If there is a 'one word' answer to this, i.e. the name of a built in
SQL Server function I can use, that would be great! However...
I have a standard 1:m relationship, e.g. tblHeader and tblDetail.
I want to create a view of records from 'tblHeader' and within that
view have a column (called e.g. DetailTypes) that provides a single
comma separated varchar of values from a varchar field (called e.g.
DetailType) that appears in related records in the 'tblDetail' table.
(hope you understood that :)
e.g. the contents of my 'tblDetail' table could be....
Detail ID | Header ID | DetailType
-----------------------------------
1 | 1 | A
2 | 1 | A
3 | 1 | B
4 | 2 | A
5 | 2 | C
6 | 3 | B
Therefore, the view I want to create should return:
i.e. the first row can be read as "Header 1 has 2 'A' detail records
and 1 'B' detail record."
I have created a view e.g. 'vqryHeaders' which calls a user defined
function that takes the HeaderID and opens a cursor on another view,
e.g. 'vqryDetailGrouped'. The other view groups the records in
tblDetail so that I can get a count of each DetailType for each Header
ID. The cursor then loops through the returned records concatenating
the count and detail type into a comma separated string (as shown
above).
However, when I run this across 20k records it is soooo sloooooww. I
have indexes on the relationship fields and I am using realistically
sized varchars - neither made any difference in speed. It is
definately the function that I wrote that slows it down as the view is
lightning fast when I remove my function call.
I can supply source code if necessary, but I think that this is a
kind-of generic problem so I don't see the point - yet.
Hi all. I have been going round and round for the past 2 days on this and would appreciate any help. In a view select statement, I need to concat 2 varchar fields with a text field. If I CONVERT the TEXT field to VARCHAR, only the first 30 characters of the field appear in the result set. If I convert the VARCHAR fields to TEXT, I get an error that I cannot CONCAT TEXT fields. I'm not sure what to do. Can someone please offer some assistance? Thanks in advance! Steve
I have a table containing URLs. I want to be able to look up an URL veryfast, so I used an nvarchar to store the URL, and put an index on it(maybe naive).Anyway, I bump into:"The index entry of length 911 bytes for the index 'UQ__URL__1367E606'exceeds the maximum length of 900 bytes."What's the best way to handle this? I want to do the look up fast. Theonly thing I could think up was adding an extra column containing a digestfor the URL, and look up all URLs with the same digest, *and* having thesame value (which could give either 1 or 0 results).I am new to MS SQL, so I might describe a silly solution, basically I wantto look up URLs to ID the fastest way possible.--John MexIT: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/personal page: http://johnbokma.com/Experienced programmer available: http://castleamber.com/Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html
I seem to remember reading many moons ago about a function where youcan retrieve a count of the last recordset you opened.For example:I've got a stored procedure that returns a recordset using the TOP 10so I only get the top 10 records. I need to know the recordcount but Idont want to reuse the SELECT statement because its quite complex.Any ideas?What does @@Count do?Thanks in advance
declare @Sample table (ID int, message varchar(1000)) insert into @Sample(ID,message) select 1,'Testing 1' union all select 1,'Testing 2' union all select 1,'Testing 3' union all
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I need to get top three values has to be comma separated. for example id 1 has 5 rows message which comma separated. Instead i need to consider top three message group by Id
I want to pull out some information for documenting my user accounts.I want to be able to show all of the users and what companies those users have access to.
The table which stores the company information lists it in multiple rows, so there will be many results for each user user -- companyid johnd -- 2 johnd -- 5 johnd -- 1
I want to select this into one record so it will show up like this user -- companies johnd -- 2,5,1
The only way I know how to do this would be with a sub-query that uses a cursor to loop through & dump it into one string value, and then output the string value to the field. This seems extremely inefficient for such a seemingly simple task.
I need to normalise comma separated strings of tags (SQL Server 2008 R2).
E.g. (1, 'abc, DEF, xyzrpt') should become (1, 'abc') (1, 'DEF') (1, 'xyzrpt')
I have written a procedure in T-SQL that can handle this. But it is slow and it would be better if the solution was available as a view, even a slow view would be better.
Most solutions I found go the way round: from (1, 'abc'), (1, 'DEF') and (1, 'xyzrpt'), generate (1, 'abc, DEF, xyzrpt').
If memory serves, it used "FOR XML PATH". But it's been a while and I may be totally wrong.
I am a new user to SQL an I need to create a data base record from a comma delimted file (.CVS). The CVS file has up to ten fields all alpha/numeric. I must create this data base file using a stored procedure! The data base records will be displayed on a grid screen but this grid view will not be used to update the original CVS file.
