Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The difference between ‘return false;’ and ‘e.preventDefault();

Have you ever seen those two things (in the title) being used in jQuery? Here is a simple example:
$("a").click(function() {
   $("body").append($(this).attr("href"));
   return false;
}
That code would append the href attribute as text to the body every time a link was clicked but not actually go to that link. The return false; part of that code prevents the browser from performing the default action for that link. That exact thing could be written like this:
$("a").click(function(e) {
   $("body").append($(this).attr("href"));
   e.preventDefault();
}
So what's the difference?

The difference is that return false; takes things a bit further in that it also prevents that event from propagating (or "bubbling up") the DOM. The you-may-not-know-this bit is that whenever an event happens on an element, that event is triggered on every single parent element as well. So let's say you have a box inside a box. Both boxes have click events on them. Click on the inner box, a click will trigger on the outer box too, unless you prevent propagation. Like this:

So in other words:
function() {
  return false;
}

// IS EQUAL TO

function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  e.stopPropagation();
}
It's all probably a lot more complicated than this and articles like this probably explain it all a lot better.

Get Information of Index of Tables and Indexed Columns


Creating Index in Sql
 
CREATE INDEX employee_first_last_name_idx ON
  employee (first_name, last_name);

Droping Index in Sql

Drop  index employee_first_last_name_idx;

Knowledge of T-SQL inbuilt functions and store procedure can save great amount of time for developers. Following is very simple store procedure which can display name of Indexes and the columns on which indexes are created. Very handy stored Procedure.
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
EXEC sp_helpindex 'Person.Address'
GO

Above SP will return following information.
IndexName – IX_Address_AddressLine1_AddressLine2_City_StateProvinceID_PostalCode
Index_Description – nonclustered, unique located on PRIMARY
Index_Keys – AddressLine1, AddressLine2, City, StateProvinceID, PostalCode
Let me know if you think this kind of small tips are useful to you.

Either we can use DBCC Command also
 
The DBCC SHOWCONTIG command shows you the index information. The example below checks the "indexname" index on the table "tablename" in the database "dbname".
DBCC SHOWCONTIG('dbname.dbo.tablename', 'indexname')
Some example output is shown below. This particular example was from a very fragmented index from a table with around 10 million records. Each day around 1 million records are updated/and or inserted and records 60 days or older are deleted.
DBCC SHOWCONTIG scanning 'tablename' table...
Table: 'tablename' (949578421); index ID: 1, database ID: 12
TABLE level scan performed.
- Pages Scanned................................: 333557
- Extents Scanned..............................: 41805
- Extent Switches..............................: 262556
- Avg. Pages per Extent........................: 8.0
- Scan Density [Best Count:Actual Count].......: 15.88% [41695:262557]
- Logical Scan Fragmentation ..................: 75.11%
- Extent Scan Fragmentation ...................: 13.04%
- Avg. Bytes Free per Page.....................: 2853.9
- Avg. Page Density (full).....................: 64.74%
A low percentage for scan density is bad. A high percentage for logical scan fragmentation is bad.
To defragment your index you need to use the DBCC DBREINDEX or DBCC INDEXDEFRAG commands. DBCC DBREINDEX allows you to rebuild all indexes at once, but is an offline operation so the tables cannot be used while it is running. DBCC INDEXDEFRAG must be called for each index you want to defragment but you can continue to use the tables.
The syntax for DBCC DBREINDEX is as follows to rebuild the above index:
DBCC DBREINDEX('dbname.dbo.tablename', 'indexname')
or all indexes:
DBCC DBREINDEX('dbname.dbo.tablename')
You can also change the fill factor for the index, which affects how much space is left in each page with a third parameter. To make it e.g. 70, you could do this for all indexes in the table:
DBCC DBREINDEX('dbname.dbo.tablename', '', 70)
After doing the above on the example table and rebuilding the index with a fill factor of 70, running DBCC SHOWCONTIG again gave the following, much better, result:
DBCC SHOWCONTIG scanning 'tablename' table...
Table: 'tablename' (949578421); index ID: 1, database ID: 12
TABLE level scan performed.
- Pages Scanned................................: 297679
- Extents Scanned..............................: 37210
- Extent Switches..............................: 37209
- Avg. Pages per Extent........................: 8.0
- Scan Density [Best Count:Actual Count].......: 100.00% [37210:37210]
- Logical Scan Fragmentation ..................: 0.00%
- Extent Scan Fragmentation ...................: 0.16%
- Avg. Bytes Free per Page.....................: 2335.3
- Avg. Page Density (full).....................: 71.15%

Monday, July 2, 2012

Clear Reset All Control in a form in asp.net


Using below function we can clear or reset all the controls available on the existing pages.


