Adding Comments To Metadata
Mar 15, 2008
Did some searching and didn't seem to find what I'm looking for. I'm pretty new to SQL Server (most of my experience is on DB2 for z/OS).
I'm building some new tables, and want to find a way to add comments to the metadata for the column. In DB2 the syntax is:
COMMENT ON COLUMN TB_CREATOR.TB_NAME.COLUMN_NAME IS 'comments here';
OR
COMMENT ON TB_CREATOR.TB_NAME (
COLUMN1 IS ' comment here',
COLUMN2 IS ' comment here',
);
Is there anything like this in SQL Server?
Thanks!
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Jan 7, 2007
I would like to allow users to add a comment to a report. What is the best way to do this? When the report is run I would like users to be able to see all comments and which user reported them and the date and time the comment was entered
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Apr 23, 2007
Hello,
I would like to know if it is possible to add comments from different columns from table in sql into a single column. Please, see the attached table. I want all comments to be in one column. The outcome should be:
CONFIRMED NEED TO CONFIRM SIGNER AT <CR><LF> received e-mail:<CR><LF> Called Imran again today to see if .
Ideally, I would like to receive all comments in a single string of characters, perhaps separating the comments by <CR><LF>
Here is the table. Sorry my table doesnt look good, but it has the following fields: DATE, LEXNEX_DECISION, COMMENT
DATE LEXNEX_DECISIONCOMMENT
4/3/2007COMPLETECONFIRMED NEED TO CONFIRM SIGNER AT 4/3/2007COMPLETEreceived e-mail:
4/3/2007COMPLETECalled Imran again today to see if .
Help!
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Jul 20, 2005
Newbie question:Aside from the single quote (i.e. chr(39)) what other characters can causeMS-SQLserver to cough-up the insertion / update back in your face?TIA
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Oct 1, 2007
Hi all,
I have state, day_date, error, and text column. If there is data then it is showing all the columns. But if there is no comments I would like to show no comments in the text field. Currently I have this store procedure.
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.up_daily_quad_text
@DAY_DATE datetime
AS
BEGIN
SELECT
dbo.adins_database.ZONE_NAME + ', ' + dbo.adins_database.ZONE_STATE AS [STATE AND LOCATION],
dbo.COMMENT_CATEGORY.NAME,
dbo.COMMENT.TEXT
FROM
dbo.adins_database,
dbo.COMMENT_CATEGORY,
dbo.COMMENT,
dbo.DIM_DATE
WHERE
( dbo.adins_database.adins_id=dbo.COMMENT.adinsdb_id OR (dbo.COMMENT.adinsdb_id is Null) )
AND ( dbo.COMMENT.comment_dt=dbo.DIM_DATE.DAY_DATE )
AND ( dbo.COMMENT_CATEGORY.category_id=dbo.COMMENT.category_id )
AND
dbo.DIM_DATE.DAY_DATE = @DAY_DATE
END
GO
GRANT EXECUTE ON dbo.up_daily_quad_text TO AdIns_SSRS
GO
How can I modify do that.
Thanks
Rozar2007
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Nov 15, 2006
Hi,
I am new to MS SQL Server 2005. I used MySQL.
Now my doubt is how to put a comment in SQL statement, where i am using query editor in SQL Management Studio.
Rgds.,
Aazad
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Hi everyone. I've taken a while off of developing site in ASP.net but had a site that I wanted to upgrade a little, but needed a little help.What I have currently is a website of a person with videos and images of that person. To view the videos, I have a "view_video.aspx?ID=" page that plays the video from YouTube by looking my database for the ID, YouTube URL, Name, and Description. What I want to do is create a "comments" table for visitors to add comments for each video and then display all comments on the page.So far, my "comments" table looks like this. ID, otherID, name, email, comment, type, date.The ID is the id of the comment, otherID is the foreign key to the "videos" table, the name is the name of the person leaving the comment, e-mail is for the person, comment is the text, type is the type of video (tutorial, sampler, random video), and date is a timestamp for when users leave the comment.So hopefully I have a good start. I don't have any code to show right at the moment for I am at work, but if anyone has any ideas or critiques so far, I'd love to hear them. This is an interesting project for my friend and I'd love to implement this sometime.Thanks,TetrisSmalls
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experienced?
Any input appreciated!
thanks!
