I need to dynamically construct the field order of a cursor based on fixed labels from another table, but when I put that resulting query I receive the error:
Server: Msg 16924, Level 16, State 1, Line 78
Cursorfetch: The number of variables declared in the INTO list must match that of selected columns.
I have 6 fields defined in the cursor select, and 6 parameters in the fetch. The results of running the @sql portion returns valid data. Should this be possible to define a parameter containing the select clause of the cursor?
select colnum, coldesc, colname into #ae_defs from ae_adefs
select @Sql = (select colname from #ae_defs where coldesc = 'PATIENT NAME') +
', ' +
(select colname from #ae_defs where coldesc = 'PATIENT NUMBER') +
', ' +
(select colname from #ae_defs where coldesc = 'ACCOUNT NUMBER') +
', ' +
(select colname from #ae_defs where coldesc = 'VISIT DATE') +
', ' +
(select colname from #ae_defs where coldesc = 'VISIT TYPE') +
', DocID from ae_dtl1'
DECLARE myCursor CURSOR FOR
Select @SQL
OPEN myCursor
print @@Cursor_rows
FETCH NEXT FROM myCursor into @var1, @var2, @var3, @var4, @var5, @DocID
Hi I am ramesh here from go-events.com I am using sql mail to send out emails to my mailing list
I have difficulty combining a select statement with a where clause stored in a variable inside a cursor
The users select the mail content and frequency of delivery and i deliver the mail
I use lots of queries and a stored procedure to retrieve thier preferences. In the end i use a cursor to send out mails to each of them.
Because my query is dynamic, the where clause of my select statement is stored in a variable. I have the following code that does not work
For example
DECLARE overdue3 CURSOR LOCAL FORWARD_ONLY FOR SELECT DISTINCT Events.E_Name, Events.E_SDate, Events.E_City, Events.E_ID FROM Events, IndustryEvents + @sqlquery2 OPEN overdue3
I get an error message at the '+' sign which says, cannot use empty object or column names, use a single space if necessary
How do I combine the select statement with the where clause?
The stored procedure, below, results in this error when I try to compile...
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure InsertImportedReportData, Line 69 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'ORDER'.
However the select statement itself runs perfectly well as a query, no errors.
The T-SQL manual says you can't use the keywords COMPUTE, COMPUTE BY, FOR BROWSE, and INTO in a cursor select statement, but nothing about plain old ORDER BYs.
What gives with this?
Thanks in advance R.
The code:
Code Snippet
-- ================================================ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO IF object_id('InsertImportedReportData ') IS NOT NULL DROP PROCEDURE InsertImportedReportData GO -- ============================================= -- Author: ----- -- Create date: -- Description: inserts imported records, marking as duplicates if possible -- ============================================= CREATE PROCEDURE InsertImportedReportData -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here @importedReportID int, @authCode varchar(12) AS BEGIN DECLARE @errmsg VARCHAR(80);
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE srcRecsCursor CURSOR LOCAL FOR (SELECT ImportedRecordID ,ImportedReportID ,AuthorityCode ,[ID] ,[Field1] AS RecordType ,[Field2] AS FormType ,[Field3] AS ItemID ,[Field4] AS EntityCode ,[Field5] AS LastName ,[Field6] AS FirstMiddleNames ,[Field7] AS Title ,[Field8] AS Suffix ,[Field9] AS AddressLine1 ,[Field10] AS AddressLine2 ,[Field11] AS City ,[Field12] AS [State] ,[Field13] AS ZipFull ,[Field14] AS OutOfStatePAC ,[Field15] AS FecID ,[Field16] AS Date ,[Field17] AS Amount ,[Field18] AS [Description] ,[Field19] AS Employer ,[Field20] AS Occupation ,[Field21] AS AttorneyJob ,[Field22] AS SpouseEmployer ,[Field23] As ChildParentEmployer1 ,[Field24] AS ChildParentEmployer2 ,[Field25] AS InKindTravel ,[Field26] AS TravellerLastName ,[Field27] AS TravellerFirstMiddleNames ,[Field28] AS TravellerTitle ,[Field29] AS TravellerSuffix ,[Field30] AS TravelMode ,[Field31] As DptCity ,[Field32] AS DptDate ,[Field33] AS ArvCity ,[Field34] AS ArvDate ,[Field35] AS TravelPurpose ,[Field36] AS TravelRecordBackReference FROM ImportedNativeRecords WHERE ImportedReportID IS NOT NULL AND ReportType IN ('RCPT','PLDG') ORDER BY ImportedRecordID -- this should work but gives syntax error! );
When I execute next query on sqlserver 6.5 nested in stored procedure I can see that 'open testCursor' selected rows using new value of @var. When I execute query on sqlserver 7.0 I can see that 'open testCursor' selected rows using value of @var before 'declare ... cursor'. Is there any way to force sqlserver 7.0 to proccess cursor like it did it before.
