We are thinking of using general purpose column names in our application schema. We want to give the option to the end user to customize the filed names to fit their business . We want to build the functionality on the generic names so that it will work for multiple customes.
Example: We may want to have 10 Strings, 10 numbers and 5 booleans pre defined and reports running off of the table. The customer can name first number as pressure, second one for length and map their data to the table. Other customer can use the first number for temperature and the second one for width.
Is there a way to do it in SQL server w/o having a lookup table for column name aliasing?
We will be moving 2 different databases (SS2005 & SS2008) to a new SS2014 SQL Server. Currently our codes looks something like Server1DBInstance1... & Server2DBInstance2... Is it possible to move the objects from these 2 instances to Server3DBInstance3 and then use an alias to reference the objects? Or does Server3 need to have DBInstance1 & DBIstance2? Basically, is the alias just for the database or for the instance too? Can I create an alias "Server1DBInstance1' on Server3DBInstance3 and assign objects to that alias?
i wonder what is the best approach to use !!!i have creditLimit column in Customer Table the default value will be 500 and this limit to allow users to send sms from my website ..... every month they will be allowed to send 500 sms referring to the credit limit column.... now !!if the user sent today some sms and after few days sent another 20 and after one week he sent 150 SMS as a total so that means he has only 350 SMS as credit to use this month!!!so what is the best approach to implement this solution ? shall i have another field in the table called 'CreditUsed' and that will be updated each time the user will send SMS and this value will be compared with the credit limit ORi use the formula for the column to calculate the credit left and do the maths !!!what is the best approach as you think ???thnaks for reading this question !!
i am running this script SELECT dbo.SHOVEL_A.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.HOLEID AS shovel_id, dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE, dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname, dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET, dbo.Shovel_Hole.S_FEET, SQRT(square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.EAST - dbo.Shovel_Hole.EAST) + square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.NORTH - dbo.Shovel_Hole.NORTH)) AS distance_total FROM dbo.SHOVEL_A FULL OUTER JOIN dbo.Shovel_Hole ON dbo.SHOVEL_A.POLYGONO = dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname AND distance_total <= dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET GROUP BY dbo.SHOVEL_A.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.HOLEID, dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname, dbo.Shovel_Hole.B_FEET, dbo.Shovel_Hole.S_FEET, dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE, SQRT(square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.EAST - dbo.Shovel_Hole.EAST) + square(dbo.SHOVEL_A.NORTH - dbo.Shovel_Hole.NORTH)) HAVING (dbo.SHOVEL_A.PROJECTCODE = 'PRODL') AND (dbo.Shovel_Hole.Shotname = '20040524029')
but i have a result with the message that my colum name distance_total is wrong, so how can i fix that?
Hi All, I have a column called TIER in my database which is a long string. There are piece of these strings that are separated by spaces like this: 'A3A00 A2B00 B1A00 C2C06 C3A06 C5A00 D2C00 G6B00 M2B00 M3B00 P7A00 T2A00 G4C00 G3C00 T5A06' How do I select the last 2 characters of the piece of string when the first 2 chacters are M2? I have the following: This is retruning me all the rows that have 'M2'. declare @code varchar (2)set @code = 'M2'select tier from companywhere tier like '%'+@code+'___ %' Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance.
HI, how can i drop the identity on a column from the table. I have no access to the sql enterprise manager, i have to do it thru query analyser only. regards, varadish
i have a problem, i have a query which does a search based on a parameter, thing is i want to order them according to how relevant the results are such as 5 for beingan exact match, 0 for being no match. using a series of liek statements.
so that the most relevnat results are displayed at the top.
how do i achieve this - im a bit confused about this.
I have about 5 statements like the update below, depending on the PID different columns will be update "C2005, G2005,E2005...."
I would like to use 1 update statement in stead of 5 to update all columns below are 2 original update statements and my attempt at when then update. Note a different column is updated depending on the PID.
