I have a table with a 'quantity' column (decimal 9:3) and a 'price' column (9:3). I have a third column 'amount' with a formula of (price * quantity). The formula gives the correct answer, but the precision is automatically set to 5. Is there any way to set the precision of the result to 2?
Thanks.
Looking for a decent source that has some examples of column formulas aswell as a list of column formula functions that can be used and how to usethem.Hard time finding something online. Any suggestions or references would begreatly appreciated.Fairly new to this.Thanks
View 1 Replies View Relatedive come from a crystal background and im having difficulty writing reports.
An example of the problem im having is with saved formulas (crystal calls them formulas)
eg
i would create a forumula called Difference
it would be something like this
=DateDiff("d",Field1, Field2) save that and then it was stored
then in a text box i would reference it like so.
=iif( Difference <= 23,"Too New","Just Right")
is this possible in RS??? as i have reports i need to convert from crystal to RS, and the iif statements are becoming huge, especially when you reference the same formula in the expression multiple times.
bit long winded i know, and i hope this makes sense, but i am witts end with this issue
thanks in advance
Jonny
im moving over from a crystal background, in crystal i was able to create custom formulaes and use them somewhere in the report, can this be done in RS, if so how?
thanks
Jonny
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View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to build a table that uses a formula with a function in another database on the same server group. Enterprise Manager validates the formula, then when I save the table, an ODBC error pops up stating that the function is an invalid object name. I'm calling the function in the formula as follows: ([OtherDatabase].[dbo].[FunctionName](parameters)). Any ideas?
---- Jake
I have a date column that has 1/1/1900 entries and I want to write a formula..(i think)...in the column formula section that when this date is encountered, the column should show NULL. I don't know the syntax to use in the formula section of the column properties. Can anyone give some syntax examples.
Thanks
I'm creating a report that is designed to be exported to Excel so that the end user can manipulate the data. There are two main columns that I'm concerned with - TimeTaken and OTTimeTaken (for overtime).
Our application does not track OTTimeTaken so it's default will just be 0, but I need the excel file to have a formula that automatically adds the TimeTaken to the OTTimeTaken in a third cell for the total number of hours as that value will be added by the A/R department for invoicing.
I thought adding this would give me what i need:
="=SUM(C" & RowNumber(Nothing) & ": D" & RowNumber(Nothing) & ")"
when exporting to excel, it dumps it in as plain text, requiring that the user double click on the cell in order to "activate" the formula.
Is there a way to have SRS create this formula so that it works in excel rather than requiring the additional user interaction?
Thanks!
Trying to get the blank out of my report and replace with (0). My formula is SUM(Loan Amount). If there is nothing to sum there is a blank space. Would like it to have a (0) in it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm working with a DB design that seems to me to be rather complex.This is a very slimmed down version of what I'm doing, but I believe itis enough to get my question resolved.Here is my layout.These 4 tables are used to generate a questionaire.Survey OrderID========= ==========SurveyID OrderIDOrderID QuestionGrpIDQGrp Questions============= =============QuestionGrpID QuestionIDQuestionID QuestionTextThe following two tables are used to calculate a report that is sent tothe customer.RawData=========================OrderIDQuestionIDValue is string but is Cast as decimal for numeric formulasMetrics==============================================QuestionGroupID | ReportText | Formula | MetID==============================================2 | % Support Staff of Total | OP21/(OP21+OP22+OP23) | 1The OP references are questionIDsNow to calculate the result for the report we programatically parse theformula creating a temp table (table name = Temp & orderID & _ &QuestionID) with OrderID and OPxx as the field names. We create onetable for each question.We then use dynamic SQL again to calculate the result using the aboveformulaSELECT OP21/(OP21+OP22+OP23) FROM Temp5_21, Temp5_22, Temp5_23 WHERETemp5_21.OrderID = Temp5_22.orderID AND Temp5_22.OrderID =Temp5_23.OrderIDThis select is used to create a single table of calculated values.This table is in turn used to tell the customer how they compare toother customers. Percentile, Mean, Median, Std Dev, and a few others. Idon't claim this part of the project, but I'm not sure how I might havedone it, had it been assigned to me.MY PROBLEM!!!Sometimes a 0 is valid data and is the denominator of a devisioncalculation. Since this is so dynamic and it might be difficult todetermine when division is used. I need a way to default divide by 0execptions to NULL. This DB is on a hosted server.Thanks for bearing with me,Greg Kelley
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've created a sql statement that retrieves number data from various table joins. The number data is then grouped according to various categories. What I need to do is to calculate the average of all the number data in a particular group. How do i go about this? Once calculated, the average needs to be displayed under the data.