select @var = oldValue
declare testCursor cursor for select someColumns from someTable where someColumn = @var
After trying every way I could come up with I can't get a filter clauseto work with a passed variable ...I have a cursor that pulls a filter string from a table (works OK),then I want to use that filter in a second cursor, but can't get thesyntax ...@bakfilter is equal to "MISV2_db_%.BAK" before I try to open and fetchfrom the second cursor. Here is the cursor declaration:DECLARE curFiles CURSOR FORSELECT FileName, FileDateFROM DataFileWHERE (((Active)=1) AND ((FileName) LIKE '@bak_filter'))ORDER BY FileDate DESCWhat do I need to do to get it to use the string contained in@bak_filter?Thanks in advance, Jim
Example, suppose you have these 2 tables(NOTE: My example is totally different, but I'm simply trying to setupthe a simpler version, so excuse the bad design; not the point here)CarsSold {CarsSoldID int (primary key)MonthID intDealershipID intNumberCarsSold int}Dealership {DealershipID int, (primary key)SalesTax decimal}so you may have many delearships selling cars the same month, and youwanted a report to sum up totals of all dealerships per month.select cs.MonthID,sum(cs.NumberCarsSold) as 'TotalCarsSoldInMonth',sum(cs.NumberCarsSold) * d.SalesTax as 'TotalRevenue'from CarsSold csjoin Dealership d on d.DealershipID = cs.DealershipIDgroup by cs.MonthIDMy question is, is there a way to achieve something like this:select cs.MonthID,sum(cs.NumberCarsSold) as 'TotalCarsSoldInMonth',TotalCarsSoldInMonth * d.SalesTax as 'TotalRevenue'from CarsSold csjoin Dealership d on d.DealershipID = cs.DealershipIDgroup by cs.MonthIDNotice the only difference is the 3rd column in the select. Myparticular query is performing some crazy math and the only way I knowof how to get it to work is to copy and past the logic which isgetting out way out of hand...Thanks,Dave
1) Rows ordered using textual id rather than numeric id
Code Snippet select cast(v.id as nvarchar(2)) id from ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) v order by v.id
Result set is ordered as: 1, 11, 2 I expect: 1,2,11
if renamed or removed alias for "cast(v.id as nvarchar(2))" expression then all works fine.
2) SQL server reject query below with next message
Server: Msg 169, Level 15, State 3, Line 16 A column has been specified more than once in the order by list. Columns in the order by list must be unique.
Code Snippet select cast(v.id as nvarchar(2)) id from ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) v cross join ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) u order by v.id ,u.id
Again, if renamed or removed alias for "cast(v.id as nvarchar(2))" expression then all works fine.
It reproducible on
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86) May 3 2005 23:18:38 Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
and
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3042.00 (Intel X86) Feb 9 2007 22:47:07 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
In both cases database collation is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1251_CS_AS
If I check quieries above on database with SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation then it works fine again.
Could someone clarify - is it bug or expected behaviour?
