TransactionScope timing out connection on dev virtualbox VM - c#

I have some code thus:
private static void Delete(int PaxID)
{
using (SqlConnection conn = DataHelper.GetDBConnection())
{
using (SqlCommand cmd = DataHelper.GetSPCommand("spDeletePax",conn))
{
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("#PaxID", PaxID);
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
}
}
public static void DeletePaxes(List<int> ids, string bookingRef, string user)
{
using (TransactionScope ts = new DataHelper.CreateTransactionScope())
{
foreach (var i in ids)
{
Delete(i);
}
ts.Complete();
}
}
public static SqlConnection GetDBConnection()
{
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DB"].ConnectionString);
conn.Open();
return conn;
}
public static TransactionScope CreateTransactionScope()
{
var transactionOptions = new TransactionOptions();
transactionOptions.IsolationLevel = System.Transactions.IsolationLevel.ReadCommitted;
transactionOptions.Timeout = TransactionManager.MaximumTimeout;
return new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required, transactionOptions);
}
which until recently was working fine
I have changed no code, but simply changed my source control from VSS to SVN, and now opened up the project in VS2012 (instead of 2008).
If i call the DeletePaxes(..) the first delete works but the second times out when connecting to the DB
am i just doing this wrong or does 2012/.NET4/4.5 deal with transactions differently? I have done some googling and turned up nothing (hence posting here)
can anyone enlighten me as to what might be going on?
am I just doing this wrongly?
DTC issetup so dont think its that - and like i say was working fine until I changed the source control..
also if i change the transaction to just the default - not using the static method, it also fails..
removing the transaction works fine
I am using the transaction because I need ALL or NONE of the deletes to work..
thanks

OK dont beat me but turns out it was a problem with the VM setup.
the network adapter was set to NAT, not Bridged Adapter - and all is well now.
guess the transaction was not able to find its way back to the VM and thus is just sat there
may just be me that is foolish enough to forget that but thanks for all the replies anyway - and I will do some reading up on Table-valued Params

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The application freezes when I try to update timestamp column with a placeholder in an Oracle database using C#

I am trying to update 2 columns in an Oracle database using C#. The columns I want to update are StartTime i.e. a timestamp and Name i.e. string. However when I run my code, the application freezes. I following is my code:
public int StartProduction(string serialNr, string empName)
{
string queryString = "UPDATE RO_EXEMPLAAR_PIM SET PLAKTAFEL_START=systimestamp, STARTED_BY=:startedBy WHERE SERIENR=:serialNr";
using (OracleConnection connection = new OracleConnection(connectionString))
{
using (OracleCommand command = new OracleCommand(queryString, connection))
{
try
{
OracleDataAdapter da = new OracleDataAdapter();
connection.Open();
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("serialNr", serialNr);
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("startedBy", empName);
da.InsertCommand = command;
int nrOfRecordsChanged = command.ExecuteNonQuery();
return nrOfRecordsChanged;
}
catch
{
return -1; //which means the try-block was not executed succesfully
}
finally
{
connection.Close();
}
}
}
}
I call it in a form as this:
if (dh.StartProduction(serialNr, empName) != -1)
{
MessageBox.Show("Production started successfully!");
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Production cannot be started!");
}
I looked up online and could not find what is wrong with my code. Thanks in advance!
Try a non locking read query like;
SELECT * FROM V$VERSION;
If that works (proving your connection string works).
Then you probably have a locking issue.
In general: (especially for devs)
Make sure you are not missing a "commit;" in your sql-developer or dbvisualizer or something like that. (or somebody on your dev team).
Running an update without a "commit;" in side these tools will lock a row.
If you can't find the culprit : a reboot of the server is in order.

