I have inserted 200m rows into a partitioned table using SSIS, the table has a [RecID] column which is an identity(1,1) primary key.
When I open the table, I see that RecId doesn't start from 1(its not ordered), it starts from 889823. But, when I query the table for RecID = 1, I can see that row.
Is it a typical behavior of a partitioned table? Or am I doing something wrong?
This is the query I used to create the partitioned table.
I want to find a way to get partition info for all the tables in all the databases for a server. Showing database name, table name, schema name, partition by (maybe; year, month, day, number, alpha), column used in partition, current active partition, last partition (for date partitions I want to know if the partition goes untill 2007, so I can add 2008)
all I've come up with so far is:
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SELECT distinct o.name From sys.partitions p inner join sys.objects o on (o.object_id = p.object_id) where o.type_desc = 'USER_TABLE' and p.partition_number > 1
I'm running sqlserver 2000 enterprise edition on windows 2000 and I need to know, how to create partition table. Please give me a small partition table example.
hello i want to ask if the insertion of a record into a partion is slower than insertion it into a non partitioned table or not? cuz sql has to decide to wich partion the record has to insert according to the partitioning key and is this decesion process is making insertion slower ?
Has anyone had any problems on one row updates on a table where you have defined horizontal and vertical partitioning of the data to be replicated? When I execute an update clause that modifies just one row the log reader misses the modification and it does not get replicated to the other databases.
If I do the same update clause but on several rows then all the modifications are read by the log reader and the replication task goes ok.
We have a table with 15 Partitions in SQL Server.Can i write a stored procedure or an SQL statement just to truncate a particular partition by passing the partition name.
I have a partitioned view sitting over several tables and I'm slowlyapproaching the 256 number. Can anybody confirm if there is such alimit for the maximum number of tables that a partitioned view canhold?If this is true, does anybody have any suggestions or ideas to workaround this max limit?TIA!
I'm having a problem creating a partitioned table with a filestream column. I'm getting error: Cannot create table 'MyTable' since a partition scheme is not specified for FILESTREAM data
I actually managed to get the table created. The table below gets created. I had to specifically indicate that the unique constraint is on [PRIMARY] (non-partitioned) and create a partition scheme in the filestram filegroup. However my problem now is with partition switching. I successfully created a non-partitioned staging table identical to the partitioned table, but the switching operation doesn't work.
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION [TimeTicksRangePFN](bigint) AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES (633294720000000000, 633320640000000000, 633347424000000000, 633374208000000000, 633399264000000000)
These numbers happen to correspond to the dates 11/1/7, 12/1/7, 1/1/8, 2/1/8 and 3/1/8 in ticks respectively.
I began with a partition scheme as follows:
CREATE PARTITION SCHEME [TimeTicksRangePScheme] AS PARTITION [TimeTicksRangePFN] TO ([FG_xxx_EventArchive00001], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00002], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00003], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00004], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00005], [PRIMARY])
While running my “sliding window script� , which I hoped would 1) roll off the oldest partition of my EventArchive table and 2) add a new partition with a tick boundary that equates to 3/5/8, I get an error related to my switch out table's index, the same table's Filegroup and Primary.
After getting the error, I scripted the partition function as a create in mgt studio and got…
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION [TimeTicksRangePFN](bigint) AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES (633320640000000000, 633347424000000000, 633374208000000000, 633399264000000000, 633402720000000000)
...which looks like what I had intended cuz the last boundary is the tick representation of 3/5/8 and the oldest has rolled off
scripting the scheme produced...
CREATE PARTITION SCHEME [TimeTicksRangePScheme] AS PARTITION [TimeTicksRangePFN] TO ([FG_xxx_EventArchive00001], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00003], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00004], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00005], [PRIMARY], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00001])
which looks nothing like what I intended, I thought I’d end up with …00002,…00003,…00004,…00005,…00001,PRIMARY
the script steps that seem most relevant start at the 5th step as follows...
5) creates table [dbo].Switch on the switch out filegroup with columns, PK and indexes matching exactly those of [dbo].EventArchive
6) switches partition 1 of [dbo].EventArchive to [dbo].Switch
7) ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION TimeTicksRangePFN() MERGE RANGE (633294720000000000) --this was the oldest date corresponding to 11/1/7
8) truncates [dbo].Switch
9) drops all indexes on [dbo].Switch except a clustered index (IX_TimeTicks), leaves PK constraint alone
10) ships the new data whose values range from 3/1/8 to less than 3/5/8 to [dbo].Switch and deletes them from their source
11) recreates all non clustered indexes on [dbo].Switch
12)ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Switch] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT RangeCK CHECK ([TimeTicks] < the number of ticks represented by 3/5/8)
13)ALTER PARTITION SCHEME TimeTicksRangePScheme NEXT USED [FG_xxx_EventArchive00001] --fg isnt really hardcoded
14)ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION TimeTicksRangePFN() SPLIT RANGE (the number of ticks represented by 3/5/8)
15)ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Switch] SWITCH TO [dbo].[EventArchive] PARTITION 5
step 15 is the one that fails with message "ALTER TABLE SWITCH statement failed. index 'xxx.dbo.Switch.IX_TimeTicks' is in filegroup 'FG_xxx_EventArchive00001' and partition 5 of index 'xxx.dbo.EventArchive.IX_TimeTicks' is in filegroup 'PRIMARY'.
