I have a question I hope someone can help me with.
My situation:
I have a single-step job in SQL Server, which runs a stored procedure, A. This stored procedure invokes another stored procedure, B. In B, one of the statements is a 'BACKUP DATABASE' command, and a database is backed up to a file.
The job is started by an application. Once started, the application then uses the SQL-DMO property CurrentRunStatus to periodically check the status of the job. When the property returns the value SQLDMOJobExecution_Idle (indicating the job has completed), the application code then continues processing, and attempts to access the .dat file produced by the 'BACKUP DATABASE' command.
My problem:
On occasion, the application will hit the problem where either the backup file cannot be located, or the file is still being locked by another process (Error=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process).
Is anyone able to shed some light on this?
I assume that the job will only return a completed status after:
(a) both A and B have completed execution, and
(b) the BACKUP operation has completed
Is it possible that even though SQL Server indicates the job has finished, that the BACKUP operation still hasn't completely ended?
Does anyone know how to check when a distribution job has finished distributing a snapshot programatically?
I am writing an app that adds subscribers programatically. It first add the subscription (which creates a new snapshot) and after the snapshot is done, the distributor gets invoked automatically. Because I need to access the subscriber database after the publication is pushed I need to wait until the distributor has finished its work.
Is there a quick way to determine linked server availability. I've got some select statements wrapped up in TRY/Catch blocks which will re-direct any failures to retreive data from a linked server to the catch block and I can get my data from elsewhere, but I have to wait for the statement to fail before I can jump into the catch block. I hoped to speed the process up by using an if exists check on the status of the linked server . Is there such a thing as a quick check on whether or not a linked server is online?
I am a Junior DBA and i have to checks the various jobs on different servers.Please help me with a T-SQL way by which i can check the Job status through a Query.
I am extracting data from SQL Server 2005 to flat file destination. I am using SQL Command to specify the data selection query. One of my query uses Replicate function to derive a column value. When I execute this package it fails with the error "Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "value" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page".
The reason for the problem is that, it is taking the InputColumnWidth of the flat file destination as 8000 and I specified the OutputColumnWidth as 4.
If I change the OutputColumnWidth to 8000, it is working without any error but resulting in the column width of 8000.
I tried using DerivedColumn Transformation's Type cast and DataConversion Transformation but still I am getting the same error in the respective Transformation components.
As you can see Col1 & Col2 ONLY do not make up the PK. I need to include Col3 as well. My concern is I am not sure if I have a row like.. 1...........2.......A......X reapeated lower down the order. So how do I figure the PK out?
Can someone show me some C# code for detecting if a SQL row exists or not? This seems like a very typical action and I cannot for the life of me find a tutorial online that explains this step. In my code I'm either going to INSERT or UPDATE a record. I tried sending a SELECT command through a ExecuteNonQuery, but only got -1 as a response. Apparently ExecuteNonQuery does not work with SELECT. I then saw that T-SQL has an EXISTS keyword, but I cannot see anyway to use that from within C#.So...can anyone share the typical code they use to identify if a row exists or not within a database. I guess I was execting there to be some method available to do this sort of thing.
i want to check a value in 2 tables. the 1st table i want to check if the value exists and from the 2ed table i samething. i came up with this but when it's doing the second if i get error on the page. Dim ReturnVal As Integer Dim ReturnVal2 As IntegerDim conn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("imacstestConnectionString").ConnectionString) Dim cmd As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand("SELECT [ReportNumber] FROM [AppraisalSummaryBlue] WHERE ([ReportNumber] = @ReportNumber)", conn) 'To check if the # is registered.Dim cmd2 As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand("SELECT [ReportNumber] FROM [t_RegisterInfoTemp] WHERE ([ReportNumber] = @ReportNumber)", conn) cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@ReportNumber", txtReport.Text)cmd2.Parameters.AddWithValue("@ReportNumber", txtReport.Text) conn.Open() ReturnVal = Convert.ToInt32(cmd.ExecuteScalar()) conn.Close() 'This checks if the # is correct. If ReturnVal > 0 Then 'This checks if its registered with someone else. conn.Open() ReturnVal2 = Convert.ToInt32(cmd2.ExecuteScalar()) conn.Close() If ReturnVal2 <> 0 ThenServer.Transfer("regccinfo.aspx") Else lblError.Text = "the # is registered with someone else." End If Else lblError.Text = "the # does not exists." txtReport.Focus() End If
Good morning everyone I am writing a windows forms application that will work similar to the windows messenger popup. I need this application to display a message to the user whenever a record is added to table in my DB. Any help would be appreciated in explaining how I can check the DB for new records.
