I have ran into a problem when i'm getting table names in c#.
I have tried the sql command:
select name from sysobjects where type='U' order by name
So it returns the names without a problem. But when I try to access to some tables using their names (to retrieve the columns) I sometimes get the error "Invalid object name" following by the name of the table.
So I realized the if the table was not under dbo user then i would get this error.
for example: "select name from ContactCreditCard"
gives me error because in database management tool it is shown like this: Sales.ContactCreditCard
How can i fix this problem? How to get that prefix of the tables?
Hi all, I executed the following T-SQL code from a tutorial book and executed it in my SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE): --PivotTable.sql-- USE Adventureworks
GO
SELECT ShiftID, Name
FROM HumanResources.Shift
SELECT EmployeeID, ShiftID, Name
FROM HumanResources.Employee, HumanResources.Department
WHERE Employee.DepartmentID = Department.DepartmentID
--Compute the number of employees by
--department name and shift
SELECT Name, [1] AS 'Day', [2] AS 'Evening',
[3] AS 'Night'
FROM
(SELECT e.EmployeeID, edh.ShiftID, d.Name
FROM HumanResources.Employee e
JOIN HumanResources.EmployeeDepartmentHistory edh
ON e.EmployeeID = edh.EmployeeID
JOIN HumanResources.Department d
ON edh.DepartmentID = d.DepartmentID) st
PIVOT
(
COUNT (EmployeeID)
FOR ShiftID IN
( [1], [2], [3])
) AS spvt
ORDER BY Name
--For display in book
SELECT Name, [1] AS 'Day', [2] AS 'Evening',
[3] AS 'Night'
FROM
(SELECT e.EmployeeID, edh.ShiftID, CAST(d.Name AS nvarchar(26)) 'Name'
FROM HumanResources.Employee e
JOIN HumanResources.EmployeeDepartmentHistory edh
ON e.EmployeeID = edh.EmployeeID
JOIN HumanResources.Department d
ON edh.DepartmentID = d.DepartmentID) st
PIVOT
(
COUNT (EmployeeID)
FOR ShiftID IN
( [1], [2], [3])
) AS spvt
ORDER BY Name
IF EXISTS(SELECT name FROM sys.tables WHERE name = 'pvt')
DROP TABLE pvt
GO
--Create a table that saves the result of a pivot with employee
--names instead of numbers for column values
SELECT VName, [164] 'Mikael Q Sandberg', [198] 'Arvind B Rao',
[223] 'Linda P Meisner', [231] 'Fukiko J Ogisu'
INTO pvt
FROM
(SELECT PurchaseOrderID, EmployeeID, v.Name as 'VName'
FROM Purchasing.PurchaseOrderHeader h
JOIN Purchasing.Vendor v
ON h.VendorID = v.VendorID) p
PIVOT
(
COUNT (PurchaseOrderID)
FOR EmployeeID IN
( [164], [198], [223], [231], [233] )
) pvt
ORDER BY VName
GO
--Show an excerpt FOR VName starting with A
SELECT TOP 5 * FROM pvt
WHERE VName LIKE 'A%'
GO
--For display in book
SELECT TOP 5 CAST(VName AS NVARCHAR(22)) 'VName',
[Mikael Q Sandberg], [Arvind B Rao],
[Linda P Meisner], [Fukiko J Ogisu]
FROM pvt
WHERE VName LIKE 'A%'
GO
--VendorID for Advanced Bicycles is 32
--Four PurchaseOrderID column values exist in PurchaseOrderHeader
--with VendorID values of 32 and EmployeeID values of 164
SELECT VendorID, Name FROM Purchasing.Vendor WHERE Name = 'Advanced Bicycles'
SELECT PurchaseOrderID FROM Purchasing.PurchaseOrderHeader WHERE VendorID = 32 and EmployeeID = 164
--Unpivot values
SELECT TOP 8 VName, Employee, OrdCnt
FROM
(SELECT VName, [Mikael Q Sandberg], [Arvind B Rao],
[Linda P Meisner], [Fukiko J Ogisu]
FROM pvt) p
UNPIVOT
(OrdCnt FOR Employee IN ([Mikael Q Sandberg],
[Arvind B Rao], [Linda P Meisner], [Fukiko J Ogisu])
)AS unpvt
GO
--For display in book
SELECT TOP 8 CAST(VName AS nvarchar(28)) 'VName', CAST(Employee AS nvarchar(18)) 'Employee', OrdCnt
