the basic pattern is... a user has approvers, and those approvers have approvers as well... i have 4 columns of approvers.. and if my first approver is the manager, then my second approver will be the managers approver and my third approver will be the managers approver's approver and so on..
on my actual page, i have select fields for the app, app2, app3, app4 and i need it so that when i change the very first app, it'll automatically update app2, app3, and app4
any ideas how i would do this? im pretty new to sql but im thinking i would use some type of join?
Hello, I am working on a project that involves one part where a field's value needs to be changed when the user updates the record. Here is the situation in detail: There is an InputData table where the user enters new records or changes existing records. There is a field called "calculated" in this table which has a default value of 'no'. A stored procedure runs math calculations on all the InputData records where the calculated field = 'no'. At the end of this stored procedure, it sets the calculated field = 'yes'. When new records are added by the user their "calculated" field value is 'no' by default so that the next time the stored procedure is executed, it only runs the math calculations on the new records. The problem is, if a user changes an existing record, the "calculated" field needs to be changed from 'yes' to 'no' so that the stored procedure recalculates the math for the modified record. How do I change the value from 'yes' to 'no' on records that the user modifies? Thanks.
I have a 3rd party developed app which has over 42000 data fields in 1200 tables. It is a heavy transaction type app. Of these fields over 10,000 are null for every record. SOme of their homegrown references these fields (and this can be removed), and in many instances many of the fields are not referenced at all. My opinion is that these extra fields are adding a heavy overhead to updates, inserts etc to the server. Any disagreements?
I'm not a T-SQL expert so I'm calling on the pros. I want to design a stored procedure that updates only fields in a given record for which a non-null parameter is specified. Example: Create dbo.MySproc @CustomerID int, @CustomerFirstName varchar(50)=NULL, @CustomerLastName(50)=NULL AS UPDATE Customers SET CustomerFirstName= @CustomerFirstName , //update only if non-null CustomerLastName= @CustomerLastName //update only if non-null WHERE CustomerID = @CustomerID RETURN So say when calling sproc if @CustomerFirstName is specified but @CustomerLastName is not, the field CustomerFirstName would be updated but field CustomerLastName would retain original data. Thanx in advance!
I have a table used by multiple applications. One column is an Identify field and is also used as a Primary key. What isare the best practices to use get the identity value returned after an INSERT made by my code.. I'm worried that if someone does an INSERT into the same table a "zillionth" of a second later than I did, that I could get their Identity value.
We are trying to migrate from sql 2005 to 2012. I am changing one of the implicit join to explicit join. As soon as I change the join, the number of rows returned are fewer than before.
INSERT #RIF_TEMP1 (rf1_row_no,rf1_rif, rf1_key_id_no, rf1_last_date, rf1_start_date) SELECT currow.rf0_row_no, currow.rf0_rif, currow.rf0_key_id_no, prevrow.rf0_start_date, currow.rf0_start_date FROM #RIF_TEMP0 currow LEFT JOIN #RIF_TEMP0 prevrow ON (currow.rf0_row_no = prevrow.rf0_row_no + 1)
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the count returned from both the queries is different.
I am not sure what am I doing wrong. The count of #RIF_TEMP0 is always 32, it never changes, but the variable @countTemp is different for both the queries.
I know there has to be a way to do this, but I've gone brain dead. Thescenario..a varchar field in a table contains a date range (i.e. June 1,2004 - June 15, 2004 or September 1, 2004 - September 30, 2004 or...). Theusers have decided thats a bad way to do this (!) so they want to split thatfield into two new fields. Everything before the space/dash ( -) goes intoa 'FromDate' field, everything after the dash/space goes into the 'ToDate'field. I've played around with STRING commands, but haven't stumbled on ityet. Any help at all would be appreciated! DTS?
i have a database with 300 tables. All the data types of the fields of my tables are custom. Ex. IFGint:int and stuff like that.
I want to know how can i through a stored procedure, change in batch mode all the fields of my tables. I don't want to modify by hand everytable. It's a lot of work and i think that maybe there might be a way for this programatically.
I have two input felds recieved date from and to fields. I would like to put one checkbox (not one for from field and one for to field) and when you tick the checkbox, I would like to disable both input fields indicating null values for both input fields. Is it possible?? If yes, how to archieve that?
I have a field on my SRS Report called directioncode. This field gives me a value of 1 or 0.
How do I fix this code so if the value of directioncode is 0, the text "Incoming" is displayed if the value of directioncode is 1, the text "Outgoing" is displayed?
