If I use the information_schema view (SELECT column_name,
ordinal_position FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name =
'CSD_XML') I get the same results.
The problem is that the colids go from 2 to 4 and the colids go
through 8 when there are only 7 columns.
At one time there was another column in the table, but it has since
been dropped and isn't there anymore. It seems that the colids in
syscolumns did not update when the column was dropped.
Is this because of the way I dropped the column? Is there anything I
can do now that it has happened?
I need to change a column default to '' and not null for 1500 databases accross 10 servers.
if exists (select * from information_schema.columns where table_name = 'tblABC' and column_name = 'columnX' and data_type = 'VARCHAR' and is_nullable = 'No' and column_default = '('')' ) begin --do something to implement end
Here, there is a problem for and column_default = '('')' I have tried ''''+'('')' + '''' or "'('')'", neither works. Do you have any idea to deal with the ('') ?
Hi Folks:I'm a little new to SQLServer, so please pardon my ignorance!I've found the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views for TABLES, COLUMNS, andTABLE_CONSTRAINTS. I'm looking for the views that will give me the list ofcolumns by constraint.For instance, if Table1 has a unique key called Table1_UK01, I can find thatunder INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS. But I also need to know thecolumns in that UK constraint. I've triedINFORMATION_SCHEMA.CONSTRAINT_COLUMN_USAGE andINFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE, but the UK I have defined for this usertable doesn't seem to show up in either of those views.Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any sample queries would betremendously appreciated. I'm going to be using this meta-data toautomatically generate quite a bundle of stored procs that do updates basedon finding rows via unique keys...TIA,Dave
Hi, I'm working with MSSQL2K+SP3a, Standard Edition. I defined linked server (MSDE). On the local server, I can do select * from [testDB].[INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[TABLES] -- local
select * from [testSRV].[testDB_far].[dbo].[sysobjects] -- linked
but not
select * from [testSRV].[testDB_far].[INFORMATION_SCHEMA].[TABLES]
How can I access the INFORMATION_SCHEMA on the linked server ?
Which field in syscolumns can tell you if that field can accept null vaules or not in 7.0 there is a column call "isnullable" that store this information?
i have a database where in the syscolumns table.... each record entry for a INDENTITY field in any table the field syscolumns.PRINTFMT has binary / char trash in it... has anyone ever ran in to this and can this be a big problem ?
Hi all, I know that if I access the syscolumns table I can select all the column names in the table. example: select name from syscolumns
NOw what I need to know is how to do a describe on these tables. For example in oracle if I type in (desc syscolumns) it would give me the structure of the table itself. The other thing I need to know is how to get the columns names for a specific table. I do not want all the column names but only for a specific table in that database. Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated. sj
I couldn't remember which computers I had already installed sp2 on so checked but one computer (running Windows Server 2003 and SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition) seems to have a discrepancy. SELECT @@VERSION returns (Build 3790: Service Pack 1) but the status bar shows "9.0 SP2". Thanks for any insight into this.
Hi, Can we able to auto generate columns in sql server 2000? I have a tabe with two fields No and Name. I need to auto generate no for each name i am going to enter. Can any give me a solution for this? If so i will be thankful to u.
I have a SQL 7 db that I use a DTS package to import Oracle data into. The package works fine and imports all the appropriate data. However, if I use an Access 2000 database to attach to the data via ODBC (using the MS SQL Server driver), the negative sign is dropped when displaying data in a table, query, or report.
Same problem in SQL Server - if I query the SQL 7 data via the Query Analyzer, the negative signs are dropped. However, if I query the SQL data using the Enterprise Manager (i.e., Open Table...Return All Rows via right click on the table), the data shows up properly with the negative signs there. Bottom line - the data is correct, but doesn't get displayed correctly in QA or via ODBC.
What gives?! Can anyone explain to me the "connections" that occur between EM and QA? Looks like QA uses a "temporary" ODBC connection to talk to the data, while the EM connects "directly" to the data. Also, what gives with the MS SQL Server ODBC driver - why wouldn't it display the negative signs? Is there a better SQL Server ODBC driver that I should/could use? I've tried configuring the ODBC connection differently, but to no avail.
Any help is greatly appreciated, as the data in question is being used in court and absolutely HAS to be accurately displayed. Thanks! Jeff Jones Atlanta, GA
During daily scheduled maintenance the following error occurs, which causes the maintenance job to fail. How can we fix? Thanks!
Allocation Discrepancy: Page is allocated but not linked; check the following pages and ids: allocation pg#=1085440 extent id=1085464 logical pg#=1085464 object id on extent=8 (object name = syslogs) indid on extent=0
I am getting the following error on a version 6.5 database when I run the weekly database backup.
