I have a booking system which stores an event along with a start date and a finish date. I want to create a table which has a row for each day the event is on. I can find the number of days easily enough using a datediff function but I don't know how to translate this into that number of rows. My current thinking is to cross join the original table out to another temporary table with a large number of rows and use SQL2005 to only select the top 'x' rows, then use the rownumber of this temp table to add the required number of days to the StartDate to get each eventdate. Currently I use a loop to build the required table but there must be a way to get it all done in a single statement :)
Thanks
ORIGINAL DATA
EventID StartDate EndDate
1 1/1/08 1/1/08
2 20/1/08 22/1/08
Using Microsoft query analyser SQL version 8, I believe.
Got a SQL table with a column that has NULLS in it. What I want to do is fill down the value in the row above based on a condition in another column (recordtype). Came up with the following code but unfortunately it only fills in the record directly below. Not those further down (variable number of NULL rows). Any idea how to get these to fill down? Suspect the answer may lie with block cursors but 1) I'm told they're slow (I have 2 and 1/2 million records in this table) and 2) I've never used cursors before!
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Update dbo.NSTS
Set dbo.NSTS.Number = NSTS_1.Number
FROM dbo.NSTS LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.NSTS AS NSTS_1 ON dbo.NSTS.[Id] = ((NSTS_1.[Id])+1)
WHERE dbo.NSTS.RecordType like '101' AND (dbo.NSTS.Number is null or dbo.NSTS.Number like '')
I did get a cursor loop working but can only retrieve 1 row and (try as I might with the so called help examples) can't seem to pull down 2 rows at a time. Just can't seem to get it to accept this command at all: SQLSetStmtAttr(hStmt, SQL_ATTR_ROW_ARRAY_SIZE, (SQLPOINTER) 2 ,0).
I have a dataset with 2 columns, a rownumber and a servername - eg
rownumber servername
1 server1
2 server2
....
15 server15
I want to display the servernames in a report so that you get 3 columns - eg
server1 | server2 | server3
server4 | server5 | server6
...
server13 | server14 | server15
I have tried using multiple tables and lists and filtering the data on each one but this then makes formating very hard - i either end up with a huge gap between columns or the columns overlap
I have also tried using a matrix control but cant find a way to do this.
Does anybody know an easy way to do this? The data comes from sql 2005 so i can use a pivot clause on the dataset if somebody knows a way to do it this way. The reporting service is also RS2005
I am trying to extract value from temp.variable and create new column in temp.table using that value for .eg
@name = 'abc'
What command should I use in my S.P to extract abc from @name, so I can create new column called abc in my temp. table.If there are any other ways of doing thinsg let me know.
I have created a job which performs linked server inserts, the job is scheduled to run every 15min. The Job inserts to a local linked server, some data from one of our log tables. That linked server inturn gathers more data from other servers and exports that data to another application for further processing.
My problem is that I need to reference local machine (DNS Name) as a variable which can be passed along with the linked server insert. If I can get the Server name dynamically I can run this as a remote job on 2 or 20 or 200 servers and It will give the log data and the name of the source server.
QUESTION: How Do I reference the server name from within TSQL as a variable.
I have a VBscript below which works fine, which creates a unique file name for a text source and creates it just fine. What I need is to use that file name in an insert statement in TSQL to load a record to a transaction table. How do I utilize this variable to do this? Thanks
I have a conditional split in an SSIS package - one split is where if rows are returned according to a specific rule, then insert those rows into to a Recordset Destinationm which points to a variable of Object type.
How I can use this variable to email fellow users. For example, what I would like is if ANY rows are returned to the Object variable (1 or more), then I would like to execute an email SP that we have on our server.
I am using the query below to retrieve these results: You can see that the results are repeated, once for DATIF = 1 and then again for DATIF = 2. In this case does not matter if the results appear close to DATIF 1 or DATIF 2. Take in care that I can not know how may extradates or Extrasums are attached to each Account.
Is there any way to avoid these repeated rows? Thanks in advance, Aldo.
