I'm creating a Grails 3 app with some tables from my Oracle 12c database scaffolded and while so far everything went fast, I came across one problematic table which doesn't have an ID column. It's just four VARCHAR2's. Also, in the Constraints tab of the Oracle SQL Developer, I don't see any of them defined as the Primary Key. How should one progress in such a scenario to successfully create a CRUD for this class?
I've tried telling Grails to use the row id as an ID but this only results in a "getLong not implemented for class oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CRowidAccessor" error when I try accessing the (to-be) scaffolded page. My code looks like this:
class AliasFrequencyDict {
String frequency
String unit
String description
String lang
static constraints = {
frequency maxSize: 10, sqlType: 'VARCHAR2'
unit maxSize: 1, sqlType: 'VARCHAR2'
description maxSize: 30, sqlType: 'VARCHAR2'
lang maxSize: 2, sqlType: 'VARCHAR2'
}
static mapping = {
sort 'frequency'
version false
id column: 'ROWID'
}
}
How should I solve this if I don't have an explicit ID column and I am not allowed to create one?
EDIT: So the only way I was able to progress so far was to use a composite key consisting of all the columns and then manually change the index view so that instead of this:
<f:table collection="${aliasFrequencyDict}" />
we now have this:
<f:table collection="${aliasFrequencyDictList}" properties="['frequency','unit','description','lang']"/>
This, however, doesn't let me access any of the existing entries or add new ones, as I guess I'd have to manually specify these properties there, too. It doesn't seem like it's nearly as easy to explicitly state them in the edit view, for example, as it is in the index, though (or to make the editing actually work, on top of that).
EDIT2: Also, from what I gathered, using ROWID isn't a good idea anyway. Oracle docs state:
Although you can use the ROWID pseudocolumn in the SELECT and WHERE
clause of a query, these pseudocolumn values are not actually stored
in the database. You cannot insert, update, or delete a value of the
ROWID pseudocolumn.
Thus, I'm out of ideas about how to progress :( Any help?
Ok so I've tried a number of different ways which work some times and don't others so I'd rly like to find out the sure fire way to ensure this process works correctly.
I have 4 tables with 1 table storing the other 3 tables Id upon each page submit.
Table One is created at the same time as table Two with table two being the form table and one just being a way to connect all 4 together
One O = new One();
_db.Twos.AddObject(T);
O.TId = T.Id;
_db.Ones.AddObject(O);
_db.SaveChanges();
this works but the other 2 tables have issues with 3 working and 4 breaking even with the same code as 3.
1 solution that I'd hate to use would be to pass each table via session or a model object right till the end and then submit them all together but that would open it up to more problems I think.
Edit-
I'm not exactly sure what else I can add but the basic problem is I have 1 core table with 3 sub tables and new records gets created in each table at different times.
3 saves
1st = new core record + 1 new sub table record - works
2nd = update core record + 1 new sub table record - works
3rd = update core record + 1 new sub table record - breaks
2nd/3rd save example code with Th being the table object passed in which represents the 3rd table and O being the core table as shown in the code near the top
O.Three = Th;
_db.SaveChanges();
This correctly pulls the ID and saves it to the core table on the 2nd save but not on the 3rd save even tho it's the same code and the tables have the same connections.
Each pull - OId being the Core tables Id so each table knows where to save too.
public ActionResult Three(int OId, FormCollection fc)
Each Push
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Three(Three Th, FormCollection fc)
As nothing else but the references changes I think thats about it else which is relevant since everything it basically date/time assignments to table values which then get checked if ModelState.IsValid before it trys to save changes.
I've also tried to use UpdateModel but that hasn't worked either so anybody know of any other solutions for this ?
The id from the database for T.id in the line O.TId = T.Id; will not be relevant at that point in your code. You must call saveChanges(); for the id to be fed into the object.
Try:
One O = new One();
_db.Twos.AddObject(T);
_db.SaveChanges();
O.TId = T.Id;
_db.Ones.AddObject(O);
_db.SaveChanges();
jqGrid has employee name and employee id columns.
If employee name has changed, server validate method should called to validate name. Current row columns should be updated from data returned by this method.
If employee id has changed, server validate method should called to validate id.
Current row columns should be updated from data returned by this method.
Preferably jqGrid should stay in edit mode so that user has possibility to continue changing, accept or reject changes.
