I want to log errors to a table. If the error is with a URL, I want to store the URL. These URLs can be very large, hundreds of characters, but I only need to store it if it causes the error, which should be very infrequent. Which is the better design:
Create a large varchar field in the log table to hold the URL, or null if the error wasn't with the URL. Create a foreign key field in the log table to a second URL table, which has a unique ID and a large varchar, and only create a record in this table if the error is with the URL.
One concern I have with design 2 is that there could be many other fields that are infrequent. Do I create a separate table for every one?
I have just started on a project which will be based on an existing MS SQL Server database. It has many columns which can be, and sometimes are, null. My basic DataReader code throws an SqlNullValueException when I try to GetInt32 but not when I try GetString. Why the difference? Also, how do I model my class? Do I have to make all fields into nullable types? If I do that I notice a simple GridView will not show a column for that field! I am confused.
But the data type is not given to the script, so it is stuck.
I realize that syscolumns provides some relevant information, but it is not clear how to convert its information to a string like "decimal(12,4)". It seems, for example, that a decimal type has syscolumns.xtype = 106; however I can find no documentation on this, nor am I assured I can get all the right codes by trial and error. Does anyone know of a clear means of getting this information?
I am trying to add a DateTime? parameter to SqlCommand. It works when the variable has a value, but when its null, an exception gets thrown saying that parameter was not supplied.What is causing this error?
Hi all, I am using a SQL statement with a JOINs to display a summary list of Work Orders with some information from the related Purchase Order. I don't require that a Work Order be attached to a Purchase Order, so the JOIN field, POLineItemID, may not be present. My current problem is that my summary page does not show Work Orders that have a NULL value for POLineItemID -- ie, the JOINing field becomes required. How can I continue to use this JOIN structure but still return rows that don't have this JOIN field? Thanks in advance for your help. Here is my SQL statement for this... SELECT tblWorkOrder.WorkOrderNumber, tblWorkOrder.ActualCompletionDate, tblWorkOrder.EstimatedCompletionDate, tblWorkOrder.AssignedTo, tblWorkOrder.DelegatedTo, tblWorkOrder.Due, tblPurchaseOrders.PONumber, tblWorkOrder.POLineItemID, tblPOLineItems.POLineItemID AS Expr1, tblPOLineItems.PurchaseOrderID, tblPurchaseOrders.PurchaseOrderID AS Expr2, tblProducts.ProductID, tblProducts.ProductCategory, tblWorkOrder.ProductID AS Expr3, tblWorkOrder.WorkOrderStatusFROM (((tblWorkOrder INNER JOIN tblPOLineItems ON tblWorkOrder.POLineItemID = tblPOLineItems.POLineItemID) INNER JOIN tblPurchaseOrders ON tblPOLineItems.PurchaseOrderID = tblPurchaseOrders.PurchaseOrderID) INNER JOIN tblProducts ON tblWorkOrder.ProductID = tblProducts.ProductID)ORDER BY tblWorkOrder.Due
Is it bad design to allow nulls on a date field ? I can think of one case such as a sale of an item and populating a field for the date of purchase, only when the purchase took place (and null until then).
Hi,I've enherited a big mess, a SQL Server 2000 database withapproximately 50 user tables and 65+ GB data, no explicitrelationships among entities (RI constraints whatsover), attempt tocreate an ERD would more than likely kill the relatively complexedapp, the owner would want to drop out of window, so,I don't intend to do that, you get the picture, sorry no DDLs thistime, and many tables have many nullable columns, joins slows down thesystem quite a bit, what's my best bet to improve its performance?change most of these nullable columns into non-nullable with defaultvalue of something like ' ', any thoughts along this line would beappreciated.
Hi All!I would like to have a composite PK on 3 columns, one of them is nullCREATE TABLE TableA (ColA int NOT NULL ,ColB int NOT NULL ,ColC char (3) NULL ,......)GOALTER TABLE TableA ADDCONSTRAINT TableA_PK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED(ColA,ColB,ColC)GOSQL Server does not allow having a composite PK with one nullable column:What is wrong to have values?1,100,NULL1,200,ABC1,200,ABD.....Code in C applies to Values in B and for some values in B the code does not exist.I can work out and define a special Code:NEV(not existing value), but in general I do not understand this restriction.Thanks
Could anyone tell me what governs whether a column is set as nullable or not nullable when creating a table using SELECT...INTO. It just seems to pick at random for me! I'm quite sure this is not the case. Is there a way to force a column to be non- nullable? I seem to be wasting a lot of time going through and altering the schema so I can use the columns in keys and indexes.
