Does anyone know a select statement that would return the column names
and keys and indexes of a table?
Thanks,
TGru
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I have a quick question on SQL Server. Lets say I have table Order which has column names OrderId, CustomerName, OrderDate and NumberofItems. To select the OrderID values from the table I say
Select OrderId from Order.
But in the select if I want the column name to be variable how do I do it. I tried the following code through a stored procedure.
declare @order_id nvarchar(10)
select @order_id = 'OrderID'
SELECT @order_id from Order.
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.
I do a SELECT * from table command in an ASP page to build a text fileout on our server, but the export is not to allow a field name rows ofrecords. The first thing I get is a row with all the field names. Whydo these come in if they are not part of the table records? How do Ieliminate this from being produced? Here's the ASP code....<html><head><title>Package Tracking Results - Client Feed</title></head><body><%' define variablesdim oConn ' ADO Connectiondim oRSc ' ADO Recordset - Courier tabledim cSQLstr ' SQL string - Courier tabledim oRSn ' ADO Recordset - NAN tabledim nSQLstr ' SQL string - NAN tabledim objFSO ' FSO Connectiondim objTextFile ' Text File' set and define FSO connection and text file object locationSet 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 tablescSQLstr = "SELECT * FROM Courier"' set and open ADO connection & oRSc recordsetsset 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, oConnResponse.ContentType = "text/plain"Dim i, j, tmpIf Not oRSc.EOF ThenFor i = 1 To oRSc.Fields.CountobjTextFile.Write oRSc.Fields(i-1).NameIf i < oRSc.Fields.Count ThenobjTextFile.Write " "End IfNextobjTextFile.WriteLineWhile Not oRSc.EOFFor i = 1 To oRSc.Fields.CountIf oRSc.Fields(i-1) <"" Thentmp = oRSc.Fields(i-1)' If TypeName(tmp) = "String" Then' objTextFile.Write "" &_'Replace(oRSc.Fields(i-1),vbCrLf,"") & ""' ElseobjTextFile.Write oRSc.Fields(i-1)' End IfEnd IfIf i < oRSc.Fields.Count ThenobjTextFile.Write " "End IfNextobjTextFile.WriteLineoRSc.MoveNextWendEnd IfobjTextFile.CloseSet objTextFile = NothingSet objFSO = NothingoRSc.CloseSet oRSc = NothingoConn.CloseSet oConn = Nothing%></body></html>
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a SELECT statement that will return a the column names of a given table?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using the following conditional select statement but it returns no results.
Declare @DepartmentName as varchar
Set @DepartmentName = null
Declare @status as bigint
Set @status = 4
IF (@DepartmentName = null) BEGIN
SELECT CallNumber AS [Call Number], Problem, Solution, Note
FROM AdminView
WHERE (Status = @status)
ORDER BY CallLoggedDT
END
ELSE IF (@DepartmentName <> null) Begin
SELECT CallNumber AS [Call Number], Problem, Solution, Note
FROM dbo.AdminView
WHERE (Status = @status) AND
(DepartmentName = @DepartmentName)
ORDER BY CallLoggedDT
end
when i run the 2nd half by itself it tells me to declare @status but not @departmentname. whats going on???
Chris Morton
If I run this statement in Query Analyzer, it properly returns 1for my testing table. But if I put the statement into a storedprocedure, the stored procedure returns NULL. What am I doingwrong? I suspect it may be related to how I defined the parametersfor the stored procedure. Perhaps my definition of TableName andColumnName don't match what COLUMNPROPERTY and OBJECT_ID expect toreceive, but I don't know where to look for the function declarationsfor those. Any pointers would be appreciated.Select statement:SELECT COLUMNPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID('Table1'), 'TestID', 'IsIdentity') ASIsIdentityTable definition:CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Table1] ([TestID] [numeric](18, 0) IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,[Description] [varchar] (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL) ON [PRIMARY]Stored Procedure definition:CREATE PROCEDURE spTest(@TableName varchar,@ColumnName varchar)AS SELECT COLUMNPROPERTY(OBJECT_ID(@TableName), @ColumnName,'IsIdentity') AS IsIdentity
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I need assistance writing a SELECT statement. I need data from a table that matches one (or more) of multiple criteria, and I need to know which of those criteria it matched. For instance, looking at the Orders table in the Northwind database, I might want all the rows with an OrderDate after Jan 1, 1997 and all the rows with a ShippedDate after June 1, 1997. Depending on which of those criteria the row matches, it should include a field stating whether it is in the result set because of its OrderDate, or its ShippedDate. One way of doing this that I've already tried is:
SELECT 'OrderDate' AS [ChosenReason], Orders.*FROM OrdersWHERE OrderDate > '1-1-1997'UNIONSELECT 'ShippedDate' AS [ChosenReason], Orders.*FROM OrdersWHERE ShippedDate > '6-1-1997'
In my application, scanning a table with thousands of records for five sets of criteria takes a few seconds to run, which is not acceptable to my boss. Is there a better way of doing this than with the UNION operator?
