I have a table with several million rows of data. There is a date field defined as a char(8) with some bad rows. i tried to locate them with below
select date_stopped from patient_medication
where isdate(convert(datetime,date_stopped)) = 1
This won't work, I get the
Server: Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value
I am using merge replication with automatic identity range management
I want to be able to give a disconnected subscriber a warning message if a certain percentage of the allocated subscriber identity range has been used - so that they can make sure they reconnect soon to obtain a new identity range
I can get the current identity value OK, but I can't find a good way of finding the current permitted primary and secondary ranges
The information is available in the check constraint, but I don't really want to have to parse this!
CONSTRAINT [repl_identity_range_0DF907AC_40CF_4849_9BD0_2173C90A3805] CHECK NOT FOR REPLICATION (([ContactID]>(10000040000.) AND [ContactID]<=(10000050000.) OR [ContactID]>(10000050000.) AND [ContactID]<=(10000060000.)))
I can't find any system view which will provide this information
Hi ,Have a Visual C++ app that use odbc to access sql server database.Doing a select to get value of binary field and bind a char to thatfield as follows , field in database in binary(16)char lpResourceID[32+1];rc = SQLBindCol(hstmt, 1, SQL_C_CHAR,&lpResourceID,RESOURCE_ID_LEN_PLUS_NULL , &nLen1);and this works fine , however trying to move codebase to UNICODE antested the followingWCHAR lpResourceID[32+1];rc = SQLBindCol(hstmt, 1, SQL_W_CHAR,&lpResourceID,RESOURCE_ID_LEN_PLUS_NULL , &nLen1);but only returns 1/2 the data .Any ideas , thoughts this would work fine , nit sure why loosing dataAll ideas welcome.JOhn
I have a table that contains activity dates. If a certain activity occurs 3 times within fifteen days, I need to flag them that account.What is the best approach?
I'm trying to find gaps in times in a table of sessions where the session endings aren't sequential. That is, session 1 can start at 10:00 and finish at 10:30, while session 2 started at 10:05 and finished at 10:45, and session 3 started at 10:06 and finished at 10:20. Only the starting times are in order; the ending times can be anywhere after that.Here's a bunch of sample data:
INSERT INTO #SessionTest SELECT '1073675','Mar 3 2014 1:53PM','Mar 3 2014 1:53PM' UNION ALL SELECT '1073676','Mar 3 2014 2:26PM','Mar 3 2014 3:51PM' UNION ALL SELECT '1073677','Mar 3 2014 2:29PM','Mar 3 2014 3:54PM' UNION ALL SELECT '1073678','Mar 3 2014 2:29PM','Mar 3 2014 5:47PM' UNION ALL SELECT '1073679','Mar 3 2014 2:30PM','Mar 3 2014 3:37PM' UNION ALL
I'm using Sql Server 2005, in which I've table like this
USE [Sample] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[Table1] Script Date: 06/07/2008 03:10:51 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Table1]( [TimesheetDate] [nvarchar](50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [EmpID] [int] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY]
INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-07 00:00:00.000',3) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-18 00:00:00.000',3) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-03 00:00:00.000',9) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-04 00:00:00.000',9) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-05 00:00:00.000',9) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-17 00:00:00.000',9) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-18 00:00:00.000',9) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-01 00:00:00.000',10) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-03 00:00:00.000',10) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-03 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-04 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-06 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-07 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-08 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-10 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-11 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-12 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-14 00:00:00.000',11) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-03 00:00:00.000',13) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-04 00:00:00.000',14) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-24 00:00:00.000',14) INSERT INTO [Table1] ([TimesheetDate],[EmpID])VALUES('2008-03-03 00:00:00.000',15)
My task is I want to find Missing Dates (Except Saturday, Sunday) for each Employee.
Note: Missing Dates should be Working Days only (Excluding Saturday & Sunday)
I have two datetime fields that I would like to find out how much time has passed between them. First field is "start date" and the second is "end date" the dates in both fields are in this format (03/27/2008 4:00PM). The problem I am having is I need to exclude the time passed from Friday, 6:00PM to Monday, 7:00AM if the dates happen to go over a weekend.
I am trying to determine the amount of days in a month to prorate a month end estimate. We measure service calls and need to approximate how many we will have at month end. I would like to automate a query to post on our web and need to know how many days are in the current month.
A possible solution would be to piece together a datetime variable using getdate and dateadd then use a datepart. However , I don't know how to create a datetime variable this way.
Hi and Thank you in advance I am trying to find a away to calculate the number of business days between two dates. In other word, I do not want to count Saturday nor Sundays if those days are between the two dates. Example if Date1 = 11/26/1999 Date2 = 11/30/1999
the DateDiff(dd,Date1,Date2) the result should be 2 I need to do this against a table which might not have a lot of records, but I also need to not count Holidays if they fall within the two Dates. Thank you in advance Tomas
Hi and Thank you in advance I am trying to find a away to calculate the number of business days between two dates. In other word, I do not want to count Saturday nor Sundays if those days are between the two dates. Example if Date1 = 11/26/1999 Date2 = 11/30/1999
the DateDiff(dd,Date1,Date2) the result should be 2 I need to do this against a table which might not have a lot of records, but I also need to not count Holidays if they fall within the two Dates. Thank you in advance Tomas
I have a log table that displays the history of the status of an entity and the date the status changed.
member_id | modification_date | status
I wish to find the differences between datetime values in different rows of the modification_date column. I would need the amount of time between whatever the next sequential time was for the member. I would also need to know the status change in that time. I don't know how to do this with just one date column.
