In Over My Head And Need Guidance
Aug 24, 2007
I am the IS manager for a medium business. I am also the DBA and the programmer and help desk and trainer etc etc.
In 2003 I embarked on a project which went live in 2005. We contracted to have our order processing system rewritten into SQL. I went from a character based 4GL language called Progress running in a UNIX enviroment to a knock down, drag out, full blown microsoft solution. I have been operating this new system for two years making modest enhancements and improvements as my skills with microsoft are increasing and improving (retraining my brain to think objects)and hiring contractors to do the really cool fun stuff.
I have to learn Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, SQL Express, T-SQL, Replication, Reporting Services, SSIS, IIS, DTS, Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio, VB, C#, ADO.NET and the .NET Framework fits in here too although I don't really know where.
I hope you are starting to understand my feeling of being 'in over my head'. Right now everything is running perfect. I do backups, restore them and create new reports. Basic stuff.
On top of this our company has merged with a larger one and this bigger company does not have a microsoft solution. They have an AS400 home grown application that I do not want to learn. I will not go backwards!!!!! I will loose my job/position in the next couple of years. I want certifications (to get that interview).
I just don't have the skills to back up the certification (I don't want to be one of those exam cram people) I do a plethora of unrelated taks all day long. Not because I have to do them I choose to do them. I like both DBA and Programming.
So, if you were me, and could get certifications and have experience to back them up what would you do first?
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Jan 25, 2008
Hello!
I try to execute the below statement on a column, I've been trying on a row where subType3 contains this string ",31,32,34,23,55,54,39,44,51,52," without the ",. The column is declared as varchar(MAX)
SELECT subType3 FROM aTable WHERE CONTAINS(subType3, '32')
The above statement executes and returns the result as expected, BUT if I execute this:
SELECT subType3 FROM aTable WHERE CONTAINS(subType3, '55')
then nothing is returned. I can't see any real pattern, 32, 34 and 54 returns the row. If I try with any of the others nothing is returned....Why is this?
I sort of need to use contains, if I dont wan't to start chopping up the string and patindex or something like that. Patindex works by the way, but when I have many values then it gets a bit cumbersome using anything else than contains.
Thanks for any and all help,
Cheers!
/Eskil
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Apr 25, 2000
Hi all !
I have a table where there are a number of columns with varchar(20) and varchar(255).
I am looking at a table with 4 varchar(255) and 10 varchar(20) 's.
I have to estimates the size of the table.I can do that given the rowsize and the number of rows in the table.
My problem is what is the kind of over head that I need to take into account when I am dealing with a table with soo many variable length columns when calculating the row size?
What is the over head difference between char datatye and varchar datatype?
I can't go for char datatypes now.
Help and info regarding this is very much appreciated.
regards
Sush.
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Feb 13, 2007
Hello
Is there a way to get the column head in query output.
Thanks
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Dec 8, 2005
Question:
How do I return a list of items that matches one or more criteria that I pass in?
Background:
A user enters a sales lead (a company is looking for a place to have their event). That lead has a number of
criteria elements (start date, end date, city, region, maximum room rate, one or more amenities, etc. - more
details below) that should be used when trying to find Hotels that match that criteria. Obviously, some
criteria is more important than others (city, start and end date are more important than the maximum room
rate) - and it's unlikely that many (if any) of the Hotels will match *all* of the criteria entered by the
user. So, I'm looking to return a list of Hotels that match at least one of the criteria - if possible,
ordered by how many criteria elements match.
What makes this query particularly difficult, is that some of the criteria to match are stored in multiple
tables. For example, each Hotel has "Amenities" (Golf, Spa, etc.) - that are stored in a seperate table.