I've forgotten the character set that I've chosen when I was installing the SQL Server 7. Is there a way to check?
I'm currently using US English version of Windows NT4 and SQL7. But interestingly, all the data is in Japanes characters. It's actually for a Japanese website, and the front-end application is written in ASP. I remember reading somewhere that it is impossible to do certain type of sorting (by some particular order for the Japanese language) as it is limited by the choice of the language of the NT OS.
The type of sorting that I'm looking at is the grouping of 5-characters. One example is in http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/aiueo.html
Would this be possible with my current setup? Or would it help if I migrate over to Windows 2000? (I'd rather not move to Japanese NT4)
Your feedback and advice would be very much appreciated!
Just a brief question. I have a script which does a number of insert statements. What I would like to do is determine if the insert statements were all successful. Aside from checking @@ERROR after every insert, is there a way to check if all the insert statements completed successfully?
I want to do a check to see if a number falls within a range specified by the user. Basically, they enter in a min and max value and I return a hit if a number falls inbetween.
I have having trouble with my SQL statement:
Code:
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM Table WHERE ( (0=0) AND (min.value <= Table.Value <= max.value) )
(This isn't my actual code, but just the logic)
It will return all the results everytime. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could be missing here?
I have around 25 sql servers(sql server 2000) all on windows server 2003. i would like to know if anyone has a script that will poll all the servers and check to make sure the agent is running.
I need to check one table while updating another table suppose i need to check table1's value is whether less then 0 or not without if condition can i check it with update query? thank you
I have a table that I know has a null or nothing in a field. When I run this query to get a list of them nothing comes back at all but it doesn't error out. Any ideas?
select * from lab_test_add_conf where table_name = null order by lab_test_conf_id
This is going to sound ignorant but... I had a look here http://support.microsoft.com/?id=321185
And one thing isn't clear. How doe you know if the 32-bit or 64-bit version was installed?
------------------------ Me: What do you want to know from your data warehouse? Client: Err...Emm...Everything Me: OK, that's great. That's all I need to know. I'll see you when it's done.
i'm not fluent with sql and i have a question to ask..
if i want to check whether a product is available between two dates, how can i do so? for example, i want to check whether it's available between 5/23/2007 to 5/25/2007..
Our System currently has on the upwards of 300 stored procedures in it.
We have SP's that call SP's that call SP's and sometimes a Stored Procedure will return 10 ResultSets which are used by .NET.
Some of our developers do not check other stored procedures when they modify the SP parameters, and in doing so break the system until the testers find it.
is there a way to run a command to check ALL the stored procedures to see if they work, they match the SP they're calling, etc?
Hey all,prolly a simple solution, but why isn't the following string working inmy execute sql step within DTS? It produces results, just not the onesI want... What am I doing wrong?select x from new_files where x like '%[^0-9]%' and x like '%[^a-z]%'It's displaying all the records? It should only be displaying thoserecords that do *not* contain letters or numbers.Thanks in advance!-Roy
Situation:Day 1Table contains 100 items of actions imported via FTP. One of the fieldsin the table can be updated to reflect an assigned unit code.Day 2Actions that may be duplicates of the table from Day 1 (with theexception of the updated assigned unit field) are imported forinclusion in the Table from Day 1.Question- What is the best way to insure that any new items are addedto the table and that no duplicates are added at the sametime?Assistance would be appreciated.
