Is VB.net the most logical choice of a RAD tool to use with MS SQL Server? Is VB.net strictly for web apps or can you use it to create projects that run as executables off the server?
JustStartinOut
Need Recommendation on Tool for SQL Server Development
I have inherited a SQL Server 7 database (actually a SQL Server 6.5 database running on SQL 7 in compatibility mode) with 1000s of objects with triggers and stored procedures with zero documentation; i need to make major changes to this database; are there any tools available that will allow me to quickly search through the database objects and code (like stored procedures, etc) for keywords and other useful criteria? Do you recommend any SQL Server specific tools that will help me learn this database in the shortest amount of time?
Thank you!
--llyal
hi,
I am about to begin writing T-SQL procedures,
I was given SQL SERVER MANAGEMENT STUDIO
is this the optimal tool for T-SQL development?
I now that oracle developers use specific tools for procedures developemt (PL/SQL DEVELOPER)
is there a specific tool for T-SQL developent like in ORACLE?
Best Regards,
Noam Manor
I am about to start developing a web app using MS SQL Server and was wondering whether there is any tool that I can use to test queries towards a remote server?
Something like a command line or an easy way I can write queries and run them straight away through the server and check results? It is my first time developing in SQL so I need something that allows me to play around with queries in the server and check results to quickly get a hang os MS SQL Server syntax, stored procedures and such.
Best Regards
Alethenorio
Hi - I have a rather unreliable host just now - but they offer .net, sqlserver and SSL for a reasonable price.Problem is, the domain is hosted on a shared server - and it keeps goingdown apparantly because of code which is less than clean, on somepeoples sites. (ie. not closing connections etc).I am considering moving to a decicated server - but at this point intime, cannot afford a full SQL Server licence for it - however, thededicated server does offer MSDE. Is it acceptable to go back to usingthis from SQL Server - for a currently low hit site - ie. around 500hits per day.Does MSDE offer stored procedures (I don't use views or triggers)? CanI just take a DTC backup/export of my current SQL Server database, andrestore it to the MSDE one?What would be the cut-off point for using MSDE?Thanks for any info - also, if anyone knows why UK companies charge somuch more dor dedicated servers, than US companies - I'd be interested.Thanks, Mark*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn Sql6.5 we use binary sort order for a best performance (I think). I hear that it should be highlighted that the case for binary sort order being the fastest method of sorting and searching a database no longer applies at SQL 7.0
Is it right and why ????
I'm very puzzled by the choice of NC index being made by the optimizerin this example. I don't actually think it should use an NC index atall.I have:Table: CustomerStatus_TSingle data page19 recordsClustered Index on CustomerStatusID:CREATE TABLE [CustomerStatus_T] ([CustomerStatusID] [int] NOT NULL ,[Name] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,[Description] [varchar] (200) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_ASNULL ,[Code] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,[CodeAlt] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ,[Ordinal] [int] NULL ,[Default] [int] NULL ,[Display] [bit] NOT NULL ,[StatusType] [varchar] (1) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,[DateCreated] [smalldatetime] NULL ,[DateUpdated] [smalldatetime] NULL ,[DateArchived] [smalldatetime] NULL ,CONSTRAINT [PK_ROMS_CustomerStatus] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED([CustomerStatusID]) ON [PRIMARY]) ON [PRIMARY]If I run the following query, it does exactly what I expect and scansthe clustered index:SELECT customerStatusID, [Name] FROM CustomerStatus_TWHERE dateArchived IS NULLAND Display = 1AND StatusType = 'Q‘and gives the following QEP and IO statistics:|--Clustered Index Scan(OBJECT:([Reach_Roms].[dbo].