Hi All,
I need to get the names of tables and fields (or atleast the fields) from a database. Is there a query I can use that will return what all the db's tables and those tables fields are?
Thanks
Lee
How can I create a Table whose one field will be 'tableid INT IDENTITY(1,1)' and other fields will be the fields from the table "ashu".
can this be possible in SQL Server without explicitly writing the"ashu" table's fields name.
Hi, I am new to using SQL for anything more in depth than querying and reporting.
I am trying to create a series of SQL scripts which will be used across several customer sites so need to be easily customisable. What I want to do is have all of the table names, field names and customisable items handled by variables which will be declared and set at the beginning of the script, making them easy to find and change. The problem I am having at the moment is with creating a new table using variables for table name and field names, can anyone help?
quote:
DECLARE
@a_tmptbl varchar(15),
@a_fieldid1 varchar(15)
set @a_fieldid1 = 'newFieldid'
set @a_tmptbl = 'newTable'
create table @a_tmptbl ( @a_fieldid1 varchar(15), value float, counter INT);
insert into @a_tmptbl values ( "foobar", 21.76, 1);
select * from @a_tmptbl;
The error I am getting is:
quote:Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 8
Line 8: Incorrect syntax near '@a_tmptbl'.
Server: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1, Line 10
Must declare the variable '@a_tmptbl'.
Server: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1, Line 12
Must declare the variable '@a_tmptbl'.
Any advice would be gratefully accepted
My query returns fields that have spaces in the names, for example:
select o.OrderID as 'INVOICE NUMBER', etc..
When I created the DataSet for this query in report designer, it changed all spaces in the field names to underscores, i.e. INVOICE_NUMBER.
This report must be exported to CSV, and the names of the fields (first row in csv) must have the spaces, not underscores. But it appears RS uses the field names (not the names in the column headers of the report table control) as the field names. Is there any way for me to force the field names in the first row of the csv to something other than the field names in the DataSet?
Thanks!
I've called a resultset from SQL Server
using an SQL Selection. I need to iterate over that entire result set
(200+ columns/fields) and all I need are the random numbers contained
in any of the rows/columns. I don't want to have to name each
field/column and then use an if > 0 statement.Isn't there
some way to generically loop through the column's by index or something
instead of their field name so I can just use an integer loop to walk
the dataset? I know there is I've done it about 5 years ago. The
question is how do you do it in C#?SqlConnection thisConn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["SQLQuery"].ConnectionString); SqlCommand thisCmd = new SqlCommand("Command String", thisConn); thisCmd.CommandText = "Select * from SelectionsByCountry where [" + DropDownList1.SelectedItem.ToString() + "] > '0'"; thisConn.Open(); SqlDataReader thisReader = null; thisReader = thisCmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection); while (thisReader.Read()) { DropDownList2.Items.Add(thisReader["System"].ToString().Trim());/*** There are 200+ columns left I want to walk over using a loop structure of some sort. How do I do that?*/ }- Rex
Create Table #Temp (ID int not null primary Key, Name varchar(25) not null, DOB datetime not null, Sex char(1), Race char(1), Height int, Weight int)
insert #Temp
select 1, 'Kenneth', '1963-02-26 00:00:00.000', 'M','C', 516, 160
union
select 2, 'Kenneth', '1963-02-26 00:00:00.000', NULL,NULL, NULL, NULL
union
select 3, 'William', '1962-06-28 00:00:00.000', 'M','C', 600, 223
[Code] .....
/* Expecting Output */
select 1 as ID, 'Kenneth' as Name, '1963-02-26 00:00:00.000' as DOB, 'M' as Sex,'C' as Race, 516 as Height, 160 as Weight
union
select 2, 'Kenneth', '1963-02-26 00:00:00.000', 'M','C', 516, 160
union
select 3, 'William', '1962-06-28 00:00:00.000', 'M','C', 600, 223
union
[Code] .....
I am using the following select statement to get the row count from SQL linked server table.
SELECT Count(*) FROM OPENQUERY (CMSPROD, 'Select * From MHDLIB.MHSERV0P')
MHDLIB is the library name in IBM DB2 database. The above query gives me only the row count of table MHSERV0P. However, I need to get the names, rowcounts, and sizes of all tables that exist in MHDLIB librray. Is it possible at all?
