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.
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.
Why does M$ Query Analyzer display all numbers as positive, no matterwhether they are truly positive or negative ?I am having to cast each column to varchar to find out if there areany negative numbers being hidden from me :(I tried checking Tools/Options/Connections/Use Regional Settings bothon and off, stopping and restarting M$ Query Analyer in betwixt, butno improvement.Am I missing some other option somewhere ?
I have a table with a column ID of ContentID. The ID in that column is all NULLs. I need a way to change those nulls to a number. It does not matter what type of number it is as long as they are different. Can someone point me somewhere with a piece of T-SQL that I could use to do that. There are over 24000 rows so cursor change will not be very efficient.
I have an 'ID' column. I'm up to about ID number 40000, but not all are in use, so ID 4354 might not be in any row. I want a list of all numbers which aren't in use. I want to write something like this:
select [numbers from 0 to 40000] where <number> not in (select distinct id from mytable)
I want to sum up a column, but only summing up the top 25 quantites and then I want to subtract the sum of all quantities from the total of the top 25...how would this be done with t-sql?
Hi, What the best way to calculate the age given two datetimes. I tried using the DATEDIFF(yyy,startdate,enddate) but that seems to only compare the year and not look at the specific day.
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 then the age should be 28
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"?
Also, has anyone located any SSIS transform scripts that would calculated RFM scores? This is probably a pretty easy task in VB.net but I haven't gone down that road yet.
When users register with my site they give me their DoB, how can I work out an age from it. I was thinkin about doing it from the year, but that isnt very accurate. Can anyone help? thanks si! ps Id only want to work out how many years old they are. si!
Hi, First off, let me state that i am new to ASP.net... and have had to hit the ground running... I have looked on the net but have not found a suitable explanation on how to do this. 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
I'm fairly new to MS SQL, but I'm trying to query the time elapse between two dates. Example below...
Select dbo.res.book_date, dbo.res.arrive_date, Cast (dbo.translog.systemdate as datetime) From dbo.res Where dbo.res.resid > '500'
The third line is where I need help with a statement. I need the elapse time. Ex. if the book date is 20050820100000 and the arrive date is 20050820120000, I would like the third Select statement to return 2:00 hours or something similar. Thanks.
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!!
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;
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)
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?
--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)
--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.
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?
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.
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
I'm putting together a manual system that tracks data growth in a certain database. I was going to use sp_spaceused as a part of it, but then realized the datatypes for size are CHAR, not INT or BIGINT. I was going to do counts, averages, etc. on those columns but that wouldn't work against a CHAR field obviously. I could easily write a little something to strip out the KB, but was hoping there was another way to get those figures.
Secondly...has anynoe seen a stored procedure/code/etc. that just calculates the largest/smallest/average row size for a table? I haven't been able to find anything anywhere...
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))
I have a project where I need to populate a table with a Begin and an end date based on another field with in the table. my example is that the other field will have a value of "monthly" I want then a record to be entered on the table with a begin date of November 1 and the en date as November 30th. I want this record to get populated only on business days. my thinking is a stored procedure that runs daily and only creates a record at a time. i am thinking if the user selects weekly the dates populated would be november 1 = begin date and Novemeber 2nd = end date i want to fill out a current month at a time as if the account closes i will not need the extra cases.
Hi, I'm in the process of creating a database table and was wondering if it's better to store calculated values or recalculate them each time. So for example, I am creating a table that stores articles and then a table to store the pages to the article. If a new page is added should I update the pages field in the articles table or should I calculate the number of pages for an article when it's queried? Thanks,John
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 select sum(no of shares) as nosold ,sharename where transaction = sell and sharename= @sharename return noofshares 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? Then I can do profit = totalcosttosell - totalcosttobuy
