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• Partition Wise Joins

  - by jean-pierre.dijcks

  Some say they are the holy grail of parallel computing and PWJ is the basis for a shared nothing system and the only join method that is available on a shared nothing system (yes this is oversimplified!). The magic in Oracle is of course that is one of many ways to join data. And yes, this is the old flexibility vs. simplicity discussion all over, so I won't go there... the point is that what you must do in a shared nothing system, you can do in Oracle with the same speed and methods. The Theory A partition wise join is a join between (for simplicity) two tables that are partitioned on the same column with the same partitioning scheme. In shared nothing this is effectively hard partitioning locating data on a specific node / storage combo. In Oracle is is logical partitioning. If you now join the two tables on that partitioned column you can break up the join in smaller joins exactly along the partitions in the data. Since they are partitioned (grouped) into the same buckets, all values required to do the join live in the equivalent bucket on either sides. No need to talk to anyone else, no need to redistribute data to anyone else... in short, the optimal join method for parallel processing of two large data sets. PWJ's in Oracle Since we do not hard partition the data across nodes in Oracle we use the Partitioning option to the database to create the buckets, then set the Degree of Parallelism (or run Auto DOP - see here) and get our PWJs. The main questions always asked are: How many partitions should I create? What should my DOP be? In a shared nothing system the answer is of course, as many partitions as there are nodes which will be your DOP. In Oracle we do want you to look at the workload and concurrency, and once you know that to understand the following rules of thumb. Within Oracle we have more ways of joining of data, so it is important to understand some of the PWJ ideas and what it means if you have an uneven distribution across processes. Assume we have a simple scenario where we partition the data on a hash key resulting in 4 hash partitions (H1 -H4). We have 2 parallel processes that have been tasked with reading these partitions (P1 - P2). The work is evenly divided assuming the partitions are the same size and we can scan this in time t1 as shown below. Now assume that we have changed the system and have a 5th partition but still have our 2 workers P1 and P2. The time it takes is actually 50% more assuming the 5th partition has the same size as the original H1 - H4 partitions. In other words to scan these 5 partitions, the time t2 it takes is not 1/5th more expensive, it is a lot more expensive and some other join plans may now start to look exciting to the optimizer. Just to post the disclaimer, it is not as simple as I state it here, but you get the idea on how much more expensive this plan may now look... Based on this little example there are a few rules of thumb to follow to get the partition wise joins. First, choose a DOP that is a factor of two (2). So always choose something like 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on... Second, choose a number of partitions that is larger or equal to 2* DOP. Third, make sure the number of partitions is divisible through 2 without orphans. This is also known as an even number... Fourth, choose a stable partition count strategy, which is typically hash, which can be a sub partitioning strategy rather than the main strategy (range - hash is a popular one). Fifth, make sure you do this on the join key between the two large tables you want to join (and this should be the obvious one...). Translating this into an example: DOP = 8 (determined based on concurrency or by using Auto DOP with a cap due to concurrency) says that the number of partitions >= 16. Number of hash (sub) partitions = 32, which gives each process four partitions to work on. This number is somewhat arbitrary and depends on your data and system. In this case my main reasoning is that if you get more room on the box you can easily move the DOP for the query to 16 without repartitioning... and of course it makes for no leftovers on the table... And yes, we recommend up-to-date statistics. And before you start complaining, do read this post on a cool way to do stats in 11.

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• The type 'XXX' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced exception after upgrade to ASP.NET 4

  - by imran_ku07

     Introduction :          I found two posts in ASP.NET MVC forums complaining that they are getting exception, The type XXX is defined in an assembly that is not referenced, after upgrading thier application into Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 at here and here .   Description :           The reason why they are getting the above exception is the use of new clean web.config without referencing the assemblies which were presents in ASP.NET 3.5 web.config. The quick solution for this problem is to add the old assemblies in new web.config.          <assemblies>             <add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>             <add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>             <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>              <add assembly="System.Data.Entity, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />              <add assembly="System.Data.Linq, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, publicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />          </assemblies>    How It works :            Currently i have not tested the above scenario in ASP.NET 4.0 because i have not yet get it. But the above scenario can easily be tested and verified in VS 2008. Just Open the root web.config and remove           <add assembly="System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>             Even you add the reference of System.Core in your project, you will still get the above exception because aspx pages are compiled in separate assembly. You can check this yourself by checking Show Detailed Compiler Output: below in the yellow screen of death, you will find something,/out:"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\e907aee4\5fa0acc8\App_Web_y5rd6bdg.dll"             This shows that aspx pages are compiled in separate assembly in Temporary ASP.NET Files.Summary :             After getting the above exception make sure to add the assemblies in web.config or add the Assembly directive at Page level. Hopefully this will helps to solve your problem.       

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• Inappropriate Updates?

  - by Tony Davis

  A recent Simple-talk article by Kathi Kellenberger dissected the fastest SQL solution, submitted by Peter Larsson as part of Phil Factor's SQL Speed Phreak challenge, to the classic "running total" problem. In its analysis of the code, the article re-ignited a heated debate regarding the techniques that should, and should not, be deemed acceptable in your search for fast SQL code. Peter's code for running total calculation uses a variation of a somewhat contentious technique, sometimes referred to as a "quirky update": SET @Subscribers = Subscribers = @Subscribers + PeopleJoined - PeopleLeft This form of the UPDATE statement, @variable = column = expression, is documented and it allows you to set a variable to the value returned by the expression. Microsoft does not guarantee the order in which rows are updated in this technique because, in relational theory, a table doesn’t have a natural order to its rows and the UPDATE statement has no means of specifying the order. Traditionally, in cases where a specific order is requires, such as for running aggregate calculations, programmers who used the technique have relied on the fact that the UPDATE statement, without the WHERE clause, is executed in the order imposed by the clustered index, or in heap order, if there isn’t one. Peter wasn’t satisfied with this, and so used the ingenious device of assuring the order of the UPDATE by the use of an "ordered CTE", based on an underlying temporary staging table (a heap). However, in either case, the ordering is still not guaranteed and, in addition, would be broken under conditions of parallelism, or partitioning. Many argue, with validity, that this reliance on a given order where none can ever be guaranteed is an abuse of basic relational principles, and so is a bad practice; perhaps even irresponsible. More importantly, Microsoft doesn't wish to support the technique and offers no guarantee that it will always work. If you put it into production and it breaks in a later version, you can't file a bug. As such, many believe that the technique should never be tolerated in a production system, under any circumstances. Is this attitude justified? After all, both forms of the technique, using a clustered index to guarantee the order or using an ordered CTE, have been tested rigorously and are proven to be robust; although not guaranteed by Microsoft, the ordering is reliable, provided none of the conditions that are known to break it are violated. In Peter's particular case, the technique is being applied to a temporary table, where the developer has full control of the data ordering, and indexing, and knows that the table will never be subject to parallelism or partitioning. It might be argued that, in such circumstances, the technique is not really "quirky" at all and to ban it from your systems would server no real purpose other than to deprive yourself of a reliable technique that has uses that extend well beyond the running total calculations. Of course, it is doubly important that such a technique, including its unsupported status and the assumptions that underpin its success, is fully and clearly documented, preferably even when posting it online in a competition or forum post. Ultimately, however, this technique has been available to programmers throughout the time Sybase and SQL Server has existed, and so cannot be lightly cast aside, even if one sympathises with Microsoft for the awkwardness of maintaining an archaic way of doing updates. After all, a Table hint could easily be devised that, if specified in the WITH (<Table_Hint_Limited>) clause, could be used to request the database engine to do the update in the conventional order. Then perhaps everyone would be satisfied. Cheers, Tony.

