Table Structure To Track Member Activity On Website...
Nov 29, 2007
Working on a "social networking site" and would like to have something that records a member's interactions within the site.
So for instance if a member uploads a photo, I would like to record it and then display it as "[Member] added photo" with a link to the photo. Also, if a friend is accepted as a friend "[Member1] is now friends with [Member2]" and also if a member posts a comment on the forums "[Member] posted message in [ForumName]" with link to post.
This is very similar to Facebook's News Feeds and MySpace Friend Updates.
The only way I can think of having this is having an Activity table with a field for each different Id I want to record and an associated list of tracked Actions:
Activity:
id
memberId
actionType
PhotoId
Member2Id
ForumId
Then there would be the ActionType table
actionId
Name
The biggest problem I see with this solution is that I would need to add a new field in the Activity table for each different type of activity I would like to track. This could get pretty big as I begin to track more and more activity items.
I installed SQL 2005 SP2 + ReportServices Add-in for Sharepoint (WSS 3.0). All it's OK until I try to grant database access in the Sharepoint Central Admin site.
I setup the Reporting Services Integration (Manage integration settings). I use the default SQL instance, I put the USERNAME and the PASSWORD of my ADMIN account in the ENTER CREDENTIALS windows.. When I click the "OK" button, I receive always the error ...
"A new member could not be added to a local group because the member has the wrong account type"
I installed SQL 2005 SP2 + ReportServices Add-in for Sharepoint (WSS 3.0). All it's OK until I try to grant database access in the Sharepoint Central Admin site.
I setup the Reporting Services Integration (Manage integration settings). I use the default SQL instance, I put the USERNAME and the PASSWORD of my ADMIN account in the ENTER CREDENTIALS windows.. When I click the "OK" button, I receive always the error ...
"A new member could not be added to a local group because the member has the wrong account type"
Hi, we are almost finished developing our database and we have a table we want to monitor because it is getting information deleted from it and it has a delete trigger on it but we want to track the changes to the table and were wondering how to track specific changes to a user database? We want to see who is making the change, what the change they are making is and also what is the time they are making it. I have used SELECT * FROM SYSPROCESSES and I am running SQL TRACE with filter on MS SQLEW, and MS TRANS, and Visual Basic with SQL statements on tblRoute,( the table that I want to monitor) and I want to know if there is any other way to monitor this table more closely?
We have a great big database (90gb) which has been populated (monopolised) by our finance team, and its full of tables that probably aren't being used at all. But know knows whats being used and what isn't or they don't have the time to go through it with me.
So I have decided to implement a procedure that logs table activity on this database, and if for example a table isn't used for a month then it will be archived off and zipped up.
I have a few ideas in my head how I can acheive this, but I am looking for some opinions and ideas from you guys?
Hi anyone please help! I have created the database driven web application with asp.net and sql server 2000. now I want keep track three operation(insert, updata and delete) that have been made on tables in a SQL Server 2000 database. what i did is: 1, create a audit table with columns: auditTable, actions, actionUser, actionTime 2, create three trigger(insert, update and delect respectivily) for every table my problem is that i can not get right user name. I use form authentication and i stored user login information in the database. every time, no matter who is logining to the web application, the action user is always SA. I user user-name() function to get userName(actionUser). Please anyone can help me to get current login user name, or tell the best way to track operations on a table. Thanks jili
I'm building an application that tracks courses and equivalent courses. For example, say I have course A which a user should get credit for if they have taken equivalent courses. So if a user has taken (course B or course C) AND (course D or course E) he should get credit for Course A. What's the best way to setup a SQL table to create these type of equivalent relationships?
I am looking to track any changes made to any table within a db into a single audit table which will hold as fields: the table that has been updated/inserted, the field that was changed, its primary key, the old value and the new value specific to that field, and the date it was updated/inserted.
From what I have read, it does not look like this is possible with a trigger on table as it is not row specific and that I might have to control this from the business layer (vb.net). I am correct in this assumption, or is there a way of tracking specific data changes through triggers.
Is there any way to find the time when the last DDL was happened in a table? For example: The time when the new column(s) were added into a table or changed the datatype.