"Allocation Discrepancy: Page is allocated but not linked; check the following pages and ids: allocation pg#=491520 extent id=491720 logical pg#=491720 object id on extent=8 (object name = syslogs) indid on extent=0"
The backup script I run is as follows.. SQLMAINT.EXE -D ECAP -CkDB -CkAl -UpdSts -BkUpDB F:MSSQLBACKUP -BkUpMedia DISK -DelBkUps 8 -Rpt F:MSSQLLOGECAP_DbBkUp.rpt
This database is a 7 x 24 database. What is the least intrusive and/or best way to correct this problem?
SELECT dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.NAME, dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.TITLE, LOWFARE, ITPSG.TBLCCONLINETOOL.AMOUNT as PRICE, 15 AS Lostsavings, LEFT(dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.CostCtr, 4) AS COMPANYCODE, ITPSG.TBLCCONLINETOOL.InYear, ITPSG.TBLCCONLINETOOL.InMonth, 'TRADITIONAL BOOKING' AS Reason FROM ITPSG.TBLCCONLINETOOL INNER JOIN dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04 ON ITPSG.TBLCCONLINETOOL.AWID = dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.AWID AND ITPSG.TBLCCONLINETOOL.InMonth = dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.COLMONTH INNER JOIN dbo.TBLMONTHVALUE ON dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.COLMONTH = dbo.TBLMONTHVALUE.monthname WHERE LEFT(dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.CostCtr, 4) = '1038' AND INYEAR = '2004'AND InMonth = 'OCTOBER' AND (ITPSG.TBLCCONLINETOOL.DESTINATION = 'DOMESTIC') AND (ITPSG.TBLCCONLINETOOL.TYPE = 'TRADITIONAL') UNION SELECT dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.NAME, dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.TITLE, LOWFARE, ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.PRICE as PRICE, ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.Lostsavings AS Lostsavings, LEFT(dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.CostCtr, 4) AS COMPANYCODE, ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.InYear, ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.InMonth, ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.Reason FROM ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS INNER JOIN dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04 ON ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.AWID = dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.AWID AND ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.InMonth = dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.COLMONTH INNER JOIN dbo.TBLMONTHVALUE ON dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.COLMONTH = dbo.TBLMONTHVALUE.monthname WHERE (LEFT(dbo.TBLCCINFORMATIONOCTOBER04.CostCtr, 4) = '1038') AND (ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.InYear = '2004') AND (ITPSG.TBLCCEXCEPTIONS.InMonth = 'OCTOBER') ORDER BY Reason
It returns these 16 records, 10 from the 1st table and 6 from the second. If I just remove the UNION operator and run them seperatly I get 11 from the 1st table and 6 from the second.
The record I am losing is the second of these two, but with the fields I am selecting they appear identical: R,JosephField Operations Director INULL267.00001510382004octoberTRADITIONAL BOOKING R,JosephField Operations Director INULL267.00001510382004octoberTRADITIONAL BOOKING
Is there any reason why the UNION statement is making that second record vanish? Is there a way I can alter the statement so I can run the query with the UNION and not lose records?
How could I correct the erroneous value on the property window of an SQL Table.
My problem is that, if I am going to display the property window of Table1, the 'Rows' information displays 115. However, if I am going to execute - Select Count(*) from Table1 then it returns 117. How could I fix this glitch?
Hi, I have run a DBCC CHECKDB and it found 2 Errors in syscolumns. I have run a CHECKTABLE and found the following Error:
Server: Msg 8928, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Object ID 3, index ID 2: Page (1:266) could not be processed. See other errors for details. Server: Msg 8944, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Table Corrupt: Object ID 3, index ID 2, page (1:266), row 12. Test (VarColOffsets + (int)(sizeof (class VarColOffset) * nVarCols) <= (nextRec - pRec)) failed. Values are 178 and 72. DBCC results for 'syscolumns'. There are 6963 rows in 144 pages for object 'syscolumns'. CHECKTABLE found 0 allocation errors and 2 consistency errors in table 'syscolumns' (object ID 3). repair_allow_data_loss is the minimum repair level for the errors found by DBCC CHECKTABLE (EMIS.dbo.syscolumns ).
Can anyone suggest the best way to proceed with this problem. I am a little dubious about running REPAIR_ALLOW_DATALOSS on syscolumns, I am unsure of what will happen if sections of syscolumns go missing. I have run DBCC PAGE ('EMIS',1,266,1) but this has given me nothing to work with.
All my online research has told me how to get info about a table field's data using the system tables, but I can't find anything that tells how to get that table field's data specifically. Could be that it's difficult to explain so difficult to search on but I know there has to be a way to do this and it can't be that difficult.
