How To Change Application To Work With Test DB Opposed To Production DB
May 26, 2015
How do I change application code to easily switch between the application working against a test database versus working with a production database?
My thought is to change the connection string to work with a test DB, and when ready to Publish, change the connection string back to the production DB. After Publish is successful, change the connection string back to the test DB.
At first, it appears it will work. Will it? Whether it will or won't?
Hi all, I have a asp .net 1.1 application running on the intranet which uses SQL Server 2000. The application is in production and everytime I want to do some changes, i do the changes on my development machine then I copy the application dll on the server. The problem is that I'm using Stored Procedures for all my Select, Insert and Delete statements. These stored procedures are live on the server so I can't do the modifications locally and test them then copy to the server.
How can I do modifications without affecting the production server and the users ??? thanks.
Sould one has a seperated environment for production and test system? How do you do it on a same server? Install two instance? How do you seperate test DBs from the production DBs? Please advise...Thank you
I have just finished upsizing an Access database to SQL Server 2k. Now the SQL Server need to be run on a test basis to determine if i need to make more changes to the front-end (Access). The problem I am facing is how to keep the two databases in sync while I am testing. Any suggestions?
Also any suggestion or comments on how to run a test setup like this (in parrallel) are also welcome since this is my first time attempting a project like this.
We're using SQL Server 2000 as back end in our web project. The problem is we've 3 different copies of same database - one each for Development, Test and Production sitting in 2 different machines.
My question is - is there any tool for comparing the objects (tables, stored procedures, etc) ?
There is a production database which has ever increasing data. For testing purposes though, I would like to build a test database with exactly the same schema but only a subset of data copied from the production database . I'll specify the criteria (something like a where clause in select query) for copying the data from the production database.
Is there a tool that anyone has come across to do this job ?
Is there any tool available to migrate the data from the SQL Server test database to SQL Server production database. Data Migration should be based on a condition which can be given as an input for a table by the user. The dependant tables also should be migrated based on the condition. i.e data subsetting based on the matching conditions.
Ex : Salary > 2000
The rows of the table which matches the condition alone need to be migrated for the corresponding table. Also its dependant table's rows should be migrated based on the given condition. Please help me with a tool which can automate this.
I am debugging one of our programs and ran the fix in Test. I would liketo compare table 1 between Production and Test. I want the query to outputcolumn 1 if Production <> Test output.What is the best way to achieve this?jeff--Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
We will be implementing our first SQL cluster in December. Our current plan calls for a shared development/test database server with one physical server, but two SQL Server instances. Our production environment will be a SQL cluster. Is it necessary to create a clustered test environment for testing patches, hot-fixes, etc...?
Hello I have a production database that i need to refresh to our test environment daily. The database size is 700 MB. I do not need to transfer the stored procedures and triggers , users and logins. Would a DTS package that runs every night be the best and the easiest solution to implement or should i look into log shipping and snapshot replication.
I am attempting to create a Test db from a full backup of the production db. With 2012, I cannot do it the the way i had done it in previous versions (and now i understand why because of Logical names).
The Test db runs in the same instance as Prod db.
I attempted to run this but come up with errors. This is what i executed:
RESTORE DATABASE TEST FROM DISK = 'E:<path>FULL.BAK' WITH REPLACE, RECOVERY, MOVE 'PROD' TO 'E:<path>TEST.MDF';
The errors are all cannot execute due to PROD is in use.
Setting up Transaction Replication in test environment. I am willing to bet that most of you take a production backup (if so, how, and using what?), restoring the database to your test environment, then running a snapshot to your subscriber and away you go.
But perhaps you take a backup of your publisher and subscriber, if so, how do you know there are no inconsistences because there were transactions sitting on the distributor?
What do you do if you have additional indexes on the subscriber for reporting, that are not on the publisher?
Here at work we are having issues with getting consistent databases set up with T Rep, missing rows, duplicate keys at subscriber etc. How to avoid these issues.
We are setting up a new Reporting Services 2005 enterprise reporting tier that will support multiple developers, applications, and end users. We will have mirrored environments including development, test, and production each with their own database cluster, and reporting server.
We have multiple report developers who share a single Visual Studio solution which is saved in SourceSafe and is setup to have separate report projects for each business unit in the orgainzation. Each report project is mapped to a specific deployment folder matching the business unit. Using the Visual Studio Configuration Manager, we can simply flip to the envirnoment we want to deploy to and the reports are published to the correct environment and folder structure.
My problem lies with the common data sources. We are using a single master Common Data Sources folder to hold all of the data sources. The trick is that each and every reporting folder seems to have to have it's own copy of the data source in visual studio. There does not seem to be an easy way to change the data sources for the reports when you publish to various environment, i.e. development, test, production etc.