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• IE9 not rendering box-shadow Elements inside of Table Cells

  - by Rick Strahl

  Ran into an annoying problem today with IE 9. Slowly updating some older sites with CSS 3 tags and for the most part IE9 does a reasonably decent job of working with the new CSS 3 features. Not all by a long shot but at least some of the more useful ones like border-radius and box-shadow are supported. Until today I was happy to see that IE supported box-shadow just fine, but I ran into a problem with some old markup that uses tables for its main layout sections. I found that inside of a table cell IE fails to render a box-shadow. Below are images from Chrome (left) and IE 9 (right) of the same content: The download and purchase images are rendered with: <a href="download.asp" style="display:block;margin: 10px;"><img src="../images/download.gif" class="boxshadow roundbox" /></a> where the .boxshadow and .roundbox styles look like this:.boxshadow { -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px #535353; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px #535353; box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px #535353; } .roundbox { -moz-border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px; -webkit-border-radius: 6px; border-radius: 6px 6px 6px 6px; } And the Problem is… collapsed Table Borders Now normally these two styles work just fine in IE 9 when applied to elements. But the box-shadow doesn't work inside of this markup - because the parent container is a table cell.<td class="sidebar" style="border-collapse: collapse"> … <a href="download.asp" style="display:block;margin: 10px;"><img src="../images/download.gif" class="boxshadow roundbox" /></a> …</td> This HTML causes the image to not show a shadow. In actuality I'm not styling inline, but as part of my browser Reset I have the following in my master .css file:table { border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; } which has the same effect as the inline style. border-collapse by default inherits from the parent and so the TD inherits from table and tr - so TD tags are effectively collapsed. You can check out a test document that demonstrates this behavior here in this CodePaste.net snippet or run it here. How to work around this Issue To get IE9 to render the shadows inside of the TD tag correctly, I can just change the style explicitly NOT to use border-collapse:<td class="sidebar" style="border-collapse: separate; border-width: 0;"> Or better yet (thanks to David's comment below), you can add the border-collapse: separate to the .boxshadow style like this:.boxshadow { -moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px #535353; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px #535353; box-shadow: 3px 3px 5px #535353; border-collapse: separate; } With either of these approaches IE renders the shadows correctly. Do you really need border-collapse? Should you bother with border-collapse? I think so! Collapsed borders render flat as a single fat line if a border-width and border-color are assigned, while separated borders render a thin line with a bunch of weird white space around it or worse render a old skool 3D raised border which is terribly ugly as well. So as a matter of course in any app my browser Reset includes the above code to make sure all tables with borders render the same flat borders. As you probably know, IE has all sorts of rendering issues in tables and on backgrounds (opacity backgrounds or image backgrounds) most of which is caused by the way that IE internally uses ActiveX filters to apply these effects. Apparently collapsed borders are yet one more item that causes problems with rendering. There you have it. Another crappy failure in IE we have to check for now, just one more reason to hate Internet Explorer. Luckily this one has a reasonably easy workaround. I hope this helps out somebody and saves them the hour I spent trying to figure out what caused this problem in the first place. Resources Sample HTML document that demonstrates the behavior Run the Sample© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2012Posted in HTML  Internet Explorer   Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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• Design review for application facing memory issues

  - by Mr Moose

  I apologise in advance for the length of this post, but I want to paint an accurate picture of the problems my app is facing and then pose some questions below; I am trying to address some self inflicted design pain that is now leading to my application crashing due to out of memory errors. An abridged description of the problem domain is as follows; The application takes in a “dataset” that consists of numerous text files containing related data An individual text file within the dataset usually contains approx 20 “headers” that contain metadata about the data it contains. It also contains a large tab delimited section containing data that is related to data in one of the other text files contained within the dataset. The number of columns per file is very variable from 2 to 256+ columns. The original application was written to allow users to load a dataset, map certain columns of each of the files which basically indicating key information on the files to show how they are related as well as identify a few expected column names. Once this is done, a validation process takes place to enforce various rules and ensure that all the relationships between the files are valid. Once that is done, the data is imported into a SQL Server database. The database design is an EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value) model used to cater for the variable columns per file. I know EAV has its detractors, but in this case, I feel it was a reasonable choice given the disparate data and variable number of columns submitted in each dataset. The memory problem Given the fact the combined size of all text files was at most about 5 megs, and in an effort to reduce the database transaction time, it was decided to read ALL the data from files into memory and then perform the following; perform all the validation whilst the data was in memory relate it using an object model Start DB transaction and write the key columns row by row, noting the Id of the written row (all tables in the database utilise identity columns), then the Id of the newly written row is applied to all related data Once all related data had been updated with the key information to which it relates, these records are written using SqlBulkCopy. Due to our EAV model, we essentially have; x columns by y rows to write, where x can by 256+ and rows are often into the tens of thousands. Once all the data is written without error (can take several minutes for large datasets), Commit the transaction. The problem now comes from the fact we are now receiving individual files containing over 30 megs of data. In a dataset, we can receive any number of files. We’ve started seen datasets of around 100 megs coming in and I expect it is only going to get bigger from here on in. With files of this size, data can’t even be read into memory without the app falling over, let alone be validated and imported. I anticipate having to modify large chunks of the code to allow validation to occur by parsing files line by line and am not exactly decided on how to handle the import and transactions. Potential improvements I’ve wondered about using GUIDs to relate the data rather than relying on identity fields. This would allow data to be related prior to writing to the database. This would certainly increase the storage required though. Especially in an EAV design. Would you think this is a reasonable thing to try, or do I simply persist with identity fields (natural keys can’t be trusted to be unique across all submitters). Use of staging tables to get data into the database and only performing the transaction to copy data from staging area to actual destination tables. Questions For systems like this that import large quantities of data, how to you go about keeping transactions small. I’ve kept them as small as possible in the current design, but they are still active for several minutes and write hundreds of thousands of records in one transaction. Is there a better solution? The tab delimited data section is read into a DataTable to be viewed in a grid. I don’t need the full functionality of a DataTable, so I suspect it is overkill. Is there anyway to turn off various features of DataTables to make them more lightweight? Are there any other obvious things you would do in this situation to minimise the memory footprint of the application described above? Thanks for your kind attention.

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• SQL SERVER – Not Possible – Delete From Multiple Table – Update Multiple Table in Single Statement

  - by pinaldave

  There are two questions which I get every single day multiple times. In my gmail, I have created standard canned reply for them. Let us see the questions here. I want to delete from multiple table in a single statement how will I do it? I want to update multiple table in a single statement how will I do it? The answer is – No, You cannot and you should not. SQL Server does not support deleting or updating from two tables in a single update. If you want to delete or update two different tables – you may want to write two different delete or update statements for it. This method has many issues – from the consistency of the data to SQL syntax. Now here is the real reason for this blog post – yesterday I was asked this question again and I replied my canned answer saying it is not possible and it should not be any way implemented that day. In the response to my reply I was pointed out to my own blog post where user suggested that I had previously mentioned this is possible and with demo example. Let us go over my conversation – you may find it interesting. Let us call the user DJ. DJ: Pinal, can we delete multiple table in a single statement or with single delete statement? Pinal: No, you cannot and you should not. DJ: Oh okey, if that is the case, why do you suggest to do that? Pinal: (baffled) I am not suggesting that. I am rather suggesting that it is not possible and it should not be possible. DJ: Hmm… but in that case why did you blog about it earlier? Pinal: (What?) No, I did not. I am pretty confident. DJ: Well, I am confident as well. You did. Pinal: In that case, it is my word against your word. Isn’t it? DJ: I have proof. Do you want to see it that you suggest it is possible? Pinal: Yes, I will be delighted too. (After 10 Minutes) DJ: Here are not one but two of your blog posts which talks about it - SQL SERVER – Curious Case of Disappearing Rows – ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE – Part 1 of 2 SQL SERVER – Curious Case of Disappearing Rows – ON UPDATE CASCADE and ON DELETE CASCADE – T-SQL Example – Part 2 of 2 Pinal: Oh! DJ: I know I was correct. Pinal: Well, oh man, I did not mean there what you mean here. DJ: I did not understand can you explain it further. Pinal: Here we go. The example in the other blog is the example of the cascading delete or cascading update. I think you may want to understand the concept of the foreign keys and cascading update/delete. The concept of cascading exists to maintain data integrity. If there primary keys get deleted the update or delete reflects on the foreign key table to maintain the key integrity and data consistency. SQL Server follows ANSI Entry SQL with regard to referential integrity between PrimaryKey and ForeignKey columns which requires the inserting, updating, and deleting of data in related tables to be restricted to values that preserve the integrity. This is all together different concept than deleting multiple values in a single statement. When I hear that someone wants to delete or update multiple table in a single statement what I assume is something very similar to following. DELETE/UPDATE Table 1 (cols) Table 2 (cols) VALUES … which is not valid statement/syntax as well it is not ASNI standards as well. I guess, after this discussion with DJ, I realize I need to do a blog post so I can add the link to this blog post in my canned answer. Well, it was a fun conversation with DJ and I hope it the message is very clear now. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Joins, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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• SQL Table stored as a Heap - the dangers within

