Grouping Record Based On A Condtion
Aug 11, 2006
Technology Type Size
XYZ A 200
XYZ1 A 200
XYZ2 A 300
XYZ3 A 300
ABC1 X 238
ABC2 X 238
PQR B 320
MNO C 330
I have written a query on a table whose output will look like the above. I need to know if i should store this in a record set or create a temp table to get the following fuctionality.
Now I need to concatenate the Technology based on Type and size.
As you can see in Type A we have two sizes 200 and 300.
We need to group the Technology of type A with same size together.
So the output of the procedure should be
XYZ + XYZ1
XYZ2+ XYZ3
ABC1 + ABC2 etc.
We need to concatenate the Technology string with the next technology if they have the same type and size.
Can somebody please help or send any sample code.
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks
Swapna
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi All,I have a table in SQL Server 2000 that contains several million memberids. Some of these member ids are duplicated in the table, and eachrecord is tagged with a 1 or a 2 in [recsrc] to indicate where theycame from.I want to remove all member ids records from the table that have arecsrc of 1 where the same member id also exists in the table with arecsrc of 2.So, if the member id has a recsrc of 1, and no other record exists inthe table with the same member id and a recsrc of 2, I want it leftuntouched.So, in a theortetical dataset of member id and recsrc:0001, 10002, 20001, 20003, 10004, 2I am looking to only delete the first record, because it has a recsrcof 1 and there is another record in the table with the same member idand a recsrc of 2.I'd very much appreciate it if someone could help me achieve this!Much warmth,Murray
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Aug 16, 2006
I am trying to update a record in a table based off of criteria of another record in the table.
So suppose I have 2 records
ID owner type
1 5678 past due
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Mar 26, 2008
In SQL Server 2005, I want to do a set query on the following data that results in 3 groups:
Id
EventName
EventTime
1
First
41:40.2
2
First
41:41.6
3
First
41:43.1
4
First
41:44.4
5
Second
41:46.4
6
Second
41:48.3
7
Second
41:49.7
8
First
41:51.2
9
First
41:53.3
10
First
41:55.0
So, I want to have a query that returns one aggregate row for each of rows 1-4, 5-7 and 8-10 based on the EventName. Every time EventName 'changes' in the order that I sort it, I want to start a new grouping:
Group
EventName
Count
1
First
4
2
Second
3
3
First
3
With this query, I could also get the Min() and Max() EventTime for each group, etc.
However, this is proving difficult to do in set SQL. Obviously, if I group on EventName, then rows 1-4 *and* 8-10 will be rolled into my 'First' group. However, there is no other partitioning information that I can factor in that splits this data into *only* 3 groups, based on the order of the Event Time.
I have tried the various ranking functions, but the problem persists through any combination of function, PARTITION BY and ORDER BY that I can find.
Any insights would be appreciated!
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Nov 5, 2015
Below is the data I have in table name
TeamStatus
T 1 Complete or Escalate
T 2 Pick Up
T 2 Resolve Case
T 1 Pick Up
T 1 Complete or Escalate
T 1 Pick Up
T 1 Complete or Escalate
I want to get he group based of Resolve Case value in Status Column. Anything before Resolve case will be considered as Group 1 and after Resolve Case status should be considered as Group 2. Below is desired new Group column,
Group TeamStatus
Group 1 T 1Complete or Escalate
T 2 Pick Up
T 2 Resolve Case
Group 2 T 1Pick Up
T 1Complete or Escalate
T 1 Pick Up
T 1 Complete or Escalate
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Mar 26, 2008
I want to group by a fields value in a table. I have a purchase table where contracts and orders are stored in together. Now what I need is, I have to group only by the rows that contain an identical contract_no and order_no as those records represent the actual contract. the other rows contain order data-sets which need to be subtracted from the contracts values.
datasource:
contract_no order_no name amount
12 12 contract1 1,000,000
12 215 order215 50,000
12 460 order460 75,000
280 280 contract2 500,000
280 340 order340 10,000
280 410 order410 9,000
I want to display each order that took place via drilldown/hide function in the table, and calculate the amount from the contract that is left.
desired result report:
12 contract1 1,000,000
order 215 50,000
order 460 75,000
amount left 875,000
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Jun 15, 2007
I'm having some difficulty getting the appropriate results for my scenerio. I have two different datasets that I'm using. One is consisting of two joined tables and the other consisting of one sp. The sp's parameters rely on two things- one is the companyNum (inputed when the user runs the report) and two is the ContactNumType. The ContactTypeNum comes from the dataset of tables. I need to have a table consisting of this format:
ContactNumType1 (From the Tables)
File_Name1 (From the sp)
File_Name4 (From the sp)
File_Name3 (From the sp)
ContactNumType2 (From the Tables)
File_Name2 (From the sp)
File_Name7(From the sp)
ContactNumType3 (From the Tables)
File_Name5 (From the sp)
ContactNumType4 (From the Tables)
File_Name6 (From the sp)
File_Name10 (From the sp)
File_Name8(From the sp)
File_Name9 (From the sp)
So essentially what is going on is that every returned File_Name is grouped based upon the type of ContactNumType. My table returns the appropriate ContactNumTypes and the appropriate number of File_Names but returns only the first File_Name for each row. The File_Names should only grouped by the ContactTypeNums and each be unique. Is there any way to do that?
