Is rowversion not a valid data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2? Bonus Chatter i'm trying to add a rowversion column to a table: But when i try to leave the "Data Type" column, SQL Serve...

I'll keep this short and sweet. I am trying to add a column of type rowversion to an existing table. My thought was that by adding it as NULL, existing rows wouldn't be stamped with a timestamp, bu...

I'm trying to make RowVersion work properly both on SqLite and SqlServer with easy query on the rowversion column. To be able to do that I need to convert the rowversion column to ulong instead of ...

I am using Entity Framework 6 with PostgreSQL. I have an entity in which I want to prevent concurrency issues, following this documentation I added a RowVersion property with [Timestamp] attribute,...

I've run into a case where something that worked fairly well with LINQ to SQL seems to be very obtuse (or maybe impossible) with the Entity Framework. Specifically, I've got an entity that includes...

I am migrating a SQL Server database schema over to MySQL. Some of the tables on SQL Server have a column of type rowversion. This is an integer value that is set when the row is first inserted and...

What is the proper type for the rowversion (timestamp) data type? I know it is 8 bytes but i cannot find a link in MSDN which tell if it is a signed or unsigned long. which code should I use, doe...

I get the result in .NET like this: var lastRowVersion = SqlHelper.ExecuteScalar(connStr, CommandType.Text, "select top 1 rowversion from dbo.sdb_x_orginfo order by rowversion desc"); The result...

How should I compare rowversion fields using Entity Framework? I have one table which has a rowversion column, I want to get data from tables for which the row version is higher than specified valu...

Does Oracle has similar datatype to SQL Server's RowVersion? When you insert or update a row, the corresponding Version column(which is of type RowVersion) gets updated automatically. MSDN says abo...

Is there a built-in row-versioning mechanism for MySQL? Something similar to the 'timestamp' column in MS SqlServer.

I plan to add to most tables in my DB rowversion to track changes in those tables. I know that adding it will affect performance of queries. Does anyone knows if it affect performance a little bit...

I am working on an MVC3 application. My client side ViewModel contains a SQL Server RowVersion property, which is a byte[]. It is rendered as an Object array on the client side. When I attempt to p...

My project uses EF (tested with version 4 using self-tracking template and with version 5 using default templates, all database-first) against SQL Server 2012. The database tables have each a rowve...

I know that the value itself for a RowVersion column is not in and of itself useful, except that it changes each time the row is updated. However, I was wondering if they are useful for relative (i...

We're troubleshooting a sort of Sync Framework between two SQL Server databases, in separate servers (both SQL Server 2008 Enterprise 64 bits SP2 - 10.0.4000.0), through linked server connections, ...

I am using Miscrosoft SQL Server 2012 and because in this article is said: The timestamp syntax is deprecated. This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid us...

From msdn Each database has a counter that is incremented for each insert or update operation that is performed on a table that contains a rowversion column within the database. Also To ...

I have a table in SQL Server, where i want inserts to be added to the end of the table (as opposed to a clustering key that would cause them to be inserted in the middle). This means I want the tab...

If a table has a rowversion column in it and you make an update to that row, the value of the rowversion column increases. I know that this is by design and the purpose of rowversion columns, howev...