Is there a way that you could get the column names for each table in a database using 1 query?
something like:
tbl colname
t1 catID
t1 catName
t2 prodID
t2 prodDesc
t3 cartID
...
...
I know it would be long, but I would just be searching through the saved output for specific names.
I have a situation in which i have to get the last value stored in the Primary Key for all the tables. Based on this value i have to update another table which stores the Table names and the last Key value for the table. The values in this table are not correct therefore i have to update it now. I was trying to write a cursor for this but the only problem is i can't get to know how to get the column name on which the primary key is defined for all the tables, thru code.
I would appreciate if someone could help me out with this.
If you need to inner join 2 tables that have some columns names that are the same, how can you have those columns be named differently in the query result without aliasing them individually?
Tried select a.*,b.* from tbldm a,tblap b where a.id=b.id hoping the col names in the result would have the a.s and b.s in front of them but they didn't.
Hi all,
From the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES view I want to return the TABLE_NAME of tables that have columns say, named Email and EmailStatusId. Is it possible to do this with a single select statement or would I have to use two selects for this?
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.
I have two different tables... one for all Staff, and another for all Temp Staff. I need both to output to a datagrid, and so I need to grab both tables from a SQL query to output to my datagrid, but I can't seem to get the logic right for it to work. Can someone give me some suggestions on why my results are blank when I'm running this query? I thought a simple join would allow both sets of identical column names to coexist in peace...SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT dbo.StaffDirectory.UserName, dbo.StaffDirectory.LastName, dbo.StaffDirectory.FirstName, dbo.StaffDirectory.Dept, dbo.StaffDirectory.Title, dbo.StaffDirectory.EMail, dbo.StaffDirectory.LocationFROM dbo.StaffDirectory INNER JOIN dbo.TempStaff ON dbo.StaffDirectory.Location = dbo.TempStaff.Location AND dbo.StaffDirectory.EMail = dbo.TempStaff.Email AND dbo.StaffDirectory.Title = dbo.TempStaff.Title AND dbo.StaffDirectory.Dept = dbo.TempStaff.Dept AND dbo.StaffDirectory.FirstName = dbo.TempStaff.FName AND dbo.StaffDirectory.LastName = dbo.TempStaff.LName AND dbo.StaffDirectory.UserName = dbo.TempStaff.UName AND dbo.StaffDirectory.MDNo = dbo.TempStaff.MDNoIs something wrong here? It just doesn't work =(Any suggestions would be really appreciated.Thank you
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is it possible to replicate data from one table to another which have different names,different schemas and different column names.
Im trying this using transactional replication.
i achieved this for different schema, different table names.but it is failing for different column names.
till now i haven't got a proper reply for my problem.
regards
Baji Prasad.B
I'm not a full-time DBA, so excuse my style of expressing my question.I have a database which has 2 tables in SQL 2005. Both these tables have similar column names, EXCEPT for new extra columns in FY2007_DATA. I can visually see the difference in columns in Database Diagrams. My goal is to :- I want to compare FY2007 tbl column names to FY2006 column names and display only those columns as results that do not match.Tbl 1 :- FY2006_DATA Tbl 2:-
FY2007_DATA
With online reading and help I have managed to get this script to do exactly opposite of what i want. Below is the query
/* This query compares the column names from two tables and displays the ones that have an exact match. It does not care for case-sensitiveness */
Select a.Table_Name, a.Column_Name, (b.Table_Name), (b.column_name)
From [2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS a
Join [2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS b on a.Column_Name = b.Column_Name
Where a.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2006_DATA'
And b.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2007_DATA'
AND a.Column_Name IN
(Select Column_Name = LEFT(c.column_name, 20) FROM
[H1B_2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS c WHERE c.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2007_DATA' )
When I change "AND a.Column_Name IN.." to "AND a.Column_Name NOT IN.." so that the results will (should) display the extra columns in FY2007, in fact I do not see any results, but query executes perfect.
How can I achieve my goal.?
