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    - "Scroll" cursor in Oracle? I'm going to use server-side cursors from ADO.NET, like in this article. Creating and Managing Server-Side Cursors with ADO.NET: http://www.betav.com/Files/Content/Whitepapers/SS%20Cursors%20with%20ADO.NET.pdf Do Oracle has such kind of cursor ("scroll cursors")? PS. I'm newbie to databases and Oracle is my first experience. But in this article I've read about cursors that I ever meet in Oracle. Thanks in advance. Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138174
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    - Get PK back on an insert into Oracle I am trying to get returned the autogenerated primary key value from Oracle when I insert a row. I am using the Microsoft OracleConnection class. My code is: // cmd is an OracleCommand object. cmd.CommandText += "; returning " + column_name + " into :r1"; OracleParameter pkParam = new OracleParameter(); pkParam.Direction = ParameterDirection.ReturnValue; pkParam.DbType = DbType.Decimal; cmd.Parameters.Add(pkParam); object rtn = cmd.ExecuteScalar(); But ExecuteScalar() throws an exception. Any ideas? -- thanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138170
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    - DataGridView and Combobox columns I am trying to populate a DataGridView Combobox column with a different data binding source (dataset) depending upon a selection made in a previous column. I can handle the previous column but how do I assign the following properties dynamically in code? DataPropertyName DataSource DisplayMember I do see how to set these at design time but that won't do because I need different data in the combobox per each row depending upon the previous selection made. I hope I explained the problem well enough. Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138169
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    - Inherit form typed Dataset Hi Group. Is it at all possible to inherit from typed dataset in .net 2.0? I have a dataset defined in main project that will be distributed as dll. But I want to give others a possibility to inherit from this dataset and modify tables (add columns or other tables) in that dataset as they wish using designer. Am I at the wrong design path or something can be done after all? Thanks in advance, Denis Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138162
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    - I need an approach to storing/editing data amongs forms I'm working on a small, single user .net 2005 windows application in c# connecting to SQL Express. I'm trying to learn Typed DataSets, DataTables, DataAdapters, etc. What I need to figure out is a reasonable approach (doesn't have to be totally academic) to dealing with data. In other words, how do I store it, display it and manipulate it? Right now I have created a global DataSet with some TableTables and am Filling this structure on program startup. I'm using a freeware custom tree/list control that doesn't seem to support databinding so I'm loading it up manually from the global DataTable. So far "ok". Now I want to be able to add and remove rows and also edit rows. As an example, say I have a sub form for editing an existing row. Dragging Columns onto the form creates a BindingSource, a TableAdapter and a DataSet. I already have two of these in the global structure. Should I be removing these and trying to bind to them instead in the sub form? Or, do I want to create local copies for manipulation? But then how would I sync the results to the global objects? If I do use the global objects, how do I keep the list in sync with edits, for example? I guess I'm looking for a "pattern" on housing and connecting to data, manipulating it throughout the application. I'm hoping to start easy, rather than jumping into something complicated like MVC. Thank you for any assistance. Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138160
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    - Password protect .mdb file Hi I'm using AccessDataSources to access my .mdb file, like so... <asp:AccessDataSource ID="adsStory" runat="server" DataFile="~/App_Data/MyDB.mdb" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM Table WHERE ColumID = ?"> <SelectParameters> <asp:QueryStringParameter Type="Int32" QueryStringField="id" /> </SelectParameters> </asp:AccessDataSource> I want to password protect the database in Access, so that if someone downloads it they can't get to the data. How do I do that, and still able to open the database from my AccessDataSource? Obviously, I don't want the cleartext password in any of my .aspx pages. Thanks, Dan Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138159
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    - A search module in c# Hello I need to create a search form which allows the user to search for records using multiple criteria, and then they can select that record and when clicked ok, that particular record to be displayed in the main form. I have the main form, I need to implement the search feature for that (its a windows based app). Any samples would be very helpful. Thanks Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138158