I have a producer table with a nullable column that stores SSN's. In some cases producers inherit SSN's from other producers. These records will have a null producer.ssn and a record stored in a child table to track the inheritance. Anyway, I've found two techniques to enforce uniqueness on a nullable column and wanted to get opinions as to which was better. First, write a trigger. Second, create a computed column that has a unique constraint on it. The computed column would use the SSN if not NULL Else use the PK identity value of the record. EXAMPLE DML:CREATE TABLE test ( ssn CHAR(9) NULL, testId INT identity(1,1) NOT NULL, ComputedConstraint AS CASE WHEN ssn IS NULL THEN CAST(testId AS CHAR(9)) ELSE ssn END, UNIQUE (ComputedConstraint)) Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
I have 4 particular columns (crt_dt,upd_dt,entity_active and user_idn) in many of the tables in my database. Now i have to find all the tables having four columns mentioned above and cases are
1) if the column is nullable., then it should result 'Y' 2) if the column is not nullable., then it should result 'N' 3)if column is not present., then it should display '-'
i am use this query to select the primary field colums in a table "select Column_Name as PrimaryKeycolumn from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'tbl_Activity' and Constraint_Name like 'PK_%'"
but i want to select the fields which have a nullable=false for that i want know the information schema for null
Question.I have a new table that I am adding to a script that I wrote. Thistable has 3 fields, the first 2 fields are used in the on statement asbeing = other fields in the script.The first field always has data in it, but the 2nd field is sometimesnull.So my problem is if both fields have data in them and they both matchto the data in the fields that I am linking them to, then it returnsthe 3rd field without a problem. However if the 2nd field is null thenit is returning a null for the 3rd field. I have checked and the fieldthat I am linking to is null also.So if I haveselect t1.field1, t1.field2, t2.field1, t2.field2, t2.field3from table1 t1join table2 t2on t1.field1=t2.field1 and t1.field2=t2.field2with 2 records in each tabletable1: record1: data, datarecord2: data, nulltable2: record1: data,data,datarecord2: data,null,datawhat I get from the script isrecord1: data, data,data,data,datarecord2: data,null,data,null,nullI would expectrecord2: data,null,data,null,dataI hope this makes sense, I didn't want to post the entire actual scriptas it is about 150 lines long.Thanks in advance.
I am trying to recreate a primary key that I dropped in a table....
I'm using a statement like
ALTER TABLE temp WITH NOCHECK add CONSTRAINT PK__tempkey PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
num, store )
But apparently the "store" column was created without a "not null" and it let it create the PK during the table creation but now it won't let me add the PK with that nullable column..
Does anyone know how to get it to use that column to create a primary key after the initial table creation?
Here is the error i get
Cannot define PRIMARY KEY constraint on nullable column in table
I would like to dynamically copy a table in Transact SQL, like this:
SELECT * into NEW_TABLE from MY_TABLE where 1 = 2
This creates an empty NEW_TABLE as desired. However, NEW_TABLE retains the column nullability of MY_TABLE; I would like NEW_TABLE to have all its columns nullable.
I tried to write Transact SQL logic to update the isnullable column in syscolumns for NEW_TABLE, but was told that the entire SQL Server would have to be reconfigured to allow this.
I have a dimension with a date field (int key value actually) that is generally null that I'm using to link to a time dimension. Everything works great when I set Null Processing to UnknownMember in the Measure Group Bindings, but if I try to set it to Preserve or anything else, I get processing errors because it can't match the null attribute key to the time dimension. I think I understand this, but I'm concerned that I'm not doing it the best way. Also, why does this page say "UnknownMember causes a data integrity error at processing time" when that's the only setting that does not give me errors?
I have a case where a table has two candidate primary keys,but either (but not both) may be NULL. I don't want to storea copy of the concatenated ISNULL'ed fields as an additionalcolumn, though that would work if necessary. Instead, I triedthe following (this is a related simplified example, not myreal one):CREATE FUNCTION ApplyActionPK(@IP int = NULL,@DNS varchar(64) = NULL)RETURNS varchar(74) -- NOT NULLASBEGINdeclare @val varchar(74)set @val = str(ISNULL(@IP, 0), 10)set @val = @val + ISNULL(@DNS, '')return @val-- Also tried "return str(ISNULL(@IP, 0), 10)+ISNULL(@DNS, '')"-- Also tried "return ISNULL(STR(@IP, 10), ISNULL(@DNS, ''))"-- ... and other things...ENDGOcreate table ApplyAction(-- An action applies to a computerAct varchar(16) NOT NULL,-- The action to applyIP int NULL,-- The computer IP address, orDNS varchar(64) NULL,-- The DNS name of the computerTarget as dbo.ApplyActionPK(ComputerID, DNS), -- PK value-- Also tried "Target as ISNULL(STR(@IP, 10), ISNULL(@DNS, ''))"CONSTRAINT PK_ApplyAction PRIMARY KEY(Act, Target))SQL Server always complains that the primary key constraint cannot becreated over a nullable field - even though in no case will the 'Target'field be NULL.Please don't explain that I should store an IP address as a string.Though that would suffice for this example, it doesn't solve myactual problem (where there are four nullable fields, two of whichare FKs into other tables).What's the reason for SQL Server deciding that the value is NULLable?What's the usual way of handling such alternate PKs?Clifford Heath.
