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Mar 28, 2008

I needed to come up with an algorithm to create unique user- friendly account numbers such as AC0000000001, AC0000000002, etc...
Where they increment by 1. I created a SQL function that retrieves the previous number generated, adds 1 to it, inserts the new value into the table, then returns the new value.

I started thinking, what if the function is ran at the same time? What if function # 1 creates the new number, and function #2 creates a new number as well before function #1 inserts it? Is this a possible scenario? If so, how do I lock the process until the function completes to prevent this? Thanks for any help you provide.

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Feb 1, 2007

I have a report with a column which contains either a string such as "N/A" or a number such as 12. A user exports the report to Excel. In Excel the numbers are formatted as text.

I already tried to set the value as CDbl which returns error for the cells containing a string.

The requirement is to export the column to Excel with the numbers formatted as numbers and the strings such as "N/A' in the same column as string.

Any suggestions?

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Feb 21, 2007

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but don't know how. Any clues?

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Mar 27, 2007

I'm trying to write data to excel from an ssis component to a excel destination.

Even thought I'm writing numerics, every cell gets this error with a green tag:

Convert numbers stored as text to numbers

Excel Cells were all pre-formated to accounting 2 decimal, and if i manually type the exact data Im sending it formats just fine.

I'm hearing this a common problem -

On another project I was able to find a workaround for the web based version of excel, by writing this to the top of the file:

<style>.text { mso-number-format:@; } </style>

is there anything I can pre-set in excel (cells are already formated) or write to my file so that numerics are seen as numerics and not text.

Maybe some setting in my write drivers - using sql servers excel destination.

So close.. Thanks for any help or information.

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SQL7

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Using an identity column reduces portability of the table.

Thoughts ?

Craig

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Hi,
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I am looking for something that would return the following output

birthday= 12/6/1973
EndDate = 11/30/2001
then the age should be 27

If birthday = 12/6/1973
enddate = 12/11/1973
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thanks in advance
Zoey

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Apr 17, 2007

I'm in the process of developing a Kimball-method CRM data warehouse and I'd like to have Recency, Frequency, Monetary "scores" at the customer level. Am I better off creating these in the relational database and feeding them to SSAS or have SSAS do the aggregations and assign the "scores"?

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Hi,
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Let me explain what i am trying to do: In my aspx page, i have 2 dropdown boxes where the user will select a skill catagory, and then a skill. Based on that selection, i would like to compute what the Service line will be. There is a primary and foreign key on CatID on the skills and SkillCat tables. This data would need to be inserted into the another table aswell, and this would need to go into a report later.
How do i go about doing this? Some examples would be greatly appreciated. And if you know of a good link, please post it for me.
Skills Table

CatID
SkillID
Skills
SL_ID

1
4
Skill 1
3

2
5
Skill 2
2

2
6
Skill 3
2

3
7
Skill 4
4

3
8
Skill 5
4

4
9
Skill 6
NULL

4
10
Skill 7
NULL

5
11
Skill 8
3

6
12
Skill 9
3

7
13
Skill 10
4

8
14
Skill 11
1

9
15
Skill 12
3

9
16
Skill 13
3

10
17
Skill 14
6

11
18
Skill 15
1
Skills Catagory

CATID
Org
Skillcat

1
Org1
Skill Category 1

2
Org2
Skill Category 2

3
Org3
Skill Category 3

4
Org4
Skill Category 4

5
Org5
Skill Category 5

6
Org6
Skill Category 6

7
Org7
Skill Category 7

8
Org8
Skill Category 8

9
Org9
Skill Category 9
Service Line Table

SL_ID
Service_line

1
Service Line 1

2
Service Line 2

3
Service Line 3

4
Service Line 4

5
Service Line 5

6
Service Line 6

7
Service Line 7

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Hi,

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Select
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dbo.res.arrive_date,
Cast (dbo.translog.systemdate as datetime)
From
dbo.res
Where
dbo.res.resid > '500'