Thank you
I am trying a create views that would join 2 tables:
Table 1: Has all the columns need by a view (
Name: Product
Structure: ID, Attribute 1, Attribute 2, Attribute 3, Attribute 4, Attribute 5 etc
Table 2: Is a lookup table that provides the names of columns
Name: lookupTable
Structure: tableName, ColumnName, columnValue
Values: Product, Attribute1, Color
Product, Attribute2, Size
Product, Attribute3, Flavor
Product, Attribute4, Shape
I want to create a view that looks like
ID, Color, Size, Flavor, Shape
Hi
I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how we could find the table names and column names of the tables in our Sql server database at runtime/dynamically given our connection string? Please let me know.
Thanks.
I am using the following select statement to get the row count from SQL linked server table.
SELECT Count(*) FROM OPENQUERY (CMSPROD, 'Select * From MHDLIB.MHSERV0P')
MHDLIB is the library name in IBM DB2 database. The above query gives me only the row count of table MHSERV0P. However, I need to get the names, rowcounts, and sizes of all tables that exist in MHDLIB librray. Is it possible at all?
Firstly I consider myself quite an experienced SQL Server user, andamnow using SQL Server 2005 Express for the main backend of mysoftware.My problem is thus: The boss needs to run reports; I have designedthese reports as SQL procedures, to be executed through an ASPapplication. Basic, and even medium sized (10,000+ records) reportingrun at an acceptable speed, but for anything larger, IIS timeouts andquery timeouts often cause problems.I subsequently came up with the idea that I could reduce processingtimes by up to two-thirds by writing information from eachcalculationstage to a number of tables as the reporting procedure runs..ie. stage 1, write to table xxx1,stage 2 reads table xxx1 and writes to table xxx2,stage 3 reads table xxx2 and writes to table xxx3,etc, etc, etcprocedure read final table, and outputs information.This works wonderfully, EXCEPT that two people can't run the samereport at the same time, because as one procedure creates and writesto table xxx2, the other procedure tries to drop the table, or read atable that has already been dropped....Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get around thisproblem?I have thought about generating the table names dynamically using'sp_execute', but the statement I need to run is far too long(apparently there is a maximum length you can pass to it), and evenbreaking it down into sub-procedures is soooooooooooooooo timeconsuming and inefficient having to format statements as strings(replacing quotes and so on)How can I use multiple tables, or indeed process HUGE procedures,withdynamic table names, or temporary tables?All answers/suggestions/questions gratefully received.Thanks
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I need to create the following table in reporting services
PRODUCT April March Feb
2008 2007 2008 2007 2008 2007
chair 8 9 7 4 4 4
table 3 4 5 6 4 6
My problem is the month names are a column in the dataset, but I dont know how to get it to fill as column headers???
Thanks in advance!!!
I have a table that I am basically reduplicating a couple of times for each part of this database that I want to create.Each table basically has the same data: The tables will be called motherTable, fatherTable, sonTable, daughterTable and so on.I am pretty much using the following in each column: UserID, MotherID(or FatherID or SonID, etc., etc. and so on for each unique table), FirstName, LastName, MiddleName, BirthPlace, Photo, Age.I don't see an option to copy a table and just modify the second ID part and rename that table accordingly.How can I make this an easier way of creating these similar tables without retyping all these columns over and over again?Thanks in advance.
View 4 Replies View RelatedHi All,
I need to get the names of tables and fields (or atleast the fields) from a database. Is there a query I can use that will return what all the db's tables and those tables fields are?
Thanks
Lee
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D.P. at 3/15/99 2:04:04 PM
Using VB5|6/ADO/MSSQL6.5. I want to get the names of tables in a query. I.e. if query is "Select Name, Title from Employee inner join job on employee.empid = job.empid" I want a way to get "Name, Title"
In VB 3 we used the VBSQL.VBX which had 2 functions for this: SQLTabCount and SQLTabName.
Thanks in advance
DP
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Gregory at 3/15/99 2:25:31 PM
dp ++++++++++++++++++
see my responses below
dp ++++++++++++++++++
if u need to get "Name" and "Title" - u're trying to get column(field) names??