ExtraSums.SUF FROM EXTRADATES AS ExtraDates LEFT OUTER JOIN EXTRADATENAMES AS ExtraDateNames ON ExtraDates.DATFID = ExtraDateNames.DATFID RIGHT OUTER JOIN ACCOUNTS AS Accounts ON ExtraDates.KEF = Accounts.ACCOUNTKEY LEFT OUTER JOIN EXTRASUMS AS ExtraSums LEFT OUTER JOIN EXTRASUMNAMES AS ExtraSumNames ON ExtraSums.SUFID = ExtraSumNames.SUFID ON Accounts.ACCOUNTKEY = ExtraSums.KEF LEFT OUTER JOIN EXTRANOTENAMES RIGHT OUTER JOIN EXTRANOTES ON EXTRANOTENAMES.NOTEID = EXTRANOTES.NOTEID ON Accounts.ACCOUNTKEY = EXTRANOTES.KEF WHERE Accounts.SORTGROUP BETWEEN 0 AND 999999999 AND Accounts.ACCOUNTKEY BETWEEN '123456' AND '123456'
;WITH ctePreAgg AS ( select top 500 act_reference "ActivityRef", row_number() over (partition by act_reference order by act_reference) as rowno, t3.s_initials "Initials" from mytablestuff order by act_reference
[code]...
But what I would love to do next is take each of the above rows - and return the initials either in one column with all the nulls and duplicate values removed, separated by a comma ..
OR the above but using variable number of columns based on the maximum number of different initials for each row.this is not strictly required, but maybe neater for further work on the view
I am developing a SQL database to cover operations that were previouslyhandled in a spreadsheet, and need to create a view or procedure thatpresents data into a matrix format similar to what the users are currentlyworking with. There must be a way I can create this using Transact SQL butI cant figure it at this point. What the users want is for data to bepresented in 7 continuous columns where each column shows records for 1 dayof a week and each record is presented as a 'block'. Any tips or hints frompeople who have achieved something similar would be gratefully accepted.A sample of the format appears below. (Set with tabs. Hope thistranslates)1/2/2004 2/2/2004 3/2/2004 4/2/2004 5/2/20046/2/2004 7/2/2004Person Smith Jones GreenRoom 1A 2B 3cStart 9:00AM 8:00AM 8:00AMEnd 5:00 PM 5:00 PM 5:00 PMPerson Brown WhiteRoom 1D 1DStart 9:00AM 9:00AMEnd 5:00 PM 5:00 PMPerson GreenRoom 1MStart 9:00AMEnd 5:00 PMNotes1. As the diagram shows, there is likely to be a different number of recordsfor each day.2. It is not necessary to have the field headings appear on the left of theview.
I created a cursor that moves through a table to retrieve a user's name.When I open this cursor, I create a variable to store the fetched name to use within the BEGIN/END statements to create a login, user, and role.
I'm getting an 'incorrect syntax' error at the variable. For example ..
CREATE LOGIN @NAME WITH PASSWORD 'password'
I've done a bit of research online and found that you cannot use variables to create logins and the like. One person suggested a stored procedure or dynamic SQL, whereas another pointed out that you shouldn't use a stored procedure and dynamic SQL is best.
The code below shows 4 rows. The first two rows are almost identical, but the two of them exists in the same table as different rows. Row number 1 is also related to Row number 3 and Row number 2 is also related to Row number 4 The problem is that I have to use only one of then (Rows number 1 or 2) togheter with row 3 & 4.
I thought using GROUP BY RECEIPTJURNALMATCH.JURNALTRANSID, but getting error. Thanks in advance, Aldo.
Code Snippet SELECT RECEIPTJURNALMATCH.JURNALTRANSID AS 'R.JURNALTRANSID', RECEIPTJURNALMATCH.MATCHNUM AS 'R.MATCHNUM', JURNALTRANSMOVES.ACCOUNTKEY AS 'J.ACCOUNTKEY', JURNALTRANSMOVES.SUF AS 'J.TOTAL', STOCK.REMARKS AS 'S.REMARKS'
FROM RECEIPTJURNALMATCH INNER JOIN JURNALTRANSMOVES ON RECEIPTJURNALMATCH.JURNALTRANSID = JURNALTRANSMOVES.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN STOCK ON RECEIPTJURNALMATCH.STOCKID = STOCK.ID
I had created a trigger which sees that whether a database is updated if it is its copy the values of the updated row into another control table now I want to read the content of control_table into BIzTalk and after reading I want to delete it.Can any one suggest the suitable ay to do this?