SQL Server allows for a user to have SELECT permission on a View withoutthat user requiring an associated SELECT permission on the underlying tablethat the VIEW accesses, but the user can still access the data through theView. A similar arrangement holds true for stored procedures.So based on these initial known behaviours, I have a couple of questions:1. If a stored procedure A executes stored procedure B, does the user of Arequire execute permission for B also? Or will access to B be permittedregardless because the user was given access to A?2. Similarly, if a stored procedure A accesses a View, does the user of Arequire permissions on the referenced View?I guess to paraphrase what I am trying to determine is whether SQL Serveronly checks permissions at the "entry" point of a particular function, orwhether permission checks are performed "intra-function". My openingexamples imply they are only checked "on entry", but I am wondering if thisbehaviour is entirely consistent. Perhaps the SQL Standard mandates this?
I have built a procedure to send mail using OLE Automation and want to be able to trap error information when it doesn't work. So in an attempt to do that I have the following stored procedure that will return informaiton if the return value is <> 0. Here is how it is being used:
IF @return <> 0 BEGIN
EXECUTE sp_displayoaerrorinfo @handle, @return
END ELSE PRINT 'Success'
This works fine, but I would like to write the error message to a table and so I thought I could just alter to to be:
Where @failure is a variable I declared earlier. Then I could insert the value of this variable along with some other infomration into a table that would track the errors. However, when I do this I receive the following:
Error: Procedure or Function 'sp_DisplayOAErrorInfo' expects parameter '@HResult', which was not supplied. Number:201 Severity:16 State:4
So it isn't seeing that I am passing two variables into the stored procedure. I know I must be missing something simple but I've tried a bunch of different itterations and can't seem to get it right. Any help would be great. Thanks.
I'm wanting to create a if statement that will query a table and check for a duplicate and if there is a duplicate return that uniqueID or if it doesnt find a duplicate continue to add a new record...so here is my question is there a way to run a if statement that will call a function (lets say a function that returns like a bool) and if it finds a duplicate grab that id and store it in a session.....i guess my question is how do i query the database for a record and if found return true if not return false....that is my question....
I'm currently working on this portion of a program...what it does is it takes a "char" of 24 digits, what the user inputs is something like this "50-32-18-000-008.000-018" i take it out of the text box and store it on a session and then call the insert into the database....but like i said the database is configured to have a char of 24 go into it...and it won't insert it is saying that im having a conflicting with the calling of two different things...here is the code..... //***set the query text to the name of a stored proceduremyCommand.CommandText = "INSERT INTO BZA ParcelNumber, BZAcaseNum, ApplicantID, OwnerID, DateFiled, Acreage, Zoning, HearingMonth, HearingDay, PropertyAddress VALUES (@parcelNum, @caseNum, @applicant, @ownerID, @dateFiled, @acreage, @zoning, @hearingMonth, @hearingDay, @propertyAddress)"; //create an input parameterSqlParameter parcel = new SqlParameter(); parcel.ParameterName = "@parcelNum";parcel.SqlDbType = SqlDbType.Char; parcel.Size = 24; parcel.Value = (string)Session["parcelNumber"]; //set the Parcel Number to what is entered in
I've tried doing a Convert.ToChar((string)Session["parcelNumber"]) but when i do that it says that the string needs to be one character
I am very VERY new to using Visual Studios... I have a SQL database with a table in it "table1" inside the table there is a field "ID" I have made a new website project thing, and I have a textbox and a submit button What I want to do is make a function that will check if what the user has typed into ID is valid, e.g. it exists in the database Can anyone point me in the right direction about how I could do this? Thanks very much
select name, address, city from table1 I want to append address +'-' + city in this query . I want to show hyphen only if both address and city are not null. If name is null then I don't want to show hyphen. How can I get around this problem. Any help will be appreciated.
