I am more familiar with writing SQL for Oracle than MS SQL Server. Within Oracle there is a simple command, 'Describe', which actually shows the data types, and whether or not an attribute accepts NULLS.
MS SQL Server does appear to support such a command, however I am looking for a way to describe the attributes of tables nonetheless.
Hi Guys,
What is the equivalent of Describe table of Oracle in SQL server.
I want to see the table fields for a table in SQL server any command?????
TIA
Oracle has a similar function, DESC, to diplay the table structure. Can't figure it out in SQL Server.
ddave
hi @ll...
Plz Plz help me out.!!!!!!!!
my query is that in my database i've a table say Tb1 and another table called Tb2.
in TB1 there is a field called companyID (the data is for e.g "001")
similarly in TB2 there is a filed called productID (the data is for example "01")
now how can i create a field in another table say TB3 with a field called UserID and the data should be like the companyID from TB1 + productID from Tb2. The data should come like this for example " 001-01 ".
i m working on this query that....." Using Oracle command desc table_name to display the charecterstics of the collection table."
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TIA,
Joe
HELP
Dmitri
Hi to All,
I want to know a query by which i can get the whole structure of my DataBase -
eg. it should give me all table names and structure which exists in this particular database .....
Thanks
Hi,
I have been training in SQL on MySQL, and now that I am on TSQL, I can't seem to find an equivalent to the command:
Code Snippet
DESC table_name;--OR
DESCRIBE table_name;
In MySQL, either command returns a list of the columns of the table, as well specifications about these columns (whether or not they can accept NULL values, their default values, etc.)
I’ve got a situation where the columns in a table we’re grabbing from a source database keep changing as we need more information from that database. As new columns are added to the source table, I would like to dynamically look for those new columns and add them to our local database’s schema if new ones exist. We’re dropping and creating our target db table each time right now based on a pre-defined known schema, but what we really want is to drop and recreate it based on a dynamic schema, and then import all of the records from the source table to ours.It looks like a starting point might be EXEC sp_columns_rowset 'tablename' and then creating some kind of dynamic SQL statement based on that. However, I'm hoping someone might have a resource that already handles this that they might be able to steer me towards.Sincerely,
Bryan Ax
we have a table in our ERP database and we copy data from this table into another "stage" table on a nightly basis. is there a way to dynamically alter the schema of the stage table when the source table's structure is changed? in other words, if a new column is added to the source table, i would like to add the column to the stage table during the nightly refresh.
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I'd like to create a temporary table with the same schema as an exiting table. How can I do this without hard coding the column definitions into the temporary table definition?
I'd like to do something like:
CREATE TABLE #tempTable LIKE anotherTable
..instead of...
CREATE TABLE #tempTable (id INT PRIMARY KEY, created DATETIME NULL etc...
I'm sure there must be a simple way to do this!
Many thanks,
Ben S
In my SSIS package I am trying to connect to a database in Oracle 10.2.0.3 using an Oracle Provider for OLE DB.
I get the following error:
at System.DateTime.DateToTicks(Int32 year, Int32 month, Int32 day)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbBuffer.ReadDateTime(Int32 offset)
at System.Data.OleDb.ColumnBinding.Value_DBTIMESTAMP()
at System.Data.OleDb.ColumnBinding.Value()
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataReader.GetValues(Object[] values)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DataReaderContainer.CommonLanguageSubsetDataReader.GetValues(Object[] values)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.SchemaMapping.LoadDataRow()
at System.Data.Common.DataAdapter.FillLoadDataRow(SchemaMapping mapping)
at System.Data.Common.DataAdapter.FillFromReader(DataSet dataset, DataTable datatable, String srcTable, DataReaderContainer dataReader, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, DataColumn parentChapterColumn, Object parentChapterValue)
at System.Data.Common.DataAdapter.Fill(DataTable[] dataTables, IDataReader dataReader, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnectionInternal.GetSchemaRowset(Guid schema, Object[] restrictions)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.GetOleDbSchemaTable(Guid schema, Object[] restrictions)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbMetaDataFactory.PrepareCollection(String collectionName, String[] restrictions, DbConnection connection)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbMetaDataFactory.GetSchema(DbConnection connection, String collectionName, String[] restrictions)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionInternal.GetSchema(DbConnectionFactory factory, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup, DbConnection outerConnection, String collectionName, String[] restrictions)
at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection.GetSchema(String collectionName, String[] restrictionValues)
at Microsoft.DataWarehouse.Design.OleDbSchema.GetSchema(String collectionName, String[] restrictionValues)
at Microsoft.DataWarehouse.Design.DataSourceConnection.GetSchemaTable(DataTable& dataTable, String collectionName, String[] restrictions)
at Microsoft.DataWarehouse.Design.DataSourceConnection.ConvertGetSchema(DataTable& dataTable, Guid schemaEnum, Object[] restrictions)
at Microsoft.DataWarehouse.Design.DataSourceConnection.GetSchemaTable(DataTable& dataTable, Guid schemaEnum, Object[] restrictions)
at Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design.ComboBoxWithTables.GetTableInfos(DataSourceConnection dataSourceConnection, String connectionName)
at Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.Design.ComboBoxWithTables.FillTableOrViewComboBox()
Why this is not working for 10.2?