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    - TableAdapter Configuration Wizard Hi, I created a DSN (ODBC) to connect to a database in IBM DB2. I wanted to create a dataset for 'Select' Statement by wizard. When I add a query variable @strGeoID in 'where' statement - where (PRODDTA.F1755.ZAURRF = @strGeoID), I got the error message: ----------------------------- Generated SELECT statement. Error in list of function arguments: '@' not recognized. Unable to parse query text. ----------------------------- Does anybody can tell me how to solve the problem? Thanks ! Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138154
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    - connecting SQL server using OleDb - Reg While trying to connect to SQL server using OleDb I am getting the following error. The connection string used is Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;server=ctsinprnslse;database=Sample;user id=140869; password=140869 The Error I received is A first chance exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in system.data.dll Kindly help me to come out from this. Thanks&Regards, Yasodhai Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138149
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    - connecting SQL server using OleDb - Reg While trying to connect to SQL server using OleDb I am getting the following error. The connection string used is Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;server=ctsinprnslse;database=Sample;user id=140869; password=140869 The Error I received is A first chance exception of type 'System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException' occurred in system.data.dll Kindly help me to come out from this. Thanks&Regards, Yasodhai Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138147
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    - How can I use connected mode instead of disconnected? I would like to bind some datagrids to datasource and have them update the database when a row is changed. I don't like the disconnected mode. I am developing a Windows Form app, not an ASP.net app. Would like to have the same functionality as I did with VB6 and Delphi.... Thanks Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138144
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    - Microsoft Certification Ebooks - C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET etc Microsoft Certification Ebooks - C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET etc Free ebooks of MCTS Exams (70-431, 70-529, 70-528, 70-526, 70-536) http://free-tech-ebooks.blogspot.com/2007/02/download-free-ebook-of-mcts-exams-70.html 36 Microsoft Certification Tutorials and Free Practice Exams http://free-tech-ebooks.blogspot.com/2007/01/36-microsoft-certification-tutorials_19.html MCSD Exam Ebooks http://free-tech-ebooks.blogspot.com/2007/01/mcsd-exam-ebooks.html Free Microsoft MCSE MCSD Certification Ebooks http://free-tech-ebooks.blogspot.com/2007/01/free-microsoft-mcse-mcsd-certification.html For more links go to http://free-tech-ebooks.blogspot.com/search/label/Microsoft%20Certifications Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138136
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    - Inherit from typed dataset Hi Group. Is it at all possible to inherit from typed dataset in .net 2.0? I have a dataset defined in main project that will be distributed as dll. But I want to give others a possibility to inherit from this dataset and modify tables (add columns or other tables) in that dataset as they wish using designer. Am I at the wrong design path or something can be done after all? Thanks in advance, Denis Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138133
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    - Inherit a typed dataset Hi Group. Is it at all possible to inherit from typed dataset in .net 2.0? I have a dataset defined in main project that will be distributed as dll. But I want to give others a possibility to inherit from this dataset and modify tables (add columns or other tables) in that dataset as they wish using designer. Am I at the wrong design path or something can be done after all? Thanks in advance, Denis Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138132
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    - Import text file with DATE column into MS Access Database with VB.NET or C# Hello, I followed the thread "Import large text file to MS Access Database" trying to solve a similar problem, but with no help. I have a CSV file called "orders.csv" which I want to export to a MS Access table. The CSV file has the following structure: ORDER,DATE,TIME,F_NAME,L_NAME 10001,3/10/2007,5:40:20,Rafael,Lindberg 10002,4/11/2007,6:50:10,Luis,Mcgary The MS Acces table ("orders_tbl") has the following structure: ORDER TEXT, 10 DATE DATE TIME TEXT, 15 F_NAME TEXT, 30 L_NAME TEXT, 30 I tried the following code, but with no success: '<------ begins code Dim AccessConn As New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB. 4.0;Data Source=c:\myPath\orders.mdb;User Id=Admin;Password=;") AccessConn.Open() Dim strSQL As String strSQL = "" strSQL += "INSERT INTO [orders_tbl] (" strSQL += "ORDER," strSQL += "DATE, " strSQL += "TIME, " strSQL += "F_NAME, " strSQL += "L_NAME) " strSQL += "SELECT " strSQL += "ORDER, " strSQL += "DATE, " strSQL += "TIME, " strSQL += "F_NAME, " strSQL += "L_NAME " strSQL += "FROM " strSQL += "[Text;DATABASE=C:\myPath;]" strSQL += "." strSQL += "[orders.csv]" Dim AccessCommand As New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand(strSQL, AccessConn) AccessCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() AccessConn.Close() '<--------- ends code The error message I got is: "Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement." The problem comes from the DATE and TIME fields, because if I don't include these fields the code works. I have tried to change in the access table the field type to Date or Text unsuccessfully. It seems I have to do some previous transformations on the date and time columns in the csv file BUT I don't have any idea. Please any help appreciated!! efiguero Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138131