How do I use the system tables sysobjects and syscolumns to give me the data from a specific field in a third table?
Basically I don't want to know the field type for a tables field, I want to know that field's value.
Let's say I have a table called tblCompanies and that table has 4 fields. idCompany, companyName, companyState, and companyCountry.
How can I return the value as a command parameter for any one of the 4 fields using sysobjects and syscolumns?
If I were writing dynamic SQL I would do something like this:
set @valueToReturn = exec ('select ' + @fieldNameToReturn + ' from ' + @tableToSearch + ' where ' + @fieldToMatchOn + ' = ' + @valueToMatchOn)
But I don't want to use dynamic SQL, I want to use the existing system tables to write a straightforward query. My nonfunctioning/English version of this would be:
give me the value for the field name I send in as a string (@fieldNameToReturn) from the table I send in as a string (@tblToSearch) where (sysobjects.name = @tblToSearch) and (syscolumns.name = @fieldNameToReturn) and (@tblToSearch.@fieldnameToMatchOn = @valueToMatchAgainst)
I'm using sysobjects and syscolumns because that's where I can use my variables for table name and column name to link. I just can't figure out how to get hold of my actual data table and the values in it.
Does that make any sense to anyone? I'm sure someone has had to want something like this.
After performing copy_only backup of the Database using the below query, I restored the Database and now I checked and found out that there is a discrepancy in the table structure of the restored Database.Its a scheduled backup job.one of the column of the table varchar(300) has been changed to varchar(200)
BACKUP DATABASE DBname TO DISK = N'D:BACKUPdbname.bak' WITH COPY_ONLY, NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10 GO
When the procedure : sp_tables is executed (master db), the table owners are either dbo or INFORMATION_SCHEMA, any detail about this last ? (to be precise, table_type is view and not table).
I'm having a really hard time displaying the structure of my database using INFORMATION_SCHEMA. Can this be used with Access? I've used it before for sql databases but when I try it with this access one I get an error message telling me: Can't find file c:...INFORMATION_SCHEMA.mdb
I'm hoping maybe there's another command that works just as well or some other way to get around it.
I'm using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express and my .aspx pages are coded using VB so any insights would be awesome!
Hi I need to see all the indexes in a database. The ID has dbo rightsto the database, but not to the master. I can't see anything inINFORMATION_SCHEMA.CHECK_CONSTRAINTS orINFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGEAn sa ID for the master sees everything however.Thanks for your helpPachydermitis
I'd like to get information about tables defined in the SqlCe20 database. So I tried to use the following which doesn't work:
string sql = "SELECT COLUMN_NAME AS CN FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = ?"cmd = new SqlCeCommand(sql, connection);cmd.Parameters.Add(newSqlCeDataParameter("A", DbTypes.NVarChar);cmd.Prepare();//later in codecmd.Parameters[0].Value = tableName;reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();while (reader.Read()).... Here the reader.Read() returns always false indepent of the table name. In contrast doing the following without parameter works as expected:
reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(string.Format("SELECT COLUMN_NAME AS CN FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME = '{0}'", tableName)); while (reader.Read())
Because I have to execute this statemen often I have to use prepared statement with parameters.
Hiya, I'm trying to run reports, some of which have UserEntered as a criteria. So I'm filling up a list with (SELECT * FROM SysUsers WHERE IsLogin = 1), which is also pulling up INFORMATION_SCHEMA as a login. I'm not really sure why this would be an islogin = 1 or issqluser = 1. Is this a server default login,and if yes,why, and what can I do about it?
from SQL2005 information_schema, I don't see anything related to default constraint.
So, I still need the old way to use old stuff such as from sysobjects sobj inner join syscolumns scolumn. I need to check existing 3000 databases to drop any possible default for tableA.columnB's default and then add a new one.
I thought SQL2005 will stop let us to query system table to retrieve table structure info including default, but only via information_schema? :rolleyes: thanks David
I am new to SQLSERVER, so I am trying to learn from all these database views, in Oracle it use 'desc all_tables ' to database dictionary view, can some one tell me how to view SQLserver dictionary view like INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES, or sys.tables?
IF I login as sa, but I only want to view the table list one schema at a time? how do I do that?
I tried :
select table_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where table_schema='CIT'....
select table_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where table_schema='CIT.DBO'.... give 0 result too.
it give me 0 result, but if I login as CIT, then
'select table_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES' will give 14 tables.
Plus, When I log into Query analyzer, all the tables has dbo. prefix. , why is that?
how do i return only the tables created by the user? in three of my databases i am inserting one record per 5 secs. in all the tables. how good is using triggers for 'insert instead of' for these tables?