Firstly I consider myself quite an experienced SQL Server user, andamnow using SQL Server 2005 Express for the main backend of mysoftware.My problem is thus: The boss needs to run reports; I have designedthese reports as SQL procedures, to be executed through an ASPapplication. Basic, and even medium sized (10,000+ records) reportingrun at an acceptable speed, but for anything larger, IIS timeouts andquery timeouts often cause problems.I subsequently came up with the idea that I could reduce processingtimes by up to two-thirds by writing information from eachcalculationstage to a number of tables as the reporting procedure runs..ie. stage 1, write to table xxx1,stage 2 reads table xxx1 and writes to table xxx2,stage 3 reads table xxx2 and writes to table xxx3,etc, etc, etcprocedure read final table, and outputs information.This works wonderfully, EXCEPT that two people can't run the samereport at the same time, because as one procedure creates and writesto table xxx2, the other procedure tries to drop the table, or read atable that has already been dropped....Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get around thisproblem?I have thought about generating the table names dynamically using'sp_execute', but the statement I need to run is far too long(apparently there is a maximum length you can pass to it), and evenbreaking it down into sub-procedures is soooooooooooooooo timeconsuming and inefficient having to format statements as strings(replacing quotes and so on)How can I use multiple tables, or indeed process HUGE procedures,withdynamic table names, or temporary tables?All answers/suggestions/questions gratefully received.Thanks
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a table that I am basically reduplicating a couple of times for each part of this database that I want to create.Each table basically has the same data: The tables will be called motherTable, fatherTable, sonTable, daughterTable and so on.I am pretty much using the following in each column: UserID, MotherID(or FatherID or SonID, etc., etc. and so on for each unique table), FirstName, LastName, MiddleName, BirthPlace, Photo, Age.I don't see an option to copy a table and just modify the second ID part and rename that table accordingly.How can I make this an easier way of creating these similar tables without retyping all these columns over and over again?Thanks in advance.
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D.P. at 3/15/99 2:04:04 PM
Using VB5|6/ADO/MSSQL6.5. I want to get the names of tables in a query. I.e. if query is "Select Name, Title from Employee inner join job on employee.empid = job.empid" I want a way to get "Name, Title"
In VB 3 we used the VBSQL.VBX which had 2 functions for this: SQLTabCount and SQLTabName.
Thanks in advance
DP
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Gregory at 3/15/99 2:25:31 PM
dp ++++++++++++++++++
see my responses below
dp ++++++++++++++++++
if u need to get "Name" and "Title" - u're trying to get column(field) names??
-or-
if u need to get table names involved in a query - u need to get "Employee" and "Job"
so what exactly do u need??
********
dp ++++++++++++++++++
My bad... I wanted Employee, Job. The Table names.
dp ++++++++++++++++++
if u need to see column names - u can use Fields collection to get all fields in a recordset
I don't know if there's a way to get table names of tables involved in a query, in ADO.in RDO there's a property of a rdoColumn object to get table name (which doesn't work always anyway).
********
dp ++++++++++++++++++
actually this can be done in ADO. You can get the table from which the column was derived by using rs.fields(##).properties("BASETABLENAME") but I don't want to rely on this because I may not have a field from each table... What I really want is creat a recorset and ask it what tables it's drawing from. Again, VBSQL had SQLTabCount which gave you the number of tables in the query and then SQLTabName would give you the names by table number
dp ++++++++++++++++++
or, in select statement u can aliases:
select Name as 'Employee_Name',
title as 'Job_Title'
from employee, job
where employee.job_id = job.job_id
so, when you get all fields from fields collection, u can check field name
dp ++++++++++++++++++
yeah... i'll do this if I have to... looking for a better way (hopefully) first
dp ++++++++++++++++++
********
or , u can use ODBC API functions to get that information (for example using SQLColumns() function) - but, u'll need to connect first, to get connection handle, then prepare or execute statement to get statement handle, and then get information about columns (and table names).
dp ++++++++++++++++++
this sounds interesting.... where might I find more info about this??? If i create an ado recorset, will I be able to "analyze" it in this way via ODBC?
dp ++++++++++++++++++
Is there a way that you could get the column names for each table in a database using 1 query?
something like:
tbl colname
t1 catID
t1 catName
t2 prodID
t2 prodDesc
t3 cartID
...
