ALTER TABLE Full Option !

Below is a good link to know about all regarding the ALTER statement syntax in SQL.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/alter-table.html

Crystal Report Configuration Isuses in Vs.net 2008

I migrated one web application done in 2.0 to 3.5 framework. It worked fine after migration. So at the time of migration i had both VS.net 2005 and VS.net 2008 intsalled on my machine. Then i removed VS.net 2005 as i dont needed it anymore.

Then while building the solution, i got the following error:
the assembly 'CrystalDecisions.shared/Web/Engine, Version=10.2.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' could not be loaded

Finally i managed to fix it by doing the following things:

1) Install the crystal runtime package that can be found on your local computer (I believe it is installed with visual studio 2008). It is located in:

\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\CrystalReports10_5

Select the appropriate package for your machine.

2) Modify web.config with all crystalreport assemblies so that it will be of new version eg:



3) Build solution. Now the solution successfully builds up !!!

Database Mailing in SQL 2005

We may come across the situations that to send mails from SQL server automatically or manually in-order to retrieve some status or information. For that we can setup the database mailing feature of sql and all through sql query itself. Hmmm..thats great

--STEP 1 - CONFIGURING MAIL
--******************************************
use master
go
sp_configure 'show advanced options',1
go
reconfigure with override
go
sp_configure 'Database Mail XPs',1
go
sp_configure 'SQL Mail XPs',0
go
reconfigure
go

--STEP 2 - CREATING MAIL ACCOUNT
--*********************************
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_account_sp
@account_name = 'PITSAccount',
@description = 'PITS Mail account for Database Mail',
@email_address = 'binukumar@MYWORLD.com',
@display_name = 'PITS Account',
@username='binukumar@MYWORLd.com',
@password='TESTPASS',
@mailserver_name = 'smtp.TESTWORLD.yahoo.com'

--STEP 3 - CREATING MAIL PROFILE
--*********************************
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profile_sp
@profile_name = 'PITS Profile',
@description = 'PITS Profile used for database mail'

--STEP 4 - Connecting PROFILE with MAIL
--***************************************
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp
@profile_name = 'PITS Profile',
@account_name = 'PITSAccount',
@sequence_number = 1

--STEP 5 - setting up the role and making this defauüt mail account
--***********************************************************************
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_principalprofile_sp
@profile_name = 'PITS Profile',
@principal_name = 'public',
@is_default = 1 ;

--STEP 6 - SENDING MAIL
--********************************
declare @body1 varchar(100)
set @body1 = 'Server :'+@@servername+ ' My First Database Email '
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name='PITS Profile',
@recipients='binukumar@myworld.com',
@subject = 'PITS Mail Test from SQL',
@body = @body1,
@body_format = 'HTML' ;

Now go and check the account of the target person we intended to sent the mail. The mail will be there for sure. Please let me know if any troubles

Windows service instllation in VS.net 2008 with Windows sever 2008

While installing a windows service writtenin vb.net, to the windows server 2008 OS with VS.net 2008, if anybody recieves the below message in the Command prompt

Running a transacted installation.
:
An exception occurred during the Install phase.
System.Security.SecurityException: The source was not found, but some or all eve
nt logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security.

The only thing need to do is:

go to start > All Programs > Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 > Visual Studio Tools and right click on "Visual Studio version Command Prompt" and go to "Run as Administrator"

Enter the command you are using to install your service.