Mapping User Login and Database Roles to Existing User

Error:
User, group, or role 'xxx' already exists in the current database. (.Net SqlClient Data Provider)

Explanation:
This error happens when you try to add user mapping to the server logins using username which already exists in the database to be assigned.

In my case, the user exists in both server logins and database logins, but the user mapping and database roles on the server logins for this user cannot be modified although the user mapping is incorrect, because it already exists on the database logins.

Solution:
Run this script to update the user mapping accordingly.

USE <database_name>
EXEC sp_change_Users_login 'update_one', '<login_username>', '<login_username>'

This will update the user mapping and database roles on server logins to follow the ones on the database logins.

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Current Transaction Cannot be Committed

Error:
The current transaction cannot be committed and cannot support operations that write to the log file. Roll back the transaction.

This error occurs when you try to perform other operations when any transaction fails in try catch section, soon after it goes to catch section.

Solution:
You have to ROLLBACK first on the catch section before doing any other operations.

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Directory Lookup Failed on SQL Server

When executing script on SQL server, this error occurs:
Directory lookup for the file <filepath> failed with the operating system error 2(The system cannot find the file specified.)

Directory lookup for the file <filepath> failed with the operating system error 3(The system cannot find the path specified.)

Solution:
Check the directory used in the SQL script. Make sure that the directory used in the SQL script point to the server location, if the script is not directly executed from the server.

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Parameter Sniffing

Parameter sniffing has a weird symptom which can take your hours to find out what actually is happening. The stored procedure you created is running on one side, but when you deploy it on another machine or server, it never ends executing despite the fact that everything is the same.

This problem usually occurs when the query contains LIKE condition. However, it is not limited to this case. Query without LIKE condition can also face this problem.

For example, here is the normal stored procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.spr_GetData
@Parameter1 INT,
@Parameter2 VARCHAR(200)
AS
SELECT *
FROM dbo.Table1
WHERE Column1 = @Parameter1
AND Column2 LIKE '%' + @Parameter2 + '%'

To avoid parameter sniffing, there is a need to create new variables to store the values fetched from the parameters.

CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.spr_GetData
@Parameter1 INT,
@Parameter2 VARCHAR(200)
AS

DECLARE
@DummyParameter1 INT = @Parameter1,
@DummyParameter2 VARCHAR(200) = @Parameter2

SELECT *
FROM dbo.Table1
WHERE Column1 = @DummyParameter1
AND Column2 LIKE '%' + @DummyParameter2 + '%'

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Error Converting Data Type Int to Nvarchar

Error: Error converting data type int to nvarchar

This error occurs when a stored procedure which returns a value is used.

e.g

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[spr_SP1]
@ColA INT,
@AutoID INT OUTPUT
AS
BEGIN
 INSERT INTO TableA ( ColA )
 VALUES ( @ColA )

 SELECT @AutoID = SCOPE_IDENTITY();
END

When adding the parameter to the command on the code, usually the code used is:

command.Parameters.AddWithValue("@AutoID", System.DBNull.Value)
command.Parameters("@AutoID").Size = 4
command.Parameters("@AutoID").Direction = ParameterDirection.Output

However, this portion of code would possibly cause error during deployment. To avoid the error, use the code below instead:

Dim param = New System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter()
param.ParameterName = "@AutoID"
param.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output
param.Size = 8
command.Parameters.Add(param)

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An Error Occurred While Parsing EntityName

Error: An Error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 17, position 211.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Xml.XmlException: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 17, position 211.

Source error: responseXml.LoadXml(response)

This error occurs because there is an ampersand (&) in the returned XML command.

Solution: Use “and” or other conjunctions instead of ampersand (&). Another option is to replace the string containing & with "%26".

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