#region Clear All Controls
    public static void ResetFields(Control control)
    {
        //Reset All the textBoxes in panel.
        foreach (Control ctrl in control.Controls)
        {
            if (ctrl is TextBox)
            {
                string id = ctrl.ID;
                ((TextBox)ctrl).Text = String.Empty;
                ((TextBox)ctrl).Attributes["value"] = "";
            }
            else if (ctrl is DropDownList)
            {
                ((DropDownList)ctrl).ClearSelection();
                ((DropDownList)ctrl).Enabled = true;
            }
            else if (ctrl is RadioButtonList)
            {
                ((RadioButtonList)ctrl).SelectedIndex = 0;
            }
            else if (ctrl is RadioButton)
            {
                ((RadioButton)ctrl).Checked = false;
            }
            else if (ctrl is CheckBox)
            {
                ((CheckBox)ctrl).Checked = false;
            }
            else if (ctrl is CheckBoxList)
            {
                ((CheckBoxList)ctrl).ClearSelection();
            }
        }
    }
    #endregion

Trim and Replace multiple string in Javascript

Using following Javascript sysntax you can replace forward slashes (‘/’) with backward slashes (‘\’) :

var strReplace = “C:\Temp\Temp1\Temp2\text.jpeg“;

strReplace = strReplace.replace(new RegExp(/\\/g),”/”);

/////////////////

function ltrim(str){
return str.replace(/^\s+/, '');
}
function rtrim(str) {
return str.replace(/\s+$/, '');
}
function alltrim(str) {
return str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');
}

SQL SERVER – Delete Backup History – Cleanup Backup History

SQL Server stores history of all the taken backup forever. History of all the backup is stored in msdb database. Many times older history is no more required. Following Stored Procedure can be executed with parameter which takes days of history to keep. In following example 30 is passed to keep history of month.
USE msdb
GO
DECLARE @DaysToKeepHistory DATETIMESET @DaysToKeepHistory = CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), DATEADD(dd, -30, GETDATE()), 101)EXEC sp_delete_backuphistory @DaysToKeepHistoryGO

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Get All Database with respective sizes from your Server


with fs
as
(
    select database_id, type, size * 8.0 / 1024 size
    from sys.master_files
)
select
    name,
    (select sum(size) from fs where type = 0 and fs.database_id = db.database_id) DataFileSizeMB,
    (select sum(size) from fs where type = 1 and fs.database_id = db.database_id) LogFileSizeMB
from sys.databases db

OR

EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1="EXEC sp_spaceused '?'"

Thursday, June 28, 2012

SQL Server BACKUP LOG command

Overview
There are only two commands for backup, the primary is BACKUP DATABASE which backs up the entire database and BACKUP LOG which backs up the transaction log.  The following will show different options for doing transaction log backups.

Explanation
 The BACKUP LOG command gives you many options for creating transaction log backups.  Following are different examples.

Create a simple transaction log backup to disk
The command is BACKUP LOG databaseName.  The "TO DISK" option specifies that the backup should be written to disk and the location and filename to create the backup is specified.  The file extension is "TRN".  This helps me know it is a transaction log backup, but it could be any extension you like.  Also, the database has to be in the FULL or Bulk-Logged recovery model and at least one Full backup has to have occurred.
BACKUP LOG AdventureWorks 
TO DISK = 'C:\AdventureWorks.TRN'
GO

Create a log backup with a password
This command creates a log backup with a password that will need to be supplied when restoring the database.
BACKUP LOG AdventureWorks 
TO DISK = 'C:\AdventureWorks.TRN'
WITH PASSWORD = 'Q!W@E#R$'
GO

Create a log backup with progress stats
This command creates a log backup and also displays the progress of the backup.  The default is to show progress after every 10%.
BACKUP LOG AdventureWorks 
TO DISK = 'C:\AdventureWorks.TRN'
WITH STATS
GO

Here is another option showing stats after every 1%.
BACKUP LOG AdventureWorks 
TO DISK = 'C:\AdventureWorks.TRN'
WITH STATS = 1
GO

Create a backup and give it a description
This command uses the description option to give the backup a name.  This can later be used with some of the restore commands to see what is contained with the backup.  The maximum size is 255 characters.
BACKUP LOG AdventureWorks 
TO DISK = 'C:\AdventureWorks.TRN'
WITH DESCRIPTION = 'Log backup for AdventureWorks'
GO

Create a mirrored backup
This option allows you to create multiple copies of the backups, preferably to different locations.
BACKUP LOG AdventureWorks 
TO DISK = 'C:\AdventureWorks.TRN'
MIRROR TO DISK =  'D:\AdventureWorks_mirror.TRN'
WITH FORMAT
GO

Specifying multiple options
 This example shows how you can use multiple options at the same time.
BACKUP LOG AdventureWorks 
TO DISK = 'C:\AdventureWorks.TRN'
MIRROR TO DISK =  'D:\AdventureWorks_mirror.TRN'
WITH FORMAT, STATS, PASSWORD = 'Q!W@E#R$'
GO