I've got a database with an unknown number of columns. Hence, the column names are also unknown. What's the easiest SQL to present the values in each column and the column headings?
View 1 RepliesKeshka writes "I'm using function fnParseString form http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=76033 in some of my sp.
it's very helpfull, but my question is if there is a way to split variable into columns if I don't know how many columns I'll have? It could be 1 or 2 or 3 and etc.
Thanks"
Using the following tables and data---
CREATE TABLE tblRiskReviewHistory(RiskReviewID int, RiskReviewHistoryID int, Name nvarchar(20), Description nvarchar(50), Date date)
INSERT tblRiskReviewHistory(RiskReviewID, RiskReviewHistoryID, Name, Description, Date)
VALUES(1,1,'Customer A','Profile Assessment','01/01/2015'),
(1,2,'Customer B','Profile Assessment','02/20/2015')
[Code] ...
And currently outputs;
Name Description Date Question Answer
Customer A Profile Assessment 01/01/2015
How complex is the structure?
Customer A
Profile Assessment
01/01/2015
The total value of assets?
Less than GBP 1 million
Customer A
Profile Assessment
01/01/2015
The volume of transactions undertaken?
Low (-1 pmth)
[Code] ....
However, I would like it to output;
Name
Description
Date
How complex is the structure?
The total value of assets?
The volume of transactions undertaken?
How was the client introduced?
Where does the Customer reside?
[Code] ....
The number of questions are unknown for each RiskReviewID and they can be added to in the future.
This is what I want to do:1. Delete all tables in database with table names that ends with anumber.2. Leave all other tables in tact.3. Table names are unknown.4. Numbers attached to table names are unknown.5. Unknown number of tables in database.For example:(Tables in database)AccountAccount1Account2BinderBinder1Binder2Binder3.......I want to delete all the tables in the database with the exceptionof Account and Binder.I know that there are no wildcards in the "Drop Table tablename"syntax. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to write this sqlstatement?Note: I am executing this statement in MS Access with the"DoCmd.RunSQL sql_statement" command.Thanks for any help!
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a single table that consist of 4 columns. Entity, ParamName, ParamsValue and ParamiValue. This table stores normalized Late Fee related parameters for apartments. The Entity field contains a code that identifies the apartment complex. The ParamName in a textual field that contains the name of the parameter that the other 2 fields define the value for; ParamsValue and ParamiValue. If the Late Fee parameter (as named in ParamName is something numerical then the value for that parameter can be found in ParamiValue else its in ParamsValue.
I don't know if 'Pivot' is the correct term to use for describing what I am trying to do because I've looked at the Pivot examples and I don't see how that will work for this. Using the Table and data as provided below, how would I construct a query so that I get 1 row per Entity in which the columns are the ParamsValue or ParamiValue for the ParamName listed in the column header (for the query)?
Below is the DDL to create the table and populate it.
USE [DBA_UTIL]
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[PARAMEXAMPLE](
[Entity] [varchar](16) NULL,
[Code]....
I have query which retrieves multiple column vary from 5 to 15 based on input parameter passed.I am using table to map all this column.If column is not retrieved in the dataset(I am not talking abt Null data but column is completely missing) then I want to hide it in my report.
Can I do that??
Any reply showing me the right way is appricited.
-Thanks,
Digs
I want to write a DTS that will import a file every day. The problem is that the files is not named the same thing every day. There is a naming convention (SOMMDDYY.TRN) that it will follow. I want to import this file (which is a fixed width file) each day to a table (The table will be empty each day).
After it is imported, I want to look at the NAME of the file, and pull out the date portion of it. So, if the file is called SO122603.TRN, i want to pull out 122603, and then update my table with that date for every record. So when I am done, I will have a table that represents the file I imported, with one added column. This added column would be a Date/Time that has the date that was in the filename. How do I do this???
In a stored procedure I dynamically create a temp table by selecting the name of Applications from a regular table. Then I add a date column and add the last 12 months. See attachment.