If when then isnt possible, any other suggestions are welcomed. Thanks UPDATE #Sec SET C2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 FROM #Sec INNER JOIN Pos ON #Sec.ID = Pos.ID WHERE (Pos.PID = 'B')
UPDATE #Sec SET G2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 FROM #Sec INNER JOIN Pos ON #Sec.ID = Pos.ID WHERE (Pos.PID = 'G')
UPDATE #Sec WHEN (Pos.PID = 'C') THEN SET C2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 end WHEN (Pos.PID = 'G') THEN SET G2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 end WHEN (Pos.PID = 'E') THEN SET E2005 = Pos.USD / 1000 end FROM #Sec INNER JOIN Pos ON #Sec.ID = Pos.ID
Im Working with stored procedure. How can i compare Columns with specific values. I want to get the greater values of those column and inserted it to other columns. i want something like these CASE WHEN a> b,c,d THEN a WHEN b> a,c,d THEN b WHEN c> a,b,d THEN c WHEN d> a,d,c THEN d
is there any ways to implement this? i got an error.. thanks please help..
SELECT @initial = CASE WHEN type = 1 THEN SUM(amount) END, @incomings = CASE WHEN type = 2 THEN SUM(amount) END, @outgoings = CASE WHEN type = 3 THEN SUM(amount) END, FROM Transactions WHERE date = '05/14/2006' AND STATION = 'apuyinc' GROUP BY type, amount
What I am trying to do is to sum all of the incomings transactions into @incomings, all of the outgoing transactions into @outgoings and the initial transaction into @initial where The incoming transactions is type 2, outgoing transactions is type 3
In SQL7, if you add a column to a table, is it necessary to recompile all stored procs that reference that table? Under 6.5, this caused problems at our site unless the Procs were 'refreshed'. Is this only necessary where select * is used? Thanks
Hi ,I have this querypaprojnumber is varcharpatx500 is textpalineitemseq is intselect Paprojnumber,Patx500,max(palineitemseq) from pa02101,pa01601wherepa02101.pabillnoteidx=pa01601.pabillnoteidx group bypaprojnumber,patx500it throws this errorServer: Msg 306, Level 16, State 2, Line 1The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be compared or sorted,except when using IS NULL or LIKE operator.Thanks a lot for your help.AJ
THe unique Id column is set to identity seed. Yet when transfering 1500 records it fails to stuff them all becuase it says there is a NULL in unique id column. "Cannot insert the value NULL into column UID column does not allow" Yet in the transformation screen I am setting the UID column to <ignore> meaning I do not have that value in my source and I am wanting the destination table to do it's thing and incrememnt by 1 the identity seed. Is this common? THe source and destination tables are in the same databes.
Hi all,We're selecting data from our database, FirstName, LastName, MobileNumber etc.We're using the detaials view function to return it in a table upon selection. However all of the variables are returned as they are in the database, ie: without spaces. We tried putting in spaces by selecting "AS what ever", but MSSQL does not seem to like spaces.Any ideas?Thanks
Urgent help needed!I moved an application from ASP+ACCESS to ASP+MS SQLSERVER and I havethe following problem:If the join on two tables results on duplicate colum names (whichappear in both tables) I could reference them by using:RECORDSET("TABLENAME.COLUMNAME")However with SQLServer if I try this kind of reference I get an errormessage.How can between two colums with the same name from two differen tables?Thanks in advance!Adam
I have a complex view in my sql 2005 database. The view returns a column that could be null (as the result of a left outer join). The coulmn that is returned is an integer. Everything works fine if I run the view from SQL 2005 Management Studio. My column value is always null if I use ADO.NET's SqlAdapter to return a DataTable. Has anybody seen this behaviour before? Any help appreciated. Regards, Paul.
I like to define my procedure parameter type to match a referenced table colum type, similar to PL/SQL "table.column%type" notation. That way, when the table column is changes, I would not have to change my stored proc. Any suggestion?
Hello!I have an MS SQL-server with an database, that runs replication. In thisdatabase there is an table with an columni want to extend; varchar(50)->varchar(60).But I get this error (using design window of Enterprise Manager): Cannotdrop the table 'MytableName' because it is being used for replication.Thanks for helpBjoern
We have an alias for dbo in various code areas, development/test/production. It was easy to tell the DBO alias on release 6.5 but now on 7.0, the only way I can figure out if the userid is aliased to dbo is to sign on as the userid and query 'select user_name( )' and if it returns dbo, I have the answer. Is there an easier way to do this by looking in a system catalog or is there something else I am missing? Thanks in advance. Karen Suenram
In 6.5 you could alias someone as dbo, thus preventing an ownership chain break. In 7.0 there are roles, one of which is db_owner. I gave a user db_owner role, and they created a table. But no one else can see it? And he is listed as the owner in EM. How do I more effectivly mimic the dbo alias available in 6.5?
