Move a SharePoint Content Database / Deploy sharepoint site

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You have two initial options, doing a backup and restore within MOSS to move the data, or doing it at the SQL/STSADM level.  I prefer the latter, as it isn’t nearly as inclined to fail and leaves you with more flexibility.

1) Find the content Database

These are listed under Central Admin->Application Management->Site Collection List

2) Backup the content database

You could alternatively detach it, and copy it.  Just doing a backup in SQL Server 2005 Management studio is easier.

3) Restore content database to new server

Copy the BAK file to new server.  Create an empty DB in Management Studio, restore from backup, you may need to change an option in the “options” tab of the restore dialog to get it to work.  (Overwrite db).

4) Create Web App on new Server

Central Admin->Application Management->Create or extend Web App->Create New Web App.

5) Associate restored DB with new Web App

Central Admin->Application Management->

SharePoint Web Application Management->Content Databases->

Remove Content Database from your new web app.

Now use STSADM to add restored DB to this web app

c:program filescommon filesmicrosoft sharedweb server extentions12bin on new server is where you can find the STSADM.

run this command from there.

stsadm -o addcontentdb -url http://yourwebapp:port -databasename yourcontentdb -databaseserver yoursqlserver

6) Run ISSRESET from command prompt.


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How Big is google’s database

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Google search crawler uses 850 TB of information, so that’s the amount of raw data from the web.

Google Analytics uses 220 TB stored in two tables: 200 TB for the raw data and 20 TB for the summaries.

Google Earth uses 70.5 TB: 70 TB for the raw imagery and 500 GB for the index data.

The second table “is relatively small (500 GB), but it must serve tens of thousands of queries per second per datacenter with low latency”.

Personalized Search doesn’t need too much data: only 4 TB.
Personalized Search stores each user’s data in Big table.
Each user has a unique user id and is assigned a row named by that user id.
All user actions are stored in a table.

Google Base uses 2 TB and Orkut only 9 TB of data.
If we take into account that all this information is compressed. For example, the crawled data has compression rate of 11%, so 800 TB become 88 TB, Google uses for all the services mentioned before 220 TB.

It’s also interesting to note that the size of the raw imagery from Google Earth is almost equal to the size of the compressed web pages crawled by Google.


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The real difference between SQL Server and Oracle

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For years now there’s been a constant war between Microsoft supporters and Oracle supporters. Oracle has these features, SQL Server has these features, etc. But that’s not really where the real importance lies. Sure, functionality is a part of it because your database should be able to do what you need it to do. However, do you want to know what the real difference between the two companies is and why Microsoft has made such a strong impact in the industry?…. Read More….


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UPDATE Based Off of A Table

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 INSERT offers the ability to insert into a table based upon a SELECT statement with the following syntax:

INSERT INTO [TABLEA] ([FIELDA],[FIELDB],[FIELDC])
        SELECT [FIELDA],[FIELDB],[FIELDC]
FROM [TABLEB]

 

there are time where you may want to do a similar approach with UPDATE.
Here is the syntax to do that very task:

UPDATE [TABLEA]
        SET  [TABLEA].[FIELDA] = [TABLEB].[FIELDA] 
               [TABLEA].[FIELDB] = [TABLEB].[FIELDB] 
               [TABLEA].[FIELDC] = [TABLEB].[FIELDC] 
        FROM [TABLEA]
               JOIN [TABLEB]
        ON [TABLEA].[KEYA] = [TABLEB].[KEYA]

 


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Passing parameters to dynamic query

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Consider following queries

1. SELECT * FROM @tablename

2. SELECT @colname FROM tbl

3. SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE x IN (@list)

4. SELECT @Cnt=Count(*) FROM tbl WHERE x IN (@list)

 

For the first query, it will give error ‘Must declare the table variable “@tablename”‘ if @tablename is not Table variable.

For Second query it will display all rows with same value contained in @colname rows in ‘tbl’.

For Third query it will display correct result if ‘@list‘ only one value(no comma separated values).

Fourth one is same as third query but it stores value in a variable @Cnt. The actual problem will come to know after solving third one.

To get correct result, we need to create Dynamic query for all four queries.

 

The first three queries can be execute correctly by using Exec().

EXEC() takes one parameter which is an SQL statement to execute.The parameter can be a concatenation of string variables and string literals, but cannot include calls to functions or other operators.

 

The first three can be written as:

 

1. Exec (‘SELECT * FROM’ + @tablename)

2. Exec (‘SELECT ‘ + @colname +‘ FROM tbl’)

3. Exec (‘SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE x IN (‘+@list+‘)’)

 

But Fourth one can not be written simply using Exec(). Because if @Cnt is declared outside the statement being executed in Exec() like

 

Declare @Cnt int

Exec(‘SELECT @Cnt = Count(*) FROM tbl WHERE x IN (‘+@list+‘)’)

Select @Cnt

 

it will give error

Must declare the scalar variable “@Cnt”.