When a user enters a lead, they select which amenities they want to match. Also, a lead specifies a number
of rooms to block for each day between the Arrival and Departure date - these numbers can change from day
to day - but for this query - I think it's acceptible to get the largest number of rooms needed from any of
the days and compare that one number against the "MaxDailyRoomBlock" field of a Hotel (represented by the
"Property" table). Also, since a Hotel has different rates defined for each season, the query will have to
match the "MaxRate" against the rate of the correct season based on the Arrival and Departure dates. Also,
the rate can be within 20% of the stated "MaxRate".
Here are the following variables that will be passed into the query as criteria items:
RequestCity, RegionINDEID, ArrivalDate, DepartureDate, MaxRate, MaxTheaterSeating, MaxBanquetSeating,
MaxSchoolSeating, MaxBreakoutRooms, MaxRoomBlock
I know this is a huge post - and I sincerly appreciate any help you can provide.
DDL for Tables:
*In the DDL.txt attachment
Sample Data:
* In the data.txt attachment
Previous Attempts:
Unfortunately, I don't even know where to begin, so I haven't tried anything yet.
Expected Results:
PropertyIDNameNumOfMatches
-----------------------------------------------
1Marriot San Diego5
2Hilton San Diego3
3Hilton San Diego Downtown2
Thanks in advance, again...
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Dec 18, 2007
I have a table that contains categories, users, modifydates . All three of those fields may be repeated many times.
I need to build a table that contains user, modifydate, oldcategory, newcategory, duration (number of days between modifydates when there is a category change)
I can use the min(modifydate) to get the 1st occurrence of each new category, but I am having trouble populating the oldvalue and then also getting the duration.
Adding to the complexity, I have to take the last entry of a null category prior to category being populated the first time and populate it with the first occurrence of category, Likewise, I have to populate the first occurrence of null after the last occurrence of a popoulated category. In other words, this simulates populated categories prior to first occurrence and after the last occurrence.
Any help would be great.
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Any help would be appreciated!
Thank you,
Susan Jones
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Jan 19, 2014
I have an existing function and need to alter function to give result of the parent-description until its parent is reached.
--CREATE TABLE
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[Id] [int] NULL,
[ParentID] [int] NULL,
[City] [nchar](20) NULL,
[Location] [nchar](50) NULL,
[Amt] [int] NULL
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[Code] ....
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Jan 24, 2008
Hi
I have a huge matrix with 8 columns and then all the data that's generated when choosing a date span. These 8 columns are Topic, Salesperson, Company and so on and then the right part of the matrix grows with values for each month.
My problem is that there are no column headers for the first 8 columns!! How come?
What I did to resolve this was to put in a table in the top left cell and then write in the corresponding column header. This works €¦ in IE but not in PDF or Excel. And I really need it when I export it to Excel.
Any ideas?
Kind regards.
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Apr 8, 2006
Data apx (5 million rows):
Span example:
-------------M---------------
___________-------------Rx-------------
Needs to b converted to this (ignore the underscore, used for spacing):
---M-------|-------M & Rx----|---Rx--
The time spans can slide either way.
Data example:
MemberID Eff_Date Term_Date Med_COB Rx_COB
1 20050101 20050912 Y N
1 20050310 20051120 N Y
1 20060101 <null> Y N
1 20060101 <null> N Y
Resulting Records need to be in this format:
MemberID Eff_Date Term_Date Med_COB Rx_COB
1 20050101 20050310 Y N
1 20050311 20050912 Y Y
1 20050913 20051120 N Y
1 20060101 <null> Y Y
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated. We are running SQL2K. I like most people,would like to stay away from cursors and loops if possible.
Thanks,
nemesis01
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Aug 21, 2007
Here's My scenario,
I am using SQL2k5 with sp2. In have three branch stores in my site each with SQL 2k5 and a master server at headoffice also with SQL 2k5. The sales transactions for each store goes to a table called sales transaction. What I need is that the info from the sales transaction of each branch populate the sales transaction table at the head office, but not vice versa. That is to say the sales transaction table at each branch must have their information alone and no information from any other branch. Only the head office must have sales transactions from all branches in it's table. What type of replication do i use and how do i implement it?