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    - typed datasets populated by generic lists? We have an application that makes use of a strongly typed dataset. However, some issues have come up with the database and tools. We would like to continue using it, but would prefer to populate it from a Genric List business object. Are these possible: 1) use a generic list of business objects to populate a strongly-typed dataset 2) change the source of an existing strongly-typed dataset from from a database to a generic list. This is w/.net 2 Thanks much Mark Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138130
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    - how to get row number from DataTable.Compute method how do you get the row number from the DataTable Compute() method? Thanks Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138129
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    - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. I've seen this message a lot in the groups but I haven't found a solution for it yet. Our setup is SQL Server 2000 on a Windows Server 2003 cluster. I don't believe this issue happened as often when the OS was Server 2000 but that was before I started here. We see this quite a bit from our wireless clients: Errors=System.Data.SqlClient.SqlErrorCollection Class=20 (0x14) LineNumber=0 (0x0) Number=10054 (0x2746) Server=OurSQLServer State=0 (0x0) ErrorCode=-2146232060 (0x80131904) Message=A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.) Data=System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal I initially thought it had something to do with them losing the network connection but when I was trying to recreate (killing the wireless connection during a long running process) that I always got the following details: Errors=System.Data.SqlClient.SqlErrorCollection Class=20 (0x14) LineNumber=0 (0x0) Number=64 (0x40) Server=OurSQLServer State=0 (0x0) ErrorCode=-2146232060 (0x80131904) Message=A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available.) Data=System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal To recreate the original, all you have to do is run the KILL command on the spids associated with your application from Query Analyzer. Given this, I'm focusing on the server itself causing the errors and not the client computers. So now we have something to go on when we attempt to code around the issue. I've been able to "soothe" the issue by executing SqlConnection.ClearAllPools() when we see a SqlException with a severity level of 20 or higher. However, I'd like to know if there's a setup issue with my SQL Server box that I could change that would at least lessen the frequency of these errors. Thanks in advance for any advice, Austin Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138118
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    - Is it possible to fill a DataSet.DataTable with values from more than one database table? Hello, is there a way to fill a DataSet.DataTable with values from more than one table from a single database file? The thing I'd like to achieve is to get something similar to a result of the JOIN keyword in SQL. Thanks for any help... With regards nvx Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138108
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    - Urgent Memory Leak Problem Using Type Dataset. Please help! :-( Hi all, I'm having a baffling problem with a windows service that I'm working on. Basically, I am using a typed dataset to insert a large number of rows into an SQL Server 2005 database. But there's a memory leak that seems to be to do with calling the data adapters update method. It's making the memory usage go through the roof and ultimately the service crashes after running out of memory. I've used ".net memory profiler" to analyse the service. It tells me that there are huge numbers of undisposed @List<SQLParamter>.Enumeration@ objects. I'm guessing this is a bad thing. I don't know what to do about it though. As far as I know, the dataset table adapter should be cleaning up after itself once the method ends. In case it helps, a sample of my code would ... Start a foreach loop currentRow = tblActiveMessages.NewActiveMessagesRow(); currentRow.DownloadID = currentMessage.ID; currentRow.TTUReference = currentMessage.VehicleID; ... Assign more properties tblActiveMessages.Rows.Add(currentRow); ... For loop ends da.Update(tblActiveMessages); I've tried putting a using statement around both the data table and the table adapter, but it had absolutely no effect. Can anyone advise me on what I can do to get rid of these little buggers! Sincerest thanks to anyone who can help - even a little bit! :-( Simon Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138107
