I've been asked to do a quick job for a client that involves getting random results back from a SQL query.
The query will have one paramater - @country - and this will be in the where eg.
select * from Holidays
where country = @country
What the client wants is to randomly pick 3 results and display them on each page load (the site is in Classic ASP, not .NET) and randomise the offers on each page load.
The query is simple but how can you factor in a Random into it?
hi, like, if i need to do delete some items with the id = 10000 then also need to update on the remaining items on the with the same idthen i will need to go through all the records to fetch the items with the same id right? so, is there something that i can use to hold those records so that i can do the delete and update just on those records and don't need to query twice? or is there a way to do that in one go ?thanks in advance!
Hello. I currently have a website that has a table on one webpage. When a record is clicked, the primary key of that record is transfered in the query string to another page and fed into an sql statement. In this case its selecting a project on the first page, and displaying all the scripts for that project on another page. I also have an additional dropdownlist on the second page that i use to filter the scripts by an attribute called 'testdomain'. At present this works to an extent. When i click a project, i am navigated to the scripts page which is empty except for the dropdownlist. i then select a 'testdomain' from the dropdownlist and the page populates with scripts (formview) for the particular test domain. what i would like is for all the scripts to be displayed using the formview in the first instance when the user arrives at the second page. from there, they can then filter the scripts using the dropdownlist. My current SQL statement is as follows. SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [TestScript] WHERE (([ProjectID] = @ProjectID) AND ([TestDomain] = @TestDomain))" So what is happening is when testdomain = a null value, it does not select any scripts. Is there a way i can achieve the behaivour of the page as i outlined above? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, James.
Hi,I need to extract randomly 5 records from the table "Questions". Now I useSELECT TOP 5 FROM Questions ORDERBY NEWID()And it works. The problem is that I need an additional thing: if SQLextracts record with ID=4, then it should not extract record with ID=9,because they are similar. I mean, I'd like something to tell SQL that if itextracts some questions, then it SHOULD NOT extract other ones.How can I do it?Thanks!Luke
If we use: select * from ..... , normally, it will return an ordered result ( may be order by ID ), but how can we make an random order select statement. It mean every time we run the query, the result will be different from the other ?
Dear All ... im new memmber in this great forum .. i need help ... i have Table like : ID Subject Points ---- ------- -------- 1 1 10 2 1 20 3 2 10 4 3 5 5 1 15 6 2 10 7 3 10 8 1 20
i need to select random records from table where Subject = 1 and Total Sum for selected records Points = 25
use AFMIF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE type = 'U' AND name='uye_idler') drop table uye_idlerCREATE TABLE uye_idler ( uye_no int NOT NULL, ) GO DECLARE @uye_numarası int Set @uye_numarası = 1 WHILE @uye_numarası < 15001 BEGIN INSERT INTO uye_idler VALUES (@uye_numarası) Set @uye_numarası = @uye_numarası + 1 EndHi , I am able to create 15000 records by the codes above .By the same way I want to create random texts as ASD ,WER,SAD,DFG etc. How can I do this ? Thanks ...
Application folks experiencing recurrence of problem previously reported. This is causing delays with multiple projects. Errors below are occuring when attempting to run a DTS package that will refresh data from prod to pilot.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan. For more information, contact Customer Support Services.
Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Another example reads: Step Error Source: Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) Package Step Error Description:The task reported failure on execution. (Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (80004005): Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan. For more information, contact Customer Support Services.) Step Error code: 8004043B Step Error Help Fileqldts80.hlp Step Error Help Context ID:1100
I'm trying to write a function that will retrieve the last backup date/time of a particular database on a remote server (i.e. by querying msdb.dbo.backupset). Unfortunately, you can't use sp_executesql in a function, so I can't figure out a way to pass the server name to the query and still be able to return the datetime value back to the calling TSQL code (so that rules out using EXEC().