Muchas muchas gracias.
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Does anyone know how i can rescue these files so that we can get our helpdesk up and running again?!
thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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Hi,
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I'd like to use a flexible design, but I just started with SSIS and its going to be hard to test all the possible combinations, so I hope I can find some guidance in this forum.
What would be a good approach to allow for the most reuse of work to support these various file formats?
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Take Care.Wating for reply.
Developer
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Greetings All,
I have a SQL2005 table that I'm needing to export to a 'formatted' csv flat-file to emulate a mainframe output. I'm new to SSIS so don't beat me up to bad... The current output of my ssis csv file is as follows:
95752,95725,0001,0, ,N
11473,8704,0001,0, ,N
1279215,436612,0001,0, ,N
43595,43592,0038,0, ,N
and I need to get to here:
95752 ,95725 ,1 ,0 ," ","N ",0
11473 ,8704 ,1 ,0 ," ","N ",0
1279215 ,436612 ,1 ,0 ," ","N ",0
43595 ,43592 ,38 ,0 ," ","N ",0
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Any feedback in regards to getting pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated...
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basically the first field it pulls is the name of another sproc to run, and the this field says if i want to execute that sproc or not. so i want to rewrite this sproc in ssis to go through the table, and execute each sproc name based off of the first table.
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The guidance I seek is what should I do for the next xml source file as it will be an incremental data addition to the base file. I don't see any obvious way to keep the package from autogenerating id's that may conflict with the existing ids.
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What some good reasons to select 64-bit rather than 32-bit for SQL Server 2005?
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We've made the assumption that a database this large, with up to 1000 concurrent users, that this is a good candidate for a 64-bit installation. And that we're better off starting out with 64-bit, rather than migrating later.
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Hi
Just started using Visual Studio Express 2005 (Web) with Server 2005 Express and I am trying to extract the data from a SQL but cannot find how to connect to and open a SQL recordset so as to use the values of a single record dotted around a page. I would be using the values in the <Head> and <body> areas of the page. The body of the page would utilise standard data grids for sub and sub data, this being no problem.
Below is how I would have retrieved the "EndDate" value from an Access databse under asp.
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I have tried lots of things that were either code that was superceeded or just plainly didn't work.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Apr 4, 2008
I am gonig into interview for a junior developer position. The role involves a lot of SQL based work. Training is on the job, and they know I am new to this, but they want to know what I can do with SQL server by wednesday, and obviosuly I stand a better chance if I can do a reasonable amount by then.I am assuming I can practise with offline databases, so I would like to do that. Also I was wondering if there were any simple example databases I can load up.
I have downloaded and installed the software, and would like to know how to connect and create a test database.
There will be a small test in the interview and the questions are:
1. SQL Management and Data Extraction
For this task you will need to be familiar with database tables, data types and constraints. There will be some administration work using SQL Management Studio along with some T-SQL queries. You will need to show use of the SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements. If you do not have SQL Server, you can download the express edition for free at the following URL. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/bb410791.aspx
2. XSLT
For this task I will be asking you to produce some HTML output displaying the data from an XML file. The concept is similar to ASP.
3. Database Design
You will be given a scenario for a company that requires some database software for the smooth running of their organisation. You will need to plan and design a data structure to accommodate these requirements. You will be allowed to spend as much time on this part of the test as you wish. Key information here is going to be database normalization.
These questions dont make a whole lot of sense to be at the moment, so would appreciate a breakdown in simpler terms.
This job will be a fantastic opportunity for me to get into development, and would appreaciate any help that you guys have to offer, thanks in advance.
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alter table consumers
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the datatype is char(5)
error message:
The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "CK__Consumers__Zipco__4316F928".
Based on this message, i would think that there is another constraint, however the build script does not have any constraints. So i am somewhat confused.
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Apr 5, 2008
I know I already have an open thread and this is naughty, but just digging my other into a hole.
