I have to create a history of tables. Therefore I must know the previous structure of the table. I have to document the changes of the structures of the tables.
Is there a solution for the version 2000?
For my company, we have made it a standard to create history tables and triggers for the majority of our production tables. I recently grew tired of consistently spending the time needed to create these tables and triggers so I invested some time in creating a script that would auto generate these.
We recently launched a project which required nearly 100 history tables & triggers to be created. This would have normally taken a good day or two to complete. However, with this script it took a near 10 seconds. Here are some details about the script.
The code below creates a stored procedure that receives two input parameters (@TableName & @CreateTrigger) and performs the following actions:
1) Queries system tables to retrieve table schema for @TableName parameter
2) Creates a History table ("History_" + @TableName) to mimic the original table, plus includes additional history columns.
3) If @CreateTrigger = 'Y' then it creates an Update/Delete trigger on the @TableName table, which is used to populate the History table.
/************************************************************************************************************ Created By: Bryan Massey Created On: 3/11/2007 Comments: Stored proc performs the following actions: 1) Queries system tables to retrieve table schema for @TableName parameter 2) Creates a History table ("History_" + @TableName) to mimic the original table, plus include additional history columns. 3) If @CreateTrigger = 'Y' then it creates an Update/Delete trigger on the @TableName table, which is used to populate the History table. ******************************************* MODIFICATIONS ************************************************** MM/DD/YYYY - Modified By - Description of Changes ************************************************************************************************************/ CREATE PROCEDURE DBO.History_Bat_AutoGenerateHistoryTableAndTrigger @TableName VARCHAR(200), @CreateTrigger CHAR(1) = 'Y' -- optional parameter; defaults to "Y" AS
-- query system tables to get table schema SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(500), SP2.value) AS TableDescription, CONVERT(VARCHAR(100), SC.Name) AS FieldName, CONVERT(VARCHAR(50), ST.Name) AS DataType, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),SC.length) AS FieldLength, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), SC.XPrec) AS FieldPrecision, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), SC.XScale) AS FieldScale, CASE SC.IsNullable WHEN 1 THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N' END AS AllowNulls FROM SysObjects SO INNER JOIN SysColumns SC ON SO.ID = SC.ID INNER JOIN SysTypes ST ON SC.xtype = ST.xtype LEFT OUTER JOIN SysProperties SP ON SC.ID = SP.ID AND SC.ColID = SP.SmallID LEFT OUTER JOIN SysProperties SP2 ON SC.ID = SP2.ID AND SP2.SmallID = 0 WHERE SO.xtype = 'u' AND SO.Name = @TableName ORDER BY SO.[name], SC.ColOrder
OPEN CurHistoryTable
FETCH NEXT FROM CurHistoryTable INTO @TableDescr, @FieldName, @DataType, @FieldLength, @Precision, @Scale, @AllowNulls
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN
-- create list of table columns IF LEN(@FieldList) = 0 BEGIN SET @FieldList = @FieldName SET @FirstField = @FieldName END ELSE BEGIN SET @FieldList = @FieldList + ', ' + @FieldName END
IF LEN(@SQLTable) = 0 BEGIN SET @SQLTable = 'CREATE TABLE [DBO].[History_' + @TableName + '] (' + @CRLF SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + @TAB + '[History' + @FieldName + '] [INT] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,' + @CRLF END
IF UPPER(@DataType) IN ('CHAR', 'VARCHAR', 'NCHAR', 'NVARCHAR', 'BINARY') BEGIN SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + '(' + @FieldLength + ')' END ELSE IF UPPER(@DataType) IN ('DECIMAL', 'NUMERIC') BEGIN SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + '(' + @Precision + ', ' + @Scale + ')' END
IF @AllowNulls = 'Y' BEGIN SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + ' NULL' END ELSE BEGIN SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + ' NOT NULL' END
SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + ',' + @CRLF
FETCH NEXT FROM CurHistoryTable INTO @TableDescr, @FieldName, @DataType, @FieldLength, @Precision, @Scale, @AllowNulls END
CLOSE CurHistoryTable DEALLOCATE CurHistoryTable
-- finish history table script with standard history columns SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + @TAB + '[HistoryCreatedOn] [DATETIME] NULL,' + @CRLF SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + @TAB + '[HistoryCreatedByUserID] [SMALLINT] NULL,' + @CRLF
SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + @TAB + '[HistoryCreatedByUserName] [VARCHAR](30) NULL,' + @CRLF SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + @TAB + '[HistoryAction] [CHAR](1) NOT NULL' + @CRLF SET @SQLTable = @SQLTable + ' )'
PRINT @SQLTable
-- execute sql script to create history table EXEC(@SQLTable)
IF @@ERROR <> 0 BEGIN PRINT '******************** ERROR CREATING HISTORY TABLE FOR TABLE: ' + @TableName + ' **************************************' RETURN -1 END
IF @CreateTrigger = 'Y' BEGIN -- create history trigger SET @SQLTrigger = '/************************************************************************************************************' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'Created By: ' + SUSER_SNAME() + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'Created On: ' + @Date + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'Comments: Auto generated trigger' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + '***********************************************************************************************/' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'CREATE TRIGGER [Trigger_' + @TableName + '_UpdateDelete] ON DBO.' + @TableName + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'FOR UPDATE, DELETE' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'AS' + @CRLF + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'DECLARE @Action CHAR(1)' + @CRLF + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'IF EXISTS (SELECT ' + @FirstField + ' FROM Inserted)' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'BEGIN' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + @TAB + 'SET @Action = ''U''' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'END' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'ELSE' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'BEGIN' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + @TAB + 'SET @Action = ''D''' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'END' + @CRLF + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'INSERT INTO History_' + @TableName + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + @TAB + '(' + @FieldList + ', HistoryCreatedOn, HistoryCreatedByUserName, HistoryAction)' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'SELECT ' + @FieldList + ', GETDATE(), SUSER_SNAME(), @Action' + @CRLF SET @SQLTrigger = @SQLTrigger + 'FROM DELETED'
--PRINT @SQLTrigger
-- execute sql script to create update/delete trigger EXEC(@SQLTrigger)
IF @@ERROR <> 0 BEGIN PRINT '******************** ERROR CREATING HISTORY TRIGGER FOR TABLE: ' + @TableName + ' **************************************' RETURN -1 END
How can we programmatically cause a Manual Report History Snapshot to be created.
I know it can be done using the Webservice. How would we do it using the ReportServer stored procedures. Which SP/SP's can we call. With what parameters.
I want to backup an important table every week in creating some history tables.
I would like to create a Dts job or script to create every week a table with the day and month in its name. ( like : [important_table_09-07] , [important_table_09-14],... )
When creating history tables that are appended to whenever a record isupdated, should one append the corresponding child table records to theirhistory tables at the same time (so as to have a complete set for eachedit); or should one append the child tables only when those particulartables are edited? I have been doing the latter, but I thought I'd ask forothers' opinions.Thanks!Neil
I've got a large and growing database in SQL Server 7.0. I'd like to utilize a monthly stored procedure that will search various tables for records that are older than 3 months and copy this data out to corresponding history tables. Typically, most production queries are run only on the new data, but occasionally (like at year-end, for example), we will need to run some queries on data extending back 12 months -- that is, on data in the production tables AND in the history tables. Notwithstanding the fact that I've never done stored procedures*, I would like to know if it is possible to run a query that can search for data in both production and history tables at the same time. I know this sounds like a stupid question, but I read somewhere that doing this qould require some kind of Joining function that is complex...?
Thanks, Whill96205
* Also, any good resources I could use for developing stored procedures?
We have a need to report on historical data when none exists in the database.
Create a tabular report rdl that is run on a regular schedule. This report run is saved as an Excel sheet that overwrites the previous run, which has the same name.
Report is designed to use two data sources--the database and and the previously run Excel sheet. The data is "merged" using the Lookup function thereby creating a new report that includes the history needed.