Far below (in section "original 3 steps"), you see the following:1. a temp table is created2. some data is inserted into this table3. some of the inserted data is removed based on a join with the sametable that the original select was made fromIn my opinion, there is no way that the join could produce more rowsthan were originally retrieved from viewD. Hence, we could get rid ofthe DELETE step by simply changing the query to be:INSERT INTO #details ( rec_id, orig_corr, bene_corr )SELECT rec_id, 0, 0FROM viewDWHERE SOURCE_SYS NOT IN ( 'G', 'K' )AND MONTH( VALUE_DATE_A8 ) = MONTH( @date )AND YEAR( VALUE_DATE_A8 ) = YEAR( @date )AND INMESS NOT LIKE '2__' ---- the added line===== original 3 steps (mentioned above) =====CREATE TABLE #details (rec_id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,orig VARCHAR(35) NULL,bene VARCHAR(35) NULL,orig_corr TINYINT NULL,bene_corr TINYINT NULL)INSERT INTO #details ( rec_id, orig_corr, bene_corr )SELECT rec_id, 0, 0FROM viewDWHERE SOURCE_SYS NOT IN ( 'G', 'K' )AND MONTH( VALUE_DATE_A8 ) = MONTH( @date )AND YEAR( VALUE_DATE_A8 ) = YEAR( @date )DELETE dFROM #details dJOIN viewD v ON ( d.rec_id = v.rec_id )WHERE INMESS LIKE '2__'
buddies,situation: a processing must take place on every row of a table, andoutput results to another table, that can't be done via an insertinto..select query (let's assume that it's not possible for now).There're 2 solutions I have in mind:1) open a cursor and cycle through each row (The table can have up to1M rows)2) create a clustered index (i.e on an identity column) then have aloop like:declare @i int, @rows int,@col1 varchar(20), @col2 varchar(20),... @coln varchar(20),@outval1 varchar(20),... -- output valuesselect @i=1, @rows = max(xid) from tblname -- xid is clustered indexedwhile (@i<=@rows)beginselect @col1 = col1, @col2 = col2,...@coln = colnfrom tblnamewhere xid = i-- do the processing on the variables-- then insert results to another tableset @i = @i+1endI'd like to know your ideas of which one would be more efficient. Anyother solutions are much appreciatedthanks,Tamy
In my previous post I asked how to do the bottom question. I got a response to use a cursor, now I made an attempt to use a cursor but I still get the same response. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
--CURRENT OUTPUT--
empID Rank Skills ------- ---- -------------------------------------------------- 2924 1 Create Documents 2924 2 Mail Merge 2924 3 Create Header and footer 2924 3 Create Spreadsheet 2924 3 Joining Tables in a Query
--DESIRED OUTPUT--
empID Rank Skills ------ ---- ------------ 2924 1 Create Documents 2924 2 Mail Merge 2924 3 Create Header and footer, Joining Tables in a Query, Create Spreadsheet
--Here is the cursor script.--
Declare @skills varchar(255),@skills2 varchar(255),@message varchar(255),@empID varchar(255), @Rank varchar(255) DECLARE emp_skills CURSOR For select C.empID, B.Rank,B.Text1 as Skills from tbl_survey_rank B , tbl_survey_valueID C where PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and C.empID = '2924'and (B.Rank ='1'or B.Rank ='2' or B.Rank ='3') or PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and B.Rank ='3'and C.empID = '2924' or PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and B.Rank ='3'and C.empID = '2924' or PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and B.Rank ='3'and C.empID = '2924' or PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and B.Rank ='3'and C.empID = '2924'
DECLARE emp_skills2 CURSOR For select B.Text1 as Skills from tbl_survey_rank B , tbl_survey_valueID C where PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and C.empID = '2924'and (B.Rank ='1'or B.Rank ='2' or B.Rank ='3') or PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and B.Rank ='3'and C.empID = '2924' or PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and B.Rank ='3'and C.empID = '2924' or PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and B.Rank ='3'and C.empID = '2924' or PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and B.Rank ='3'and C.empID = '2924' OPEN emp_skills OPEN emp_skills2 FETCH NEXT FROM emp_skills into @empID, @Rank, @skills FETCH NEXT FROM emp_skills2 into @skills2 WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN SELECT @message = @skills2 FETCH NEXT FROM emp_skills2 into @skills2 Print @empID + ' '+ @Rank + ' ' + @message
FETCH NEXT FROM emp_skills into @empID, @Rank, @skills
End CLOSE emp_skills DEALLOCATE emp_skills CLOSE emp_skills2 DEALLOCATE emp_skills2
--Previous Post--
Another question for all you SQL experts, I have a lot of them. I am trying to select from a table wher some conditions need to be met based on an employee ID. What I am doing is when the rank is a 1,2, or 3 I pick up the text description of that rank. Can I make it so that I get the ID only once and all the text descriptions are on the same line. Here is the sql script along with my current output and my desired output.
