Hi all,We're selecting data from our database, FirstName, LastName, MobileNumber etc.We're using the detaials view function to return it in a table upon selection. However all of the variables are returned as they are in the database, ie: without spaces. We tried putting in spaces by selecting "AS what ever", but MSSQL does not seem to like spaces.Any ideas?Thanks
I am trying to do a PIVOT on a query result, but the column names created by the PIVOT function are dynamic.
For example (modified from the SQL Server 2005 Books Online documentation on the PIVOT operator) :
SELECT Division, [2] AS CurrentPeriod, [1] AS PreviousPeriod FROM ( SELECT Period, Division, Sales_Amount FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader WHERE ( Period = @period OR Period = @period - 1 ) ) p PIVOT ( SUM (Sales_Amount) FOR Period IN ( [2], [1] ) ) AS pvt
Let's assume that any value 2 is selected for the @period parameter, and returns the sales by division for periods 2 and 1 (2 minus 1).
Division CurrentPeriod PreviousPeriodA 400 3000 B 400 100 C 470 300 D 800 2500 E 1000 1900
What if the value @period were to be changed, to say period 4 and it should returns the sales for periods 4 and 3 for example, is there a way I can change to code above to still perform the PIVOT while dynamically accepting the period values 4 and 3, applying it to the columns names in the first SELECT statement and the FOR ... IN clause in the PIVOT statement ?
Need a way to represent the following [2] and [1] column names dynamically depending on the value in the @period parameter.
[2] AS CurrentPeriod, [1] AS PreviousPeriod
FOR Period IN ( [2], [1] )
I have tried to use the @period but it doesn't work.
I have a huge table of around 6.2 billion rows in Oracle and I need to load this table to SQL Server. I am creating multiple raw files based on contact_dates in the table. I have used conditional expressions to branch out and create raw files. I need to specify static file names for each branch or I have to create multiple variables for each branch and use expressions to create file names.
My intention is to create only 1 variable and evaluate the expression based on the conditional expression description. Is this possible?
For example, the table below, has a foreign key (ManagerId) that points to EmployeeId (primary key) of the same table. -------Employees table-------- EmployeeID . . . . . . . . . . int Name . . . . . . . . . . . nvarchar(50) ManagerID . . . . . . . . . . . int
If someone gave you an ID of a manager, and asked you to get him all employee names who directly or indirectly report to this manager. How can that be achieved?
Hi all, I need a favour from you... can i do a list to find out the table names used by a stored procedure. remember it's around 700 Stored Procedures. and following a rule <databasename>.dbo.<tablename>
I am trying to tweak some code which is used to display the newest comments left on photos created by my members.
The existing code is this:
SELECT top 15 pnumber,pcomment,puser FROM photocomments order by pdate DESC
So the latest comment left was for photo #210879 from user "Cla" (redacted user names). The 2nd newest comment would be for photo #211072 from a member named "mo". pdate is a date field
However for the script I have coded I don't want all of the photo comments to show up. This is because I use access levels based on the type of location (higher levels mean more restricted galleries). I check the access levels as I go through the recordsets.
I use this method to get the top 15 comments:
SELECT top 15 pnumber,pcomment,puser FROM photocomments order by pdate DESC
Now I have to use two other tables to determine the access level. Since PHOTOCOMMENTS is just a list of photo #'s and the people who left comments for those photos, I need to:
a) determine what location the photo is from and b) determine the access level of that location
I use: select creator,access from locations where id=(select dir from photos where id="&pnumber&")"
This is a two step process as you can see. The first part is:
select dir from photos where id=(pnumber)
ID is the same value as pnumber seen in PHOTOCOMMENTS. That is to say PHOTOS.ID = PHOTOCOMMENTS.PNUMBER
If I haven't confused you yet, the executed code for the first example would be:
select dir from photos where id=210879
which would get me a value for DIR. DIR is the location number which would be:
select creator,access from locations where id=(dir value)
Just to simplify it a bit....