Current value in the expression area of my field.... =Fields!directioncode.Value
Hi all: I need to change the year to many records that, by mistake, were put with a 2007 date, but they should be still with 2006, can anyone help me ?
I use Sql Server 2000 and the field is of type datetime
This is a followup to my last post. If a field name is changed in the database, what is the easiest way to determine what stored procedures and triggers that reference that field are now broken?
I am trying to JOIN table on datetime column truncated to full minutes with other table, where I store time intervals (in order to have all minutes in result even when there was no event in main data table).
SELECT dateadd(minute, datediff(minute, 0, StartTime), 0) as StartTimeMinute ,ApplicationName ,COUNT(*) as Requests FROM dbo.Profiler as p INNER JOIN dbo.MinuteIntervals as i ON i.TIMEVALUE = p.StartTimeMinute WHERE EventClass IN (10,12) GROUP BY dateadd(minute, datediff(minute, 0, StartTime), 0), ApplicationName ORDER BY StartTimeMinute
How to join on p.StartTimeMinute? I do understand why this doesn't work, as p.StartTimeMinute is calculated in my query, so JOIN cannot find it in original p table.
This morning we had an issue with a simple join between 2 tables e.g. table1 and table2. Both tables have 1 column called 'fielda' with datatype varchar.
Let's assume the following values: Table1: hello Hello
Table2: hello
This statement joins the tables: select a.fielda from table1 a inner join table2 b on a.fielda = b.fielda
It returns: hello Hello
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? What the $#@#$ Why doesn't it return 1 value: hello
Any ideas? The outcome is exactly what we want but I would expected to have to use the following: select a.fielda
from table1 a inner join table2 b on UPPER(a.fielda) = UPPER(b.fielda)
What if I wanted to return all EXACT matches? Then what? Change collation?
How can I change a field type whilst it is populated?
I have tried :
insert new_table select * from old_table
but I get :
Disallowed implicit conversion from datatype 'text' to datatype 'varchar' Table: 'davy.dbo.new_table', Column: 'de_area' Use the CONVERT function to run this query.
My table formats are as follows :
TABLE dbo.new_table ( de_pk int NOT NULL , de_name char (25) NOT NULL , de_area char(255) NULL )
TABLE dbo.new_table ( de_pk int NOT NULL , de_name char (25) NOT NULL , de_area text(16) NULL )
Hi, Is it possible to change any fieldname of an existing table?I mean to say by TSQL statement.We know that we can alter the data type and width etc. But I haven't got any info about filedname change.So if it is possible Please help... And Is there any TSQL command to alter multiple columns in a single statement?
We have a small table of about 13 million rows that needs altered. A column in the table needs to be changed from a varchar(20) to a varchar(500). When we ran the alter table script, 3 hrs later and it wasn't done running. Any suggestions on what we can do to speed up the process?
Thanks ahead of time DMW
Edit: We are running SQL Server 2000 and the db at the time was running in simple mood
SQL 2000 Enterprise Manager won’t let me drop a unique key index and move it to another field. I get an error regarding ‘drop index not allowed because of unique key constraint enforcement.
Is there anyway to change fields for unique keys in SQL Enterprise Manager?
"David Portas" <snipped for brevity> wrote:Example 1:[color=blue]>> UPDATE table_a> SET col = ? /* Unspecified */> WHERE EXISTS> (SELECT *> FROM table_b> WHERE table_b.key_col = table_a.key_col)>[/color]<snip again>Many thanks. I have used this sample extensively since you posted it. Hopeyou (or someone) can help me with one more thing: How would it be writtento update several fields in table A with data from table B, where as youhave shown, a column matches the records?TIA!~ Duane Phillips.
I import a flat file from a legacy system, and then convert it into a single table. That works simply enough.
Then I have a SP that querys that table using a parameter for an accountID. My business tier calls that SP and returns the results to the calling tier (my web application). Easy enough...
Now for the question. The people who created the flat file (written in COBOL) decided to use "codes" to represent data. So, for instance, if I'm looking for the account plan, I can expect to see characters like ], or [, or +, etc... These characters have a special meaning, like:
] = Plan A [ = Plan B + = Plan C, and so on.
Currently, the web application displays those characters, but I want it to display the actual plan name. Is there a way that when I execute the SP, the SP could pull the necessary records, and whenever it encounters a certain "plan" character, it could convert it into a "readable" name? Say that it sees that the plan_type field has a value of "]" for twenty records, so it converts those twenty records' plan_type value from "]" into "Plan A"? I'm not sure if I can do that, but I want to at least evaluate the option if I can.