For example, the report will list say five numbers (some sets may have more, it depends on how much data is returned based on the query), then under the five numbers, the average is given
2
4
3
6
0
Average: 5
What technique is best? Do I have to calculate the numbers in sql or do I need to configure the report to calculate the average? If so, how? Can someone show me step by step how to do averages for a set of data in the reporting services?
I am completely new to doing reports, I'm just a hobbyist, and I've only used databases to retrieve basic data, but not make manipulations for reports.
Any help will be appreciated.
Re: SQL Server Reporting Services
I have welders who have active dates and inactive dates, and I need to create an "isactive" column in the report. My formula will be pretty obvious to most of you. However, if the user does not input an inactive date, that means none has been given and therefore the welder is currently active. The problem is that there seems to be no way to check if inactive date is null or not in the formula.
Please help! Thanks!
Hi,
I'm experiencing a problem in SSRS 2005 with exporting a report to Excel (from the web interface) where it messes up the cells that are referenced in some formulas. This issue seems to be quite rare as it has only happened a few times in several months, but it is a critical issue for me as the report is dealing with financial data and there is no room for mistake.
Basically the report contains a table of financial data, where one column in particular is derived from 3 other columns in the report at run-time. The derived column uses an expression such as:
Code Snippet
=ReportItems!textbox1.Value - ReportItems!textbox2.Value - ReportItems!textbox3.Value - ReportItems!textbox4.Value
This is just in a simple table with no grouping, where there is a header row, one data row, and a footer row.
99% of the time the report runs fine and is accurate. However on the rare occassion when the bug raises its head... Let's say the table in report has 15 columns and 100 rows for a given month. If the bug occurs, it seems to affect 2 rows. When viewing the exported file in Excel, the formula in the derived column in the first buggy row will (incorrectly) try to reference the cells in the Header Row - which is strange because the expression is only referencing other fields in the same row of data, nothing to do with headers or footers - and therefore prints "#VALUE" in the cell because the formula is trying to operate on non-numeric data! And then further down the report, the derived column in the next buggy row will be trying to reference the values in a row that is 4 rows above, instead of the values in it's own row, which again is just puzzling...
I can't confirm that this happens when viewing the report initially from the web interface because the error doesn't get picked up until it is exported to Excel so that the users can work with the data.
Also, just thinking about it, and looking at these buggy rows in the export that I have saved I have noticed;
- The first buggy row is the 4th row of data, and references the header cells 4 rows above it (instead of the cells on the same row)
- The second buggy row is the 5th last row of data, and also references the cells 4 rows above it (instead of the cells on the same row)
Unfortunately I do not have any saved reports where this has happened in the past, so I can't really compare them to see if the same kind of pattern occurs.
And even more confusing is that simply exporting the report again will produce a correct report... However this can only happen after the user realises there is an error and goes back to do the export again, so that might also have something to do with it.
Has anyone else experienced this before, or have any suggestions for a workaround? I guess I could use an additional view to do the work, but I don't want to complicate maintenance on the report(s) that rely on the same data. I'm just baffled as to why this is even happening in the first place.
*Note: I haven't upgraded to SQL 2005 SP2 just yet, but the list of changes don't list a fix for this particular problem...
Thanks in advance for any advice
I need to have a report that will have formulas in excel. I understand that the limited support for exporting excel formulas has been dropped in SSRS 2008. Is there any way to work around this and still output formulas?obvioulsy the way to do it in previous versions of SSRS are not working (using report items). I tried to add my formulas in my dataset (I can know which excel cells I need in the formulas) but they end up being displayed as text. I then have to get in the excel file and enter and exit each cell so that it "becomes" a formula.
View 11 Replies View RelatedHello all, I´m a beginner on AS2005 (but I know pretty well AS2000), I migrated a cube from AS2000 to AS2005 but in this cube I have a Custom Rollup Formula on two levels of my Time dimension (month and week), an example of the week level formula is the next:
iif( [Time].CurrentMember.Name = [Time].CurrentMember.NextMember.Name,
null,
iif( [Time].CurrentMember.Name = [Time].CurrentMember.PrevMember.Name,
Sum({[Time].CurrentMember.Children,[Time].CurrentMember.PrevMember.Children}),
Sum([Time].CurrentMember.Children)
)
)
<<this formula overrides the week aggregations>>
and I really need this but I cannot find on AS2005 where to do the same thing, someone can tell me where can I define Custom Rollup Formulas and how?.
