Windows hosting with GoDaddy is a royal PITA.

At least the shared stuff is. I’ve spent at least four hours today trying to get my SQL 2005 database configured on their server. Since they don’t allow remote access through SQL Server Management Studio, I’ve been forced to use their not-so-powerful web-based administration tool. Compounding that is the fact that I used to have references between two different databases on my local server that I now need to merge into a single monolithic database, I’m not a happy camper.

As part of this process I’ve had to populate a bunch of tables with application-specific values. After wrestling with the crappy CSV import function that GoDaddy gave me I decided to write my own little tool to generate SQL INSERT statements for the data in my tables. Since WordPress won’t let me upload it, here’s the code:

/*
 * Created by SharpDevelop.
 * User: smeans
 * Date: 5/6/2008
 * Time: 11:58 AM
 *
 * To change this template use Tools | Options | Coding | Edit Standard Headers.
 */
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.IO;

namespace sql2insert
{
  class sql2insert
  {
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      foreach (string dsn in args) {
        Console.WriteLine("writing files to " + System.Environment.CurrentDirectory);

        using (SqlConnection cn = new SqlConnection(args[0])) {
          cn.Open();

          DataTable dt = cn.GetSchema("Tables");

          foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows) {
            for (int i = 0; i < dt.Columns.Count; i++) {
              if (((string)row[3]).Equals("BASE TABLE")) {
                dumpTable(cn, (string)row[2]);
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }

   static void dumpTable(SqlConnection cn, string tableName) {
     SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(String.Format("SELECT * FROM [{0}]", tableName), cn);

     SqlDataReader sdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();

     if (sdr.HasRows) {
       Console.WriteLine("writing data for table " + tableName);

       using (TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(String.Format("{0}.sql", tableName))) {
         tw.WriteLine(String.Format("SET IDENTITY_INSERT [{0}] ON", tableName));
         tw.WriteLine("GO\\r\\n");

         StringBuilder sbCols = new StringBuilder();

         for (int i = 0; i < sdr.FieldCount; i++) {
          switch (sdr.GetFieldType(i).ToString()) {
             case "System.Byte[]": {
             } break;
             default: {
              if (sbCols.Length > 0) {
                sbCols.Append(", ");
              }

              sbCols.Append(String.Format("[{0}]", sdr.GetName(i)));
             } break;
          }
         }

         tw.WriteLine();

         while (sdr.Read()) {
           tw.Write(String.Format("INSERT INTO [{0}] ({1}) VALUES (", tableName, sbCols.ToString()));

           for (int i = 0; i < sdr.FieldCount; i++) {
            if (sdr.IsDBNull(i)) {
               if (i > 0) {
                tw.Write(',');
               }

               tw.Write("null");
            } else {
             switch (sdr.GetFieldType(i).ToString()) {
             case "System.Int32": {
               if (i > 0) {
                tw.Write(',');
               }

               tw.Write(sdr[i].ToString());
             } break;

             case "System.Decimal": {
               if (i > 0) {
                tw.Write(',');
               }

               tw.Write(sdr[i].ToString());
             } break;

             case "System.Byte[]": {
             } break;

             case "System.DateTime": {
               if (i > 0) {
                tw.Write(',');
               }

               tw.Write(String.Format("'{0}'", ((DateTime)sdr[i]).ToString("M/d/yyyy h:m:s tt")));
             } break;

             default: {
               if (i > 0) {
                tw.Write(',');
               }

              tw.Write(String.Format("'{0}'", sdr[i].ToString().Replace("\\'", "\\'\\'")));
             } break;
             }
           }
           }

           tw.WriteLine(")\\r\\nGO");
         }

         tw.WriteLine(String.Format("SET IDENTITY_INSERT [{0}] OFF", tableName));
         tw.WriteLine("GO\\r\\n");

         tw.Close();
       }
     }

     sdr.Close();
   }
}
}