I recently ran into an issue with an issue with a query against our Data Warehouse. When attempting to sum revenue from a table, and using a WHERE clause on a field that contains NULL values, the records with the NULL values are suppressed (in addition to whatever the WHERE clause specified). I believe this is because a NULL value is unknown so SQL doesn't know if it does or doesn't fit the criteria of there WHERE clause so it is suppressed.
That being said, is there a way to avoid this instead of having to add an ISNULL function in the WHERE clause which is going to kill performance?
Code: create table #nullTest ( name varchar(50) ,revenue int)
INSERT INTO #nullTest Values ('Tim',100) ,('Andrew', 50) ,(null, 200)
SELECT sum(revenue) as Revenue FROM #nulltest WHERE name <> 'tim'
Ideally, I would want the SELECT statement above to return 250, not 50. The only way I can think to accomplish this is with this query:
Code: SELECT sum(revenue) as Revenue FROM #nullTest WHERE isnull(name,'') <> 'tim'
I have a very large table that I need to partition. Ideally the table will write to three filegroups. I have defined the Partition function and scheme as follows.
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION vm_Visits_PM(datetime) AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES ('2012-07-01', '2013-06-01') CREATE PARTITION SCHEME vm_Visits_PS AS PARTITION vm_Visits_PM TO (vm_Visits_Data_Archive2, vm_Visits_Data_Archive, vm_Visits_Data)
This should create three partitions of the vm_Visits table. I am having a few issues, the first has to do with adding a new clustered index Primary Key to the existing table. The main issue here is that the closed column is nullable (It is a datetime by the way). So running the following makes SQL Server upset:
ALTER TABLE dbo.vm_Visits ADD CONSTRAINT [PK_vm_Visits] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( VisitID ASC, Closed ) ON [vm_Visits_PS](Closed)
I need to define a primary key on the VisitId column, but I need to include the Closed column in order to partition on it.how I would move data between partitions on a monthly basis. Would I simply update the Partition function, or have to to some sort of merge, split, or switch function?
I need to programatically create a mdb file which will contain nullable columns. I am using C++ with ADOX for the table creation and ADO to perform the table update.
Although ADOX seems to create the table ok, Table->Columns->Appends does not set the fields as adColNullable as expected.
When I insert data using ADO::Recordset->AddNew the following error occurs :- "The field 'MyTable.Column 2' cannot contain a Null value because the Required property for this field is set to True. Enter a value in this field."
Am I on the right tracks here or do I need to adopt a different approach?
Hi, how can i make optional relationship? for example: In table A, there is column 1, column 2, column3. In table B, there is column 4, column 5 and column 6. column 1 and column 2 are primary keys for table A and table B. The relationships between table A and table B are column 2 and column 5; column3 and column 6. but optional (ie. when data exists in column 2, then column3 is null) how can i set the relationship? because one of the columns data is null each time, error always occurs.
I have a select proc that will take a bunch or criteria parameters. Based on how many are not null I would like to decide how many inner joins to do. for example:
select H1.Priceid as HotelPriceId,H2.Priceid as AirPriceId, H1.VendorPackageId from ( select HA.PriceId, HA.VendorPackageId from Criteria HA Inner Join ( select VendorPackageId from ValidVendorPackages where Vendor = 'SBT' and Sitecode = 'system' and PackageType = 'AHCF' )HB on HA.VendorPackageId = HB.VendorPackageId and ( CriteriaId in ( select CriteriaID from ValidItemCriteria where Destination = 'LAS' and LengthOfStay = 5 and Ages = 'A2' and ComponentType = @ComponentType_1 and ValidItemType = @ValidItemType_1 and ItemValue = @ItemValue_1 ) )
)H1 INNER JOIN ( select HA.PriceId, HA.VendorPackageId from Criteria HA Inner Join ( select VendorPackageId from ValidVendorPackages where Vendor = 'SBT' and Sitecode = 'system' and PackageType = 'AHCF' )HB on HA.VendorPackageId = HB.VendorPackageId and ( CriteriaId in ( select CriteriaID from ValidItemCriteria where Destination = 'LAS' and LengthOfStay = 5 and Ages = 'A2' and ComponentType = @ComponentType_2 and ValidItemType = @ValidItemType_2 and ItemValue = @ItemValue_2 ) ) )H2 on H1.Priceid = H2.priceId Inner Join ( select HA.PriceId, HA.VendorPackageId from Criteria HA Inner Join ( select VendorPackageId from ValidVendorPackages where Vendor = 'SBT' and Sitecode = 'system' and PackageType = 'AHCF' )HB on HA.VendorPackageId = HB.VendorPackageId and ( CriteriaId in ( select CriteriaID from ValidItemCriteria where Destination = 'LAS' and LengthOfStay = 5 and Ages = 'A2' and ComponentType = @ComponentType_3 and ValidItemType = @ValidItemType_3 and ItemValue = @ItemValue_3 ) ) )H3 on H2.Priceid = H3.priceId
if values are only passed in from @ComponentType_1,@ValidItemType_1,@ItemValue_1 I dont want to do any inner joins.