FROM
(SELECT VName, [Mikael Q Sandberg], [Arvind B Rao],
[Linda P Meisner], [Fukiko J Ogisu]
FROM pvt) p
UNPIVOT
(OrdCnt FOR Employee IN
([Mikael Q Sandberg], [Arvind B Rao],
[Linda P Meisner], [Fukiko J Ogisu])
)AS unpvt
GO
--Query to check unpivoted values
SELECT TOP 2 *
FROM pvt
ORDER BY VName ASC
GO
--For display in book
SELECT TOP 2 CAST(VName AS NVARCHAR(22)) 'VName',
[Mikael Q Sandberg], [Arvind B Rao],
[Linda P Meisner], [Fukiko J Ogisu]
FROM pvt
ORDER BY VName ASC
GO
IF EXISTS(SELECT name FROM sys.tables WHERE name = 'pvt')
DROP TABLE pvt
GO
======================================== I got the following error messages and results:
Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 7
Invalid column name 'DepartmentID'.
Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
Invalid column name 'ShiftID'.
(86 row(s) affected)
(5 row(s) affected)
(5 row(s) affected)
(1 row(s) affected)
(4 row(s) affected)
(8 row(s) affected)
(8 row(s) affected)
(2 row(s) affected)
(2 row(s) affected)
================================================= I do not know why I got these 2 errors and how to correct them. Please help and advise me how to correct the mistakes and obtain the completely printed-out correct results.
I have a database and I want to retrieve informations about all tables defined in this database. In other words I need the table list defined in database. Can you help me?
In the past, we had table names such as: PurchaseOrders SalesOrders
Now with SQL 2005, you can use schema namespaces, so it could become: Purchasing.Orders Sales.Orders
So essentially you can use exactly the SAME table names, in different schemas.
So... would you recommend to change to the last model, or just stay with the old way? What is best practice?
One of the reasons why I ask this question is that I looked at the AdventureWorks sample database included with SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft is using:
I am trying to create a list of all the tables in one database and then list the size of each table. So for example I want to create a table with the table name and table size for one DB
E.g
Table1 1111KB Table2 123300MB Table3 120448KB
etc for all the tables in a particukar DB
I know there is a stored procedure to list the sizes: 'sp_spaceused' but not sure how to script all this together.
Hello!Is it possible to pass a stored procedure a parameter, say @table anduse it as a table in the sql command?Finally i want a proc to copy tables from a database to another database.THERE IS MY CODE:CREATE PROCEDURE [user].[copytable]@dbSRC varchar(100),@dbTRGT varchar(100),@table varchar(100)ASBEGIN TRANSACTION FreeAndCopyTableTRUNCATE TABLE [@dbTRGT].admin.[@table]INSERT INTO [@dbTRGT].admin.[@table]SELECT *FROM [@dbSRC].admin.[@table]COMMIT TRANSACTION FreeAndCopyTableIF @@error <0 GOTO E_Copy_FailE_Copy_Fail:ROLLBACK TRANSACTION FreeAndCopyTableGOthanks in advance,muh
I am designing a package to export staging tables into a flat file.The names of the tables will be: TableAStaging_YYYYMM and TableBStaging_YYYYMM. As you can see the names of the tables will be changing each month.
The flat files will have similar naming: C:MyPathFlatFileTableAStaging__YYYYMM and C:MyPathFlatFileTableAStaging__YYYYMM.I want to run the package as an sql job in two steps, one for each table.I need to dynamically pass the table names and file names (together with the path) to the IS package.
