21 October 2011

Use asp:Menu and asp:MultiView to create tab control

/*
ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed (Unleashed) (Hardcover)
by Stephen Walther 

# Publisher: Sams; Bk&CD-Rom edition (June 6, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0672328232
*/

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Why you should not shrink your data files

One of my biggest hot-buttons is around shrinking data files. Although I used to own the shrink code while I was at Microsoft, I never had a chance to rewrite it so that data file shrink is a more palatable operation. I really don't like shrink.

Now, don't confuse shrinking the transaction log with shrinking data files. Shrinking the log is necessary if your log has grown out of control, or as part of a process to remove excessive VLF fragmentation. However, shrinking the log should be a rare operation and should not be part of any regular maintenance you perform.

Shrinking of data files should be performed even more rarely, if at all. Here's why - data file shrink causes *massive* index fragmentation. Let me demonstrate with a simple script you can run. The script below will create a data file, create a 10MB 'filler' table at the start of the data file, create a 10MB 'production' clustered index, drop the 'filler' table and then run a shrink to reclaim the space.
USE MASTER;
GO

IF DATABASEPROPERTYEX ('DBMaint2008', 'Version') > 0
 DROP DATABASE DBMaint2008;

CREATE DATABASE DBMaint2008;
GO
USE DBMaint2008;
GO

SET NOCOUNT ON;
GO

-- Create the 10MB filler table at the 'front' of the data file
CREATE TABLE FillerTable (c1 INT IDENTITY,  c2 CHAR (8000) DEFAULT 'filler');
GO

-- Fill up the filler table
INSERT INTO FillerTable DEFAULT VALUES;
GO 1280

-- Create the production table, which will be 'after' the filler table in the data file
CREATE TABLE ProdTable (c1 INT IDENTITY,  c2 CHAR (8000) DEFAULT 'production');
CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX prod_cl ON ProdTable (c1);
GO

INSERT INTO ProdTable DEFAULT VALUES;
GO 1280

-- check the fragmentation of the production table
SELECT [avg_fragmentation_in_percent] FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (
    DB_ID ('DBMaint2008'), OBJECT_ID ('ProdTable'), 1, NULL, 'LIMITED');
GO

-- drop the filler table, creating 10MB of free space at the 'front' of the data file
DROP TABLE FillerTable;
GO

-- shrink the database
DBCC SHRINKDATABASE (DBMaint2008);
GO

-- check the index fragmentation again
SELECT [avg_fragmentation_in_percent] FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (
    DB_ID ('DBMaint2008'), OBJECT_ID ('ProdTable'), 1, NULL, 'LIMITED');
GO

avg_fragmentation_in_percent
----------------------------
0.390625

DbId   FileId      CurrentSize MinimumSize UsedPages   EstimatedPages
------ ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- --------------
6      1           1456        152         1448        1440
6      2           63          63          56          56

DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.

avg_fragmentation_in_percent
----------------------------
99.296875
Look at the output from the script! The logical fragmentation of the clustered index before the shrink is a near-perfect 0.4%. After the shrink, it's almost 100%. The shrink operation *completely* fragmented the index, removing any chance of efficient range scans on it by ensuring the all range-scan readahead I/Os will be single-page I/Os.

Why does this happen? A data file shrink operation works on a single file at a time, and uses the GAM bitmaps (see Inside The Storage Engine: GAM, SGAM, PFS and other allocation maps) to find the highest page allocated in the file. It then moves it as far towards the front of the file as it can, and so on, and so on. In the case above, it completely reversed the order of the clustered index, taking it from perfectly defragmented to perfectly fragmented.

The same code is used for DBCC SHRINKFILE, DBCC SHRINKDATABASE, and auto-shrink - they're equally as bad. As well as introducing index fragmentation, data file shrink also generates a lot of I/O, uses a lot of CPU, and generates *loads* of transaction log - as everything it does is fully logged.

Data file shrink should never be part of regular maintenance, and you should NEVER, NEVER have auto-shrink enabled. I tried to have it removed from the product for SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 when I was in a position to do so - the only reason it's still there is for backwards compatibility. Don't fall into the trap of having a maintenance plan that rebuilds all indexes and then tries to reclaim the space required to rebuild the indexes by running a shrink - that's a zero-sum game where all you do is generate a log of transaction log for no actual gain in performance.

