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  • Creating a 'Custom Designer' Visual Studio 2010 Add-in

    - by Daniel I-S
    A major part of our work is creating and manipulating certain XML files, for which have a custom editor. The editor is starting to get creaky and we are looking at building a replacement. Since VS2010 has recently arrived, ostensibly with an improved add-in architecture (MEF?), I am interested in the possibility of building the editor as a custom editor within Visual Studio. It would have to appear in the same way as the code editor or the Designer - a tab item, of which there can be many open at once, containing the GUI we use to edit the files. It would integrate with VS's Edit menu. It could use the output window to display messages. It would appear the same as any other editor within Visual Studio. Right now, I am looking for examples of add-ins that work in a similar way - ideally with source code - to see whether this model would suit our requirements. I am also looking for any documentation or tutorials relevant to creating a VS2010 add-in, or information about VS2008 add-ins if this is still relevant. Any input is welcome. Thanks!

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  • Creating a (ClickOnce) setup for VSTO Outlook Add-in

    - by Ward Werbrouck
    So I created an Outlook Add-in and used the click-once setup to deploy it. The setup runs fine when the user is administrator, but otherwise: no go. Running the setup with "run as..." and logging in as admin works, but than the add-in is installed under the admin, not the current user. The addin doesn't show up in outlook. I tried following this guide: http://blogs.msdn.com/mshneer/archive/2008/04/24/deploying-your-vsto-add-in-to-all-users-part-iii.aspx But I get stuck at part I: http://blogs.msdn.com/mshneer/archive/2007/09/04/deploying-your-vsto-add-in-to-all-users-part-i.aspx I follow the examples and start excel as described: Now start Excel application. Examine the registry keys in HKCU hive e.g. you will find two interesting registry keys that appear under your HKCU hive: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\TestKey registry key containing registry value TestValue You now also have HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\User Settings\TestPropagation registry key with Count value set to 1 But on my machine, the keys are not created... What can I try next?

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  • SQL Server script commands to check if object exists and drop it