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    - Stopping a Query I have a program which allows the user to graphically create SQL statements without having to know SQL. They just drag and drop fields to view, select criteria and sort order. When the user indicates that they want to execute a query, I parse the SQL statement to verify correctness and then create a recordset and assign it to a datagrid for viewing. If the query is taking too long to run or is retrieving too many records, I would like to have a button to stop the query. If they click this button, how do I programmatically stop a query while it is running? Bill Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138106
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    - Microsoft Training/ Certification Dumps /Materials Urls Microsoft Training/ Certification Dumps /Materials Urls Get the links from here : http://free-tech-ebooks.blogspot.com/2007/03/microsoft-training-certification-dumps.html Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138099
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    - Deployment + Vista We use strongly typed datasets, and thus our connection string is bound to an application setting. Currently we can deploy and alter the app.exe.config file at installation time to successfully install, and use some basic XML editing to allow the target database to be changed. Writing to the application directory in vista will throw compatibility errors, and not persist the changes at all. What do we do? Is there a better way of getting the connection string in your application, or a way of telling the designer where to get your connection setting from?? Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138087
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    - Eliminating CRUD procedures Your know the ones, you have a table and it has Create,Read,Update and Delete Stored procedures and the app always uses these to talk to the DB eliminating dynamic sql in your apps. Makes perfect sense when you have a table however when you have 500 tables its not so clever (thats 2000 stored procs to maintain) Shouldnt the framework and sql guys talk to each other and come up with a single proc that accepts the CRUD as an argument to a single UpdateMyTable proc for each table. Then Hey presto 500 tables = 500 procs It would be nice if i didnt have to code it myself and the dataset wizard just happened to offer this option in the next framework version! Colin Robinson. Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138085
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    - Writing xml file from dataset different than the original Hello all. I'm reading the data from an XML file similiar to below, using the code below. When the file is edited in the datagridview and then re-written, it doesn't write the xml file as it was originally written. So what am I doing wrong? My code and samples are below. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! VISUAL STUDIO 2005 .NET 2.0 FRAMEWORK, VB.NET CODE Declare a bindings source, a dataset, a binding navigator, and set up a datagridview where the data is displayed & edited 'now associate them bndgSrc1.DataSource = ds dgvConfig.DataSource = bndgSrc1 binNav1.BindingSource = bndgSrc1 'Now read the xml file into the dataset & ds.readxml(filename) ds.ReadXml(My.Settings.configFile) bndgSrc1.DataMember = "pnum" bndgSrc1.ResetBindings(False) I save the edited info as below: dgvConfig.EndEdit() bndgSrc1.EndEdit() If ds.HasChanges Then ds.AcceptChanges() ds.WriteXml(My.Settings.configFile, XmlWriteMode.WriteSchema) End If bndgSrc1.ResetBindings(False) !<ORIGINAL XML FILE SAMPLE BELOW> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <config> <workstations> <ws>pcnamexxx</ws> <ws>pcnamexxx</ws> </workstations> <patches> <pnum>1837</pnum> </patches> <users> <uid>user3</uid> <uid>user4</uid> </users> <ad> <ou>OU=firstlevel,OU=secondlevel,DC=GOOGLE,DC=COM</ou> <ou>OU=anotherou,OU=yetanother,DC=GOOGLE,DC=COM</ou> </ad> </config> If I delete all the records, I just get the "<patches /> remnant left behind: !<SAVED (ALL PATCHES RECORDS DELETED) XML FILE SAMPLE BELOW> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <config> <workstations> <ws>pcnamexxx</ws> <ws>pcnamexxx</ws> </workstations> <patches /> <users> <uid>user3</uid> <uid>user4</uid> </users> <ad> <ou>OU=firstlevel,OU=secondlevel,DC=GOOGLE,DC=COM</ou> <ou>OU=anotherou,OU=yetanother,DC=GOOGLE,DC=COM</ou> </ad> </config> If I enter a new record, it doesn't nest it within the parent, as below: !<SAVED (NEW PATCHES RECORD INSERTED) XML FILE SAMPLE BELOW> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <config> <workstations> <ws>pcnamexxx</ws> <ws>pcnamexxx</ws> </workstations> <patches> <pnum>1837</pnum> </patches> <pnum>1838</pnum> <users> <uid>user3</uid> <uid>user4</uid> </users> <ad> <ou>OU=firstlevel,OU=secondlevel,DC=GOOGLE,DC=COM</ou> <ou>OU=anotherou,OU=yetanother,DC=GOOGLE,DC=COM</ou> </ad> </config> Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138084