[CustomerStatus_T].[PK_ROMS_CustomerStatus]),WHERE:(([CustomerStatus_T].[DateArchived]=NULL AND[CustomerStatus_T].[StatusType]='Q') ANDConvert([CustomerStatus_T].[Display])=1))Table 'CustomerStatus_T'. Scan count 1, logical reads 2, physicalreads 0,read-ahead reads 0.If I now put a NC index on the statustype column:create index ix_nci_statustype on customerstatus_t(statustype)the query plan changes to:SELECT customerStatusID, [Name] FROM CustomerStatus_TWHERE dateArchived IS NULLAND Display = 1AND StatusType = 'Q‘|--Filter(WHERE:([CustomerStatus_T].[DateArchived]=NULL ANDConvert([CustomerStatus_T].[Display])=1))|--Bookmark Lookup(BOOKMARK:([Bmk1000]),OBJECT:([Reach_Roms].[dbo].[CustomerStatus_T]))|--IndexSeek(OBJECT:([Reach_Roms].[dbo].[CustomerStatus_T].[ix_nci_statustype]),S EEK:([CustomerStatus_T].[StatusType]='Q') ORDEREDFORWARD)Table 'CustomerStatus_T'. Scan count 1, logical reads 7,physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0.For some bizarre reason, the optimizer thinks that a NC index lookupon a single-page table, which ultimately costs 7 IOs, is cheaper thana table (or Clustered Index) scan of a single page. Why? Theshowplan cost also shows that it expects the NC index to be cheaper(which is presumably why it goes and uses it), but even after runningUPDATE STATISTICS on the table it still chooses the same idiotic queryplan.Any thoughts, or has anyone seen similar behaviour before, and cananyone please explain it to me?p.s. I don't actually WANT to put a NC index on this table, but Inoticed the behaviour by accident which is why I'm asking the question:-)
View 3 Replies View Relatedclustering sounds expensive and arcane. Is it ever a better choice than mirroring for high availability? Perhaps when the size of the db copy is too prohibitive under the mirroring option?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIf There are very lots of data to retrieve to show in any inquiry forms.each inquiry forms need to use a lot of table. There are two methods I thought First, Prepare data to Temp table when arise any transaction and Program then retrieves data from temp table. Second, Create view for retrieving data Which method is the better choice ? How ? (More fast, More performance or More flexible ? ) Please advise me....
View 1 Replies View Relatedi have three tables company as co, Procurement as po,contracts as cr
Co_id as primary for co
co_id forign for po
co_id forign for cr
i want the query to get me only one record for every co_id if it has a company in certain PO or CR ( i used max fnctn to get me only one record)
result:
CO_ID,PODOCNO,CRDOCNO
----- ------- -------
1 350 400
2 355 1064
3 NULL 500
4 600 NULL
I used the left outer join in this manner
SELECT CO.CO_ID, MAX(PR.DOCNO) AS pO_DOCNO ,MAX(CR.DOCNO) AS CR_DOCNO
FROM COMPANY CO lEFT OUTER JOIN PROCUREMENT PR ON OG.CO_ID=PR.CO_ID lEFT OUTER JOIN CONTRACT CR ON CO.CO_ID=CR.CO_ID
GROUP BY OG.CO_ID
the result is ok but the problem its taking infinte time if i add more tables to the outer join, i have more tables and each with huge number of records
any better way to do this ?? its true performance is a big deaaaal
Hi,
I created a application in VB and backend database for this is SQL Server 2005. So far I was working on "SQL Express", as a testing one. I have almost 20 Tables and also lot of stored procedure. From the programming point of view, the database is not that much of large. The size grows only when the pictures are added to the database. Its not a client/server application(only desktop application).
If i install Enterprise Edition, will it Consumes large space and memory into the client machine. What about performance issue.
Right now i have two editions SQL Express and SQL Enterprise Edition.
Which edition you would like to suggest on the basis of information provided as above.
Thanks.
Best Regards
Kashif Chotu
Hi,
I am using a stored procedure to take backup of my database from the Visual Basic Programming.
Before i posted one of my thread with the same thing, so i was recommended to go through with DMOSQL do deal with SQL server with Visual Basic Programming. For me, this takes some time to understand the complete concept.