    - by deadlydog
    Over the past couple years I’ve been keeping track of common SQL Server script commands that I use so I don’t have to constantly Google them.  Most of them are how to check if a SQL object exists before dropping it.  I thought others might find these useful to have them all in one place, so here you go: 1: --=============================== 2: -- Create a new table and add keys and constraints 3: --=============================== 4: IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo') 5: BEGIN 6: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TableName] 7: ( 8: [ColumnName1] INT NOT NULL, -- To have a field auto-increment add IDENTITY(1,1) 9: [ColumnName2] INT NULL, 10: [ColumnName3] VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL DEFAULT('') 11: ) 12: 13: -- Add the table's primary key 14: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] ADD CONSTRAINT [PK_TableName] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED 15: ( 16: [ColumnName1], 17: [ColumnName2] 18: ) 19: 20: -- Add a foreign key constraint 21: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_Name] FOREIGN KEY 22: ( 23: [ColumnName1], 24: [ColumnName2] 25: ) 26: REFERENCES [dbo].[Table2Name] 27: ( 28: [OtherColumnName1], 29: [OtherColumnName2] 30: ) 31: 32: -- Add indexes on columns that are often used for retrieval 33: CREATE INDEX IN_ColumnNames ON [dbo].[TableName] 34: ( 35: [ColumnName2], 36: [ColumnName3] 37: ) 38: 39: -- Add a check constraint 40: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [CH_Name] CHECK (([ColumnName] >= 0.0000)) 41: END 42: 43: --=============================== 44: -- Add a new column to an existing table 45: --=============================== 46: IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' 47: AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND COLUMN_NAME = 'ColumnName') 48: BEGIN 49: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] ADD [ColumnName] INT NOT NULL DEFAULT(0) 50: 51: -- Add a description extended property to the column to specify what its purpose is. 52: EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', 53: @value = N'Add column comments here, describing what this column is for.' , 54: @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE', 55: @level1name = N'TableName', @level2type=N'COLUMN', 56: @level2name = N'ColumnName' 57: END 58: 59: --=============================== 60: -- Drop a table 61: --=============================== 62: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo') 63: BEGIN 64: DROP TABLE [dbo].[TableName] 65: END 66: 67: --=============================== 68: -- Drop a view 69: --=============================== 70: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'ViewName' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo') 71: BEGIN 72: DROP VIEW [dbo].[ViewName] 73: END 74: 75: --=============================== 76: -- Drop a column 77: --=============================== 78: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' 79: AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND COLUMN_NAME = 'ColumnName') 80: BEGIN 81: 82: -- If the column has an extended property, drop it first. 83: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.fn_listExtendedProperty(N'MS_Description', N'SCHEMA', N'dbo', N'Table', 84: N'TableName', N'COLUMN', N'ColumnName') 85: BEGIN 86: EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description', 87: @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE', 88: @level1name = N'TableName', @level2type=N'COLUMN', 89: @level2name = N'ColumnName' 90: END 91: 92: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP COLUMN [ColumnName] 93: END 94: 95: --=============================== 96: -- Drop Primary key constraint 97: --=============================== 98: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='PRIMARY KEY' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' 99: AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'PK_Name') 100: BEGIN 101: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT [PK_Name] 102: END 103: 104: --=============================== 105: -- Drop Foreign key constraint 106: --=============================== 107: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='FOREIGN KEY' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' 108: AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'FK_Name') 109: BEGIN 110: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT [FK_Name] 111: END 112: 113: --=============================== 114: -- Drop Unique key constraint 115: --=============================== 116: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='UNIQUE' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' 117: AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'UNI_Name') 118: BEGIN 119: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableNames] DROP CONSTRAINT [UNI_Name] 120: END 121: 122: --=============================== 123: -- Drop Check constraint 124: --=============================== 125: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='CHECK' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' 126: AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'CH_Name') 127: BEGIN 128: ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT [CH_Name] 129: END 130: 131: --=============================== 132: -- Drop a column's Default value constraint 133: --=============================== 134: DECLARE @ConstraintName VARCHAR(100) 135: SET @ConstraintName = (SELECT TOP 1 s.name FROM sys.sysobjects s JOIN sys.syscolumns c ON s.parent_obj=c.id 136: WHERE s.xtype='d' AND c.cdefault=s.id 137: AND parent_obj = OBJECT_ID('TableName') AND c.name ='ColumnName') 138: 139: IF @ConstraintName IS NOT NULL 140: BEGIN 141: EXEC ('ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT ' + @ConstraintName) 142: END 143: 144: --=============================== 145: -- Example of how to drop dynamically named Unique constraint 146: --=============================== 147: DECLARE @ConstraintName VARCHAR(100) 148: SET @ConstraintName = (SELECT TOP 1 CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS 149: WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='UNIQUE' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' 150: AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME LIKE 'FirstPartOfConstraintName%') 151: 152: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='UNIQUE' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' 153: AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = @ConstraintName) 154: BEGIN 155: EXEC ('ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT ' + @ConstraintName) 156: END 157: 158: --=============================== 159: -- Check for and drop a temp table 160: --=============================== 161: IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#TableName') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #TableName 162: 163: --=============================== 164: -- Drop a stored procedure 165: --=============================== 166: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE='PROCEDURE' AND ROUTINE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND 167: ROUTINE_NAME = 'StoredProcedureName') 168: BEGIN 169: DROP PROCEDURE [dbo].