For management that doesn't have the software I do, I've been using a PDF postscript utility to print the model and give it to them. However, I have to fit the model for the specific page (which is really small, and you have to zoom in), or you have to view it on multiple pages. Well multiple pages can be a pain, because the table you are looking at is on page 1, but the relationships are on page 12, 22, or 50, for example. So I was looking for a tool that is cheap enough to implement that we could look at the entire model on one "surface" (not necessary to print), that the model could be viewed in.
The Methods & Tools newsletter has released in its archive section thearticle "Database Modelling in UML". This article offers a step by stepapproach to transform a UML object-oriented class model in a purelyrelational database.http://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=9
i guess really i'm looking for opinions and / or experiences of modelling organisational hierarchies.... anyone?
i'm in the process of creating a logical model (very early stages) of a new datawarehouse. The current OLTP schema stores it as a self referencing key (i.e. parent_group_id). The performance problems involved in aggregating to different levels of the hierarchy causes no end of complaints from customers, as i'm sure you can imagine. So, now we are modelling a datawarehouse for their reporting requirements, i obviously want it to be better
so far i've considered... 1) keeping it as it is 2) allocating a 'node' id and storing the left / right nodes in the hierarchy tree. we've used before when reporting over the OLTP system with report developers building it 'on the fly' as part of their report. (better explanation than mine... http://www.dbpd.com/vault/9811/kamfn.shtml ) 3) an intermediate table storing its 'position' in the hierarchy? not really played with this yet but mr kimball seems to like it see... http://www.dbmsmag.com/9809d05.html 4) denormalising it completely. i.e. level_1, level_2, level_3, Level4.... for every fact? the advantage of this is that it makes aggregation at any level really easy. the problem is that each of our customers has a different organisation hierarchy, with a different number of levels, and given the OLTP schema there is no limit to the number of levels in a hierarchy
Using SQL 7. I have a table with 2 fields in it that I wish to relateto a lookup table. DDL for table 1:CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblPedometerReadings] ([ID] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL ,[ReadingDate] [datetime] NULL ,[PedometerReading] [smallint] NULL ,[OtherActivity1] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_ASNULL ,[OtherActivity1Minutes] [smallint] NULL ,[OtherActivity2] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_ASNULL ,[OtherActivity2Minutes] [smallint] NULL) ON [PRIMARY]DDL for table 2:CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tlkpOtherActivities] ([OtherActivity] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_ASNOT NULL ,[EquivalentSteps] [smallint] NOT NULL) ON [PRIMARY]In my database diagram, I want to create a 1-to-many relationshipbetween tblPedometerReadings.OtherActivity1 andtlkpOtherActivities.OtherActivity AND betweentblPedometerReadings.OtherActivity2 andtlkpOtherActivities.OtherActivitiy. I get a long error message whenattempting the relationship between OtherActivity2 and OtherActivity.Is there another schema that would work better?Thanks.
I'm attempting to design a schema for a project I working on. The idea is that I can store a list of documents and associate meta data with them.
The problem is that I don't know what that meta data will be at design time. The user will create the meta data fields in the software. For the first design I just had a table called meta field that contained the meta field defintion, and another table called itemdata that contained the document primary key, the metafield primary key and a value encoded as a varchar. This works fine while the list of documents is small.
Another idea I've thought of is to have seperate tables for all of the metafields. This would allow me to be very specific about the values that can be stored in that column etc. It also turns out that for the kind of queries I'm doing its about 4 times as fast. The only problem is that the software will need to create these tables at run time.
What I would like to know is, is this a really bad idea? If so why?. Also are there any other ways I can store this kind of data?
The kind of queries I am doing are find all the documents where metafield 1 is A and metafield 2 is B and metafield 3 is C and metafield 4 is D etc.
Hi All,Can u please suggest me some books for relational database design ordatabase modelling(Knowledgeable yet simple) i.e. from which we couldlearn database relationships(one to many,many to oneetc.....),building ER diagrams,proper usage of ER diagrams in ourdatabase(Primary key foreign key relations),designing smallmodules,relating tables and everything that relates about databasedesign....Coz I think database design is the crucial part of databaseand we must know the design part very first before starting up withdatabases.....Thanks and very grateful to all of you....Vikas
Hi all.I'm looking for a tool which should act like some kind of middleware/logical layer bewtween the SQL server and the webbased user interface.- It should be possible to easily create simple web forms (only datainput and output) without programming effort by "clicking" the fieldsand their order on the web mask within an admnistrative interface.- It should also be bossible to add "new fields" to the database,including field type, permissions, value lists etc. (excluding anybusiness logic) without programming effort by administration.I know, that most workflow tools or "Trouble Ticket Tools", based ondatabases have this feature to easily configure new masks and add newfields to the database, but i need it as an tool-unspecific layer forthe MS SQL Server.Thank you very much for your feedback, any ideas are welcome!Best regards, Heiko.