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    - Insert a whole datatable I have two access database (with identical schema). One is the master and the other is SHOULD be a subset of master data (Let call them MasterDB and SubDB The user enters data into the SubDB and I need to bring the new changes to the MasterDB. Traditionally, I can get a the new changes (into a dataTable). Loop through all the rows and insert them into the MasterDB ONE AT A TIME. My question: IS THERE A BETTER WAY? For SQL Server, there is a SqlBulkCopy but I am dealing with MS Access. In my case, performance is not an issue, I just want write less code. Thanks John Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138079
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    - Some ADO.NET Mobile Advice please. Hi all I am building an Windows Mobile 5 forms control in C#, for a Windows Mobile 5 application. I am using CF2.0 and SQL Mobile 2005. The control is a Questions and answer control. Basically I have 3 applications using the same code to dynamically display questions and save the answers. I am trying to consolidate it all into 1 control for easer maintenance. I need to pass the control the questions and meta data for the questions. And when the last question has been completed the control should hand back the Answers for saving. What is the best why of doing this? I really would like to get this right the first time. I know I am developing with the CF2 platform. So I am concerned about getting the most efficient why of doing this. Possible scenarios I are. 1.. Pass the control a Questions DataTable and an Answers DataTable (Flat File), use the Questions DataTable to load up an array and loop through the array asking questions and saving the answers to Answers DataTable. When the Questions are finished raise an event handing the Answers table as an Event Arg. 2.. Pass the control a QuestionsAnswers DataSet with a Questions DataTable and an Answers DataTable in it, use the Questions DataTable to loop round asking questions and saving the answers to Answers DataTable. When the Questions are finished raise an event handing the QuestionsAnswers DataSet as an Event Arg. 3.. Hand the control a Connection and get it to read the questions directly from the Database and save the answers directly to the database. I really am lost. I don't what to take the wrong path and I don't have enough background experience to make an informed decision about what the best way to handle this with ADO.NET and the CF would be. Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks, ink Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138075
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    - Datatable For i = 0 To dtSubOpt.Rows.Count - 1 intOptNo = dtSubOpt.Rows(i)(1) strSelectSubOpt = "select tblOptions.strOptName as OptionName,tblOptions.intParent ,tblMOMT.strMOTag as MessageSentFromServer,tblMOMT.strMTTag as MessageSentToServer from tblOptions inner join tblMOMT on tblMOMT.intOptId=tblOptions.intOptId where intParent=" & intOptNo & " order by OptionName" dtOptName = dbCon.GetRecordSet(strSelectSubOpt, "tblOptions") Next In my above coding i need to keep all the records retrieved through looping the query in the same datatable. In my coding every time intOptNo has changed and retrieve the records corresponding to that particular intOptNo . The loop executed every times and get the records ,but the records overwrite the records already in a datatable this is my problem .So to avoid this I need to increment the index of the datatable row .But I don't know how to change the row index depending upon the number of rows returned by the query .Is there any way to find the row index of the datatable and to increment that no to keep the next records orelse tell me some other way to keep all the records retrieved through looping the query in the same datatable or in the same DataSet. Kindly expecting the reply, meka. Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138074
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    - Problem saving 24 hour date/time in SQL I have an SQL table(MS SQL 2005) with a field called SignInDate and have created this as DateTime. When I save the current time using the Now function, it does not save the value in 24 hour format. For example, if it is 2:15:36 PM (i.e. 14:15:36) it saves the value in SQL Sever as 2007-03-08 02:15:36.000 and when I read it back, it resuls in 2:15:36 AM. I have tried formatting as a string using HH:mm:ss for the time portion but SQL Server still saves as shown above. How can I get it to save as 2007-03-08 14:15:36.000 so it will be correct when I read it back? TIA, John Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138070
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    - SQLBulkCopy and SQL Server 2000? Hi all, Does .NET 2.0's SQLBulkCopy class work with SQL Server 2000? Thanks! Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138064
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    - how does ado.net SqlDataReader.GetString() know which encoding to read the data into a string as? Does sql sever set this at the column data type level, server wide encoding setting, os encoding? how does ado.net SqlDataReader.GetString() know which encoding to read the data into a string as? Does sql sever set this at the column data type level, server wide encoding setting, os encoding? Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138060