...
I know it would be long, but I would just be searching through the saved output for specific names.
I have a situation in which i have to get the last value stored in the Primary Key for all the tables. Based on this value i have to update another table which stores the Table names and the last Key value for the table. The values in this table are not correct therefore i have to update it now. I was trying to write a cursor for this but the only problem is i can't get to know how to get the column name on which the primary key is defined for all the tables, thru code.
I would appreciate if someone could help me out with this.
I am attempting to how to truncate list of tables using STP. That is decalre a cursor for a list table names and then to truncate the table names one by one.
The code below shows what I want to achieve. I want to truncate all the tables with names beginning with ZZ but this is failing. I have tried using both delete and truncate.
Is it possible and what do I need to do?
-- Code
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER Off
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
create PROCEDURE dbo.Empty_ZZ
AS
DECLARE @tablename sysname
DECLARE @localname varchar(50)
DECLARE ZZtablenames_cursor CURSOR FOR
select [name]
from sysobjects
WHERE [xtype] = 'U'
and name like 'ZZ %'
OPEN ZZtablenames_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM ZZtablenames_cursor
into @tablename
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
set @localname = '[' + @tablename + ']'
TRUNCATE + @localname
FETCH NEXT FROM ZZtablenames_cursor
END
CLOSE ZZtablenames_cursor
DEALLOCATE ZZtablenames_cursor
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
If you need to inner join 2 tables that have some columns names that are the same, how can you have those columns be named differently in the query result without aliasing them individually?
Tried select a.*,b.* from tbldm a,tblap b where a.id=b.id hoping the col names in the result would have the a.s and b.s in front of them but they didn't.
We have recently copied a database from one machine to another. On the old machine, when we access the tables we do not need to use the username.tablename convention to query them. On the new box we do.
For example, to query a table called Page we would nee to do this on the new box.
SELECT *
FROM webdev.page
unfortunately all the code is written, without the username prefix. Is there a way to not use the username prefix?
Thank you for your help...sorry for the newbie type question.
Hi all,
From the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES view I want to return the TABLE_NAME of tables that have columns say, named Email and EmailStatusId. Is it possible to do this with a single select statement or would I have to use two selects for this?
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.
I have two different tables... one for all Staff, and another for all Temp Staff. I need both to output to a datagrid, and so I need to grab both tables from a SQL query to output to my datagrid, but I can't seem to get the logic right for it to work. Can someone give me some suggestions on why my results are blank when I'm running this query? I thought a simple join would allow both sets of identical column names to coexist in peace...SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT dbo.StaffDirectory.UserName, dbo.StaffDirectory.LastName, dbo.StaffDirectory.FirstName, dbo.StaffDirectory.Dept, dbo.StaffDirectory.Title, dbo.StaffDirectory.EMail, dbo.StaffDirectory.LocationFROM dbo.StaffDirectory INNER JOIN dbo.TempStaff ON dbo.StaffDirectory.Location = dbo.TempStaff.Location AND dbo.StaffDirectory.EMail = dbo.TempStaff.Email AND dbo.StaffDirectory.Title = dbo.TempStaff.Title AND dbo.StaffDirectory.Dept = dbo.TempStaff.Dept AND dbo.StaffDirectory.FirstName = dbo.TempStaff.FName AND dbo.StaffDirectory.LastName = dbo.TempStaff.LName AND dbo.StaffDirectory.UserName = dbo.TempStaff.UName AND dbo.StaffDirectory.MDNo = dbo.TempStaff.MDNoIs something wrong here? It just doesn't work =(Any suggestions would be really appreciated.Thank you
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View 1 Replies View RelatedHi
I have developed an application in ASP/SQL server 7.
Ths system is single user. One of the tables is updated by usr actions( say Table A).
To make it multi user. I want to create table such as A_Username.
How can query be written for this. Also there are many stored procedures which will access this table. In these stored procedures i will send username as an input. Then the query in the stored procedure shd access the table as A_Username .
