Hi all
How do you autogenerate your own primary key in SQL.
Instead of SQL generating an IDENTIY number which would be 1, 2 ,3..etc
I was wanting to give it my own sequence of numbers, how exactly do I do that can anyone help??
I have a table that I am constantly updating with data. I would like to have the field SMT_ID be updated with an autonumber that is unique on creation of the record- similar to Access' "AutoNumber" feature.
Currently I am using the "Identity" DataType. This works great, but I need my field length to be more than 4. I need 12.
I cant change this in the "Design Table" properties. How do I change it?
As always- Thanks
Hi
I have set a field “MessageId� as primary in a Messages table. What I want is that whenever user inserts a message through my site, the MsSql should automatically generate MessageId for the new message inserted, but this is not happening. Any suggestions, advice are highly appreciated. Thank You
Hi
I would like to create an Autogenerate function which has to do the following
autogenerate field type is varchar(10). in that first 2 characters are purely character string. remaining will be numbers
i'll pass the following parameters into the function
1. tablename
2. columnname
3. 2 character string that has to build the first 2 characters
eg: functionname(emp, empid, 'EM')
Here the function has to execute and return the generated no.
eg: EM1 - IF RECORDS NOT AVAIL IN THE TABLE
EM5 - IF ALREADY RECORDS ARE AVAIL &THE MAX RECORD NO IS EM4.
In this functioin i've to pass any tablename and corresponding field with the 2 character build string.... Already i tried. Few problems are there in passing the tablename as parameter...
Anybody help me in that...
Thanks in advance...
I am trying to insert a row into a sql table; I set the identity to 'yes' and seed to 1, increment to 1 in sql manager.
My webpage does the insert but I am receiving this error. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance!
Dim mySQL As String = "Insert into Process_Master (ProcessName) values (@pname)"
Dim myConn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("MATRIX_CONNECTION_STRING"))
Dim myCmd As New SqlCommand(mySQL, myConn)
myCmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@pname", TextBox1.Text))
myConn.Open()
myCmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
myConn.Close()
BindData()
Cannot insert explicit value for identity column in table 'Process_Master' when IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF
I would like the numbers 000001 to 999999 to autogenerate in a newdatabase. I will be transfering information from another database andin that database the numbers 000001 to 010000 are already taken. Theyare used as identifiers in other programs and it would be easier ifthey were stored as written. Using identity the 0's are eliminated.Is there a way to keep them?Thank you,M
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a database that has few tables whose table Schema changes oftenly based on a flat file specification and I wanted to automate the process where I drop the table and recreate it with the new schema using an SSIS package. Any Ideas on how I can achieve this?
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I got my sample application to work that I am building my proof of concept out of. I need to be able to auto generate a reply message that would normally be in the run routine. The only way I see to do this is pull it from a table but I do not want to do that. I have tried tests where I change the code to see if I can send a message back but I have to reinstall the assembly into the database which is not what I am looking for. I am looking for a way to change the message by either accessing the GUI and getting the string, calling another function to do this, or something like that. I want it so I can change the code in the run routine in VS 2005 but this does not work. I am sure their is a trick to do this but am not sure what that trick is. What is a good way to do this other than accessing a table in the database?
Thanks,
Scott Allison...
I have a stored proceedure that is adding a record to a database table. When the record is added using an insert statement, the ID field is autogenerated.
I have a second insert statement that inserts into a second table, however, I want/need? to use that ID field in order to link this additional information to the proper record in the initial table.
Is there an easy way to do a select or just pull the ID? I was thinking I could do a select before the final insert using 2 or 3 required fields of which used in a select altogether would be unique, but before I did that, I wanted to see if I was missing a better way. I posted the code below....
set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
go
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Add_Employee_Data]
(
@LastName as varchar(100),@FirstName as varchar(100),
@MiddleName as varchar(100),@Position as varchar(100),
@Department as varchar(100),
@DirectDial as varchar(100),
@Ext as varchar(100),
@Fax as varchar(100),
@HomePhone as varchar(100),
@CellPhone as varchar(100),
@Partner as varchar(100),
@TimeKeeper as varchar(100),
@Notary as varchar(100),
@Practice as varchar(100),
@SummerAddress as varchar(250),
@SummerPhone as varchar(100),
@LegalNonLegal as varchar(100),
@Bar as varchar(100),
@OtherEmail as varchar(100),
@HomeAddressComplete as varchar(100),
@HomeAddress as varchar(100),
@HomeCity as varchar(100),
@HomeState as varchar(100),
@HomeZip as varchar(100),
@School as varchar(100),
@Degree as varchar(100),
@Status as varchar(100),
@Floor as varchar(100)) AS
DECLARE @Code as varchar(100)
INSERT Into tblMain2(LastName,FirstName,MI,Position,Dept,Extension,DirectDial,[FAX DID],HomePhone,CellularPhone,SpousePartner,
TimeKeeper,Notary,PrGroup,SummerAddress,SummerPhone,LegalNonLegal,Bar,OtherEmail,HomeAddressComplete,HomeAddress,HomeCity,
HomeState,HomeZip,Floor,Active)
Values(@LastName,@FirstName,@MiddleName,@Position,@Department,@Ext,@DirectDial,@Fax,@HomePhone,@CellPhone,@Partner,@TimeKeeper,
@Notary,@Practice,@SummerAddress,@SummerPhone,@LegalNonLegal,@Bar,@OtherEmail,@HomeAddressComplete,@HomeAddress,
@HomeCity,@HomeState,@HomeZip,@Floor,@Status)
<<<<< Put select statement here to pull in @Code where LastName = @LastName and Extension =@Ext ??
