I am having some questions on indexed views and aggregate tables.
My question is: To improve the performance of the queries, is it better to use indexted views or aggregates tables for those aggregates which are often queried?
effective date marks the start the original start of membership. So in the case of memkey 001 he started on 2006-11-01, stopped on 2007-12-01, restarted on 2007-02-02 and stopped again on 2/5/2007.
memkeys 004,005 and 006 don't have NO status changes.
presuming that we should never have a status code of restart without a stop but that the data may have violations of that.
How can I query my tables to return every date of ACTIVE participation during two dates?
So for example if I say give participations criterias of 11/7/2006 and 2/7/2007, it should pull two records for memkey 001 as follows
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My Issue: I have the filtering working ok but if i select a date which is outside the range of the data within my cube for example if i select the starting date for the range as 1/Jan/1965 but by data starts from 15/Jan/1965 then no data is returned.
Within the MDX query within the STRTOSET function i am using 'constrained' which is around the date parameter i.e. StartDate for Range.
My question is has anyone or is it possible to use date values outside of the range of the data within my cube and get a correct dataset returned. If so could you please explain how with an example.
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As I experienced, there is no possibility to use this database from Sql Server Management Studio (because it is version 3.5 and Management Studio demands version 3.1).
So, the only possibility to design a query is to use the built in Query Builder in Visual Studio Express. This query builder does not save the Diagram Pane content layout. I mean, when a query has 10 tables, I place these tables in the Diagram Pane in some order that makes sense (e.g. to make all relations visible). After saving and reopening the query in Query Builder, all tables are on the left side, in a complete disorder.
Is it possible to somehow save the Diagram Pane content along with the SQL ??
I am used to run SQL server 2005 RDBMS with Visual studio 205 for development. recently, i wanted to try it with the inbuilt sql server express and being able to run the membership query / membership functionality. the proble is that i couldn't run the query using 'aspnet_regsql' from command prompt. It always throw error. please, can anybody help me out. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated and welcome. Kayode Banjo
We have a sort of complex user structure in the sense that depending on the type of user the data resides in different tables. Therefor I needed a stored procedure that finds out what table to look for a certain column in. Below is such a stored procedure and it works like it should but my problem is that I don't know how to retrieve the result (which should be a string so can't use RETURN).
I've tried using an OUTPUT variable but since I just run EXEC (@statement) in the end I can't really set an output variable the common way (as in EXEC @outputVariable = PMC_User_GetUserValue(arg1, arg2..)) or can I?
I have also tried to use SELECT to catch the result somehow but no luck and Google didn't help either so now I'm hoping for one of you... Notice that you don't have to bother about much of the code except for the end of it where I want it to return somehow or figure out a way to call this stored procedure and retrieve the result.
Thanks in advance ripern
-- Retrieves the value of column @columnName for credential id @credID ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[PMC_User_GetUserValue] @credID int, @columnName nvarchar(50) AS
DECLARE @userDataTable nvarchar(50) DECLARE @userDataID int DECLARE @statement nvarchar(500) SET @statement = ' '
SET @userDataID = (SELECT PMC_UserMapping.fk_userDataID FROM PMC_UserMapping INNER JOIN PMC_User ON PMC_UserMapping.fk_user_id = PMC_User.id WHERE PMC_User.fk_credentials_id = @credID)
SET @userDataTable = (SELECT PMC_UserType.userDataTable FROM PMC_UserType INNER JOIN PMC_UserMapping ON PMC_UserType.id = PMC_UserMapping.fk_usertype_id INNER JOIN PMC_User ON PMC_UserMapping.fk_user_id = PMC_User.id WHERE PMC_User.fk_credentials_id = @credID)
SET @statement = 'SELECT ' + @columnName + ' AS columnValue FROM ' + @userDataTable + ' WHERE id=' + convert(nvarchar, @userDataID)
-- Checks whether the given column name exists in the user data table for the given credential id. IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME=@userDataTable AND COLUMN_NAME=@columnName ) BEGIN EXEC (@statement) END
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