hiis there any tool to write stored procedurei have long queries to write instead of that i want a tool or editor where i can click or drag and drop to write procedurei make my work to complete fasterif any please tell me the site to downloadthanx byeramesh
Hello,I'm looking for recommendations for SQL tools used for comparing schemas from different databases. I would like the tool to be able to compare schemas for at least two databases and list the difference in tables, sps, functions, and view. Even if the both schemas contain the same structures I would like to know what differences exist. Also, I would like to be able to type in a table field name and get a list of every place in the db that field is referenced. On another note, how do others go about maintaining a version history of db structures? Any tools available for this functionality? Currently, I use visual source safe for my app. code. I could place copies of my SPs in visual source safe and edit them within visual studio. I'm not sure how I would easily get the edited version into my sql database without having to create a script or copy the edited version back to the db. Any thoughts?Any information is appreciated.Oscar
Hi guys, Im trying to use Bulk copy to transform a csv file into a table
BULK INSERT [BULK_INSERT_TEST] FROM 'c:stock.csv' WITH ( FIELDTERMINATOR = ',', ROWTERMINATOR = 'N'
)
--*STOCK LOOKS LIKE THIS stockcode,barcode,qty 10002,"10002087",0
TABLE Looks like this
id, stock,barcode, qty
can anyone give any guidance on performing this - at present this doesn't seem to work. Worth mentioning id is autoincrementing. I would also need to strip quotes around the second field. Note. Stock file has a header - do I need to strip this to use BCP?
There are 4 columns in total, however some rows have missing values for Column 4, and but given there are no field separators (all columns have fixed width and data is truncated if needed), how should the format be written to define a row terminator to apply to Column 3 if Column 4 is null.
I'm in the process of delivering a SQL Server BI solution to a customer. I have the cube built, SSIS working and an SSRS package with several hundred reports. They would like to roll their own reports.
I've looked at ProClarity (or whatever MS calls it now) and Report Builder. Both seem to have their pros and cons.
I think Service Broker is the right tool for what I want to do but need confirmation. Here is what I want to do.
Our company sells small business consulting services. When a client signs up with us, we put a server at their site that runs our app (using SQL Server 2005). Once the server is setup at their site and operational we constantly send certain information from that server to our central corporate server. There could be thousands of records every day being sent from each of these servers to our corporate server. We're using webservices now to transfer this data from each server but I'm afraid we're reaching a point where webservices will no longer work because of the volume of data.
1) I assume that Service Broker was created, in part at least, to address these types of situations?
2) If #1 is correct, is there any step by step examples/instruction that shows me how to use Service Broker to communicate between two SQL Server databases on two different servers?
Hi, I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this question (please re-direct me if it isn't). I would like to learn about SubSonic tool:1. do you recommend this tool ? if so what are its best uses?2. is its license allows me to work with it for free for commercial uses? any license limitations I should be aware of for using it as a tool? thanks,
Hi all, I downloaded the StudentActivities sample app from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345152.aspx When I want to go through this tutorial I encounter the following problem: Database 'C:WebSitesStudentActivitiesRegistryDataStudentActivities.mdf' cannot be upgraded because its non-release version (587) is not supported by this version of SQL Server. You cannot open a database that is incompatible with this version of sqlservr.exe. You must re-create the database.Could not open new database 'C:WebSitesStudentActivitiesRegistryDataStudentActivities.mdf'. CREATE DATABASE is aborted. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 950) So attaching the DB seems to doesn't work. The reason for this is probably that this sample app src was written in an older version of Visual WebDeveloper Express 2005 +SQL Server Express 2005. Therefore I would like if someone can provide me with the sql src of this StudentActivities database. Then I can create the database myself from this. Or is there some tool which canconvert a mdf to sql? I hope someone can help me with this. Thanks in advance. GJ
Hi all, I downloaded the StudentActivities sample app from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345152.aspx When I want to go through this tutorial I encounter the following problem: Database 'C:WebSitesStudentActivitiesRegistryDataStudentActivities.mdf' cannot be upgraded because its non-release version (587) is not supported by this version of SQL Server. You cannot open a database that is incompatible with this version of sqlservr.exe. You must re-create the database.Could not open new database 'C:WebSitesStudentActivitiesRegistryDataStudentActivities.mdf'. CREATE DATABASE is aborted. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 950) So attaching the DB seems to doesn't work. The reason for this is probably that this sample app src was written in an older version of Visual WebDeveloper Express 2005 +SQL Server Express 2005. Therefore I would like if someone can provide me with the sql src of this StudentActivities database. Then I can create the database myself from this. Or is there some tool which canconvert a mdf to sql? I hope someone can help me with this. Thanks in advance. GJ
I have a typed dataset where I used the sql query builder to build the following: SELECT DealManager.*, Contact AS Expr1FROM DealManagerWHERE (Contact = @Contact) How can I incorporate the "where % % " clause into this statement and still except the required parameter. In other words, I want something like this: SELECT DealManager.*, Contact AS Expr1FROM DealManagerWHERE (Contact like %@Contact%) but I get an error when I compile this... Any help always appreciated!!!
