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projecttoday
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Posted - 02/22/2010 :  18:49:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I am a newbie with SQL Server Express 2008 and I'm trying to modify a stored procedure. If I click on Save, it saves to SQLQueryn.sql instead of the current procedure. If I click on Save As I get a popup of sprocs in this database with the default as SQLQueryn.sql and I have to select my sproc from the list. This seems to work okay but I'm afraid I'll accidently select the wrong one sometime and wipe it out. Why can't I just click Save and save it as usual for Windows apps? What am I doing wrong?

tkizer
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Posted - 02/22/2010 :  19:44:49  Show Profile  Visit tkizer's Homepage  Reply with Quote
You don't need to save it as that just creates a file. Instead, you run CREATE/ALTER PROC in order to store it inside the database.

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projecttoday
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Posted - 02/22/2010 :  20:24:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Is that done when I do Query/Execute?
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tkizer
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Posted - 02/22/2010 :  21:14:06  Show Profile  Visit tkizer's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Yes, it's done in a query window.

Saving a stored procedure to a file does not save it to the database, only CREATE (for new ones) and ALTER (for existing ones) do that.

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projecttoday
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Posted - 02/22/2010 :  21:20:52  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks!
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tkizer
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Posted - 02/22/2010 :  23:17:14  Show Profile  Visit tkizer's Homepage  Reply with Quote
You're welcome.

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Kristen
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Posted - 02/23/2010 :  03:00:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
FWIW: We save all ours to disk too, and then store them in a version control system (SVN). If you have a one-man project that may be overkill, if you have several developers then I think you should consider it
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visakh16
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Posted - 02/23/2010 :  09:27:45  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Kristen

FWIW: We save all ours to disk too, and then store them in a version control system (SVN). If you have a one-man project that may be overkill, if you have several developers then I think you should consider it

I second Kristen on this. This is extremely important when you're working on group project with lots of parallel development happening

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projecttoday
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Posted - 02/23/2010 :  09:35:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Where can you get a version control system?
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visakh16
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Posted - 02/23/2010 :  09:39:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by projecttoday

Where can you get a version control system?

you need to buy it just like you bought sql server. there're some open source ones too but what we use is MS VSS which requires buying a license.

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Kristen
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Posted - 02/23/2010 :  10:25:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
SVN is open source and possibly the most widely used.

There is a Windows front end called Tortoise

Sorry Visakh, but I don't know anyone who has used MS VSS and SVN who would willingly go back to VSS ...

I think I made a post on here about SVN, I'll see if I can find it.
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http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=63148
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=73104
Edited by - Kristen on 02/23/2010 10:40:59
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visakh16
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Posted - 02/23/2010 :  10:29:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Kristen

SVN is open source and possibly the most widely used.

There is a Windows front end called Tortoise

Sorry Visakh, but I don't know anyone who has used MS VSS and SVN who would willingly go back to VSS ...

I think I made a post on here about SVN, I'll see if I can find it.

I never told they'll go back
I just told what we use

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