  - by MikeD

  Nearly all of the time I create a table, I include a primary key, and often that PK is implemented as a clustered index. Those two don't always have to go together, but in my world they almost always do. On a recent project, I was working on a data warehouse and a set of SSIS packages to import data from an OLTP database into my data warehouse. The data I was importing from the business database into the warehouse was mostly new rows, sometimes updates to existing rows, and sometimes deletes. I decided to use the MERGE statement to implement the insert, update or delete in the data warehouse, I found it quite performant to have a stored procedure that extracted all the new, updated, and deleted rows from the source database and dump it into a working table in my data warehouse, then run a stored proc in the warehouse that was the MERGE statement that took the rows from the working table and updated the real fact table. Use Warehouse CREATE TABLE Integration.MergePolicy (PolicyId int, PolicyTypeKey int, Premium money, Deductible money, EffectiveDate date, Operation varchar(5)) CREATE TABLE fact.Policy (PolicyKey int identity primary key, PolicyId int, PolicyTypeKey int, Premium money, Deductible money, EffectiveDate date) CREATE PROC Integration.MergePolicy as begin begin tran Merge fact.Policy as tgtUsing Integration.MergePolicy as SrcOn (tgt.PolicyId = Src.PolicyId) When not matched by Target then Insert (PolicyId, PolicyTypeKey, Premium, Deductible, EffectiveDate)values (src.PolicyId, src.PolicyTypeKey, src.Premium, src.Deductible, src.EffectiveDate) When matched and src.Operation = 'U' then Update set PolicyTypeKey = src.PolicyTypeKey,Premium = src.Premium,Deductible = src.Deductible,EffectiveDate = src.EffectiveDate When matched and src.Operation = 'D' then Delete ;delete from Integration.WorkPolicy commit end Notice that my worktable (Integration.MergePolicy) doesn't have any primary key or clustered index. I didn't think this would be a problem, since it was relatively small table and was empty after each time I ran the stored proc. For one of the work tables, during the initial loads of the warehouse, it was getting about 1.5 million rows inserted, processed, then deleted. Also, because of a bug in the extraction process, the same 1.5 million rows (plus a few hundred more each time) was getting inserted, processed, and deleted. This was being sone on a fairly hefty server that was otherwise unused, and no one was paying any attention to the time it was taking. This week I received a backup of this database and loaded it on my laptop to troubleshoot the problem, and of course it took a good ten minutes or more to run the process. However, what seemed strange to me was that after I fixed the problem and happened to run the merge sproc when the work table was completely empty, it still took almost ten minutes to complete. I immediately looked back at the MERGE statement to see if I had some sort of outer join that meant it would be scanning the target table (which had about 2 million rows in it), then turned on the execution plan output to see what was happening under the hood. Running the stored procedure again took a long time, and the plan output didn't show me much - 55% on the MERGE statement, and 45% on the DELETE statement, and table scans on the work table in both places. I was surprised at the relative cost of the DELETE statement, because there were really 0 rows to delete, but I was expecting to see the table scans. (I was beginning now to suspect that my problem was because the work table was being stored as a heap.) Then I turned on STATS_IO and ran the sproc again. The output was quite interesting.Table 'Worktable'. Scan count 0, logical reads 0, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0.Table 'Policy'. Scan count 0, logical reads 0, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0.Table 'MergePolicy'. Scan count 1, logical reads 433276, physical reads 60, read-ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0. I've reproduced the above from memory, the details aren't exact, but the essential bit was the very high number of logical reads on the table stored as a heap. Even just doing a SELECT Count(*) from Integration.MergePolicy incurred that sort of output, even though the result was always 0. I suppose I should research more on the allocation and deallocation of pages to tables stored as a heap, but I haven't, and my original assumption that a table stored as a heap with no rows would only need to read one page to answer any query was definitely proven wrong. It's likely that some sort of physical defragmentation of the table may have cleaned that up, but it seemed that the easiest answer was to put a clustered index on the table. After doing so, the execution plan showed a cluster index scan, and the IO stats showed only a single page read. (I aborted my first attempt at adding a clustered index on the table because it was taking too long - instead I ran TRUNCATE TABLE Integration.MergePolicy first and added the clustered index, both of which took very little time). I suspect I may not have noticed this if I had used TRUNCATE TABLE Integration.MergePolicy instead of DELETE FROM Integration.MergePolicy, since I'm guessing that the truncate operation does some rather quick releasing of pages allocated to the heap table. In the future, I will likely be much more careful to have a clustered index on every table I use, even the working tables. Mike  

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• Creating the Business Card Request InfoPath Form

  - by JKenderdine

  Business Card Request Demo Files Back in January I spoke at SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach about InfoPath forms and Web Part deployment.  Below is some of the information and details regarding the form I created for the session.  There are many blogs and Microsoft articles on how to create a basic form so I won’t repeat that information here.   This blog will just explain a few of the options I chose when creating the solutions for SPS Virginia Beach.  The above link contains the zipped package files of the two InfoPath forms(no code solution and coded solution), the list template for the Location list I used, and the PowerPoint deck.  If you plan to use these templates, you will need to update the forms to work within your own environments (change data connections, code links, etc.).  Also, you must have the SharePoint Enterprise version, with InfoPath Services configured in order to use the Web Browser enabled forms. So what are the requirements for this template? Business Card Request Form Template Design Plan: Gather user information and requirements for card Pull in as much user information as possible. Use data from the user profile web services as a data source Show and hide fields as necessary for requirements Create multiple views – one for those submitting the form and Another view for the executive assistants placing the orders. Browser based form integrated into SharePoint team site Submitted directly to form library The base form was created using the blank template.  The table and rows were added using Insert tab and selecting Custom Table.  The use of tables is a great way to make sure everything lines up.  You do have to split the tables from time to time.  If you’ve ever split cells and then tried to re-align one to find that you impacted the others, you know why.  Here is what the base form looks like in InfoPath.   Show and hide fields as necessary for requirements You will notice I also used Sections within the form.  These show or hide depending on options selected or whether or not fields are blank.  This is a great way to prevent your users from feeling overwhelmed with a large form (this one wouldn’t apply).  Although not used in this one, you can also use various views with a tab interface.  I’ll show that in another post. Gather user information and requirements for card Pull in as much user information as possible. Use data from the user profile web services as a data source Utilizing rules you can load data when the form initiates (Data tab, Form Load).  Anything you can automate is always appreciated by the user as that is data they don’t have to enter.  For example, loading their user id or other user information on load: Always keep in mind though how much data you load and the method for loading that data (through rules, code, etc.).  They have an impact on form performance.  The form will take longer to load if you bring in a ton of data from external sources.  Laura Rogers has a great blog post on using the User Information List to load user information.   If the user has logged into SharePoint, then this can be used quite effectively and without a huge performance hit.   What I have found is that using the User Profile service via code behind or the Web Service “GetUserProfileByName” (as above) can take more time to load the user data.  Just food for thought. You must add the data connection in order for the above rules to work.  You can connect to the data connection through the Data tab, Data Connections or select Manage Data Connections link which appears under the main data source.  The data connections can be SharePoint lists or libraries, SQL data tables, XML files, etc.  Create multiple views – one for those submitting the form and Another view for the executive assistants placing the orders. You can also create multiple views for the users to enhance their experience.  Once they’ve entered the information and submitted their request for business cards, they don’t really need to see the main data input screen any more.  They just need to view what they entered. From the Page Design tab, select New View and give the view a name.  To review the existing views, click the down arrow under View: The ReviewView shows just what the user needs and nothing more: Once you have everything configured, the form should be tested within a Test SharePoint environment before final deployment to production.  This validates you don’t have any rules or code that could impact the server negatively. Submitted directly to form library   You will need to know the form library that you will be submitting to when publishing the template.  Configure the Submit data connection to connect to this library.  There is already one configured in the sample,  but it will need to be updated to your environment prior to publishing. The Design template is different from the Published template.  While both have the .XSN extension, the published template contains all the “package” information for the form.  The published form is what is loaded into Central Admin, not the design template. Browser based form integrated into SharePoint team site In Central Admin, under General Settings, select Manage Form Templates.  Upload the published form template and Activate it to a site collection. Now it is available as a content type to select in the form library.  Some documentation on publishing form templates:  Technet – Manage administrator approved form templates And that’s all our base requirements.  Hope this helps to give a good start.

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• Disaster Recovery Discovery

