Please help

When i try to open ThePhileVB in the browser window i get the following message

Could not find stored procedure 'sp_Polls_GetCurrentQuestionID'

please help becasue it is driving me mad

It's in the database backup file in the code download. You need to restore this to create all of the objects.

CREATE PROCEDURE sp_Polls_GetCurrentQuestionID
@QuestionID int OUTPUT
AS

SELECT @QuestionID = QuestionID
    FROM Polls_Questions
    WHERE IsCurrentQuestion = 1 AND Archived = 0

IF @QuestionID IS NULL
    SET @QuestionID = -1
GO

I have the procedure in my project but get the same message?
I'll try restoring from the code download anyway

tried this no difference. Must be something obvious I'm
missing? Should've bought a book with the samples on a CD. :(

You must not have restored the database from the backup file named "thephile-database-backup" dated 1/17/2003. I restored my DB from that file and I got the SP I showed you, along with the others.
  You will NOT get it by rebuilding your database from the script named ThePhile.sql. The script was not updated when the DB backup file was updated. This is why a code download is better than a CDROM - a CDROM can't be updated after the book ships.

Eric

Johno,

See my posting in the thread "SQL Server does not exist or access denied". Maybe you don't have a proper user account that has permission to access the objects. Create your own user like my message explains, then use that user in your connection string.

Eric

Hello,

Is the proc owned by dbo? If not, you'll have to prefix the stored procedure name in code with the owner name.

Brian

Im having this same problem I've added the ASPNET account to SQL Server and gave it access to the database. I also went into the permissions of the ASPNET login on the database itself and see nothing but empty checkboxes so I check the one relevant to this stored procedure and still get the error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Does the error say "Could not find stored procedure 'sp_Polls_GetCurrentQuestionID'"?
Go into Enterpise Manager, drill down to ThePhile database, open the Stored Procedures node, and try to find this procedure. If you find it, right click on it and select properties. You should see the text I posted in an earlier message.

If you don't see the procedure in Enterpise Manager, it's because you didn't restore from the database backup file, like I also described in a previous message.

Eric

I restored from the most recent version of the code download thephile-backup and the stored procedure is there