Thanks in advance!
Hi, I have a database field of type "money". But when I rerieve it to text box, it shows 5.0000, but I want only 5.00 to be shown. How do I format that?
Any reply will be much appreciated. :)
Hi!
I'm quite new to SQL Server. I need to set a float datatype to display something like 3.55. However, all values that are stored in the float column are truncated to 4 or some other single digit. How can this be prevented?
Regards,
Sam
Hello everyone,
I am sure this is a newbie question as I am new to Microsoft SQL server but any help is greatly appreciated. I am populating a SQL database from an AS400. The decimal numbers from the AS400 are coming accross with extra decimals. (ie. 63.02 is coming accross as 63.0200001)
Is there a way to limit the number of decimals in a float or real field - or a SQL command I can put in a script to truncate each field to 2 decimal places after they are populated.
Thanks,
Randy
Hello,
I have been trying to develop an automatic way of programmatically accessing datasources and performing some predefined(-supported) processing on them.
The question I would like to ask you people has to do with numeric fields. What exactly is precision? Is it the maximum length in digits of a field, or is there more to it? What about a "field's scale", what is it and how does it affect a field's value handling?
Thank you very much,
Dave
I am using ASP and SQL 2005 Express.I am inserting a timestamp from an ASP page using <%=now%into asmalldatetime field. All of my timestamps are appearing without anyseconds (e.g., 1/21/2008 4:02:00 PM or 1/18/2008 11:32:00 AM).When I view the source for my page is shows the date/time as 1/21/20084:27:31 PM, but for some reason the seconds will be converted to1/21/2008 4:27:00 PMHow do i get more a more precise timestamp?Please help.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi All
I am trying to pull data from Oracle to SQL Server but if I use Oledb Source than I get this error
Error at Data Flow Task [DTS.Pipeline]: The "output column "CUST_ID" (590)" has a precision that is not valid. The precision must be between 1 and 38.
------------------------------
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Exception from HRESULT: 0xC0204018 (Microsoft.SqlServer.DTSPipelineWrap)
The only solution I found is use DataReader Source,
But if I use DataReader Source everything works fine , I mean I am able to see the records and convert it desired data type (using Data Convertion component).
My question is what component should I use as Destination, coz if I use OLEDB Desination I get a red cross on the components although I can map all the columns.....
Hi I am in the process of creating a new db in sql. In my users table I wish to set the UserIds as Integer datatype. It defualts on precision 4. Does this mean that when the column auto increments as its my primary key with a seed of one, my highest number allowed in the table would be row 9999. ???
Also if you where to store a phone number in your db, what column type would you give it. I have used varChar but its all numbers i want to store. Would this suffice.
Thanks
We have a field which is decimal (9,2) and another which is decimal(9,3). Is there anyway to subtract the two and get a precision 3value without changing the first field to 9,3?For instance, retail value is 9,2, but our costs are at 9,3 due tobeing averaged. To calculate margin (retail-cost), we want that alsoto be 9,3, but a basic subtraction comes out 9,2. You can see wedon't want to increase retail to be 9,3 (that would look funny), andit seems wasteful to store retail twice (one 9,2 for users and one 9,3for margin calc)...is there any other way?
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Hi , i am receiving data froma flat file it is
These are amount fields
123456.89
i am selecting numeric (8,2) as datatype is this valid please let me know.
there is a column which type is float in a table, i want to set the precision of its value, for example if its value is 10.333888, i want to get its value as 10.33, how to complete it in a select Sql?
thks
I receive patient demographic files from hospitals that are in several different formats. I have written translations for each format. I need to upload the files into our accounting software. I have the file layout to upload data and it looks like this.
From To Length
Record Type Code 1 2 2A
Account Number 3 17 15A
Guarantor Name 18 47 30A
Guarantor Zip 125 129 5N
Guarantor Area Code 134 136 3N
In SQL Server I have not found a way to set precision on an int. I have to have the correct length, and data type (A for alfa which is left justified and N for numeric which is right justified) field for a succsessfull upload. Suggestions on what data types to use would be very helpful, and then suggestions on how to output the data in a text file described example above would be a life saver.
I am using SQL 2000 in a kind of electronic wallet way. Users out money onto an account and spend it on various services on a system. The cost of those services is deducted from the value in their wallet, and everybody's happy. However, some very strange things have been happening to my transactions; seemingly at random.