--SQL SCRIPT__
select C.empID, B.Rank,B.Text1 as Skills from tbl_survey_rank B , tbl_survey_valueID C where PATINDEX ( '%'+ltrim(rtrim(B.valueID))+'%', C.text1) >0 and C.empID = '2924'and (B.Rank ='1'or B.Rank ='2' or B.Rank ='3')
--CURRENT OUTPUT--
empID Rank Skills ------- ---- -------------------------------------------------- 2924 1 Create Documents 2924 2 Mail Merge 2924 3 Create Header and footer 2924 3 Create Spreadsheet 2924 3 Joining Tables in a Query
--DESIRED OUTPUT--
empID Rank Skills ------ ---- ------------ 2924 1 Create Documents 2924 2 Mail Merge 2924 3 Create Header and footer, Joining Tables in a Query, Create Spreadsheet
I have a stored procedure that rertrieves data from an sql database and sends out a mail to each receipient who meets the criteria
I am using SQL mail.
I dynamically generate the where clause for my sql query based on criteria taken from other stored procedures and store it in a varchar variable called @sqlquery
When i have the following code to run my cursor
DECLARE overdue3 CURSOR LOCAL FORWARD_ONLY FOR SELECT DISTINCT Events.E_Name, Events.E_SDate, Events.E_City, Events.E_ID FROM Events, IndustryEvents + @sqlquery2 OPEN overdue3
I get an error message at the '+' sign which says, cannot use empty object or column names, use a single space if necessary.
What should i do. i have tested the variable @sqlquery and it is definately not blank. There is no bracket error or anything.
ssn sex dob rel_code 111111111 m 19500403 m 111111111 f 19570908 w 111111111 f 19770804 d 111111111 f 19801203 d 111111111 f 19869712 d 111111111 m 19870907 s 111111111 m 19901211 s
I have to convert the rel_code into a specific manner so the data will look as below in TableB:
ssn sex dob rel_code 111111111 m 19500403 01 111111111 f 19570908 02 111111111 f 19770804 20 111111111 f 19801203 21 111111111 f 19869712 22 111111111 m 19870907 30 111111111 m 19901211 31
Member's rel_code = 01 spouse's rel_code = 02 daughter's rel_code starts from 20 with the oldest and increments by 1. Son's rel_code starts from 30 and increments by 1 from oldest to the youngest.
I know You can write a Sp with cursor and do this, but I would like to know if you can accomplish the same thing by a select or case or something else instead of a cursor.
I am trying to do dynamic Select for Cursor. The dynamic would be like this: IF CONDITION1 IS TRUE: SELECT CustomerTenderID, CustomerSiteID, ContractPeriod, SupplierID FROM dbo.tnd_TenderSiteRateConsumptionView WHERE CustomerTenderID = @CustomerTenderID IF CONDITION2 IS TRUE: SELECT CustomerTenderID, CustomerSiteID, ContractPeriod, SupplierID FROM dbo.tnd_TenderSiteRateConsumptionView WHERE CustomerTenderID = @CustomerTenderID AND CustomerSiteID = @CustomerSiteID
etc etc
Here's the cursor
DECLARE RateList CURSOR FOR SELECT CustomerTenderID, CustomerSiteID, ContractPeriod, SupplierID FROM dbo.tnd_TenderSiteRateConsumptionView WHERE (BASED ON CONDITION) ORDER BY CustomerTenderID, CustomerSiteID, SupplierID, ContractPeriod
OPEN RateList FETCH NEXT FROM RateList INTO@CustomerTenderID, @ReturnedCustomerSiteID, @ReturnedContractPeriod, @ReturnedSupplierID WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN SET @rowNum = @rowNum + 1
-- DO SOME FUNKY STUFF
FETCH NEXT FROM RateList INTO@CustomerTenderID, @ReturnedCustomerSiteID, @ReturnedContractPeriod, @ReturnedSupplierID
I have problems to place my variable into the select statement.
DECLARE @DB_NAME varchar(64) DECLARE MR_ReqPro_DB_cursor CURSOR FOR select name from dbo.sysdatabases where name like '%MR_req%' OPEN MR_ReqPro_DB_cursor FETCH NEXT FROM MR_ReqPro_DB_cursor INTO @DB_NAME
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN print @DB_NAME; --works fine
Select NAME, FILEDIRECTORY FROM @DB_NAME.MR_ReqPro.RQDOCUMENTS WHERE (FILEDIRECTORY LIKE '%\%');
FETCH NEXT FROM MR_ReqPro_DB_cursor INTO @DB_NAME END CLOSE MR_ReqPro_DB_cursor DEALLOCATE MR_ReqPro_DB_cursor
GO
How could i use a variable like @DB_Name in my select ?