Ideally, we would have a single project for the common data sources that all reporting projects and associated folders would map to, and we would have a way to associate the appropriate data source for each environment when we deploy.
I'm looling for best practices on how to setup data sources for development and deployment in an enterprise environment that uses Visual Studio to develop and publish reports. We have 3 environments, and 6 data sources per environment and about 20 reporting folder / project in Visual Studio. That's 360 changes that have to be manged when deploying reports. Is there a best practices way to do this?
There has got to be a better way? Can anyone give me some insite into how to set this up?
In SSIS Version 9.00.2047.00 I have build a few packages using script tasks. These packages work well in development.
When I try to run them Using DTUtil the systems displays in the Package Excecution Progress-window the message: 'Error: The tasks "reading registry" cannot run on this edition of Integration services. It requires a higher level edition.'
Emptying the script task from its variables and script doesn't make a difference. I did not find an explanation in BOL. Concerning script tasks I only find
The Script task uses VSA as its engine for writing and running scripts. To run a script, you must have VSA installed on the computers where the package runs. But since I even get these messages when I try to run on the machine where I build the package,I guess this can't be the problem.
I need to test an HR application with a future date without changing the system date. If I just rollback the the date fields in the data, it may not work as the application itself might be using getdate() type of functions..
Any thoughts on how to do this w/o touching the system date setting?
I'm trying to work my way through the steps of using a User Id and Password in a connection string.
I'm working with SQL 2005 Express, VS2005, in the development server. Got an error I can't get around...tried it several diffent ways on a slightly more complicated test site...no joy...so went to the MSDN tutorial...made the most "vanilla" test I could think of, and still can't figure it out.
I thought it would be simple enough that I could post the whole thing (below)
The test works fine with Integrated Security = True in the connection string. When I remove that phrase, I get the error:
{"CREATE DATABASE permission denied in database 'master'. An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file E:MyPathApp_DataVSST_DB.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share."}
This occurs on the cn.Open statement below.
It gets past the login, so I know that the SQL User and password match up correctly.
========================= Page Code Behind (no controls on page) ------------
Imports System.Data Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Partial Class _Default Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim cn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("VSST_CN").ToString())
Dim cmd As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM VSST_Table", cn) cn.Open() Dim rdr As SqlDataReader = cmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection) rdr.Read() Response.Write(rdr(0).ToString())
End Sub End Class
================= The DB
Table VSST_Table, ID is int, primary key, identity Field1, Field2, Field3, Field4, Field5 are varchar(50)
I added one record ("A", "B", "C", "D", "E") to the table through VS2005 Server Explorer
This shows up in Count = 1 from running the page when Integrated Security = True
================= In SSMSE: (this is ALL I did, tried to use the minimum so not to confuse...)
I added the SQL Authentication Server level user "VSST" with the password "vsst123" (and the login works, as noted above)
I attach the .mdf
I add VSST to the Database Users, and give it db_owner
I add VSST to the Table with all permissions checked.
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I can't figure this out. This is a very vanilla test and I'm stumped. I'm about to give up on SQL Authentication entirely (at least for now), and just try to filter my inputs for SQL Injections...that's the only reason I have (at this stage in my biz plan) for needing SQL Authentication. On the other hand, I really don't like being this stumped on something that is so widely promoted as a common practice.
Howdy; I've tried this in the 'tools' area, but that didn't work too well. I suspect, I will have to generate a T-SQL code then schedule it as a job. Why I can't just drag and drop with basic desires, is beyond me, but THAT probably does exist.
anyway here is the problem [this server has many databases, on SQL 2000 sp2] 1. User only wants me to use Monday morning's full backup, which is good in that it doesn't include transaction logs. 2. Restore that data overtop/into Developement db. = good, no data to worry about damaging. 3. User does NOT want me to do this by hand, but schedule it.
ok, a. must do a RESTORE WITH FILELISTONLY from [?] what ?, master? and if I user the *.bak of the production, it has a coded date field in the name entry SO, I would, I guess, have to generate all sorts of wonderful code to find the date and build a file name. Why, because using the FROM DISK = 'F:MSSQLBACKUPDBPRODUCTION_yyyyddmm.BAK' is not going to work with a wild card. Can I do a file lookup using a 'PRODUCTION' prefix into a variable, then use that or should I look for latest file date [remember there are several database backups here], or ????
then. How does one schedule such a T-SQL. Do I save it to some text file, and invoke it using a job scheduler.
We have both a production SQL 7 server, QA, and Development. From time to time, I want to move just the data from the production server to the other 2 servers without modifing the objects that may have been changed such as stored procedures and rights. Is there a way using the SQL tools provided that we can just move the data. Becuase also what happens is that the rights to the objects change which means my developers no longer have access to the tables for selects in QA since the changes where overwritten by production where they do not have the rights.