  - by Rodney Landrum

  Last weekend I joined several of my IT staff on a mission to perform a DR test in our remote CoLo center in a large South East city of the US. Can I be more obtuse? The goal was simple for me as the sole DBA in a throng of Windows, Storage, Network and SAN admins – restore the databases and make them work. There were 4 applications that back ended to 7 SQL Server databases on 4 different SQL Server instances. We would maintain the original server names, but beyond that it was fair game. We had time to prepare so I was able to script out or otherwise automate the recovery process. I used sp_help_revlogin for three of the servers, a bit of a cheat actually because restoring the Master database on the target DR servers was the specified course of action according to the DR procedures ( the caveat “IF REQUIRED” left it open to interpretation. I really wanted to avoid the step of restoring Master for a number of reasons but mainly because I did not want to deal with issues starting SQL Services afterward. Having to account for the location of TempDB and the version conflicts of the resource DBs were just two of the battles I chose not to fight. Not to mention other system database location problems that might arise and prevent SQL from starting.  I was going to have to restore all of the user databases anyway, so I would not really gain any benefit, outside of logins, for taking the time to restore the source Master database over the newly installed one on the fresh server. What I wanted was the ability to restore the Master database as a user database, call it Master_Mine, from a backup on the source system and then use that restored database to script the SQL Logins and passwords on the DR systems. While I did not attempt this on the trip, the thought stuck in my mind and this past week I succeeded at scripting user accounts and passwords using only a restored copy of the Master database. Granted there were several challenges to overcome.  Also, as is usual for any work like this the usual disclaimers apply:  This is not something that I would imagine Microsoft would condone or support and this was really only an experiment for me to learn if it was even possible. While I have tested the process with success, I do not know that I would use this technique in a documented procedure because future updates for SQL Server will render this technique non-functional. I thought at first, incorrectly of course, that I could use sp_help_revlogin on a restored copy of the master database I named Master_Mine.   Since sp_help_revlogin uses system schema objects, sys.syslogins and sys.server_principals, this was not going to work because all results would come from the main Master database. To test this I added a SQL login via SSMS, backed up Master, restored  it as Master_Mine, and then deleted the login.  Even though the test account I created should presumably still be in the Master_Mine database, I should be able to get to it and script out its creation with its password hash so that I would not need to know the password, but any applications that stored that password would not have to be altered in the DR scenario. They would just work as expected. Once I realized that would not work I began looking deeper.  Knowing that sys.syslogins and sys.server_principals are system views, their underlying code should be available with sp_helptext, right? They were. And this led me to discover the two tables sys.sysxlgns and sys.sysprivs, where the data I needed was stored. These tables existed in both the real Master and the restored copy, Master_Mine.  I used this information to tweak the sp_help_revlogin stored procedure to use these tables instead to create the logins cursor used in sp_help_revlogin. For the password hash,  sp_help_revlogin uses the function LoginProperty() which takes a user name and option ‘passwordhash’ to return the hash for the user. Unfortunately, it requires the login to exist in the Master database. This would not work. So another slight modification I had to make was to pull the password hash itself (pwdhash from sys.sysxlgns) into the logins cursor and comment out the section of sp_help_revlogin that uses LoginProperty. Instead, I pass the pwdhash value as the variable @PWD_varbinary to the sp_hexadecimal stored procedure which is also created by and used within the code provided by Microsoft in the link above for sp_help_revlogin. The final challenge: sys.sysxlgns and sys.server_principals are visible only within a Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC) query window in SSMS or within SQLCDMD.  To open a DAC connection you have to be logged in on the SQL Server itself, via RDP in my case,  and you preface the server name in the query connection with ADMIN:, so that the server connection looks like ADMIN:ServerName. From there you can create the modified stored procedure in the restored copy of a Master database from a source system as whatever name you like, and then run the modified stored procedure. I named my new stored procedure usp_help_revlogin_MyMaster. Upon execution I was happy to see the logins and password hashes that I needed to apply from the source Master database without having to restore over the new Master system database and without the need to access the original server (assuming it was down due to whatever disaster put it in that state). You will note that I am not providing full code samples here of the modifications. I will say that it was a slight bit of work and anyone who needed to do this for whatever reason, could fairly easily roll their own solution with the information provided herein.  My goal, as I said was to prove that this could be done and provide another option if required to ease the burden of getting SQL Servers up and available in an emergency situation where alternatives may be more challenging or otherwise unavailable.  

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• Development Quirk From ASP.NET Dynamic Compilation

  - by jkauffman

  The Problem I got a compilation error in my ASP.NET MVC3 project that tested my sanity today. (As always, names are changed to protect the innocent) The type or namespace name 'FishViewModel' does not exist in the namespace 'Company.Product.Application.Models' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Sure looks easy! There must be something in the project referring to a FishViewModel. The Confusing Part The first thing I noticed was the that error was occuring in a folder clearly not in my project and in files that I definitely had not created: %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\(versionNumber)\Temporary ASP.NET Files\ App_Web_mezpfjae.1.cs I also ascertained these facts, each of which made me more confused than the last: Rebuild and Clean had no effect. No controllers in the project ever returned a ViewResult using FishViewModel. No views in the project defined that they use FishViewModel. Searching across all files included in the project for “FishViewModel” provided no results. The build server did not report a problem. The Solution The problem stemmed from a file that was not included in the project but still present on the file system: (By the way, if you don’t know this trick already, there is a toolbar button in the Solution Explorer window to “Show All Files” which allows you to see files all files in the file system) In my situation, I was working on the mission-critical Fish view before abandoning the feature. Instead of deleting the file, I excluded it from the project. However, this was a bad move. It caused the build failure, and in order to fix the error, this file must be deleted. By the way, this file was not in source control, so the build server did not have it. This explains why my build server did not report a problem for me. The Explanation So, what’s going on? This file isn’t even a part of the project, so why is it failing the build? This is a behavior of the ASP.NET Dynamic Compilation. This is the same process that occurs when deploying a webpage; ASP.NET compiles the web application’s code. When this occurs on a production server, it has to do so without the .csproj file (which isn’t usually deployed, if you’ve taken your time to do a deployment cleanly). This process has merely the file system available to identify what to compile. So, back in the world of developing the webpage in visual studio on my developer box, I run into the situation because the same process is occuring there. This is true even though I have more files on my machine than will actually get deployed. I can’t help but think that this error could be attributed back to the real culprit file (Fish.cshtml, rather than the temporary files) with some work, but at least the error had enough information in it to narrow it down. The Conclusion I had previously been accustomed to the idea that for c# projects, the .csproj file always “defines” the build behavior. This investigation has taught me that I’ll need to shift my thinking a bit to remember that the file system has the final say when it comes to web applications, even on the developer’s machine!

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• Microsoft Sql Server 2008 R2 System Databases

  For a majority of software developers little time is spent understanding the inner workings of the database management systems (DBMS) they use to store data for their applications.  I personally place myself in this grouping. In my case, I have used various versions of Microsoft’s SQL Server (2000, 2005, and 2008 R2) and just recently learned how valuable they really are when I was preparing to deliver a lecture on "SQL Server 2008 R2, System Databases". Microsoft Sql Server 2008 R2 System DatabasesSo what are system databases in MS SQL Server, and why should I know them? Microsoft uses system databases to support the SQL Server DBMS, much like a developer uses config files or database tables to support an application. These system databases individually provide specific functionality that allows MS SQL Server to function. Name Database File Log File Master master.mdf mastlog.ldf Resource mssqlsystemresource.mdf mssqlsystemresource.ldf Model model.mdf modellog.ldf MSDB msdbdata.mdf msdblog.ldf Distribution distmdl.mdf distmdl.ldf TempDB tempdb.mdf templog.ldf Master DatabaseIf you have used MS SQL Server then you should recognize the Master database especially if you used the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to connect to a user created database. MS SQL Server requires the Master database in order for DBMS to start due to the information that it stores. Examples of data stored in the Master database User Logins Linked Servers Configuration information Information on User Databases Resource DatabaseHonestly, until recently I never knew this database even existed until I started to research SQL Server system databases. The reason for this is due largely to the fact that the resource database is hidden to users. In fact, the database files are stored within the Binn folder instead of the standard MS SQL Server database folder path. This database contains all system objects that can be accessed by all other databases.  In short, this database contains all system views and store procedures that appear in all other user databases regarding system information. One of the many benefits to storing system views and store procedures in a single hidden database is the fact it improves upgrading a SQL Server database; not to mention that maintenance is decreased since only one code base has to be mainlined for all of the system views and procedures. Model DatabaseThe Model database as the name implies is the model for all new databases created by users. This allows for predefining default database objects for all new databases within a MS SQL Server instance. For example, if every database created by a user needs to have an “Audit” table when it is  created then defining the “Audit” table in the model will guarantees that the table will be located in every new database create after the model is altered. MSDB DatabaseThe MSDBdatabase is used by SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Database Mail, SQL Server Service Broker, along with SQL Server. The SQL Server Agent uses this database to store job configurations and SQL job schedules along with SQL Alerts, and Operators. In addition, this database also stores all SQL job parameters along with each job’s execution history.  Finally, this database is also used to store database backup and maintenance plans as well as details pertaining to SQL Log shipping if it is being used. Distribution DatabaseThe Distribution database is only used during replication and stores meta data and history information pertaining to the act of replication data. Furthermore, when transactional replication is used this database also stores information regarding each transaction. It is important to note that replication is not turned on by default in MS SQL Server and that the distribution database is hidden from SSMS. Tempdb DatabaseThe Tempdb as the name implies is used to store temporary data and data objects. Examples of this include temp tables and temp store procedures. It is important to note that when using this database all data and data objects are cleared from this database when SQL Server restarts. This database is also used by SQL Server when it is performing some internal operations. Typically, SQL Server uses this database for the purpose of large sort and index operations. Finally, this database is used to store row versions if row versioning or snapsot isolation transactions are being used by SQL Server. Additionally, I would love to hear from others about their experiences using system databases, tables, and objects in a real world environments.