Because of urgent i am using stored procedure to take backup with the following:
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ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.BackUPBLMSDB
(
@RP nvarchar(200)
)
AS
declare @backupfilename nvarchar(200)
set @backupfilename=@RP
BACKUP DATABASE [BLMSDB] TO DISK = @backupfilename WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'BLMSDB-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Example @RP="D:ackupBackup-1 09-02-2008 11-24"
Every time i am passing a parameter with somename and dateandtime(System).
Example
Backup-1 09-02-2008 11-24 2900KB
Backup-1 09-02-2008 12-30 2900KB
Backup-1 09-02-2008 18-10 5400KB
Backup-1 09-02-2008 22-00 2900KB
Backup-1 09-02-2008 22-00 2900KB
I would like to clear my doubt, is it a good practice to take backup with different names. The above one i store four backups . If the system crashes and i created the new database with the same schema without any data present in the tables, can i restore previous backup database to the newly created database.
Moreover, The first two backups contains "2900KB", the third one is "5400KB" after the data is being modified. Look at the fourth one it is "2900KB". Why the size is being reduced to "2900KB" after taking backup eventhough i didn't delete or added data into the database.
Hope you will solve my problem.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Kashif Chotu
How do I get a particular user to be a choice under the db_owner role for a particular database?
The user is listed under logins and even shows to be the db_owner for the database under the database access tab of the login properties. This is SQL 2000.
Thanks,
David P.
We have a small accounting application which is currently based using DBASE database. We need to change the DB and considering SQL Express. However, is some one can clarify following, it would be very helpful:
1) Application is used mostly by standalone non-technical users. There are cases where more than one user will need to connect to DB.
2) We need to ensure that user can not modify database outside of our application. This is needed to ensure database does not get currpted or passwords lost and then no one can open the database.
3) Installation needs to be simple without providing any options to users except where to install database or point to already installed DB in case its a network environment where 2-3 users can be working on the same database.
4) Application is usually installed on normal desktop machines. So, DB should not load the PC heavily.
Please advice if SQL Express is the right direction even with these constraints? What are the other alternatives? We are open to have a small consulting project as well with someone who can guide us through these issues. Email to contact is rkabra101@yahoo.com
rick
OK, it isnt the end of the world but i have been moving all SQL databases from one server to another in our development environment and think i have screwed up a bit.
In essence, the users in each database are different to the logins in the security tab. IE, there are users in DB1 that dont appear in the logins list. Is there anyway of getting the security information uptodate? I move the databases by detach|file copy|attach into the nice shiny new server. I am running into all sorts of errors when i try to create users in security as it says the user alrady exists ...
all thoughts welcomed, am steeling myself to start all over again!
We have several applications that work with product catalog data. Data is entered and maintained, searched, and reported on. We're using CSLA business objects to create our Biz Objects and our front end apps are ASP.NET pages and web services. SQL 2k5 is our database. Currently all data is done in Factory methods in our business objects using SQL Stored Procedures and UDF's.
We want to start storing auditing and statistics data on our product searches. In SQL 2k we were using SQL Profiler to capture data and storing the information in tables, but it really wasn't very flexible and was difficult to maintain. What we want to do is every time someone submits a search we store the critiera and the results. Every time someone edits a product we want to save the old record. This will allow us to provide historical reporting and statistical reporting to our users.
In our old system the search results table was at about 3 million records. And since we've moved to a web based application we're hoping to save this information asynchronously so our search results or postbacks are not held up by saving this audit data. We were talking about writing logic into our biz objects code but it all seemed a bit slow and difficult to do asynchronously. Then I read a couple posts suggesting Service Broker.
Now we're considering either writing triggers on our tables or adding code to our factory stored procedures to send messages to Service Broker that would save the data into our audit tables but not hold up our business processes. We would be saving to the same database on the same server, but different tables.
Does Service Broker seem like it could be the right tool for this job? There looks like a bit of a learning curve and before I jump in i'm looking for some advice or direction.
