SELECT Statement - How To Not Get Column Field Names?
Jan 24, 2007
I do a SELECT * from table command in an ASP page to build a text file
out on our server, but the export is not to allow a field name rows of
records. The first thing I get is a row with all the field names. Why
do these come in if they are not part of the table records? How do I
eliminate this from being produced? Here's the ASP code....
<%
' define variables
dim oConn ' ADO Connection
dim oRSc ' ADO Recordset - Courier table
dim cSQLstr ' SQL string - Courier table
dim oRSn ' ADO Recordset - NAN table
dim nSQLstr ' SQL string - NAN table
dim objFSO ' FSO Connection
dim objTextFile ' Text File
' set and define FSO connection and text file object location
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Set objTextFile =
objFSO.CreateTextFile(Server.MapPath("textfile.txt"))
'Response.Write (Server.MapPath("textfile.txt") & "<br />")
Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("C: extfile.txt",2)
' write text to text file
'objTextFile.WriteLine "This text is in the file ""textfile.txt""!"
' SQL strings for Courier and NAN tables
cSQLstr = "SELECT * FROM Courier"
' set and open ADO connection & oRSc recordsets
set oConn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.connection")
oConn.Open "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=" &
"c:/Database/QaTracking/QaTracking.mdb" & ";"
set oRSc=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
oRSc.Open cSQLstr, oConn
Response.ContentType = "text/plain"
Dim i, j, tmp
If Not oRSc.EOF Then
For i = 1 To oRSc.Fields.Count
objTextFile.Write oRSc.Fields(i-1).Name
If i < oRSc.Fields.Count Then
objTextFile.Write " "
End If
Next
objTextFile.WriteLine
While Not oRSc.EOF
For i = 1 To oRSc.Fields.Count
If oRSc.Fields(i-1) <"" Then
tmp = oRSc.Fields(i-1)
' If TypeName(tmp) = "String" Then
' objTextFile.Write "" &_
'Replace(oRSc.Fields(i-1),vbCrLf,"") & ""
' Else
objTextFile.Write oRSc.Fields(i-1)
' End If
End If
If i < oRSc.Fields.Count Then
objTextFile.Write " "
End If
Next
objTextFile.WriteLine
oRSc.MoveNext
Wend
End If
objTextFile.Close
Set objTextFile = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing
oRSc.Close
Set oRSc = Nothing
oConn.Close
Set oConn = Nothing
%>
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The code above gave me the string "OrderID" as many times as there were rows in the table but I could never get the actuall values in the OrderId column. Can you please send me some ideas or code where I can get values from the column names and at the same time change the column name dynamically.
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resulting field names: FIELD1 FIELD2 FIELD3 ANOTHERNAME
Seems easy enough splitting all values before "FROM" by comma and doing some manipulation to remove table names and anything before the word "AS". However, it gets more difficult when you have complex CASE statements embedded in you query that may also contain commas.
Just a shot in the dark because I don't know if anyone has already done something like this before.
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Code Block SELECT DISTINCT Field01 AS 'Field01', Field02 AS 'Field02' FROM myTables WHERE Conditions are true ORDER BY Field01
The results are just as I need:
Field01 Field02
------------- ----------------------
192473 8461760
192474 22810
Because other reasons. I need to modify that query to:
Code Block SELECT DISTINCT Field01 AS 'Field01', Field02 AS 'Field02' INTO AuxiliaryTable FROM myTables WHERE Conditions are true ORDER BY Field01 SELECT DISTINCT [Field02] FROM AuxTable The the results are:
Field02
----------------------
22810 8461760
And what I need is (without showing any other field):
Field02
----------------------
8461760 22810
Is there any good suggestion? Thanks in advance for any help, Aldo.
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eg
DECLARE @column DECLARE @value SET @column = 'col1' SET @value = 'bloggs'
Select * FROM table1 WHERE @column = @value
It keeps returning no results even though i've tried
Select * FROM table1 WHERE col1 = 'bloggs' -- which returns results
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sum( a.qty) orderedqty
from a, company, countrycode
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group by company.billtocompany, countrycode.countryname, quartername
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