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We're migrating from Access to MS SQL server 7.0
Inside the edit of an Access tables; the Description column can also be used to place comments other then the description of the field,
ie. explanation of field's use
pay payrate per hour in USD
or allowed values
status O=open, C=closed
I can not find something similar inside SQL 7.0.
If this option is not available, what other alternatives are there ?
Patrick
PS. what is the CTEXT field inside the SYSCOMMENTS table ?
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Has anyone discovered how to store table and column comments inside SQL Server 2000? It was supposed to be an added feature with 2000.
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Hi all,
i am not sure is it have the way to comments some process on the package.
Thanks,
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Mar 10, 2000
Consider this example please.
BEGIN TRAN
insert into OrderDetail (fields) VALUES (values)
insert into Orders (fields) VALUES (values)
COMMIT TRAN
If there is a trigger on Orders that takes some fields from OrderDetail and puts them into some other table.
When the trigger fires, can it find the details if the COMMIT has not occurred yet.
I'm wondering If I should use isolation level READ UNCOMMITTED.
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Jul 13, 2004
Is there a way to add comments on a table in sql server?
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Sep 4, 2005
hai everyone
i have a requirement.
i am writing a very large sp.
i have written many comments in that sp.
i wanted to generate a document from that comments i have wriiten in that sp.
i know a similar thing can be done in vb.net comments.
is it possible top do such a thing in .sql file.
ie
all comments that i have wriiten in my .sql file should be extracted.
to a document.
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Nov 9, 2005
I have a table with almost a million rows, although it's quite slim with just ID, date, userID, JobID etc.
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The question is whether to create a separate comments table to join to it, or to create a comments field within the existing table? The comments field would obviously default to NULL, so wouldn't bloat the table unnecessarily if I add that field (right?), and would always be selected with the row from that table, so I'm leaning towards the latter alternative.
Any thoughts, words of warning?
Thanks
Mark
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I use sql query analyzer
/*text msg 1 :This is table A */
select * from a
/*text msg 2*: This is table B */
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This is table A
name age
jeff 28
ff 17
--------
this is table B
comid name lot
23 ie 100
34 ibm 234
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where in sys tables does one find field property comments.neeed to query them.tia,mcnewsxp
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I want to write a query like this:
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The result should looks like this:
--------------------------------------------
select count(*) /* ---- emp_name */
FROM emp_name
---------------------------------------------
query result:
COUNT(*)----EMP_NAME
-------------------
3
-------------------------------------------
But, now I can only got
COUNT(*)
-------------------
3
What's wrong with my original code?
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Hi
am pretty new to the reporting services...i had the requirement like user wants to add the comments in the report whenever he requires...is this possible using RS and how?
Thanks for the help in advance!!
Kumar16
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for example, i have the following sql file: -- this query does a certain thing, and the comment can be pretty long at times, depending on how complicated the query is
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using System;
namespace BaResearch.Data.msSql
{
interface ISqlDataObject
{
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection Connection { get; }
string ConnectionString { get; set; }
}
}
___________________________________using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
namespace BaResearch.Data.msSql
{
public class SqlDataObject : ISqlDataObject
{
private string _ConnectionString;
public SqlConnection Connection
{
get { return new SqlConnection(_ConnectionString); }
}
public string ConnectionString
{
get
{
return _ConnectionString;
}
set
{
_ConnectionString = value;
}
}
}
}
__________________________________using System;
namespace BaResearch.Data
{
interface IBid
{
string Client { get; set; }
string Contact { get; set; }
string Sponsor { get; set; }
string Priority { get; set; }
string BidStatus { get; set; }
}
}
_____________________________________________using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Configuration;
namespace BaResearch.Data.msSql
{
public class Bid : SqlDataObject, IBid
{
#region private member & variables
private int _BidID;
private string _DateCreated;
private string _CreatedBy;
private string _Client;
private string _Contact;
private string _Sponsor;
private string _Priority;
private string _BidStatus;
private SqlDataAdapter sqlda = new SqlDataAdapter();
private SqlCommand _command;
private SqlParameter[] _parameters =
{
new SqlParameter("@client",SqlDbType.NVarChar),
new SqlParameter("@contact",SqlDbType.NVarChar),
new SqlParameter("@sponsor",SqlDbType.NVarChar),
new SqlParameter("@priority",SqlDbType.NVarChar),
new SqlParameter("@bidstatus",SqlDbType.NVarChar),
};