Thanks, larry
Hi all,
I'm a beginner to Report Services, and have tons of questions.
Here's the first one:
if the reports are created based on the condition that the user selects, how can I create the reports with Report Services?
For example,
the user can select the fields that will be shown on the reports, as well as the group fields, the sort fields and restrict fields. So I would not be able to pre-create all possible reports and deploy them to the report server, and I think I should create the reports dynamicly based on what the user select.
Could someone tell me how to do it (create and deploy the reports)?
Thanks a million!
Jonee
Hi Folks,
I would like to write my table to a delimited file but I seem to have no choice but to use comma as the delimiter. Is there any way I can choose the delimiter ?
Thanks.
Sid
Hi,I am trying to create a development database server (make use of an old machine), with which to learn about sql 2005 and oracle etc. I'm using VS 2005 Beta 2 on my development/workstation machine.My workstation and the prospective server are connected via a router and can 'see' each other.I have installed win 2003 server on two seperate partitions (multiple boot) and installed sql server 2005 on one partition and will install oracle 10g on the other. (I understand these two databases can run on the same machine/OS, but I just wanted to keep things tidy and I won't be using them at the same time, so ...).My question is how do I/should I configure win 2003 server / sql server 2005 on my server machine, in order to be able to connect from my workstation via vs 2005 beta 2 ?Any suggestions or resources on configuration appreciated.
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Can anyone suggest good books on exclusively sql server development..Not for the beginners but at intermediate to advanced level.. Books which gives good understanding on Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursors, Functions...
Hi all Pros I am transfering from windows2003 server and MS SQL 2000 to Windows Vista and SQL Express ...... Before I allways created a database manually and I could allways use as many databases I needed so in that way I could have several versions of a database for a certain software during development. Can you use separeted databasenames when developing in SQL Express? I am using a dotnetnuke installation file and inside the project there is a file /App_Data/Database.mdf should this file be renamed everytime I make a new testinstallation or setting up a separate dev environment /Johan
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Production and development servers are on different domains and they do not trust each other. How do I import data from the table t1 from a database db1 in production and load it into table t1 inside database db1 in development?
View 3 Replies View Relatedis it possible to change the settings on this tool. i want to have it so that it does not time out at all? or is that possible??
View 1 Replies View RelatedPlease can anybody help me in transferring existing SSIS Packages saved in a shared folder location from development server 2ED to Live server TWD1.
Both has SQL server 2005 running and has visual studio 2005
Currently about 25 SSIS packages are executed from the development server transferring data on Live server TWD1...these ETL process is called from development server but executed on live server.
Now the problem is when i call these packages from the shared folder from live server it crashes.....i need to changes something to shift the whole package to the live server..and execute on live server itself instead of recreating the whole 25 process from scratch.....also i use optimize for many tables ..and run in a single trancastion....so how can i see the mappings of source and destination tables.
Please let me know the process how i can achieve this.
Thanks
George
I am running both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.
Lets say I have a live database that is version 1 for an application. The database is copied onto a development machine to develop version 2 of the application. I want to be able to take a snapshot of the database and then get a program to write all the changes made after the snapshot into sql code. This is so I can run this sql code on the live database and transform version 1 to version 2.
Is there any program/tool that will allow me to do this?
Jagdip
Hi,
Can anyone suggest me good books for learning sql server development ie stored procedures etc..
I have a SSIS package that runs fine when I execute it in visual studio but when I run it on the server as a job it fails. This is nothing to do with protection levels etc as the job is running. It fails part way through with this as the error log
Started: 2:42:48 PM
Progress: 2007-11-01 14:43:04.16 Source: Import Hon File Validating: 0% complete End Progress
Progress: 2007-11-01 14:43:04.16 Source: Import Hon File Validating: 50% complete End Progress
Progress: 2007-11-01 14:43:04.22 Source: Import Hon File Validating: 100% complete End Progress
Progress: 2007-11-01 14:43:04.22 Source: Import Med File Validating: 0% complete End Progress
Progress: 2007-11-01 14:43:04.22 Source: Import Med File Validating: 50% complete End Progress
Progress: 2007-11-01 14:43:04.22 Source: Import Med File Validating: 100% complete End Progress
Progress: 2007-11-01 14:43:04.22 Source: Import MedFac File Validating: 0% complete End Progress
Progress: 2007-11-01 14:43:04.22 Sour... Process Exit Code 1. The step failed.