So far so good. Now I want to update the data in columns by querying another regular table. Normally it would be something like:
UPDATE ##TempTable
SET [columName] = (SELECT SUM(columName)
FROM RegularTable
WHERE FORMAT(RegularTable.Date,'MM/yyyy') = FORMAT(##TempMonths.x,'MM/yyyy'))
However, since I don't know what the name of the columns are at any given time, I need to do this dynamically.
how can I get the column names of a Temp table dynamically while doing an Update?
With this algorithm you can sum up an unkown number of records, so that an aggregation matches a fixed value.
If there is not an exakt match available, the algorithm returns the nearest possible value!-- Initialize the search parameter
DECLARE@WantedValue INT
SET@WantedValue = 349
-- Stage the source data
DECLARE@Data TABLE
(
RecID INT IDENTITY(1, 1) PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
MaxItems INT,
CurrentItems INT DEFAULT 0,
FaceValue INT,
BestUnder INT DEFAULT 0,
BestOver INT DEFAULT 1
)
-- Aggregate the source data
INSERT@Data
(
MaxItems,
FaceValue
)
SELECTCOUNT(*),
Qty
FROM(
SELECT 899 AS Qty UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 95 UNION ALL
SELECT 50 UNION ALL
SELECT 55 UNION ALL
SELECT 40 UNION ALL
SELECT 5 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 50 UNION ALL
SELECT 250 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 90 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 50 UNION ALL
SELECT 350 UNION ALL
SELECT 450 UNION ALL
SELECT 450 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 100 UNION ALL
SELECT 50 UNION ALL
SELECT 50 UNION ALL
SELECT 50 UNION ALL
SELECT 1 UNION ALL
SELECT 10 UNION ALL
SELECT 1
) AS d
GROUP BYQty
ORDER BYQty DESC
-- Declare some control variables
DECLARE@CurrentSum INT,
@BestUnder INT,
@BestOver INT,
@RecID INT
-- If productsum is less than or equal to the wanted sum, select all items!
IF (SELECT SUM(MaxItems * FaceValue) FROM @Data) <= @WantedValue
BEGIN
SELECTMaxItems AS Items,
FaceValue
FROM@Data
RETURN
END
-- Delete all unworkable FaceValues
DELETE
FROM@Data
WHEREFaceValue > (SELECT MIN(FaceValue) FROM @Data WHERE FaceValue >= @WantedValue)
-- Update MaxItems to a proper value
UPDATE@Data
SETMaxItems =CASE
WHEN 1 + (@WantedValue - 1) / FaceValue < MaxItems THEN 1 + (@WantedValue - 1) / FaceValue
ELSE MaxItems
END
-- Update BestOver to a proper value
UPDATE@Data
SETBestOver = MaxItems
-- Initialize the control mechanism
SELECT@RecID = MIN(RecID),
@BestUnder = 0,
@BestOver = SUM(BestOver * FaceValue)
FROM@Data
-- Do the loop!
WHILE @RecID IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
-- Reset all "bits" not incremented
UPDATE@Data
SETCurrentItems = 0
WHERERecID < @RecID
-- Increment the current "bit"
UPDATE@Data
SETCurrentItems = CurrentItems + 1
WHERERecID = @RecID
-- Get the current sum
SELECT@CurrentSum = SUM(CurrentItems * FaceValue)
FROM@Data
WHERECurrentItems > 0
-- Stop here if the current sum is equal to the sum we want
IF @CurrentSum = @WantedValue
BREAK
ELSE
-- Update the current BestUnder if previous BestUnder is less
IF @CurrentSum > @BestUnder AND @CurrentSum < @WantedValue
BEGIN
UPDATE@Data
SETBestUnder = CurrentItems
SET@BestUnder = @CurrentSum
END
ELSE
-- Update the current BestOver if previous BestOver is more
IF @CurrentSum > @WantedValue AND @CurrentSum < @BestOver
BEGIN
UPDATE@Data
SETBestOver = CurrentItems
SET@BestOver = @CurrentSum
END
-- Find the next proper "bit" to increment
SELECT@RecID = MIN(RecID)
FROM@Data
WHERECurrentItems < MaxItems
END
-- Now we have to investigate which type of sum to return
IF @RecID IS NULL
IF @WantedValue - @BestUnder < @BestOver - @WantedValue
-- If BestUnder is closer to the sum we want, choose that
SELECTBestUnder AS Items,
FaceValue
FROM@Data
WHEREBestUnder > 0
ELSE
-- If BestOver is closer to the sum we want, choose that
SELECTBestOver AS Items,
FaceValue
FROM@Data
WHEREBestOver > 0
ELSE
-- We have an exact match
SELECTCurrentItems AS Items,
FaceValue
FROM@Data
WHERECurrentItems > 0With references to
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=73540
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=73610
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=78015
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=79505
Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden
I'm on SQL Server 2005 SP2.