c# odbc update query doesnt work properly

Hi I'm having a lot of truble doing a program in c#
i have to connect to SQLANYWHERE 11 and do an update to a table
could u tell me where I'm wrong?
program go well until i reach the:
int number = wCommand.ExecuteNonQuery(); line
the program doesnt crash but tables get not updated
string dns = "Dsn=dattest;Uid=******;Pwd=******;";
OdbcDataReader reader;
OdbcCommand wCommand;
ODBCClass dst1 = new ODBCClass(dns);
queryins = "UPDATE dba.Sala_export_dati_macchina_produzione SET stato='p'";
// +"WHERE id_prd_lav_ord_lav='"+ id_prd_lav_ord_lav + "'";
wCommand = dst1.GetCommand(queryins);
int number = wCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
Console.WriteLine("executed "+ number);
this is the odbc class that i'm using
public class ODBCClass
{
OdbcConnection oConnection;
OdbcCommand oCommand;
public ODBCClass(string DataSourceName)
{
oConnection = new OdbcConnection(DataSourceName);
try
{
oConnection.Open();
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("Connessione stabilita con il database " + DataSourceName);
}
catch (OdbcException caught)
{
System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(caught.Message);
}
}
public void CloseConnection()
{
oConnection.Close();
}
public OdbcCommand GetCommand(string Query)
{
oCommand = new OdbcCommand
{
Connection = oConnection,
CommandText = Query
};
return oCommand;
}
public void Dispose()
{
oConnection.Close();
}
}
EDIT
just in case i've tried to change connection string with this pattern:
#"Driver={SQL Anywhere 11};DatabaseName=my_db_name;EngineName=my_server_name;uid=username;pwd=password;LINKs=tcpip(host=host_ip_address)"
and always the system gave me no error on connection in both cases
Ok guys that was kinda strange.
Let me explain the whole thing. I was doing that program for a customer that asked a software which could link my mysql db and a sybase db of another company.
The problem was that the DBMS of that company when is opened on the server block all kind of external editing to the db with which is connected.
So select query worked regularly but update and insert were blocked by that client...
I've passed 4 day with a perfect working program but that company didn't told me this "little" thing.
So be aware of DBMS they are cruel.

SqlConnection.BeginTransaction(IsolationLevel.ReadUncommitted).Commit();

Folks I ran into a bit of code and I'm a tad confused about whats going on.
I'm working to refactor the code to instead process a handful of SqlCommands rather than the single SqlCommand that it currently works with. It's my hope all SqlCommands can be processed under ONE transaction.
Each SqlCommand is a Stored Procedure, so in effect my transaction would call one (or many) Stored Procedures - first off, is that even possible?
Regardless, here's the code block:
public virtual void Execute()
{
using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
{
SqlCommand storedProcedure = new SqlCommand(BlahBah, conn);
storedProcedure.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
conn.Open();
**conn.BeginTransaction(IsolationLevel.ReadUncommitted).Commit();**
storedProcedure.ExecuteNonQuery();
conn.Close();
}
}
In particular the highlighted statement that sets a Transaction on the Connection object, appended with a ".Commit()".
The actual source code has no ROLLBACK, nor anywhere is there a COMMIT. Am I essentially seeing some sort of AutoCommit? Does it even make sense to have a TRANSACTION here if for example the DB doesn't require TRANSACTIONal processing?
Perhaps more important to my refactoring efforts, would something like this make sense? That's to ask, if I processed 10 Stored Procedures and the last one threw an error, would there be an auto ROLLBACK on all 10?
Here's where I want to land:
public virtual void ExecuteTest()
{
using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ApplicationConfig.DbConnectInfo.ConnectionString))
{
var errorText = string.Empty;
conn.Open();
conn.BeginTransaction(IsolationLevel.ReadUncommitted).Commit();
foreach (var storedProcedure in StoredProcedures)
{
storedProcedure.Connection = conn;
storedProcedure.ExecuteNonQuery();
}
conn.Close();
}
}
EDIT: this MS link suggests the approach will work:
SqlConnection.BeginTransaction Method (IsolationLevel)
Thank you for your interest.

Should you reuse SqlConnection, SqlDataAdapter, and SqlCommand objects?