-or-
if u need to get table names involved in a query - u need to get "Employee" and "Job"
so what exactly do u need??
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dp ++++++++++++++++++
My bad... I wanted Employee, Job. The Table names.
dp ++++++++++++++++++
if u need to see column names - u can use Fields collection to get all fields in a recordset
I don't know if there's a way to get table names of tables involved in a query, in ADO.in RDO there's a property of a rdoColumn object to get table name (which doesn't work always anyway).
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dp ++++++++++++++++++
actually this can be done in ADO. You can get the table from which the column was derived by using rs.fields(##).properties("BASETABLENAME") but I don't want to rely on this because I may not have a field from each table... What I really want is creat a recorset and ask it what tables it's drawing from. Again, VBSQL had SQLTabCount which gave you the number of tables in the query and then SQLTabName would give you the names by table number
dp ++++++++++++++++++
or, in select statement u can aliases:
select Name as 'Employee_Name',
title as 'Job_Title'
from employee, job
where employee.job_id = job.job_id
so, when you get all fields from fields collection, u can check field name
dp ++++++++++++++++++
yeah... i'll do this if I have to... looking for a better way (hopefully) first
dp ++++++++++++++++++
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or , u can use ODBC API functions to get that information (for example using SQLColumns() function) - but, u'll need to connect first, to get connection handle, then prepare or execute statement to get statement handle, and then get information about columns (and table names).
dp ++++++++++++++++++
this sounds interesting.... where might I find more info about this??? If i create an ado recorset, will I be able to "analyze" it in this way via ODBC?
dp ++++++++++++++++++
I am attempting to how to truncate list of tables using STP. That is decalre a cursor for a list table names and then to truncate the table names one by one.
The code below shows what I want to achieve. I want to truncate all the tables with names beginning with ZZ but this is failing. I have tried using both delete and truncate.
Is it possible and what do I need to do?
-- Code
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER Off
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
create PROCEDURE dbo.Empty_ZZ
AS
DECLARE @tablename sysname
DECLARE @localname varchar(50)
DECLARE ZZtablenames_cursor CURSOR FOR
select [name]
from sysobjects
WHERE [xtype] = 'U'
and name like 'ZZ %'
OPEN ZZtablenames_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM ZZtablenames_cursor
into @tablename
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
set @localname = '[' + @tablename + ']'
TRUNCATE + @localname
FETCH NEXT FROM ZZtablenames_cursor
END
CLOSE ZZtablenames_cursor
DEALLOCATE ZZtablenames_cursor
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
We have recently copied a database from one machine to another. On the old machine, when we access the tables we do not need to use the username.tablename convention to query them. On the new box we do.
For example, to query a table called Page we would nee to do this on the new box.
SELECT *
FROM webdev.page
unfortunately all the code is written, without the username prefix. Is there a way to not use the username prefix?
Thank you for your help...sorry for the newbie type question.
Hello,
Im trying to get the column names from a database and display them in textboxes. someone has already helped me by tellnig me that i need to use the FillSchema command. Which works just fine and I can see only the colum names in a datagrid when i bind it to that.
The problem is that I do not know how to extract the name of a column and put it in to a textbox ?
does anybody know how I can fo this ?
Thanks a million
Rob
Hi,How do I display the column names from my Sql server table?In asp3 the recordset allowed thisforeach key in rs ColumnName = key.name ColumnValue = key.valuenextHow do I do this in .Net?I want to use a DataReader so I can read through each record and only display the ones I want.TABLE_ONEColumn_OneColumn_TwoColumn_Threethanks,
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi, i need a query to have the columns names !!
If you have another solution, let me know !!
superj !!!
Hi
When I run this query..
SELECT COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME='TableTest'
I get all the column names, but the result is not in the same order as when I check the design for the table, why is that?
