How do you build a query to calculate the time of employement or any space of time for each person in a table? I'm thinking I would want to use a "Current Date" and "Select Datediff" calculations of some sort and reference the hiredate against the current date but I have been unable to find much on this type of query.. Please help..
I am using SQL Server 2000. I need to query my database for all thecontracts that came in during a certain time frame (user is promptedfor reportingperiodid).Table - PeriodsFields - Reporting Period id intReporting Period desc varchar(30)Reporting Period Begin Date datetimeReporting Period End Date datetimeIf the user selects a 3 then the begin date is Jan. 1, 2004 and theend date is June 30, 2004.Now I need to calculate did any money come in for each week in thattime frame. I need to create a weekly list of all the weeks in thattime frame. Each time frame begins on a Monday. So my list wouldlook like1/5/20041/12/20041/19/20041/26/2004All the way to the end of that time period.How do I create this weekly list from a given time period using T-SQL?I would appreciate any and all help on this.Thanks,Tony
I'm using an olap cube in a report (dash board). The last "actual" period should be viewed when the user opens the report. I'm using the MDX tail function for that. Once the report is opened the users want to select another period. Then I want to put period as a parameter. But that is not possible since the parameter check box is no longer available when using a MDX filter expression.
My SQL Server 2005 Database was down last night.From logs I can find out below details only.
Code Block Date 11/30/2007 1:01:34 AM Log SQL Server (Archive #1 - 11/30/2007 1:01:00 AM) Source spid4s Message SQL Server is terminating in response to a 'stop' request from Service Control Manager. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
Now I want to find out root cause for this.Who has stopped this service.And If services was stopped automatically then which program/service is resposible?
So Please suggest me how to do root cause analysis for this downtime.
I am trying to create an alert on my new SQL 2005 box to email alert/notify when/if the service ever stops, etc. Is there an existing alert I can use or do I have to script one, and if I do - how would I do it?
Hello,I'm upgrading from SQL 7 to SQL 2000 on another box. To minimize thedowntime I would like to1) backup my sql 7 database,2) copy it to the new box with SQL 2000 already installed,3) restore the database on the SQL 2000 box,4) Shutdown my sql 7 database,5) Copy the transaction logs to the SQL 2000 database,6) Restore the transaction logs to the SQl 2000 database,7) Bring up SQL 2000.My only concern with this is restoring the transaction logs that werecreated on SQL 7 to SQL 2000. Do you know if I can do this?Do you see any (other) problem(s) with my plan.Thanks, Scott
I am trying to create an alert on my new SQL 2005 box to email alert/notify when/if the service ever stops, etc. Is there an existing alert I can use or do I have to script one, and if I do - how would I do it?
I'm preparing a checklist for myself before getting ready to migrate from 2005 to 2012. Our largest database is a nice one at over 250GB. I'm thinking my best bet to minimize any downtime would be to Restore the DB (NORECOVERY) on the new server and keep rolling it forward with the transactional logs. Eventually I'll need to bring the old DB offline and do one last backup and apply that one to the new server but that should be a small time frame given the whole process could take several hours.
There is a great book on database refactoring that contains a comprehensive set or recipies on how to revise databases that are supposed to be always online and may have various clients that can't be upgraded at the same time. I guess this is a typical case with large databases and I would be surpised if Amazon stops their servers just to move a column from one table to another. The book describes necessary steps for such changes. Basically it's all about creating intermediate database schemas that would be used during transition period.
For example, if we need to move a column from one table to another:
Version 1. Table A columns: Name, Price Table B columns: Quantity, Date
Let's say we move Price to table B:
Version 2. Table A columns: Name Table B columns: Quantity, Date, Price
The book suggests an intermediate version:
Version 1_2. Table A columns: Name, Price Table B columns: Quantity, Date, Price Additional trigger that will synchronize "Price" columns between A and B.
Version 1_2 can be used by both clients written for version 1 and 2. Software developers don't need to rush their upgrades, transition can last months and include several changes.
This technique requires accuracy in version control management, but looks very good to implement non-interruptible database schema upgrade. I wonder if this is the only option available for data schema upgrade with no downtime. I can't think about anything else - it this how large data warehouses updata their databases?
1. I am looking data base solution for highly critical application. what type of HA/DR solution will suite for this.(always on, transactional , log shipping or mirroring). make sure all secondary nodes should be identical to production .
2. for any need to upgrade /patching /maintenance work, production should not be able to down. No downtime 100%.
I have a process that restores a production DB, overwriting the existing copy each night. I'd like to keep the solution "up" for as long as possible. And this'll be more important if I want to update it in the day (where there are more queries) too. The nature of queries thrown at the system is that there are about 20 per hour, it's underpinning a reporting system, it's not an OLTP system.
It seems to me I could restore the fresh DB copy into a holding DB, then rename it to the production DB name at the end of the process. The rename process should be pretty much instant.
But I need to think about detecting and waiting for queries to complete on the prod DB, before removing/demoting it (actually, I though to rename it, then reusing it as the next copy to update).
I need a query to find out the server uptime and downtime of the server from MOM database, i don't know in which tables MOM actually stores this infomation.