'You have to have a BackUps folder included into your release!
Private Sub BackUpDB_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BackUpDB.Click Dim addtimestamp As String Dim f As String Dim z As String Dim g As String Dim Dialogbox1 As New Backupinfo
addtimestamp = Format(Now(), "_MMddyy_HHmm") z = "C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDB.mdb" g = addtimestamp + ".mdb"
'Add timestamp and .mdb endging to NewAppDB f = "C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissBackUpsNewAppDB" & g & ""
Try
File.Copy(z, f)
Catch ex As System.Exception
System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
End Try
MsgBox("Backup completed succesfully.") If Dialogbox1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then End If End Sub
Code Snippet
'RESTORE DATABASE
Private Sub RestoreDB_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
RestoreDB.Click Dim Filename As String Dim Restart1 As New RestoreRestart Dim overwrite As Boolean overwrite = True Dim xi As String
With OpenFileDialog1 .Filter = "Database files (*.mdb)|*.mdb|" & "All files|*.*" If .ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then Filename = .FileName
'Strips restored database from the timestamp xi = "C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDB.mdb" File.Copy(Filename, xi, overwrite) End If End With
'Notify user MsgBox("Data restored successfully")
Restart() If Restart1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then Application.Restart() End If End Sub
Code Snippet
'CREATE NEW DATABASE
Private Sub CreateNewDB_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
CreateNewDB.Click Dim L As New DatabaseEraseWarning Dim Cat As ADOX.Catalog Cat = New ADOX.Catalog Dim Restart2 As New NewDBRestart If File.Exists("C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDB.mdb") Then If L.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Cancel Then Exit Sub Else File.Delete("C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDB.mdb") End If End If Cat.Create("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDB.mdb;
Jet OLEDB:Engine Type=5")
Dim Cn As ADODB.Connection 'Dim Cat As ADOX.Catalog Dim Tablename As ADOX.Table 'Taylor these according to your need - add so many column as you need. Dim col As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column Dim col1 As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column Dim col2 As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column Dim col3 As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column Dim col4 As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column Dim col5 As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column Dim col6 As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column Dim col7 As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column Dim col8 As ADOX.Column = New ADOX.Column
Cn = New ADODB.Connection Cat = New ADOX.Catalog Tablename = New ADOX.Table
'Open the connection Cn.Open("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDB.mdb;Jet
OLEDB:Engine Type=5")
'Open the Catalog Cat.ActiveConnection = Cn
'Create the table (you can name it anyway you want) Tablename.Name = "Table1"
'Taylor according to your need - add so many column as you need. Watch for the DataType! col.Name = "ID" col.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adInteger col1.Name = "MA" col1.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adInteger col1.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable col2.Name = "FName" col2.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar col2.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable col3.Name = "LName" col3.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar col3.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable col4.Name = "DOB" col4.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adDate col4.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable col5.Name = "Gender" col5.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar col5.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable col6.Name = "Phone1" col6.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar col6.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable col7.Name = "Phone2" col7.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar col7.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable col8.Name = "Notes" col8.Type = ADOX.DataTypeEnum.adVarWChar col8.Attributes = ADOX.ColumnAttributesEnum.adColNullable
'You have to append all your columns you have created above Tablename.Columns.Append(col) Tablename.Columns.Append(col1) Tablename.Columns.Append(col2) Tablename.Columns.Append(col3) Tablename.Columns.Append(col4) Tablename.Columns.Append(col5) Tablename.Columns.Append(col6) Tablename.Columns.Append(col7) Tablename.Columns.Append(col8)
'Append the newly created table to the Tables Collection Cat.Tables.Append(Tablename)
'User notification ) MsgBox("A new empty database was created successfully")
'Restart application If Restart2.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then Application.Restart() End If
End Sub
Code Snippet
'COMPACT DATABASE
Private Sub CompactDB_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
CompactDB.Click Dim JRO As JRO.JetEngine JRO = New JRO.JetEngine
'The first source is the original, the second is the compacted database under an other name. JRO.CompactDatabase("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:Program
Data Source=C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDBComp.mdb; JetOLEDB:Engine Type=5")
'Original (not compacted database is deleted) File.Delete("C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDB.mdb")
'Compacted database is renamed to the original databas's neme. Rename("C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDBComp.mdb", "C:Program FilesVSoftAppMissNewAppDB.mdb")
'User notification MsgBox("The database was compacted successfully")
Being still a relative newcomer to SQL Server (people may say I'm trying to take on too much being somewhat inexperienced once they read about the problem I'm trying to tackle, but alas...) I'm running into the following problem: I need to create tables in my user database on the fly (using Stored Procedures) so that each table can be created many times in the database but only once for every user. The tables should be named something like "username.Table1", "username.Table2" etc. as opposed to "dbo.Table1". I then want to use the stored procedure from .NET/C# in my web application, so that i can create the complete set of usertables for each of my clients.