I need some help with a stored procedure to insert multiple rows into a join table from a checkboxlist on a form. The database structure has 3 tables - Products, Files, and ProductFiles(join). From a asp.net formview users are able to upload files to the server. The formview has a products checkboxlist where the user selects all products a file they are uploading applies too. I parse the selected values of the checkboxlist into a comma delimited list that is then passed with other parameters to the stored proc. If only one value is selected in the checkboxlist then the spproc executed correctly. Also, if i run sql profiler i can confirm that the that asp.net is passing the correct information to the sproc: exec proc_Add_Product_Files @FileName = N'This is just a test.doc', @FileDescription = N'test', @FileSize = 24064, @LanguageID = NULL, @DocumentCategoryID = 1, @ComplianceID = NULL, @SubmittedBy = N'Kevin McPhail', @SubmittedDate = 'Jan 18 2006 12:00:00:000AM', @ProductID = N'10,11,8' Here is the stored proc it is based on an article posted in another newsgroup on handling lists in a stored proc. Obviously there was something in the article i did not understand correctly or the author left something out that most people probably already know (I am fairly new to stored procs) CREATE PROCEDURE proc_Add_Product_Files_v2/*Declare variables for the stored procedure. ProductID is a varchar because it will receive a comma,delimited list of values from the webform and then insert a rowinto productfiles for each product that the file being uploaded pertains to. */@FileName varchar(150),@FileDescription varchar(150),@FileSize int,@LanguageID int,@DocumentCategoryID int,@ComplianceID int,@SubmittedBy varchar(50),@SubmittedDate datetime,@ProductID varchar(150) ASBEGIN DECLARE @FileID INT SET NOCOUNT ON /*Insert into the files table and retrieve the primary key of the new record using @@identity*/ INSERT INTO Files (FileName, FileDescription, FileSize, LanguageID, DocumentCategoryID, ComplianceID, SubmittedBy, SubmittedDate) Values (@FileName, @FileDescription, @FileSize, @LanguageID, @DocumentCategoryID, @ComplianceID, @SubmittedBy, @SubmittedDate) Select @FileID=@@Identity /*Uses dynamic sql to insert the comma delimited list of productids into the productfiles table.*/ DECLARE @ProductFilesInsert varchar(2000) SET @ProductFilesInsert = 'INSERT INTO ProductFiles (FileID, ProductID) SELECT ' + CONVERT(varchar,@FileID) + ', Product1ID FROM Products WHERE Product1ID IN (' + @ProductID + ')' exec(@ProductFilesInsert) EndGO
Using Flat File Connection Manager, I am specifying Text Qualifier = Double quotes{"}, and i have TXT file with one column for lastname and first name as "LN,FN", and settings are set to comma delimted, now the connectin manager is creating two different columns for LN and FN,
I created very simple table with 3 columns and one is varchar(max) datatype
When i insert records thru VC++ ADO code i am getting this error
Exception Description Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check e ach OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done. and Error Number:: -2147217887
I have a file which contains comma separated columns. One of columns contains names of companies. Sometimes the names of the companies have a comma as part of the name. For those, the value is surrounded by double-quotes.
But it seems that SSIS ignores the double quotes and ONLY looks for the column separator. This causes my value to be split in half.
Traditionally, I thought parsers that deal with this type of import do not automatically take the first comma following the double-quote as the column separator but instead look for the first comma following the ending quote. (i.e. Look at how Excel performs imports...)
I cannot set the column separator of the column to double-quote comma since only those values that HAVE a comma in them are qualified.
The last entry should be imported as 12 in the first column, "Peter, Paul, Mary" in the second column and 09643 in the third but instead ends up as 12 in the first, "Peter in second column and Paul, Mary", 09643 in the last.
(Oddly enough, if I remove the first column of numbers the import works like it is supposed.)
I am trying to return rows from a query and I want to display the information from 2 columns into one. Here is my query:
SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT dbo.CASES.CaseID, dbo.CASENUMBERTYPES.CaseNumTypeDesc, dbo.CASENUMBERS.CaseNumber, dbo.SCANNEDDOCUMENTS.TopicID, dbo.EVENTS.EventTypeID, dbo.EVENTS.ev_StartDate, dbo.SCANNEDDOCUMENTS.Doc FROM dbo.SCANNEDDOCUMENTS INNER JOIN dbo.CASES ON dbo.SCANNEDDOCUMENTS.CaseID = dbo.CASES.CaseID INNER JOIN dbo.CASENUMBERS ON dbo.CASES.CaseID = dbo.CASENUMBERS.CaseID INNER JOIN dbo.CASENUMBERTYPES ON dbo.CASENUMBERS.CaseNumTypeID = dbo.CASENUMBERTYPES.CaseNumTypeID INNER JOIN dbo.EVENTS ON dbo.CASES.CaseID = dbo.EVENTS.CaseID WHERE (dbo.CASENUMBERTYPES.CaseNumTypeDesc IN ('cc', 'dc')) AND (dbo.EVENTS.EventTypeID IN (7048, 6467)) AND (dbo.SCANNEDDOCUMENTS.TopicID IN (2, 3, 4)) AND (dbo.EVENTS.ev_StartDate > CONVERT(DATETIME, '2008-01-13 00:00:00', 102)) AND (dbo.EVENTS.ev_StartDate < CONVERT(DATETIME, '2008-01-19 00:00:00', 102)) ORDER BY dbo.CASENUMBERTYPES.CaseNumTypeDesc, dbo.CASENUMBERS.CaseNumber
I get this for my return
1526959 CC 228762 2 7048 1/16/2008 12:00:00 AM <Binary data> CC is my CASENUMBERTYPES and the next column (228762) is CASENUMBERS
How can I get it to return it to where the CASENUMBERTYPES and CASENUMBERS show together in one column?