As stated in my other thread I am going into interview next week for a junior developer role, and they want to know as a test what I can find out and achieve with SSMS.
I would really appreachiate it if someone could give me some of their time to answer a few questions and guild me though the very basics. Either via MSN or Skype or something, sometime this weekend, as I really want this job on wednesday!
Thank You!
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Jun 6, 2000
On our datawarehouse server we are regularly having a 1203 error, causing the sql-server to hang. We get this message in the errorlog: Failed Assertion = 'm_activeSdesList.Head () == NULL'. In the knowledgebase I found a bug description that is very lookalike to our problem.
Article: Q240853 FIX: Lock Escalation With Parallel Query May Cause 1203 Error And Server Shutdown
*** part of the article ***
SYMPTOMS
If a lock escalation occurs while running a parallel query, it is possible to encounter error message 1203 as follows:
spid7 Process 7 unlocking unowned resource: KEY: 13:117575457:2 (35010560ebcd)
spid7 Process 7 unlocking unowned resource: KEY: 13:117575457:2 (35010560ebcd)
spid7 Error: 1203, Severity: 20, State: 1
spid7 Process ID 7 attempting to unlock unowned resource KEY: 13:117575457:2 (35010560ebcd).
spid7 Error: 1203, Severity: 20, State: 1
spid7 Process ID 7 attempting to unlock unowned resource KEY: 13:117575457:2 (35010560ebcd).
The error message included in the error log probably mentions the same lock resource in several of the error messages.
Once the error is printed, an assertion message similar to the following is also printed:
1999-08-09 13:15:26.79 kernel SQL Server Assertion: File: <proc.c>, line=1866 Failed Assertion = 'm_activeSdesList.Head () == NULL'.
After a dump of the stack for all threads, the server initiates a shutdown of the SQL Server process.
...
*** end ***
You can find the complete article on: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q240/8/53.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0
We can't use the workaround, because that would shut out parallelism, which is necessary for the project.
There is a fix, but in the article Microsoft says: "A supported fix that corrects this problem is now available from Microsoft, but it has not been fully regression tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem.".
You understan,d this is not one of my favorite type of fixes...
Does anyone have already installed the fix mentioned? Had any problems with it, or did it cause some other troubles?
Thx,
Kurt De Cauwsemaecker
Database Administrator
Telepolis Antwerpen
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Feb 25, 2005
Hi
I'm learning by going through the tutorials and such and modifying the code to try and learn how to do more and different things.
I have a MSDE Database, and I'm building a query from the WebMatrix Code Builder.
I can get a Select and Where to work on a "Category" colum as String; to return from a text box control (where I enter the name) and on button click.
What I would like to learn how to do and am having trouble is do a select Where "Category" (string) and "Status"(Int) are the same.
I have two Seperate Textboxes after i make the Where / And Query, but I'm not sure i have the button click code right.
I have included the code below - Sorry if this is so basic ;-) - The Sub_Button1 Click is at the end.
Function ShowRecords(ByVal category As String, ByVal status As Integer) As System.Data.DataSet
Dim connectionString As String = "server='(local)'; trusted_connection=true; database='SalesContacts'"
Dim dbConnection As System.Data.IDbConnection = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(connectionString)
Dim queryString As String = "SELECT [Contact].* FROM [Contact] WHERE (([Contact].[Category] = @Category) AND ("& _
"[Contact].[Status] = @Status))"
Dim dbCommand As System.Data.IDbCommand = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand
dbCommand.CommandText = queryString
dbCommand.Connection = dbConnection
Dim dbParam_category As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_category.ParameterName = "@Category"
dbParam_category.Value = category
dbParam_category.DbType = System.Data.DbType.String
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_category)
Dim dbParam_status As System.Data.IDataParameter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter
dbParam_status.ParameterName = "@Status"
dbParam_status.Value = status
dbParam_status.DbType = System.Data.DbType.Int32
dbCommand.Parameters.Add(dbParam_status)
Dim dataAdapter As System.Data.IDbDataAdapter = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter
dataAdapter.SelectCommand = dbCommand
Dim dataSet As System.Data.DataSet = New System.Data.DataSet
dataAdapter.Fill(dataSet)
Return dataSet
End Function
Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
DataGrid1.DataSource = ShowRecords(CStr(TextBox1.Text)&(CInt(TextBox2.Text)))
DataGrid1.DataBind()
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Apr 27, 2006
Hi!