I'm stumped how to achieve my goal using stored procedures. I have a front end application that calls stored procedures to insert data. For example, customer pays a bill. To complete the payment process a command in the app is run which calls a stored procedure to insert a tender record and a second stored procedure to insert a transaction record. A customer can pay one to many bills at one time so the number of times the insert stored procedures are called is variable. I want to be able to use the begin transaction, commit and rollback statements so if there's a problem inserting a record all the inserts are rolled back. Previously the app used the visual basic begin transaction, commit, rollback, statements however I want to now use SQL stored procedures for inserts and updates. I've been struggling with this for some time and hope someone can help me.
select * from posts where id = @id and author =@author and message like @keyword
in my case a user can choose to search by one or more of this elements.
what will be the best approach to write a statement that will account for the posibility of the user leaving some "parameters" empty, while also allowing for the posibility that all parameters could be filled
one approach I have thought out is this
if (@id IS NOT null) select * from posts where id = @id
if (@author IS NOT null) select * from posts where author= @author
if (@keyword IS NOT null) select * from posts where keyword = (@keyword
but this does not really take care of the posibility that all of them or some of them will be null while others will not
Background: Customer sale records are kept in table (userHistory) that records: bookID, userID, and salesDate.
Objective: To find all the customers that have purchased the same books as any given customer, say customer1. For example, customer1 bought books bookA, bookB, and bookC; the goal is to find all of the other customers who also bought these books.
My First Attempt:
SELECT DISTINCT UH1.userID FROM userHistory as UH1, userHistory as UH2, userHistory as UH3 WHERE UH1.userid = UH2.userID ANDUH2.userid = UH3.userID ANDUH1.bookID = ‘bookA’ ANDUH2.bookID = ‘bookB’ ANDUH3.bookID = ‘bookC’ AND UH1.userID <> ‘customer1’
The problem here is that it cannot handle any more/less than 3 books. The above should work well for 3 books, but what if there are 2 books or 12 books? Does anybody have any suggested queries to handle a variable amount of books (eg joins)?
We are trying to use the Import/export wizard to load a text file to a SQL Server 2005 database. The input file has a variable number of columns per row. For example, the first row has 3 columns, the second has 7, the third has 3, etc. The number of columns varies from 2 to 9 in the input file. The columns are separated by an uptick (`) and the rows are terminated by {CR}{LF}. We are using code page 1252. On processing, the wizard reads the first row (with 3 columns) ok, but then assumes all the other rows have 3 columns and parses the rows accordingly, ignoring the field and row terminators.
The process worked fine with SQL Server 2000. Is there some setting that we are missing, or some configuration on the database that we should be checking?
Hi, I need to update a number of columns in a number of tables - I just don't know how many. In this case, I am updating all varchar fields and nvarchar fields to be converted to lower case. The problem is that the table structure is amended over time as columns are added programmatically, so I do not know which tables have which columns and if so which of them are varchars.
I can get a table of which fields I need to update using:
SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION, DATA_TYPE INTO tblTempLCase FROM information_schema.columns WHERE DATA_TYPE LIKE '%varchar'
and I can do the update with UPDATE tblxxx SET column = LOWER(column)
But what I don't know is how to step through my temporary table and do the updates. I can do it in ASP.NET, but that involves pushing commands and data between ASP and SQL, and will be too slow. How do I do it in SQL?
I need to update a number of columns within a number of tables - I just don't know how many. In this case, I want to convert all varchar and nvarchar columns to lower-case versions of themselves. The problem is that the table structure is changed programatically, and so at any point in time I cannot be certain what fields are in which table, and what data type they are.
I know that I can get a lit of columns using:
SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION, DATA_TYPE INTO tblTempLCase FROM information_schema.columns WHERE DATA_TYPE LIKE '%varchar'
and do the update using:
UPDATE tblABCDE SET column = LOWER(column).
In ASP.NET I can pull in this temporary table using a SQL Data Adapter, and then step through the records to formulate the UPDATE statements and execute them all. However, I hope that this is possible in SQL too, so that I do not have to keep firing data/commands between ASP and SQL, as it should be quicker, and is also neater.