Thank you
I have quite a few tables which allow NULL values. I have to struggle a lot with DBnull Exceptions :|example: col1,col2,... are all columns of type Integer and possibly NULL. var query = from person in table select new { person.col1, test = (int?) person.col2, person.col3, person.col4, ...}; As soon as my result encounters a DBNull value.. the whole query fails. This is really bad.How would I return the valid values.. and set the keys where there is no value to a null type? (e.g. int -> 0)I tried using "(int?)" but I'm not *really* sure what it does :-) Anyway.. it has no effect :-)
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ie.
DECLARE @col varchar(10)
SELECT @col = "AuditID"
SELECT @Col FROM tblAudit
??
Anyhelp a bonus
Thanks
Daniel/
I would like to provide the names of columns in an insert statement from a schema table, so that when running through a number of Bus Rule checks I can reference the schema table and only maintain the columns in the schema table rather than maintain named columns in multiple insert statements. So my query for one check looks like below. I'm using dynamic sql to execute the insert statement. My question is, is there a better way or different way to do this without using dynamic sql? Ie, Is there a way that I can use the columns parameter like this instead?
Insert
('+@columns+',KickoutID) Values('+@columns+',1);
Dynamic code:
Declare @columns as nvarchar(max);
Declare @InvSQL as nvarchar(max);
SELECT @columns =
STUFF ((
SELECT ', [' + name + ']'
FROM syscolumns WHERE id = OBJECT_ID('dbo.table_pvt')
[Code] ....
Hi
I've tried declaring and setting variables in my sql statement and then trying to use them instead of defining a column directly - sorry quite hard to explain, i'll do a simple example
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
I realise its the column which is not being selected, but there must be a way by using a variable?
thanks
Grrr!I'm trying to run a script:print 'Declaring cursor'declare cInv cursor forward_only static forselectdistinctinv.company,inv.contact,inv.address1,inv.city,inv.state,inv.postalcode,inv.cmcompanyidfromdedupe.dbo.ln_invoice as invleft joindedupe.dbo.customerid as cidondbo.fnCleanString(inv.company) = cid.searchcowhere((inv.customerid is nulland cid.searchco is null)and (inv.date >= '01/01/2003' or (inv.date < '01/01/2003' andinv.outstanding > 0.01))and not inv.company is null)print 'Cursor declared'declare@contact varchar(75),@company varchar(50),@address1 varchar(75),@city varchar(30),@state varchar(20),@zip varchar(10),@cmcompanyid varchar(32),@iCount int,@FetchString varchar(512)open cInvprint 'cursor opened'fetch cInv into@company,@contact,@address1,@city,@state,@zip,@cmc ompanyidprint 'Cursor fetched @@Cursor_rows = ' + cast(@@cursor_rows asvarchar(5))All the prints are there to help me figure out what's going on!When I get to the Print 'Cursor fetched @@cursor_rows....the value is 0 and the script skips down to the close and deallocate.BUT, if I just highlight the Select...When section, I get over 2,000rows. What am I missing?Thanks.
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Is there any way to group variables present in a select statement.
My code:
SELECT @var1=something, @var2=something_else
FROM ...
GROUP BY @var1
I wanted to group by 'something' hence I used a variable to assign it to. But I'm unable to group it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Subha
Hello all,I got a chance to peak into a database system. Part of its design israther unfamiliar to me. When I look at the diagram generated by SQLServer, there are many floating tables. Eventually it turns out thatthese many floating tables are actually not floating. Their tablenames relate to fields (as TableID) in other tables. In this case,you can get a handle to one of such tables by search TableID columnsin other tables.To be more specific, the database is a microarray database implementedin SQL Server 2000. They have a table called MICROARRAYS. In thistable, there is a column called table_id. These table_ids are in facttable names of a bunch of other tables.My questions are1) Is this good relational design?2) How well is this kind of design supported in SQL Server?3) Are there better alternatives?Any other comment or link to helpful resources will also beappreciated.Thanks,Eric Wu
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I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how we could find the table names and column names of the tables in our Sql server database at runtime/dynamically given our connection string? Please let me know.