I've evaluated other options, like using a CASE statement in my code, but I shot that down quickly...for obvious reasons. I don't wanna be changing my web application or business tier each time these guys update a plan name, or add a new one, delete an existing one, etc...
I've also thought about creating a dictionary table than contains the plan's code and its name, and then just INNER JOIN the first table with the dict table. This would keep my SP very simple (it's very straight-forward right now, and I like that). That way, if a plan name is ever changed, or a new one is added, I simply update the dict table using a simple query. However, if my SP is doing the conversion, I could just as easily update the SP.
Either of these methods would work for me, and I *do* know how to do the latter (dict table). However, there are quite a few other fields that I may have to do this for. I believe when I left for the day on Friday, my last count was 14 fields total that needed translation. That would mean 14 different dict tables! That could certainly affect my SP performance with all those INNER JOINS!
Therefore, I'm certainly interested in figuring out if it's possible to do the former method (SP), and then I shall decide which method is best for my situation.
Feel free to include your thoughts on which process you think is better as well. I'm really riding the fence with this one. However, if I can't find out how to change field values in my SP, then obviously I'll make a decision very quickly...
Why is it that when you change a field name is SQL Server it sometimes completely messes things up. I renamed a field in one of my tables from Emp# to EmpNumber. I had a view based on this table and naturally I knew I would have to change a view I had based on the table. I opened the view and changed the field from Emp# to EmpNumber but when I tried to open the view I got an error “Invalid column Name EMP#”. I have not been able to fix this. I have dropped and recreated the view, refreshed all the objects using enterprise manager, refreshed all the objects using Query Analyzer, shut down and restarted my computer, taken my database offline and put it back on line. The field name EMP# is not in any tables in my database and not referenced any views or procs . I am just starting on this database so I could verify this very easily because I only have a few views and procs.
Has anyone had this problem or more importantly does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it?
I have two databases that are merged using replication, and I want to change the length of one of the fields. Can anyone think of a way of doing it that doesn't require dropping the whole publication and rebuilding it? Thanks Ed
Hi Everyone,I have a question about dynamically changing the length of a varchar(n)field, in case the value I'm trying to insert is too big and will givea "truncated" error, but before the error is given! i.e. Is there somekind of a way to "test" the length of the field while Inserting thevalue into it, and to have it automatically increase its length to thelength of the value being inserted, in case the value is too big?I've been able to do this in a "primitive" way, simply by identifyingthe specific error number in case the value is being truncated, andthen increasing the length of the varchar(n) field by using the ALTERcommand, and then duplicating the insert statement, but is there astandard (shorter) way of doing this?Here is my code (I'm working in an ASP environment):<%var_txt = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345678789"sql = "Insert Into Table1 (text) Values ('" & var_txt & "')"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err = -2147217833 ThenResponse.Write "Error Recognized Successfully!<br /><br />"sql = "ALTER TABLE Table1 ALTER COLUMN text VARCHAR(" &Len(var_txt) &") NOT NULL"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err<>0 ThenResponse.Write "Error while trying to alter Column:<br/>" & err & "= " & err.description & "<br />"ElseResponse.Write "Column altered successfully to: " &Len(var_txt) &"<br />"sql = "Insert Into Table1 (text) Values ('" & var_txt &"')"On Error Resume Nextconn.Execute sqlIf err<>0 ThenResponse.Write "<br />Error number 2:<br />" &err.description &"<br />"ElseResponse.Write "Now it was added successfully!HaHa!<br />"End IfEnd IfElseResponse.Write "Success."End If%>Thanks in advance!
The formula for the above calculated fields are as below:
Opening Balance = carried forward balance from Year 2005 Debit = All positive amount Credit = All negative amount Net Change = Total Credit - Total Debit in Period 01 Balance = Total of Net Change + Opening Bal
Guys, hope someone out there can help me with the sql command for the above report?
SELECT DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY clroot.Ctgry1.Descr ASC) AS Row1, Row_Number() OVER (partition BY clroot.Ctgry1.Descr ORDER BY clroot.Ctgry1.Descr, T1.Descr ASC) AS Row2, left(t1.ID,4)+right(t1.levelid,4) AS ERPID,T1.ID AS Ctgry1ID, clroot.Ctgry1.ID AS ParentID, T1.LevelID, clroot.Ctgry1.Descr AS Category, T1.Descr AS SubCategory,