How to implement this in inline and form editing?
I'm thinking about following possibilites:
Possibility 1.
Use editrules with custom validator like
editrules = new
{
custom = true,
custom_func = function(value, colname) { ??? }
},
Issues: How to get data from all columns, make sync or async call and update columns with this call results.
Possibility 2.
Require user to press Enter key to save row.
Issues: how to find which column was changed and pass this column number to server.
How to update current row data from server response.
Possibility 3.
using blur as described in Oleg great answer in
jqgrid change cell value and stay in edit mode
Issues: blur does not fire if data is entered and enter is pressed immediately. How to apply blur in this case ?
In summary server sice calculation/validation should be dones as follows:
If column in changed and focus moved out or enter is pressed in changed column to save, server side sync or if not possible then async method should be called. Changed column name and current edited row values like in edit method are passed as parameters to this method.
This method returns new values for edited row. current edited row values should be replaced with values returned by that method.
Update
Oleg answer assumes that primary key is modified. This factor is not important. Here is new version of question without primary keys and other updates:
jqGrid has product barcode and product name columns.
If product name has changed, server validate method should called to validate name. Current row columns should be updated from data returned by this method.
If product barcode has changed, server validate method should called to validate product barcode.
Current row columns should be updated from data returned by this method.
jqGrid should stay in edit mode so that user has possibility to continue changing, accept or reject changes.
How to implement this in inline and form editing?
I'm thinking about following possibilites:
Possibility 1.
Use editrules with custom validator like
editrules = new
{
custom = true,
custom_func = function(value, colname) { ??? }
},
Issue: custom_func does not fire if input element loses focus. It is called before save for all elements. So it cannot used.
Possibility 2.
Require user to press Enter key to save row.
Issues: how to find which column was changed and pass this column number to server.
Save method should known column (name or barcode change order) and fill different columns. This looks not reasonable.
Possibility 3.
using blur:
colModel: [{"label":"ProductCode","name":"ProductCode","editoptions":{
"dataEvents":[
{"type":"focus","fn":function(e) { ischanged=false}},
{"type":"change","fn":function(e) {ischanged=true}},
{"type":"keydown","fn":function(e) {ischanged=true }},
{"type":"blur","fn":function(e) { if(ischanged) validate(e)} }
]},
To implement validate I found code from Oleg great answer in
jqgrid change cell value and stay in edit mode
Summary of requirement:
If column in changed and focus moved out or enter is pressed in changed column to save, server side sync or if not possible then async method should be called. Changed column name and current edited row values like in edit method are passed as parameters to this method.
This method returns new values for edited row. current edited row values should be replaced with values returned by that method.
Update2
This question is not about concurrency. This is single user and jqGrid issue. Updating means that single user changes product name or barcode and server shoudl provide additonal data (product id and/or name/barcode) is responce of this.
Update 4
I tried code below.
If user enters new code and presses Enter without moving to other row, blur does not occur and validation is not called.
How to dedect in jqGrid save method if cell is dirty or other idea how to force this code to run if enter is pressed to end edit without losing focus from changed foreign key cell ?
function validate(elem, column) {
ischanged = false;
var i, form, row;
var postData = { _column: column };
var colModel = $("#grid").jqGrid('getGridParam', 'colModel');
var formEdit = $(elem).is('.FormElement');
// todo: use jQuery serialize() ???
if (formEdit) {
form = $(elem).closest('form.FormGrid');
postData._rowid = $("#grid").jqGrid('getGridParam', 'selrow');
for (i = 0; i < colModel.length; i++)
eval('postData.' + colModel[i].name + '="' + $('#' + colModel[i].name + '.FormElement', form[0]).val() + '";');
}
else {
row = $(elem).closest('tr.jqgrow');
postData._rowid = row.attr('id');
for (i = 1; i < colModel.length; i++)
eval('postData.' + colModel[i].name + '="' + $('#' + postData._rowid + '_' + colModel[i].name).val() + '";');
}
$.ajax('Grid/Validate', {
data: postData,
async: false,
type: 'POST',
success: function (data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
for (i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
if (formEdit)
$('#' + data[i].name + '.FormElement', form[0]).val(data[i].value);
else
$('#' + postData._rowid + '_' + data[i].name).val(data[i].value);
}
}
});
}
colModel is defined as:
{"name":"ProductBarCode",
"editoptions": {"dataEvents":
[{"type":"focus","fn":function(e) {ischanged=false}
},
{"type":"change","fn":function(e) {ischanged=true},
{"type":"keydown","fn":function(e) {if(realchangekey()) ischanged=true}
},{"type":"blur","fn":function(e) { if(ischanged) { validate( e.target,ProductBarCode')}}
}]},"editable":true}
It's one from the problems which is much easier to avoid as to eliminate. I have to remind you about my advises (in the comments to the answer) to use immutable primary key, so that is, will be never changed. The record of the database table can be destroyed, but no new record should have the id of ever deleted record.
