I need to create a dynamic top count of customers, plus the rest. I've seen many posts on this, however the difference I want is that the rest needs to be expandable to show what customers actually make up the rest category. For example:
Top
Cust1
Cust5
Cust2
Rest
Cust3
Cust4
I was thinking potentially the top/rest could be a shell dimension and then scope on these members to show the top and rest, however I haven't been able to achieve this.
Hello,I would like to query the top 5 best companies' sales (total sales),then total the rest, what is the quickest and effective SQL to queryit?Thanks in advance
HiI have a database and I been inserting some dummy data into it but now I want to upload it to my website but I want to delete all the dummy data and start the PK back at 1. I truancted all the data but it still keeps counting from the last one.So how do I reset it?
Hello, I am new here and to sql so please bare with me.
I am trying to create 2 select statements from the same field. The field is a job_description field that sometimes contains PO#'s. One select statement needs to extract the PO# if it has been written in the field and the other needs to extract all data that is not the PO#
Here is some example of the data:
New shirts for 2007 Magazine cover for may edition Way to go postcards PO# 45687 PO#879
For the first select statement I need to capture just the PO#. the result for the above examples would be:
NULL NULL 45687 879
For the second select statement I need everything but the PO#. The result would be:
New shirts for 2007 Magazine cover for may edition Way to go postcards NULL
So far I have put together a basic idea for the PO# part:
(SELECT SUBSTRING (job_description , (SELECT patindex('%PO#%', job_description)+3),10)WHERE job_description LIKE '%po#%')
If i could figure out a way to only return numeric data from the above i think it will work.
As for the second select statement i am at a loss on how to select everything but the PO#.
Hi, I am wrote the following code in one store procedure called p_bcp_all. and then scheduled it to run over night. what if the first two bcp were successful but the third one failed. Is the whole procedure going to fail? also what if the first one failed, is the rest of the code going to be executed have the bcp process going for the second and the third table? thanks for your adivce
regards Ali
create procedure p_bcp_all as Exec master..xp_cmdshell "bcp servername..tblone in d:blone.txt /fd:formatfileblone.fmt /servername /Usa /password/b250000 /a8000"
I have a third party application that creates several databases on my sql server. This party uses the same user for accessing all this databases. However after moving to a new server this databases the user is no longer able to query them whith the exception of the "sa" user. Could anyone explain me how to add permissions to this databases manually so the user can query them again.
--drop table #temp create table #temp (id int, idvalue int) insert into #temp(id,idvalue) select 1095,75
[code]...
I need to take the id value from maximum's id, and compare the rest id value from the table. i need to check the diffrence , if diffrence is more than 18, then i need to raise the flag as failure otherwise the whole test is success. i need to take 63 and compare rest 69,65,61,75.check the diffrence less than 18 or not.
Hi All, I am writing a SP where I need to pass an value to maintain records of last n days. In this SP I am deleting a couple of tables based on the value passed to this SP. For e.g. If the SP is passed the value 10, then only TOP 10 records is maintained, the rest are deleted. I have formed the following logic, which I feel can be improved vastly. I create a temp table and
CREATE TABLE #TempAuditTbl (Rownum int PRIMARY KEY, Orderid uniqueidentifier)
INSERT INTO #TempAuditTbl
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY orderdate desc) AS rownum, Orderid FROM Orders
DELETE Orders FROM Orders INNER JOIN #TempAuditTbl adt ON adt.Orderid = Orders.Orderid AND rownum > @TopnRows
DROP TABLE #TempAuditTbl
OR
DELETE FROM Orders WHERE orderid NOT IN ( SELECT TOP @TopnRows OrderID FROM Orders ORDER BY OrderDate desc)
This way I am able to keep the top n records. Which of these two solutions is more efficient? Is there a more efficient way to achieve the same. Please help.
I have a column that contains extra info that needs to be moved to another column or deleted alltogether. is there a way to select these items and move them to another column, leaving the rest of the data in the original column?