#endregion
#region public member variables - stored procedures
//private string sp_Create = "bids_sp_insert";
//private string sp_Update_ByID = "bids_sp_updatebyid";
//private string sp_Delete_ByID = "bids_sp_deletebyid";
//private string sp_Select_All = "bids_sp_selectall";
//private string sp_Select_ByID = "bids_sp_selectbyid";
//private string sp_Select_ByValue = "bids_sp_selectbyvalue";
#endregion
#region constructors and destructors
public Bid()
{
if (this.ConnectionString == null)
{
this.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["SQL.ConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
}
else
{
new Bid(this.ConnectionString);
}
}
public Bid(string ConnectionString)
{
this.ConnectionString = ConnectionString;
}
#endregion
#region methods & events
/// <summary>
/// Attach parameters to an SqlCommand
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sqlcmd">SqlCommand</param>
private void attachparameters(SqlCommand sqlcmd)
{
sqlcmd.Parameters.Clear();
foreach (SqlParameter param in _parameters)
{
sqlcmd.Parameters.Add(param);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Assign value to the parameters
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sqlcmd">SqlCommand</param>
/// <param name="value">Client object</param>
private void assignparametervalues(SqlCommand sqlcmd, Bid value)
{
this.attachparameters(sqlcmd);
// todo: assign parameter values here
sqlcmd.Parameters[0].Value = value.Client;
sqlcmd.Parameters[1].Value = value.Contact;
sqlcmd.Parameters[2].Value = value.Sponsor;
sqlcmd.Parameters[3].Value = value.Priority;
sqlcmd.Parameters[4].Value = value.BidStatus;
}
public virtual void Create(Bid value)
{
_command = new SqlCommand();
_command.Connection = this.Connection;
_command.CommandText = @"INSERT INTO bids (client, contact, sponsor, priority, bidstatus, createdby)
VALUES (@client, @contact, @sponsor, @priority, @bidstatus, @createdby);";
_command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
try
{
sqlda.InsertCommand = _command;
this.assignparametervalues(sqlda.InsertCommand, value);
sqlda.InsertCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@createdby", value.CreatedBy);
sqlda.InsertCommand.Parameters.Add("@bidid", SqlDbType.Int);
sqlda.InsertCommand.Parameters["@bidid"].Direction = ParameterDirection.ReturnValue;
sqlda.InsertCommand.Connection.Open();
sqlda.InsertCommand.ExecuteNonQuery();
sqlda.InsertCommand.Connection.Close();
sqlda.InsertCommand.Connection.Dispose();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new Exception(e.Message);
}
}
public virtual int Update(Bid value)
{
int result;
_command = new SqlCommand();
_command.Connection = this.Connection;
_command.CommandText = @"UPDATE bids SET client=@client, contact=@contact, sponsor=@sponsor,
priority=@priority, bidstatus=@bidstatus
WHERE bidid=@bidid";
_command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
try
{
sqlda.UpdateCommand = _command;
using (SqlCommand _cmd = sqlda.UpdateCommand)
{
this.assignparametervalues(_cmd, value);
_cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@bidid", value.BidID);
_cmd.Connection.Open();
result = _cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
_cmd.Connection.Close();
_cmd.Connection.Dispose();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new Exception(e.Message);
}
return result;
}
public virtual void Delete(Bid value)
{
_command = new SqlCommand();
_command.Connection = this.Connection;
_command.CommandText = @"DELETE bids WHERE bidid=@bidid;";
_command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
try
{
sqlda.DeleteCommand = _command;
using (SqlCommand _cmd = sqlda.DeleteCommand)
{
_cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@bidid", value.BidID);
_cmd.Connection.Open();
_cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
_cmd.Connection.Close();
_cmd.Connection.Dispose();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new Exception(e.Message);
}
}
public virtual DataSet List(string filter)
{
DataSet result = new DataSet();
_command = new SqlCommand();
_command.Connection = this.Connection;
_command.CommandText = @"SELECT * FROM bids_view_listall
WHERE (clientname like @value) or (contactname like @value)
or (sponsor like @value) ORDER BY datecreated DESC";
_command.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
try
{
if (filter != null)
{
filter = filter.Replace(" ", "%");
}
sqlda.SelectCommand = _command;
sqlda.SelectCommand.Parameters.AddWithValue("@value", "%" + filter + "%");
sqlda.Fill(result);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new Exception(e.Message);
}
return (DataSet)result;
}
#endregion
#region IBid Members
public string Client
{
get
{
return _Client;
}
set
{
_Client = value;
}
}
public string Contact
{
get
{
return _Contact;
}
set
{
_Contact = value;
}
}
public string Sponsor
{
get
{
return _Sponsor;
}
set
{
_Sponsor = value;
}
}
public string Priority
{
get
{
return _Priority;
}
set
{
_Priority = value;
}
}
public string BidStatus
{
get
{
return _BidStatus;
}
set
{
_BidStatus = value;
}
}
#endregion
#region Properties
public int BidID
{
get
{ return _BidID; }
set
{ _BidID = value; }
}
public string DateCreated
{
get
{
return _DateCreated;
}
set
{
_DateCreated = value;
}
}
public string CreatedBy
{
get
{
return _CreatedBy;
}
set
{
_CreatedBy = value;
}
}
#endregion
}
}
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Am I on a right path? I will greatly appreciate in any comments or suggestions for a design. I am creating an n-tier application and i don't know if my design is right. I dont have the proper schooling for creating this kind of applications and I am still on layer of data access and business logic.