On any concurrency control implementation it is important that the server will be first able to detect the concurrency problem. It can be that two (or more) users of your web application read the same information like the information about the employee. The information can be displayed in jqGrids for example. If you allow to change the employee id, than the first problem would be to detect concurrency error. Let us one user will change the employee id and another user will try to modify the same employee based on the previous loaded information. After the user submit the midification, the server application will just receive the "edit" request but will not find the corresponding record in the database. The server will have to sent error response without any detail. So the errorfunc of the editRow or the event handler errorTextFormat of the editGridRow should trigger "reloadGrid" reload the whole grid contain.
If you allow to edit the primary key, then I can imagine more dangerous situation as described before. It can be that another user not only change the id of the current editing row to another value, but one could change the id of one more record so, that its new id will be the same as the current editing id. In the case the request to save the row will overwrite another record.
To prevent such problems and to simplify the optimistic concurrency control one can add an additional column which represent any form of the timestamp in every table of the database which could be modified. I personally use Microsoft SQL Server and add I used to add the non-nullable column of the type rowversion (the same as the type timestamp in the previous version of the SQL Server). The value of the rowversion will be send to the jqGrid together with the data. The modification request which will be send to the server will contain the rowversion. If any data will be save in the database the corresponding value in the corresponding rowversion column will be automatically modified by the SQL database. In the way the server can very easy detect concurrency errors with the following code
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.spEmployeesUpdate
-- #originalRowUpdateTimeStamp used for optimistic concurrency mechanism
-- it is the value which correspond the data used by the user as the source
#Id int,
#EmployeeName varchar(100),
#originalRowUpdateTimeStamp rowversion,
#NewRowUpdateTimeStamp rowversion OUTPUT
AS
BEGIN
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
-- interfering with SELECT statements.
-- ExecuteNonQuery() returns -1, but it is not an error
-- one should test #NewRowUpdateTimeStamp for DBNull
SET NOCOUNT ON;
UPDATE dbo.Employees
SET Name = #EmployeeName
WHERE Id=#Id AND RowUpdateTimeStamp=#originalRowUpdateTimeStamp;
-- get the new value of the RowUpdateTimeStamp (rowversion)
-- if the previous update took place
SET #NewRowUpdateTimeStamp = (SELECT RowUpdateTimeStamp
FROM dbo.Employees
WHERE ##ROWCOUNT > 0 AND Id=#Id)
END
You can verify in the code of the server application that the output parameter #NewRowUpdateTimeStamp will be set by the stored procedure dbo.spEmployeesUpdate. If it's not set the server application can throw DBConcurrencyException exception.
So in my opinion you should make modifications in the database and the servers application code to implement optimistic concurrency control. After that the server code should return response with HTTP error code in case of concurrency error. The errorfunc of the editRow or the event handler errorTextFormat of the editGridRow should reload the new values of the currently modified row. You can use either the more complex way or just reload the grid and continue the modification of the current row. In case of unchanged rowid you can easy find the new loaded row and to start it's editing after the grid reloading.
In the existing database you can use
ALTER TABLE dbo.Employees ADD NewId int IDENTITY NOT NULL
ALTER TABLE dbo.Employees ADD RowUpdateTimeStamp rowversion NOT NULL
ALTER TABLE dbo.Employees ADD CONSTRAINT UC_Employees_NewId UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED (NewId)
GO
Then you can use NewId instead of the id in the jqGrid or in any other place which you need. The NewId can coexist with your current primary key till you update other parts of your application to use more effective NewId.