EXAMPLE
MYTABLE >COLUMN1 May have Data Like: ABCDE123 SER1 or XYZ12DEFSer1:1
WHAT I NEED TO DO IS Move anything after the SER1 to a new column and retain the rest of the data in the original column. making it look something like this:
COL1 COL2 ABCDE123 SER1 XYZ12DEF Ser1:1
Another question is if there is a way to delete extra spaces? Like make all data that has two or more extra spaces, just single spaces and any additional spacing after a row of data, delete all additional spaces after the last letter/character/number.
One more question - What would be a great resource to learn MS SQL in more depth?
I am trying to learn ASP/VBScript/JavaScript/ and now MS SQL all at once b/c this is what my business depends on. Trying to be 5,000 hats at once can get confusing and overwhelming, so I am looking for any "Crash course" I can to learn as much, as fast as possible. Any direction or ideas?
I have to modify the table structure where the table have a lot of data already. The log is getting full due to uncommitted transactions, there is a lot of data being updated in large bulks, not all of the transactions are committed, the update task cannot be completed. However, there is no more spare disk space for it to commit the transaction. Anyone can help?
I know you are able to display data all uppercase or all lowercase, but how do you display it First letter capital rest lower. Like a First or Last name?
I just started playing with sqlagent and am finding that viewing a specific message from an ssis step is cumbersome when other entries are also in the log. Exporting seems only able to export all history entries. Viewing right in the log viewer leads to a series of boundary expansions and right scrolls that dont seem convenient for quick identification of a problem in a medium sized ssis message. Right clicking on the message in the viewer seems like it is preparing the message for possible copy but it seems to end there. I'm already familiar with the different levels of verbosity available in the command line. Dont see anything useful on the web.
Is there a user friendly way to copy the contents of a specific message for perhaps pasting to notepad , so that problem identification is facilitated? Is there a not so user friendly way available, one taht doest involve 1st exporting the entire log?
I am trying to erase some erroneous bad data in my table. The description column has a lot of </div>oqwiroiweuru</a> weird data attached to it, i want to keep the data to the left of where the </div> erroneous data begins
update MyTable set Description = LEFT(Description(CHARINDEX('<',Description)-1)) where myid = 1
that totally works.
update MyTable set Description = LEFT(Description(CHARINDEX('<',Description)-1)) where myid >= 2
gives me a Invalid length parameter passed to the LEFT or SUBSTRING function. The statement has been terminated error.
The states in this report are all in caps TEXAS, CALIFORNIA, etc.. Is there a way to use expressions to only have the first letter in uppercase and rest in lowercase?
I have, a SSAS 2012 tabular instance with SP2, there is a database on the instance with a read role with everyone assigned permissions. When configuring the Power BI analysis services connector, at the point where you enter Friendly Name, Description and Friendly error message, when you click next I receive the error "The remote server returned an error (403)." I've tested connecting to the database from Excel on a desktop and connect fine.I don't use a "onmicrosoft" account so don't have that problem to deal with.
We use Power BI Pro with our Office 365. As far as I can tell that part is working ok as I pass that stage of the configuration with a message saying connected to Power BI.The connector is installed on the same server as tabular services, its a Win2012 Standard server. The tabular instance is running a domain account that is the admin account for the instance (this is a dev environment) that account is what I've used in the connector configuration. It's also a local admin account. There is no gateway installed on the server.
I have a cube that we are processing nightly via an Analysis Service Processing Task in SSIS. In order to increase the performance of the processing time, we elected to use a lot of rigid dimension attributes, and do a full process of everything in the SSIS task. The issue that I am having is that after that task completes, I need to go into Visual Studio to deploy the cube becuase we are unable to browse or use the cube. This issue seemed to start once we changed the SSIS Analysis Service Processing Task to do a full process on the dimensions, rather than an incremental.
I would expect that once development is done, and it is processed and deployed, that is it. My thinking is that the SSIS task should just update the already deployed cube,
How to right choose key column in"Mining Structure" for Microsoft Analysis Services?