The same package works fine for Oracle 8.1.7
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!
Hi
I come from a MySQL background and have been having some trouble finding the MSSQL command that corresponds to MySQL's "describe." I Googled for around 1/2 hour but can't seem to find it.
Any help appreciated
Hey,
I'm looking at creating a table in a stored procedure
[declare @tempTable table]
however, rather than then declaring the tables schema
[declare @tempTable table (pkField IDENTITY (1,1), SomeOtherField varchar(50), ...)]
I'd like it to simply use the schema of an already existing table (plus an additional column).
Is there a way to do this without having to manually write the table schema?
A simple example is:
I have a table
OriginalTable (idCol, NameCol, InfoCol)
I'd like to create a temp instance of that table called tempTable which would have a final schema of
tempTable (idCol, NameCol, InfoCol, myTempCol)
The reason I'd like to do this using the schema is so that I don't need to update all my procedures in the future when we decide to add some more detail to the originaltable which needs to be selected as well.
Thanks a lot for any help or direction you can provide.
-Ashleigh
I have a group of TV listing data need to map into database tables.Data looks like following:http://www.oniva.com/upload/1356/crew.jpgI want to create a table for productionCrew of each TV programthe data is like -crew -programID -member-member-member ... etc-programID -member-member-member ... etc-programID -member-member-member ... etc... etcabove are data from productionCrew of all TV program, for eachprogramID we have a list of members.Should I merge all member into a big string?Or should I use 2 tables to store the Crew data?If i use 2 tables, how the fields / column will look like?
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GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CmnLink]( [Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL CONSTRAINT PkCmnLink_Id PRIMARY KEY, [UniqueName] [varchar](52) NOT NULL, [IsVisible] [bit] NOT NULL, [CreatedDateTime] [datetime] NOT NULL DEFAULT GETDATE(), [ModifiedDateTime] [datetime] NULL)
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CmnLinkCmnLanguage]( [LinkId] [int] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT FkCmnLinkCmnLanguage_LinkId FOREIGN KEY (LinkId) REFERENCES CmnLink(Id) ON DELETE CASCADE, [LanguageId] [char](2) NOT NULL CONSTRAINT FkCmnLinkCmnLanguage_LanguageId FOREIGN KEY (LanguageId) REFERENCES CmnLanguage(Id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE, [CreatedDateTime] [datetime] NOT NULL DEFAULT GETDATE(), [ModifiedDateTime] [datetime] NULL)
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i m using sql server2005 CTP...i created a database called TEL and in that database i created a user(in security) as
USE [TEL]
GO
/****** Object: User [COLL_DB] Script Date: 09/27/2005 15:38:51 ******/
GO
CREATE USER [COLL_DB] FOR LOGIN [loginName] WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA=[COLL_DB]
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CREATE TABLE [COLL_DB].abc (c numeric)
commit;
it gives me error saying
The specified schema name "COLL_DB" either does not exist or you do not have permission to use it.
Now,can someone tell me...what i have to do to fix this error?????????
thanks...
Hi Gurus,
I am looking for a script which lists me the differences between two table schemas.
Thanks in advance
Srini
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I have created a table on SQL Server from SAS. The table gets created fine. However, the table schema has my user ID in it (AD-ENTmyuserid.Table1). How can I change the schema to dbo.(dbo.Table1)? It's fine if I have to make this change in SQL Server Management Studio.