I have a very large table that I am trying to partition and use to reduce maintenance overhead as well as improve performance. The table contains about 12 years worth of data but only the most recent years is inserted/updated/deleted from thru the app. I created partitions on a computed(persisted) column which holds the "year" value derived from a date column. I have created the partitions with all the default set options, and the stored procedure which performs the delete against this table also was created with no special set options(basically database/session default). Yet, every time I try to run the proc to delete data thru the app, I get this error:
Msg 1934, Level 16, State 1, Procedure xxxx, Line 118 DELETE failed because the following SET options have incorrect settings: 'ANSI_WARNINGS'. Verify that SET options are correct for use with indexed views and/or indexes on computed columns and/or filtered indexes and/or query notifications and/or XML data type methods and/or spatial index operations.
I've tried setting ANSI_WARNINGS on and off when creating the proc, inside the proc etc.., its always the same error whatever I set the option to.
I am new to SQL Server. I have a table which is paritioned by Value (String). Can I write a stored procedure or an SQL Statment to truncate a particular partition in SQL Server. Please suggest me on this.
The illustration below is for a customer dedupification project. The Source file, containing customer name and address records, is conditionally split based on 7 ranges of substring(city,1,2) to distribute the load across 7 different threads for parallelization. Each customer record in the source file is looked up against a reference table named Location_Stage for its existence using the Fuzzy Lookup transformation.
The reference table Location_Stage has around 10 miilion+ records. The source file would normally have around 1 million records.
I am wondering :
- if it would be possible to partition the Match Index of the reference table (NOT the reference table) into 7 partitions based on 7 ranges of substring(city,1,2) and maintain these partitions on different drives? - if it is possible to specify a particular partition to be used by a FzLkup transformation? - if the partitioning approach will improve the performance of the Fuzzy Lookups?
Source File Feed | Split data into 7 groups based on substring(city,1,2) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | | | | | | UnionAll UnionAll UnionAll UnionAll UnionAll UnionAll UnionAll | | | | | | | FzLkup FzLkup FzLkup FzLkup FzLkup FzLkup FzLkup | | | | | | | Split Split Split Split Split Split Split | | | | | | | ------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- -------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <- - - - - - - Write the Canonicals and Dupes from each of these splits into database - - - - - - - - ->
I am trying to insert data into two different tables. I will insert into Table 2 based on an id I get from the Select Statement from Table1. Insert Table1(Title,Description,Link,Whatever)Values(@title,@description,@link,@Whatever)Select WhateverID from Table1 Where Description = @DescriptionInsert into Table2(CategoryID,WhateverID)Values(@CategoryID,@WhateverID) This statement is not working. What should I do? Should I use a stored procedure?? I am writing in C#. Can someone please help!!
I am using SQL Server 2000, SP3.I created an updatable partitioned view awhile ago and it has beenrunning smoothly for some time. The partition is on a DATETIME columnand it is partitioned by month. Each month a stored procedure isscheduled that creates the new month's table, and alters the view toinclude it. Again... working like a charm for quite some time.This past weekend I moved some of the first tables onto a new filegroup. I did this through Enterprise Manager, by going into designmode for the table, then going into the properties for the table andchanging the file group there as well as in all of the indexes. Nowthe partitioned view is no longer updatable. It gives the errormessage: "UNION ALL view '<view name>' is not updatable because apartitioning column was not found."I have extracted the DDL for all of the partition tables and comparedthem and they all look the same. I checked and then double-checked theCHECK constraints to make sure that they were all valid and they are.If I remove the tables that I moved to the new file group from theview, then it is once again updatable, but when I put them back in itfails again.Any ideas? If you would like samples of the code then I can send italong, but it's rather large, so I have not included it here.Thanks!Thomas R. Hummel
I have a partition function as follows: CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION [TimeTicksRangePFN](bigint) AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES (633294720000000000, 633320640000000000, 633347424000000000, 633374208000000000, 633399264000000000)
These numbers happen to correspond to the dates 11/1/7, 12/1/7, 1/1/8, 2/1/8 and 3/1/8 in ticks respectively.