[StoredProcedureName] 170: END 171: 172: --=============================== 173: -- Drop a UDF 174: --=============================== 175: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE='FUNCTION' AND ROUTINE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND 176: ROUTINE_NAME = 'UDFName') 177: BEGIN 178: DROP FUNCTION [dbo].[UDFName] 179: END 180: 181: --=============================== 182: -- Drop an Index 183: --=============================== 184: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM SYS.INDEXES WHERE name = 'IndexName') 185: BEGIN 186: DROP INDEX TableName.IndexName 187: END 188: 189: --=============================== 190: -- Drop a Schema 191: --=============================== 192: IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA WHERE SCHEMA_NAME = 'SchemaName') 193: BEGIN 194: EXEC('DROP SCHEMA SchemaName') 195: END And here’s the same code, just not in the little code view window so that you don’t have to scroll it.--=============================== -- Create a new table and add keys and constraints --=============================== IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo') BEGIN CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TableName]  ( [ColumnName1] INT NOT NULL, -- To have a field auto-increment add IDENTITY(1,1) [ColumnName2] INT NULL, [ColumnName3] VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL DEFAULT('') ) -- Add the table's primary key ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] ADD CONSTRAINT [PK_TableName] PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED ( [ColumnName1],  [ColumnName2] ) -- Add a foreign key constraint ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_Name] FOREIGN KEY ( [ColumnName1],  [ColumnName2] ) REFERENCES [dbo].[Table2Name]  ( [OtherColumnName1],  [OtherColumnName2] ) -- Add indexes on columns that are often used for retrieval CREATE INDEX IN_ColumnNames ON [dbo].[TableName] ( [ColumnName2], [ColumnName3] ) -- Add a check constraint ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [CH_Name] CHECK (([ColumnName] >= 0.0000)) END --=============================== -- Add a new column to an existing table --=============================== IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND COLUMN_NAME = 'ColumnName') BEGIN ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] ADD [ColumnName] INT NOT NULL DEFAULT(0) -- Add a description extended property to the column to specify what its purpose is. EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description',  @value = N'Add column comments here, describing what this column is for.' ,  @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE', @level1name = N'TableName', @level2type=N'COLUMN', @level2name = N'ColumnName' END --=============================== -- Drop a table --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo') BEGIN DROP TABLE [dbo].[TableName] END --=============================== -- Drop a view --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'ViewName' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo') BEGIN DROP VIEW [dbo].[ViewName] END --=============================== -- Drop a column --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND COLUMN_NAME = 'ColumnName') BEGIN -- If the column has an extended property, drop it first. IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.fn_listExtendedProperty(N'MS_Description', N'SCHEMA', N'dbo', N'Table', N'TableName', N'COLUMN', N'ColumnName') BEGIN EXEC sys.sp_dropextendedproperty @name=N'MS_Description',  @level0type=N'SCHEMA',@level0name=N'dbo', @level1type=N'TABLE', @level1name = N'TableName', @level2type=N'COLUMN', @level2name = N'ColumnName' END ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP COLUMN [ColumnName] END --=============================== -- Drop Primary key constraint --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='PRIMARY KEY' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'PK_Name') BEGIN ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT [PK_Name] END --=============================== -- Drop Foreign key constraint --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='FOREIGN KEY' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'FK_Name') BEGIN ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT [FK_Name] END --=============================== -- Drop Unique key constraint --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='UNIQUE' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'UNI_Name') BEGIN ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableNames] DROP CONSTRAINT [UNI_Name] END --=============================== -- Drop Check constraint --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='CHECK' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = 'CH_Name') BEGIN ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT [CH_Name] END --=============================== -- Drop a column's Default value constraint --=============================== DECLARE @ConstraintName VARCHAR(100) SET @ConstraintName = (SELECT TOP 1 s.name FROM sys.sysobjects s JOIN sys.syscolumns c ON s.parent_obj=c.id WHERE s.xtype='d' AND c.cdefault=s.id  AND parent_obj = OBJECT_ID('TableName') AND c.name ='ColumnName') IF @ConstraintName IS NOT NULL BEGIN EXEC ('ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT ' + @ConstraintName) END --=============================== -- Example of how to drop dynamically named Unique constraint --=============================== DECLARE @ConstraintName VARCHAR(100) SET @ConstraintName = (SELECT TOP 1 CONSTRAINT_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS  WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='UNIQUE' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME LIKE 'FirstPartOfConstraintName%') IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS WHERE CONSTRAINT_TYPE='UNIQUE' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND TABLE_NAME = 'TableName' AND CONSTRAINT_NAME = @ConstraintName) BEGIN EXEC ('ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TableName] DROP CONSTRAINT ' + @ConstraintName) END --=============================== -- Check for and drop a temp table --=============================== IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#TableName') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #TableName --=============================== -- Drop a stored procedure --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE='PROCEDURE' AND ROUTINE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND ROUTINE_NAME = 'StoredProcedureName') BEGIN DROP PROCEDURE [dbo].[StoredProcedureName] END --=============================== -- Drop a UDF --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES WHERE ROUTINE_TYPE='FUNCTION' AND ROUTINE_SCHEMA='dbo' AND  ROUTINE_NAME = 'UDFName') BEGIN DROP FUNCTION [dbo].[UDFName] END --=============================== -- Drop an Index --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM SYS.INDEXES WHERE name = 'IndexName') BEGIN DROP INDEX TableName.IndexName END --=============================== -- Drop a Schema --=============================== IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA WHERE SCHEMA_NAME = 'SchemaName') BEGIN EXEC('DROP SCHEMA SchemaName') END