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    - Using Sql2005's OUTPUT Hello all... Here is what i want to do (in VB code)... <code> Dim SQL As String = "SELECT ROWID FROM (INSERT INTO STATIC_CONTENT (NAME, CONTENT) OUTPUT INSERTED.ROWID SELECT 'Contact Us', '') SRC" Dim newId As Integer myDbObject.ExecuteScalar(SQL) </code> Assume that myDbObject has already been set up with all the necessary connection strings and junk. The question revolves around using ExecuteScalar to return the value from an INSERT-OUTPUT clause. I can 100% guarantee that this is a single-row insert everytime. This table (STATIC_CONTENT) has a trigger on it to set the update-date every time it's updated. Is this possible somehow? short of writing my own overloaded ExecuteScalar that would turn this into a whole big T-SQL BEGIN/END block with temporary variables and all that mess? Thanks in advance, - Arthur Dent; Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138058
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    - PARSE a Blank Space??? Using ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2000 Inside my dropdown list box I am using an SQL DataSource to select the following data SELECT RTRIM(c.Name_First) + ' ' + RTRIM(c.Name_Last) AS Contact, c.phone As PriPortPhone FROM mppaContacts c Dropdown list box works well ..... Example "Bart Simpson" First_name = Bart Last_name = Simpson DropDownList -->> RTRIM(c.Name_First) + ' ' + RTRIM(c.Name_Last) AS Contact ANS:: "Bart Simpson" How can I parse the blank space I am trying to PARSE it based on the space that I placed into the string found in the DropDownlist box??? UPDATE mppaContacts SET [Name_First] = @FirstName [Name_last] = @LastName [phone] = @phone Any ideas would be greatly appreciated........not sure how to extract the individual names and place them into their specific fields. Thanks in advance ~Brad ------------------------------ Brad Isaacs Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138057
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    - Dynamic access to DataTable during DataAdapter.Fill Hello, Does anyone know if its possible to access the row/column values of a DataTable while a DataAdapter is filling the table? Maybe using a new thread? I am currently trying to use a seperate thread for access while the main thread runs the DataAdapter.Fill and so so far it looks like the table and rows/columns are not added incrementally, but instead are only filled once entire resultset has been determined and returned. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks, Andrew Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138051
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    - can I alias an ADO.Net table (tablename)? Greetings, Is it possible to alias an ADO.Net table? I have this one table that has a pretty long name dsDataEntry.Tblsomebigtablename. I tried Dim dt As DataTable = ds...Tbl... Welll, that created table dt, but it did not populate the table. I guess I would have to loop through the original table. So is there a way to assign a shorter name to the table I need to work with? Thanks, Rich Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138050
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    - UPDATE a DropDownList box~ HElp Please Using ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2000 Inside my dropdown list box I am using an SQL DataSource SELECT RTRIM(c.Name_First) + ' ' + RTRIM(c.Name_Last) AS Contact, c.phone As PriPortPhone FROM mppaContacts c Now I am trying to UPDATE the table name mppaContacts with what the user selects from the drop down list box. How do I UPDATE the table when the names are concatenated? I need to select a substring for the Name_First field then for the Name_Last field. UPDATE mppaContacts SET [Name_First] = @FirstName [Name_last] = @LastName [phone] = @phone Any ideas would be greatly appreciated........not sure how to extract the individual names and place them into their specific fields. Thanks in advance ~Brad ------------------------------ Brad Isaacs Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138049
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    - Parameterized query problem using Access Database in VS.NET2005 New to the VS.NET 2005 and I am writing a program using an access database as the datasource in visual studio.NET 2005 The problem I have is I am trying to write a parameterized query where a wildcard can be used to pull a complete name from only one or two characters entered. If I have the exact name I can get it to work with a ? but this defeats the purpose of the query and the sql select for the access database doesn't reconize the * that is used in access as a wildcard. The satements I have right now are: SELECT CustomerNumber, Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Phone, LastOrdDate, Inactive FROM Customers WHERE Name = ? SELECT CustomerNumber, Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Phone, LastOrdDate, Inactive FROM Customers WHERE CustomerNumber = ? and when I try to do this (or any version of it): SELECT CustomerNumber, Name, Address, City, State, Zip, Phone, LastOrdDate, Inactive FROM Customers WHERE CustomerNumber = '*' or WHERE CustomerNumber = ? &'*' I get an error of this: Error in WHERE clause near '*'. Unable to parse query text. I have even tried the % for sql databases and still no help. Tag: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource Tag: 138046
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Hello.