I downloaded and ran AdventureWorks.msi into my SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) one year ago.But I did not know how to attach it to my SSMSE then. Last week, I deleted it from the "Add or Remove" of Control Panel and I downloaded the new AdventureWork.msi and installed it my SSMSE. Today, I tried to use the Database Explorer of VB 2005 Express for the first Stored Procedure programming. I clicked on AdventureWorks.mdf and I got the following error: One or more files do not match the primary of the database. If you are attempting to attach a database, retry the operation with the correct files. If this is an existing database, the file may be corrupt and should be restored from a backup. Cannot open user default database. Login failed. Login failed for user 'CENADe1enxshc'. Log file 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLDataAdventureWorks_Data_log.ldf' does not match the primary file. It may be from a different database of the log may have been rebuilt previously. Please help and advise me how to correct this problem.
I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how we could find the table names and column names of the tables in our Sql server database at runtime/dynamically given our connection string? Please let me know.
I am unable to attach the AdventureWorks database in management studio. I installed it when I installed SQL Server 2005 but can not find the mdf or ldf files anywhere. When I inserted the installation disks again to do a custom instal, and selected AdventureWorks, the response came back that it was already installed. What do I need to do to be able to attache this db in the management studio?
The database has approx. 2500 temporary tables. The temp tables match a pattern such as APTMP... I tried deleting the tables in SSMS with the statement, Delete from Information_Schema.tables where substring(table_name,1,5) = 'APTMP' This returns the error message"Ad hoc updates to system catalogs are not allowed".
What is the correct way to delete a group of tables whose name match a pattern from within SSMS?
How can I install the AdventureWorks database on my box where C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90ToolsSamples is missing? My SQL 2005 is currently without AdventureWorks OLT. I downloaded the Enterprise trial before uninstalling SQL2005Express. Please help. Thanks.
I'm not sure that I installed the AdventureWorks database when I originally installed SQL Server 2005 on my pc, but I thought I'd better go thru the tutorial and it uses AdventureWorks, so I put my CD in to install it and started the install.
When I got to the screen where you choose your components, I only checked the Sample Database selections at the bottom. Then I got a screen saying the components had already been installed. So I thought I must have installed AdventureWorks when I did the original install, but the tutorial says to go to Registered Servers and do a new Server Registration choosing the AdventureWorks database on the Connection Properties tab. But it isn't listed there when I browse the server's databases.
How can I get it installed?
NOTE: I had SQL Server installed on my C: drive, but had a major corruption issue, so I added a second hard drive to my system and installed XP on it. So my boot drive is now by G: drive, not C:. SQL Server and most of the other programs I use have been re-installed on G:. I DO have northwind.mdb & ldb files on my C: drive. Would it be easiest to just restore them to G:? Are they the AdventureWorks database? Thanks.
I then wanted to download and install the Adventure Works database located here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E719ECF7-9F46-4312-AF89-6AD8702E4E6E&displaylang=en
Since I am running Vista 64-bit, I downloaded and installed AdventureWorksDB_x64. It wouldn't install. I got "Access is denied" and CREATE FILE error plus several others.
I then uninstalled it and downloaded AdventureWorksDB - this is the X86 version. It installed fine.
I downloaded AdventureWorksDB from the CodePlex website and tried to install it. When the install program tried to attach it to SQLEXPRESS, it gave the error (below). I've also tried attaching the database directly using the SQL Management Studio and got exactly the same error.
I'd never heard of having incompatible database versions for SQL Server before. Am I missing a patch for SQLEXPRESS or ????. Thanks.
The database 'AdventureWorks' cannot be opened because it is version 631. This server supports version 612 and earlier. A downgrade path is not supported. Could not open new database 'AdventureWorks'. CREATE DATABASE is aborted. (.Net SqlClient Data Provider) ------------------------------ Server Name: HP-MEDIACENTERSQLEXPRESS Error Number: 948 Severity: 20 State: 1 Line Number: 1
I have been having trouble with enabling table dependencies using the aspnet_regsql utility on the Product table in the AdventureWorks database. It is in the Production in the normal dbo schema. When I run the utility to enable the table dependency for SQL cache notifications it fails because it tries to prefix the reference to the table with dbo.Now I know it just adds a trigger for INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE where it runs a stored procedure to update the main table dependency table, but if I do that manually it requires that the trigger also run in the Production schema. I am not sure if this will still work with SQL query notifications.http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms124719.aspx Please reply if you can help.