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  • Manually updating FF Add-ons

    - by cpp_fanatic
    My application installs my Firefox add-on (by copying an my.xpi to [FF_inst_dir]\extensions). This application interact with my FF add-on. This application periodically has updates (.xpi with new version). When my application is updating it does next: Remove folder and content [FF_inst_dir]\extensions\MyExtension Copy new my.xpi to [FF_inst_dir]\extensions However, when I restart FF I see: FF ask me about install add-on. I agree. FF remove my.xpi (it's ok) FF remove folder and content [FF_inst_dir]\extensions\MyExtension I think that FF try to remove old plugin. Thus, I havn't installed plugin. How it can be installed correct?

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  • problem with trying to create ssms add-in

    - by Karl
    I'm trying to create an add-in for SSMS 2008 and/or 2008 R2 but I've run into a problem straight away. I can get my add-in to work and on SSMS start-up get it to simply show a message box. However, after downloading various code-samples, when trying to reference Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.VSIntegration.ServiceCache I get a null reference exception: Commands2 commands = (Commands2)ServiceCache.ExtensibilityModel.Commands; I get this problem when using SSMS 2008 or SSMS 2008 R2. I'm working on Visual Studio 2010. It's a bit frustrating because I'm keen to learn more about SSMS add-ins but can't seem to get past the few samples out there. Any advice/tips appreciated. Thanks

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  • Cannot add App_Data SQL Server database

    - by Interfector
    Hello, Using Visual Studio 2010 10.0.20319.1 RTMRel and SQL Server Express 10.50.1600.1 I'm trying to add a new SQL Server Database .mdf, however, I receive the following error: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 25 – Connection string is not valid) I have enabled TCP/IP and Named Pipelines, added Firewall Exceptions for Sql Server, I am successfully connecting from VS in the Server Explorer window. I would appreciate if someone can pint me to a solution to my problem. Thank you.

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  • SQL Server 2005: When clicking "Add" database I keep getting 'verify that the path or file exists'

    - by Code Sherpa
    When I right click on "databases" in Sql Server 2005 Management Studio and then Attach... Add I get the following error: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\SQL Server Management Studio\ Projects\Path\To\MDF\And\LDF\Files\ cannot access the specified path or file on the server. Verify that you have the necessary security privileges and that the path or file exists. The answer is easy - the MDF and LDF files where removed when Nant (by way of my dev machine) issued a drop command. But, after replacing the MDF and LDF files, I want to reattach the database but the above error keeps coming up when I select "Add". Also, I have already "unattached" the database in question and it no longer appears on the left under "databases". I have tried to replace a copy of the MDF and LDF files in the folder being referenced and that didn't work. Any ideas as to how to gracefully get rid of this error?

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  • Android ArrayList Calendar add and get is different

    - by Raku ShinShou
    I put increment date of the calendar and add into arraylist, but when i loop them out, the date is all same. Calendar a = Calendar.getInstance(); ArrayList<Calendar> b = new ArrayList<Calendar>(); for (int i=0; i<3; i++) { a.add(Calendar.DATE, i>0 ? 1 : 0); b.add(a); } for (int i=0; i<b.size(); i++){ Log.d("xxx", "test=" + b.get(i)); } suppose i wan 10/11/2012, 11/11/2012, 12/11/2012 but it come out like 12/11/2012, 12/11/2012, 12/11/2012 Anyone know how to solve this?