UPDATED: I don't think that one really need to implement any complex error correction for the concurrency error. In the projects at my customers the data which are need be edited can not contain any long texts. So the simple message, which describe the reason why the current modifications could not be saved, is enough. The user can manually reload the full grid and verify the current contain of the row which he edited. One should not forget that any complex procedures can bring additional errors in the project, the implementation is complex, it extend the development budget and mostly the additional investment could never paid off.
If you do need implement automated refresh of the editing row I would never implement the cell validation in "on blur" event for example. Instead of that one can verify inside of errorfunc of the editRow or inside of the errorTextFormat event handler of the editGridRow that the server returns the concurrency error. In case of the concurrency error one can save the id of the current editing row in a variable which could be accessed inside of the loadComplete event handle. Then, after displaying of the error message, one can just reload the grid with respect of $('#list').trigger('reloadGrid',[{current:true}]) (see here). Inside of loadComplete event handle one can verify whether the variable of the aborted editing row is set. In the case one can call editRow or editGridRow and continue the editing of the string. I think that when the current row are changed another rows of the page could be also be changed. So reloading of the current page is better as reloading of the data only one current cell or one row of the grid.
I'm using a Typed DataSet with an Insert statement; I have a table that has a smalldatetime field defined to accept null values. When I insert from a .NET 2.0 FormView, I get a "SqlDateTime overflow. Must be between 1/1/1753 12:00:00 AM and 12/31/9999 11:59:59 PM."
Now, I've read this post, and the parameter as sent to the class constructor is defined as
global::System.Nullable<global::System.DateTime> DoB
So, it looks like it should accept a Nullable obj. Additionally, the generated code is testing the value sent.
if ((DoB.HasValue == true)) {
command.Parameters[6].Value = ((System.DateTime)(DoB.Value));
}
else {
command.Parameters[6].Value = global::System.DBNull.Value;
}
Specifically, the error is occurring when generated SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteScalar() runs:
try {
returnValue = command.ExecuteScalar();
}
So, I guess my question is: how do I use a Typed DataSet to set a blank value (passed from a FormView on CommandName=Insert) to a null in a database?
Ok, so here's what worked for me. First, to reiterate, I've got a Typed DataSet with DataAdapters that's generating the ADO objects. So, on my page, I can create a ObjectDataSource with the type that points to my adapter, and then name the different access methods housed there-in.
No, I have an Insert to a table where basically all the columns are nullable; some varchar, some smalldatetime.
When I submit an empty form, I'd like nulls to be entered. They're not and lots of various errors are thrown. What I ended up doing is subclassing the ObjectDataSource to gain access to the Inserting event. (subclassed for reusability) In the Inserting event, I looped through the InputParameters, and if it was a string and == "", I set it to null. Also, you cannot set ConvertNullToDBNull to true; that causes the strings to fail. This successfully allowed the Nullable to remain null.
I'm attempting to use LINQ to insert a record into a child table and I'm
receiving a "Specified cast is not valid" error that has something to do w/
the keys involved. The stack trace is:
Message: Specified cast is not valid.
Type: System.InvalidCastException
Source: System.Data.Linq TargetSite:
Boolean
TryCreateKeyFromValues(System.Object[],
V ByRef) HelpLink: null Stack: at
System.Data.Linq.IdentityManager.StandardIdentityManager.SingleKeyManager2.TryCreateKeyFromValues(Object[]
values, V& v) at
System.Data.Linq.IdentityManager.StandardIdentityManager.IdentityCache2.Find(Object[]
keyValues) at
System.Data.Linq.IdentityManager.StandardIdentityManager.Find(MetaType
type, Object[] keyValues) at
System.Data.Linq.CommonDataServices.GetCachedObject(MetaType
type, Object[] keyValues) at
System.Data.Linq.ChangeProcessor.GetOtherItem(MetaAssociation
assoc, Object instance) at
System.Data.Linq.ChangeProcessor.BuildEdgeMaps()
at
System.Data.Linq.ChangeProcessor.SubmitChanges(ConflictMode
failureMode) at
System.Data.Linq.DataContext.SubmitChanges(ConflictMode
failureMode) at
System.Data.Linq.DataContext.SubmitChanges()
(.....)