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Edited: I still am trying to work this out. I've tried a few run-arounds but none have worked. Adding custom code apparently is too risky at this point because of the security precautions that I've been instructed to take. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this project has been going on for days now....
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Jul 20, 2005
I hope you can help me. I posted this in the microsoft sql server newsgroupa few days ago and got no response so I thought I'd try here. If I canprovide any clarification I'll be glad to do so.I'm trying to calculate a column based on the value of the previous record.I'm not very experienced with SQL-Server.I'm using the following table:CREATE TABLE tblPayment([PaymentID] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,[LoanID] [int] NULL ,[PaymentPeriod] [int] NULL ,[PaymentRecDate] [datetime] NULL ,[PaymentAMT] [money] NULL)I have a view based on this table. That view has the following calculatedcolumnsBeginningBalance: For the first record, this is equal to the loan amountfrom the loan table. For each additional record this is equal to the endingbalance from the previous payment record.Interest: BeginningBalance * the monthly interest rate from the loantablePrincipal: PaymentAMT - InterestEndingBalance: BeginningBalance - PrincipalIt might seem I could use a subquery to calculate the Beginning Balance asin:SELECT LoanID, PaymentPeriod, PaymentAMT,(SELECT SUM(PaymentAMT) FROM tblPayment AS tbl1WHERE tbl1.LoanID = tblPayment.LoanID AND tbl1.PaymentPeriod <tblPayment.PaymentPeriod) AS BeginBalanceFROM tblPaymentWHERE (LoanID = @LoanID)But this will not work, because the interest is calculated on the previousmonth's balance. I need to find a way to loop through the recordset. Isthis possible?Thank you,--Derek CooperDatabase9www.database9.com
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The old version of this tool, users submitted amendments by style and could if need be submit multiple amendments against one product at the same time. The new tool, I believe for audit reasons, users submit by amendment type, so for example I would submit a cost price change for a given style.
The issue now is that on the occasions where a user has multiple amendments, they now come through separately. So cost price would be Amendment 1 and a date change would be amendment 2 even though they could be the same product. This could potentially mean that the admin team would be duplicating work if the paperwork is updated and sent after each amendment, whereas before they would make both changes and only send the paperwork once.
Having not built either of these tools, I've been tasked with trying to fix this, my two thoughts being either to amend the user form to somehow capture/ allow users to submit amendments together or try to use the existing data and doing the grouping dynamically in the back end. Use that lag to look at grouping any submitted amendments that occur within 30mins of the first occurrence of that style
This grouping would then be given a joint time so when the 'time lag' period passes the amendments will be visible together.I've tried a few things and a few head on desk moments trying to get a set based approach but haven't been able to get where i want, its either an issue where amendments span an hour, such as 9:59 and then 10:03 or grouping together amendments that happen after the 30mins of the first one.
Here is some sample data
USE FF_Winning_Together;
IF OBJECT_ID(N'tempdb..#AmendTest',N'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #AmendTest;
CREATE TABLE #AmendTest
(
AmendmentIDINT IDENTITY(1,1)NOT NULL,
StyleCHAR(1)NOT NULL,
AmendmentStatusVARCHAR(10)NOT NULL,
DTDATETIMENOT NULL
[code]....
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Hi,
We are currently developing a crm that has the following main tables: client, sales, actions, contacts and employees with up to 4 million records. The db contains several other tables with extra information but these aren't relevant for this problem.
Clients have sales, contacts and actions. sales and actions can have seperate contacts as well, and contacts can be related to employees in a way.
Offcourse a security model was implemented but this only provides the option to hide or show all the records of these main tables. Now people noticed that it is a must to let people see for example only companies they created or do sales with. In other words access must be given at a record level.
The first thing that pops in my head is to create a client_security, sales_security, ... table that contains the employee_id and client_id or sales_id, or ... And add a join with one of these security tables for each select that is executed.
I wonder (because of the huge amount of data) if there isn't a better way to get this done?
Another possible issue that came to mind was, that when some data doesn't need protection or some people have the rigth to see everything, we would have to create the records in the security table anyways, resulting in probably hundreds of thousands of records.
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<cfquery name="gallHomePic1st" datasource="id" maxrows="1">
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1 A11 1
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3 C10 1
3 C10 1
3 C10 1
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Hi People,
hope someone can help me out here with a little problem.
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This my table named myData
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[idx] [int] NULL,
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[daerahKutipan] [int] NULL,
[payer] [int] NULL,
[code]....
