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Rewriting C# Formula Calculations in T-SQL

We have a 3-tier application with a C# client that connects to a C# web service via WFC and requests data from a SQL Server database. One feature in our application is a user-created form app in ...
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ado.net or EF for a point-of-sale system

We have a point-of-sale system that was developed using ado.net, our current concern is to make the application real fast in creating transactions (sales). Usually there are no performance concerns ...
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Advanced Search Stored procedure

So I am working on an MVC ASP.NET web application which centers around lots of data and data manipulation. PROBLEM OVERVIEW: We have an advanced search with 25 different filter criteria. I am using a ...
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Full Text Search Strategy For My Website

I have a website that allows users to search for items in various categories. Each category is a separate area (page) of my website. For example, some categories might be cars, bikes, books etc. At ...
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Best practice for storing HTML coming from text fields to a database?

I have an application that allows users to edit certain parts of text and then email that out. My question is what is the best way to store this in a Microsoft SQL Server database. Right now I have ...
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What is a solution in keyword trend analysis with a FreeText field in SQL Server 2008R2?

I am currently using a SQL Server 2008 db, where in a table, I have a freetext field defined. I would like to perform some trend analysis on one field, where I would provide the base for the trend, ...
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Using Sql Server Change Data Capture with a frequently changing schema

We are looking into enabling Sql Server Change Data Capture for a new subsystem we are building. It's not really because we need it, but we are being pushed for having a complete history ...
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Integrating legacy Ruby on Rails system with new ASP.NET system [closed]

My client has an existing web application (System A) which was built with RoR/PostgreSQL (hosted on linux), and now wants to have a new ASP.NET application (System B) that will integrate with it. The ...
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Deep concepts in database [closed]

I am a student. And preparing myself for an interview. Following are some questions regarding databases, which are confusing me and i am unable to get an appropriate answer of these. please answer ...
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Database Design - Optimise Relationships

I am about to embark on a redesign of an application, one where querying the database is particularly annoying. I intend to redesign the database as much as possible but the data shape cannot change ...
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The Proper UML Model of a System for Non-Technical Boss

I've taken on some side work for this non-profit and last week was my first week on the job. They have two SQL Server Databases each with many tables in them that represent over 20 different ...
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Keeping SQL Server DB Up to date in Team environment [duplicate]

We are working in a Visual Studio Environment using TFS. When developers get the latest source code it includes a copy of the 'update' sql scripts for the database of the application. The challenge ...
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XML vs SQL for content display on an ecommerce website [duplicate]

I am in process of developing an e-commerce application which is using SQL Server 2008 as a DB. I was suggested to use XML for content/product display, I bought the idea of using XML as a datasource ...
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Referencing countries via Foreign Key Constraint

To make things simple to explain: I've got two tables: Table1 and Countries. The Countries table contains a nice flag and some information, such as DisplayName, the ISO3166 ALPHA3 code and the phone ...
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Wise way to implement a website login and database tables for a small shop

Im building this website for a small store and I was told that its better not to keep the login and the rest of the users information on the same table. Now im wondering, what is the best way to ...
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SQL Server + database design and non mandatory fields

I am developing an app which allows a user to upload a maximum of 20 photos, the straight forward way is of course adding 20 columns to my database table but if the user only uploads 1 image, the ...
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Best option to send image from javascript client to SQL server

From a client (browser), using javascript I want to send an image to sql server ( and store with user profile) (sql server), along with other data such as user id or name. Which option is better? ...
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Oracle Database Integration with Team Foundation Server?

So my company is using TFS and SQL to Manage their Database (MS SQL Server). It integrates with the nightly build servers to do builds and produce scripts to build the entire Database. Also the ...
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Should I Do Calculations in T-SQL or Program?

I am creating a stored procedure that is logging some data. The data ultimately needs to end up in 2 tables. The incoming data is coming from a JSON string containing 15 parameters, and the data is ...
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How do I make my ASP.NET application take an action based on time?

I have an ASP.NET MVC4 application. Suppose that I wanted to execute some code (such as emailing a user) 2 days after a user has signed up. One way is to have code executed on every request which ...
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Should I retrieve one large set of data to filter or smaller individual sets of data?

I have a company intranet that utilizes a similar set of data across many different pages and many different methods. Speaking in generalities, is it closer to "best practice" to retrieve a large ...
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Search on multiple values

I have a database having around 15 tables.Currently I am working on a report generation page, which is having 16 criteria.The values are distributed among multiple tables.User can select any number of ...
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Way for store User recent playlist in database

Every time when user hears one music on system, the system stores this music to recent list, but I am afraid to pass over than decimal(19,0) limit in future. If I do Reseed I will get some problems ...
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Best way to get a copy of Visual Studio? [closed]

What's the best way to get a copy of Visual Studio to learn C# and SQL Server on?
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Architecture suggestions on a multi-project multi-database 'intranet'

Here is the situation I have inherited: We have approximately 10 websites (Asp.net web forms) that each have their own database. Each of these databases houses some site specific data, and each has ...
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Write data to SQL Server directly from BizTalk or use external service?

