I have an Employee table with 3000 records and an Excel file having the
modified data of those emplyoees. Some of the data of Excel may be same
as that of table data but some may differ. EmpId is the unique field.
Other than this field, other fields of Excel may have modified data.I
need to compare the data from SQL Server table with Excel Data.
I decided to write a VB Program having two recordsets,one for SQL
Server and other for Excel and compare each field's value. If the
modified value is found then update that to table. Is there any way to
compare in SQL Server itself?
Hello All, I have two tables T1 and T2 with the same data structure. I need to compare T1 with T2 for all columns and update T2 for deleted, inserted and updated rows. How can I do this?
Short version: How would you accomplish comparing ALL the values in two tables wherein the PKs for each table are identical?
Long version: SQL Server 2000 database with two tables of identical structure having rows with some new data, some old data.* It's easy to determine which rows are 100% new by looking for PKs not in the old data. For the remaining rows, I need to make certain no rows have been modified. * Actually, there are hundreds of pairs of tables as described. The data comes from flat files, and I'd rather use the database than Perl in this case.
I can write code to generate the list of columns for each table and then query these as sets. Is there any other method that might work better?
I am not sure if this is the correct forum for my question but I will give it a shot. I want to be able to create a dataset from an ODBC datasource and compare it to existing data in my SQL DB. If there are changes (inserts/updates/deletes) I want to raise seperate events for each row state. Is this possible to do with SSIS/DTS or am I on the wrong track with what I am trying to do?
Can any one give a summary of difference between Data Stage and SSIS . we are in process of Migrating existing Jobs in Data Stage to SSIS .so i am prepareing a comparitive report between Data Stage and SSIS . help us pls
I've been testing a variety of database schema migration tools. Ourcompany purchased Embarcadero Change Manager a while ago but we'vebeen less than satisfied with the results.We are looking for a tool that can compare a source/developer databasewith a target/client database and then make the necessary changes.The tool will need to update stored procedures, tables, indexes,constraints, etc. The tool will also need to make the changes in thecorrect order based on dependencies and relationships.Anyone have any recommendations?
I have a requirement to compare data between two tables in SQL Server.
What is the fastest way to do it using SSIS? There are approx 6~7 millions of records in each table.
My solution: Read both the tables and store the data in Object Type variable. Then run an except query. But I am stuck at except query part. How do I implement it?
I am comparing two fields one from our legacy table and one in our new table structure that should have identical text data. The new field has an assortment of ANSI characters where the legacy data did not have these. Is there anything I can do that will ignore all ansi character differences? The only route I can think of is just do a replace on each ANSI type on the new column but there are quite a few character types.
I am new to the topic T-SQL. I am trying to use T-SQL to merge the content of two tables (table1 and table2) into one table making sure there are no duplication.
I wonder if any body can let me have a simple code.
Hey guys what would be the easiest way to create a report of value changes for particular records from one day to the next..... ? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated....
Hi there! can anyone help me out??? I need to compare a date from the database and the system date which will be coded in a store procedure in SQL... HELP!!!!!
I have a table with a field with a bit datatype. When I execute the stored procedure line if @bitvalue = 1 begin ... and the value is passes as 0 the statements beneath the begin execute. What am I doing wrong?
Is there a way to compare two similar tables? I'm more interested in finding out if the data content is exactly the same or not between the two tables.
We are converting our project into new version. They have done lot of changes in new version including normalization/denormalization. I need to compare the old and new database. Do you have any standard script or procedure like SQL Compare software?. Let me know what are the possibilties we need to check. Your help appreciated. Thanks, Ravi
Assuming a table with a column defined char or varchar. I have a SQL query like this :
Select * from table1 where column1='Building'
It returns the same result that
Select * from table1 where column1='BUILDING'
It is my understanding SQL Server (verison 7 or 2000, I tried on both) is lower/capital insensitive by default when it is installed. If I want SQL Server to be case-sensitive with my char or varchar columns, where can I set it?
Is it at database level or server level I can find this setting . What is the setting that control it?