INSERT Into Education(Code,CollegeSchool,DegreeCert) Values(@Code,@School,@Degree)
Hi everyone!,
Our team is new to SSRS and we are trying to figure out how to refresh the data source view, autogenerate the corressponding report model and Re-Deploy the Report Model (rewrite existing Report Model) on the server on a periodoc basis or trigger the whole action whenever there is a change in the database on some specific tables.
We prefer to do this action through a Agent job ( a diff approach is also welcome).
Are there any stored procs out there?
Appreciate your time.
-PN
Uma writes "Hi Dear,
I have A Table , Which Primary key consists of 6 columns.
total Number of Columns in the table are 16. Now i Want to Convert my Composite Primary key into simple primary key.there are already 2200 records in the table and no referential integrity (foriegn key ) exist.
may i convert Composite Primary key into simple primary key in thr table like this.
Thanks,
Uma"
Hi all,
Can anyone suggest me on Adding primary key to a table which has already a primary key.
Thanks,
Jeyam
Hi,
I have recently been looking at a database and wondered if anyone can tell me what the advantages are supporting a unique collumn, which can essentially be seen as the primary key, with an identity seed integer primary key.
For example:
id [unique integer auto incremented primary key - not null],
ClientCode [unique index varchar - not null],
name [varchar null],
surname [varchar null]
isn't it just better to use ClientCode as the primary key straight of because when one references the above table, it can be done easier with the ClientCode since you dont have to do a lookup on the ClientCode everytime.
Regards
Mike
We have a table, which has one clustered index and one non clustered index(primary key). I want to drop the existing clustered index and make the primary key as clustered. Is there any easy way to do that. Will Drop_Existing support on this matter?
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I have the following table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[property_instance] (
[property_instance_id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[application_id] [int] NOT NULL ,
[owner_id] [nvarchar] (100) NOT NULL ,
[property_id] [int] NOT NULL ,
[owner_type_id] [int] NOT NULL ,
[property_value] [ntext] NOT NULL ,
[date_created] [datetime] NOT NULL ,
[date_modified] [datetime] NULL
)
I have created an 'artificial' primary key, property_instance_id. The 'true' primary key is application_id, owner_id, property_id and owner_type_id
In this specific instance
- property_instance_id will never be a foreign key into another table
- queries will generally use application_id, owner_id, property_id and owner_type_id in the WHERE clause when searching for a particular row
- Once inserted, none of the application_id, owner_id, property_id or owner_type_id columns will ever be modified
I generally like to create artificial primary keys whenever the primary key would otherwise consist of more than 2 columns.
What do people think the advantages and disadvantages of each technique are? Do you recommend I go with the existing model, or should I remove the artificial primary key column and just go with a 4 column primary key for this table?
Thanks Matt
Hello all,I'm taking over a project from another developer and i've run into a bit of a problem. This developer had a bad habit of not using primary keys when designing various databases used by his programs. So now i've got approx 1000 tables all of which do not have primary keys assigned. Does anyone know of a tsql script that i can run that will loop through each table and add a primary key field?Thanks in advance?Richard M.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a Department Table.
Can any one tell me its Primary Key.
I have the order
AutoNumber, D + AutoNumber, Code,
Can you help me regarding this.
Because some people never like to use AutoNumber.
That's why I am confused.
Hi..
I'm going to build database of university, but I have problem with primaru key,
This is the situation:
there are many faculities and each one has many departments,
each department has many courses,
each course has many sections..
The problem:
I want to make those fields in the same table and make the primary key generate from other fields,
(i.e)
I want the faculity be integer from 4 digit "Example the first faculity start with 1000 the second 2000 and so on" and the the department of each faculity will generate its value from the faculity number+interger number from 3digit "Example the department of the first faculity start with 1100 and the second on will be 1200 and so on "
the same thing will repeate for courses and sections so the sectionsID will be the primary key.
Do you know hoew this idea can be implement by SQL server 2005?
Please help me as soon as possible.
A column will be Primary Key. Others are B and C. I want A will contain B and C. I mean B data is X, C data is Y, A will be XY. How can i do this? Can i set in MSSQL or need ASP.NET?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHeya,
I'm trying to setup a Primary Key on a SQL 6.5 database.
Is there a way to do this? When I hit advanced, it asks for me to select a field for the primary key, but it doesnt list fields to selct from, and I cant type it in.
Thanks for your help,
Hi All,
Using DTS i have imported the data from sybase to MS SQL server and all the data and tables were imported correctly.But the primary keys are not marked why is it like this?