Such dynamic table name refrencing , how can it be done.. Is creating a string for the query and then executing it using sp_exec the only option?
pls suggest
SQL query to understand the names of all the available tables in the database , number of records in these tables and size of these tables ?
View 1 Replies View Relatedhi,
is it possible to replicate data from one table to another which have different names,different schemas and different column names.
Im trying this using transactional replication.
i achieved this for different schema, different table names.but it is failing for different column names.
till now i haven't got a proper reply for my problem.
regards
Baji Prasad.B
I have a number of tables, that I need to copy with data intact, about once a year.
Let's say the table name is 'dbo.MyTable'
I just do a SQL Statement like this:
SELECT * INTO dbo.MyTable'BU06032015 FROM dbo.MyTable
How can I automate this so that it does the Select Into statement and automatically adds the 'BU' + the current date?
I'm not a full-time DBA, so excuse my style of expressing my question.I have a database which has 2 tables in SQL 2005. Both these tables have similar column names, EXCEPT for new extra columns in FY2007_DATA. I can visually see the difference in columns in Database Diagrams. My goal is to :- I want to compare FY2007 tbl column names to FY2006 column names and display only those columns as results that do not match.Tbl 1 :- FY2006_DATA Tbl 2:-
FY2007_DATA
With online reading and help I have managed to get this script to do exactly opposite of what i want. Below is the query
/* This query compares the column names from two tables and displays the ones that have an exact match. It does not care for case-sensitiveness */
Select a.Table_Name, a.Column_Name, (b.Table_Name), (b.column_name)
From [2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS a
Join [2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS b on a.Column_Name = b.Column_Name
Where a.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2006_DATA'
And b.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2007_DATA'
AND a.Column_Name IN
(Select Column_Name = LEFT(c.column_name, 20) FROM
[H1B_2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS c WHERE c.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2007_DATA' )
When I change "AND a.Column_Name IN.." to "AND a.Column_Name NOT IN.." so that the results will (should) display the extra columns in FY2007, in fact I do not see any results, but query executes perfect.
How can I achieve my goal.?
Thank you
Hi,
I need a query to get the index names of particular tables. for eg.. i have some tables like emp_data,emp_job....etc..Now i want to find all indexe names for those tablenames that starts with emp........ Plz help me...
how to find the names of the tables owned by the particular user in sql server and how to display the distinct object types owned by the particular user.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to migrate data from one sql database to another. The second DBis a newer version of the "old" database with mostly the same tablesand fieldnames. In order support some reporting queries in the "new"version I needed to change the datatype of a few fields from varchar toint(the data stored was integers already as they were lookup tables).DTS works great except in the cases of about 10 fields which I changedthe datatypes on from varchar to int.DTS seems to drop the data if the fieldname and datatype are not anexact match. Is there any way to use DTS and have it copy data from afield call subsid type varchar to a field call subsid type int?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHere with the below query iam binding my gridview with industry name,company name,Plant Name,Group Name related to the IDs in Audit table.Select Aud.Ad_ID_PK,Aud.Audit_Name,Ind.Industry_Name,Cmp.Company_Name,Pla.Plant_Name,Gr.Groups_Name,Aud.Audit_Started_On,Aud.Audit_Scheduledto,Aud.Audit_Created_On from
Industry Ind,
Company Cmp,
Plant Pla,
Groups Gr,
Audits Audwhere Ind.Ind_Id_PK =Aud.Audit_Industry and
Cmp.Cmp_ID_PK =Aud.Audit_Company and
Pla.Pl_ID_PK =Aud.Audit_Plant and
Gr.G_ID_PK =Aud.Audit_Group and
Ad_ID_PK in (select Ad_ID_PK from Audits)
Now i want to edit these names.
when i click on edit in gridview these names will be filled into textboxes and when i change the names it should compare the name with particular tables and should get the Id of that and store in Audits table.
For example:
i have this data in my audits table:
Commercial83312
2
2
2
1
Here Commercial83312 is ID of that Audit and 2,2,2,1 are the Industry,Company,Plant and group Ids for that particular audit.In the front end i can see the names of this particular IDs.
when i edit the industry name in the UI it must check the name with industry table and get the ID of the changed name and store it in audit table.
so the data may be changed in audits table as :
Commercial83312
4
2
2
1
so here the industry ID is changed
I need the stored procedure for this.
please help me,its very urgent...