I'm new to SSIS (and quite new to SQL Server). I have a process which I'd like to automize via SSIS - just don't know how and couldn't figure it out yet by playing around with the program. Shouldn't be too difficult though.
First of all, that's the process as I do it now:
1) Load several flatfile sources (dumps of SQL tables) into an SQL database.
2) Add identifier rows (to some tables), set the primary and foreign keys so the database is "recreated" and I can work on it.
3) Do several simple transformations, aggregations and selects across tables and finally write a new table containing information for reporting stuff.
I succeded in loading flatfiles within the data flow view, doing some transformations and saving the output to a flatfile. What I didn't find out: how can I "recreate" the database enabling me to perform "SELECT/FROM/WHERE" statements across tables? Will I have to write the imported files to tables within a db (how?) or can I avoid this step?
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May 16, 2006
I have been working SQL server for many years as a web developer, however in my current position we are lacking an expert in maintenance and admninistration as the company has recently switched over to SQL Server 2005.
I therefore need to develop a greater understanding of the best practices with regards to administration and am a bit lost as there are so many options which seem like they might match my requirements. As I have never looked beyond the basic administration/maintenance side of things before I have no idea which options to investigate.
Basically I want to clear any records older than 3 months old on a scheduled/automatic basis. There seem to be various options that could do this, however I want to know what the best option is, rather than waste a lot of time and risk problems by resorting to trial and error.
We are already backing up this data, however I am not sure if I should combine these tasks. It is highly unlikely that we will ever have to restore these older records, however we do need to store the data for legal reasons.
I dont expect anyone to tell me everything, as I am happy to investigate, I just need a nudge in the right direction.
Thanks
maw
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Aug 8, 2007
I've got a lot of XML like this (simplified):
Code Snippet
... 8 MORE
... 9 MORE TIMES
I need to get this into three existing SQL Server 2005 tables, each with identity columns for their primary keys:
Code Snippet
CREATE TABLE ELEMENT1 (
[ID] INT IDENTITY
)
CREATE TABLE ELEMENT2 (
[ID] INT IDENTITY,
[ELEMENT1_ID] INT
)
CREATE TABLE ELEMENT3 (
[ID] INT IDENTITY,
[ELEMENT2_ID] INT
)
With primary and foreign keys as you'd expect, and, of course, many more columns!
How would I get this into tables through SSIS, preferably in a high-performance manner (there may be several gigabytes of XML to load).
The issue, of course, is that in order to insert an ELEMENT2 row, I need the ID from the coresponding ELEMENT1, etc.
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Apr 25, 2008
Hello
I've been given the task of migrating a DTS package to SSIS (neither of which I am particularly familar with). The first job in the DTS package is to read a .ini file and set a bunch of variables. These variables are then used throughout the DTS package. After running the DTS package through the SSIS migration wizard this job turns into an execute script task and I can't see if it is still reading the .ini file. However, the only real purpose of this step is to allow different parameters to be passed in development, test, production etc. So I am thinking this whole step can be removed and effectively replaced with a package configuration (I'll probably use an XML file). My understanding is that by selecting the name/value pairs as appropriate in the XML package configuration file means this values will be passed in at runtime and achieve the same functionality. Is this the correct way to do this in SSIS, or do I still need the .ini file and variables?
Thanks for any advice on this issue.
Regards, John
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