Another way to store your connection string in a way that it doesn’t get in the way when you promote your web site from Test to QA to Prod is the following: Have your web site under a given directory, say d:\WebSites\MyWebsite. And you also have another directory to hold your connection strings that isn’t […]
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Part of my pattern during development is to: 1. Create a new table 2. Create the stored procs to get data and save data This second step is tedious and lends itself to automation. So I created the stored proc createSPFromTable that takes the name of a table and creates a simple save store proc.
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Part of my pattern during development is to: 1. Create a new table 2. Create the stored procs to get data and save data 3. Create the data access layer methods that call the stored procs. This is a little tedious, so I created a SQL stored proc called createDALFromSP to generate a data access
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In a previous post, I had a system to only log the start and end of an outage condition. To report on the outages, we need to first look at the table where the exceptions get logged: Copy Text Copied Use a different Browser CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Exceptions]( [ExTime] [datetime] NULL
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We found an issue with some of the older scripts having SET ANSI_NULLS OFF and this causes problems. The ANSI_NULLS ON setting is a database option that determines how NULL comparisons are handled. Under ANSI_NULLS ON, two NULL values will never be equal to each other because the two separate values are unknown. With ANSI_NULLS
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We have anasp.net page that auto refreshes every 8 seconds using Copy Text Copied Use a different Browser <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="8"> This page would pull data from a linked server, and whenever that link or the target server were down, it would fill up our error log with an entry every 8 seconds until it
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In one of our ASP.NET applications, we wanted to change where the AppSettings were stored from a config file to a database table. Since this is a very large application (over 670 .cs files), the first requirement was that the majority of the changes needed to be done with a search and replace. In the
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Our experience with the Visual Source Safe to Subversion conversion. BACKGROUND Visual Source Safe In general Visual Source Safe is known to have problems when the database gets large, if there are a lot of users, or if it is used over a network. On Microsoft’s site they have the following warnings: (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q133054/) Many factors
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We had a problem where our users would timeout for apparently no reason. I monitored the SQL Server for a while and found that every once in a while there would be a lot of blocking going on. So I need to find the cause of this and fix it. If there was blocking going
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In one of the systems I work on, we have the problem of needing to track the different time zones that our users are in. In doing this, we need to account for daylight saving time.I see code like this used in many places: Copy Text Copied Use a different Browser select … dbo.fn_convertFromUTC(@StartUTC, @timeZone)
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