There are three tables (shown below)
PHOTOCOMMENTS PHOTOS LOCATIONS
I need to: SELECT top 15 pnumber,pcomment,puser FROM photocomments order by pdate DESC (first table shown)
but then also
select creator,access from locations (The last table shown) where id=(select dir from photos where id="&pnumber&")"
So the first table PHOTOCOMMENTS has to also join PHOTOS table where PHOTOS.DIR = PHOTOCOMMENTS.PNUMBER in order to get the value of "DIR" and then DIR is joined to the LOCATIONS tables where PHOTOS.DIR = LOCATIONS.ID
Here is the actual code, which I am trying to make into a single SQL command
strSQL = "SELECT top 15 pnumber,pcomment,puser FROM photocomments order by pdate DESC" set ors = oconn.Execute(strSQL) tl = 0 do until ors.eof or tl > 15 ' until we have 15 results because not every recordset will be of the proper security level
[Code] ....
Bonus points if you can also get it to select from LOCATIONS only WHERE userlevel >= 2
Hi all,A (possibly dumb) question, but I've had no luck finding a definitiveanswer to it. Suppose I have two tables, Employees and Employers, whichboth have a column named "Id":Employees-Id-FirstName-LastName-SSNetc.Employers-Id-Name-Addressetc.and now I perform the following join:SELECT Employees.*, Employers.*FROM Employees LEFT JOIN Employers ON (Employees.Id=Employers.Id)The result-set will contain two "Id" columns, so SQL Server willdisambiguate them; one column will still be called "Id", while theother will be called "Id1." My question is, how are you supposed toknow which "Id" column belongs to which table? My intuition tells me,and limited testing seems to indicate, that it depends on the order inwhich the table names show up in the query, so that in the aboveexample, "Id" would refer to Employees.Id, while "Id1" would refer toEmployers.Id. Is this order guaranteed?Also, why does SQL Server use such a IMO brain-damaged technique tohandle column name conflicts? In MS Access, it's much morestraightforward; after executing the above query, you can use"Employees.Id" and "Employers.Id" (and more generally,"TableNameOrTableAlias.ColumnName") to refer to the specific "Id"column you want, instead of "Id" and "Id1" -- the"just-tack-on-a-number" strategy is slightly annoying when dealing withcomplex queries.--Mike S
HI , I am joining two tables a--3 million records b--58 million records i am doing inner join based on common column, but it is doing cross join, giving 174 million records.. When i saw showplan it is showing physical---merge join logical ---inner join. Could any one pls suggest me.. thank u
i want to create a join query (for view) that will show one data per day for each agent. just a select query joing these two tables..Seems like the date field is given me problem i want result like below
I have the following tables:members--------------member_idmember_tpc_id ( = tpc.tpc_id)tpc------tpc_idcourse------------course_idtpc_assignment---------------------------tpc_assignment_idcourse_idenrollment-------------------member_idcourse_idenrollment_status Now I want to select all members where member_tpc_id>0 and get the enrollment_status of each member in each course where course_id IN (Select course_id From tpc_assignment)Now what i did was get all the members and then all the courses and did a cross join between them. There are about 1900 members and 80 courses and when I do a cross join I get 1900*80 rows (152000) and the status of each member for all the 80 courses. If not enrolled it returns Not Enrolled (i have a UDF which takes a member_id and a course_id and returns the status). The BIG problem is that its taking about 6-8 mins to run the query and as a result its timing out on the aspx page. Can someone please tell me how I can do what i am trying to do without using the cross join because I suspect its the culprit here. The query I came up with is Select *, dbo.returnStatus(temp1.user_id, temp2.course_id) As Status, (Select tpc_title From tpc Where tpc_id = temp1.member_tpc_id) As Tpc_Title From (Select member_id As user_id, member_name, member_tpc_id From members Where member_tpc_id> 0 And organization_id = '1' )temp1 cross join (Select course_id As course_id, course_title As course_title From course Where course_id IN (Select course_id From tpc_assignment Where tpc_requirement_id IN (Select tpc_requirement_id From tpc_requirement) And course_id<>0 And organization_id = '1') )temp2 Order By member_name, Tpc_TitlePlease help. Thank you.
