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During my recents projects in Kentico 8.1, I had to tack together the search engine to own search fields on the web site. The search engine included in Kentico is Lucene, a full text search engine supported physical files indexes. For every web site, you wish to build on rebuild basis the different search indexes you define in Kentico. During this case, I assumed that the regular Task "Optimize search indexes", defined by default in Kentico, was doing this calculation of search indexes. My assumption was wrong, there's actually no regular task doing the index rebuilding.

So, because we did not wish to log every night to my sites to launch manually each index rebuilding, I enforced my own scheduled task for doing it, here is the source code :

using System;
using CMS.EventLog;
using CMS.Scheduler;
using CMS.SiteProvider;
using System.Data;
namespace MyProject.Services.ScheduledTasks
{
    public class SmartSearchReIndexTask: ITask
    {
        private const string Name = "SmartSearchReIndexTask";
        public string Execute(TaskInfo task)
        {
            var response = " Reindexing smart search updated successfully.";
            const string eventCode = "Smart Search Execution";           
           try
            {
                //retrieve Planet search indexes
                EventLogProvider.LogInformation(Name, eventCode, "Start reindexing");
                DataSet indexes = SearchIndexInfoProvider.GetSearchIndexes("IndexName LIKE N'MyProject%'", null);
                if (indexes != null)
                {
                    foreach (DataTable table in indexes.Tables)
                   {
                        foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
                        {
                            //create a reindex task for that search index                            
SearchIndexInfo searchIndexInfo = SearchIndexInfoProvider.GetSearchIndexInfo(Convert.ToInt32(row.ItemArray[0]));  
//row.ItemArray[0] is the SearchIndex ID
                            if (searchIndexInfo != null)
                            {
                                SearchTaskInfoProvider.CreateTask(SearchTaskTypeEnum.Rebuild, searchIndexInfo.IndexType, null, searchIndexInfo.IndexName);                               
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
                                EventLogProvider.LogInformation(Name, eventCode, string.Format("Recalculating the index: {0}", searchIndexInfo.IndexName));
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                EventLogProvider.LogInformation(Name, eventCode, response);               
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
           {
                response = "Error reindexing smart search . Check the event log for more information.";
                EventLogProvider.LogException(Name, eventCode, ex);
            }
            return response;
        }
    }
}

Put this code in a library, put this library in the bin folder of your Kentico 8.1 site and then configure a new custom task.

Today, I am going to tell you how to replace the special characters in a string with spaces. In this case, I need to use PATINDEX.

PATINDEX
It will returns the starting position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a specified expression, or zeros if the pattern is not found, on all valid text and character data types. And this is the code that I used:
PATINDEX ( '%pattern%' , expression )

Example:
DECLARE @Str varchar(100)
SET @Str='Welcome!@+to+#$%SQL+^&*(SERVER)_+'
SELECT PATINDEX('%SQL%', @Str)

Here is the result from that code:

Remove Special Characters from String in SQL Server DECLARE @regexp INT
DECLARE @Str varchar(100)
SET @Str='Welcome!@+to+#$%SQL+^&*(SERVER)_+   '
SET @regexp = PATINDEX('%[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]%', @Str)
WHILE @regexp > 0
BEGIN
SET @Str = STUFF(@Str, @regexp, 1, ' ' )
SET @regexp = PATINDEX('%[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]%', @Str)
Print @regexp
END
SELECT @Str

Result:

STUFF
This STUFF function inserts a string into another string. It deletes a specified length of characters in the first string at the start position and then inserts the second string into the first string at the start position. This is the code:
STUFF ( character_expression , start , length , replaceWith_expression )

Example:
DECLARE @regexp INT
DECLARE @Str varchar(100)
SET @Str='welcome to sql server'
SET @Str = STUFF(@Str, 1, 1, '@' )
Select @str 

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Sometimes you’ll get this error message that you’ll get after installing Umbraco:

The virtual path ‘/install/steps/welcome.ascx’ maps to another application, which is not allowed.

This is because you have installed Umbraco in a virtual directory (not at the web root of the “Default Web Site” in IIS terminology). It is a path problem, easily corrected by fixing the paths in the web.config file.

In the example below, you can see that Umbraco is installed in a virtual directory called “umbraco” which is a child of the Default Web Site. This will cause the standard paths to be incorrect. This installation was done with Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer, which does not appear to correct for the problem.

Here is a copy of the appsettings portion of web.config file (located inside the umbraco folder) with the paths corrected for the folder configuration shown above. Just open it up and edit it with notepad to fix.

<appSettings>
<add key="umbracoDbDSN" value="datalayer=SqlServer;server=server;database=db;user id=dbuser;password=password" />
<add key="umbracoConfigurationStatus" />
<add key="umbracoReservedUrls"
value="/umbraco/config/splashes/booting.aspx,/umbraco/install/default.aspx,/umbraco/config/splashes/noNodes.aspx" />
<add key="umbracoReservedPaths" value="/umbraco/umbraco/,/umbraco/install/" />
<add key="umbracoContentXML" value="/umbraco/data/umbraco.config" />
<add key="umbracoStorageDirectory" value="/umbraco/data" />
<add key="umbracoPath" value="/umbraco/umbraco" />
<add key="umbracoEnableStat" value="false" />
<add key="umbracoHideTopLevelNodeFromPath" value="true" />
<add key="umbracoEditXhtmlMode" value="true" />
<add key="umbracoUseDirectoryUrls" value="false" />
<add key="umbracoDebugMode" value="true" />
<add key="umbracoTimeOutInMinutes" value="20" />
<add key="umbracoVersionCheckPeriod" value="7" />
<add key="umbracoDisableXsltExtensions" value="true" />
<add key="umbracoDefaultUILanguage" value="en" />
<add key="umbracoProfileUrl" value="profiler" />
<add key="umbracoUseSSL" value="false" />
<add key="umbracoUseMediumTrust" value="false" />
</appSettings>

When you have performance problems in your MSSQL database, one of the first thing you must to verify is that the fragmentation. When the fragmentation is high, SQL Server has got the chance to both reorganize or rebuild indexes. You are able to detect index fragmentation by making use of Dynamic Management View (DMV) sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats and verify the avg_fragmentation_in_percent column.