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  • Migrating SQL Server Databases – The DBA’s Checklist (Part 1)

    - by Sadequl Hussain
    It is a fact of life: SQL Server databases change homes. They move from one instance to another, from one version to the next, from old servers to new ones.  They move around as an organisation’s data grows, applications are enhanced or new versions of the database software are released. If not anything else, servers become old and unreliable and databases eventually need to find a new home. Consider the following scenarios: 1.     A new  database application is rolled out in a production server from the development or test environment 2.     A copy of the production database needs to be installed in a test server for troubleshooting purposes 3.     A copy of the development database is regularly refreshed in a test server during the system development life cycle 4.     A SQL Server is upgraded to a newer version. This can be an in-place upgrade or a side-by-side migration 5.     One or more databases need to be moved between different instances as part of a consolidation strategy. The instances can be running the same or different version of SQL Server 6.     A database has to be restored from a backup file provided by a third party application vendor 7.     A backup of the database is restored in the same or different instance for disaster recovery 8.     A database needs to be migrated within the same instance: a.     Files are moved from direct attached storage to storage area network b.    The same database is copied under a different name for another application Migrating SQL Server database applications is a complex topic in itself. There are a number of components that can be involved: jobs, DTS or SSIS packages, logins or linked servers are only few pieces of the puzzle. However, in this article we will focus only on the central part of migration: the installation of the database itself. Unless it is an in-place upgrade, typically the database is taken from a source server and installed in a destination instance.  Most of the time, a full backup file is used for the rollout. The backup file is either provided to the DBA or the DBA takes the backup and restores it in the target server. Sometimes the database is detached from the source and the files are copied to and attached in the destination. Regardless of the method of copying, moving, refreshing, restoring or upgrading the physical database, there are a number of steps the DBA should follow before and after it has been installed in the destination. It is these post database installation steps we are going to discuss below. Some of these steps apply in almost every scenario described above while some will depend on the type of objects contained within the database.  Also, the principles hold regardless of the number of databases involved. Step 1:  Make a copy of data and log files when attaching and detaching When detaching and attaching databases, ensure you have made copies of the data and log files if the destination is running a newer version of SQL Server. This is because once attached to a newer version, the database cannot be detached and attached back to an older version. Trying to do so will give you a message like the following: Server: Msg 602, Level 21, State 50, Line 1 Could not find row in sysindexes for database ID 6, object ID 1, index ID 1. Run DBCC CHECKTABLE on sysindexes. Connection Broken If you try to backup the attached database and restore it in the source, it will still fail. Similarly, if you are restoring the database in a newer version, it cannot be backed up or detached and put back in an older version of SQL. Unlike detach and attach method though, you do not lose the backup file or the original database here. When detaching and attaching a database, it is important you keep all the log files available along with the data files. It is possible to attach a database without a log file and SQL Server can be instructed to create a new log file, however this does not work if the database was detached when the primary file group was read-only. You will need all the log files in such cases. Step 2: Change database compatibility level Once the database has been restored or attached to a newer version of SQL Server, change the database compatibility level to reflect the newer version unless there is a compelling reason not to do so. When attaching or restoring from a previous version of SQL, the database retains the older version’s compatibility level.  The only time you would want to keep a database with an older compatibility level is when the code within your database is no longer supported by SQL Server. For example, outer joins with *= or the =* operators were still possible in SQL 2000 (with a warning message), but not in SQL 2005 anymore. If your stored procedures or triggers are using this form of join, you would want to keep the database with an older compatibility level.  For a list of compatibility issues between older and newer versions of SQL Server databases, refer to the Books Online under the sp_dbcmptlevel topic. Application developers and architects can help you in deciding whether you should change the compatibility level or not. You can always change the compatibility mode from the newest to an older version if necessary. To change the compatibility level, you can either use the database’s property from the SQL Server Management Studio or use the sp_dbcmptlevel stored procedure.   Bear in mind that you cannot run the built-in reports for databases from SQL Server Management Studio if you keep the database with an older compatibility level. The following figure shows the error message I received when trying to run the “Disk Usage by Top Tables” report against a database. This database was hosted in a SQL Server 2005 system and still had a compatibility mode 80 (SQL 2000).     Continues…