I'm using ASP and SQL Serv 2000. What I need to get from 2 tables (company & customers) is random 10 customers from random 20 comp. Anyone got an idea how to do this??? I've spent 2 days trying to get stored proc. or T-SQL to work, but nothing good came out of it. I can get 1 comp and 10 cust, but not a grouped list of 20 comp. w/ 10 cust. each.
ok can someone tell me why i get two different answers for the same query. (looking for last day of month for a given date)
SELECT DATEADD(ms, - 3, DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m, 0, CAST('12/20/2006' AS datetime)) + 1, 0)) AS Expr1 FROM testsupplierSCNCR I am getting the result of 01/01/2007
-- The 3rd query uses an incorrect column name in a sub-query and succeeds but rows are incorrectly qualified. This is very DANGEROUS!!! -- The issue exists is in 2008 R2, 2012 and 2014 and is "By Design"
set nocount on go if object_id('tempdb.dbo.#t1') IS NOT NULL drop table #t1 if object_id('tempdb.dbo
[code]....
This succeeds when the invalid column name is a valid column name in the outer query. So in this situation the sub-query would fail when run by itself but succeed with an incorrectly applied filter when run as a sub-query. The danger here is that if a SQL Server user runs DML in a production database with such a sub-query which then the results are likely not the expected results with potentially unintended actions applied against the data. how many SQL Server users have had incorrectly applied DML or incorrect query results and don't even know it....?
For each customer, I want to add all of their telephone numbers to a different column. That is, multiple columns (depending on the number of telephone numbers) for each customer/row. How can I achieve that?
I want my output to be
CUSTOMER ID, FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, TEL1, TEL2, TEL3, ... etc
Each 'Tel' will relate to a one or more records in the PHONES table that is linked back to the customer.
When I run the following query from Query Analyzer in SQL Serer 2005, I get a message back that says. Command(s) completed successfully. What I really need it to do is to display the results of the query. Does anyone know how to do this? declare @SniierId as uniqueidentifierset @SniierId = '85555560-AD5D-430C-9B97-FB0AC3C7DA1F'declare @SniierAlias as nvarchar(50)declare @AlwaysShowEditButton as bitdeclare @SniierName as nvarchar (128)/* Check access for Sniier */SELECT TOP 1 @SniierName = Sniiers.SniierName, @SniierAlias = Sniiers.SniierAlias, @AlwaysShowEditButton = Sniiers.AlwaysShowEditButtonFROM SniiersWHERE Sniiers.SniierId=@SniierId
I have a query that performs a comparison between 2 different databases and returns the results of the comparison. It returns 2 columns. The 1st column is the value of the object being compared, and the 2nd column is a number representing any discrepancies.What I would like to do is use the results from this 1st query in the where clause of another separate query so that this 2nd query will only run for any primary values from the 1st query where a secondary value in the 1st query is not equal to zero.I was thinking of using an "IN" function in the 2nd query to pull data from the 1st column in the 1st query where the 2nd column in the 1st query != 0, but I'm having trouble ironing out the correct syntax, and conceptualizing this optimally.
While I would prefer to only return values from the 1st query where the comparison value != 0 in order to have a concise list to work with, I am having difficulty in that the comparison value is a mathematical calculation of 2 different tables in 2 different databases, and so far I've been forced to include it in the select criteria because the where clause does not accept it.Also, I am not a DBA by trade. I am a system administrator writing SQL code for reporting data from an application I support.
Hi,New to .Net and SQL. I have two tables that I have joined together. RentalControl_Main has the rental informationd and an Adjuster ID that links to the ADjuster table and the adjusters name. I am trying to create a report that gives the "Single" adjuster name and the totals for all of their contracts. I have a details report that gives each contract info. for each specific adjusters rentals. However, I want to just list the adjuster once and give all of their totals. In my SQL statement I have all of it written out and just need to knowwhat to do in place of 'Alex Early' that will give me all of the distinct adjusters.Do I need to code this on the page with a do while loop?Appreciate any help.SELECT SUM(dbo.RentalControl_Main.Rate) / COUNT(dbo.RentalControl_Main.Rate) AS AmtAvg, SUM(dbo.RentalControl_Main.DaysBilled) / COUNT(dbo.RentalControl_Main.DaysBilled) AS DayAvg, SUM(dbo.RentalControl_Main.Rate * dbo.RentalControl_Main.DaysBilled) / COUNT(dbo.RentalControl_Main.Rate) AS TotAvgFROM dbo.RentalControl_Main INNER JOIN dbo.RentalControl_Adjuster ON dbo.RentalControl_Main.AdjusterID = dbo.RentalControl_Adjuster.AdjusterIDWHERE (dbo.RentalControl_Adjuster.AdjusterName = 'Alex Early' AND (dbo.RentalControl_Main.DateClose IS NOT NULL) AND (dbo.RentalControl_Main.AgencyID = '2')
I was wondering if there was a keyword that would allow you to return the number of results from a query such as (this is fake just giving an example so that someone can give me the real answer)
I am a beginner with SQL, so please excuse any ignorance here.