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• Microsoft Sql Server 2008 R2 System Databases

  For a majority of software developers little time is spent understanding the inner workings of the database management systems (DBMS) they use to store data for their applications.  I personally place myself in this grouping. In my case, I have used various versions of Microsoft’s SQL Server (2000, 2005, and 2008 R2) and just recently learned how valuable they really are when I was preparing to deliver a lecture on "SQL Server 2008 R2, System Databases". Microsoft Sql Server 2008 R2 System DatabasesSo what are system databases in MS SQL Server, and why should I know them? Microsoft uses system databases to support the SQL Server DBMS, much like a developer uses config files or database tables to support an application. These system databases individually provide specific functionality that allows MS SQL Server to function. Name Database File Log File Master master.mdf mastlog.ldf Resource mssqlsystemresource.mdf mssqlsystemresource.ldf Model model.mdf modellog.ldf MSDB msdbdata.mdf msdblog.ldf Distribution distmdl.mdf distmdl.ldf TempDB tempdb.mdf templog.ldf Master DatabaseIf you have used MS SQL Server then you should recognize the Master database especially if you used the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to connect to a user created database. MS SQL Server requires the Master database in order for DBMS to start due to the information that it stores. Examples of data stored in the Master database User Logins Linked Servers Configuration information Information on User Databases Resource DatabaseHonestly, until recently I never knew this database even existed until I started to research SQL Server system databases. The reason for this is due largely to the fact that the resource database is hidden to users. In fact, the database files are stored within the Binn folder instead of the standard MS SQL Server database folder path. This database contains all system objects that can be accessed by all other databases.  In short, this database contains all system views and store procedures that appear in all other user databases regarding system information. One of the many benefits to storing system views and store procedures in a single hidden database is the fact it improves upgrading a SQL Server database; not to mention that maintenance is decreased since only one code base has to be mainlined for all of the system views and procedures. Model DatabaseThe Model database as the name implies is the model for all new databases created by users. This allows for predefining default database objects for all new databases within a MS SQL Server instance. For example, if every database created by a user needs to have an “Audit” table when it is  created then defining the “Audit” table in the model will guarantees that the table will be located in every new database create after the model is altered. MSDB DatabaseThe MSDBdatabase is used by SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Database Mail, SQL Server Service Broker, along with SQL Server. The SQL Server Agent uses this database to store job configurations and SQL job schedules along with SQL Alerts, and Operators. In addition, this database also stores all SQL job parameters along with each job’s execution history.  Finally, this database is also used to store database backup and maintenance plans as well as details pertaining to SQL Log shipping if it is being used. Distribution DatabaseThe Distribution database is only used during replication and stores meta data and history information pertaining to the act of replication data. Furthermore, when transactional replication is used this database also stores information regarding each transaction. It is important to note that replication is not turned on by default in MS SQL Server and that the distribution database is hidden from SSMS. Tempdb DatabaseThe Tempdb as the name implies is used to store temporary data and data objects. Examples of this include temp tables and temp store procedures. It is important to note that when using this database all data and data objects are cleared from this database when SQL Server restarts. This database is also used by SQL Server when it is performing some internal operations. Typically, SQL Server uses this database for the purpose of large sort and index operations. Finally, this database is used to store row versions if row versioning or snapsot isolation transactions are being used by SQL Server. Additionally, I would love to hear from others about their experiences using system databases, tables, and objects in a real world environments.

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• How do I solve this "unexpected '}' syntax error" in my bash script?

  - by WASasquatch

  I have a piece of code that has some serious issues and I was hoping to get it solved soon but no one has offered any help. I thought I'd try some Ubuntu users since this is the OS running the script. mc_addplugin() { if pgrep -u $USERNAME -f $SERVICE > /dev/null then echo "$SERVICE is running! Please stop the service before adding a plugin." else echo "Paste the URL to the .JAR Plugin..." read JARURL JARNAME=$(basename "$JARURL") if [ -d "$TEMPPLUGINS" ] then as_user "cd $PLUGINSPATH && wget -r -A.jar $JARURL -o temp_plugins/$JARNAME" else as_user "cd $PLUGINSPATH && mkdir $TEMPPLUGINS && wget -r -A.jar $JARURL -o temp_plugins/$JARNAME" fi if [ -f "$TMPDIR/$JARNAME" ] then if [ -f "$PLUGINSPATH/$JARNAME" ] then if `diff $PLUGINSPATH/$JARNAME $TMPDIR/$JARNAME >/dev/null` then echo "You are already running the latest version of $JARNAME." else NOW=`date "+%Y-%m-%d_%Hh%M"` echo "Are you sure you want to overwrite this plugin? [Y/n]" echo "Note: Your old plugin will be moved to the "$TEMPPLUGINS" folder with todays date." select yn in "Yes" "No"; do case $yn in Yes ) as_user "mv $PLUGINSPATH/$JARNAME $TEMPPLUGINS/${JARNAME}_${NOW} && mv $TEMPPLUGINS/$JARNAME $PLUGINSPATH/$JARNAME"; break;; No ) echo "The plugin has not been installed! Removing temporary plugin and exiting..." as_user "rm $TEMPPLUGINS/$JARNAME"; exit;; esac done echo "Would you like to start the $SERVICE now? [Y/n]" select yn in "Yes" "No"; do case $yn in Yes ) mc_start; break;; No ) "$SERVICE not running! To start the service run: /etc/init.d/craftbukkit start"; exit;; esac done fi else echo "Are you sure you want to add this new plugin? [Y/n]" select yn in "Yes" "No"; do case $yn in Yes ) as_user "mv $PLUGINSPATH/$JARNAME $TEMPPLUGINS/${JARNAME}_${NOW} && mv $TEMPPLUGINS/$JARNAME $PLUGINSPATH/$JARNAME"; break;; No ) echo "The plugin has not been installed! Removing temporary plugin and exiting..." as_user "rm $TEMPPLUGINS/$JARNAME"; exit;; esac done echo "Would you like to start the $SERVICE now? [Y/n]?" select yn in "Yes" "No"; do case $yn in Yes ) mc_start; break;; No ) "$SERVICE not running! To start the service run: /etc/init.d/craftbukkit start"; exit;; esac done fi else echo "Failed to download the plugin from the URL you specified!" exit; fi } It throws it at the closing bracket at the end of the function.