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group by sr.id,sr.linked_to_worknumber, sr.spec_checklist_id
Having sr.spec_checklist_id = 30 and count(*)>1
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idlinked_to_worknumberspec_checklist_id
18323IP-DN-03377430
24229IP-DN-03377430
18294IP-DN-03380830
28027IP-DN-03380830
18295IP-DN-03381030
19924IP-DN-03381030
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Jan 31, 2014
I have inherited a query which currently returns multiple instances of each work order because of the joined tables. The code is here and I've detailed the criteria needed below but need the best way to accomplish this:
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h.serialnum, h.manufacturer, h.model_id, h.depot, h.date_in, h.date_approved,
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[Code] ....
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2. sm.next_calendar_date - this should return only the most recent date out of those selected for the certificates on this piece of equipment
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Jan 15, 2015
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CreateDtTm (Datetime)
There is no PK or Unique ID on this table, though an combo of OrderID and CreateDtTm would ostensibly be a unique identifier.
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Feb 28, 2006
Sql is not a strong point with me so I'm just going to throw this out there. I have a stored procedure that updates the quantity in my 'CartItems' table. Is there a way to have something else happen within the stored procedure that will update another field based on other parts of the record? There is a 'lineTotal' field that I need to equal the 'pounds * itemSell' fields which are both fields within this record.
CREATE PROCEDURE UpdateCartItem(@cartItemID Int,@newQuantity numeric(9))ASUPDATE CartItems Set quantity = @newQuantityWHERE cartItemID = @cartItemIDGO
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Apr 17, 2008
Hi! I'm new to SQL and have a question...
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Basically my SELECT statement looks something like this, then is followed by an If... Else statement
SELECT * FROM TableName
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'Item Not Found, add new record
'code to add new record......
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Hey guys,,
Well im new at this SSIS stuff and i have something that i am trying to do, but cannot get it to work.. Ill try to explain, and if anyone can help me or point me in the right direction it would be much appriciated..
I have 2 tables, one header table. and one lines table. This is a one - to -many relationship.. ie 1 header, many lines.. This is a Order Header, and Order Lines table setup.. Order header has Order numbers and and email address field that link to the lines table by order number. I also have a view which links all this info together.
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Down the track i want to add a send mail task to this and pass the email address to a variable so i can use it in the send mail task.. But ill get the main part working first..
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12 2
17 3
17 2
13 3
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17 2
13 3
12 3
13 2
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How to do some procedural updates based on a record string. What I wish to do.
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If the value (of my string) in my column contains the ‘-‘ character I wish to ‘do something else’.
Assume my column contains both ‘/’ and ‘-‘ in the same table.column, but not within the same record.
The data in question is in
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I’ve found I can use something like this to search my string.
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I was wondering if you guys might give me some advice on how best to handle a particular scenario i'm struggling with.
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The page they use starts-out with basically a blank form. there are custom-built paging controls at the bottom of the screen. they click page-forward to begin and a stored procedure is ran to select a record and update a field on that record to indicate "in-process". when they finish editing the record - or page on to the next record without updating - another stored procedure is ran - updating/resetting the status field on the record appropriately.
The entire page is encapsulated within an ajax.net updatepanel.
The entire page has caching disabled. This works well in conjunction with the first page being blank. if they get out of the app and try to get back in by clicking the back button - all they can do is get to the first (blank) page.
A piece of javascript window.onunload clicks a button on the page that releases the record they currently have selected in the event of a re-direct, clicking back, etc.. it appears to work with everything except a window close. in that case, i have a stored procedure running periodically on the server that checks how long a record has been selected - and if it exceeds the time indicated - resets the record as to allow it to be re-selected later.
In the event of session timeout, they are redirected to another page that tells them their session has timed-out (and since the window.onunload fires - it takes care of releasing the record if they have one on the screen).
The concept seemed to be working well until I started multi-user testing. Now it seems as if two users time it perfectly - they are actually able to both select the same record. it happens pretty rarely, but it does seem to happen. I'm guessing this has to do with how my stored procedure is structured - possibly allowing a tiny-enough window between the record being selected for editing - and the update running to actually status the record as in-process (2 separate sql statements within the one stored procedure).
I believe I also have a found a second quirk in my approach where something is causing the window.onunload event to fire twice in some strange situations.. but that's more annoying/confusing from a logging standpoint than anything..
I've read where people say to ensure you dont update a record that's already been updated - that you should compare the fields before you actually perform the update and ensure they haven't changed since you selected it.. but to me that doesn't solve anything.. if two people select the same record and both spend time working on it - the person that tries to update last has just wasted their time.
I've also toyed with the idea of maintaining a separate table in the database to hold the keys to the currently selected records and use that to keep multiple people from selecting the same record - but honestly i dont know if that approach is any better than what i'm doing now.
anyway, I was just curious if you guys had any advice in regards to how you'd handle a request like this.. or if you see any obvious problems/fixes with my current approach..
I would greatly appreciate any info you could provide-
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