This error is being thrown on the following code:
ResponseDataContext db = new ResponseDataContext(m_ConnectionString);
CodebookVersion codebookVersion = db.CodebookVersions.Single(cv => cv.VersionTag == m_CodebookVersionTag);
ResponseCode rc = new ResponseCode()
{
SurveyQuestionName = "Q11",
Code = 3,
Description = "Yet another code"
};
codebookVersion.ResponseCodes.Add(rc);
db.SubmitChanges(); //exception gets thrown here
The tables in question have a FK relationship between the two of them.
The parent table's column is called 'id', is the PK, and is of type: INT NOT NULL IDENTITY
The child table's column is called 'responseCodeTableId' and is of type: INT NOT NULL.
codebookVersion (parent class) maps to table tblResponseCodeTable
responseCode (childClass) maps to table tblResponseCode
If I execute SQL directly, it works. e.g.
INSERT INTO tblResponseCode
(responseCodeTableId, surveyQuestionName, code, description)
VALUES (13683, 'Q11', 3, 'Yet another code')
Updates to the same class work properly. e.g.
codebookVersion.ResponseCodes[0].Description = "BlahBlahBlah";
db.SubmitChanges(); //no exception - change is committed to db
I've examined the variable, rc, after the .Add() operation and it does, indeed, receive the proper responseCodeTableId, just as I would expect since I'm adding it to that collection.
tblResponseCodeTable's full definition:
COLUMN_NAME TYPE_NAME
id int identity
responseCodeTableId int
surveyQuestionName nvarchar
code smallint
description nvarchar
dtCreate smalldatetime
dtCreate has a default value of GetDate().
The only other bit of useful information that I can think of is that no SQL
is ever tried against the database, so LINQ is blowing up before it ever
tries (hence the error not being a SqlException). I've profiled and verified
that no attempt is made to execute any statements on the database.
I've read around and seen the problem when you have a relationship to a non PK field, but that doesn't fit my case.
Can anyone shed any light on this situation for me? What incredibly obvious thing am I missing here?
Many thanks.
Paul Prewett
Post up the schema of the parent table.
if you look here, some other people have had your problem.
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3493504&SiteID=1
It appears that Linq2SQL has trouble mapping some foreign keys to some primary keys. One guy had a resolution, but I think you are already mapping to an IDENTITY column.
Since the database isn't being called I think you have to look at the mappings linq to sql is using. What does the Association look like? There should be an Association on both the parent and child classes.
Take a look at the linq to sql Association between the two classes. The Association should have a ThisKey property. The cast that is failing is trying to cast the value of the property that ThisKey points to, I think.
As far as I can tell there can be a problem when there is more than one key and the type of the first key does not match the type that ThisKey points too. I'm not sure how linq would determine what the first key is.
From the looks of it you only have one key and one foreign key so that shouldn't be the problem, but the designer, if you are using it, has been known to get creative.
I'm pretty much guessing, but this looks like something I've seen before.
Is this an example of this bug? If so, try running your code in .NET 4.0 now that the beta is out.
If, like me, you aren't ready to start using the beta, you may be able to work around the problem. The issue seems to be that LINQ does not properly support relationships defined on non-primary key fields. However, the term "primary key" does not refer to the primary key defined on the SQL table, but the primary key defined in the LINQ designer.
If you dragged your tables into the designer, then Visual Studio automatically inspects the primary key defined in the database and marks the corresponding class field(s) as "primary keys". However, these do not need to correspond to each other. You can remove the key Visual Studio chose for you, and pick another field (or group of fields). Of course, you need to make sure this is logical (you should have a unique constraint in the database on the field/fields you choose).
So I had 2 tables/classes related to eachother using an alternative key. The parent table had 2 keys: a surrogate primary key defined as an int, and an alternative natural key defined as a string. In the LINQ designer, I had defined the association using the alternative key, and I experienced the InvalidCastException whenever trying to update that association field on the child object.
To work around this, I went into the LINQ designer, selected the int, and then changed the Primary Key property from True to False. Then I chose the string, and set it's Primary Key property to True. Recompiled, retested, and the InvalidCastException is gone.