I'm trying to build a select statement for a CURSOR where part of the SQL statement is built using a variable. The following fails to parse:
Declare Cursor1 Cursor For 'select table_name from ' + @database + '.Information_Schema.Tables Where Table_Type = ''Base Table'' order by Table_Name' Open cursor1
That doesn't work, I've also tried using an Execute() statement, no luck there either. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I can't seem to get a cursor to work when I'm passing in a variable for a column name of the select statement. For example:
declare @col varchar(50)
set @col = 'Temperature'
declare notifycurs cursor scroll for select @col from Table
Obviously this won't work correctly (since the result will simply be 'Temperature' instead of the actual float value for temperature). I tried to use quotes for the entire statement with an EXEC (ie. exec('select '+@col+' from Table' ) but that gave me an error.
Is there a way to pass in a variable for a column name for a curor select statement????
Using the sys.databases & sys.sysindexes views to display all the columns with a clustered index for all tables and all databases in a given server. So the end result will have 3 columns:
Database name Table name Column name from that table with a clustered index
I have already created the following script which displays all the databases for a given server:
declare @DBname nvarchar(128) declare testCursorForDB cursor for select name from sys.databases with (nolock) where name not in ('master','tempdb','model','msdb') order by name
open testCursorForDB fetch next from testCursorForDB into @DBname
while @@fetch_status = 0 begin print @DBname fetch next from testCursorForDB into @DBname end
close testCursorForDB deallocate testCursorForDB
I also have created the following query which will display all the table and column names which have a clustered index for a given database:
select object_name(i.id) as TableName,
i.name as IndexName from sys.sysindexes as i with (nolock) where i.indid = '1'
However, what I need help/advice on is how do I combine these two together into one working script (either using nested cursors or a better way). In other words, how can I specify which database to use (ie. using the "use database_name") so that my query above will be applied to each database found within the cursor.
an example for the pb 1)First i have created a dynamic cursor :
DECLARE authors_cursor CURSOR DYNAMIC FOR Select DISTINCT LOCATION_EN AS "0Location" from am_location WHERE LOCATION_ID = 7 OPEN authors_cursor FETCH first FROM authors_cursor
2)The result for this cursor is for expamle 'USA'.
3) If now i do an update on that location with a new value 'USA1'
update am_location set location_en = 'USA1' WHERE LOCATION_ID = 7
4)now if i fetch the cursor , i''ll get the old value (USA) not (USA1).
If i remove DISTINCT from the cursor declaration , the process works fine .
the cursor at the bottom iterates only to print the number of rows.The problem is in the select. This takes 30 seconds to iterate through 1242 records.But if I add a TOP 1000000 or whatever number to the select, the same iteration takes less than a 1 second.I've tested each query without cursor, and both have the same cost and performance. (Not exactly the same plan)Note that I got the same performance improvement declaring the cursor as STATIC.Why the top is affecting the cursor iteration so much?
An example for my pb 1) Created a dynamic cursor : DECLARE cursor_teste CURSOR DYNAMIC FOR Select DISTINCT name from table WHERE ID = 1 OPEN cursor_teste FETCH first FROM cursor_teste 2)The result for this cursor is for example 'teste'. 3) If now i do an update on that name with a new value 'teste1' than if i fetch the cursor , i''ll get the old value (teste) .
any idea how to make a select distinct result in a dynamic Cursor?
col1 col2 col3 col4 36930.60 145 N . 00 17618.43 190 N . 00 6259.20 115 N .00 8175.45 19 N .00 18022.54 212 N .00 111.07 212 B .00 13393.05 67 N .00 In above 4 col if col3 value is B then cursor has to fectch appropriate value from col4. if col3 value is N then cursor has to fectch appropriate value from col1. here col2 values are unique.
i have a variable which stores some values(ID) with single quote (so that i can use directlt inside the IN Clause of SELECT
Declare @DMSIDs AS VARCHAR(1000) -- variable declare,
Select @DMSIDs = '''DMS00046847'',''DMS00048305''' -- for test putting 2 correct values with escape characters
Select * from issue where id in (@DMSIDs) -- valid statment, but does not return any data Select * from issue where id in ('DMS00046847','DMS00048305') -- same above constant value this returns data, but putting the values in varaible then trying fails.