When I try to access the database diagrams in AdventureWorks, I get the following message:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express ------------------------------
Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement to set the database owner to a valid login, then add the database diagram support objects.
Hi I have been working with advantureworks database and make some modifications on it. I need to be able to have a copy of this modified adventureworks database and use it on my laptop. How can I do this if it is possible. What I need to do is to be able to save everything I have been working on with the adventureworks on my desktop and be able to save on my laptop and proceed without lossing information. I want to install trial version of sql server 2005 on my laptop and replace the advantureworks which came with it with the modified advantureworks I have been working on. I am travelling this week and I would like to continue what I have been working on using my laptop. I appreciate much your quick response
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
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Could not find row in sysindexes for database ID 8, object ID 1, index ID 1. Run DBCC CHECKTABLE on sysindexes. Could not open new database 'AdventureWorks'. CREATE DATABASE is aborted. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 602)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=602&LinkId=20476
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Is there a difference between MS SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
I want to install the new (February 2007) sample databases. The readme says any previous version must be removed by dropping the database., then running Remove from Add or Remove Programs. I've detached the database, but when I try to uninstall it I get the following message:
"Error 1309.Error reading from file: pathandfilename.mdf. Verify that the file exists and that you can access it."
When I install AdventureWorks.db for SQL Express, it runs without errors. The database files (data and logs) are in the SQL Express 2005 data directory. However, I can not see the database in Managment Studio Express CTP. I've tried repairing and uninstall/install again. Does not help.
I have SQL Express 2005 cleanly installed. I have the pubs and Northwinds databases cleanly installed. (I was able to execute the queries that came for installing these). I can see both pubs and Northwinds in Management Studio Express CTP.
I'm working with the sample database called Adventure Works and I'm encountering data consistency issues : If I sum the TotalDue for one particular territory, for one particular time window from the Sales. SalesOrderHeader table and if I try to compare the result to the LastYearSales and YTDSales from the Sales.SalesTerritory table, I don't get the same number, whatever I try. So did I miss something ? How are the LastYearSales and YTDSales fields from Sales.SalesTerritory calculated ?
I am working the Books Online documentation for the full-text search feature of SQL Server 2005 Express Advanced and having a problem following the instructions.
I made sure to choose the "Full Text Search" option during installation of VB 2005 Express Advanced.
I downloaded, installed, and attached the AdventureWorks database successfully.
I checked to ensure that the database was enabled for full-text search, but could not follow the instructions for indexing a table within the database. Here are the instructions from Books Online: To enable a table for full-text indexing
Expand the server group, expand Databases, expand User Databases, and expand the database that contains the table you want to enable for full-text indexing.
Right-click the table that you want to enable for full-text indexing.
Select Full-Text index, and then click Enable Full-Text indexing.
Another document notes:
To create a full-text index on a table, the table must have a single, unique not null column. For example, consider a full-text index for the Document table in Adventure Works in which the DocumentID column is the primary key column.
When I right-click the Document table (Production.Document) in the AdventureWorks database, there is no option to "Select Full-Text Index" or "Enable Full Text indexing".
Am I missing something here?
How do I get the the table indexed for full text search?
Hi there, I have installed Sql server 2005 developer on my machine which already has a Sql server 2000 installed on. Now i am trying to query the Sqlserver 2005 data(Ex: from Person.Address located in AdventureWorks database) in Sqlserver 2000 query analyzer: When i try as Select * from Address it said invalid object. But when i explored AdventureWorks database in the Management studio i see it as Person.Address!!! i don't understand what is a Person in Person.Address??? any clues on this? So as a test when i ran select * from Person.Address it did work and i saw the results in query analyzer. Can any one help me understand about this confusion? Thanks-L
I've installed both the AW db and dw off the MS download. I see the db in the directory I use for other databases, the dw doesnt seem to want to go where I tell it. Anyway, when I connect to my instance of sql (developer's) I dont see the AW db.