I'm working with a DAL object that is written in a layout similar to the following code. I simplified a lot of the code code just to show the setup.
public class UserDatabase : IDisposable
{
private SqlDataAdapter UserDbAdapter;
private SqlCommand UserSelectCommand;
private SqlCommand UserInsertCommand;
private SqlCommand UserUpdateCommand;
private SqlCommand UserDeleteCommand;
private System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection SQLConnection;
public UserDatabase()
{
this.SQLConnection = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(ConnectionString);
this.UserDbAdapter= new SqlDataAdapter();
this.UserDbAdapter.DeleteCommand = this.UserDeleteCommand;
this.UserDbAdapter.InsertCommand = this.UserInsertCommand;
this.UserDbAdapter.SelectCommand = this.UserSelectCommand;
this.UserDbAdapter.UpdateCommand = this.UserUpdateCommand;
}
private bool FillUsers(DataSet UserDataSet, out int numberOfRecords)
{
bool success = true;
numberOfRecords = 0;
string errorMsg = null;
this.UserDbAdapter.SelectCommand = this.GetUsersSelectCommand();
numberOfRecords = UserDbAdapter.Fill(UserDataSet, UsersTableName);
return success;
}
private SqlCommand GetUserSelectCommand()
{
if (this.UserSelectCommand==null)
this.UserSelectCommand= new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand();
this.UserSelectCommand.CommandText = "dbo.Users_Select";
this.UserSelectCommand.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure;
this.UserSelectCommand.Connection = this.SQLConnection;
this.UserSelectCommand.Parameters.Clear();
this.UserSelectCommand.Parameters.AddRange(new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter[] {
new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter("#RETURN_VALUE", System.Data.SqlDbType.Variant, 0, System.Data.ParameterDirection.ReturnValue, false, ((byte)(0)), ((byte)(0)), "", System.Data.DataRowVersion.Current, null)});
return UserSelectCommand;
}
There are multiple other Fill type functions that are written the same way reusing the Connection object, SqlCommands, and SqlDataAdapter. The SqlDataAdapter manages opening and closing of the SqlConnection internally.
So my question is multipart. Is this design bad? If so, why?
If it is bad, should it be changed to keeping things in a more local scope like the following:
public bool FillUsers(DataSet UserDataSet)
{
using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString))
{
using (SqlCommand command = GetUsersSelectCommand())
{
using (SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(command, conn))
{
adapter.Fill(UserDataSet, UsersTableName);
}
}
}
}
This would have to be done for all the functions which seems like creating, disposing, and then remaking would be worse than keeping the items around. However this seems to be the setup I see everywhere online.
No, there isn't anything wrong with that. You should dispose your objects that implement IDisposable as soon as you are done with them.
Given a SqlConnection, when you dispose of the connection, the underlying connection will simply be returned to the pool. It's not necessarily "closed" as you might think. It's best to let the connection pool do it's job. Here is a link on MSDN to ADO.NET connection pooling. Trying to make it do things it wasn't designed for (some people call this optimizing, surprisingly) is usually a trip down the rabbit hole.
Also, make sure you have actually measured and observed a problem before trying to optimize it. (and I don't mean this in a harsh way, only to save you time).

Transaction Scope with Entity

I have a windows form application with .NET 4 and Entity Framework for data layer
I need one method with transaction, but making simple tests I couldn't make it work
In BLL:
public int Insert(List<Estrutura> lista)
{
using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope())
{
id = this._dal.Insert(lista);
}
}
In DAL:
public int Insert(List<Estrutura> lista)
{
using (Entities ctx = new Entities (ConnectionType.Custom))
{
ctx.AddToEstrutura(lista);
ctx.SaveChanges(); //<---exception is thrown here
}
}
"The underlying provider failed on Open."
Anyone have any ideas?
PROBLEM RESOLVED - MY SOLUTION
I solved my problem doing some changes.
In one of my DAL I use a Bulk Insert and others Entity.
The problem transaction was occurring by the fact that the bulk of the transaction (transaction sql) do not understand a transaction scope
So I separated the Entity in DAL and used the sql transaction in its running some trivial. ExecuteScalar ();
I believe that is not the most elegant way to do this, but solved my problem transaction.
Here is the code of my DAL
using (SqlConnection sourceConnection = new SqlConnection(Utils.ConnectionString()))
{
sourceConnection.Open();
using (SqlTransaction transaction = sourceConnection.BeginTransaction())
{
StringBuilder query = new StringBuilder();
query.Append("INSERT INTO...");
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(query.ToString(), sourceConnection, transaction);
using (SqlBulkCopy bulk = new SqlBulkCopy(sourceConnection, SqlBulkCopyOptions.KeepNulls, transaction))
{
bulk.BulkCopyTimeout = int.MaxValue;
bulk.DestinationTableName = "TABLE_NAME";
bulk.WriteToServer(myDataTable);
StringBuilder updateQuery = new StringBuilder();
//another simple insert or update can be performed here
updateQuery.Append("UPDATE... ");
command.CommandText = updateQuery.ToString();
command.Parameters.Clear();
command.Parameters.AddWithValue("#SOME_PARAM", DateTime.Now);
command.ExecuteNonQuery();
transaction.Commit();
}
}
}
thanks for the help
According to the all-mighty Google, it seems that EF will open/close connections with each call to a database. Since it's doing that, it will treat the transaction as using multiple connections (using a distributed transaction). The way to get around this is to open and close the connection manually when using it.
Here's the information on the distributed transactions issue.
Here's how to manually open and close the connection.
A small code sample:
public int Insert(List<Estrutura> lista)
{
using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope())
{
using (Entities ctx = new Entities (ConnectionType.Custom))
{
ctx.Connection.Open()
id = this._dal.Insert(ctx, lista);
}
}
}
public int Insert(Entities ctx, List<Estrutura> lista)
{
ctx.AddToEstrutura(lista);
ctx.SaveChanges();
}
Instead of employing TransactionScope, it is better to employ UnitOfWork pattern while working with entity framework. please refer to:
unit of work pattern
and also;
unit of work and persistance ignorance

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