At my work, we are upgrading a number of MS Access 2000 databases to SQL Server 2000. Many of the columns have names that do not follow the rules for Identifiers. For example there are columns with a numeric names 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. There are also columns with a hyphen in the name and columns that begin with a number and not an underscore or an alpha character. Plus there are columns with names like first, last, position, etc. (There was also columns with reserved words used as the names. I have changed those column names in the databases that I have already converted) Will leaving these names alone create a problem? The database serves as the backend to ASP pages.
Miranda
I'm looking for a query that will return all index names, the table the index is on and the columns in the index...
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I have developed an application in ASP/SQL server 7.
Ths system is single user. One of the tables is updated by usr actions( say Table A).
To make it multi user. I want to create table such as A_Username.
How can query be written for this. Also there are many stored procedures which will access this table. In these stored procedures i will send username as an input. Then the query in the stored procedure shd access the table as A_Username .
Such dynamic table name refrencing , how can it be done.. Is creating a string for the query and then executing it using sp_exec the only option?
pls suggest
SQL query to understand the names of all the available tables in the database , number of records in these tables and size of these tables ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a number of tables, that I need to copy with data intact, about once a year.
Let's say the table name is 'dbo.MyTable'
I just do a SQL Statement like this:
SELECT * INTO dbo.MyTable'BU06032015 FROM dbo.MyTable
How can I automate this so that it does the Select Into statement and automatically adds the 'BU' + the current date?
Hello,I'm still extremely novice to SQL and I've tried googling how to produce this result but I've been encountering a lot dynamic sql commands which isn't exactly what I want. If this is an ignorant question I do apologize but heres my scenario: I have a table with columns of the day, for instance: Monday_hasData (bit)Monday_DataAnd what I want to do is essentially pass in "Monday" as a parameter and rather than doing an If statement on each row, I would like to just like to do something like assign @dayCheck + "_hasData" to a variable and then use @dayCheck as part of my query. Is this possible or am I going to have to have 7 cases? Thank you for any input,Chance
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi all,
By using below query i can get no of tables having the give column name in a particular database,
SELECT COUNT(*) AS CounterFROM syscolumnsWHERE (name = 'empno')
but i want to know the table names too?
any one please suggest me how to find table names too......
In other words i know the particular column name and right now i want to know the table names in which this column name exists.
Hi,
I have a table in which out of 20 columns, there will be data only in a few columns. So, I need to find those column names which have data in them. I was able to do it using the information_schema and using a cursor to loop through all the column names and find out which columns have data in them. But i need to know if there is a more efficient way of doing this without using the cursor. Can somebody please let me know how this can be done without using a cursor? Thank you.
Can anyone help me with a SQL statement that will list all the column names in a table please ?
I just want to list out the column name so that i can develop asp/vb more effectively than having to use SQLEM and Design table to see the field names.:confused:
thanks
FatherJack
Hi is possible to create dynamic column name
example
Declare
@StartDate as dateTime
Select @StartDate = '2004-06-05'
select
SUM(Case When table1_date BETWEEN dateadd(day,-6,@StartDate) and @StartDate then 1 else 0 end)AS [dateadd(day,-6,@StartDate)],
SUM(Case When table1_date BETWEEN dateadd(day,-13,@StartDate) and dateadd(day,-7,@StartDate) then 1 else 0 end)AS [dateadd(day,-13,@StartDate)]
from
table1
I would like to pass into a stored proc the column names I want it to return; how do I do this please?
So I pass in say:
@p_AccountNumber with a value of 'AccountNum'
and the SELECT that the sp fires is of the form
SELECT AccountNum from AccountTable
Any help appreciated
thanx for the help in advance,
i have a table with Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. .... Sunday
i get the weekday by
select @stat = datename(dw, getdate()) which in this case is Wednesday
but when i do something like
select top 2 * from myTable
where 'myTable.'+@stat = 1
which is as same as
select top 2 * from myTable
where myTable.wednesday = 1
i receive a syntax error. how can i dynamically select myTable.Wednesday ?
i also tried using
select top 2 * from Intercon
where '@stat' = '1'
but then this doesn't return anything where it should.
any help?