Thanks.
I have a stored procedure which contains a complex scripting that is not an option to rewrite as a single SELECT statement.
I want the following output:
CatID | CatTitle | CatTree
001 | News | exec sp_DisplayTree(@CatID)
My code I tried doesn't work:
SELECT
C.CatID As CatID,
C.CatTitle As CatTitle,
CatTree = (exec sp_DisplayTree C.CatID)
FROM
Cats As C WITH (nolock)
I cannot find a solution to my solution, please help...
I am trying to create a new column 'COL_4' and, in the same step, create a case statement off of the new col. I know that the code below will not execute. I realize that I could get ride of COL_4 in my code below and concatonate but I need to keep Col_4 in the output.
SELECT
COL_1
,COL_2
,COL_3
,COL_4 = COL_1 + COL_2
,COL_5 = CASE
WHEN COL_1
THEN 'SOMETHING'
END
FROM TABLE_1
;
Is there a shortcut to spelling out column names when you are doing a select statement?
For instance could you write Select 1, 5, 6 from table where whatever...
I tried this but didn't get any results so if you can I must be using wrong syntax.
Thanks
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I have a column called SEGMENTED_BLOCK sample data:X,X,XXX,XX,XX,TYZC123456,X,X,TOYZ654321,1234,777777I need to do something that has the effect ofSELECT(stuff before first comma) as FIRST_ITEM,(stuff after first comma, but before second) as NEXT_ITEM,(stuff after second comma but before third(if any)) as THIRD_ITEMFROM SEGMENT_XREFWHERE LOOKUP_ITEM = 12345ORDER BY FIRST_ITEMFIRST_ITEM is pretty easy, but it gets uglier fast.My attempts are horrendously ugly nested checkindex and substring statements.Is there an easier way?
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declare @columnName <type>
set @columnName='ID'
select @columnName from Table1
I have an SQL Select statement that I need to add a column to called SalePrice, the SalePrice column needs to be calculated by adding together the values of 12 columns, then multiplying that value by the value in a another column to calculate margin. My issue is that I can only get it to add 7 column values together, if I add any more columns to the equation it just returns and null result. My DB is SQL 2005 Express SP2. My select statement is below: SELECT dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.ID, dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.MachineName, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU.PartDescription AS CPU,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU.PartCost AS CPUCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard.PartDescription AS Motherboard,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard.PartCost AS MotherboardCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM.PartDescription AS RAM,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM.PartCost AS RAMCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD.PartDescription AS HDD,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD.PartCost AS HDDCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive.PartDescription AS OpticalDrive,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive.PartCost AS OpticalDriveCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video.PartDescription AS Video,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video.PartCost AS VideoCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS.PartDescription AS OS, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS.PartCost AS OSCost,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem.PartDescription AS Modem, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem.PartCost AS ModemCost,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive.PartDescription AS FloppyDrive, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive.PartCost AS FloppyDriveCost,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader.PartDescription AS CardReader, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader.PartCost AS CardReaderCost,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply.PartDescription AS PowerSupply, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply.PartCost AS PowerSupplyCost,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType.PartDescription AS CaseType, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType.PartCost AS CaseTypeCost,
dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.Notes, dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.MarginPercent, dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.PriceOverride,
(dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD.PartCost
+ dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem.PartCost
+ dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType.PartCost)
* ((dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.MarginPercent + 100) / 100) AS SalePrice
FROM dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.CaseType = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.Motherboard = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.Video = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.RAM = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.PowerSupply = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.OS = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.OpticalDrive = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.Modem = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.HardDisk = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.FloppyDrive = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.CPU = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.CardReader = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader.ID
Hello fellow .net developers,
In a website I'm working on I need to be able to put all of the user tables in a database in a dropdownlist.
Another dropdownlist then will autopopulate itself with the names of all the columns from the table selected in the first dropdownlist.
So, what I need to know is: is there a sql statement that can return this type of information?
Example:
Table Names in Database: Customers, Suppliers
Columns in Customers Table: Name, Phone, Email, Address
I click on the word "Customers" in the first dropdownlist.