I have the old age question of how to process a string parameter that is passed to a Stored Procedure that has an unknown number values. The example below has 5 values but it could be anywhere between 1 and 20.
I basically need to extract each value to Insert these values into the appropriate tables.
In the SQL 2000 days I use to do this with some T-SQL code that determines where the comma is and then I get the value and so on.....
I have read somewherethat this can be achieved using the XML Data Type.
Can someone show me that or atleast get me started on how to achiev this?
DECLARE @Range VARCHAR(200)
SET @Range = '10, 4, 8, 6, 22'
Hi,
I need to write a SSIS package. The source are in a Windows folder where there are a variable number of text files. These text files may vary in number everyday, How can i write a package for variable number of sources.
Please respond.
Thanks,
Swapna
I have a package which imports text files in a directory. The problem I am having is that the text files have differing numbers of source columns. Can anyone example me some script which handled differing numbers of source columns for a dts package...
View 1 Replies View RelatedWe are using a table that may give 1 to and unknown number of data elements (ie. years) . Â How can we break this to show only three years in each row. Â Since we don't know the number years we really won't know the number of rows needed. Â Years are stored in their own table by line. Â
Â
car make year1 year2 year3
A Â volare 1995 1996 1997
a  volare 1997  1998  1999
b toyat  1965   1966  1968
We can pivot out the first X# but we don't know how many lines so we don't know how many rows we will be creating.
Hi,
I'm using MS Report Designer 2005 and have created a report that uses a cube, with a dimension set up to convert null values to unknown (nullProcessing = UnknownMember).
When I create a parameter using the checkbox in the graphical design mode's filter pane, Report Designer automatically sets the constrained flag, eg:
STRTOMEMBER(@DimOrganisationBUSADDRSTATE, CONSTRAINED).
When running the report and selecting the 'Unkown' value from the parameter list, the error 'the restrictions imposed by the CONSTRAINED flag in the STRTOSET function were violated' occurrs.
How can I prevent the constrained flag from being used, or am I doing something wrong with converting null values to 'Unknown'?
Thanks
Hi
I want to enter rows into a table having more number of columns
For example : I have one employee table having columns (name ,address,salary etc )
then, how can i enter 100 employees data at a time ?
Suppose i am having my data in .txt file (or ) in .xls
( SQL Server 2005)
Hi,
I am currently designing a SSIS package to integrate data into a data warehouse fact table. This fact table has about 70 columns among which 17 are foreign keys for dimension tables.
To insert data in that table, I have to make several transformations and lookups. Given the fact that the lookups I have to make are a little complicated, I have about 70 tasks in my Data Flow.
I know it's a lot, but I can't find a way to make it simpler. It seems I really need all these tasks.
Now, the problem is that every new action I try to make on the package takes a lot of time. At design time, everything is very slow. My processor is eavily loaded each time I change a single setting in one of the tasks, and executing the package in debug mode takes for ages. If I take a look at the size of my package file on disk, it's more than 3MB.
Hence my question : Are there any limitations in terms of number of columns or number of tasks that can be processed within a Data Flow ?
If not, then do you have any idea why it's so slow ?
Thanks in advance for any answer.