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• Create Resume problem

  - by ar31an

  hello mates, i am working on a project of online resume management system and i am encountering an exception while creating resume. [b] Exception: Data type mismatch in criteria expression. [/b] here is my code for Create Resume-1.aspx.cs using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Collections; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using System.Data.OleDb; public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { string sql, sql2, sql3, sql4, sql5, sql6, sql7, sql8, sql9, sql10, sql11, sql12; string conString = "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0; Data Source=D:\\Deliverable4.accdb"; protected OleDbConnection rMSConnection; protected OleDbCommand rMSCommand; protected OleDbDataAdapter rMSDataAdapter; protected DataSet dataSet; protected DataTable dataTable; protected DataRow dataRow; protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { } protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string contact1 = TextBox1.Text; string contact2 = TextBox2.Text; string cellphone = TextBox3.Text; string address = TextBox4.Text; string city = TextBox5.Text; string addqualification = TextBox18.Text; //string SecondLastDegreeGrade = TextBox17.Text; //string SecondLastDegreeInstitute = TextBox16.Text; //string SecondLastDegreeNameOther = TextBox15.Text; string LastDegreeNameOther = TextBox11.Text; string LastDegreeInstitute = TextBox12.Text; string LastDegreeGrade = TextBox13.Text; string tentativeFromDate = (DropDownList4.SelectedValue + " " + DropDownList7.SelectedValue + " " + DropDownList8.SelectedValue); try { sql6 = "select CountryID from COUNTRY"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql6, rMSConnection); dataSet = new DataSet("cID"); rMSDataAdapter.Fill(dataSet, "COUNTRY"); dataTable = dataSet.Tables["COUNTRY"]; int cId = (int)dataTable.Rows[0][0]; rMSConnection.Close(); sql4 = "select PersonalDetailID from PERSONALDETAIL"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql4, rMSConnection); dataSet = new DataSet("PDID"); rMSDataAdapter.Fill(dataSet, "PERSONALDETAIL"); dataTable = dataSet.Tables["PERSONALDETAIL"]; int PDId = (int)dataTable.Rows[0][0]; rMSConnection.Close(); sql5 = "update PERSONALDETAIL set Phone1 ='" + contact1 + "' , Phone2 = '" + contact2 + "', CellPhone = '" + cellphone + "', Address = '" + address + "', City = '" + city + "', CountryID = '" + cId + "' where PersonalDetailID = '" + PDId + "'"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSConnection.Open(); rMSCommand = new OleDbCommand(sql5, rMSConnection); rMSCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); rMSConnection.Close(); sql3 = "select DesignationID from DESIGNATION"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql3, rMSConnection); dataSet = new DataSet("DesID"); rMSDataAdapter.Fill(dataSet, "DESIGNATION"); dataTable = dataSet.Tables["DESIGNATION"]; int desId = (int)dataTable.Rows[0][0]; rMSConnection.Close(); sql2 = "select DepartmentID from DEPARTMENT"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql2, rMSConnection); dataSet = new DataSet("DID"); rMSDataAdapter.Fill(dataSet, "DEPARTMENT"); dataTable = dataSet.Tables["DEPARTMENT"]; int dId = (int)dataTable.Rows[0][0]; rMSConnection.Close(); sql7 = "select ResumeID from RESUME"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql7, rMSConnection); dataSet = new DataSet("rID"); rMSDataAdapter.Fill(dataSet, "RESUME"); dataTable = dataSet.Tables["RESUME"]; int rId = (int)dataTable.Rows[0][0]; rMSConnection.Close(); sql = "update RESUME set PersonalDetailID ='" + PDId + "' , DesignationID = '" + desId + "', DepartmentID = '" + dId + "', TentativeFromDate = '" + tentativeFromDate + "', AdditionalQualification = '" + addqualification + "' where ResumeID = '" + rId + "'"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSConnection.Open(); rMSCommand = new OleDbCommand(sql, rMSConnection); rMSCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); rMSConnection.Close(); sql8 = "insert into INSTITUTE (InstituteName) values ('" + LastDegreeInstitute + "')"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSConnection.Open(); rMSCommand = new OleDbCommand(sql8, rMSConnection); rMSCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); rMSConnection.Close(); sql9 = "insert into DEGREE (DegreeName) values ('" + LastDegreeNameOther + "')"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSConnection.Open(); rMSCommand = new OleDbCommand(sql9, rMSConnection); rMSCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); rMSConnection.Close(); sql11 = "select InstituteID from INSTITUTE"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql11, rMSConnection); dataSet = new DataSet("insID"); rMSDataAdapter.Fill(dataSet, "INSTITUTE"); dataTable = dataSet.Tables["INSTITUTE"]; int insId = (int)dataTable.Rows[0][0]; rMSConnection.Close(); sql12 = "select DegreeID from DEGREE"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSDataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql12, rMSConnection); dataSet = new DataSet("degID"); rMSDataAdapter.Fill(dataSet, "DEGREE"); dataTable = dataSet.Tables["DEGREE"]; int degId = (int)dataTable.Rows[0][0]; rMSConnection.Close(); sql10 = "insert into QUALIFICATION (Grade, ResumeID, InstituteID, DegreeID) values ('" + LastDegreeGrade + "', '" + rId + "', '" + insId + "', '" + degId + "')"; rMSConnection = new OleDbConnection(conString); rMSConnection.Open(); rMSCommand = new OleDbCommand(sql10, rMSConnection); rMSCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); rMSConnection.Close(); Response.Redirect("Applicant.aspx"); } catch (Exception exp) { rMSConnection.Close(); Label1.Text = "Exception: " + exp.Message; } } protected void Button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { } } And for Create Resume-1.aspx <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Create Resume-1.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head runat="server"> <title>Untitled Page</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div><center> <strong><span style="font-size: 16pt"></span></strong>&nbsp;</center> <center> &nbsp;</center> <center style="background-color: silver"> &nbsp;</center> <center> <strong><span style="font-size: 16pt">Step 1</span></strong></center> <center style="background-color: silver"> &nbsp;</center> <center> &nbsp;</center> <center> &nbsp;</center> <center> <asp:Label ID="PhoneNo1" runat="server" Text="Contact No 1*"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="TextBox1"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="PhoneNo2" runat="server" Text="Contact No 2"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br /> <asp:Label ID="CellNo" runat="server" Text="Cell Phone No"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br /> <asp:Label ID="Address" runat="server" Text="Street Address*"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator2" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="TextBox4"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="City" runat="server" Text="City*"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox5" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator3" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="TextBox5"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="Country" runat="server" Text="Country of Origin*"></asp:Label> <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" DataTextField="CountryName" DataValueField="CountryID"> </asp:DropDownList><asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7 %>" DeleteCommand="DELETE FROM [COUNTRY] WHERE (([CountryID] = ?) OR ([CountryID] IS NULL AND ? IS NULL))" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO [COUNTRY] ([CountryID], [CountryName]) VALUES (?, ?)" ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7.ProviderName %>" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [COUNTRY]" UpdateCommand="UPDATE [COUNTRY] SET [CountryName] = ? WHERE (([CountryID] = ?) OR ([CountryID] IS NULL AND ? IS NULL))"> <DeleteParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="CountryID" Type="Int32" /> </DeleteParameters> <UpdateParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="CountryName" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="CountryID" Type="Int32" /> </UpdateParameters> <InsertParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="CountryID" Type="Int32" /> <asp:Parameter Name="CountryName" Type="String" /> </InsertParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator4" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="DropDownList1"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="DepartmentOfInterest" runat="server" Text="Department of Interest*"></asp:Label> <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList2" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2" DataTextField="DepartmentName" DataValueField="DepartmentID"> </asp:DropDownList><asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource2" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7 %>" DeleteCommand="DELETE FROM [DEPARTMENT] WHERE [DepartmentID] = ?" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO [DEPARTMENT] ([DepartmentID], [DepartmentName]) VALUES (?, ?)" ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7.ProviderName %>" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [DEPARTMENT]" UpdateCommand="UPDATE [DEPARTMENT] SET [DepartmentName] = ? WHERE [DepartmentID] = ?"> <DeleteParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DepartmentID" Type="Int32" /> </DeleteParameters> <UpdateParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DepartmentName" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DepartmentID" Type="Int32" /> </UpdateParameters> <InsertParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DepartmentID" Type="Int32" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DepartmentName" Type="String" /> </InsertParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator5" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="DropDownList2"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="DesignationAppliedFor" runat="server" Text="Position Applied For*"></asp:Label> <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList3" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource3" DataTextField="DesignationName" DataValueField="DesignationID"> </asp:DropDownList><asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource3" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7 %>" DeleteCommand="DELETE FROM [DESIGNATION] WHERE [DesignationID] = ?" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO [DESIGNATION] ([DesignationID], [DesignationName], [DesignationStatus]) VALUES (?, ?, ?)" ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7.ProviderName %>" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [DESIGNATION]" UpdateCommand="UPDATE [DESIGNATION] SET [DesignationName] = ?, [DesignationStatus] = ? WHERE [DesignationID] = ?"> <DeleteParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DesignationID" Type="Int32" /> </DeleteParameters> <UpdateParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DesignationName" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DesignationStatus" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DesignationID" Type="Int32" /> </UpdateParameters> <InsertParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DesignationID" Type="Int32" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DesignationName" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DesignationStatus" Type="String" /> </InsertParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator6" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="DropDownList3"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="TentativeFromDate" runat="server" Text="Can Join From*"></asp:Label> <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList4" runat="server"> <asp:ListItem>1</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>2</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>3</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>4</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>5</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>6</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>7</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>8</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>9</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>10</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>11</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>12</asp:ListItem> </asp:DropDownList>&nbsp;<asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList7" runat="server"> <asp:ListItem>1</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>2</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>3</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>4</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>5</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>6</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>7</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>8</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>9</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>10</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>11</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>12</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>13</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>14</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>15</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>16</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>17</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>18</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>19</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>20</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>21</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>22</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>23</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>24</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>25</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>26</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>27</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>28</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>29</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>30</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem>31</asp:ListItem> </asp:DropDownList> <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList8" runat="server"> <asp:ListItem>2010</asp:ListItem> </asp:DropDownList> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator7" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="DropDownList4"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator></center> <center> <br /> <asp:Label ID="LastDegreeName" runat="server" Text="Last Degree*"></asp:Label> <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList5" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource5" DataTextField="DegreeName" DataValueField="DegreeID"> </asp:DropDownList><asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource5" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7 %>" DeleteCommand="DELETE FROM [DEGREE] WHERE [DegreeID] = ?" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO [DEGREE] ([DegreeID], [DegreeName]) VALUES (?, ?)" ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7.ProviderName %>" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [DEGREE]" UpdateCommand="UPDATE [DEGREE] SET [DegreeName] = ? WHERE [DegreeID] = ?"> <DeleteParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeID" Type="Int32" /> </DeleteParameters> <UpdateParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeName" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeID" Type="Int32" /> </UpdateParameters> <InsertParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeID" Type="Int32" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeName" Type="String" /> </InsertParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator8" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="DropDownList5"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="LastDegreeNameOther" runat="server" Text="Other"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox11" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br /> <asp:Label ID="LastDegreeInstitute" runat="server" Text="Institute Name*"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox12" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator9" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="TextBox12"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="LastDegreeGrade" runat="server" Text="Marks / Grade*"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox13" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator10" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="TextBox13"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator></center> <center> &nbsp;</center> <center> <br /> <asp:Label ID="SecondLastDegreeName" runat="server" Text="Second Last Degree*"></asp:Label> <asp:DropDownList ID="DropDownList6" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource4" DataTextField="DegreeName" DataValueField="DegreeID"> </asp:DropDownList><asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource4" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7 %>" DeleteCommand="DELETE FROM [DEGREE] WHERE [DegreeID] = ?" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO [DEGREE] ([DegreeID], [DegreeName]) VALUES (?, ?)" ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString7.ProviderName %>" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [DEGREE]" UpdateCommand="UPDATE [DEGREE] SET [DegreeName] = ? WHERE [DegreeID] = ?"> <DeleteParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeID" Type="Int32" /> </DeleteParameters> <UpdateParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeName" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeID" Type="Int32" /> </UpdateParameters> <InsertParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeID" Type="Int32" /> <asp:Parameter Name="DegreeName" Type="String" /> </InsertParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator11" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="DropDownList6"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="SecondLastDegreeNameOther" runat="server" Text="Other"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox15" runat="server"></asp:TextBox><br /> <asp:Label ID="SecondLastDegreeInstitute" runat="server" Text="Institute Name*"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox16" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator12" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="TextBox16"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator><br /> <asp:Label ID="SecondLastDegreeGrade" runat="server" Text="Marks / Grade*"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox17" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator13" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Items marked with '*' cannot be left blank." ControlToValidate="TextBox17"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator></center> <center> <br /> <asp:Label ID="AdditionalQualification" runat="server" Text="Additional Qualification"></asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox18" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox></center> <center> &nbsp;</center> <center> <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Save and Exit" OnClick="Button1_Click" /> &nbsp;&nbsp; <asp:Button ID="Button2" runat="server" Text="Next" OnClick="Button2_Click" /></center> <center> &nbsp;</center> <center> <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server"></asp:Label>&nbsp;</center> <center> &nbsp;</center> <center style="background-color: silver"> &nbsp;</center> </div> </form> </body> </html>