Best Regards, Alain Gagne, Lead DBA gagnea@msagroup.com
Morning! Folks, i want some links where i could find healthy stuff regarding New Features and Compliance levels, performance comparisons, TPC tests etc about SQL 2000 and Yukon specially. I've to submit a document regarding Top database features that shall be used for a Medical-Billing Software in plan.
I have two tables that I am needing to link by the tables date field. In one table the date field is defined as varchar(23). The time for this field is always zeros. Example: '2005-12-27 00:00:00.000'
The other table is defined as datetime, and it does have the date and time in this field. Example: 2005-12-27 08:00:35.000
The problem i am having is 2005-12-27 00:00:00.000 does not = 2005-12-27 08:00:35.000.
Because I will never have more than one record on the same date I would like to be able to only compare the date. Example 2005-12-27 = 2005-12-27
Since the fields are 2 different field types, this is giving me a problem. Could someone please help. I have tried everything I know to do.
What I really need is the a way to format the datetime fields date into a string such as '2005-12-27'.
In management studio, is there a way to compare databases side by side? Or would anyone know of any freeware out there that would do such a task? :beer:
I am doing this 2 queries, they get data from the same tables in a very different way. The new way is a lot faster but of course there are problems. There are some discrepancies in the results. Both queries produce results with more than 200.000 rows. Second one has ca. 100 rows less than the first one and some of the results are wrong (most are correct though).
My question is how do I find the differences. I did the left outer join when column a.result != b.result (lines are defined by date and ID so they should be unique).but the join gives me problematic results (some are not different at all, some differences are not in the result).so how do I find the differences between 2 queries, including missing results/rows?
I am looking for some papers/information that compare relationaldatabases such as oracle, mysql, sql server etc. I am particularlyinterested in their features such as locking mechanisms, integrityconstraints, views... Anyone know where I can find the information?Thanks,Susan
I'm in need of a sql query that I'm not sure is possible. Here is anexample of how it's laid out.employee ID Job class Last Change Date12345 x 2/1/200412345 y 1/15/200412345 z 1/1/2004We know that this person is in job class 'x' because it's the mostrecent change. Is there a way to write a query that will exclude thelines 'y' and 'z' because they are currently incorrect?I would appreciate any help I could get. Thanks
As many of you know I've been hunting down a SQL CE alternative / embedded DB that is easily portable among handhelds.
It turns out, that without paying for some other DB, there really aren't any good ones... Unless you go GPL, and the interpretation of GPL that most are using is that your code too is GPL even though you may only Dynamically Link to their app. I think this is likely wrong, but none the less I'm back here yet again.
What I'm looking for this time is a definition of how SQL Server CE is implemented, how it differs from a full blown DB, etc, so I can more thourally explain "why SQL CE" is an embedded DB, and how it isn't the full blown SQL Server that has a bad reputation with some.
My guess is:
SQL Server CE is implemented via DLL. There aren't sockets etc to allow you to connect, and it operates more like an advanced hash on the file system.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, or... send me a link where I can further research. Also, if you have another embedded DB as a suggestion, that's free of course, please point it my way.
I'm trying to do a comparison of 2 data sets. Basically what I want is: 'where event date from event number -24 is earlier than the event date for event number -13'
To get the eventdate for the eventno's, I have the following 2 queries:
select eventdate from caseevent, cases where eventno = -24
select eventdate from caseevent, cases where eventno = -13
So what i'm trying to say is: I want it so that the value of the first query is compared to be LESS than the value of the second query...
Hi, I have table with four fields ID, Date1, Date2,Date3,Date4. Dates are in numeric farmat like 20070927. How can i get largest date (from date1 to date4) on each row. Please suggest query. Thanks
Not sure if possible but I need to produce a monthly TOP 10 Ticket Category report which I retrieve with:
SELECT TOP (10) Category, COUNT(Category) AS Count FROM table WHERE (DATEDIFF(mm, open_date, GETDATE()) = 1) GROUP BY Category ORDER BY Count DESC
Now I need to know how many tickets there were for those same categories in the previous month so I want my result set to look somewhere along the lines of: Catagory - Count Month - Count Previous Month