I need to update a number of columns within a number of tables - I just don't know how many. In this case, I want to convert all varchar and nvarchar columns to lower-case versions of themselves. The problem is that the table structure is changed programatically, and so at any point in time I cannot be certain what fields are in which table, and what data type they are.
I know that I can get a lit of columns using:
SELECT TABLE_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION, DATA_TYPE INTO tblTempLCase FROM information_schema.columns WHERE DATA_TYPE LIKE '%varchar'
and do the update using:
UPDATE tblABCDE SET column = LOWER(column).
In ASP.NET I can pull in this temporary table using a SQL Data Adapter, and then step through the records to formulate the UPDATE statements and execute them all. However, I hope that this is possible in SQL too, so that I do not have to keep firing data/commands between ASP and SQL, as it should be quicker, and is also neater.
I have the following situation; I have one table (tblA) in which a new record just has been inserted. Once this insert is completed successfully, I want to insert a variable number of records into another table (tblB). The primary key of tblA is being used inside tblB as one of the columns in each insert. I’ve already been able to transfer the primary key, generated by the insert for tblA, pretty easy. But to make things a bit more complicated, the variable number of records to add is being decided by the outcome of a query based on an entry inside tblA (after the insert) and this is then being run on another table (tblC). The SELECT statement from tblC combined with the Select parameter from tblA will then decide how many records I have to insert. Sorry for the (perhaps) confusing way of writing this down, but I’ve been struggling with this for a couple of days now and I really need to get it working. Anybody who can help?Thanks in advance,Sunny Guam
I have a strongly typed dataset, and I need to be able to do a search on multiple values of a parameter. The problem is I don't know how many. I have a textbox that the user can enter search words in. The select string is built from the string of words that are entered, like this:For iCount = 0 To UBound(sArray) strSQL = strSQL & "Description LIKE '%" & sArray(iCount) & "%' OR "Next Can I do this is a dataset method? How? If I can't, what are my options?Diane
I have a web page which passes back parameters to a stored procedure. From the web page the user selects different clauses for the 'where' criteria. Based upon the number of clause items in the parameters sent back, a select statement is built and executed. In the stored procedure I have many if statements to chose the correct sql statement. As the no of clauses in the where statement can vary, it can become messy script. Has anyone dealt with this scenario. What is the best strategy ?
A simple illustation of this is as follows A statement with two clauses :-
Select * from Sales where user = 'John' and country = 'England' A statement with three clauses :- Select * from Sales where user = 'John' and country = 'England' and County = 'Staffordshire'
The stored procedure would except three parameters and would build a string based on the number of actual where clases sent back
Hi, i'm trying to port a pivot query from access to sqlserver. I'm trying this query:
SELECT IDMerce, [1] AS [Department-1], [2] AS [Department-2], [3] AS [Department-3], [4] AS [Department-4] FROM (SELECT IDMerce, Pezzi, IDMagazzino FROM Disponibilita) p PIVOT (sum(Pezzi) FOR IDMagazzino IN ([1], [2], [3], [4])) AS pvt
this works, but in my case i don't know in advance how many transformations i need, so there is a solution? Thanks
I have a requirment to take data from a large set of tables where thetotal number of these tables may change on a regular baisis andoutput into another table. All the tables willl have the samecolumns. Frequency is being debated but it maybe as much as once perhour.Example1) I need to choose all the following tablesselect * from dbo.sysobjects where name like '_CPY%.2) then I need the followingfor each of the tables found above, I need the outfrom from each ofthose tables to be inputted into another table. basically, I wouldwant the following output from each of the tables found in step 1select machineid,name from _cpy_offermanager_6783) In the end I would have something like dbo.ALLCPY with recordscombined from all other _CPY tablesRon Sorrell
Can a Sql Server SP have variable number of arguments??? If yes, can somebody point me to a resource demonstrating that??? I need to send variable number of arguments to some of my SPs & iterate them with either foreach or traditional for loop. Any support would be greatly appreciated.
If variable number of arguments are not feasible, then can I pass them as an array to the SP (again a Sample code would be desirable)???
