Concurrency violation updating a SQL database with a dataadapter - sql

Question

I'm having some trouble updating changes I made to a datatable via a dataadapter. I am getting "Concurrency violation: the UpdateCommand affected 0 of 10 rows"
'Get data
Dim Docs_DistributedTable As New DataTable("Docs_Distributed")
Dim sql = "SELECT DISTINCT CompanyID, SortKey, OutputFileID, SequenceNo, DeliveredDate, IsDeliveryCodeCounted, USPS_Scanned FROM Docs_Distributed_Test"
Using sqlCmd As New SqlCommand(sql, conn)
sqlCmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text
Docs_DistributedTable.Load(sqlCmd.ExecuteReader)
End Using
'Make various updates to some records in DataTable.
'Update the Database
Dim sql As String = "UPDATE Docs_Distributed "
sql += "SET DeliveredDate = #DeliveredDate "
sql += "WHERE SequenceNo = #SequenceNo"
Using transaction As SqlTransaction = conn.BeginTransaction("ProcessConfirm")
Try
Using da As New SqlDataAdapter
da.UpdateCommand = conn.CreateCommand()
da.UpdateCommand.Transaction = transaction
da.UpdateCommand.CommandText = sql
da.UpdateCommand.Parameters.Add("#DeliveredDate", SqlDbType.DateTime).SourceColumn = "DeliveredDate"
da.UpdateCommand.Parameters.Add("#SequenceNo", SqlDbType.Int).SourceColumn = "SequenceNo"
da.ContinueUpdateOnError = False
da.Update(Docs_DistributedTable)
End Using
transaction.Commit()
Catch ex As Exception
transaction.Rollback()
End Try
End Using
Now here's the catch. I am selecting DISTINCT records and essentially getting one row per SequenceNo. There may be many rows with the same SequenceNo, and I am hoping this will update them all. I'm not sure if this is related to my problem or not.

Answer 1

Your select is from "Docs_Distributed_Test" and your update is to "Docs_Distributed" - this may be the cause of your issue. Are the sequence ID's the same? (If not then perhaps it is indeed affecting 0 rows with it's update).
Other than that, you can always disable optimistic concurrency on your table-adapter and it will no longer enforce the validation (Though in this case that would likely result in no error but not updating any rows).

Answer 2

I don't understand the Microsoft-specific aspects of this, plus VB is often hard to follow. But this sequence seems suspect:
Using transaction As SqlTransaction = conn.BeginTransaction("ProcessConfirm")
Try
Using da As New SqlDataAdapter
da.UpdateCommand = conn.CreateCommand()
da.UpdateCommand.Transaction = transaction
conn.BeginTransaction is followed by conn.CreateCommand(). Isn't that a) useless, b) hazardous to the connection state, or c) potentially a race condition?