SQL query to understand the names of all the available tables , number of records in these tables and size of these tables?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHi all,
I'm not sure how easy of a task this is, or how to go about it, so I thought I'd ask here. I am doing a major overhaul to my site and am re-programming the backend which involves re-formatting my tables, table names etc.
What I want to do is set up a new table in the format I want for the new site, but still be able to have the live data that is being submitted to the site now, be entered into the new table so that I don't have to shut down the site for days to transfer and reformat data. Example
CURRENT SITE
Table 1
Field1: Name
Field2: Address
NEW SITE
Table 1
Field1: Name
Field2: myAddress
Field3: City
I want to be able to somehow map the two together so that when data is entered into the Name field on the current site, that same name is also inserted into the new site table as well. Mapping like this:
(current site)Name -> (new site)Name
(current site)Address -> (new site)myAddress
The city field would be left unaffected as that data would only be entered once the new site is up and running.
I know I could do this from a stored procedure on the exiting site or by re-writting all of my SQL to insert into both tables, but right now all of the SQL is hardcoded into the pages and I have A LOT of pages. Is there a way to map the tables together from within SQL Server?
Cheers,
Jeff
Hi,
I have a database with approx 95 tables. I would like to get a printout of each table, the fields contained therein and the field type
(i.e the information displayed when rightclicking a table in Enterprise Manager and selecting Properties).
I have tried to use the diagram function but due to the large number of tables the diagram is very complex and would have to be printed out on a huge sheet of paper to make it legible. I have also looked at the SP_HELP stored procedure but can't seem to get the syntax correct to display properties on all tables (info on one table is no problem).
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Tim H
I am working with the article that MAK wrote on SecurityLogs http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3515886
I have completed this, but I have made some changes to the database (for normalization to 3NF purposes). I now have problems with a query.
I am trying to "Insert a new record in a table if it does not already exist in the table". To try to clarify I perform the following query:
INSERT INTO Tmp_Event
SELECT DISTINCT EventID, EventType, EventTypeName from Tmp
Which gives me the Tmp_Event table consisting of EventID's etc. (no duplicates). What I then want to do, is compare the 'Tmp_event' table and an already existing 'Event' table. These two tables are in fact identical. I would like to insert any records from 'Tmp_Event' into 'Event' if they do not already exist in 'Event'.
This query gives me all records that do not exist in 'Event'
SELECT EventID, EventType, EventTYpeName from Tmp_Event
WHERE EventID NOT IN (SELECT EventID from Event)
How can I change this query into performing an INSERT INTO Event as well?
Hope this makes sense :)
-Silia
If possible, I would like to create a view using two different tables, but with the fields merged (ie. create one table from two tables). The table structures are pretty much the same. Can you do this from a singe SQL statement? Any ideas? My only alternative is creating a temp file that inserts records from both tables, but I want to avoid doing that.
View 6 Replies View RelatedFolks, i have to create four fields in every user table within my database:
CREATED_BY VARCHAR(25), CREATED_DATE [DATETIME], MODIFIED_BY VARCHAR(25), MODIFIED_DATE [DATETIME]
There are more than hundred tables, so i wanna automate this. i am tryin to do this in a cursor: please guide!
declare @name VARCHAR (50)
declare cur cursor
fast_forward
for select name from sysobjects where type='u' and status not like '-%'
open cur
WHILE (1=1)
BEGIN
FETCH NEXT
FROM cur
INTO @name
IF @@fetch_status = 0
BEGIN
ALTER TABLE @name
ADD created_by [VARCHAR] (25)
GO
ALTER TABLE @name
ADD created_by [VARCHAR] (25)
GO
ALTER TABLE @name
ADD created_date [DATETIME]
GO
ALTER TABLE @name
ADD modified_by [VARCHAR] (25)
GO
ALTER TABLE @name
ADD modified_date [DATETIME]
END
ELSE
BREAK
END
DEALLOCATE cur
I also want that if one column for a table exists; the other columns should be created rather than it quits.
Howdy!