I have table:
"Incoming goods"
Create table Income ( ID int not null identity(1, 1) [Date] datetime not null, GoodID int not null, PriceDeliver decimal(18, 2) not null, PriceSalse decimal(18, 2) not null, CONSTRAINT PK_ Income PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (ID), CONSTRAINT FK_IncomeGood foreign key (GoodID) references dbo.Goods ( ID ) )
I'm trying to build a relationship(regression) between “Price Sale” from Good and “Price Deliver”.But I do not know what column better choose as “key column”: ID or GoodID ?
I am connecting to SSAS cube from Excel and I have date dimension with 4 fields (I have others but I don't use it for this case). I created 4 fields in order to test all possible scenarios that I could think of:
DateKey: - Type: System.Integer - Value: yyyyMMdd Date: - Type: System.DateTime DateStr0: - Type: System.String - Value: dd/MM/yyyy (note: I am not using US culture) - Example: 01/11/2015 DateStr1: - Type: System.String - Value: %d/%M/yyyy (note: I am not using US culture) - Example: 1/11/2015
Filtering on date is working fine:
Initially, in excel, filtering on date was not working. But after changing dimensional type to time, and setting DataType to Date, as mentioned in [URL] filter is working fine as you can see in the picture.Grouping on date is not working:
I have hierarchy in my Date dimension and I can group based on hierarchy, no problem. But user is used to pre-build grouping function of excel, and he wants to use that. Pre-build functions of Excel, Group and ungroup seems to be available as you can see in following picture:
But when user clicks 'Group', excel groups it as if it is a string, and that is the problem. User wants to group using pre-build grouping function available in Pivot table. I also find out that Power Pivot Table does not support this excel grouping functionality. And if I understood well, this pre-build grouping functionality of excel, needs to do calculation at run time, and that is not viable solution if you have millions of rows. So Power pivot table does not support pre-build grouping functionality of excel and hence we need to use dimension hierarchy to do the grouping. But I am not using Power Pivot table, I am using simple Pivot Table. So I expect grouping functionality to be working fine. Then I tried to do simple test. I created a simple data source in excel itself. And use it as source of my Pivot table. Then grouping is working fine. The only difference that I can see is (When double click the Measure value in Excel),For date values of my simple test, excel consider them as 'Date'.
For date values of my data coming from cube, excel consider them as 'General'
2.1. But value here is same as it was in simple test.
2.2. 'Date Filter' works just fine.
2.3. If I just select this cell and unselect it, then excel change type to 'Date' though for that cell.
2.4. I have created 4 different types of fields in my date dimension thinking that values of attribute of my dimension might be the problem, but excel consider 'General' for all of them.
2.5 This value (that can be seen when double clicking on measure) comes from 'Name Column' of the attribute. And the DataType defined is WChar. And I thought that might be the reason of issue. And I changed it to 'Date'. But SSAS does not allow it to change to 'Date' giving error : The 'Date' data type is not allowed for the 'NameColumn' property; 'WChar' should be used.
So, I don't know, what is the puzzle piece that I am missing.
1. Date filter works, group does not work
2. Excel consider it as 'General' string.
3. SSAS does not allow to change 'NameColumn' to Date.
I would like to know the best practice for running analysis service in terms of port usage. Is it better to run on a specific port or have dynamic ports ? We have clustered servers that run default on 2383 but not sure with non clustered what's the best way to get performance.
If I have a table with 1 or more Nullable fields and I want to make sure that when an INSERT or UPDATE occurs and one or more of these fields are left to NULL either explicitly or implicitly is there I can set these to non-null values without interfering with the INSERT or UPDATE in as far as the other fields in the table?
EXAMPLE:
CREATE TABLE dbo.MYTABLE( ID NUMERIC(18,0) IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, FirstName VARCHAR(50) NULL, LastName VARCHAR(50) NULL,
[Code] ....
If an INSERT looks like any of the following what can I do to change the NULL being assigned to DateAdded to a real date, preferable the value of GetDate() at the time of the insert? I've heard of INSTEAD of Triggers but I'm not trying tto over rise the entire INSERT or update just the on (maybe 2) fields that are being left as null or explicitly set to null. The same would apply for any UPDATE where DateModified is not specified or explicitly set to NULL. I would want to change it so that DateModified is not null on any UPDATE.
INSERT INTO dbo.MYTABLE( FirstName, LastName, DateAdded) VALUES('John','Smith',NULL)
INSERT INTO dbo.MYTABLE( FirstName, LastName) VALUES('John','Smith')
INSERT INTO dbo.MYTABLE( FirstName, LastName, DateAdded) SELECT FirstName, LastName, NULL FROM MYOTHERTABLE
Is there any way to control this scenario, I know trick to put 10 on each row ,but I need to split them unevenly, 10 on first page and the rest on second page. is it possible ?
I have some questions about SQL Servers 2000 and 2005 compatibility. In my configuration I have to use both servers. The cubes are stocked in 2005 server. May I transfer from 2005 to 2000 Analysis Services the cubes?
If yes, what is the procedure? The result of migration is the same in the two different versions?
The question is, when can it be considered excessive? Or can you just order the results by descending order and see if you can make improvements on the worst ones?
The same goes for this query for pageiolatch wait counters and times for indexes: select database_id, object_id, index_id, partition_number, page_io_latch_wait_count, page_io_latch_wait_in_ms from sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats (null,null,null,null)
I have SQL query, and I am trying to write MDX with similar logic. Logic has where clause:
Where (((CD_TYP_CAT_PARENT = 'LOAD' OR CD_TYP_CAT_PARENT = 'SPEND') AND (CD_TYP_CAT NOT IN('REVERSAL','REFUND','FEE'))) OR (CD_TYP_CAT_PARENT = 'OTHER' AND CD_TYP_CAT = 'SPEND'))
I just ran a testbed of 4 types of SQL queries:1. inline SQL with a StringBuilder2. managed sql3. SQL text processing (@SQL as varchar(5000); SET @SQL = 'SELECT ' + @var...)4. a regular sproc that has the columns and table name hard coded1,2, and 4 always end up at about the same time given the averages.3 is always at last 1.5 times slower, and usually closed to 2 times.1 and 2 both use StringBuilders, the code is a direct copy, and 3 is a copy as well.My managed SQL is: [Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlProcedure] public static void usp_Items_Select_Managed(SqlString table, SqlString name, SqlString value) { // sql StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder(); stringBuilder.AppendFormat( "SELECT {0}.* FROM {0} WHERE {0}.{1} = {2}", table, col, value ); SqlConnection sqlConnection = new SqlConnection("context connection=true"); SqlCommand sqlCommand = new SqlCommand(stringBuilder.ToString(), sqlConnection); sqlConnection.Open(); SqlContext.Pipe.Send(sqlCommand.ExecuteReader()); sqlConnection.Close(); }Is there anything wrong with my Managed SQL, or is this just the way that it is?Thanks
I have a SQL 2000 with Analysis server installed on it . Its in a different domain . When i am trying to register the server remotely i.e from another domain ,from another server it gives me an error that :
'Cannot connect to the repository . Analysis Server : <Server_name>
Error : Cannot open database requested in Login '<Database_name > Login fails . Do you wish to register this server ? '
Both the domains are trusted . Except that the OS where the Analysis server is running is Windows 2000 . I am trying to connect through SQL 2000 Server with Windows NT 4.0 Server .
We have another Analysis server which is running but on Windows NT 4.0 OS where i can easily register that server . I tried providing access with all the rights to concerned domains , but in vain . I am exhausted trying to figure out the problem .
Any assistance in this regard would be of great help to me .
I am tuning some queries and am using the Display Execution Plan option from Query Analyzer. What I am looking to for is somewhere which will explain the differences between the costs displayed when you put the mouse pointer over the object in the Execution plan output. BOL gives some general directions, but I need more specifics.
Is there any method by which I can use Stored procedures in Analysis services. I have some procedures which uses Temprorary tables. I wanna use those procedures's columns. Is it possible?