I am working on a Statistical Reporting system where:
Data Repository: SQL Server 2005
Business Logic Tier: Views, User Defined Functions, Stored Procedures
Data Access Tier: Stored Procedures
Presentation Tier: Reporting ServicesThe end user will be able to slice & dice the data for the report by
different organizational hierarchies
different number of layers within a hierarchy
select a organization or select All of the organizations with the organizational hierarchy
combinations of selection criteria, where this selection criteria is independent of each other, and also differeBelow is an example of 2 Organizational Hierarchies:
Hierarchy 1
Country -> Work Group -> Project Team (Project Team within Work Group within Country)
Hierarchy 2
Client -> Contract -> Project (Project within Contract within Client)Based on 2 different Hierarchies from above - here are a couple of use cases:
Country = "USA", Work Group = "Network Infrastructure", Project Team = all teams
Country = "USA", Work Group = all work groups
Client = "Client A", Contract = "2007-2008 Maint", Project = "Accounts Payable Maintenance"
Client = "Client A", Contract = "2007-2008 Maint", Project = all
Client = "Client A", Contract = allI am totally stuck on:
How to implement the data interface (Stored Procs) to the Reports
Implement the business logic to handle the different hierarchies & different number of levelsI did get help earlier in this forum for how to handle a parameter having a specific value or NULL value (to select "all")
(WorkGroup = @argWorkGroup OR @argWorkGrop is NULL)
Any Ideas? Should I be doing this in SQL Statements or should I be looking to use Analysis Services.
Thanks for all your help!
I try this sql query:
Code:
SELECT
[NAMES], [NUMBER]
FROM
[CV].[dbo].[T40]
WHERE
[NUMBER] = '44644'
GROUP BY
[NAMES], [NUMBER];
The output is:
Code:
NAMESNUMBER
BENCORE S.R.L.44644
BENCORES.R.L. 44644
I need instead this other output:
Code:
NAMESNUMBER
BENCORE S.R.L.44644
I need a querry to get all columns names.
thanks
Hey,
I'm creating registration form.
To show fields names I thought to read columns names.
It's ok if columns is named like "Name", "Age" etc.
But if the columns is named [Country, Address, PostCode] then, I think, it can course some problems. Am I right?
First problem I thought about - changing database in the future (Now MS SQL 2k to MySQL etc.)
Is this the only problem?
To solve this I think using table which store syscolumn names as user defined columns names.
My system is speed critical and using this I would get less performance.
Which way should I go?
Case saving columns names in table, how to generate safe column name from user specified name, which can have special charters.
Thanks
Hi, I need do get a columns names from a table? How to do this in pure SQL? I thought about creating a stored procedure or user function with a result of a string ( col1name,col2name ....) I do not know how to count the number of columns in a specyfied table? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. magicxxxx
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View 4 Replies View RelatedHi,
I am looking for some help in MS SQL server. I want to access the columns of a table without using the names of the colulmns.
Example - SELECT table1.field[1], table1.field[2] FROM table1;
Any information to this effect is much appreciated.
cheers/- Pradeep
I have one column name that is: description
when i write a query the world lights up with blue, I think I saw someone using [ ] around the word but I no longer remember if this is the way to handle reserve words that have been use as columns names
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
I'm looking for a query that will return all index names, the table the index is on and the columns in the index...
View 1 Replies View Relatedhi,
i am sure this question must have been anwsered some where, but after a lot of searching i still have not find the anwser.
i have flat files without column headers (267 columns in total).
since i have the file's description i have created a table to house these extracts with the columns in the same order as in the flat files.
additionally, i have an excel containing a list of the column names their data types and length as well as their position on the flat files.
in the old, DTS would map the columns without headers to those columns in the destination table using their order, in which case it works like a breeze for me. but i can not find a way of doing that in SSIS.
i would very much appreciate someone's assistance on this one since i am sure that there must be a better way than manually (and tediously & error prone) to map all those columns.
thanks in advance
I am able to get a list of columns in a table from the query I have written shown below:
select sc.name ColumnNames,st.name TableName from sys.columns sc inner join sys.tables st on sc.object_id=st.object_id
order by st.name
But I am looking for the resultset with the format below:
TableName  Columns
employee    employeeid,employeename,employeesalary
order       orderid,address,priceÂ
I am trying to do a PIVOT on a query result, but the column names created by the PIVOT function are dynamic.