Hi, anyone could help me on how to do the inner join of two table from two different database. Below is my scripts: Dim sqlconnection1 As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("appDSN")) Dim sqlCommand2 As New SqlCommand("", SqlConnection1) Dim sqlconnection2 As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("smDSN")) Dim sqlCommandSM2 as new sqlCommand("", sqlconnectionSM2) Sub Page_Load(Source as Object, E as EventArgs) sqlCommand2.CommandText = "Select * from invitation inner join Guest on invitation.guestid = Guest.Guestid inner join Department on Department.departmentcode = Guest.deptCode where eventcode = '" & ecode & "'" sqlconnection1.Open() ............................ The invitation table is from SqlConnection1 and the Department table is from the sqlconnection2. How to do this . Pls .. pls help me. Ann123
trying to get a new database created then running a script to created the tables, relationships, indexes and insert default data. All this I'm making happen during the installation of my Windows application. I'm installing SQL 2012 Express as a prerequisite of my application and then opening a connection to that installed SQL Server using Windows Authentication.
E.g.: Data Source=ComputerNameSQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=master;Integrated Security=SSPI; Then I run a query from my code to create the database eg: "CREATE DATABASE [MyDatabaseName]".
From this point I run a script using a Batch file containing "SQLCMD....... Myscriptname.sql". In my script I have my tables being created using "Use [MyDatabaseName] Go CREATE TABLE [dbo].[MyTableName] .....". So question is, should I have [dbo]. as part of my Create Table T-SQL commands? Can I remove "[dbo]."? Who would be the owner of the database? If I can remove the [dbo]., should I also remove dbo. from any query string from within my code?
Hi there. I haven't been able to figure out how to join a table on column on multiple table names. Here's the situation:
I have a table "tblJob" with a key of jobID. Now for every jobID, the program creates a new table that keeps track of the stock before the jobId was processed and after it was processed to give accurate stock levels and show the difference in stock levels. So, a jobID of 355 would be related to the table: "tblPreStock_335" and "tblPostStock_335". These 2 tables have all the materials in stock and the quantity. Therefore they show how much material was used. I need to figure out the difference in the material in the stock before and after the processing.
That means that I have to get a stockID, get the associated pre and post tables, and then display the difference of ALL the materials in the pre and post tables.
Could someone help me get started on the right path? Even a link to similiar problem that I haven't found would be nice.
i wonder what is the best approach to use !!!i have creditLimit column in Customer Table the default value will be 500 and this limit to allow users to send sms from my website ..... every month they will be allowed to send 500 sms referring to the credit limit column.... now !!if the user sent today some sms and after few days sent another 20 and after one week he sent 150 SMS as a total so that means he has only 350 SMS as credit to use this month!!!so what is the best approach to implement this solution ? shall i have another field in the table called 'CreditUsed' and that will be updated each time the user will send SMS and this value will be compared with the credit limit ORi use the formula for the column to calculate the credit left and do the maths !!!what is the best approach as you think ???thnaks for reading this question !!
i am running this script SELECT dbo.SHOVEL_A.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.HOLEID AS shovel_id, dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE, dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname, dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET, dbo.Shovel_Hole.S_FEET, SQRT(square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.EAST - dbo.Shovel_Hole.EAST) + square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.NORTH - dbo.Shovel_Hole.NORTH)) AS distance_total FROM dbo.SHOVEL_A FULL OUTER JOIN dbo.Shovel_Hole ON dbo.SHOVEL_A.POLYGONO = dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname AND distance_total <= dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET GROUP BY dbo.SHOVEL_A.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname, dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET, dbo.Shovel_Hole.S_FEET, dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE, SQRT(square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.EAST - dbo.Shovel_Hole.EAST) + square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.NORTH - dbo.Shovel_Hole.NORTH)) HAVING (dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE = 'PRODL') AND (dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname = '20040524029')
but i have a result with the message that my colum name distance_total is wrong, so how can i fix that?