Now, I tackled the stored procedure part (that is, it creates all the tables I need with all the parameters I want) and am able to use it from my web application (which took some time to learn but proved quite easy to do), but I cannot seem to get it coupled to the current user (instead of the dbo). Every time I trie, the tables are created as dbo.Table1 and when I try to create a new set, it gives a warning ("table with name such and so already exists..."). I made sure to log in as an authenticated user (using forms authentication) before trying to create the tables but this gives the aforementioned result.
What am I doing wrong? I use Visual Web Developer Express, SQL Server 2005 Express and IIS version 5.1
I 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.
I am a serious NT sql NEWBIE. I have installed v7 on my NT/MIIS. I want to allow another party now to create tables on their SQL db they have runnning on my server (their own domain)
What is the best way -? Do they send me the scripts or is there a way to run them remotely and create them.
Hi! I am using VS 2003 (v 1.1) I need to generate tables with the values from the Backend (SQLServer 2000) database in C#.Net. How can i create the tables, tablerows, cells, etc. from the codebehind page of C#. I am having a very little knowledge about dynamic generation. Give me the complete code with can example (if possible)
I was just looking at the AdventureWorks Database Sample and I see the Tables and the Procedures have different prefixes other than dbo. How can I create Tables that use different prefixes as I would like to organize my tables better. Thanks in advance.
Hello,In my web site I have 2 types of users: students and professors.All users need to login but the personal information for each user type has different fields.So I create 3 tables: professors, students and authentication,"professors" will have all the personal data from professors."students" will have all the personal data from students.authentication will have the username and password from all users.How can i link authentication table to both professors and students tables so when the user logins i get the data from that user, either a professor or student?And is the right way to do this?I am using SQL 2005 and Asp.Net 2.0Thanks,Miguel
I know this may sound stupid but I really can't figure out how to do it. I just keep going around in cricles.
I need to create six table under three different users. so I would have users1 owning tableA and tableB. Then I would have users2 owning another copy of tableA and tableB. same for users3.
But I just can't find a way of doing it, I am using enterprise manager. Please help, Ed
flowid and stepid for both tables match; meaning that if i found a record in task with a certain taskid, i could query stepdefinition with the same flowid and stepid to find the steptype.
well, i wanna do it the other way around. I query stepdefinition to find a list of flowids and stepids for a specific steptype.
select flowid, stepid from stepdefinition where steptype = -3
Now, I want to find all taskids in task for each flowid/stepid combination
Hi, I have a users table in my SQL Server database. Now, I am looking to create a table (or multiple tables) to allow users to post their weekly events, meetings, activities, and accomplishments to the database. Each Monday morning, each user will enter their new schedule for that week and the previous week's entry will be archived in the database. My question is: what would make more sense? Should I create one big table that would have the following columns:
- Week Number (the current week number in the year) - User ID - Events - Meetings - Activities - Accomplishments
And each user would have one row in the database per week.
OR should I create 4 separate tables named Events, Meetings, Activities, Accomplishments. Each of these tables would have the following columns: (for instance, the Events table would contain:)
Each time a user adds a new event to their schedule, a new row in the Events table is created. Each time a user adds a new accomplishment, a new row in the Accomplishments table is created. etc., etc.