 

Here is need of sp_executesql instead of Exec().

sp_executesql is a system stored procedure that you can use in place of “exec” to execute your dynamic sql. It takes two pre-defined parameters and any number of user-defined parameters.

This allows you to have parameters in your dynamic query and pass them in. The end result is that SQL Server will try to cache the execution plan for your query giving you some of the advantages of a fully compiled query.

The first parameter @sql is mandatory, and contains a batch of one or more SQL statements. The data type of @sql is ntext in SQL 7 and SQL 2000, and nvarchar(MAX) in SQL 2005. A varchar value won’t do.

The second parameter @params is optional, but you will use it 90% of the time. @params declares the parameters that you refer to in @sql. The syntax of @params is exactly the same as for the parameter list of a stored procedure. The parameters can have default values and they can have the OUTPUT marker.Just like @sql, the data type of @params in SQL 7/2000 is ntext and nvarchar(MAX) in SQL 2005.

The rest of the parameters are simply the parameters that you declared in @params, and you pass them as you pass parameters to a stored procedure, either positional or named. To get a value back from your output parameter, you must specify OUTPUT with the parameter, just like when you call a stored procedure.

 

Let’s write the fourth query using sp_executesql.

Declare @CntRow int

Declare @sql nvarchar(200)

Declare @params nvarchar(200)

set @sql = ‘SELECT @Cnt=Count(*) FROM tbl WHERE x IN (@list)’

set @params = ‘@list varchar(100),@Cnt int output’

exec sp_executesql @sql,@params,‘1,2,3’,@CntRow output

Select @ CntRow

‘1,2,3’ will be passed to @list and result of @Cnt will be set to @CntRow.


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To get comma separated list of values of single field in SQL Server

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A solution to get comma separated list of values of single field of a database table

 

You can use the following code to get the comma separated list of values of a single field of a table:

 

DECLARE @commaSeparatedVal AS VARCHAR(4000)

SELECT @commaSeparatedVal = ISNULL(@commaSeparatedVal +‘,’,”) + CONVERT(VARCHAR,[SKU]) FROM PRODUCT

PRINT @commaSeparatedVal

 


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DIFFERENCE and SOUNDEX in Transact-SQL

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DIFFERENCE(string1, string2)

Returns the difference between two strings as a value between 0 and 4. This function uses the SOUNDEX algorithm to compare sounds, rather than characters. If the two strings match phonetically very well, the DIFFERENCE() function will return the value 4. If they don’t resemble each other even remotely, it will return the value 0.

The DIFFERENCE function is commonly used to search with names. Instead of a comparison like:

WHERE Authors.AuthorName = sAuthor

where sAuthor is the name supplied by the user, you can use the following comparison:

WHERE DIFFERENCE(Authors.AuthorName, sAuthor) = 4

The latter comparison will match “Mansfield” with “Mansfeeld”, “Petroutsos” with “Petrutsos”, and so on.

SOUNDEX(string)

Returns the four-character SOUNDEX code of a word. You can use this value to compare the closeness of two words. The SOUNDEX function converts a string to a four-character code: the first character of the code is the first character of the string argument, and the second through fourth characters of the code are numbers that code the consonants in the word (vowels are ignored unless they are the first letter of the string). The strings “Brannon”, “Branon”, and “Bramon” all have a SOUNDEX value of B655, because the sounds of n and m are very close. The word “Bradon”, however, has a SOUNDEX value of B635 (it differs by a consonant in the middle of the word).The word “Branok” has a SOUNDEX value of B652, since it differs in a consonant at the end.

 

                                 SOUNDEX (Transact-SQL)

 

 

Definition:

 

Returns a four-character (SOUNDEX) code to evaluate the similarity of two strings.

 

Syntax :

 

SOUNDEX ( character_expression )

 

Arguments :

 

character_expression – Is an alphanumeric expression of character data. character_expression can be a constant, variable, or column.

 

Return Types :

varchar

 

Remarks :

SOUNDEX converts an alphanumeric string to a four-character code to find similar-sounding words or names. The first character of the code is the first character of character_expression and the second through fourth characters of the code are numbers. Vowels in character_expression are ignored unless they are the first letter of the string. String functions can be nested.

 

Examples :

The following example shows the SOUNDEX function and the related DIFFERENCE function. In the first example, the standard SOUNDEX values are returned for all consonants. Returning the SOUNDEX for Smith and Smythe returns the same SOUNDEX result because all vowels, the letter y, doubled letters, and the letter h, are not included.