Developing a VS2005, VB, .NET 2.0, Windows form program.

Is it possible to use flat files with fixed length fields as a datasoure. I
would use one for input and another to update.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,
Tony

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Re: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource by Glenn

Glenn
Thu Mar 15 02:08:55 CDT 2007

Yep

http://www.connectionstrings.com/?carrier=textfile

Glenn

"Tony Girgenti" <tony(nospam)@lakesideos.com> wrote in message
news:e9cEZPpZHHA.4832@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hello.
>
> Developing a VS2005, VB, .NET 2.0, Windows form program.
>
> Is it possible to use flat files with fixed length fields as a datasoure.
I
> would use one for input and another to update.
>
> Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>
>

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Re: Is it possible to use flat files as datasource by Tony

Tony
Fri Mar 16 14:31:47 CDT 2007

Hello Glenn.

Looks like i have a lot of learning to do.

Thanks for your help.
Tony

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Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,
Tony

"Glenn" <glenn.csharp@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Yep
>
> http://www.connectionstrings.com/?carrier=textfile
>
> Glenn
>
> "Tony Girgenti" <tony(nospam)@lakesideos.com> wrote in message
> news:e9cEZPpZHHA.4832@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hello.
>>
>> Developing a VS2005, VB, .NET 2.0, Windows form program.
>>
>> Is it possible to use flat files with fixed length fields as a datasoure.
> I
>> would use one for input and another to update.
>>
>> Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tony
>>
>>
>
>

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