Category Archives: SQL-Server

OUTER JOIN Filter by WHERE or ON Clauses ?!

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Ahmed

If you would like to filter a RIGHT OUTER JOIN, e.g. then you have to put Table_1 columns in ON clause and Table_2 in WHERE clause, e.g. If you swapped it or put all conditions in WHERE clause then it … Continue reading →

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Black Box

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Ahmed

We have a black box application (closed code) which sends data to a white box application (open code). The data that had been sent changed, and after investigation I discovered that the data is hard coded inside the application’s code … Continue reading →

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Refresh TreeView after insert/update/delete ?

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Ahmed

Wrong solution : DataBind() BEFORE close()         TreeView1.DataBind()         con.Close() Right solution: In btnListtAdd_Click :   To get the ID         Dim lastID As String = “Select @@Identity”         Dim getID As Integer         ‘this is to get last ID … Continue reading →

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Read PDF from a Database and Open it into a Frame

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Ahmed

IHttpHandler is aowsome. You read your file in the buffer and just send it to src as if it is a named file, so no need to read and save a temporary file in client’s PC. iframePDF1.Attributes.Add(“src”, “ShowPDF.ashx?pID=” & Request.QueryString(“pID”)) … Continue reading →

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Error msg: No mapping exists from object type System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter to a known managed provider native type.

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Ahmed

        Dim pID As New SqlParameter(“@ID”, SqlDbType.Int)         pID.Value = TextBoxParentID.Text         cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue(“@ID”, pID) I changed it to:         Dim pID As New SqlParameter(“@ID”, SqlDbType.Int)         pID.Value = TextBoxParentID.Text         cmd.Parameters.Add(pID) and it works also this works:         Dim pID … Continue reading →

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ExecuteReader vs ExecuteNonQuery vs ExecuteScalar

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Ahmed

ExecuteReader() For SELECT statement ExecuteNonQuery() For INSERT , UPDATE and DELETE Not for SELECT statement. ExecuteScalar() For images   Ahmed.

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Increasing the Maximum Upload Size

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Ahmed

The 4MB default is set in machine.config, but you can override it in your web.config. For instance, to expand the upload limit to 20MB, you’d do this: <system.web>   <httpRuntime executionTimeout=”240″ maxRequestLength=”20480″ /> </system.web>

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How to Save and Display a PDf/Word file ?

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Ahmed

For displaying, it will save the pdf/word to temp folder then open it and after closing will delete the temp file.

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