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• Guidelines for using Merge task in SSIS

  - by thursdaysgeek

  I have a table with three fields, one an identity field, and I need to add some new records from a source that has the other two fields. I'm using SSIS, and I think I should use the merge tool, because one of the sources is not in the local database. But, I'm confused by the merge tool and the proper process. I have my one source (an Oracle table), and I get two fields, well_id and well_name, with a sort after, sorting by well_id. I have the destination table (sql server), and I'm also using that as a source. It has three fields: well_key (identity field), well_id, and well_name, and I then have a sort task, sorting on well_id. Both of those are input to my merge task. I was going to output to a temporary table, and then somehow get the new records back into the sql server table. Oracle Well SQL Well | | V V Sort Source Sort Well | | -------> Merge* <----------- | V Temp well table I suspect this isn't the best way to use this tool, however. What are the proper steps for a merge like this? One of my reasons for questioning this method is that my merge has an error, telling me that the "Merge Input 2" must be sorted, but its source is a sort task, so it IS sorted. Example data SQL Well (before merge) well_key well_id well_name 1 123 well k 2 292 well c 3 344 well t 5 439 well d Oracle Well well_id well_name 123 well k 292 well c 311 well y 344 well t 439 well d 532 well j SQL Well (after merge) well_key well_id well_name 1 123 well k 2 292 well c 3 344 well t 5 439 well d 6 311 well y 7 532 well j Would it be better to load my Oracle Well to a temporary local file, and then just use a sql insert statment on it?

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• Precompile asp.net webpart dll

  - by mathias florin

  Hi, I have built a few custom webparts for WSS 3 using the Visual Studio 2010 Web application template. When I compile the application, Visual Studio creates the assembly file in the bin directory which I copy over later to the production server (another machine) with WSS 3. The compiled webpart dll is copied into the bin folder inside the virtual directory of WSS. I would like to precompile the webpart / dll using the aspnet_precompiler on my development machine to reduce the delay when the page is first requested. I have used the following command to precompile the entire Web Application: aspnet_precompile -v / -p PATH_TO_WEB_APPLICATION C:\WebApp -errorstack The compilation runs fine without any errors and I end up with a couple of .compiled files and also a Web_App_xxxxx.dll file inside the C:\WebApp\bin folder. From here onwards I am a bit lost how to proceed. Could you give me an advise to which folder I need to copy the compiled files on the production server? Do they need to go into the bin folder on the server or better inside the temporary asp.net folder %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\versionNumber\Temporary ASP.NET Files folder? Can I precompile the Web application on a development machine without the IIS metabase? Cheers, Mathias

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• optimizing an sql query using inner join and order by

  - by Sergio B

  I'm trying to optimize the following query without success. Any idea where it could be indexed to prevent the temporary table and the filesort? EXPLAIN SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE `groups`.* FROM `groups` INNER JOIN `memberships` ON `groups`.id = `memberships`.group_id WHERE ((`memberships`.user_id = 1) AND (`memberships`.`status_code` = 1 AND `memberships`.`manager` = 0)) ORDER BY groups.created_at DESC LIMIT 5;` +----+-------------+-------------+--------+--------------------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+------+----------------------------------------------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows | Extra | +----+-------------+-------------+--------+--------------------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+------+----------------------------------------------+ | 1 | SIMPLE | memberships | ref | grp_usr,grp,usr,grp_mngr | usr | 5 | const | 5 | Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort | | 1 | SIMPLE | groups | eq_ref | PRIMARY | PRIMARY | 4 | sportspool_development.memberships.group_id | 1 | | +----+-------------+-------------+--------+--------------------------+---------+---------+---------------------------------------------+------+----------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) +--------+------------+-----------------------------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | +--------+------------+-----------------------------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ | groups | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | id | A | 6 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | groups | 1 | index_groups_on_name | 1 | name | A | 6 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | groups | 1 | index_groups_on_privacy_setting | 1 | privacy_setting | A | 6 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | groups | 1 | index_groups_on_created_at | 1 | created_at | A | 6 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | groups | 1 | index_groups_on_id_and_created_at | 1 | id | A | 6 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | groups | 1 | index_groups_on_id_and_created_at | 2 | created_at | A | 6 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | +--------+------------+-----------------------------------+--------------+-----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ +-------------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | +-------------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+ | memberships | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | | memberships | 0 | grp_usr | 1 | group_id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 0 | grp_usr | 2 | user_id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | grp | 1 | group_id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | usr | 1 | user_id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | grp_mngr | 1 | group_id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | grp_mngr | 2 | manager | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | complex_index | 1 | group_id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | complex_index | 2 | user_id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | complex_index | 3 | status_code | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | complex_index | 4 | manager | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | index_memberships_on_user_id_and_status_code_and_manager | 1 | user_id | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | index_memberships_on_user_id_and_status_code_and_manager | 2 | status_code | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | | memberships | 1 | index_memberships_on_user_id_and_status_code_and_manager | 3 | manager | A | 2 | NULL | NULL | YES | BTREE | | +-------------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+

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• Multimedia files written over WAN are getting truncated

  - by Dean

  I use the windows Multimedia API to create .wav files. 1. Open file with mmsioOpen 2. Creates WAVE,frm and data chunks using mmioCreateChunk 3. Write audio data using mmioWrite 4. Ascend out of the chunks using mmioAscend 5. Close file using mmioClose The file is being written into a temporary location, so after it has been closed it gets copied to another location using the CopyFile. This program is written in C++ and works great until the file it is writing resides over a WAN in a different city or country. The end result is a wav file that should be 20-30 seconds long ends up being 4 secodns long. It is always the last bit that is missing, so when you play it back it just stops before then of the recording. I initially thought that maybe I was copying the file too soon so as a test I put in a pause of 30 seconds after closing the file using Sleep(30000), but this made no difference to either it being truncated or by how much. I have modified the program to write to a file in parrallel using CreateFile and WriteFile, and the result is the same, so it is not an issue specifically with the mmio API's. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening and if there is a work-around to it? I suspect that I may end up having the temporary location on the local drive, but this is quite a big change to the application as well as existing deployments. thanks for everyones time Dean

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• need some help in Abraham twitteroauth class

  - by diEcho

  Hello All, i m learning how to use twitter from twitter developer link on Authenticating Requests with OAuth page i was debugging my code with given procedure on Sending the user to authorization section there is written that if you are using the callback flow, your oauth_callback should have received back your oauth_token (the same that you sent, your "request token") and a field called the oauth_verifier. You'll need that for the next step. Here's the response I received: oauth_token=8ldIZyxQeVrFZXFOZH5tAwj6vzJYuLQpl0WUEYtWc&oauth_verifier=pDNg57prOHapMbhv25RNf75lVRd6JDsni1AJJIDYoTY my original code is require_once('twitteroauth/twitteroauth.php'); require_once('config.php'); /* Build TwitterOAuth object with client credentials. */ $connection = new TwitterOAuth(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET); /* Get temporary credentials. */ $request_token = $connection->getRequestToken(OAUTH_CALLBACK); /* Save temporary credentials to session. */ $_SESSION['oauth_token'] = $token = $request_token['oauth_token']; $_SESSION['oauth_token_secret'] = $request_token['oauth_token_secret']; /* If last connection failed don't display authorization link. */ switch ($connection->http_code) { case 200: /* Build authorize URL and redirect user to Twitter. */ echo "<br/>Authorize URL:".$url = $connection->getAuthorizeURL($token); //header('Location: ' . $url); break; default: /* Show notification if something went wrong. */ echo 'Could not connect to Twitter. Refresh the page or try again later.'; } and i m getting Authorize URL: https://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate?oauth_token=BHqbrTjsPcyvaAsfDwfU149aAcZjtw45nhLBeG1c i m not getting above URL having oauth_verifier. please tell me from where do i see/debug that url??