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I am a bit confused and wish to share this with you for help. We are designing a billing application to bill telephone calls. It currently handles a single rate plan. So what it does is that it looks up the RATES table and matches the called number area code with the RATES.ACCESS_Code field to find the tariff for that area and multiplies that by the number of minutes. Here is the current schema.
CALLS
•ID (pkid)
•Called Number
•Duration
RATES
•Destination Name
•Access_Code (pkid)
•Tariff
Now the problem is that we need to process calls based on RATES per OPERATOR. Each operator is a telephony carrier with similar RATES. However, each call will be prefixed with a number to indicate which operator carried that call. Accordingly, the database should relate that prefix with the proper operator and then looks up the RATES that are related to that operator.
In conclusion we will have a replica of the RATES table for multiple operators. An operator is only supposed to have two fields I guess (name and ID).
So now we need to re-engineer the schema to adapt to this situation.
Eg. 95004433313445 (Will be identified as BT operator)
93004422376234 (Will be identified as AT&T operator)
Can anyone help please?
PS: we are using SQL Express 2005
Thanks
I created a schema, Admin. I have to transfer a table from the dbo schema to the admin schema. I keep getting an error that I do not have permission or the table does not exist.
Simply looking for confirmation here - is my syntax correct?
ALTER SCHEMA Admin TRANSFER MyShop.Addresses;
(MyShop is the Database, Addresses is the table)
NOTE: When I created the schema, I did not create an inner table. The syntax for that was simply CREATE SCHEMA Admin;
I have a table.
Column AColumn BColumn C
123
456
I need the schema details of the table like datatype of column A , B and C as well as default values of all the columns and all other details of those 3 columns.
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Hi,
acutally i am looking to get the script of table that is already in the database, like there is a table
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE
routine_type = 'PROCEDURE'
which return us the routine defination of the procedure. is there anything similar for table ?
i know i can just right clike on table and create a script but i don't use this method.
Thanks and looking forward.-MALIK
I need to edit a column (PK - GUID) from "Row is GUID = False) to (Row is GUID = True). I get a DLL internal error.
I hate to drop the table & recreate from scratch...wish you could edit in SSMSE.
Also, I used sync services to create the SDF, you would think that it would be the same as the MDF (just a gripe...sorry )
VB 2008
SQL 2005 Express
SSMSE SP2
Thanks,
Vareck
Locally I develop in SQL server 2005 enterprise. Recently I recreated my db on the server of my hosting company (in sql server 2005 express).I basically recreated the tables and copied the data in it.I now receive the following error when I hit the DB:The 'System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider' requires a
database schema compatible with schema version '1'. However, the
current database schema is not compatible with this version. You may
need to either install a compatible schema with aspnet_regsql.exe
(available in the framework installation directory), or upgrade the
provider to a newer version.I heard something about running aspnet_regsql.exe, but I dont have that access to the DB. Also I dont know if this command does anything more than creating the membership tables and filling it with some default data...Any other solutions/thought on what this can be?Thanks!
Posted - 09/12/2005 : 15:16:05
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Hi
I have a schema XXX. This schema owns a set of tables say XXX.A, XXX.B and XXX.C.
I have a login XXX mapped to the user XXX.
When I connect to the SQL Server using login XXX and execute the query.
Select * from A, it throws be an error saying that"Invalid Object Name A".
Now when I modify the select statement specifying the schema it works. i.e. Select * from XXX.A
In the former case, is it not that SQL Server tries to search for the table in the current user's account and then if it not available it look's in the dbo's account.
HOw can I make a select without specifying the schema ?
I am using SQL Server 2005.
Thanks & Regards
Imtiaz
i recorded a script for a change i need to make. actually 15 so far, i am getting ready to bring an access db with no pk or fk and only 1 relation over to ss05
my scripts are used to add the need pk fk to the tables and then move the data from the temptbl to the new one
1 thing i have been noticing is code like below will rename the table dbo.aMgmt.Employee and with that all the remaing lines of the script will fail.
DROP TABLE aMgmt.Employee
GO
EXECUTE sp_rename N'dbo.Tmp_Employee', N'aMgmt.Employee', 'OBJECT'
GO
any help?