Question

I searched a lot, but could not find the solution.

I get the error:

Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, or foreign-key constraints.

I run DataTable.GetErrors() and see that some columns are set to Not NULL in SQL Compact Edition Database. And these columns are used in LEFT OUTER JOIN query so they are null when the query is run. (I can get the results when i run the query in Server Explorer in VS).
The error occurs when trying to load the data in Datatable:

using (SqlCeCommand Cmd = new SqlCeCommand("Query HERE", "Connection HERE"))
                {
                    C.Open();
                    using (SqlCeDataReader Rdr = Cmd.ExecuteReader())
                    {
                        DataTable DT = new DataTable();
                        DT.Load(Rdr);
                        return DT;
                    }
                }

I tried so many solutions to overcome this however i was not able to solve it. I know about “EnforceConstraints” however as i do not use any dataset, i can not change that property.

Answer 1

I managed to solve this by getting the schema of the table, iterating through the rows of the schema table (which are columns of the actual table) and creating a column with same properties as the schema column (only difference is setting new column’s AllowDBNull to true and Unique and AutoIncrement to false) and finally adding the new column to a fresh datatable which will later be filled with data of our actual table (by the help of a DataReader to get only data and not the schema).

Here is the code:

using (SqlCeConnection C = new SqlCeConnection(DBStr))
            using (Cmd)
            {   //using SqlCeCommand
                Cmd.Connection = C;
                C.Open();
                using (SqlCeDataReader Rdr = Cmd.ExecuteReader())
                {
                    //Create datatable to hold schema and data seperately
                    //Get schema of our actual table
                    DataTable DTSchema = Rdr.GetSchemaTable();
                    DataTable DT = new DataTable();
                    if (DTSchema != null)
                        if (DTSchema.Rows.Count > 0)
                            for (int i = 0; i < DTSchema.Rows.Count; i++)
                            {
                                //Create new column for each row in schema table
                                //Set properties that are causing errors and add it to our datatable
                                //Rows in schema table are filled with information of columns in our actual table
                                DataColumn Col = new DataColumn(DTSchema.Rows[i]["ColumnName"].ToString(), (Type)DTSchema.Rows[i]["DataType"]);
                                Col.AllowDBNull = true;
                                Col.Unique = false;
                                Col.AutoIncrement = false;
                                DT.Columns.Add(Col);
                            }

                    while (Rdr.Read())
                    {
                        //Read data and fill it to our datatable
                        DataRow Row = DT.NewRow();
                        for (int i = 0; i < DT.Columns.Count; i++)
                        {
                            Row[i] = Rdr[i];
                        }
                        DT.Rows.Add(Row);
                    }
                    //This is our datatable filled with data
                    return DT;
                }
            }