The reason is i have a master table called issue and have another table [delta] where a particular column will store all the ID's of the issue table comma separated with single quote and i wanted to use something like below in my actual application
Select * from issue where ID in (Select distinct delta_ID from Delta_branch where date = getdate()) but since the above example with variable is not returning any data i wonder if such is possible in any other ways.
I have a table when user add new sales or puchase will be added to this table ITEM_TXNS. The above date is part of the table for a ProductID . (The field is removed here) In order to calculate the balance amount using moving average, I must calculated the cost_out_amt first on the fly. When user add new sales I also need to determine the cost/unit for a product id using moving average. The problem is I can not just use sum, because i need to determine cost_out_amt for each sales first which will be calculated on the fly. The reason i dont store the cost_out_amt (instead calculate on the fly) because User could Edit the previous sales/purchase txn or Insert new sales for a previous date. Example THe record with ID 9. By Adding this txn with ID 9, would cause all the cost_out_amt will be incorrect (Using moving Average) if i store the cost_amout_out on entrying txn and need to be recalculated. Instead I just want to calculate on the fly and able to determine the cost avr for a specific point of time. Should I just use Cursor and loop all the record and calculate the cost or maybe I can just use on Select Statement?
Please help I'm trying to do a select command but doesn't return any record I have two tables one is "lists" another one is "list_records" in the liss table I have 4 records and in the list_records I have only one record which is tell who is already visited the site so I created a query to get people who is NOT visited the site
Here is my query (I got 0 record return)
SELECT *FROM lists list_reccords WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM lists, list_records WHERE list_records.is_visited = 1 AND lists.list_id = list_records.list_id)
Hi, I have a question about Insert into ..... Select clause in a SP. I need to insert some rows into a temperary table in a specific order. For example, insert into #TempTable { ....... ........ } Select * from products order by @SortBy @SortDirection. // First of all, the order by clause does not take variables. I have tried to use declare @query varchar (1000) set @query = 'Select * from products order by " + @SortBy + ' ' + @SortDirection exec (@query) // However, I get an error message because I should supply a Select statement. How can I solve this problem??
Here is the first part of a query for MySQL that I am trying to get working on MSSQL:
Code:
SELECT n.*, round((n.rgt-n.lft-1)/2,0) AS childs, count(*)+(n.lft>1) AS level, ((min(p.rgt)-n.rgt-(n.lft>1))/2) > 0 AS lower, (( (n.lft-max(p.lft)>1) )) AS upper FROM table n ...
But, I get this error message:
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 3 Line 3: Incorrect syntax near '>'.
I have the following stored procedure, I would like to use IF statement or something of the sort in the where clause i.e. The last line in the SP is: AND (category.categoryID = @categoryID), I only want to check this, if @categoryID is not = 12. So can I do something like this:
IF @categoryID <> 12 AND (category.categoryID = @categoryID)
STORED PROCEDURE:
CREATE PROCEDURE sp_get_total_risk_patients @categoryID int AS
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT patient.patientID) AS total_patients FROM patient INNER JOIN patient_record ON patient.patientID = patient_record.patientID INNER JOIN sub_category ON sub_category.sub_categoryID = patient.sub_categoryID INNER JOIN category ON category.categoryID = sub_category.categoryID WHERE risk = 6 AND (completed_date = '' OR completed_date IS NULL) AND (category.categoryID = @categoryID)
Is there any way of emulating Oracle's capability of passing output of user-defined functions in the select statement or better still in the Where clause in SQL server 7.0? If not then could we hope for it in SQl server 2000?
I have a table 'table_list' which contains two columns, table_name and a record_count. This table stores a list of tables and their corresponding record counts.
What I am trying to do is, to be able to write a select statement, that can read each table name in the 'table_name' column, execute a select count(*) for the same, and update its record_count with the result of select count(*).
This is the code in my procedure..
DECLARE @tab_list CURSOR set @tab_list = CURSOR FOR select * from table_list OPEN @tab_list
DECLARE @tab_name varchar(256) DECLARE @rec_cnt int FETCH NEXT FROM @tab_list INTO @tab_name, @rec_cnt
select count(*) from @tab_name
This select is looping around along with FETCH till all the table names are exhausted and their counts are updated from the cursor back into the table.
Problem is that, I am not able to use select count(*) from @tab_name, and its not accepting a variable there.
Please help me to construct the select statement that is similiar to
x=<table name> select * from x where x is a variable and the table name gets substituted.
