I have a design question that I was hoping you all can help with.
When I normally design a table I always make sure to include a status field. This way I can "delete" a record without actually having to delete it, just update the record to a status which signifies deleted. This ensures my users have an undelete capability as well as safesguarding against the "mad clickers" which click right through the "You are deleting this record..." alerts.
I have been recently adding tables which have temporary records and are meant to expire at a certain date. I have designed these tables to have an expiration date field AND a status field.
My question is this: What is the normal convention relating to these types of records/tables? Should queries using these types of tables query them using the status AND the expiration date? Should you create a job that updates the records status based on the expiration date being passed. Should you use a view that only displays current records based on expiration date?
I just want to make sure Im following standard practice as I design these types of tables.
Hello, I have a database design question. I want to store a status in a table. In the ASP.NET interface for the user this status will be adapted to the language of the user. This is how it would look like: StatusID 1 = "yes" for English, "oui" for French, "ja" for DutchStatusID 2 = "no" for English, "non" for French, "neen" for DutchStatusID 3 = "error" for English, "erreur" for French, "fout" for Dutch I don't want to do the translation in ASP.NET and it should be done in one query. How would it look like in the database design.
I have a table which i use to queue messages in. in this table there is a status column along with all the other message colums (ID, body, phone, time, etc). I use tinyint to express the diffrent status values (my frist question is, should i continue using tinyint, or is there some sort of enum, or another suggestion?). the value 1 means its a new message. An external process polls this table and pics up messages that are new.
Some messages fail, and so their status is changed to two. An external post process comes along and does what it needs to with messages that have status' which it handles, for example message failures, it might erase it, or change its status back to 1.
I expect to handle thousands of messages per hour. Should I create another table, which has only id and status as columns. And when a message fails I will place it in here instead of placing it in my original table. then the post process only polls this table and joins with my main table. instead of having both processes poll the single table. Would this be more efficient for sql internal seraching? since it has a smaller table to search in? or does it not make a diffrence.
Sorry if I am posting in the wrong place here. I am not a programmer by profession but just muddle through building some reports for my job. The report I am working on at the moment is the most complicated one I have worked on so far. I am working with MS Query (SQL) and trying to limit the rows returned with the most recent date. I have searched online for the answer to this but just cannot seem to get it to work. There can be more than one Production Name per Manuscript Number. Each Production Name has a Production Task Assignment Start Date. I want to display one row per record with the latest (most recent) Production Task Assignment Start Date. I have been trying to use the MAX functionality (which I have seen listed online) but just cannot get it work. Can anyone help? It would be much appreciated! The code looks like this: SELECT SCHEDULE_GROUPS.`Schedule Group Description` AS 'AE', ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.`Article Type`, ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.`Manuscript Number` AS 'MS #', DOCUMENT.`Production Notes` AS 'Short title', ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.`First Author Last Name` AS 'First Author', PRODUCTION_TASKS.`Production Task Name` AS 'Name', "Production Task Assignment Start Date"-"ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.Final Decision Date" AS 'Days Since', ROLEEDIT_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR_AUTH.`Last Name of the Editor who made First Decision`, ROLEEDIT_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR_AUTH.`Decision Term`, ROLEPROD.`Production Task Assignment Start Date` FROM DOCUMENT.tab DOCUMENT, PRODUCTION_TASKS.tab PRODUCTION_TASKS, ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.tab ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR, ROLEEDIT_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR_AUTH.tab ROLEEDIT_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR_AUTH, ROLEPROD.tab ROLEPROD, SCHEDULE_GROUPS.tab SCHEDULE_GROUPS, SCHEDULE_GROUPS_TOC.tab SCHEDULE_GROUPS_TOC WHERE PRODUCTION_TASKS.`Unique Idenitifer` = ROLEPROD.`Production Task ID` AND ROLEPROD.`Document ID` = ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.`Document ID` AND ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.`Document ID` = SCHEDULE_GROUPS_TOC.`Document ID` AND SCHEDULE_GROUPS_TOC.`Schedule Group ID` = SCHEDULE_GROUPS.`Unique Identifier` AND ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.`Document ID` = DOCUMENT.`Unique Document ID` AND ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.`Document ID` = ROLEEDIT_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR_AUTH.`Unique Document ID` AND ((SCHEDULE_GROUPS.`Schedule Group Description` Not Like '%2008' And SCHEDULE_GROUPS.`Schedule Group Description` Not In ('Accepted (With SC for assigning)') And SCHEDULE_GROUPS.`Schedule Group Description` Not In ('Comments')) AND (ROLEEDIT_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR_AUTH.`Decision Term`='Accept'))ORDER BY ROLEAUTH_DOC_PEOPLE_ADDR.`Manuscript Number` Once the records are retrived I am returning the data to Excel. Thanks for your time. Natalie