Hi there, I'm trying to concat the results of a select statement into a single row separated by commas without duplicates. The query and output is something like this:SELECT Specification FROM Cars WHERE Model = 112Which would return something like:Specification------------------Model 1Model 2Model 2Model 4 What I'd like is these to be combined into a single row such as:Specification ------------------Model 1, Model 2, Model 4
I want to use a NEWID() to generate order numbers, but i dont want to give customers the long uniqueID. so im wondering if i concatinate it to 8 characters, if that would be safe or not...
I am trying to concat an int with an nvarchar in my select:
select distinct(id + name) from load where name not like '%test%'
but I am getting an error saying: Server: Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Syntax error converting the nvarchar value '灪愭楮敭' to a column of data type int.
My question is: how do you concat int and string in MS SQL Server. The equivalent in Oracle would be ||, I think.
I have a string let's say: "123". I want to convert it to: -- Start SqlServer BEGIN {CALL DBA.applsp_ChangeComments( 'ArtPurchPriceUpdate', 'TRIGGER', 'nl', 'ArtPurchPriceUpdate', '1' + CHAR(13)+ CHAR(10) + '2' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) + 3' )} END; -- End SqlServer
This works well for oracle and sybase, for sqlserver I can't concatenate in a parameter of a stored procedure. I really want to do this. To create a variable is a lot of extra programming. Is there anyone who knows how to cancat these strings within the stored procedure call?
Hi there, I'm trying to concat the results of a select statement into a single row separated by commas without duplicates. The query and output is something like this:
SELECT Specification FROM Cars WHERE Model = 112
Which would return something like:
Specification ------------------
Model 1 Model 2 Model 2 Model 4
What I'd like is these to be combined into a single row such as:
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY BM.BILL_NUMBER_V) AS [SL_NO],PP.KID_ID_NO_V AS [KID_NO],(PP.FIRSTNAME_V + SPACE(1) + PP.LASTNAME_V)AS [PATIENT_NAME], CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),PP.UPDATEDDATE_D,101)AS [VISIT_DATE],BM.BILL_NUMBER_V AS [BILL_NUMBER],CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),BM.BILL_DATE_D,101) AS [BILL_DATE], ROUND(BM.BILL_AMOUNT_M,2) AS [BILL_AMOUNT],ROUND(BM.CONCESSION_AMOUNT_M,2) AS [CONCESSION_AMOUNT],ROUND(BM.TOTAL_AMOUNT_M,2) AS [TOTAL_AMOUNT],
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In the above query i want to concat symbol '%' for output of percentage column. How to do that?
If I have table1 and table2 with table2 having multiple rows tied to asingle row in table 1.What I am trying to do is set up a view that has one row that showsthe followingtable1.uniqueid, table1.name, table2.row1.detail, table2.row2.detail,table2.row3.detailI'd like to be able to do a select on the view and only come back withone row per widget. If possible, I'd actually like to be able toconcat all the rows from table 2 into one column if that's possible.table1.uniqueid, table1.name, (table2.row1.detail - table2.row2.detail- table2.row3.detail), table1.dateCreatedthxM@
Hello,I have a very simple problem which I will illustrate with an example:I have the following records in my table:A 1 CA 2 CA 3 CB 8 KB 9 KI now want to group them and the result has to be:A 1,2,3 CB 8,9 KSo the results in the second row have to be concatenated. I guessthere is no function to do this... What is the simplest solution?Kind regards,Bart Warnez
I want to concat strings such that if one string is null, it is treated as an empty string. For example 'abc' + NULL = 'abc'.
SQL Server has the CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL defaulted to ON, and it needs to be on in most cases when dealing with indices. (INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, etc.) However, when I am running a select, and one field has a null value, I still want to see the other fields in the resulting string.
I can do this in a function, but I need a view, and the view doesn't seem to let me save a command with 'SET' in it. (However, it does let me run the command! And it works!) It's just when I try to save it, I get a syntax error, so the view is unavailable to me as I want it.
The command that works, but won't save is:
PHP Code:
SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF SELECT t1.field1+'-'+'t2.field2 AS viewField FROM table1 t1 INNER JOIN table2 t2 ON t1.fk1=t2.pk2
I'm wondering how it's possible to have a select statement resultant rows concatenated into one row and column. For example: select letter from alphabet_table a b c d e ... 26 rows returned.
Other than a cursor, how would I write a query to return the following: row1: abcdefghijkl...