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Aug 27, 2005

Hello,
I am fairly new to this, but I need to write a query that calculates whether an order made a shipping cutoff based on creation time, and when it actually shipped, based on local customer time. All times in the table below are central time.
Heres where it gets complicated for me. If the order was created after 8:00am local customer time the same day, and shipped prior to 5pm local customer time, it would be considered a pass, or a 1. If an order was created after 8am local customer time, BUT didnt ship until AFTER 5pm local customer time, it would be considered a failure or a 0. And to complicate things even more, if the order is created after 5pm local customer time, the order create time would be treated as it was created at 8am local customer time the following day local customer time, and would need to be shipped prior to 5pm local customer time that day. Would CASE be appropriate for this? Or am I thinking wrong? Any help would really be appreciated!!

Ordernum OrderCreate OrderShipDate TimeZ
67890 5/5/2005 11:575/6/2005 15:33 EST
35789 5/5/2005 13:575/5/2005 14:19 MST
44465 5/5/2005 13:58 5/5/2005 21:58 CST
87654 5/5/2005 18:00 5/7/2005 21:58 PST

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Aug 25, 2004

Hi All,
I have a table that of server names and their execution times that run in to hundreds of thousands of records. What i need is some SQL that gives me the median execution times for each of these different servers. At the moment i have some SQL that only gives me the median for all the records in the table not the median execution time for every different server name. For example my tables looks something like this;

ServerName | ExecTime
-----------------------
server1 | 0.07
server2 | 0.17
server1 | 0.27
server1 | 0.37
server2 | 0.47
server1 | 0.57
server1 | 0.67
server2 | 0.77

My SQL below gives me

ServerName | ExecTime
-----------------------
server1 | 0.37

Where as i want

ServerName | ExecTime
-----------------------
server1 | 0.37
server2 | 0.47

Here is my SQL, hope someone can modify it and thanks in advance.

Code:

SELECT DISTINCT instance, exec_time AS median
FROM (SELECT instance, exec_time
FROM (SELECT TOP 1 exec_time = exec_time * 1.0, instance
FROM (SELECT TOP 50 PERCENT exec_time, instance
FROM llserverlogs
ORDER BY exec_time) sub_a
ORDER BY 1 DESC) sub_1
UNION ALL
SELECT instance, exec_time
FROM (SELECT TOP 1 exec_time = exec_time * 1.0, instance
FROM (SELECT TOP 50 PERCENT exec_time, instance
FROM llserverlogs
ORDER BY exec_time DESC) sub_b
ORDER BY 1) sub_2)

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May 16, 2004

I have a table in my sql server that calculates renewal dates for me, that date is based on the final suit date. The table has the ssn, and the FinalSuitDate its in a one to many relationship with the employeetable.

the Finalsuit table is suppose to calculate the renewal dates(which I'm trying to do in a query) my original expression in access was using dateserial FirstRenewal: DateSerial(Year([FINALSUITDONE])+2,Month([FINALSUITDONE])+1,Day([FINALSUITDONE])=30), but sql does not recognize that.

For Example

If the Finalsuit is 12/01/2000
then the renewal would be 12/31/2002
the renewal are to be done on the last day of the month and two years from the finalsuit date. Problems is I'm having problems doing this in sql servers query?

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Dec 19, 2001

--Use the following formula to calculate a person's age in years in a stored procedure,
--where @dob is the person's date of birth and @yyyymmdd is the date on which to determine the age:

DECLARE @age int
DECLARE @dob datetime
DECLARE @yyyymmdd varchar(11)

SELECT @dob = '12/06/1966'
SELECT @yyyymmdd = GETDATE()
SELECT @age = FLOOR(DATEDIFF(day, @dob, @yyyymmdd) / 365.25)
PRINT CONVERT(varchar, @age)

--Notes:
--Substitute "getdate()" for the @yyyymmdd variable if you want to determine the person's age right now.
--The function divides by 365.25 to allow for leap years and uses the FLOOR function to make sure the function returns an integer.
--The function DATEDIFF(year, @dob, @yyyymmdd) doesn't work because Microsoft chose to implement
--the "year" part of the function to calculate the number of year boundaries crossed.