I am trying to filter my result with HAVING clause. vchEditorName is an alias which I get in the result as a column (it gives me correct values). I want to select only those records which have the value in this field like 'akash'
sql Code:
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SELECT a.intArticleId, a.intEditorId, a.enumEditorType, a.vchArticleTitle, a.enumStatus, am.vchFirstName, u.vchScreenName, Case a.enumEditorType WHEN 'A' THEN am.vchFirstName WHEN 'M' THEN u.vchScreenName END as vchEditorName FROM tblArticles a LEFT OUTER JOIN tblLogin u ON a.intEditorId = u.intUserID LEFT OUTER JOIN tblAdminMaster am ON a.intEditorId = am.intAdminID
WHERE a.enumStatus='A' GROUP BY a.intArticleId, a.intEditorId, a.enumEditorType, a.vchArticleTitle, a.enumStatus, am.vchFirstName, u.vchScreenName HAVING vchEditorName LIKE '%akash%'
SELECT a.intArticleId, a.intEditorId, a.enumEditorType, a.vchArticleTitle, a.enumStatus, am.vchFirstName, u.vchScreenName, CASE a.enumEditorType WHEN 'A' THEN am.vchFirstName WHEN 'M' THEN u.vchScreenName END AS vchEditorNameFROM tblArticles a LEFT OUTER JOIN tblLogin u ON a.intEditorId = u.intUserID LEFT OUTER JOIN tblAdminMaster am ON a.intEditorId = am.intAdminID WHERE a.enumStatus='A' GROUP BY a.intArticleId, a.intEditorId, a.enumEditorType, a.vchArticleTitle, a.enumStatus, am.vchFirstName, u.vchScreenNameHAVING vchEditorName LIKE '%akash%'
Hi All, I've just installed an active/active sql cluster. Both are named instance hence if i need to connect to it, I need to use NODE1SQLINST1 and NODE2SQLINST2. Is there a way to just use NODE1 or any other single name to connect to the sql instance? I was looking at Alias but I can't get it working. Anyone has any ideas or suggestion for me? Reason why i want to do this is in an odbc connection, instead of using NODE1SQLINST1, I can use NODE1. Thanks
pls someone help me about adding alias column or column alias
here's my code
select
(select count(*) from dto_client_dtl where dto_client_dtl.testStage is null or (dto_client_dtl.testStage = 'INI' and dto_client_dtl.testResult = 'POS')) as 'NoOfPendingTransaction', (select count(*) from dto_client_dtl where dto_client_dtl.testStage in ('CHM','CHA') and dto_client_dtl.testResult = 'POS') as 'NoOfConfirmedPositive', (select count(*) from dto_client_dtl where dto_client_dtl.testStage in ('CHM','CHA') and dto_client_dtl.testResult = 'NEG') as 'NoOfConfirmedNegative', (select count(*) from dto_client_dtl where dto_client_dtl.testStage is not null and dto_client_dtl.testResult = 'POS') as 'TotalNoOfScreeningPositive', (select count(*) from dto_client_dtl where dto_client_dtl.testStage = 'INI' and dto_client_dtl.testResult = 'NEG') as 'TotalNoOfScreeningNegative', (select count(*) from dto_client_dtl where dto_client_dtl.tranStat in ('CCn','TCN')) as 'TotalNoOfCancelledTxns', ('NoOfPendingTransaction'+'TotalNoOfScreeningPositive'+'TotalNoOfScreeningNegative') as 'SubTotal'
hi. i face a problem . i cant reference an alias and have to copy and paste code again. how can i ? see "Computed Total", i had to copy its code again.
( select DateOpen AS Date,TestObjectID from RprRepair where TestObjectID = @AssetID union all select DateSent ,TestObjectID from RprRepair where TestObjectID = @AssetID union all select DateRepairFinished,TestObjectID from RprRepair where TestObjectID = @AssetID ) AS Der
This works fine alone, but when i put it into union i get an error that no more than one value can be in subqueries.