Hello,I have an application that will be logging to a SQL Server 2000database user user activity from several Windows 2003 terminalservers. This information will be retrieved by monitoring theSecurity logs of these servers (this part I know how to accomplishalready).A table in the database, tblLogEntries, will contain the followingfields:- ID = autoincrementing int- LogTime = Date/Time the user activity was recorded in the securitylog- Username = User's login ID that the activity was recorded with- Type = int, referencing a lookup table with the values of Logon,Logoff, and possible other future items- Server = The name of the server the activity was recorded on.The only question I have is, can you offer a way to process the totaluser login time during a given range using T-SQL.For Example...Given the table data:ID LogTime Username Type Server1 10-10-2003 8:30:00 Tom Logon SERVER-A2 10-10-2003 8:45:00 Sarah Logon SERVER-A3 10-10-2003 16:45:00 Tom Logoff SERVER-A4 10-10-2003 17:00:00 Sarah Logoff SERVER-A5 10-11-2003 8:30:00 Tom Logon SERVER-A6 10-11-2003 8:45:00 Sarah Logon SERVER-A7 10-11-2003 16:30:00 Sarah Logoff SERVER-A8 10-11-2003 17:15:00 Tom Logoff SERVER-AHow would you receive the output:User Logon Total Time for SERVER-ATom 17.0 hrsSarah 16.0 hrsI know I can handle this type of processing on my ASP.NET front-end,but I'm curious as to how easily it can be done by the database,itself.Thanks in advance for your assistance.
I have a specific requirement. I need to insert the DML statements executed from Management Studio into a SQL table. We have SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012 instances.
I would like to know about the DML process (Insert/update /delete) in a particular table .. it is like change tracking but I also want to know the modification date
I know CDC ( Change data capture ) but unfortunately it needs SQL 2008 developer/enterprise edition and my SQL server is SQL 2008 STANDARD edition.
We have a web-based third-party application that has both background processes and user activity requests running in the same database (SQL Server 2005 SP2). The problem is that a background process will start a long-running transaction and hold an exclusive lock on a few rows in a given table (a small table, <100 rows). The web clients need to scan this same table, but when their "select *" statements get to those locked row(s), the web client queries stall waiting for that exclusive lock to be released. This effectively brings the entire web front end to a halt because all clients must hit this table for each user action. I realize that this is the classic lock condition that multiversioning databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server Compact Edition, and other databases do not suffer because they don't use shared read locks like SQL Server. But since we're on SQL Server for this app, what is the way to get around this problem? Modifying the clients to use WITH (NOLOCK) is not an option... there will be major consistency issues unless the clients run in Read Committed or higher. Any ideas? We could tweak this app if needed. Does SQL Server 2008 introduce multiversioning or at least some mechanism to get around this problem? I did not see it mentioned on the Microsoft site, but maybe I missed it. Thanks in advance.
Hi, I have been struggling trying to design a query that will alow be to select the most recent date in a table and I'm obviously not having much luck
This is basically the table layout, note each employee can have multiple rows with different dates
Employee_ID
Last_Name
First_Name
Evaluation_Date
Evaluation_Score
1
Jones
Tom
01/04/07
40
1
Jones
Tom
01/.12/07
50
1
Jones
Tom
04/01/08
60
2
Smith
Ed
02/14/05
70
2
Smith
Ed
03/18/06
80
3
Brown
John
06/23/04
80
3
Brown
John
12/23/04
79
3
Brown
John
01/07/06
50
3
Brown
John
10/22/08
69
What I'd like to do would be to write some thing that would return the following, just the last date of the evaluation & whatever relevant data is in the table
Employee_ID
Last_Name
First_Name
Evaluation_Date
Evaluation_Score
1
Jones
Tom
04/01/08
60
2
Smith
Ed
03/18/06
80
3
Brown
John
10/22/08
69
I've looked at select distinct and the date operatives with out any success.
how to average the best X of Y records in a table for each member. Here's what I have for columns:
Member_ID Year Month MonthlySpend (summary value for month)
Basically, I'm trying to find out the average monthly spend for each member's best 4 of the last 6 months (the best months will vary by member of course). I thought this would be simple (and maybe it is) but I am having difficulty figuring this out. I'm using MS SQL 2000.
From last 1 week or so, i have been facing very strange problem with my sql server 2005s database which is configured and set on the hosting web server. Right now for managing my sql server 2005 database, i am using an web based Control Panel developed by my hosting company.
Problem i am facing is that, whenever i try to modify (i.e. add new columns) tables in the database, it gives me error saying that,
"There is already an object named 'PK_xxx_Temp' in the database. Could not create constraint. See previous errors. Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider".
where xxx is the table name.
I have done quite a bit research on the problem and have also searched on the net for solution but still the problem persist.
