Default Field To Another Field Value On Db Level
Oct 30, 2006
Hi All,
I need to create a new field on a table and have that field default to another field value in that same table. Is there a way to do this w/ a default constraint rather than adding a trigger to the table? If i can't use a default constraint does anyone have a template trigger i could use? Below is an example of what i'm trying to do (Field_C is the new field and i want it to use Field_A value if no other value is specified on insert). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
alter table FOO add Field_C varchar(50) not null constraint FOO_default DEFAULT Field_A
thanks,
Dave
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Sep 16, 2005
Where can I get some information on field-level encryption in SQL Server? My users will be installing my ASP.NET app on a laptop and taking it out "into the field". If it gets stolen they want some safeguards.I've suggested that they encrypt the hard drive and things, but they want field-level encryption for the data. I know how to do things like hash a password, but that doesn't help with retrieval. I have to be able to search on and decode the data. For example, I have SSN as a field. I need to be able to search on SSN, display it to the user, and allow them to change it.The other problem is partial searches. If I encrypt SSN in the database then I can probably just search on the hashed value, but if I want to search on "smith" and get all of the smiths, smithes, etc., then I can't search on the encrypted value. I have about 1 million records, so decrypting each name to do the search would be prohibitive.Anyway, I'm sure this has been done, so if there is a thread or a site that discusses this I'd be willing to read up on it.
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Jul 30, 2007
Hello all,
This is the best suited forum I found that fits my problem. If there's a better one, please direct me to it.
I have an Access database that contains (for the purpose of my application) a lot of information (15,000+ records in one of the tables).
My application suffers from slow performance because of the size of the tables (this is because the data has to be compared to data on a Palm device).
I have done a lot of optimizations to the code, but I haven't found a way to implement the best optimization for my case: Getting row- and field-level modification dates.
That way I can only compare relevant data and not the whole database.
For example, I wish there was a way to filter out rows from a table that were modified before January 1st, 2007.
Another example: Filter out rows that their Address column was modified in the last two weeks.
I know that a partial solution will be to implement this on my own: adding a Modified column to all my tables.
But, as I said, this is only a partial solution because it saves only the row's modification date, and not for each of the fields. Plus, this is a really ugly solution, having this column standing out everywhere.
Is there a chance this is implemented inside Access (or SQL server, for that matter)?
The closest I came was finding out that there's a field in msysobjects that specifies when a table was last modified. But not a row or a field in a row.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
P.S. The weird thing is that this "modified" bit that I'm looking for is implemented on Palm devices and is very easy to use... Seems ironic that there won't be a simple way to do this on a PC.
P.P.S. I guess row- and field-level modification dates are the same... of course, Modified(row) = MAX(Modified(field1), Modified(field2), ...)
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Jul 30, 2007
Hello all,
(This was previously posted @ http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1935938&SiteID=1&mode=1, I transferred it here because it's more relevant)
I have an Access database that contains (for the purpose of my application) a lot of information (15,000+ records in one of the tables).
I use C++ non-.NET ADO in order to access that database (msado15.dll).
My application suffers from slow performance because of the size of the tables (this is because the data has to be compared to data on a Palm device).
I have done a lot of optimizations to the code, but I haven't found a way to implement the best optimization for my case: Getting row- and field-level modification dates.
That way I can only compare relevant data and not the whole database.
For example, I wish there was a way to filter out rows from a table that were modified before January 1st, 2007.
Another example: Filter out rows that their Address column was modified in the last two weeks.
I know that a partial solution will be to implement this on my own: adding a Modified column to all my tables.
But, as I said, this is only a partial solution because it saves only the row's modification date, and not for each of the fields. Plus, this is a really ugly solution, having this column standing out everywhere.
Is there a chance this is implemented inside Access (or SQL server, for that matter)?
The closest I came was finding out that there's a field in msysobjects that specifies when a table was last modified. But not a row or a field in a row.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
P.S. The weird thing is that this "modified" bit that I'm looking for is implemented on Palm devices and is very easy to use... Seems ironic that there won't be a simple way to do this on a PC.
P.P.S. I guess row- and field-level modification dates are the same... of course, Modified(row) = MAX(Modified(field1), Modified(field2), ...)
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Good morning...
I begin with SQL, I would like to add a field that will be date like 21/01/2000.
Actually i find just "datetime" format but give me the format 21/01/2000 01:01:20.
How to do for having date and time in two different field.
Sorry for my english....