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Nov 15, 2005

Hi All,

I have a very complicated project and for some reason I have decided to use SQL server as the backend database. I am new to it and have encountered my first problem. In basic terms what I want to be able to do is increment/decrement a field in a table according to something that happens in a different table. Where do I start?

So for example, a stereo system/cd player can have 10 cds at one particular time, when 2 cds are removed, then 8 slots are available. Then when 1 of the 2 remaining slots are filled then 1 slot remains and so on....so I want some sort of a counter field. Using that field I want to be able to generate a report on what is currently available.

Please Excuse my lame example but can anyone please help?

Thanks

Ben

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Mar 16, 2006

If two records containing datetime stamps are SELECTed, how can the interval between them be quickly calculated?

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Jul 11, 2006

I have three columns in my table,'StartDate',EndDate','BatchID'

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How it is possible?
Thanks in advance
Swati

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Jan 18, 2007

I am trying to get a query that will allow me to report the time taken to complete a certain training module.

The database itself does not have a duration field so I am tring to get the duration by using MIN and MAX. I can get the timing for when the module was opened and the time for the last mouse click on it, from this I need to be able to calculate the time taken to complete.

Query I am using to get the basic info comes from 3 tables so I have only attached the relevent output. Query used is as follow:

SELECT *
FROM PPS_SCOS, PPS_TRANSCRIPTS, PPS_TRANSCRIPT_DETAILS, PPS_PRINCIPALS
WHERE PPS_SCOS.SCO_ID = PPS_TRANSCRIPTS.SCO_ID
AND PPS_TRANSCRIPTS.TRANSCRIPT_ID = PPS_TRANSCRIPT_DETAILS.TRANSCRIPT_ID
AND PPS_TRANSCRIPTS.PRINCIPAL_ID = PPS_PRINCIPALS.PRINCIPAL_ID
AND PPS_SCOS.NAME LIKE 'MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking'
AND PPS_PRINCIPALS.NAME LIKE 'Nigel Cordiner'
AND PPS_TRANSCRIPTS.TICKET NOT LIKE 'l-%'
ORDER BY PPS_TRANSCRIPT_DETAILS.DATE_CREATED

Output:

pps_scospps_scospps_transcript_detailspps_principalspps_principals
SCO_IDNAME DATE_CREATED PRINCIPAL_ID NAME
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:17:2516287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:17:2516287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:17:4016287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:18:2516287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:18:5716287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:19:1416287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:19:4716287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:20:2116287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:20:4416287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:21:2616287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:22:1316287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:24:5516287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:25:1216287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:25:2916287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:26:4916287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:27:0216287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:27:2916287Nigel Cordiner
136850MTM-106 The Dangers of Smoking08:27:4316287Nigel Cordiner

Have added the column heading and the tables the output comes from.

Relatively new to SQL so any help would be greatly received.

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One more for you while I'm trying to remember my SQL skill from a few years ago (last one of the day - promise):
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(Ignore that the ERD is in Access, the database is SQL Server 2005)

How do I calculate sales percentages?
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What I'm aiming for is each row of products is shown, with its percentage of the whole sales.

AVG is involved this time, isn't it?

The productID is of the int datatype (not that you need to know that field - but never mind) and the quantity is a smallint, before you ask

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Hi,
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Mar 25, 2008

My site has members. Each member has a certain goal, an amount that they are hoping to raise. Here's my tables:

---------------------
Members
---------------------
ID | Goal
---------------------

---------------------
Donors
---------------------
Amount | MemberID
---------------------

I'm trying to get the percentage of money raised compared to their goal. Basically 100*(SUM(Amount)/Goal). Here's my stored procedure:

CREATE PROCEDURE sproc_GetGoalPercentage
(
@memberid int
)
AS
SELECT(SUM(D.Amount)/M.Goal)*100
FROMMembers AS M INNER JOIN Donors AS D
ON M.ID = D.MemberID
WHEREM.ID = @memberid
GROUP BY M.Goal
RETURN