If its passed in for @ComponentType_1,@ValidItemType_1,@ItemValue_1 & @ComponentType_2,@ValidItemType_2,@ItemValue_2 I want to do the first Inner Join.
and of course if I get all 3 sets of criteria I want to do both the inner joins. I know I can cut and past this thing 3 times with an if statement but that isn't going to be practical.
Is it possible to define an argument as optional for a UDF? I have a financial calculation that may or may not require a defined date range depending on the status of an individual item. Is there a way to avoid requiring the date range where it's not necessary?
AS SELECT * FROM myTables with joint WHERE DepartureDate = @DepartureDate AND ReturnDate = @ReturnDate AND MaxPrice = @MaxPrice AND Country = @Country
If a parameter is null, I dont want it to be in the WHERE clause. I dont want to use a string parameter and execute a "string" select. I dont want to use a combination of IF to check everything ...
Is there an option in a stored procedure whereby a parameter can be flagged as optional? I have a stored procedure with 2 parameters, Product and Date, and I would like to be able to just pass the Product, or pass Product and Date from an Access project. Is this possible?
Hello, Is it possible to define optional parameters for a stored procedure? What I want is to create a search with about 8 parameters, but most users will only use 3 or 4, so It would be nice If I could only provide the used parameters in my code. And have sql give the unused parameters a default value (possibly %) thx.
I have a package in DTS that I am tryinig to work with. We have a few queries that will export the same exact table to a text file. I am trying to make it so we can pull a previously created text file from a central "CommonFile" folder. In this package I have a Execute Package Task. This second package is only for creating this common txt file. I want this step to only run if the file is non-existant (i.e. someone deleted/moved it by accident) or if it is over a week old (the database we pull it from it updated on sundays). I can run it so the comment txt file get created first thing on monday, but I still want a failsafe in there incase the file is deleted/moved or the package to create it fails.
I have an ActiveX script set up which checks if the file exists and if it does then checks to see how old it is Then from there I would like to jump to a different area of my package:
Code Snippet
Dim pkg Dim stpbegin
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFSO.FileExists(".txt") = TRUE THEN msgbox("COPY") Set objFile = objFSO.GetFile(".txt")
Dim today Dim thisweek
today = date() thisweek = (Weekday(date())-2)
IF thisweek < 0 THEN thisweek = 6 'Sunday Weekday() = 1 so this will put it at the end of the week.
IF (date() - thisweek) <= objFile.DateLastModified THEN msgbox("COPY") set pkg = DTSGlobalVariables.Parent set stpbegin = pkg.Steps("DTSStep_DTSActiveScriptTask_4") stpbegin.ExecutionStatus = DTSStepExecStat_Waiting ELSE msgbox("CREATE") set pkg = DTSGlobalVariables.Parent set stpbegin = pkg.Steps("DTSStep_DTSExecutePackageTask_1") stpbegin.ExecutionStatus = DTSStepExecStat_Waiting END IF
ELSE msgbox("CREATE") set pkg = DTSGlobalVariables.Parent set stpbegin = pkg.Steps("DTSStep_DTSExecutePackageTask_1") stpbegin.ExecutionStatus = DTSStepExecStat_Waiting END IF
Main = DTSTaskExecResult_Success End Function
The problem I am having is despite the ActiveX script the package will run the execute package task no matter what (i dont see a way to post pics so I will try to draw bellow). I think this is due to me having a success between the ActiveX and the EPT. This is the only way I know of how to step this up. If i do a completion it will also do the EPT and if I do a failure it won't do anything at all after it.
So basically I want this pagage to jump over the DTSExecutePackageTask_1 if the file checks out as okay. Does anyone have a suggestion of how I can set up this package?