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Jul 27, 2004
Hi,
How do I add comments to tables / columns in SQL Server ? Oracle supports adding comments to tables / columns using "comment on table / column" statement. Is a similar feature available in SQL Server 2000 ?
Any help folks ?
TIA,
Sam
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HI
I know what sort of backup I want to accomplish with a given database, and I understand that the maintenance plans section is intelligent enough to give it to me, but I cant quite seem to configure it the way I want..
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so a 4 week schedule with each week dumping a full and trans log backups to its own backup set until we rotate back to week 1 again.
The schedule and the different files are the important bit. I assume I can create 4 backup objects named week1 to week4, create a job that references each one (with full and trans log backups) and then set the schedule for each job to occur weekly every 4 weeks. easy, yes?
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Comments please.
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Mar 3, 2007
Hi,
I am using SQL Server 2005 Express. I am creating a table, which will have a comments field. Whats an appropriate data type that should be used for a "comments" field? So far, I have unlimited text and characters can be entered, but that a limitation can be placed.
Thanks
Chirs
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Apr 18, 2008
Hi, I think I remember reading somewhere that excessive comments inside a stored procedure can have a negative impact on performance. Does anyone know if this is true and can provide an explanation?
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I have been successful using comments (to help remind me that the SQL is coming from a varaible which is set via an expresion) within the variable expression passed to a Source or Destination. I have been unable to get this to work in an ExecuteSQL control flow task when parameters are used within the query. I am not sure what is causing this not to work the fact that it is an ExecuteSQL control flow task or that the SQL has parameters (or perhaps that it also uses an OUTPUT parameter).
Any thoughts to share? Am I missing something?
WORKS (In Data Flow SQL):
"--NOTE: This is defined by an expression on Source_AdventureWorks_Customers_SQL variable
SELECT
[CustomerID],
[TerritoryID],
[AccountNumber],
[CustomerType],
[rowguid],
[ModifiedDate]
FROM
[AdventureWorks].[Sales].[Customer]"
FAILS (in Control Flow ExecuteSQL with parms including Output parm):
"--NOTE: This is defined by an expression on Source_AdventureWorks_Customers_SQL variable
[audit].[up_LogEtlPackageStart]
@ETLAuditParentKey = ?,
@Description = ?,
@PackageName = ?,
@PackageGuid = ?,
@PackageVersionMajor = ?,
@PackageVersionMinor = ?,
@PackageVersionBuild = ?,
@MachineName = ?,
@ExecutionGuid = ?,
@LogicalDate = ?,
@StartTime = ?,
@Operator = ?,
@ETLAuditKey = ? OUTPUT"
WORKS (in Control Flow ExecuteSQL with parms including Output parm):
"[audit].[up_LogEtlPackageStart]
@ETLAuditParentKey = ?,
@Description = ?,
@PackageName = ?,
@PackageGuid = ?,
@PackageVersionMajor = ?,
@PackageVersionMinor = ?,
@PackageVersionBuild = ?,
@MachineName = ?,
@ExecutionGuid = ?,
@LogicalDate = ?,
@StartTime = ?,
@Operator = ?,
@ETLAuditKey = ? OUTPUT"
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