I am able to run the package successfuly in test database. but not in production database. It throughs up error saying
Description: Unable to load the package as XML because of package does not have a valid XML format. A specific XML parser error will be posted. Description: Failed to open package file "D:\TAHOE\APPS\SSISPackages\Integration Services Packages\ArchiveMain.dtsx" due to error 0x80070015 "The device is not ready.". This happens when loading a package and the file cannot be opened or loaded c orrectly into the XML document. This can be the result of either providing an incorrect file name was specified when calling LoadPackage or the XML file was specified and has an incorrect format. End Error Could not load package "D:\TAHOE\APPS\SSISPackages\Integration Services Packages\ArchiveMain.dtsx" because of error 0xC0011002. Description: Failed to open package file "D:\TAHOE\APPS\SSISPackages\Integration Services Packages\ArchiveMain.dtsx" due to error 0x80070015 "The device is not ready.". This happens when loading a package and the file cannot be opened or loaded corr ectly into the XML document. This can be the result of either providing an incorrect file name was specified when calling LoadPackage or the XML file was specified and has an incorrect format.
I have package there i have multiple tasks,I have used one User definied varible into my package level,So here my condition is i want to change my variable name from the package level,Here that variable used in different places in my package level,it has used in some places as well in my package level.
I need to change my Variable name after development of my package so how it will changed.
Hello. I am not very strong with SQL server. But I know enough to get my way around. The reason I am asking forhelp is that I need to change a SQL server script that resides on one of the production database servers of thecompany I work for. I just need to add two new lines to the stored procedure.(See the lines that are bolded.) Thesevalues are [MO_FAX],[MO_EMAIL]. Can someone tell me if there is a best way of going about doing this? Can I just simply open up SQL server and quickly make the change? The big issue here is that this script is used in production. So I am just a little worriedabout screwing something up. Anyway, I would appreciate some good advice on this?
/* Returns all data given the region and country */ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetAllInfomration] AS SELECT [COUNTRY], [Company_NAME], [CompanyAddress], [CompanyPhone], [MO_FAX] [MO_EMAIL] [CompanyFax], FROM [InfoLookup].[dbo].[Company_Contact] RETURN
Could someone please tell me why the following SELECT statement...
SELECT ID, SpecimenNr, ScientificName, Locality, TaxonFROM petrander.QueryViewWHERE (InstitutionCode = 1) AND (Collectioncode = 1) AND (ScientificName LIKE N'%le%') AND (Locality LIKE N'%Fakse%') AND (22 IN (ParentID1, ParentID2, ParentID3, ParentID4, ParentID5, ParentID6, ParentID7, ParentID8))
...gives me 9 rows back, but embedding the exact same statement in the following sproc... set ANSI_NULLS ONset QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONGOALTER PROCEDURE [petrander].[DynamicQuery] @taxparent int = NULL, @museum int = NULL, @collection int = NULL, @binomen Nvarchar(254) = NULL, @locality Nvarchar(254) = NULLAS SELECT ID, SpecimenNr, ScientificName, Locality, Taxon FROM QueryView WHERE InstitutionCode = COALESCE(@museum, InstitutionCode) AND CollectionCode = COALESCE(@collection, CollectionCode) AND ScientificName LIKE 'N%' + @binomen + '%' AND Locality LIKE 'N%' + @locality + '%' AND (@taxparent IN (ParentID1, ParentID2, ParentID3, ParentID4, ParentID5, ParentID6, ParentID7, ParentID8))
...and passing the exact same parameter values to with the following execute statement...
I am not sure if this is the right folder to post, but currently I'm considering using Flash as an interface, the application at www.mobik.com seems impressive, simple and sweet. But I'm wondering if I can build desktop application with flash and SQL2005 as backend for all the processing. at the same time, the flash shall be getting updates from a server. Possible?
I tried to create a simple application based on the Sql Server CE samples and, as is typical when I play with databases, the program failed. In this case it failed to even load. The program has a form and a data source that I dropped onto the form. When I run the program the program breaks at this line:
Code Snippetthis._connection = new global::System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeConnection();
The error is:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.DllNotFoundException' occurred in System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll Additional information: Unable to load DLL 'sqlceme35.dll': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
My first attempt at 'fixing' this was simply to copy the requisite DLLs to my bindebug folder. I found the DLLs here: C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server Compact Editionv3.5 and copied these - sqlcecompact35.dll, sqlceca35.dll, sqlceme35.dll, sqlceoledb35.dll, sqlceqp35.dll and sqlcese35.dll, sqlceer35EN.dll - to my bindebug folder.