An external source will be sending us XML data that BizTalk will pick up and transform into an internal schema. We need this data to be loaded into a SQL Server database as we're going to expose some ...
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Is it okay to convert dataset from stored procedure to IEnumerable

So, I am working on a project with a team and we are using Entity Framework. We basically want to use linq to entities, and not use stored procedures. I use quite a bit of lists and IEnumerables and ...
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Table scaling with partitions or with separate databases?

Let's say I have a table (let's call it BigTable) which could experience 5,000,000 INSERTS per day (with possibly just as many SELECTs). Each row inserted is about 50kb. These daily INSERTs are ...
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Multiple Display of a Document and persist each viewer change in a single document

i have a scenario where i have to make available a document for viewing and editing to multiple users, the users can edit and view the document at the same time. Now the problem arises here if for ...
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Better way of storing key-value pairs in the database?

I have a C#/SQL Server program that sometimes needs to store data. The data could be a response from a web service, a result of a database query, or any number of other things. There's no way of ...
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Scalability: How does splitting a database table work on different replicated SQL Servers?

I would like to know more about the general concepts behind dividing data of a database into different servers. For example, suppose I have a SQL Server database which has a massive table. Assume one ...
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Algorithm to denormalize database

I have built a QlikView script generator (QVS), that can be used to generate large script files for data imports from SQL Server to QlikView. QlikView does not like 'fully' normalised database ...
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Using xml datatype to store a “shopping cart”

For my final project in school we have to develop an online shop. This shop should have a cart where items can be placed whether or not you are logged in. If you log out the cart shouldn't empty and ...
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Idea to develop a caching server between IIS and SQL Server

I work on a few high traffic websites that all share the same database and that are all heavily database driven. Our SQL server is max-ed out and, although we have already implemented many changes ...
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How to create computed column in SQL Server 2008 R2 [closed]

I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. This database has two tables called Pictures and PictureUse. Picture table has the following columns: Id (int) PictureName (nvarchar(max)) CreateDate ...
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Moving sql database [closed]

I need to move the sql database to a new server without changing the app that uses that database, how can i do this easily without affecting the users ?
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What architecture to use? [closed]

I work at a small software engineering company. We are facing some issues regarding maintainability and speed with our applications. Currently, we have the following situation: For each of our ...
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What is the most effective order to learn SQL Server, LINQ, and Entity Framework?

I am trying to get some advice on what order I should learn about SQL Server, LINQ, and Entity Framework to be able to better work with ASP.NET Webforms and MVC. From what I've been able to learn so ...
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Storing Attendance Data in database

So i have to store daily attendance of employees of my organisation from my application . The part where I need some help is, the efficient way to store attendance data. After some research and brain ...
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Is it more difficult to upgrade your certification from SQL Server 2008 to 2012 than to get it from scratch? [closed]

I was wondering about the new MCSA certification on SQL 2012 and how it seems to be more difficult to upgrade your certification from 2008 to 2012 than to get the 2012 from scratch. Reason I think ...
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Calling MSSQL stored procedure from Zend Controller ? Any other approaches?

MSSQL and DB, Zend as PHP Framework, I am using this way to call SP with I/P Parameters and to get O/p Parameters. It seems I am writing SQL code in PHP. Any other good approaches? $str1 = ...
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Does the deprecation of mysql_* functions in PHP carry over to other Databases(MSSQL)?

I'm not talking about MySQL, I'm talking about Microsoft SQL Server I've been aware of PDO for quite some time now, standard mysql functions are dangerous and should be avoided. ...
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We are moving an Access based corporate front-end into a Web-based App

We have an enterprise application with a front end written in Microsoft Access 2003 that has evolved over the past 6 years. The back end data, and a fair amount of back-end logic is contained within ...
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SQL Server Management Studio Show last executed query

I am looking for a way for SQL Server Management studio to show me the last SQL query that was run. For example, when I make modifications to a table in the designer mode, I will eventually want to ...
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SQL Server 2000 vs 2008 Express? [closed]

Due to not wanting to pay licenses my company is still using SQL Server 2000 for new projects. This is very limiting for multiple reasons. I'm wondering what are the limitations of using SQL Server ...
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Best method to implement a filtered search

I would like to ask you, your opinion when it comes to implement a filtered search form. Let's imagine the following case: 1 Big table with lots of columns It might be important to say that this SQL ...
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Why should I add CHECK CONSTRAINT?

Following is a table creating script created by Entity Framework using the model shown in http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/14077/is-it-proper-tpt-inheritance. In this script, there are ...
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Best practices: Ajax and server side scripting with stored procedures

I need to rebuild an old huge website and probably to port everyting to ASP.NET and jQuery and I would like to ask for some suggestion and tips. Actually the website uses: Ajax (client site with ...
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Are there tools that do automated validation of database standards?

I'm looking for something akin to FxCop, but for databases. Basically, I want to have a tool where I configure my database standards (naming conventions, field types, or more complex custom rules). ...
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Is an API in C++ a better alternative to computing directly in SQL?

I need to perform large amounts of computations on data storerd in a busy Microsoft SQL server. Would it be faster if I retrieve the data from the server, perform the computations locally in C++, and ...

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