Some transactions (such as purchasing time on the Internet) are returning values such as 0.10000000000000001 instead of 0.1. This minute difference affects the user's wallet balance because the rouge digit is subtracted from their account. So instead of a balance of, say, 3.4 they have 3.39999999999999999.
"So what?", I hear you say. Well the problem comes when it's time to give them a refund. They walk over to a kiosk and the machine tells them they have 3.40 remaining in their account (it's nicely rounding up the value), but when they click Refund, it tells them they have insufficient funds to complete the refund! (Note: The refund amount is being compared with the wallet balance). If I go into the database via Query Analyzer it tells me their balance is 3.3999999etc, but in Enterprise Manager the value is 3.4. If try to manipulate the data in any way it is treated as 3.4. However, if I add 0.000000000000001 then QA reads the value as 3.4 and the customer can get their refund.
My questions is this. One, how the hell do I stop this from happening? I only need the two decimal places. Taking the value in a query and round it up/chopping off the remaining decimal points hasn't worked. It always picks up the value as 3.4 in a query. Two, why on Earth is this happening??? Has anyone experienced this problem before.
Thanks in advance to anyone that's read this far down.
Hi,
I'm importing data from and oracle database to an SQL one through a SSIS package, I'm getting this error:
"The output column "earned_hours" has a precision that is not valid. The precision must be between 1 and 38".
the package runs but returns this column as NULL values
earned_hours is of type "NUMBER" in oracle (some of the values are decimals), I tried making it numeric(x,y),float or decimal(x,y), but I'm still getting the same results.
does anybody know why is this happening or have a solution for this error?
Thanks
am getting some unexpected behaviour using datetimes (on SP2, though i haven't tried other builds), as below...
<code>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
---if i run...
select dateadd(day,datediff(day,0,getutcdate()),0) as today
,dateadd(ms,-1,dateadd(day,datediff(day,0,getutcdate()),1)) as end_of_today
/*
i'd expect the result to be...
today end_of_today
----------------------- -----------------------
2008-06-04 00:00:00.000 2008-06-04 23:59:59.999
what i actually get is...
today end_of_today
----------------------- -----------------------
2008-06-04 00:00:00.000 2008-06-05 00:00:00.000
*/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--i run...
select dateadd(day,datediff(day,0,getutcdate()),0) as today
,dateadd(ms,-2,dateadd(day,datediff(day,0,getutcdate()),1)) as end_of_today
/*
i expect...
today end_of_today
----------------------- -----------------------
2008-06-04 00:00:00.000 2008-06-04 23:59:59.998
i get...
today end_of_today
----------------------- -----------------------
2008-06-04 00:00:00.000 2008-06-04 23:59:59.997
*/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--even as simple as this, the result is the same...
select cast('23:59:59.999' as datetime) as end_of_day
/*
results in....
end_of_day
-----------------------
1900-01-02 00:00:00.000
*/
</code>
can anyone shed any light? and also suggest how to reliably create a datetime like yyyymmdd hh:mi:59.999 ?
Em
Hi all,
I'm running a transformation script that's taking decimal(18,10) data and trying to shoehorn it into a numeric(9,6). generally this works, as most of the data in the original table is not using anywhere near the precision it's capable of, but once in a while I run into one that does use it.
Is there any way to automagically reduce the precision so that i can cram the data into the destination table?
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Geek At Large
This one cost me a solid half hour yesterday. I'm wondering why onearth the default precision for a decimal type is 18,0. Maybe I'mmistaken. A decimal datatype sort of implies that you'd want somethingafter the decimal!Question is, can I set this database-wide? Like all new decimaldatatypes have a precision of 12,6 or something like that? I haven'tseen anything about this in the googling I have done...
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a UserDefinedType that is Decimal(21,6)
The fields fltValorPendente e fltTotal are of this type. Field intSinal is an Integer.
I execute the following query:
SELECT
(intSinal * fltValorPendente) / fltTotal as Coef,
cast((intSinal * fltValorPendente) as decimal(21,6)) / fltTotal as CoefCast
into tmp
FROM tbl
Where fltTotal<>0
As a result, table tmp is created with the following structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tmp](
[Coef] [decimal](38, 6) NULL,
[CoefCast] [decimal](38, 17) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
How come both fields don't get the same precision?
How do I set Precision and Scale in a calulated column?
I'm trying to limit the decimal points returned in a calculated column but can't find where to set the scale. What am I missing please?
Thanks,
Scott