Now instead of the first error, I get this error:
An unhandled exception of type 'System.BadImageFormatException' occurred in System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll Additional information: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B)
I am running Vista Business (x64) and using (the desktop version of) Sql Server Compact Edition 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition. The test 'program' is written in C#. (Incidentally I can play with the database with no problems in Visual Studio 2008's server explorer. I can look at data, add data, etc.)
ERROR SUMMARY Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log. * Activation of http://webdev.ci.lubbock.tx.us/ReportServer$SQL05/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected: + Downloading http://webdev.ci.lubbock.tx.us/ReportServer$SQL05/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder.application did not succeed. + The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.
COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION FAILURE SUMMARY No transaction error was detected.
WARNINGS There were no warnings during this operation.
OPERATION PROGRESS STATUS * [4/10/2006 11:34:29 AM] : Activation of http://webdev.ci.lubbock.tx.us/ReportServer$SQL05/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder.application has started.
ERROR DETAILS Following errors were detected during this operation. * [4/10/2006 11:34:29 AM] System.Deployment.Application.DeploymentDownloadException (Unknown subtype) - Downloading http://webdev.ci.lubbock.tx.us/ReportServer$SQL05/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder.application did not succeed. - Source: System.Deployment - Stack trace: at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next) at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadAllFiles() at System.Deployment.Application.FileDownloader.Download(SubscriptionState subState) at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadManifestAsRawFile(Uri& sourceUri, String targetPath, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation) at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestDirectBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options, ServerInformation& serverInformation) at System.Deployment.Application.DownloadManager.DownloadDeploymentManifestBypass(SubscriptionStore subStore, Uri& sourceUri, TempFile& tempFile, SubscriptionState& subState, IDownloadNotification notification, DownloadOptions options) at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.PerformDeploymentActivation(Uri activationUri, Boolean isShortcut) at System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationActivator.ActivateDeploymentWorker(Object state) --- Inner Exception --- System.Net.WebException - The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. - Source: System - Stack trace: at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse() at System.Deployment.Application.SystemNetDownloader.DownloadSingleFile(DownloadQueueItem next)
COMPONENT STORE TRANSACTION DETAILS No transaction information is available.
Does anyone know how that I can get the reportbuilder.application to run on a client on the network. It seems that if I have to remote into the actual server to get the report builder to work would be pointless for users on the network. I get the 401 Unauthorized all the time. Any comments would help.
I'm developing a scientific appliation - to forecast the spread of disease. The algorithm has been designed such that different subpopulations reside on separate computers.
The model uses the same set of data repeatedly, and only returns a small signature that reflects the appropriateness of a particular set of parameters.
The model does however change, and I'm looking for a way to roll out this model (which only contains T-SQL, CLR assemblies and service broker code).
I have considered setting up a database on each computer which has the 'data' files which are static, and a separate database which contains the algorithm which can be amended.
Could one then detach the algorithm database making the new version that can then be rolled out (by attaching it to each computer used)?
Is this the best practice? Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to do this?
Is there any tool available to migrate the data from the SQL Server test database to SQL Server production database. Data Migration should be based on a condition which can be given as an input for a table by the user. The dependant tables also should be migrated based on the given condition. i.e data subsetting based on the matching conditions.
Ex : Salary > 2000
The rows of the table which matches the condition alone need to be migrated for the corresponding table. Also its dependant table's rows should be migrated based on the given condition. Please help me with a tool which can automate this.
We are setting up a test lab environment with 100 machines. We want one master testing db that gets replicated to each to run scripted application tests nightly.
My goal is to minimize the amount of work to move this thing to each of the 100 test machines. I am wondering if we need to even have the sql local and invest in a monster db server with 100 copies of the db we restore and each test machine point to their own db on that server, or if I should use db mirroring or something to get the master test db to each of those machines instead.
Now that we have a good programming model in SSIS - the question is whether to write automated unit tests for your packages, and would it generally be a good idea for packages?
Also - if yes to write tests - then where to find more informations regarding How to accomplish that?
hi every one, i need to test SSIS pacakge which will import data from different database where record count is around 5 millions. iam planning to test it through c# code as well as manually also. SSIS source : consist of 7 tables SSIS destination :consist of 7 tables Using c# code iam trying to run ssis package through batch file. i am putting expected rowcount, column count in an excel file and comparing same with destination tables by writing query implementing ADO.Net concept. am i going right way ,can any one suggest best and productive way to test the ssis package . what are the other things i need to test it. do any one can add test cases to it.
S.No
Test Case
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Verify all the tables have been imported.
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Verify all the rows in each table have been imported.
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Verify all the columns specified in source query for each table have been imported
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Verify all the data has been received without any truncation for each column.
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Verify the schema at source and destination
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Verify the time taken /speed for data transfer
7
Fields truncated due to difference in length of the field at destination. Regards Arif shareef