We are thinking of using general purpose column names in our application schema. We want to give the option to the end user to customize the filed names to fit their business . We want to build the functionality on the generic names so that it will work for multiple customes.
Example: We may want to have 10 Strings, 10 numbers and 5 booleans pre defined and reports running off of the table. The customer can name first number as pressure, second one for length and map their data to the table. Other customer can use the first number for temperature and the second one for width.
Is there a way to do it in SQL server w/o having a lookup table for column name aliasing?
Hi All, I have a column called TIER in my database which is a long string. There are piece of these strings that are separated by spaces like this: 'A3A00 A2B00 B1A00 C2C06 C3A06 C5A00 D2C00 G6B00 M2B00 M3B00 P7A00 T2A00 G4C00 G3C00 T5A06' How do I select the last 2 characters of the piece of string when the first 2 chacters are M2? I have the following: This is retruning me all the rows that have 'M2'. declare @code varchar (2)set @code = 'M2'select tier from companywhere tier like '%'+@code+'___ %' Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
HI, how can i drop the identity on a column from the table. I have no access to the sql enterprise manager, i have to do it thru query analyser only. regards, varadish
i have a problem, i have a query which does a search based on a parameter, thing is i want to order them according to how relevant the results are such as 5 for beingan exact match, 0 for being no match. using a series of liek statements.
so that the most relevnat results are displayed at the top.
how do i achieve this - im a bit confused about this.
I have about 5 statements like the update below, depending on the PID different columns will be update "C2005, G2005,E2005...."
I would like to use 1 update statement in stead of 5 to update all columns below are 2 original update statements and my attempt at when then update. Note a different column is updated depending on the PID.
If when then isnt possible, any other suggestions are welcomed. Thanks UPDATE #Sec SET C2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 FROM #Sec INNER JOIN Pos ON #Sec.ID = Pos.ID WHERE (Pos.PID = 'B')
UPDATE #Sec SET G2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 FROM #Sec INNER JOIN Pos ON #Sec.ID = Pos.ID WHERE (Pos.PID = 'G')
UPDATE #Sec WHEN (Pos.PID = 'C') THEN SET C2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 end WHEN (Pos.PID = 'G') THEN SET G2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 end WHEN (Pos.PID = 'E') THEN SET E2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 end FROM #Sec INNER JOIN Pos ON #Sec.ID = Pos.ID
Im Working with stored procedure. How can i compare Columns with specific values. I want to get the greater values of those column and inserted it to other columns. i want something like these CASE WHEN a> b,c,d THEN a WHEN b> a,c,d THEN b WHEN c> a,b,d THEN c WHEN d> a,d,c THEN d
is there any ways to implement this? i got an error.. thanks please help..
SELECT @initial = CASE WHEN type = 1 THEN SUM(amount) END, @incomings = CASE WHEN type = 2 THEN SUM(amount) END, @outgoings = CASE WHEN type = 3 THEN SUM(amount) END, FROM Transactions WHERE date = '05/14/2006' AND STATION = 'apuyinc' GROUP BY type, amount
What I am trying to do is to sum all of the incomings transactions into @incomings, all of the outgoing transactions into @outgoings and the initial transaction into @initial where The incoming transactions is type 2, outgoing transactions is type 3
In SQL7, if you add a column to a table, is it necessary to recompile all stored procs that reference that table? Under 6.5, this caused problems at our site unless the Procs were 'refreshed'. Is this only necessary where select * is used? Thanks