Which approach seems to make more sense and would be easier to maintain? Also, which one would conserve database space better and result in faster querying.
I'm attempting to use SQL statement to create tables within a new database, and I'm somewhat lacking in experience for this. Normally I'd simply create them through the GUI, but I want to get the hang of DDL statements.
I have written what I think are scripts to create one table with a primary key, create a unique index on it, and then create another table with a primary key and constrain two columns in the second table to the non-primary unique index in the first.
Code: Use SKUTracking CREATE TABLE SKUTracking.dbo.tblOraUnits
Hello all; I'm so new in NHibernate and I wonder that "can nhibernate create tables into my db"? If it can; how? Which confugrations are needed? Thanks...
Im trying to bring together two tables into one, but they're records dont always match, so im getting akward returned records. So now i want to combine the fields i need from these two tables to create a new one. How would that be coded.
I want to
SELECT
[Customer_Bill_Customer_No],
[Customer_Bill_Customer_No],
[Sales_Header_Order_DateTime],
[Sales_Header_Your_Reference]
from
[NavisionReplication].[dbo].[Tbl_Sales_Header]
and SELECT [Sales_Invoice_Header_No]
FROM [NavisionReplication].[dbo].[Tbl_Sales_Invoice_Header]
I'm trying to create two tables, Admins and SecurityGroups, I want to have the ability to assign a security group to an admin so that I don't have to specify all the rights individually to every admin. So, I have the securityGroupID in the Admins table and I reference the SecurityGroups table for data integrity. On the other hand, for audit purposes, I also want to record which admin created the security group so I have the AdminID in the SecurityGroups table and I reference the Admins table for data integrity. Of course when I try to create any of those tables I get an error message that the other table doesn't exist. I wonder if this can be done without having to remove the references constraint from one of the tables and then using alter table. Here's an example below to make it clearer:
CREATE TABLE Admins ( AdminID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, SecurityGroup NULL REFERENCES SecurityGroups (SecurityGroupID) )
CREATE TABLE SecurityGroups ( SecurityGroupID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, CreatedBy INT NOT NULL REFERENCES Admins (AdminID) )
I'm currently developing an RDF application which need to handle lots of datatypes. But I want to use SQL-Servers capabilities for efficient querying and sorting. Therefore, I've wanted to create a Main Table which stores a Reference to the Table where the Data is stored. The Data itself should get stored in a Datatype-specific Table.
The Typed Table might get created by something like:
public void CreateTypedLiterals(Type type) { String sql = String.Format( "CREATE TABLE [Literals_{1}] (" + "ID int DISTINCT NOT NULL, Value {1})",
// BUG: does not work // WARNING: introduces a potential sql-injection problem type.ToString() );
...
As you can see on the statements this solution makes many troubles. So I've wanted to implement it in a more fine way using a DataTable:
[SqlProcedure] public void CreateTypedLiterals(Type type) { DataTable TypedLiterals = new DataTable( String.Format("Literals_{0}", type.ToString())); TypedLiterals.Columns.Add( "ID", typeof(int), "DISTINCT NOT NULL"); TypedLiterals.Columns.Add("Value", type);
...
But I have totally no Idea how to fetch this result into the existing Database. It might be cool to simply access the Database as it would be a .NET Dataset in the form:
Hi, I am trying to create a create for two table A and table B which have no relationship each time. For TableA, there are 3 columns like ID, APoints1, APoint2. For Table B, there are also 3 columns as ID, Qty, BPoints. There is no internal relationship for these two tables. But there may be same ID inside A and B for some records. Now I want to create a datagrid for displaying the information as :
Please Notice that I can't use directly SQL script as following from table A and table B because there is no relationship for Table A and Table B, otherwise the recult set would be wrong:
Select A.ID, Sum(A.APoints1 + A.APoints2) - Sum(B.Qty * B.BPoints) WHERE A.ID = B.ID group by A.ID