Hi Guys Got this problem, ive setup some new roles and users through asp.net configuration and it creates ASPNETDB.MDF in the App_Data folder when ive got a DB in SQL server 2005 express. Basically how do i change it so the tables created for the users and roles are created in the SQL Server 2005 Db? p.s I'm very new to sql server 2005 Thanks
I've been having trouble getting this tool to work with my server/database. I'm using XP Pro, MSDE, .NET 1.1.4322 and IIS 5.1. IIS has been installed and tested with the help of others. .asp pages are being served locally and to another PC on the network. No obvious problem here. When I installed MSDE I used the SAPWD='strongpassword" command to create a password. I also built a new database. I had positive feedback on both of these actions.
Now to the tool - when I activate the administrator it pops with the little window saying Web Server Configuration. It lists the following options:
Desired Port: IIS Cassini Personal Web Server Restore Faults
and Start and Stop buttons.
If I leave the setting on IIS and click Start it opens a webpage entitled Web Data Administrator. Moving further down I have a welcome message and then the line -
Please enter a SQL Server name:
Username: [Desktopob shadowed entry] Password Server (local)
Authentication Method:
Windows Intergrated SQl Login
and then a Login button
If I select SQL Login and enter "sa" as the username and then my password leaving (local) as the server I get the following error:
Invalid username and/or password, you are using a windows login that is not your own, or server does not exist.
I have tried all combination of \desktopsa, sa, you name it. The password I selected is correct because I made a point of writing it down so I wouldn't forget it. I have also tried all the combos using Cassini as well.
This is where I'm stuck at this point. All suggestions are appreciated.
Does anyone know of a T-SQL Reporting Tool that can be attached to either SQL 7 and/or 2000 databases. I am looking for something similar to the Oracle 'Discoverer' tool.
The requirements are that users be able to create there own reports using a GUI with the minimum of prior knowledge of T-SQL.
I am new to the db world so please let me know if I don't make any since.
I was wondering if there is an open source SQL database monitoring tool out there that I can run on my desktop that would give me a log of what is going on on the database (or the server).
I'm trying to find out the best O/R mapping tool for .NET. A perfect tool would begin with the database model and would be capable of generating 2 layers: the Domain layer (normal classes) and the Persistence layer (methods for storing and retrieving the domain layer objects from the database.
This tool would also be capable of generating the corresponding Visual Studio solution and projects.
I've already tried NetTiers, but it generates so many layers that the code is very dificult to manage and understand.
So any of you know a tool similar to the described above?
I'm looking for suggestions on what Query tool to use on SQL DB's for a group of people who are used to creating ACCESS QUERIES. I'm having trouble running SQL as the backend and ACCESS as the query tool to run ANALYSIS. TIMEOUT issues and such. So, I thought we might as well use the SQL tools. Any suggestions...
Steve McCormick writes "I have written a stored procedure that may be used as a utility. I developed it because I keep having to replicate the content of support data tables between environments when I don't have a link and cannot use the import/export utilities. The procedure generates insert statements that replicate the content of a table. You simply provide the table name as a parameter and it generates an insert statement for each record. The insert statement is dynamic for however many columns the table has and performs appropriate conversions of data to represent how the insert statements should be written. If the table has a primary key, it encases the insert statement in an (IF NOT EXISTS) condition that checks the primary key duplication constraints before attempting the insert. Would you be interested in this tool for your readers and if so, how do I submit it?"