I'm extracting a char(2) field from a table that has a value of '1' and writing it to another table but want the output field to be padded with a zero. I have tried this below:
right('00' + isnull(Field1, ' '),2
but the output field comes out as '1 ' (that's 1 followed by a space). Does anyone have any idea how I can do this or please point out what I'm doing wrong in my 'right(' fucntion above. Thanks, Jeff
I have been asked to investigate the feasibility of converting an Invoice Number field from 6 to 7 digits, and allowing alpha characters. This means CHAR. The Invoice Number is not used outside of the application, but changes would have to be made to the database, and VB code that runs the app. Any ideas on how to proceed?
Any responses would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
ok, so we have a field in one of our db's, a do_not_synch field. this field has a datatype of char...
the following sql statement does not update the field..
update contacts set do_not_synch = 'Y' where id=1
and if i open up the table in sql server management studio, and cannot type in and save the value Y...yes i can update other fields in this row...so its not a permissions issue?
I have a varchar field that contains values to represent the month and year in the format mmyy (eg. 0107, 0207, 0307 etc).
I want to be able to select the value that is 6 months before the current month and year, for example if I were running the query in the current month/year (April 08) I would return the value 1007 (October 07).
If I want to make a field of characters to be unlimited length(or maybe 2k for example), what datatype should I use? Char, varchar and text have a max. limit of 255...
Here is the example data <qMultipleChoice><qText>The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off 20on.</qText><qChoice>Strongly20Disagree</qChoice><qChoice>Disagree </qChoice><qChoice>Agree</qChoice><qChoice>Strongly%20Agree</qCh
I want result look like this First Column:The AE Understands what conditions the Account Manager is allowed to sign-off. Second Column: Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Strongly Agree
This is what i had so far Select (SUBSTRING(QuestionText, (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7),(PATINDEX(N'%</qText>%', QuestionText) - (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7)))) From tblQuestion
my result: The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off%20on.
I have problem with replace '%20' and how to make the second column. Any Help? Thanks Shan
I got this error for a calculated field that calls a public function of a custom assembly based on the report parameter values. The return type is an array of double.
Does SSRS 2005 supports the type double for a field? Can the data source of a field in a dataset be an array? Is there a way to pass the array to a field by reference and display the values at runtime?
I would appreciate any help since I could not find anything helpful on the internet and Microsoft document!
Can someone comment on why joining two tables on CHAR fields of different lengths would generate unexpected results?
I had an issue where I ran an update that used an inner join on two tables. The field I used in the join was char(50) in one table and char(13) in another table. The result gave bad matches. After changing the field types both to varchar(30), the problem was eliminate.
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
Would it be OK to use varchar(5) instead of char(5) as the first field of acomposite clustered index?My gut tells me that varchar would be a bad idea, but I am not finding muchinformation on this topic on this when I Google it.Currently the field is Char(4), and there is a need to increase it to hold 5characters.TIA
Is there a way to extract the date part (11/27/2012) of a datetime/time stamp column (11/27/2012 00:00:00.000) and keep it in a date format?
The code i have below extracts the date part of a timestamp column and converts it to a char field. This becomes a problem when I joing the resultant table with a SAS dataset which contains the same column but is in a date format. The join process generates an error saying the column is in different formats.
Hi, What is the difference updating a null value to char/varchar type column
versus empty string to char/varchar type column?Which is the best to do and why? Could anyone explain about this?
Example:
Table 1 : tCountry - Name varchar(80) nullable Table 2 :tState - Name char(2) nullable Table 3 :tCountryDetails - countryid,state (char(2) nullable) - May the country contain state or no state So,when the state is not present for the country ,i have two options may be - null,'' tCountryDetails.State = '' or tCountryDetails.State = null?
is there any "robust" way to find out the name of a field in the pipeline by it's Lineage ID programatically? There is a sample code out there (on one of the blogs) but it seams not to be reliable...
The usecase is easy... What is the field name in an error output of that column that causes the error? We don't want to have hardcoded LineageIDs in the error handling so I think it's the best idea to go with field names... However we only get that LineageID...
I am in a situation where I need to find out unique field names with different values in a table having 200+ columns. Let's say I have two rows with 200+ columns ( I exported these rows from Lotus Notes to SQL Server) I am not sure what columns makes unique of these rows. It's going to be tedious by checking each column values. Is there anyway I can write a squl query on these two rows which outputs column names which are having unique values. I would appreciate If anybody gives me hint about achieving desired result
I'm just getting into using sql server 2008 and the report builder 3.0 addon after a long time away from sql and I was wondering if the following was possible.I have a number of records with a start and end date along with a volume i.e.
Essentially this means for each day between the two delivery dates the stated volume is delivered, what i need to try and do is to find the volume for each day between two user entered dates, giving a result along the lines of
Start Date Entered = 01/06/12 End Date Entered = 03/06/12
Date; Total Volume 01/06/12; 80,000 02/06/12; 80,000 03/06/12; 30,000
Hello, this is my first post to these forums so... Hi.
I'm currently doing a select statement and I cannot figure out how to get it to do what I want it to.
I'm trying get the statement to show how much activity was done in each year in a separate field and I don't have any idea where to start to get this accomplished.
Here's the code:
select distinct client.Number as [ClientNumber], client.FirstName, client.LastName, client.Address, client.City, client.State, client.Zip, count(distinct [transaction].date) as VisitsWithinDateRange, client.LastVisit
from client
inner join [transaction] on client.number = [transaction].client
where
[transaction].date >= '01/01/1980' and [transaction].date <= '01/01/2008' and client.status like '%a%' and client.status not like '%n%' and client.status not like '%i%' and client.clienttype <> 'C'
group by client.number, client.Number, client.FirstName, client.LastName, client.Address, client.City, client.State, client.Zip, client.LastVisit