 

-> Using SOUNDEX

SELECT SOUNDEX (‘Smith’), SOUNDEX (‘Smythe’);

 

Here is the result set.

 

No column name     No column name

S530                           S530

 

(1 row(s) affected)

 

The DIFFERENCE function compares the difference of the SOUNDEX pattern results. The following example shows two strings that differ only in vowels. The difference returned is 4, the lowest possible difference.

 

-> Using DIFFERENCE

SELECT DIFFERENCE(‘Smithers’, ‘Smythers’);

GO

Here is the result set.

 

No column name

4

 

(1 row(s) affected)

 

In the following example, the strings differ in consonants; therefore, the difference returned is 2, the greater difference.

 

SELECT DIFFERENCE(‘Anothers’, ‘Brothers’);

GO

Here is the result set.

 

No column name

2

 

(1 row(s) affected)

 

 


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Full Text Search in SQL Server 2005

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Definition :

Full text search is the search functionality that enables a fast and easy way of searching text based data in SQL Server.

Why Full Text Search?

Let us assume that we have huge amounts of data in the database and we are having some search functionality involved in User Interface (UI). The UI for the database is a website open to the internet so response time is crucial. Now if the administrator of the website wants to search all the customer names which have a specific pattern, then he or she queries the database system as shown in Listing 1.

 

Listing 1:

SELECT [NAME] FROM [CUSTOMER] WHERE [NAME] LIKE ‘%PATTERN%’The query in Listing 1 is fine for getting the result. But in real time this may not suffice the actual requirement. Let us see why the query in Listing 1 may not yield us actual results.

 

1. In case of a large amount of data, the like query works very slowly. It may take minutes to return the result. This is true especially for unstructured text data.

 

2. If I want to query my data on formatted binary data [format], I cannot use a Like query.

 

So to summarize, the need to of the hour is for a search functionality that is fast, efficient and can also be run on unstructured text data with the support of search on different data types like formatted binary. Full text search qualifies all these and in fact has many advantages.

 

 

Full-Text Indexing Architecture :

You might be a bit surprised to learn that SQL Server doesn’t handle its own full-text indexing tasks. Any version of Windows that SQL Server will run on includes an operating system component named the Microsoft Search Service. This service provides indexing and searching capabilities to a variety of applications, including SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint.

SQL Server uses an interface component, the SQL Server Handler, to communicate with the Microsoft Search Service. The Handler extracts data from SQL Server tables that have been enabled for full-text searching and passes it to the search service for indexing. Another component, the full-text OLE DB provider, gets invoked by SQL Server when you actually perform a full-text search. The provider takes the portion of the search that needs to be satisfied by the full-text index and passes it off to the Search Service for evaluation.

You need to be aware of one consequence of this architecture: because the full-text indexes are not in your SQL Server database, they can’t be backed up from within SQL Server. Instead, you need to backup the disk files created by the Search Service. You’ll find these files located under Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLFTDATA.

 

 

Implementing Full Text search :

Let us discuss the steps for implementing full-text search in SQL Server 2005.

 

-> Adding a full text search catalog to the database – To add a full text search catalog we need to open the database node in Management studio and click on the storage node. We can see the Full text catalog in this node. We have an option for adding the full-text catalog by which we can add a new catalog.

 

-> Adding the Full text indexing table – We need to specify to the database that we want to implement the full-text search functionality for a table. To do this we can select the respective table and select the right click option of Full-Text Index and Define Full-Text index.

 

This opens up the Full text indexing wizard.

 

1. Using the Full text indexing wizard we select a unique index.

 

2. Once we select a unique index and move to the next step, we select the columns that are eligible for full text queries. This enables the full-text search for the selected columns.

 

3. We need to select the option of how can we track the changes. If automatically selected then a full population of indexing occurs. To avoid a population at the end of this wizard, select the Do Not Track Changes option, and clear the Start Full Population When Index Is Created checkbox.

 

4. Once we are done with step 3 we need to map the catalog out of all the catalogs at the database level. Or we could even create a new catalog for the full text search.

 

5. This is the last step of the wizard. Here we can create a table schedule and catalog schedules and schedule them with time. A table schedule can have a name, time of schedule and occurrences.

 

Once we create them and click on the finish button the full-text index is created.

 

 

Running the Full Text search :

Until now, we have set-up the full text search catalogs and indexes. Let us run the some queries for the full-text search. There are four types of predicates used in SQL Server 2005 for running the Full text search queries. A predicate is an expression that evaluates to TRUE, FALSE or UNKNOWN. A predicate is used in a where condition in T-SQL statement.