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  • SQL Server service accounts and SPNs

    - by simonsabin
    Service Principal Names (SPNs) are a must for kerberos authentication which is a must when using sharepoint, reporting services and sql server where you access one server that then needs to access another resource, this is called the double hop. The reason this is a complex problem is that the second hop has to be done with impersonation/delegation. For this to work there needs to be a way for the security system to make sure that the service in the middle is allowed to impersonate you, after all you are not giving the service your password. To do this you need to be using kerberos. The following is my simple interpretation of how kerberos works. I find the Kerberos documentation rediculously complex so the following might be sligthly wrong but I think its close enough. Keberos works on a ticketing system, the prinicipal is that you get a security token from AD and then you can pass that to the service in the middle which can then use that token to impersonate you. For that to work AD has to be able to identify who is allowed to use the token, in this case the service account.But how do you as a client know what service account the service in the middle is configured with. The answer is SPNs. The SPN is the mapping between your logical connection to the service account. One type of SPN is for the DNS name for the server and the port. i.e. MySQL.mydomain.com and 1433. You can see how this maps to SQL Server on that server, but how does it map to the account. Well it can be done in two ways, either you can have a mapping defined in AD or AD can use a default mapping (this is something I didn't know about). To map the SPN in AD then you have to add the SPN to the user account, this is documented in the first link below either directly or using a tool called SetSPN. You might say that is complex, well it is and thats why SQL Server tries to do it for you, at start up it tries to connect to AD and set the SPN on the account it is running as, clearly that can only happen IF SQL is running as a domain account AND importantly it has permission to do so. By default a normal domain user account doesn't have the correct permission, and is why so many people have this problem. If the account is a domain admin then it will have permission, but non of us run SQL using domain admin accounts do we. You might also note that the SPN contains the port number (this isn't a requirement now in sql 2008 but I won't go into that), so if you set it manually and you are using dynamic ports (the default for a named instance) what do you do, well every time the port changes you need to change the SPN allocated to the account. Thats why its advised to let SQL Server register the SPN itself. You may also have thought, well what happens if I change my service account, won't that lead to two accounts with the same SPN. Possibly. Having two accounts with the same SPN is definitely a problem. Why? Well because if there are two accounts Kerberos can't identify the exact account that the service is running as, it could be either account, and so your security falls back to NTLM. SETSPN is useful for finding duplicate SPNs Reading this you will probably be thinking Oh my goodness this is really difficult. It is however I've found today in investigating something else that there is an easy option. Use Network Service as your service account. Network Service is a special account and is tied to the computer. It appears that Network Service has the update rights to AD to set an SPN mapping for the computer account. This then allows the SPN mapping to work. I believe this also works for the local system account. To get all the SPNs in your AD run the following, it could be a large file, so you might want to restrict it to a specific OU, or CN ldifde -d "DC=<domain>" -l servicePrincipalName -F spn.txt You will read in the links below that you need SQL to register the SPN this is done how to use Kerberos authenticaiton in SQL Server - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319723 Using Kerberos with SQL Server - http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2005/10/12/479871.aspx Understanding Kerberos and NTLM authentication in SQL Server Connections - http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2006/12/02/understanding-kerberos-and-ntlm-authentication-in-sql-server-connections.aspx Summary The only reason I personally know to use a domain account is when you can't get kerberos to work and you want to do BULK INSERT or other network service that requires access to a a remote server. In this case you have to resort to using SQL authentication and the SQL Server uses its service account to access the remote service, and thus you need a domain account. You migth need this if using some forms of replication. I've always found Kerberos awkward to setup and so fallen back to this domain account approach. So in summary to get Kerberos to work try using the network service or local system accounts. For a great post from the Adam Saxton of the SQL Server support team go to http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/archive/2010/03/09/what-spn-do-i-use-and-how-does-it-get-there.aspx 

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  • SQL query performance optimization (TimesTen)