Under SQL 6.5, when executing a SELECT DISTINCT query against a table in a certain database, the results were returned alphabetized. Now, after migrating the database to SQL 7.0, the same query does not return the results alphabetized. If I add an index for the column specified in the query to the table, the results come back alphabetized. Is there any way to correct this other than adding indexes for all columns in all tables that are queried in this manner?
I have this line of code that when run in the query doesn't return anything:
srv.AGENT_S_ACC_CODE IN ('" & Replace(Replace(Parameters!arcode.Value," ",""),",","','") & "') The parameter is setup and the query works when I hardcode it with a value but will not return anything with this, does anyone know why?
Hi guys, say i wrote a query that returns 1,000 records.. what kinda query could i write that only returns say the first 50 records of the 1,000 recs..
Hello, I want to select all the customerIDs where an email address exists. Easy: select customerid from customers where emailaddress = @emailaddress Now I want to use the resulted customerIDs from the above query as a parameter to select all the email addresses with emailstatus equal to 3. How do I create this type of while statement in a stored procedure? I prefer to not create a temporary table. My idea was to do it like this: select emailaddress from emailaddresseswhere emailstatus = 3 and customerid = (select customerid from customers where emailaddress = @emailaddress) This doesn't seems to work. I get the error: Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression. thanks
I have a pretty big SQL query with a one to many sort of relationship... There are client accounts that we're reporting on. Each account has four different historical categories attached. Each historical category can have maybe fifty entries in each, sorted by date. I need to figure out how to grab the unique accounts and show only the three most recent results per each historical subcategory with the account... the three most current results from each of the four subcategories, displayed by the parent client account number. I've created four views to isolate the subcategories as a start, thinking I could bring them into a parent query ... but my question would be... how do I generate JUST the top three historical transactions by account number? If I select TOP 3, I get only the 3 newest in the MASTER LIST, not per client account, which is what I need to do. Does this make sense? I could really use a good SQL helping hand with this one. Thank you!
Can anyone give me the basics of speeding up reports that use queries or views or nested views? Current reports are now taking over 2 minutes to show.We have thousands and sometimes even millions of records to report against.Queries have 4 and 5 table joins etc. We are using ASP.NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005 and Crystal Reports. Thanks
I have a database with some over normalized tables in it. The best I can do with one query is get the file ID. In the second query I want to get all the file names, based on all the fileID's I got from the first query. How would I go about doing this?
I have been searching this topic on and for quite some time and can't seem to find a decent answer. Is it feasible to do your paging strictly from a SQL query? Pass the query the pagesize, what page to return and what to sort by?
ok the following statement returns the correct results in sql query analyzer but in the .net environment with c# it returns back less 3 records SELECT SUM(ao.amount),bl.dpc,bl.city from billinglocation bl inner join shippinglocation sl on bl.billinglocationid = sl.billinglocationid inner join absorbentorder ao on sl.shippinglocationid = ao.shippinglocationid group by bl.dpc, bl.city billinglocation 1 - 1 shippinglocation 1 - many absorbentorder anybody have any ideas why this might be occuringthanks!
I am running SQL Server 7.0 on NT 4.0. I have created a simple query:
SELECT SUM(month1) As total_month1 FROM eac_manload WHERE project_number = 8800 and dept IN (50,51,52,55,57,60,61,62,63,64,65,68,69)
I first time I run the query I get the correct result. Subsequent times that I run the query the result is 1 record with a Null value. The data has not changed. If I stop MSSQLSERVER and restart the service I get the correct result the first time and the Null value each time thereafter. Anybody out there with any idea of what is going on here? Any help will be appreciated!!
I have duplicate results in from my query. I am using the distinct clause but this does not seem to be working. In the example below, I do not want the 79.15 to repeat multiple times eventhough the first column has all distinct values. I am using distinct in my select but this is not stopping the duplicates on the second row. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I have a table in a database that has very old and not very relational and I want to create a quick view to show the information in a better way. Let's say that the table has 4 fields : id , child1, child2, child3. I want to create a view from this table that will show two fields : id and child. So, my table currently looks like this:
