sql-server-express

How do I insert Chinese characters into a SQLExpress text field? I'm using SQL Express from VS 2008. When I add Chinese characters, either via an import app I wrote or by pasting them in from the data view inside Visual Studio, they end up as question marks. Just add an 'N' before your text delimiter in the INSERT/UPDATE statement for fields of the nchar/nvarchar/ntext type: INSERT INTO myTable (myField1, myField2) VALUES (N'any chinese character',N'any arabic character') Be sure you made your column type nchar, nvarchar or ntext. So you can store Unicode. It is all rather well described here.

I have an application which successfully uses SqlDependency with SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition. But if I switch the connection string to SQL Server 2008 express (with enabled Broker) it stops working. I'm not sure whether it is SQL Server Express specific, but which steps should I follow to find out the reason of the problem? Update. By "stops working" I mean notifications are not raised by SqlDependency Remus Rusanu To understand how SQL Dependency works I recommend you read The Mysterious Notification . To troubleshoot it follow the normal Troubleshooting Dialogs steps. The typical

I am using SQL Express 2008 as a backend for a web application, the problem is the web application is used during business hours so sometimes during lunch or break time when there is no users logged in for a 20 minute period SQL express will kick into idle mode and free its cache. I am aware of this because it logs something like: Server resumed execution after being idle 9709 seconds or Starting up database 'xxxxxxx' in the event log I would like to avoid this idle behavior. Is there anyway to configure SQL express to stop idling or at least widen the time window to longer than 20mins? Or is

How do I list all the databases for a given sql server 08 instance using sqlcmd? sqlcmd -E -S SERVER\INSTANCE -Q "sp_databases" EXEC sp_databases or SELECT NAME FROM sys.sysdatabases or EXEC sp_msForEachDB 'PRINT ''?'''; To elaborate with more detail for the sqlcmd newbie: C:\> sqlcmd -S <the_server_name> 1> select name from sys.databases 2> go You can use sp_databases stored procedure. 来源： https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2087902/sqlserver-08-query-to-list-all-databases-in-an-instance

I've just got a lovely Access database, so the first thing I want to do is to move it over to a normal database management system (sqlexpress), but the only solution I've found sounds like craziness. Isn't there an " export database to .sql " button somewhere? I have around 50 tables and this export might run more than once so it would be great if I didn't have to export all the tables manually. Generating a .sql file (with tables creation and inserts) would also be great since it would allow me to keep that under version control. I guess if it's not possible to do something simple like this I