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Feb 20, 2008

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I have a table with only one column each for longitude and latitude. They will be passing the sa_property_id which has a long and lat listed. I need to show what else is withing 1 mile or 5 miles of that properties long/lat

--Table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PropertyDetails] (
[SA_PROPERTY_ID] [int] NOT NULL ,
[SA_X_COORD] [float] NULL ,
[SA_Y_COORD] [float] NULL ,
[Longitude] [float] NULL ,
[Latitude] [float] NULL ,
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

Data output from above table

SASA_PROPERTY_ID Longitude Latitude
-------------- ----------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------
23790208 -120.619821 39.568587999999998

(1 row(s) affected)

Passed parameter = SA_PROPERTY_ID

Need list of matching records within 1 mile of above record

Would this be the best query for it? how do I define the radius?

I also have a function, but am not sure it can do what I need it to.

/*
* History: 14-Nov-05 CNH Simplified to resolve Divide By Zero problems
* 29-Mar-02 DKS Created by Deepak K Srinivasan
*
* Test Data:
*
* City Latt Long
* ---- ---- ----
* NYC 40.77 74
* SF 37.75 122.68
* Oakland 37.73 122.22
* Burbank 34.2 118.37
*/
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.CalculateDistance(@LatDeg1 FLOAT, @LonDeg1 FLOAT, @LatDeg2 FLOAT, @LonDeg2 FLOAT)
RETURNS FLOAT AS BEGIN
DECLARE @EarthRadiusMiles AS FLOAT,
@LatRad1 AS FLOAT,
@LonRad1 AS FLOAT,
@LatRad2 AS FLOAT,
@LonRad2 AS FLOAT,
@DotProd AS FLOAT

SET @EarthRadiusMiles = 3958.755 -- Volumic Radius of the Earth in Miles

SET @LatRad1 = RADIANS(ISNULL(@LatDeg1, 0.0))
SET @LonRad1 = RADIANS(ISNULL(@LonDeg1, 0.0))
SET @LatRad2 = RADIANS(ISNULL(@LatDeg2, 0.0))
SET @LonRad2 = RADIANS(ISNULL(@LonDeg2, 0.0))

SET @DotProd = SIN(@LatRad1) * SIN(@LatRad2) + COS(@LatRad1) * COS(@LatRad2) * COS(@LonRad1 - @LonRad2)

-- T-SQL provides ACOS. So, there is no need to implement it via ATAN:

RETURN @EarthRadiusMiles * ACOS(@DotProd)
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Hi I am quite struggling to work out how to calculate profit in stored procedure.
The problem is
I have the table:
share name / transaction date/ is it buy or sell / no of shares bought or sold /total cost

I need to calculate how much profit was made on sold shares
The problem is that I need to always assume that you sell shares which were bought first first.
So if I have in chronological order:
tesco buy 50 £200
tesco buy 40 £100
tesco sell 55 £600
profit is
costtobuy of 55 shares: 50 shares at £200 + 5 shares at (£100/40*5 =)£12.50 = £212.50
profit = £600 - £212.5 = £387.50 (too good to be true)

my plan was (if it is too confusing please ignore it and just read the part above)

1 to work out no of shares sold and total cost of sold shares
so
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select sum(totalsold) as totalcostsold , sharename where transaction = sell and sharename = @sharename return totalsold
now i need to loop through buys to work out cost to buy of number of shares sold:

so i need to loop through a table which would have buy transactions only(share name, nobought, totalcost) and check what was the cost to buy of this number of shares:
@nosold(from above table)
@sharename

output totalcosttobuy = 0

if(nobought = nosold) totalcosttobuy = totalcostobuy + totalcost
retrun
else if (nobought>nosold)totalcosttobuy = totalcostobuy + (totalcost/nobought)*nosold
return
else if( nobought<nosold)totalcosttobuy = totalcostobuy + totalcost
nosold = nosold-nobought (go back to beginning of if)
where sharename = @sharename
group by sharename

Well I need this if statement to loop through the rows in the table how can I do that?
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