Tag: Database

Unable to Migrate after Adding Config to Startup

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post on fixing up a migration error after I added new config to startup.cs via DI. The error after running add-migration was pretty unintuitive:

Unable to create an object of type 'ApplicationDbContext'. For the different patterns supported at design time, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=851728

To find out a bit more I ran the following:

add-migration -verbose

This revealed the fact that there was an issue with adding my config line. The error stated that I had to have an empty constructor which led me on a bit of a wild goose chase.

The solution was simply a missed entry in application.json. In my case it was an omitted “assembly” section. Having said that, I did come across a few instances where people had the same problem when omitting commas etc.

Hopefully that’s able to get you on the right track!

Thanks,
Chris

this.query is not a function – error when using promisify with mysql

Hi everyone,

I ran into the following error while attempting to promisify my node.js mysql transactions:

TypeError: this.query is not a function
    at rollback (/var/task/node_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:179:15)
    at rollback (internal/util.js:230:26)

This took a while to track down but it turns out that I needed to bind the connection after promisifying the function. Instead of:

util.promisify(connection.query);

Add bind to the end of it:

util.promisify(connection.query).bind(connection)

Thanks to the following stackoverflow post for the insight: https://stackoverflow.com/a/51690276/522859

Create DynamoDB Table – AWS CLI

Hi everyone,

A quick example of how to create a dynamodb table using the AWS CLI:

aws dynamodb create-table --table-name CatBreeds --attribute-definitions AttributeName=CatBreedId,AttributeType=S --key-schema AttributeName=CatBreedId,KeyType=HASH --provisioned-throughput ReadCapacityUnits=5,WriteCapacityUnits=5

For more info the following AWS page helped me: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/dynamodb/create-table.html

No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘System.Data.SqlClient’ – MVC5

Hey everyone,

Just an error I came across while trying to use a new solution project:

No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘System.Data.SqlClient’

The fix for this was simply to run the following command in the package manager console:

PM> Install-Package EntityFramework

Thanks to StackOverflow for the details: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18642452/522859

Reserved Words – Oracle

Just a quick post on how to check if a word is reserved using the v$reserved_words:

SELECT *
FROM v$reserved_words
WHERE reserved = 'Y'

Alernatively you can specify the word, i.e. to check if online is a reserved word, run the following:

SELECT *
FROM v$reserved_words
WHERE UPPER(keyword) LIKE '%ONLINE%'