I then see the words "Name", "Phone", "Email", "Address" in the second dropdownlist.
I'm sure you all know this (but I'll say it anyways): I could hardcode this stuff in my code behind file, but that would be really annoying and if the table structure changes I would have to revise my code on the webpage. So any ideas on how to do this the right way would be really cool.
Thanks in advance,
Robert
I'm puzzled as to how to express what I want in a stored procedure. Assume two columns, Surname and GivenName. The surname might be missing. When I originally wrote this app in Access, I used the following expression:
SELECT Iif( IsNull(Surname), GivenName, Surname + ", " + GivenName ) AS Agent
FROM Agents;
I've looked at the syntax for CASE but I can't figure out exactly how to say what I intend, particularly the AS Agent column aliasing.
Any help greatly appreciated. Please cc me privately so I receive your assistance at once!
TIA,
Arthur
i have a table named masterlist wherein the columns are :
name-----age------sex
andrew---19-------male
trisha---23------female
and i have also another table which is namelist that is linked to the masterlist table.. after i search for the record andrew in the table namelist..i updated andrew as 25 and sex is female..now i want reset andrew's record, same to the records that andrew has in the table masterlist..
I am receiving error msg on the below query line as "incorrect syntax near MSF" , "Incoorect syntanx near ExtCost", "incorrect syntax near From on line 28"
SELECT
xxxcolumns,
(rj.RECEIVEDLINEAL * ((r.WIDTH / 12.0)) / 1000.0 MSF,
Case
when rv.PricePerCode = 'MSF' Then
((rj.RECEIVEDLINEAL * (r.WIDTH / 12.0)) / 1000.0) * rv.price
[Code] ....
I want to add a custom column in a select statement that has a value to true or false based on other criteria.
SELECT [ID], [Name], [Description], [EmpID], [Employed] FROM [Employees]
Now, in the above example there is no [Employed] Column in my table but I want it to show true or false based on whether or not [EmpID] equals a certain value.
I'm executing the following...
select COL1, min(COL2) from TABLE group by COL1
the table has many duplicate entries, where COL2 is the primary key and unique, but its the duplicate COL1 entries that have to be removed.
I was hoping a simple
"delete from table where COL1 not in (select COL1, min(COL2) from TABLE group by COL1)"
would do the trick, but obviously in returning two columns from the subselect this won't work. Can I hide the COL2 output from the query that will be put in the subselect?
this is a one-off thing, so i'm not overly concerned about overhead or elegance. just need to make it so.
tia
a
Along with the data that I am pulling back from query, I also need to provide an ImportID column with the following requirements:
YYMMDDGP0001, YYMMDDGP0002, YYMMDDGP0003, and so on. The 0001, 0002, and 0003 part could get big into the hundreds of thousands.
I have the YYMMDDGP part down with the following expression:
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(6), GETDATE(), 12) + 'GP' AS [ImportID]
Now I need to get the Auto Incrementing number part of this. I have been researching this trying SELECT INTO a temp table using the Identity Function and declaring different variables all with no luck.
I have a temp table that hosts data from a MDX query, I want to select a column from that table by passing in a parameter and then insert to a new table.
Here's the table structure, let's call it #temp
[Product].[Product Hierarchy].[level 03].[Member_CAPTION], [Measures].[Gross Sales]
Bike, 200
Accessory , 100
I have a table in the DB created as [ProductSales]
Here's what works for me:
insert into [ProductSales](Product, Sales)
Select convert(varchar(20), "[Product].[Product Hierarchy].[level 03].[Member_CAPTION]") as 'Product' , convert(decimal(18,2), [Measures].[Data]) as 'Sales'
From #temp
But in reality the product level is not always on level 03, I want to define a parameter @Product and pass it to the select list.
Here's what I tried to do:
Declare @Product varchar(500) = convert(varchar(20), "[Product].[Product Hierarchy].[level 01].[Member_CAPTION]")
Declare @SQL varchar(MAX)
SET @SQL='insert into [ProductSales](Product, Sales)
Select '+@Product+' as 'Product' , convert(decimal(18,2), [Measures].[Data]) as 'Sales'
From #temp'
Exec @SQL
But it threw me error, what is the right way to do it, is it because the double quote or single quote thing?
Select statement. In my database i am using the employee table. I need my first column to display your full name is 99 characters. so like if the employee is john smith it would display Your Full Name Is 9 characters (including the space).
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