    - by Sergey Mikhanov
    Hi community, I need some help with TimesTen DB query optimization. I made some measures with Java profiler and found the code section that takes most of the time (this code section executes the SQL query). What is strange that this query becomes expensive only for some specific input data. Here’s the example. We have two tables that we are querying, one represents the objects we want to fetch (T_PROFILEGROUP), another represents the many-to-many link from some other table (T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS). We are not querying linked table. These are the queries that I executed with DB profiler running (they are the same except for the ID): Command> select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1464837998949302272; < 1169655247309537280 > < 1169655249792565248 > < 1464837997699399681 > 3 rows found. Command> select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1466585677823868928; < 1169655247309537280 > 1 row found. This is what I have in the profiler: 12:14:31.147 1 SQL 2L 6C 10825P Preparing: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1464837998949302272 12:14:31.147 2 SQL 4L 6C 10825P sbSqlCmdCompile ()(E): (Found already compiled version: refCount:01, bucket:47) cmdType:100, cmdNum:1146695. 12:14:31.147 3 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Opening: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1464837998949302272; 12:14:31.147 4 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Fetching: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1464837998949302272; 12:14:31.148 5 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Fetching: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1464837998949302272; 12:14:31.148 6 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Fetching: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1464837998949302272; 12:14:31.228 7 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Fetching: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1464837998949302272; 12:14:31.228 8 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Closing: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1464837998949302272; 12:14:35.243 9 SQL 2L 6C 10825P Preparing: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1466585677823868928 12:14:35.243 10 SQL 4L 6C 10825P sbSqlCmdCompile ()(E): (Found already compiled version: refCount:01, bucket:44) cmdType:100, cmdNum:1146697. 12:14:35.243 11 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Opening: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1466585677823868928; 12:14:35.243 12 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Fetching: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1466585677823868928; 12:14:35.243 13 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Fetching: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1466585677823868928; 12:14:35.243 14 SQL 4L 6C 10825P Closing: select G.M_ID from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS CG, T_PROFILEGROUP G where CG.M_ID_EID = G.M_ID and CG.M_ID_OID = 1466585677823868928; It’s clear that the first query took almost 100ms, while the second was executed instantly. It’s not about queries precompilation (the first one is precompiled too, as same queries happened earlier). We have DB indices for all columns used here: T_PROFILEGROUP.M_ID, T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS.M_ID_OID and T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS.M_ID_EID. My questions are: Why querying the same set of tables yields such a different performance for different parameters? Which indices are involved here? Is there any way to improve this simple query and/or the DB to make it faster? UPDATE: to give the feeling of size: Command> select count(*) from T_PROFILEGROUP; < 183840 > 1 row found. Command> select count(*) from T_PROFILECONTEXT_PROFILEGROUPS; < 2279104 > 1 row found.

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  • How to extract custom tokens in SQL Server NVarChar/VarChar field by using RegEx?

    - by Kthurein
    Is there any way to extract the matched strings by using Regex in T-SQL(SQL Server 2005)? For example: Welcome [CT Name="UserName" /], We hope that you will enjoy our services and your subscription will be expired on [CT Name="ExpiredDate" /]. I would like to extract the custom tokens in tabular format as follows: [CT Name="UserName" /] [CT Name="ExpiredDate" /] Thanks for your suggestion!

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  • How do I find out the expiry date of a SQL Server 2008 trial-install instance?

    - by Peter Mounce
    So I installed a trial of SQL Server 2008 enterprise edition while waiting for MSDN licenses to come through - I now want to uninstall the trial and replace it with a developer edition installation. However, I'd like to first know how long I have left on the trial. Is there a way to do this programmatically with SQL? I looked at create_date in sys.databases, but these give dates that are in 2003 (which is, I guess, when master and model were originally created).

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  • Why is fulltextsearch for phrase ignored in SQL Server?

    - by cpt.oneeye
    I am executing the following SQL statement on an indexed SQL Server 2008 R2 database. SELECT * FROM mydatabase WHERE (CONTAINS(ColumnA,'"The Apple is red"')) The problem is that it returns too many entries. It also returns entries where 'ColumnA' contains only one of the words ('Apple' or 'is' or 'red'...) and not only the entries which contains the exact phrase. According to MSDN this should be the way to search for a phrase. Thanks cpt.oneeye

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