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...?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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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
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Fields truncated due to difference in length of the field at destination. Regards Arif shareef
I need to restore test DB from production backup but once it is restored I would need all the permissions of sql logins and windows AD account intact in test Db as it was before.
I'm pretty new to SQL and I've got a bit of a sticky problem. I've looked around on the net for a solution but possibly I just don't know what I should be searching on. I'm trying to join tables together where there is a one to many releationship - but I'm trying to put the results for each relationship on one row (which kind of results in dynamic columns).
Is this possible? There is no limit on how many rows in table 2 can be related to table 1. Can anyone point me in the right direction for what I should be looking at?
The reason I'm trying this is for SQL reporting services if that makes a difference? Thanks, Kelvin.
I just want to get the sum of a table's column into a variable, in a stored procedure. The best I can do is SET @TotalBalance = SELECT SUM(Balance) FROM AccountDetails Not good enough, of course.
I'm trying to put a date into a SQL Server table. The database field type is "smalldatetime". The variable dDate is type "date" and contains: 2/2/2006 (although I think Cdate actually converts it to: #2/2/2006#). When I run the following code the date in the database is always ends up being: 1/1/1900. Dim cmd As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand("INSERT INTO MyTable(MyDate) " & _ "VALUES (" & dDate & ")", SqlConn)daAppts.InsertCommand = cmddaAppts.InsertCommand.Connection = SqlConndaAppts.InsertCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() Any other field types work fine, it's just dates that aren't working ???? Can someone please provide a code snippet showing me what I'm doing wrong??
set dateformat 'dmy' select count(c.id), e.name from call c left outer join employee e on c.req_id = e.id where c.posted between '01/01/2002' and '30/11/2002' group by e.name order by count(c.id) desc
set dateformat 'dmy' select count(ch.id), e.name from call_hist ch left outer join employee e on ch.req_id = e.id where ch.posted between '01/01/2002' and '30/11/2002' group by e.name order by count(ch.id) desc
the results:
42NULL 34Dirk Deloof 13Annick Leirman 11Ronny Loosen 9Geert Benoot 9Nicole Ferrari 8FLOCK 8Mosselmans Christoph 7Geert Pets 7Mireille Dutrieue 6johan 6Laurent De Schrijver 5Jeanette De SChrijve 5Marc De Vlieger 5minerva 5Pascal Saesen 5Rik Haghebaert 5Sonja Van Kerckhove 4Bcatron 4Luc Willems 3Brigit Brocken 3euroadmin 3Francine Kopp 3Luc Steyaert 3Marie-Rose Buysse 3Marnix Van Steirtege 3Mattias Denys 3Pieter Frooninckx 3Reserve 3Rik De Scheemaecker 3Thierry Linard 2Carlos Van Alboom 2Dorine Sierens 2Els Poelman 2Jean Claude Vermeir 2Katrien Colman 2Kim Impens 2Kris Lejeune 2MEDreserve01 2Roger De Wilde 1Agnes Lebon 1Carla Van Den Broeck 1Eric Vlaeminck
and
118NULL 58Marie-Rose Buysse 47Dirk Deloof 45Ronny Loosen 43Annick Leirman 41Geert Pets 38FLOCK 38Pascal Saesen 28Teamleiders afwerkin 24Kim Impens 22Ilse Soetens 22Rik Haghebaert 22Severine Balduck 21Teamleiders print 20Mosselmans Christoph 20Jeanette De SChrijve 19Geert Benoot 19Francine Kopp 18Geert Meuleman 17Rik De Scheemaecker 16johan 16Katrien Colman 15Gaby Eloot 14Kris Lejeune 14Gilbert Callebaut 14Laurent De Schrijver 13Els Poelman 13Luc Steyaert 11Marnix Van Steirtege 10Frans Hoogewijs 10Sonja Van Kerckhove 10Dorine Sierens 9Eric Vlaeminck 9Thierry Linard 7Frederic Denis 7Michel Poppe 6Carla Van Den Broeck 6Pieter Frooninckx 5Katlijn Poleyn 5MEDreserve01 5Mireille Dutrieue 5Agnes Lebon 4Guido Antoin 4Onderhoud 4minerva 4Jeanette Van Brussel 3Roger De Wilde 3Sofie Gabriels 3Verf2 3euroadmin 3Marc De Vlieger 2Luc Willems 2MEDRESERVE07 2Regina Decoster 2Monique Kohl 2MEDRESERVE04 2Portier 2Bcatron 2Pierre Hanet 2Tgabriels 2Isabelle Torrelle 2Nicole Ferrari 1Robert Zwaak 1Carlos Van Alboom 1testuser 1Brigit Brocken 1Reserve 1Opleiding 1Verf
How do I put these results in one? I need not two but one Query. Please help me. Thanks
Hi, I am trying to incorporate a cursor into a table function so that i can use the function to insert values inot a table. Everytime i add the INSERT INTO @MyTable syntax then the cursor seems to start an endless loop.
Does anyone have any ideas for me?