Cordially
A newbie
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I'm copying MyDbTable to TempdbTable. There are 12 fields and I'm ignoring 11 of them when copying the one table to another with DTSWizard.
Once the TempdbTable is there, I'm adding 2 fields along with the one that is there already.
1) field1 int, Nullable, Default value ((3))
2) field2 tinyint, Nullable, Default value ((1))
The reason why I'm creating these two fields and giving them a value so they will match up when I import TempdbTable to MyDb2ndTable.
The problem I'm having is... field1 and field2 have a Null value intead of the value I'm giving them.
I'm new at this, so maybe the cause of the problem is obvious, but if anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Bill
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In SQL Server 2000 / Asp.Net I am trying to use default values for all fields; hoping to eliminate nulls.
For number and character fields, the default is pretty obvious, but is there any empty value for a date field? I think a null there might be better than putting in a bogus date, at least it can be tested for.
Are there any more developend ideas on this question?
Many thanks
Mike Thomas
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Hello,
I am trying to write an SQL command to set the default value of an integer column I have within a table.
ALTER TABLE TableName alter column ColumnName int default 0
Any suggetions?
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I select the data type as numeric and save my changes, I then visit our front end database to see if the default value is just '0' but it appears as '0.00'
SO i thought about changing the default value to int (im thinking this means integer?) and changing it to '3' but it still displays the decimal point and two 0's
Am I doing something wrong here? I just want it to display '0'
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We want to add a default date to our database tables. Looking at other database samples people use all sorts of dates to add as default date e.g. 1/1/1997 or the getdate() function.
Is it good practice to set a default date and what should the default date be????
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I am working with a SQL server 2005 database. I have created several new tables. In one of the tables, I need to set up a data field so that it will default to a particular value. For exampe, I need to have a particular data field default to a value of '0'
How can I do this? I would prefer not to do this through Query analyzer. I have been using the interface to SQL server 2005 provided through the Visual Studio IDE.
Thanks in advance, Bill
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Is there a way to set a field value to the column default in an update statement?
Eg.
UPDATE Table2 SET field1 = DefaultValue
where DefaultValue is the field1 column default in the table definition.
The reason I need to do this is when I delete a record from Table1, I need to set the foreign key in Table2 to the default (I don't want to delete the record in Table2, just want to set the key to a default key). I could hard-code the default value in the stored procedure but I think that's just not clean. If I create a new instance of the DB and the default value changes, I'd need to change the stored procedure(s). Just not clean...
To avoid a drawn-out discussion, there are reasons why I can't setup a relationship between the two tables and use "ON DELETE SET DEFAULT".
Any info greatly appreciated.
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Oct 13, 2005
hi
I have a field call: password, I want to generates some random chars as
default password for users (so user got something to login, and update
later).
Current Solution I have:
I made myself a trigger and it does generate password on insert, but
the problem with that is I have to allow NULL on that field. I
don't want NULL to be allowed, and if I don't allow null... sql server
won't allow me to insert a record (when leaving password field empty).
Reason i don't wanna allow NULL on that field, is because there may be
more applicaions using the same field from the same database.
Just in case if the other developer gets sloopy, I don't want other
application(s) allow user put to enter a null or leave it blank on my
password field.
My question is:
1) can I put a function or some sort at the "Default" field under "Design Table", if so...how?
2) any suggestions for a better implementation?
3) if (1) doesn't work, what other options would you suggest other then the current trigger i'm using?
TIA
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I have a datatable : Data_Table and a look up table: Lk_table. Myfield that I
use in Inner Join is defined in both the
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dbo. Lk_table ON dbo.Data_Table.MyField = dbo.Lk_table.Myfield
The pb, sometimes I
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So, I end up getting 0 record when I execute the query shown above.
How do I turn that around so that even if myfield in Data_Table
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After converting the data table and spending 2 hours designing the dataform for the 80+ fields, I inadvertantly changed the table structure and found that the dataform was not happy (oops). I corrected the databindings manually for the few errant field references, but wonder if there is some wizard to do this automatically?
Is there a way to print out the dataform itself? I used the following code snippet in my Access form code-behind and I wonder if there is an equivalent VB 2008 function:
Code Snippet
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DECLARE @datetimeoffset datetimeoffset(3)
DECLARE @datetime datetime
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SELECT @datetimeoffset AS '@datetimeoffset ', @datetime AS 'datetime'
__________________________________________________ ___________
Result of above SQL is
@datetimeoffset datetime
2012-11-08 17:22:13.575 +00:002012-11-08 17:22:13.577
__________________________________________________ ____________
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