Is it possible to allow repeated nulls on a column with a unique constraint? This column will won't always be populated with data upon insert, a condition must be met before the value is update. Once updated, it needs to be unique. Do I need to assign a temporary, random value or
i have a bizar situation, i have a SSIS package which imports records from a flatfile.First i get rid of all the double records, so I keep only unique records before I put them into the desired table.I have put a dataviewer on the flow and notice that there are no duplicate records, and though the SSIS package fails with a violoation of a promary key constraint.Hs anyone seen this before? It is really strange.
When I get an exception message like this I want an Exception Class name to compare.Not wantto compare a string to match with substring.when I get an unique constraint error like this below how can I control if error exception type is exactly sqlserver unique constraint error ?:
catch (Exception ex) { if (ex.class==SQLUniqueException) blahblah(); };
My attendance table structure as follow EmplID AttendanceDate Atten_Type Atten_Taken it mean it has lot od data like below with differnet dates E1 2011-02-21 00:00:00 CL 1 E2 2011-02-21 00:00:00 P E1 2011-02-22 00:00:00 CL E2 2011-02-22 00:00:00 P E1 2011-02-23 00:00:00 CL [code]...
If I am passed a datatable and I cant change the column structure..is there anyway to set an existing column to a Primary key so I can easily Find() the row I am looking for?
Using vb.net/asp.net 2005 and SQL Server 2005:I have a unique constraint setup to prevent users from entering duplicate email addresses in my online system.When a user tries to edit an existing email to one that already exists (add a duplicate) it shows the following<ERROR>Cannot insert duplicate key row in ojbect "dbo.someTableName" with unique index.....The statement has been terminated This prevents the user from adding duplicates which is good but I would like to provide a more user friendly exception message and I do not want to show the table and field names to the user.
I'm new to asp.net and I'm building a project in which I send data to a database MSSQL, I've set a constraintname on some fields that I wantto be unique, now how do I catch that error when people insert a duble and handle it with a redirectionto custom error pagehere the code just in case you need it
Dim con As New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection con.ConnectionString = "Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=Database1;User ID=user;Password=password;TrustServerCertificate=True" Dim myCommand As New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand myCommand.CommandText = "INSERT INTO serves(CategoryID,UserId,vote, Img, link, Description) VALUES('" & DropDownList1.SelectedValue & "','" & UId.Text & " ' ,1,'" & TextBox1.Text & "','" & "<a href=" + TextBox2.Text + ">" + TextBox4.Text + "</a>" & "','" & TextBox3.Text & "')" myCommand.Connection = con con.Open() myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
I want to copy data from a table[tblExcel][No.of columns:2] to another table[ev_event] which has 5 columns, 2 columns from the another table, 3 columns from user defined value
I know this is a newbie question but, alas , that's what I am. How do I keep values in specifc sql server table unique, in other words how do I prevent any duplicates happening upon creating (inserting) a new table row?
I need to copy the records of a row to the next available row in the same table. I tried with "Insert ...Select " but it throws me a error since the pk is auto-increment. Also, i cant specify each and every column inside the insert...select statment cause i've almost 30 columns.
I am working on a database with about twenty tables. In one of the tables "Customers" their is a column with
a primary key. Call it "CustomerNumber".
The problem is that we log customers from multiple vendors and so we might have the same customer number, but from different vendors. So really this would be a perfect situation where we could set up the primary key to be a composite key consisting of the Vendor and CustomerNumber combination.
The integrity of the database is not very well maintained because the Primary Key CustomerId is never used as a secondary key in any of the other tables.
So here is my question. Instead of making a primary composite key, can I just drop the primary key all together?
This is one of those questions I really hate to ask, because typically I would never lean tword this drastic of a measure to solve a problem. Because of other situations I can't discuss this might be the best alternative. So would it be okay to drop the primary key constraint all together?
I am a rookie developer here and I have tried looking around for an answer but I am little confused. I have a stored procedure that calls multiple stored procedures when I go to create a new contact.[Code]....
I though I could use the OUTPUT Command to copy out the NewContactID but I am getting all kinds of syntax errors. I am confused as to what I am missing here.
There is one table which primary key is ID and its data type is Integer with auto increment. Gradually the value has increased and I want to change it to hold large amount of value.
So, Which in data type I have to change from Integer without effecting the previous values?
I'm trying to emulate an Ajax CalendarExtender to match an existing ASP:Calendar using CSS. Here are the properties (not in CSS but on the actual .aspx) of the regular ASP:Calendar: