I have a table with almost a million rows, although it's quite slim with just ID, date, userID, JobID etc.
Now I want to the ability to add comments to some (probably less than 1%) of those lines.
The question is whether to create a separate comments table to join to it, or to create a comments field within the existing table? The comments field would obviously default to NULL, so wouldn't bloat the table unnecessarily if I add that field (right?), and would always be selected with the row from that table, so I'm leaning towards the latter alternative.
Hi everyone. I've taken a while off of developing site in ASP.net but had a site that I wanted to upgrade a little, but needed a little help.What I have currently is a website of a person with videos and images of that person. To view the videos, I have a "view_video.aspx?ID=" page that plays the video from YouTube by looking my database for the ID, YouTube URL, Name, and Description. What I want to do is create a "comments" table for visitors to add comments for each video and then display all comments on the page.So far, my "comments" table looks like this. ID, otherID, name, email, comment, type, date.The ID is the id of the comment, otherID is the foreign key to the "videos" table, the name is the name of the person leaving the comment, e-mail is for the person, comment is the text, type is the type of video (tutorial, sampler, random video), and date is a timestamp for when users leave the comment.So hopefully I have a good start. I don't have any code to show right at the moment for I am at work, but if anyone has any ideas or critiques so far, I'd love to hear them. This is an interesting project for my friend and I'd love to implement this sometime.Thanks,TetrisSmalls
I am working on a project that lets visitors to my webpage post comments. I have there name, city, etc. stored into an sql database. This all works until I put text into the comments field of my form. I get this message when it is trying execute -- String or binary data would be truncated. I was wondering what data type to use, I have used char and varchar and neither one is working. Is there anything else I could try to fix this.
I am working on a model where I have a sales fact table. Each fact record has four different customer fields (ship- to, sold-to, payer, and bill-to customer). I have one customer dimension table that joins to the sales fact table four times (once for each of the customer fields above). When viewing the data in Excel, I would like to have four hierarchies (ship -to, sold-to, payer, and bill-to customer) within Customer.
Is there a way to build hierarchies within my Customer dimension based on the same Customer table? What I want is to view the data in Excel and see the Customer dimension. Within Customer, I want four hierarchies.
I have a detail table of comments. I need to grab the fist 50 characters from the comment field from this table. The kick is that I need to get the comments from all of the records in the detail table, as the comments might be less than 50 characters, so i need to pull the comments from the other comment records that apply to the master table record.
right now i have the comments in a join to the master table, but this is causing a few records to be returned....
I guess what i am looking for is a way to grab the comment value from the first record of the detail table.
Ok here goes. I have 3 tables, one holds case info, the 2nd holds possible outcome on the charges, and they're joined on a 3rd table (CaseOutComes). With me so far? Easy stuff, now for the hard part. Since there's a very common possiblitly that the Case has multiple charges, we need to track those, and therefore, display them on a datagrid or some other control. I want the user to be able to edit the info and have X number of dropdowns pertaining to how many ever charges are on the case. I can get the query to return the rows no sweat, but ...merging them into 1 record (1 row) with mutiple drops is seeming impossible -- I thought about using a placeholder and added the controls that way, but it was not in agreement with what I was trying to tell it . Any ideas on how to attack this?
I want to update the startdate column (for all rows) so that when period is 0 then the new value is a hardcoded value (say '01-Dec-2000') but for all other rows it takes the value in the enddate column for the row of the previous column (with the same freq)
ie the startdate column for period 1 takes the enddate value for period 0 and so on for a particular freq
create table #periods (period int , startdate datetime , [enddate] datetime , freq int) insert #periods ( period , startdate , enddate , freq) select 0 , '01-Jan-1900' , '31-Jan-2001' , 1 union all select 1 , '01-Jan-1900' , '28-Feb-2001' , 1 union all select 2 , '01-Jan-1900' , '31-Mar-2001' , 1 union all select 3 , '01-Jan-1900' , '30-Apr-2001' , 1 union all select 4 , '01-Jan-1900' , '31-May-2001' , 1 union all select 0 , '01-Jan-1900' , '31-Jan-2002' , 3 union all select 1 , '01-Jan-1900' , '28-Feb-2002' , 3 union all select 2 , '01-Jan-1900' , '31-Mar-2002' , 3 union all select 3 , '01-Jan-1900' , '30-Apr-2002' , 3 union all select 4 , '01-Jan-1900' , '31-May-2002' , 3
/* I know I need a case statement to test for column 0 and to join the table on itself and have put something together but it fails for column 0 and updates to NULL - I think it must be to do with the join ??
This is what I've got so far :
UPDATE PA1 SET PA1.Startdate = CASE WHEN PA2.period = 0 THEN 2000-12-01 00:00:00.000 ELSE PA1.Enddate END FROM #periods AS PA1 JOIN #periods AS PA2 ON PA1.Freq = PA2.Freq AND PA1.Period = PA2.Period + 1
I want to return all rows in table giftregistryitems with an additional column that holds the sum of column `amount` in table giftregistrypurchases for the respective item in table giftregistryitems.
What I tried, but what returns NULL for purchasedamount, where I want purchasedamount to be the sum of the `amount` for THAT item, based on giftregistrypurchases.itemid=giftregistryitems.id:
SELECT (SELECT SUM(amount) from giftregistrypurchases gps where registryid=gi.registryid AND gp.itemid=gps.itemid) as purchasedamount,* FROM giftregistryitems gi LEFT JOIN giftregistrypurchases gp on gp.registryid=gi.id WHERE gi.registryid=2
How can I achieve what I need?
Here's my table definition and data:
USE [tt] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[giftregistry] Script Date: 09-05-15 11:15:18 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[giftregistry]( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
Hello everyone, I have a query problem.I'll put it like this. There is a 'publishers' table, and there is a'titles' table. Publishers publish titles (of course). Now I want to make aquery (in MS SQL Server) that would return the last title published by everyof the publishers. Quite clear situation. But I can't make it work.If I use inner join (which I should, because I need data from both tables)then I get a result showing all publishers and all titles. What I want toget is all publishers, and only their last title, so I don't have more thanone line for the same publisher, and this line should contain publisherdetails and last title details.I tried using DISTINCT, but it works on a whole resultant row rather then acolumn, and since rows are all distnict (because they also contain columnsfrom titles) this didn't help me.What I can do is (in my application) first get a list of publishers, andthen loop through them selecting only the last title belonging to eachpublisher. I want to see if there is a way to accomplish the same thing withan SQL query (or maybe a stored procedure, view, or whatever). Anything ispossible, as long as it stays within SQL server and doesn't rely on theclient application.Of course, both 'publishers' and 'titles' tables have a primary key('publisherID', and 'titleID'), and 'titles' has a 'publisherID' columnwhich relates titles with publishers.Help :)
Hi i have a view that contain multiple tables from my database and i want to view it on datagridview and update it's data some people says you can update joined tables using instead of triggers how is that ?is there any example ?
Can someone please help me with a better way to format the following query. This works, but I know it is hidious.
Code Snippet
select
convert(varchar, processed, 101) as Date, count(o.id) as [# Orders], sum(distinct a.runnercount) as [# Runners], sum(o.total) as [$ Gross], sum(o.fee) as [$ Fees], (sum(o.total)-sum(o.fee)) as [$ Net]
from [order] o join (select convert(varchar,processed,101) as date, count(*) as runnercount from orderitem oi inner join [order] o on o.id = oi.orderid where typeofextraid = 4 group by convert(varchar,processed,101)) a on convert(varchar,processed,101) = a.date
where statemented = @statemented group by convert(varchar, processed, 101) 2 tables: Order and OrderItem. I need the sum of a specific record type from the OrderItem table along with all the other aggregate columns group by day.
I want to return all rows in table giftregistryitems with an additional column that holds the sum of column `amount` in table giftregistrypurchases for the respective item in table giftregistryitems.
What I tried, but what returns NULL for purchasedamount:
SELECT (SELECT SUM(amount) from giftregistrypurchases gps where registryid=gi.registryid AND gp.itemid=gps.itemid) as purchasedamount,* FROM giftregistryitems gi LEFT JOIN giftregistrypurchases gp on gp.registryid=gi.id WHERE gi.registryid=2
How can I achieve what I need?
Here's my table definition and data:
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[giftregistryitems] Script Date: 02-05-15 22:37:11 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[giftregistryitems]( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
Hi, This is probably straightforward but I'm not sure how to approach this problem.
I have 2 tables, one parent and a child. The child table has a Quantity and a Price field and also a FK to the parent table.
I want the parent table to display its own row data along with the Total Cost of the child rows in the child table. So it needs to multiply the price by the quantity but also do a sum of this calculated column.
To start off with I tried SUM( TOTALCOST ) and it didn't like it. I've got an idea I might need to create a View but was wondering what is the standard way of doing something like this? E.g.
We currently have an application whereby the user will come along sign up add some information about them, choose what interests / hobbies they're in to and then click save.After completing the sigh up they're able to search for other individuals within locations (look at this functionality as a dating site) We currently have a stored procedure whereby when the user clicks Advance Search they fill in all the fields they filled in when signing up and when they click search we return all users that match the data the user has selected. This part is working correctly.
The issue im having is extending this stored procedure to take a user defined table type which has two columns UserId and ActivityId both columns are nullable.This user defined table type is referred to in two places, when the user signs up and when they do an advance search.When the user does an advance search he / she can choose a list of hobbies / interests this will then be passed in to the database and I will join on my User_Activities table to find the users that have the Activities passed in.When I join on this table I get duplicate records purely because one user may have 5 - 10 activities depending on how active the individual is. My current stored procedure looks like this
@Ambition int = null, @Body int = null, @Diet int = null, @Drinking int = null, @Ethnicity int = null, @Exercise int = null, @HeightFrom int = null,
[code]...
So my question is how can I select all users that match the criteria passed in, as well as finding the users that match the activities passed in (the user can either match all of them or a minimum of 1). Also my User_Activities has two columns UserId and ActivityId identical to the user defined table type
I have a script that is supposed to run thru 2 joined tables and update a field in the 3rd table. The script works but takes approx. 4 hours to run against 250k records.
UPDATE a SET Con_Mailings = STUFF((SELECT '; ' + c.ListName FROM [server].[xxxxx_MSCRM].[dbo].ListBase c with (nowait) INNER JOIN [server].[xxxxxx_MSCRM].[dbo].[ListMemberBase] b with (nowait) ON b.ListID = c.ListID WHERE b.EntityID = a.TmpContactID FOR XML PATH('')),1,1,'') FROM [xx_Temp].[dbo].[Lyris_CombinedTest] a
I should end up with something like this in the con_mailings field:
Empid 1 has 2 entries for the date 09/01/2015 and my left join returns both of those entries. What do I need to alter to make it so that only the most recent entry is returned not both entries?
I have state, day_date, error, and text column. If there is data then it is showing all the columns. But if there is no comments I would like to show no comments in the text field. Currently I have this store procedure.
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.up_daily_quad_text
@DAY_DATE datetime
AS
BEGIN
SELECT
dbo.adins_database.ZONE_NAME + ', ' + dbo.adins_database.ZONE_STATE AS [STATE AND LOCATION],
dbo.COMMENT_CATEGORY.NAME,
dbo.COMMENT.TEXT
FROM
dbo.adins_database,
dbo.COMMENT_CATEGORY,
dbo.COMMENT,
dbo.DIM_DATE
WHERE
( dbo.adins_database.adins_id=dbo.COMMENT.adinsdb_id OR (dbo.COMMENT.adinsdb_id is Null) )
AND ( dbo.COMMENT.comment_dt=dbo.DIM_DATE.DAY_DATE )
AND ( dbo.COMMENT_CATEGORY.category_id=dbo.COMMENT.category_id )
AND
dbo.DIM_DATE.DAY_DATE = @DAY_DATE
END
GO
GRANT EXECUTE ON dbo.up_daily_quad_text TO AdIns_SSRS
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
I want to return all rows in table giftregistryitems with an additional column that holds the sum of column `amount` in table giftregistrypurchases for the respective item in table giftregistryitems.
What I tried, but what returns NULL for purchasedamount:
SELECT (SELECT SUM(amount) from giftregistrypurchases gps where registryid=gi.registryid AND gp.itemid=gps.itemid) as purchasedamount,* FROM giftregistryitems gi LEFT JOIN giftregistrypurchases gp on gp.registryid=gi.id WHERE gi.registryid=2
How can I achieve what I need?
Here are my table definitions and data:
/****** Object: Table [dbo].[giftregistryitems] Script Date: 02-05-15 22:37:11 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[giftregistryitems]( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
Here's my problem:I'm developing an ASP.NET 2.0 application that has a user select one or moreauto manufacturers from a listbox ("lstMakes"). Once they do this, anotherlistbox ("lstModels") should be filled with all matching models made by theselected manufacturers. If lstMakes was not multi-select, I'd have noproblem. But in this case it has to be multi-select. The database is SQLServer 2005 which does not accept arrays as parameters. I've been told thatI have to create an XML document that will act as a filtered Manufacturerstable that I can join to my Models table in my stored procedure. Problem isI don't have the foggiest idea how to do this. I've seen some examples thatjust leave me scratching my head so I was hoping someone could look at whatI'm trying to do and show me how to do this. Thanks!
Hello-I'm fairly new to writing SQL statements and would greatly appreciatesome help on this one.I'm working on a project for a non-profit that I volunteer for. Partof the database tracks membership using tables like this:PersonInfo-------------------PersonID (primary key)FirstNameLastNameetc..PeopleMemberships-------------------PPLMembershipIP (primary key)PersonIDMembershipTypeIDFeePaidMembershipTypes--------------------MembershipTypeID (primary key)MembershipYearStandardFeeMembershipDescription (varchar)Just because a person is in PersonInfo, doesn't mean they have anythingin PeopleMemberships (they can be in the databse for other reasons andnot have or have ever had a membership).Membership fees vary by year and type of membership and they want toretain a history of a person's memberships.What I'm looking to do here is write a query (a view in SQL Server)that will return the following InfoPersonID, MostRecentMembershipYear, FeePaidForThatMembership,DescriptionOfThatMembershipI'm thinking that I'd use max(MembershipYear), but that requires groupby for the other columns, so I'm getting all of the people'smemberships returned.I'm pretty sure this can be best done with a subquery, but I'm not surehow.Can someone please point me in the right direction or provide a samplethat I can learn from?Kindly,Ken
Table A has columns CompressedProduct, Tool, Operation
Table B in a differnt database has columns ID, Product, Tool Operation
I cannot edit table A. I can select records from A and insert into B. And I can select only the records that are in both tables.
But I want to be able to select any records that are in table A but not in Table B.
ie. I want to select records from A where the combination of Product, Tool and Operaton does not appear in Table B, even if all 3 on their own do appear.
This code return all the records from A. I need to filter out the records found in Table B.
SELECT ID, CompressedProduct, oq.Tool, oq.Operation FROM OPENQUERY (Lisa_Link, 'SELECT DISTINCT CompressedProduct, Tool, Operation FROM tblToolStatus ts JOIN tblProduct p ON ts.ProductID = p.ProductID JOIN tblTool t ON ts.ToolID = t.ToolID JOIN tblOperation o ON ts.OperationID = o.OperationID WHERE ts.ToolID=66 ') oq LEFT JOIN Family f on oq.CompressedProduct = f.Product and oq.Tool = f.Tool and oq.Operation = f.Operation