Looking at your screen shot it looks like you may be able to fix your issue by changing the LINQ primary key on ResponseCode from ResponseCode.ID to ResponseCode.ResponseCodeTableID
ResponseCode rc = new ResponseCode()
{
SurveyQuestionName = "Q11",
Code = 3,
Description = "Yet another code"
};
and:
INSERT INTO tblResponseCode
(responseCodeTableId, surveyQuestionName, code, description)
VALUES (13683, 'Q11', 3, 'Yet another code')
Are not the same, you are not passing in the foreign key reference. Now, I'm huge n00b at LINQ2SQL, but I'd wager that LINQ2SQL is not smart enough to do that for you, and it expects it as the first parameter of the anonymous dictionary, and is trying to cast a string to an integer.
Just some ideas.
This block:
codebookVersion.ResponseCodes.Add(rc);
db.SubmitChanges(); //exception gets thrown here
Can you try InsertOnSubmit instead of Add? i.e.
codebookVersion.ResponseCodes.InsertOnSubmit(rc);
I think Add is not meant to be used to insert records if my memory serves me right. InsertOnSubmit is the one to use.
To try and narrow down the culprit.
Have you tried replacing the anonymous dictionary with something like:
ResponseCode rc = new ResponseCode();
rc.SurveyQuestName = "Q11";
rc.Code = 3;
rc.Description = "Yet Another Code";
I've yet to really work with .NET 3.5 yet (day job is still all 2.0), so I'm wondering if there is an issue with passing the data using the anonymous dictionary (The cases don't match the SQL Columns for one).
Yea, I've read that and other posts, but it always seems to involve someone linking up to a field that simply has a unique contraint. Or in this guy's case (which does sound exactly like mine), he didn't get a solution.
Here's the parent table:
tblResponseTable definition (which maps to CodebookVersion)
COLUMN_NAME TYPE_NAME
id int identity
versionTag nvarchar
responseVersionTag nvarchar
versionTag does have a unique contraint on it, but that's not represented anywhere that I can see in the LINQ-to-SQL stuff - and since nothing ever goes to the database... still stuck.
Mike, I hear you. But no matter where I look, everything looks correct. I've checked and rechecked that the ResponseTableId is an int and that Id is an int. They're defined as such in the designer and when I go look at the generated code, everything again appears to be in order.
I've examined the associations. Here they are:
[Table(Name="dbo.tblResponseCode")]
public partial class ResponseCode : ...
...
[Association(Name="CodebookVersion_tblResponseCode", Storage="_CodebookVersion", ThisKey="ResponseCodeTableId", OtherKey="Id", IsForeignKey=true)]
public CodebookVersion CodebookVersion
{
...
}
[Table(Name="dbo.tblResponseCodeTable")]
public partial class CodebookVersion : ...
...
[Association(Name="CodebookVersion_tblResponseCode", Storage="_ResponseCodes", ThisKey="Id", OtherKey="ResponseCodeTableId")]
public EntitySet<ResponseCode> ResponseCodes
{
...
}
And a screenshot of the association in case that will help:
Any further thoughts?
ResponseCode rc = new ResponseCode()
{
CodebookVersion = codebookVersion,
SurveyQuestionName = "Q11",
Code = 3,
Description = "Yet another code"
};
db.ResponseCodes.InsertOnSubmit(rc);
db.SubmitChanges();
You may want to check to see that any fields in your database tables which are set by the db server when inserting a new record have that reflected in the Linq to SQL diagram. If you select a field on the Linq to SQL diagram and view its properties you will see a field called "Auto Generated Value" which if set to true will ensure all new records take on the default value specified in the database.
LINQ to SQL has been deprecated, FYI - http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx.
I ran into a very similar problem. I'll link you over to my wordy post: http://forums.asp.net/p/1223080/2763049.aspx
And I'll also offer a solution, just a guess...
ResponseDataContext db = new ResponseDataContext(m_ConnectionString);
CodebookVersion codebookVersion = db.CodebookVersions.Single(cv => cv.VersionTag == m_CodebookVersionTag);
ResponseCode rc = new ResponseCode()
{
ResponseCodeTableId = codebookVersion.Id,
SurveyQuestionName = "Q11",
Code = 3,
Description = "Yet another code"
};
db.ResponseCodes.InsertOnSubmit(rc);
db.SubmitChanges();
Somewhere in your object graph there is a conversion error, the underlying data model (or the Linq To SQL model) has changed. This is typically something like NVARCHAR(1) -> CHAR when it should be STRING, or something similar.
This error is not fun to hunt down, hopefully your object model is small.
We had a similar problem, caused by using non-integer keys. Details and hotfix number are here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=351358