Consider the following tableCustomercustId char(10)accountExpiryDate datetimeaccountStatus bitNow, I want to update the accountStatus to False as soon as thecurrent date becomes accountExpiryDate.I think it can be done using "SQL Agent" but my webhost doesnt provideme access to that. I have access only to the Query Analyzer.ThanksShane
I have a scenario to fetch records for each ID on 2 conditions. There are 2 types of Product type for each ID. PFE and PRI. I need only latest active PFE and at the same time all the latest PRI should be closed. (meaning, only PFE should be in Active status currently)
1.) Latest Product type PFE should be A (active) status for the particular ID 2.) At the same time ALL the latest PRI should be C(closed) status for the same ID
I have give example with 3 scenarios and desired output
1.) For ID 101, Latest PFE is active and all latest PRI is closed ----> Should come in result 2.) For ID 102, Latest PFE is Closed and all latest PRI is closed ---->Should NOT come in result
Hi all,Suppose I have a SQL database table called Customer Info which contains six fields namely Customer ID, Address, First , Last Name , Password, and Time Remaining. The Time Remaining field contains the amount of time that a customer has before his or her password expires. I would like info in this field to be in hours and minutes and when it reaches zero, I would like the password to be deleted from the database. So I have two questions and please take into consideration that I am using dot net 2.0.1) Can this be done without having to write a custom function?2) If this can only be done by creating a custom function, how would I get the function to communicate with the database, in other words how would I let the function know that a customer's time is up? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance for your help.
I have a maintenance plan setup to expire backup sets after 4 days, but its keep backup copies for an infinite amount of time. I might be misunderstanding whats suppose to happen, but I would expect the files to be removed after 4 days.
How can you force a password, from a sql login, to expire?
I would like to use the password expiration feature for sql logins in SqlServer 2005. The msdn document provides example code for SqlClient SqlConnection.ChangePassword like in Bob Beauchemin's book. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlconnection.changepassword.aspx
There is a modify_date in the system view sys.sql_logins but that is read-only.
My application is developed using VB6.0 and SQL Server 2000. Frequently the application displays error message, which says 'Timeout Expired - occurred while getting records" when no. of users grows more than 20. We are using processor based licence SQL Server. Under what are all the scenario, this error may come? Anybody explain me. Thanks in advance. K.Manoharan
This question is related to VSTS and above parameters in the request. Question is:
A script created with VSTS for testers has hard coded values for ReportSession and ControlID in the requests, These IDs are expired after some time and scripts fails to run after few hours. Can some one tell me how to set the session expiration time on these ID's in the Report server so I can increase the value to 60*24*365 (1 year) this would solve my problem with hard coded values in the scripts for above mentioned IDs.
Is there a way to set up automated email notification beginning 14 days prior to when a SQL Server Login password (that has "Enforce password expiration" enabled) will expire?
I have a question regarding notification of password expirations.
Background: My workplace will soon be enforcing the password policy and password expiration facilities in SQL Server 2005. My understanding (and correct me if I am wrong) is that the period of validity for a password before expiration occurs comes from either active directory, or where there is no AD, the local machine security policy.
Because we are on a Novell network our SQL2K5 servers are all mixed authentication. For development purposes we are each given a separate account. Our applications, too, use sql accounts (not windows accounts) for database access. Having a development account expire unexpectedly is no problem; we'll change those passwords as they need to be. What I am concerned with is the accounts our applications use to access the database server; like most IT shops, our applications need to be available with interruptions in service as minimal as possible.
I would like to create and schedule a report to run every morning listing those accounts that are about to expire, or have expired, so that those passwords can be changed with little to no interruption in service.
Question: Where do I pull this data from? I couldn't find anything in the BOL, or online (so far), giving the details of how to determine when a particular account is nearing expiration, or has expired.
I would appreciate any advice anyone has to offer.
I need to control DOF (date of order) which data type is datetime for today's date. I use 1) or 2) but got null. 1) = getdate(), 2) = DATEADD(day, DATEDIFF(day, 0, GETDATE()), 0) I use between '2/28/2008' and '2/28/2008' will get result. How to get today's date?
Developing a Retail cube using SSAS 2012. One of the dimension is DimCustomer with SCD type II. Each Customer can be a member or a non-member over a period of time. We have StartDt and EndDt to reflect the membership status.
eg: Joe is a member between 06-01-2014 and 31-08-2014 Joe is a non-member between 09-01-2014 and 01-31-2015 Joe is a member between 02-01-2015 and 04-30-2015 Joe is a non-member between 05-01-2015 and 12-31-9999
Without adding fact row of Joe for each day to reflect the membership status, I want to provide the ability to measure "Active Customers Count" on a given date. There are 2 million customers in the DimCustomer Table.