For example (modified from the SQL Server 2005 Books Online documentation on the PIVOT operator) :
SELECT
Division,
[2] AS CurrentPeriod,
[1] AS PreviousPeriod
FROM
(
SELECT
Period,
Division,
Sales_Amount
FROM
Sales.SalesOrderHeader
WHERE
(
Period = @period
OR Period = @period - 1
)
) p
PIVOT
(
SUM (Sales_Amount)
FOR Period IN ( [2], [1] )
) AS pvt
Let's assume that any value 2 is selected for the @period parameter, and returns the sales by division for periods 2 and 1 (2 minus 1).
Division CurrentPeriod PreviousPeriodA 400 3000 B 400 100 C 470 300 D 800 2500 E 1000 1900
What if the value @period were to be changed, to say period 4 and it should returns the sales for periods 4 and 3 for example, is there a way I can change to code above to still perform the PIVOT while dynamically accepting the period values 4 and 3, applying it to the columns names in the first SELECT statement and the FOR ... IN clause in the PIVOT statement ?
Need a way to represent the following [2] and [1] column names dynamically depending on the value in the @period parameter.
[2] AS CurrentPeriod,
[1] AS PreviousPeriod
FOR Period IN ( [2], [1] )
I have tried to use the @period but it doesn't work.
Thanks in advance.
Kenny
I am imagining something you might pass the names of 2 stored procs (an old version and new one), and a query to produce valid parameters. It would then fire off each proc for a set number of executions, while storing off the results in temp tables, and at the end it would do a data compare, and store off performance data from dynamic management views.
Now I know how to get the parameters for a stored procedure out of the catalogue views, but is SQL Server aware at all of the schema of the results of stored procedures that return result sets, becuase I was thinking of doing something like...
INSERT INTO #datacompare(col1,col2)
EXEC mystoredprocedure
... but I can not seem to figure out how to dynamically gather the schema of the result set.
I am trying to figure out how to pivot a temporary table. I have a table which starts with a date but the number of columns and columns names will vary but will be type INT (Data, col2,col3,col4………….n)
So it could look like
Date , TS-Sales, Budget , Toms sales
01-Jan-14,100,120,300
02-Jan-14,80,150,300
03-Jan-14,100,20,180
Turned to this
01-jan-14, 02-jan-14, 03-jan-14
100,80,100
120,150,20
300,300,180
Or even just the date and a SUM
What I want is to be able to sum al the columns but without knowing the name and the amount columns to start with this is a manually processes. How could I automate this?
While looking forward to design a multi-columnar cross-tab query I am anxious to know if there could be a way to change the default names of the pivot columns? In other words for the query like the following can there be a way to apply anAS type command to reflect some other names, instead of having the four dates in heading? Something like Month_A, Month_B?
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT
X.REP_DT,
X.CUST_ID
AMOUNT_1
FROM
X) P
PIVOT (SUM(AMOUNT_1) FOR REP_DT IN ([2014-12-31], [2015-01-31], [2015-02-28], [2015-03-31])) PVT_01
I need to find column names if any after 2 “check” columns.
Scenario: I have a database, with approx 400-1500 tables, depending on installation of software. The software is structured so that, when it synchronizes the SQL database it will create all the columns e.g. custacc, custname etc. and then it will always put in two check columns “CheckOne” and “CheckTwo” these two columns has to be the two last ones. In 99.9 this always works fine, but sometime if the users creates a new field in the software, when it synchronizes the new field “lands” behind the two checkfields, which is not good.
So what I am after is a script, which can run through all user tables, tell me if there are columns after the two checkfields and list those tables if any.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Henrik.