So what if you *do* need to run a shrink? For instance, if you've deleted a large proportion of a very large database and the database isn't likely to grow, or you need to empty a file before removing it?

The method I like to recommend is as follows:

Create a new filegroup
Move all affected tables and indexes into the new filegroup using the CREATE INDEX ... WITH (DROP_EXISTING) ON filegroup syntax, to move the tables and remove fragmentation from them at the same time
Drop the old filegroup that you were going to shrink anyway (or shrink it way down if its the primary filegroup)
Basically you need to provision some more space before you can shrink the old files, but it's a much cleaner mechanism.

If you absolutely have no choice and have to run a data file shrink operation, be aware that you're going to cause index fragmentation and you should take steps to remove it afterwards if it's going to cause performance problems. The only way to remove index fragmentation without causing data file growth again is to use DBCC INDEXDEFRAG or ALTER INDEX ... REORGANIZE. These commands only require a single 8KB page of extra space, instead of needing to build a whole new index in the case of an index rebuild operation.

Bottom line - try to avoid running data file shrink at all costs!


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07 October 2011

SQL SERVER – The Self Join – Inner Join and Outer Join

July 8, 2010 by pinaldave

Self Join has always been an note-worthy case. It is interesting to ask questions on self join in a room full of developers. I often ask – if there are three kind of joins, i.e.- Inner Join, Outer Join and Cross Join; what type of join is Self Join? The usual answer is that it is an Inner Join. In fact, it can be classified under any type of join. I have previously written about this in my interview questions and answers series. I have also mentioned this subject when I explained the joins in detail over SQL SERVER – Introduction to JOINs – Basic of JOINs.
When I mention that Self Join can be the outer join, I often get a request for an example for the same. I have created example using AdventureWorks Database of Self Join earlier, but that was meant for inner join as well. Let us create a new example today, where we will see how Self Join can be implemented as an Inner Join as well as Outer Join.
Let us first create the same table for an employee. One of the columns in the same table contains the ID of manger, who is also an employee for the same company. This way, all the employees and their managers are present in the same table. If we want to find the manager of a particular employee, we need use self join.

USE TempDb
GO
-- Create a Table
CREATE TABLE Employee(
EmployeeID INT PRIMARY KEY,
Name NVARCHAR(50),
ManagerID INT
)
GO
-- Insert Sample Data
INSERT INTO Employee
SELECT 1, 'Mike', 3
UNION ALL
SELECT 2, 'David', 3
UNION ALL
SELECT 3, 'Roger', NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT 4, 'Marry',2
UNION ALL
SELECT 5, 'Joseph',2
UNION ALL
SELECT 7, 'Ben',2
GO
-- Check the data
SELECT *
FROM Employee
GO
We will now use inner join to find the employees and their managers’ details.

-- Inner Join
SELECT e1.Name EmployeeName, e2.name AS ManagerName
FROM Employee e1
INNER JOIN Employee e2
ON e1.ManagerID = e2.EmployeeID
GO
From the result set, we can see that all the employees who have a manager are visible. However we are unable to find out the top manager of the company as he is not visible in our resultset. The reason for the same is that due to inner join, his name is filtered out. Inner join does not bring any result which does not have manager id. Let us convert Inner Join to Outer Join and then see the resultset.

-- Outer Join
SELECT e1.Name EmployeeName, ISNULL(e2.name, 'Top Manager') AS ManagerName
FROM Employee e1
LEFT JOIN Employee e2
ON e1.ManagerID = e2.EmployeeID
GO

Once we convert Inner Join to Outer Join, we can see the Top Manager as well. Here we have seen how Self Join can behave as an inner join as well as an outer join.
As I said earlier, many of you know these details, but there are many who are still confused about this concept. I hope that this concept is clear from this post.


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05 October 2011

Personalizzare confirm OnClientClick


Protected Sub gridDocs_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles gridDocs.RowDataBound

  With e.Row
    If .RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then

      Dim s As String = "return confirm('Eliminare il documento \'"
      s &= DataBinder.Eval(.DataItem, f1.Descrizione.ToString).ToString & "\'?');"

      Dim btn As Button = CType(.FindControl("cmdDelete"), Button)
      btn.OnClientClick = s

    End If
  End With

End Sub