I need this very urgently.
Thanks in advance
You can use this code to find out the information stored in the MOM tables:- ############################################################################ create PROC [dbo].[SearchMyTables]
I'm trying to run a query to check the downtime in production lines, but if a line has assigned more than one cause for the downtime it repeat the info for each cause.
This is the code.
SELECT D.Line AS Line, D.ProductionLine AS ProductionLine, D.Shift AS Shift, D.DownTime, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), D.DatePacked,101) AS DatePacked, AssignedDowntime, (D.DownTime - AssignedDowntime) AS NOASSIGNED, R.Enviromental,R.Equipment, R.IT_Systems, R.Material_External,R.Quality,R.Material_Internal, R.Method,R.PreProduction,R.People FROM ( SELECT Line, Shift, DatePacked, SUM(Cast(Downtime AS INT)) AS AssignedDowntime,
[Code] ....
I'm expecting that if is more than one "Down Reason "it will include in the same line. At this moment if i have more than one reason it create a line for each one for example:
If i have a total Downtime of 50 minutes and they are assigned 10 for itequipment, 30 by testequipment and 10 assigned to quality issues i will have and output like this:
I have a table (named table1) with 20million rows. It takes around 11 minutes to apply the primary key to this table. There are some tables with over 100 million rows so based on the previous time if my calculations are correct it will take close to an hour apply this primary key for tables with around 100 million rows.
My current solution is to create another table (named table2) with no indexs or primary keys. Pump over only like 5 days worth of data, then apply the primary key. Then have a script that will eventually populate table2 with the rest of the data gradually. When I say gradually I mean like insert like every 100k per hour or something. Keep in mind this table2 is heavily updated with new records.
Two servers are configured with Windows 2008 / SQL server 2012 utililizing Always-On for HA. We need to upgrade both servers to Windows 2012 / SQL Server 2014 with minimum downtime(Time for Always-On failover). The upgrade to SQL 2014 is straight forward with for minimum downtime.The Windows upgrade(2008 -> 2012) is the problem. From what I have observed and read in blogs.The Windows node to be upgraded must be removed from the Windows cluster before the node can be upgraded to Win 2012.A Win 2008 and Win 2012 node can not reside in the same cluster. If this is true then the only option I can think of is to dump the DB on WIN 2008 server and restore on Win 2012. This is an outage(time it takes to dump and restore).Is there any other method to upgrade these two nodes utilizing Always-On of some other method without downtime?
Hi,Just wonder if i can get a period of dates to be inserted into a temp table (with a single field [Sales_Date]) base on a Start and End Date using a select query?For Eg,Start = '8/1/2005', End = '8/5/2005'In the temp table,8/1/20058/2/20058/3/20058/4/20058/5/2005 Your help is appreciated. Thks.RgdsRyan
I am trying to concatenate three fields into one in a View. I have the following data: Last Name First Name Middle Initial (can be null)
I need my resultant field data to look like the following: "Doe, John P."
I'm having a problem writing SQL that is sensitive to placing the period after the middle initial only if there is a middle initial present. If there isn't a middle initial, I just want the following: "Doe, John".
I have tried the following CASE statement:
CASE WHEN middleInitial IS NOT NULL THEN ' ' + middleInitial + '.' ELSE '' END
However, I get an error indicating that the CASE statement is not supported in the Query Designer.
How can I resolve this problem in a View? Is there a function similar to ISNULL(middleInitial, '') that would allow for the "."?
I have a transaction table which has Date as datetime field, amount and account number. i want to find out count of checks that were written in a period of 4 days which exceeded i.e. > $400, between 401 and 500, > 501 for a single month. the table has data for more than a year and i want the results then grouped in monthly format like in OCT between 300 & 400 #30 (30 customers gave checks total worth $300-$400 within any 4 consecutive days period in the month of OCT ) between 400 & 500 # 20 > 501 # 10
NOV between 300 & 400 #30 between 400 & 500 # 20 > 501 # 10
Example table: PeopleID Date Status 1 2004-01-01 True 1 2005-01-01 True 1 2006-01-01 True 2 2004-01-01 True 2 2005-01-01 False 2 2006-01-01 True
I'm trying to find a way to query whether or not someone has had a specific status for 3 years in a row. As you can see from the table above, PeopleID 1 has had a "Status" of "True" for 3 years in a row, whereas PeopleID 2 hasn't--there was one year where they had "False".
I'm wondering I can query this, or if I'm going to have to scan the records manually. :(
I suppose I could write a stored procedure and do some looping too.
I am running SQL Server 2005 Enterp Trial version, which is about to expire in 14 days.. Is this possible to Extend this? Or Un-installing and re-installing may give me back 180 days again? I haven't tried this, but need to know before I do an attempt?
Don't have other machine, don't want to re-built my system..
Alright here's my situation. I have two servers both running Eval copies of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise. This is only because I had the promise that I would be getting a shiney new server with a fully licensed copy of the server soon so I wasn't worried when I setup these two programs to use these. Now they are dragging their feet to approve the server and software so I'm scared. First question - What will happen when the eval period runs out? Second question - Can I tell what the date was when I installed the server?