I have a table that contains a column for a calcuated member (x) of type decimal number. When I tried to display the total of this calculated member in the table footer (=sum(x)), I am getting "#Error" instead of the sum of all displayed calculated values.
Column X
--------------
0
0.67
0.10
0.23
#Error (footer cell, expression -> =Sum(x))
=First(x), =Last(x) and =Max(x) worked fine, not sure why Sum failed. Please help...
we have a table in our ERP database and we copy data from this table into another "stage" table on a nightly basis. is there a way to dynamically alter the schema of the stage table when the source table's structure is changed? in other words, if a new column is added to the source table, i would like to add the column to the stage table during the nightly refresh.
I am helping a friend with a gamming website. There are pages which displays data from other clans.
Members need to register and login to view full clan details. User who have not logged in can only view partial data about a clan.
I need to keep track of the kind of hits each page received. That is I want to tell say "Clan X" that these particular members viewed your page these many times and on these dates and these members who have not registered have viewed your page these many times and on these dates.
I am using ASP with MS SQL.
I would like some help on designing the table layout that is efficient for keeping track of the visitors for each page.
Hi allI have two tables in SqlServer with Exactly Same Structure,I want to Copy all Records fromone of them to another one.I came across to "Insert....select..." statement But i have two problem 1) I don't know any thing about Columns name!!! i just know they have same structure and as far as i know , "Insert...select..." need the Column list to operate correctly, am i right? 2) these two table have One Prinary Key column with IDENTITY feature. Any Help Greatly appriciated.Regards.
Structure Number1 Category: CategoryId(P.K.), UniqueName, CreatedDate, ModifiedDateCategoryNative: CategoryId(F.K.), LanguageId(F.K.), NativeName, Description, Importance, IsVisible, CreatedDate, ModifiedDate Structure Number2 Category: CategoryId(P.K.), UniqueName, CreatedDate, ModifiedDateCategoryNative: CategoryNativeId(P.K.), CategoryId(F.K.), LanguageId(F.K.), NativeName, Description, Importance, IsVisible, CreatedDate, ModifiedDate Can anyone tell me that between above 2 structure what is better and why? I just add CategoryNativeId(P.K.) in Number 2 structure.
How can I setup a table structure for the diagram shown in the attached bitmap?
1) I need to create a product using labour and materials. 2) I need to create hardware using labour and materials. 3) I need to be able to include some hardware in some products. 4) Some materials in the product are made of a culmination of materials. E.G., Concrete is made of sand, stone, and cement.
Any suggestions?
So far I have :
USE NORTHWIND
Create Table tbProducts ( ProductID int NOT NULL, Product varchar(50) )
go
ALTER TABLE tbProducts ADD CONSTRAINT tbProducts_pk PRIMARY KEY (ProductID) GO
CREATE Table tbMaterials ( MaterialID int NOT NULL, Material varchar (50) )
GO
ALTER TABLE tbMaterials ADD CONSTRAINT tbMaterials_pk PRIMARY KEY (MaterialID) GO
CREATE Table tbLabour ( LabourCode char (2) NOT NULL, Labour varchar(50) )
GO ALTER TABLE tbLabour ADD CONSTRAINT tbLabour_pk PRIMARY KEY (LabourCode) GO
CREATE Table tbProductMaterials ( fkProductID int NOT NULL, fkMaterialID int NOT NULL, Quantity Float NOT NULL )
GO ALTER TABLE tbProductMaterials ADD CONSTRAINT tbProductMaterials_pk PRIMARY KEY (fkProductID, fkMaterialID) GO
I'm new in creating tables. and I was asked to create table(s) to capture information using SQL server 2005 (express edition)
please read below and share your thoughts and opinions o what's the efficient and best way to structure the tables.
I need to capture user's input daily and every hour, text can be from 20-100 characters, and my company is expecting to have 50,000+users in the future...Also the hrs's text can be stored for max 120 days, after that data would be deleted from the table(s) An example is put all together, (not sure if it is the right and efficient way)
An example is put all together, (not sure if it is the rigth and effectient way) and if database would support that.. and if it will be fast enougth to search for data
(table structure) - (example with 3 users) userId | timestap | message 1 12/12/2007 10:00 some message 1 12/12/2007 11:00 some message 1 12/12/2007 12:00 some message 1 12/12/2007 13:00 some message 1 12/12/2007 14:00 some message 2 12/12/2007 10:00 some message 2 12/12/2007 11:00 some message 3 12/12/2007 12:00 some message 3 12/12/2007 13:00 some message 3 12/12/2007 14:00 some message ...etc..