How do we convert both of them into a single SQL DateTime field such as "2015-07-16 01:23:45.000" so that it can be used in a join restricting to a date time in a different SQL File that properly has the DateTime in it?
This works well for converting the transDate Part in the select statement:
dbo.IntegerToDate(at.transDate) as transDate
* That returns: "2015-07-16 00:00:00.000"
* The resulting data must work directly in a Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Query using either using the "on" statement or part of the "where" clause. In other words, NOT as a stored procedure!
Also must be able to be used as a date difference calculation when comparing the 2 files Within say + or - 5 seconds.
I am extracting data from SQL Server 2005 to flat file destination. I am using SQL Command to specify the data selection query. One of my query uses Replicate function to derive a column value. When I execute this package it fails with the error "Data conversion failed. The data conversion for column "value" returned status value 4 and status text "Text was truncated or one or more characters had no match in the target code page".
The reason for the problem is that, it is taking the InputColumnWidth of the flat file destination as 8000 and I specified the OutputColumnWidth as 4.
If I change the OutputColumnWidth to 8000, it is working without any error but resulting in the column width of 8000.
I tried using DerivedColumn Transformation's Type cast and DataConversion Transformation but still I am getting the same error in the respective Transformation components.
Ok, I'm doing a football database for fixtures and stuff. The problem I am having is that in a fixture, there is both a home, and an away team. The tables as a result are something like this:
It's not exactly like that, but you get the point. The question is, can I do a fixture query which results in one record per fixture, showing both teams details. The first in a hometeam field and the second in an away team field.
Fixture contains the details about the fixture like date and fixture id and has it been played
Team contains team info like team id, name, associated graphic
TeamFixture is the table which links the fixture to it's home and away team.
TeamFixture exists to prevent a many to many type relationship.
Make sense? Sorry if this turns out to be really easy, just can't get my head around it at the mo!
I would like to create a table called product. My objective is to get list of packages available for each product in data grid view column while selecting each product. Each product may have different packages type (eg:- Nos, CTN, OTR etc). Some product may have two packages and some for 3 packages etc. Quantity in each packages also may be differ ( for eg:- for some CTN may contain 12 nos or in other case 8 nos etc). Prices for each packages also will be different that also need to show. How to design the table..
Product name : Nestle milk | Rainbow milk packages : CTN,OTR, NOs |
CTN, NOs Price: 50,20,5 | 40,6
(Remarks for your reference):CTN=10nos, OTR=4 nos | CTN=8 Nos
HiI am using SQL 2005, VB 2005I am trying to insert a record using parameters using the following code as per MotLey suggestion and it works finestring insertSQL; insertSQL = "INSERT INTO Issue(ProjectID, TypeofEntryID, PriorityID ,Title, Area) VALUES (@ProjectID, @TypeofEntryID, @PriorityID ,@Title, @Area)"; cmdInsert SqlCommand; cmdInsert=new SqlCommand(insertSQL,conn); cmdInsert.Parameters.Add("@ProjectID",SqlDbType.Varchar).Value=ProjectID.Text; My query is how to detail with dates my previous code wasinsertSQL += "convert(datetime,'" + DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yy") + "',3), '";I tried the code below but the record doesn't save?string date = DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yy"); insertSQL = "INSERT INTO WorkFlow(IssueID, TaskID, TaskDone, Date ,StaffID) VALUES (@IDIssue, @IDTask, @TaskDone, convert(DateTime,@Date,3),@IDStaff)"; cmdInsert.Parameters.Add("IDIssue", SqlDbType.Int).Value = IDIssue.ToString();cmdInsert.Parameters.Add("IDTask",SqlDbType.Int).Value = IDTask.Text;cmdInsert.Parameters.Add("TaskDone",SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = TaskDoneTxtbox.Text;cmdInsert.Parameters.Add("Date",SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = date;cmdInsert.Parameters.Add("IDStaff",SqlDbType.Int).Value = IDStaff.Text;Could someone point to me in the right direction?Thanks in advance
Unless I grant a developer "system admin" role, they are unable to see whether or not any job *not* owned by themselves is running?
EX: Developer A can't see whether Developer B's job is executing? Why? I've granted them both db_owner in msdb, and all permissions possible in msdb. Is there an extended sp I can look for?
I have a table with columns c1, c2, c3, c4.if all nulls or blanks. Status = 0if c1 assigned but no c2, c3, and c4, then status = 1if c2 assigned but no c3 and c4, then status = 2if c3 .. then ..if c4 .. then ..I want to have one SQL to get the status like (ignored checking forblanks here for demo)SELECT Status = (if not c4 is null then 4else not c3 is null then 3else not c2 is null then 2else not c1 is null then 1else 0)FROM mytable.Thought of using CASE ... WHEN ... but it is only on one colum.Any better idea.ThanksJohn