These both will help me push management to approve atleast the purchase of an SQL license if I can't get the server.
HiI am hoping someone might be able to help me out with this.I am writing a helpdesk system which records agents logging in and outof the system.I need to write a stored procedure which will show the peak number ofagents logged in concurrently during a specified time period. Withinthe time period, the person viewing the report should be able tospecify intervals at which to see the data.Eg. There is already a table in the system which holds loggedin/logged out data like22/11/2004 14:02 - 22/11/2004 17:3022/11/2004 09:00 - 22/11/2004 17:1222/11/2004 10:25 - 22/11/2004 16:3022/11/2004 11:02 - 22/11/2004 12:3022/11/2004 16:00 - 22/11/2004 17:30The report user can then say for example they want to view databetween 10th November and 12th November broken down into 15 minutesintervals which would produce a table like this:10/11/2004 00:00 - 10/11/2004 00:1510/11/2004 00:15 - 10/11/2004 00:3010/11/2004 00:30 - 10/11/2004 00:4510/11/2004 00:45 - 10/11/2004 01:00 etc etcAgainst each of these time slots, I need to work out the peak numberof concurrent agents logged in using the first table.Can anyone make any suggestions? The time period the report user canchoose are either 15 mins, 30 mins, 45 mins, 1 hour and 1 day.Thanks in advance
Hello to everybody, I'm quite new to the Analysis Services world and would like to create a BI Solution for one of my customers with the following problem: I have sales data from the ERP from different years (2005 and on). My customer wants a report that shows the sales of the current year up to the month he wants to specify (e.g. january - march 2008) compared with the sales of the same period of the previous year (e.g. january - march 2007), divided into product category.
Is there a way to build a cube and then a matrix report in Reporting Services that lets the user specify the period for the current year and shows the same period of the previous year. Do I achieve this behaviour with a calculated member in the cube (e.g. ParallelPeriod)
Any hint (or web like example) would be very appreciated.
Using the TimeSeries algorithm, how do I forecast more than one time period ahead? I read in you book on page 182 that PredictTimeSeries function can take a parameter for the number of time periods you want to predict. Fore example, SELECT PredictTimeSeries(Bread,5) tells the algorithm to predict the next 5 time periods. Can you tell me how to change that parameter using the graphic interfaces?
RETAINDAYS option in BACKUP command. SqlServer2000 (standard) on Win xp server. Old backups are not being removed from backup sets.
I've created logical dumpdevices which maps to a physical file on disk - using sp_adddumpdevice. Regular, scheduled backups are successfully written to the backup sets (Complete, differential & Tlog) - This works fine and I can restore from them OK. I've set the RETAINDAYS option of BACKUP command to keep backups for varying periods (eg full = 8 days, diff = 2 days, and Tlog = 1 day). When the backups are viewed by 'drilling down' thru >Backup > open backupdevice > view contents.... all previous backups are still available even though their expiry date has passed. The backup set files (dumpdevice files) are getting inexorably bigger and will eventually fill the available disks ! I don't want to delete or overwrite the entire contents of the backup set - just those backups more than 8 days old.
I've run sp_configure 'media_retention' 1 RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
but the old backups are still there.
dbs are getting ever bigger (high activity OLTP system) currently 2 production dbs totaling 50 GB. Is this a bug? - ie. the option to set a retention period even though I'm writing to a logical 'dump device' rather than a normal *.BAK / *.TRN file? or Am I doing something wrong?
HELP.
Cris Yarker email to crispin@paymentsystemsltd.com
I have three tables Accounts, History and Dates . What I need to do is display all the accounts from History (900) records and compare them to the accounts in Accounts table pull all the matching records based on a certain date range , but If there is no record in the History table for this period I still need to display the account from Accounts and some text saying that there is no record matching for this period.
Account History 11 22 33 4NO information for this month 55 SELECT C.ACCOUNT, CASE WHEN C.ACCOUNT = LEFT(H.NUMBER,8) THEN LEFT(H.NUMBER,8) END FROM ACCTS C LEFT OUTER JOIN HISTORY H ON C.ACCOUNT = LEFT(H.NUMBER,8) INNER JOIN DATES D ON h.PERIOD = D.CUR_PERIOD GROUP BY C.ACCOUNT, H.NUMBER
This will give me all the matching records for the period but I need somehow to show all the accounts even if they don't have records for this period.
Aim – Calculate the number of days between CreatedDate and [Date_Docs_In_Complete__c],count how many Ids, Fall within a specific month by year, and then work out the avg number of days it took for each month
My query so far
select ID, left(CreatedDate,10) as CreatedDate, left([Date_Docs_In_Complete__c],10) as [Date_Docs_In_Complete__c], DATEDIFF(day,CreatedDate,[Date_Docs_In_Complete__c]) as Days from #build
Hi- I let my sql server evaluation expire and I have no access to the database now. Is there anyway I can create a new server on my old sql server 7 software and import the data? I have stored procedures that I really need to access. I see where the data files are but is there a way to get them opened by SQL Server 7 when I created it all in the latest version? Thanks Nicki