Use [MyDB];
SELECT a.index_id, name, avg_fragmentation_in_percent
FROM sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats (DB_ID(), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) AS a
   JOIN sys.indexes AS b ON a.object_id = b.object_id
AND a.index_id = b.index_id
ORDER BY avg_fragmentation_in_percent DESC;

When the value avg_fragmentation_in_percent in among 5% and 30% you ought to perform a reorganize of your indexes, not really a total rebuild. A rebuild you simply need invoked when the fragmentation percentage is more than 30%. No action ought to be taken when the fragmentation proportion is lower than 5% and that is a standard level of fragmentation.

The code below can rebuild all indexes with default fill factor:
Use [MyDB];
EXEC sp_MSforeachtable
  @command1="print '?'",
  @command2="ALTER INDEX ALL ON ? REBUILD WITH (ONLINE=OFF)"

Hope this code will helps you!

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As the majority of you will know, an index can enhance the performance of the query most of the time ; internally sql server has to carry out lots of function to keep these indexes in SQL Server 2014. When I started a brand new occupation, I arrived to discover lots of indexes were developed for a few in our production tables. Thus I made a decision to get yourself a script which returns the indexes that’s not active.

Note : it uses the dmv’s so, this isn't a fairly accurate query. However you could use this like a start and apply reasonable just before running the drop index statement.
SELECT  DB_NAME() AS database_name ,
        S.name AS [schema_name] ,
        O.name AS [object_name] ,
        C.name AS column_name ,
        I.name AS index_name ,
        ( CASE WHEN I.is_disabled = 1 THEN 'Yes'
                ELSE 'No'
           END ) AS [disabled] ,
        ( CASE WHEN I.is_hypothetical = 1 THEN 'Yes'
                ELSE 'No'
            END ) AS hypothetical ,
        rows = (SELECT SUM(p.rows) FROM sys.partitions p WHERE p.index_id = i.index_id
                        AND p.object_id = i.object_id GROUP BY p.index_id, p.OBJECT_ID),
        N'USE ' + DB_NAME() + N'; DROP INDEX ' + QUOTENAME(i.name) + ' ON ' + QUOTENAME(s.name) +
                    '.' + QUOTENAME(OBJECT_NAME(i.OBJECT_ID)) AS 'drop statement'
FROM    [sys].[indexes] I
       INNER JOIN [sys].[objects] O ON O.[object_id] = I.[object_id]
                                       AND O.[type] = 'U'
                                        AND O.is_ms_shipped = 0
                                        AND O.name <> 'sysdiagrams'
        INNER JOIN [sys].[tables] T ON T.[object_id] = I.[object_id]
        INNER JOIN [sys].[schemas] S ON S.[schema_id] = T.[schema_id]
        INNER JOIN [sys].[index_columns] IC ON IC.[object_id] = I.[object_id]
                                                AND IC.index_id = I.index_id
        INNER JOIN [sys].[columns] C ON C.[object_id] = IC.[object_id]
                                        AND C.column_id = IC.column_id
WHERE   I.[type] > 0
        AND I.is_primary_key = 0
        AND I.is_unique_constraint = 0
        AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT *
                            FROM   [sys].[index_columns] XIC
                                INNER JOIN [sys].[foreign_key_columns] FKC ON FKC.parent_object_id =
IC.[object_id]
                                                    AND FKC.parent_column_id = XIC.column_id
                            WHERE  XIC.[object_id] = I.[object_id]
                               AND XIC.index_id = I.index_id )
        AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT *
                            FROM   [master].[sys].[dm_db_index_usage_stats] IUS
                            WHERE  IUS.database_id = DB_ID(DB_NAME())
                                AND IUS.[object_id] = I.[object_id]
                                AND IUS.index_id = I.index_id )

Today, I will write an article about How to add My Control token to my new skin in DotNetNuke. I did this job by editing database. Afrer uploading my new control I have to change manualy skin.ascx file every time I did a few changes.

Manual method in VisualStudio. NET :
1. First, You must go to directory of parrsed skin bundle inside the Solution Explorer and Refresh Folder

2. Now change the skin.ascx file to add control registration at the top:
<%@ Register TagPrefix=”dnn” TagName=”SIMPLECONTROL” Src=”~/DesktopModules/SimpleControl/SimpleControl.ascx” %>

3. Then, you can add your control to where you want it to be:
<dnn:SIMPLECONTROL ID=”SIMPLECONTROL1″ runat=”server” />

Simple method could be adding an easy token SIMPLECONTROL to skin. htm file, therefore the token could be parsed in to skin. ascx every time you reparse a skin package. To allow this DotNetNuke function you can allow it inside the Admin. In case your version of DotNetNuke doesn't have this choice, you are able to merely add 1 line to some database.

1. First we have to understand a PackageID that many of us discover inside the Packages table. Click Show Data Table upon the Packages table and scroll right all the way down to the place you’ll discover your uploaded module package. Inside my case the PackageID was 84.

2. Next Step, you only got to open up SkinControls table and add this control token definition by adding this values :
PackageID = 84
ControlKey : SIMPLECONTROL
ControlSrc :/DesktopModules/SimpleControl/SimpleControl. Ascx
SupportPartialrendering : False

Tokens are actualy values hidden in SkinControls table.