It is failing on the last file it is trying to import but it works OK on my PC.
Can anyone give me any pointers on what might be causing this.
Thanks
Hi,
While developing the packages in our developers environment the packages should be stored in file system. Once after the completion of the development, while moving these packages to upstream environments the packages should be deployed to sql server. Is this scenario possible? If possible, can anybody give me some tips for how to do that.
Basically It is like the developers make their changes in the file system packages (internally versions are mainintained by source control). After the completion of the development whenever we do a build and deploy to the upstream systems we should move the packages from file system to sql server database. There is a scheduler in sql server which is responsible for executing these packages.
Can anybody give me some examples?
Another question.
Assume that in the developers environment there is a central sql server database which is storing all the packages in MSDB database. Suppose at a time 2 developers are making modification to a single package. How it behaves? Is parallel developemnt supported in SSIS?
Thanks in advance.
Hello
I'm using SQL Server BI Development Studio to create a mining structure to forecast time series analysis.
The process to create a model for time series has these steps:
Create a connection to the Database;
Create a source view. Create relationships between tables using the foreign keys;
Create the model with the mining structure. Define the fields that I won€™t to predict and the algorithm properties aren€™t changed.
Is something wrong in these steps, I missing something?
Other problem is the utilization of the model created earlier. In some tests that I made, the models don€™t do forecasting upper then 20 steps. The problem could be the number of lines? But other data set with a large number of null values doesn€™t have any problem predicting more than 20 steps using the time series algorithm.
Can someone help me?
Thanks in advance.
JoĂŁo Santos
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Hi Everybody,
I have made one simple application in asp.net 2.0 using VS 2005. I got following error
Server Error in '/[applicationname]' Application. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)
- When i got on my local machine i solved it by deleting sqlexpress directory from user's account and it was due to that I have installed VS 2005 on machine and by default it installs sql express with it.
- But I could not solved this error on my Development Server wherein there is no VS 2005. Only .Net framework 2.0 & 1.1 are there. My all other applications are running well.
So if any one have idea regarding the solution for this error then please reply me soon. It is very urgent.
Thanks to all of you.
Regards, Hardik B.
Hi
Can we use BCP AND/OR BULK INSERT to do development server databse refresh from production server . I have to do this by following the rules below:
- no truncation of source table
- update of changed or new records only.
I know we can use replication, dts and other methods for this but I need information about this one.
Thanks
Hi,
Im fairly new to this so apologies if Ive put this in the wrong place.
I have just rented out server for a new asp.net site. Ive been developing the site on my local machine and the database in Sql Enterprise. Ive recently put a copy of the site on the live server and got everything configured.
However everytime I make a change to my local database, or add values into my look up tables I have to go do the same on the live server and its proving a bit of a pain in the ass, so Im guessing there has got to be a much smarter way of doing this. I dont want (if possible) to open up the live sql server to allow remote connections, but if thats what neccesary so be it.
So my question is basically what are my options for keeping my live server up to date with my development server. As I add new features on my local server, should i be saving sql scripts of all the changes I make?
All opinions much appreciated.
C
I have a report that includes two multi-valued parameters.
In the Default Values section, I choose 'from query' and select dataset and value field.
In the Available Values section, I choose 'from query' select the same dataset and value field, and in the label field I select the relevant label field.
When I run the report my multi-valued parameters look like I selected the option 'select all' (all options are selected).
How can I keep the multi-valued parameters cleared from selections until the user select his choice? Thanks in advance.