1. FREETEXT

 

2. FREETEXTTABLE

 

3. CONTAINS

 

4. CONTAINSTABLE

 

Let us see each one of them individually with its usage.

 

FREETEXT :

Freetext is the simplest form of predicates in the full text search. It searches for the words that give the similar meaning and not the exact wording of the word. This kind of predicate is used where we go to query a document as a whole for a word in it. The freetext not only returns the exact wording, but also the nearest meanings attached to it. Listing 1 shows the usage of the free text. To understand listing 1, the user should have a basic understanding of T-SQL queries. Let us also see the usage of Freetext with a help of an example. Listing 2 gives an example for the usage of FREETEXT.

 

Listing 2 :

FREETEXT ( { column_name | (column_list) | * }

, ‘freetext_string’ [ , LANGUAGE language_term ] )

 

Listing 3 :

SELECT CellularPhone FROM CART WHERE FREETEXT (CellularPhone, ‘1111’)

 

Listing 4 :

SELECT CELLULARPHONE FROM CART WHERE CELLULARPHONE LIKE ‘%1111%’

 

 

FREETEXTTABLE :

Freetexttable returns a collection of one or more rows as a table. The columns in the rows are selected based on the string given as the predicate. Freetexttable is similar to freetext except the former can return tables and the latter one can return columns. Listing 4 shows the usage of Freetexttable.

 

Listing 5 :

FREETEXTTABLE (table , { column_name | (column_list) | * }

, ‘freetext_string’

[ ,LANGUAGE language_term ]

[ ,top_n_by_rank ] )

 

CONTAINS :

As the name suggests, Contains actually works by verifying if a word or phrase is contained in the columns. It can search for a word, prefix of a word, synonym of a word, word formed from another word. We need to specify the language in case the languages of the words are not of the same language. Listing 5 shows the simple usage of contains column.

 

 

 

Listing 6 :

SELECT [Name], [Address]

FROM Customer

WHERE AGE > 30

AND CONTAINS([Name], ‘Uday’);

 

CONTAINSTABLE :

Contains and Containstable are similar to freetext and freetexttable. The former one returns columns and the latter one returns the table.

 

Conclusion :

 

Full-text search allows fast and flexible indexing for keyword-based query of text data stored in a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database.

 


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MERGE Command in SQL Server

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In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduces the MERGE functionality through the MERGE command. The MERGE command inserts rows that don’t exist and updates the rows that do exist.

    What MERGE Command works as,

        IF FOUND

           THEN UPDATE

        ELSE

           INSERT;

    Until now, this MERGE functionality could only be made available in SQL Server through stored procedures and cursors, etc.

    This article illustrates how to user MERGE command in SQL Server 2008.

    Suppose we have 2 tables with same field structure as ID, ProductName and SKU,

        MERGE INTO ProductTable1 AS Target

        USING  AS ProductTable2 AS Source

                ON Target.ID = Source.ID

        WHEN MATCHED THEN

                UPDATE SET Target.ProductName = Source.ProductName,

                Target.SKU = Source.SKU

        WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN

                INSERT (ID,ProductName,SKU) VALUES (Source.ID,Source.ProductName,Source.SKU);

 


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CASE (Transact SQL)

Evaluates a list of conditions and returns one of multiple possible result expressions.

CASE has two formats:

· The simple CASE function compares an expression to a set of simple expressions to determine the result.

· The searched CASE function evaluates a set of Boolean expressions to determine the result.

Examples:

A. Using a SELECT statement with a simple CASE function

Within a SELECT statement, a simple CASE function allows for only an equality check; no other comparisons are made. The following example uses the CASE function to change the display of product line categories to make them more understandable.

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT   ProductNumber, Category =
CASE ProductLine
WHEN ‘R’ THEN ‘Road’
WHEN ‘M’ THEN ‘Mountain’
WHEN ‘T’ THEN ‘Touring’
WHEN ‘S’ THEN ‘Other sale items’
ELSE ‘Not for sale’
END,
Name
FROM Production.Product
ORDER BY ProductNumber;
GO

B. Using a SELECT statement with a searched CASE function

Within a SELECT statement, the searched CASE function allows for values to be replaced in the result set based on comparison values. The following example displays the list price as a text comment based on the price range for a product.

USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT   ProductNumber, Name, ‘Price Range’ =
CASE
WHEN ListPrice =  0 THEN ‘Mfg item – not for resale’
WHEN ListPrice < 50 THEN ‘Under $50’
WHEN ListPrice >= 50 and ListPrice < 250 THEN ‘Under $250’
WHEN ListPrice >= 250 and ListPrice < 1000 THEN ‘Under $1000’
ELSE ‘Over $1000’
END
FROM Production.Product
ORDER BY ProductNumber ;
GO


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