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• SQL (mySQL) update some value in all records processed by a select

  - by jdmuys

  I am using mySQL from their C API, but that shouldn't be relevant. My code must process records from a table that match some criteria, and then update the said records to flag them as processed. The lines in the table are modified/inserted/deleted by another process I don't control. I am afraid in the following, the UPDATE might flag some records erroneously since the set of records matching might have changed between step 1 and step 3. SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE <CONDITION>; # step 1 <iterate over the selected set of lines. This may take some time.> # step 2 UPDATE myTable SET processed=1 WHERE <CONDITION> # step 3 What's the smart way to ensure that the UPDATE updates all the lines processed, and only them? A transaction doesn't seem to fit the bill as it doesn't provide isolation of that sort: a recently modified record not in the originally selected set might still be targeted by the UPDATE statement. For the same reason, SELECT ... FOR UPDATE doesn't seem to help, though it sounds promising :-) The only way I can see is to use a temporary table to memorize the set of rows to be processed, doing something like: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE workOrder (jobId INT(11)); INSERT INTO workOrder SELECT myID as jobId FROM myTable WHERE <CONDITION>; SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE myID IN (SELECT * FROM workOrder); <iterate over the selected set of lines. This may take some time.> UPDATE myTable SET processed=1 WHERE myID IN (SELECT * FROM workOrder); DROP TABLE workOrder; But this seems wasteful and not very efficient. Is there anything smarter? Many thanks from a SQL newbie.

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• Persist changes in C

  - by Mohit Deshpande

  I am developing a database-like application that stores a a structure containing: struct Dictionary { char *key; char *value; struct Dictionary *next; }; As you can see, I am using a linked list to store information. But the problem begins when the user exits out of the program. I want the information to be stored somewhere. So I was thinking of storing the linked list in a permanent or temporary file using fopen, then, when the user starts the program, retrieve the linked list. Here is the method that prints the linked list to the console: void PrintList() { int count = 0; struct Dictionary *current; current = head; if (current == NULL) { printf("\nThe list is empty!"); return; } printf(" Key \t Value\n"); printf(" ======== \t ========\n"); while (current != NULL) { count++; printf("%d. %s \t %s\n", count, current->key, current->value); current = current->next; } } So I am thinking of modifying this method to print the information through fprintf instead of printf and then the program would just get the infomation from the file. Could someone help me on how I can read and write to this file? What kind of file should it be, temporary or regular? How should I format the file (like I was thinking of just having the key first, then the value, then a newline character)?

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• How to simulate inner exception in C++

  - by Siva Chandran

  Basically I want to simulate .NET Exception.InnerException in C++. I want to catch exception from bottom layer and wrap it with another exception and throw again to upper layer. The problem here is I don't know how to wrap the catched exception inside another exception. struct base_exception : public std::exception { std::exception& InnerException; base_exception() : InnerException(???) { } // <---- what to initialize with base_exception(std::exception& innerException) : InnerException(innerException) { } }; struct func1_exception : public base_exception { const char* what() const throw() { return "func1 exception"; } }; struct func2_exception : public base_exception { const char* what() const throw() { return "func2 exception"; } }; void func2() { throw func2_exception(); } void func1() { try { func2(); } catch(std::exception& e) { throw func2_exception(e); // <--- is this correct? will the temporary object will be alive? } } int main(void) { try { func1(); } catch(base_exception& e) { std::cout << "Got exception" << std::endl; std::cout << e.what(); std::cout << "InnerException" << std::endl; std::cout << e.InnerException.what(); // <---- how to make sure it has inner exception ? } } In the above code listing I am not sure how to initialize the "InnerException" member when there is no inner exception. Also I am not sure whether the temporary object that is thrown from func1 will survive even after func2 throw?

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• Oracle: Insertion on an indexed table, avoiding duplicates. Looking for tips and advice.

  - by Tom

  Hi everyone, Im looking for the best solution (performance wise) to achieve this. I have to insert records into a table, avoiding duplicates. For example, take table A Insert into A ( Select DISTINCT [FIELDS] from B,C,D.. WHERE (JOIN CONDITIONS ON B,C,D..) AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM A ATMP WHERE ATMP.SOMEKEY = A.SOMEKEY ) ); I have an index over A.SOMEKEY, just to optimize the NOT EXISTS query, but i realize that inserting on an indexed table will be a performance hit. So I was thinking of duplicating Table A in a Global Temporary Table, where I would keep the index. Then, removing the index from Table A and executing the query, but modified Insert into A ( Select DISTINCT [FIELDS] from B,C,D.. WHERE (JOIN CONDITIONS ON B,C,D..) AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM GLOBAL_TEMPORARY_TABLE_A ATMP WHERE ATMP.SOMEKEY = A.SOMEKEY ) ); This would solve the "inserting on an index table", but I would have to update the Global Temporary A with each insertion I make. I'm kind of lost here, Is there a better way to achieve this? Thanks in advance,

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• MYSQL fetch 10 posts, each w/ vote count, sorted by vote count, limited by where clause on posts

  - by nibblebot

  I want to fetch a set of Posts w/ vote count listed, sorted by vote count (e.g.) Post 1 - Post Body blah blah - Votes: 500 Post 2 - Post Body blah blah - Votes: 400 Post 3 - Post Body blah blah - Votes: 300 Post 4 - Post Body blah blah - Votes: 200 I have 2 tables: Posts - columns - id, body, is_hidden Votes - columns - id, post_id, vote_type_id Here is the query I've tried: SELECT p.*, v.yes_count FROM posts p LEFT JOIN (SELECT post_id, vote_type_id, COUNT(1) AS yes_count FROM votes WHERE (vote_type_id = 1) GROUP BY post_id ORDER BY yes_count DESC LIMIT 0, 10) v ON v.post_id = p.id WHERE (p.is_hidden = 0) ORDER BY yes_count DESC LIMIT 0, 10 Correctness: The above query almost works. The subselect is including votes for posts that have is_hidden = 1, so when I left join it to posts, if a hidden post is in the top 10 (ranked by votes), I can end up with records with NULL on the yes_count field. Performance: I have ~50k posts and ~500k votes. On my dev machine, the above query is running in .4sec. I'd like to stay at or below this execution time. Indexes: I have an index on the Votes table that covers the fields: vote_type_id and post_id EXPLAIN id select_type table type possible_keys key key_len ref rows Extra 1 PRIMARY p ALL NULL NULL NULL NULL 45985 Using where; Using temporary; Using filesort 1 PRIMARY <derived2> ALL NULL NULL NULL NULL 10 2 DERIVED votes ref VotingPost VotingPost 4 319881 Using where; Using index; Using temporary; Using filesort

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• Android - Lifecycle and saving an Instance State questions

  - by The Salt

  So within my application is a form for creating a new user, with relevant details and information about the user. There's no problems there, it's just what happens when the user leaves the activity without pressing the confirm button. Here's what I want to do: If the user presses the back button, attempt to save all the data to the database and inform the user. If the activity is interrupted (ie by a phone call), save all the data into a temporary location so when the activity is at the top of the stack again, nothing appears to have changed (but the data still hasn't yet been saved to the database). If the activity gets killed for more resources when in the background, do the same as point 2 above (ie when the activity is started again, it appears that nothing has changed). If the whole application is started again (by clicking on the icon again) and there is temporary data stored from either points 2 or 3 above, navigate to the "create user" activity and display data as if nothings changed. Here's how I'm currently trying to do it: Use onDestroy() and isFinishing() functions to find when the activity is being killed, to cover point 1 above (to then try and save all data). Save all data with onSaveInstanceState into a bundle (to cover point 2 above) Does the bundle created with onSaveInstanceState survive the activity being killed for more resources, so when its recreated the previous state can be retrieved (as in point 3 above)? No idea how to implement point 4. Any help would be massively appreciated. Cheers!

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