This is not a one time job and this is meant to be for the customers also.I cannot ask the customers to mark the primary keys themselves. Is there a way to get the keys also.While doing DTS I have marked all the options correctly.
Please help.
I am setting up some tables where I used to have an identity column as the primary key. I changed it so the primary key is not a char field length of 20.
Is there going to be a big performance hit for this? I didn't like the identity field because every time I referenced a table I had to do a join to get the name of object.
EG:
-- Old way
tbProductionLabour
ID (pk)| Descr | fkCostCode
----------------------
1 | REBAR | 1J
tbTemplateLabour
fkTemplateID | fkLabourID | Manpower | Hours
--------------------------------------------
1 | 1 | 1 | 0.15
-- New way
tbProductionLabour
Labour | fkCostCode
---------------------
REBAR | 1J
tbTemplateLabour
fkTemplateID | fkLabour | Manpower | Hours
-------------------------------------------
1 | REBAR | 1 | 0.15
This is a very basic example, but you get the idea of what I am referring to.
Any thoughts?
Mike
I need to create my own primary key, how do I go about doing that?? In the database I am working in usually has a primary key that looks like this VL0008
the V is for Vendors, thats basically their number. Some of these Vendors need to be licensed and some dont, the ones that are not licensed dont get a number but I am to use that as the Primary/Index key I need to create one for those particual vendors. How can I go about doing that??? I was wanting to make it TL888 something like that.
i'm having problem to get th primary key from d database....
for your information i'm using java to get the primary key....
this is my code...
rs = stt.executeQuery("sp_columns "+table_db+";");
while(rs.next())
{
out.write(""+rs.getString("COLUMN_NAME"));
out.write(", "+rs.getString("TYPE_NAME"));
out.write(", "+rs.getString("IS_NULLABLE"));
}
rs = stt.executeQuery("sp_foreignkeys @table_name = N'table_db';");
but the problem is....
i get this error message...could anyone tell me what's the problem....
java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Could not
find server 'table_db' in sysservers. Execute sp_addlinkedserver to add th
e server to sysservers.
how do i solve this problem....
thanx to anyone who can help me...... :D
Please help:
I am creating a table called Bonus:
ProductHeading1
ProductHeading2 (could be null)
ProductHeading3(could be null)
Bonus
Datefrom
DateTo
.... what would be the primary key?! I know it would be DateTo and sumfing...... Since Heading2 and Heading3 could be null, they cannot be PK... and heading1 cannot be a PK because the following three DIFFERENT options could have the same heading1
Option 1) heading1 = "X" heading2 = Null heading3 = Null
Option 2) heading1 = "X" heading2 = "Y" heading3 = Null
Option 3) heading1 = "X" heading2 = "Y" heading3 = "Z"
... but I need a PK to make sure a bonus is not entered twice... I considered added an Id, but them how do I assign a id?! what would i make the id equal to???
Thanks....
Hi all,
Is it possible to have a primary key for SQL or Oracle or jet to have an alpanumeric beginning?
for example
1st District as a primary key
The statement is:
SELECT itemid FROM MASecurity WHERE userid=%d
Thanks,
Jj :)
What 's the way to know
the name of the column that is
the primary key of a table
In a recent course on database programming using Microsoft Access 2002. I noticed that the text entitiled New Perspectives Microsoft Access 2002 stated that a primary key could only be used once per table. But If I am not mistaken could one use the select key to select more than one primary key within a table.
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Is there a method in sql server 2005 to format the primary key so it can be alphanumberic?
Thanks.
Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_Dunning_TBL'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'Dunning_TBL'.
The statement has been terminated.
(0 row(s) affected)
Msg 2627, Level 14, State 1, Procedure GenerateFiles_FST_SP, Line 220
Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_Exceptions_TBL'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'Exceptions_TBL'.
The statement has been terminated.
i got this error how can i resolve this?
Hi,
I am designing a database for containing the info for the employees in the institution. My dilemma:
-Should I use an sql autonumber primary key?
or
-should I merge lastName+FirstName+middleName into one field and use this string as the primary key?
thank you
I'm new to these forums, and I'm not a database developer, per se, so please forgive me if I make any newb'ish comments.
I have a lookup table called tblCars, that has two columns, cars_id and cars_title. Typically what I do with tables like this is I make cars_id an autonumber, and cars_title the primary key.
The cars_title would contain unique data such as Ford, Chevy, Toyota, etc, which is why I like to make it the primary key (ie - guarantee that it remains unique and no duplicates are ever placed in it).
I would then create an index on cars_id so that I could use it in foreign key constraints.
However, I'm being told by a number of people that it is incorrect to make cars_title the primary key, and that the autonumber field should be the primary key. Yet I am having trouble arriving at a real good reason as to why this is the correct way to do it. I like the warm-fuzzies that I get knowing that no one can accidentally insert a duplicate car title into tblCars because of the primary key constraint.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or insights on this.
I've noticed that some of my tables have primary keys that are not referenced by a foreign key in another table, is this indicative of bad design?
Jill