Code Block ALTER PROC csp_ICASTransaction_AskDoc @ClientID INT AS DECLARE @ClientID INT SET @ClientID = 1 DECLARE @cClientID INT DECLARE @cMonth VARCHAR(20) DECLARE @cOccurance INT DECLARE @Counter INT DECLARE @AskDoc CURSOR SET @AskDoc = Cursor FOR select @ClientID, Month_Year, SUM(AskDocs) FROM zzenrolled$ WHERE ICASClientID = @ClientID GROUP BY Month_Year OPEN @AskDoc FETCH NEXT FROM @AskDoc INTO @cClientID, @cMonth, @cOccurance /* SELECT @@Cursor_Rows PRINT @cClientID PRINT @cMonth PRINT @cOccurance */ DECLARE @MyTable TABLE (ClientID INT, Date DATETIME, Occurance INT) WHILE (@@FETCH_Status = 0) BEGIN SET @Counter = 0 INSERT INTO @MyTable VALUES (@cClientID, CASE @cMonth WHEN 'Jan-03' THEN '20030101' WHEN 'Feb-03' THEN '20030201' WHEN 'Mar-03' THEN '20030301' WHEN 'Apr-03' THEN '20030401' WHEN 'May-03' THEN '20030501' WHEN 'Jun-03' THEN '20030601' WHEN 'Jul-03' THEN '20030701' WHEN 'Aug-03' THEN '20030801' WHEN 'Sep-03' THEN '20030901' WHEN 'Oct-03' THEN '20031001' WHEN 'Nov-03' THEN '20031101' WHEN 'Dec-03' THEN '20031201' WHEN 'Jan-04' THEN '20040101' WHEN 'Feb-04' THEN '20040201' WHEN 'Mar-04' THEN '20040301' WHEN 'Apr-04' THEN '20040401' WHEN 'May-04' THEN '20040501' WHEN 'Jun-04' THEN '20040601' WHEN 'Jul-04' THEN '20040701' WHEN 'Aug-04' THEN '20040801' WHEN 'Sep-04' THEN '20040901' WHEN 'Oct-04' THEN '20041001' WHEN 'Nov-04' THEN '20041101' WHEN 'Dec-04' THEN '20041201' WHEN 'Jan-05' THEN '20050101' WHEN 'Feb-05' THEN '20050201' WHEN 'Mar-05' THEN '20050301' WHEN 'Apr-05' THEN '20050401' WHEN 'May-05' THEN '20050501' WHEN 'Jun-05' THEN '20050601' WHEN 'Jul-05' THEN '20050701' WHEN 'Aug-05' THEN '20050801' WHEN 'Sep-05' THEN '20050901' WHEN 'Oct-05' THEN '20051001' WHEN 'Nov-05' THEN '20051101' WHEN 'Dec-05' THEN '20051201' WHEN 'Jan-06' THEN '20060101' WHEN 'Feb-06' THEN '20060201' WHEN 'Mar-06' THEN '20060301' WHEN 'Apr-06' THEN '20060401' WHEN 'May-06' THEN '20060501' WHEN 'Jun-06' THEN '20060601' WHEN 'Jul-06' THEN '20060701' WHEN 'Aug-06' THEN '20060801' WHEN 'Sep-06' THEN '20060901' WHEN 'Oct-06' THEN '20061001' WHEN 'Nov-06' THEN '20061101' WHEN 'Dec-06' THEN '20061201' WHEN 'Jan-07' THEN '20070101' WHEN 'Feb-07' THEN '20070201' WHEN 'Mar-07' THEN '20070301' WHEN 'Apr-07' THEN '20070401' WHEN 'May-07' THEN '20070501' WHEN 'Jun-07' THEN '20070601' WHEN 'Jul-07' THEN '20070701' WHEN 'Aug-07' THEN '20070801' WHEN 'Sep-07' THEN '20070901' WHEN 'Oct-07' THEN '20071001' WHEN 'Nov-07' THEN '20071101' WHEN 'Dec-07' THEN '20071201' END ,'3' )
SET @Counter = @Counter + 1 IF @cOccurance > @Counter FETCH NEXT FROM @AskDoc INTO @cClientID, @cMonth, @cOccurance END CLOSE @AskDoc --INSERT INTO [Transactional$New] (ClientID, [ Date], [ Occurance]) SELECT * FROM @MyTable DEALLOCATE @AskDoc
I want the Cursor to insert the values into the table that i commented out, but it doesn't seem to insert the values, it just loops.
"INSERT INTO tblPDFFiles (fileType, PDFcontent) SELECT 'Test' AS Expr1, BulkColumn FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'F:websitesTESTarchived est.pdf', SINGLE_BLOB) AS BLOB"
When I try to put in a variable as follws
"INSERT INTO tblPDFFiles (fileType, PDFcontent) SELECT '" + @[User::MyFileValue] + "' AS Expr1, BulkColumn FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'F:websitesTestarchived est.pdf', SINGLE_BLOB) AS BLOB"
I keep getting errors Saying it contains an illegal escape sequence of w any ideas ?
I have the following sql string in my asp.net, its meant to retreive a value based on a text box value being "like" a value from my database, however when i place a word in the textbox nothing happens, can someone please take a look at the statement and see if its well formed, String sql = "SELECT fName FROM Customers WHERE fName LIKE " + "'" + fName.Text + "/%' OR PostCode= " + "'" + Postcode.Text + "'";
I am creating a stored Procedure and I am getting an error which relates to DATENAME. SELECT COUNT(*) AS calls, DATENAME(@varDate, CALLSTARTTIME) AS 'Total Calls' FROM CALL_LOG_MASTER WHERE (COMMERCIALS='1') AND (CALLSTARTTIME >= @StartDate) AND (CALLENDTIME <=@EndDatesql doesn't like: DATENAME( @varDate, CallStartTime)sql works fine if I change @varDate into 'yy', 'mm', 'dd', or 'wk'Since I do not want to make 5 unique Stored Proc just because of @varDate.....Is there any way to work around this problem?
hi guys, Could any one tell me whats the best way to put encypted data into a table.i have a textfield that a single integer is entered into it. It is then encrypted using DES encrption algorithim.It converts the value to byte(Convert2ByteArray method) I pass the data to a stored procedure which converts it to char before inserting it into the table. when i checked the database all it entered was System.Byte[]. Does anyone know where im goin wrong? Mairtin