I have a partition scheme as follows: CREATE PARTITION SCHEME [TimeTicksRangePScheme] AS PARTITION [TimeTicksRangePFN] TO ([FG_xxx_EventArchive00001], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00002], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00003], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00004], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00005], [PRIMARY])
After running my €œsliding window script€? , which I wanted to switch out the lowest partition with, and add a new partition with a new tick boundary that equates to 3/5/8, I get an error saying that 1 of my switch out table€™s indexes is in filegroup 1 but partition 5€™s index of the same name is in PRIMARY. At this point the partition function looks like€¦
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION [TimeTicksRangePFN](bigint) AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES (633320640000000000, 633347424000000000, 633374208000000000, 633399264000000000, 633402720000000000) which looks like what I had intended cuz the last boundary is tick representation of 3/5/8 and the oldest has rolled off
and the scheme looks like€¦
CREATE PARTITION SCHEME [TimeTicksRangePScheme] AS PARTITION [TimeTicksRangePFN] TO ([FG_xxx_EventArchive00001], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00003], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00004], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00005], [PRIMARY], [FG_xxx_EventArchive00001]) which looks nothing like what I intended, I thought I€™d end up with €¦00002,€¦00003,€¦00004,€¦00005,€¦00001,PRIMARY
the relevant script steps are...
5) creates table [dbo].Switch on the switch out filegroup with columns, PK and indexes matching those of [dbo].EventArchive (allows default location for indexes) 6) switches partition 1 of [dbo].EventArchive to [dbo].Switch 7) ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION TimeTicksRangePFN() MERGE RANGE (633294720000000000) 8) truncates [dbo].Switch 9) drops all indexes on [dbo].Switch except a clustered index (IX_TimeTicks), leaves PK constraint alone 10) ships the new data whose values range from 3/1/8 to less than 3/5/8 to [dbo].Switch and deletes them from their source 11) recreates all non clustered indexes on [dbo].Switch 12)ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Switch] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT RangeCK CHECK ([TimeTicks] < the number of ticks represented by 3/5/8) 13)ALTER PARTITION SCHEME TimeTicksRangePScheme NEXT USED [FG_xxx_EventArchive00001] 14)ALTER PARTITION FUNCTION TimeTicksRangePFN() SPLIT RANGE (the number of ticks represented by 3/5/8) 15)ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Switch] SWITCH TO [dbo].[EventArchive] PARTITION 5
step 15 is the one that fails with message "ALTER TABLE SWITCH statement failed. index 'xxx.dbo.Switch.IX_TimeTicks' is in filegroup 'FG_xxx_EventArchive00001' and partition 5 of index 'xxx.dbo.EventArchive.IX_TimeTicks' is in filegroup 'PRIMARY'.
I have some Partitioned Views and on all queries using a table for the in clause, table elimination isn't happening.
Check Constraint is on the oid column
This works as expected, only goes to 2 tables; SELECT * FROM view_oap_all WHERE oid IN ( '05231416529481', '06201479586431' )
This works as expected, only goes to 2 tables; SELECT * FROM view_oap_all WHERE oid IN ( SELECT oid FROM owners WHERE oid IN ( '05231416529481', '06201479586431' ) )
This is checking all tables (headingnames are unique), ive tried this for the last 3 hours on many different tables containing the oid column.
Unless I write the oid as in the above queries it just doesn't work. SELECT * FROM view_oap_all WHERE oid IN ( SELECT oid FROM owners WHERE headingname = 'TestSystem' )
I have a query that has a left join with a large partitioned table. The partitioned table has 10s of millions of records, and each partition has about 100,000 records.
The left join is part of an insert that gets a column from the partitioned table, if the column exists. The query contains the partition ID and all other joined columns are part of a non-clustered index.
Through the profiler, I found that there were millions of reads and the execution plan was giving me a table scan on the partitioned table.
I changed the query to do the insert followed by an update with inner join. That did the trick, but it worries me that SQL Server 2014 behaves differently from 2012 or 2008R2, which can make upgrading very time consuming.
I have a few databases that are using Partitioned Views in order to manage the table sizes and they all work well for our purposes. Recently I noticed a table that had grown to 400+ million rows and want to partition it as well, so I went about creating new base tables based on the initial table's structure, just adding a column to both table and primary key to be able to build a Partitioned View on them.The first time around, on a test system, everything worked flawlessly but when I put the same structure in place on the production system I get the dreaded "UNION ALL view 'DBName.dbo.RptReportData' is not updatable because the primary key of table '[DBName].[dbo].[RptReportData_201405]' is not included in the union result. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 4444)" error.
I have searched high and low and everything I see points to a few directives in order for a UNION ALL view to be updatable:
- Need a partitioning column that is part of the primary key - Need a CHECK constraint that make the base tables exclusive, i.e. data cannot belong to more than one table - Cannot have IDENTITY or calculated columns in the base tables - The INSERT statement needs to specify all columns with actual values, i.e. not DEFAULT
Well, according to me, my structure fulfills these conditions but the INSERT fails anyway. CREATE scripts below scripted from SQL Server. I only modified them to be on a single row - it is easier to verify that they are identical in a text editor that way.
SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO
I have few tables, which are replicated and partitioned. They also have archival process. I want to avoid having to run that same process on the subscriber.
Replication of partition switching is easy. However I am not sure how to replicate merge range and empty filegroup/file drops.
There the following article options:
Copy file group associations Copy table partitioning schemes Copy index partitioning schemes
I am not sure if these are enough to implement the replication of merge range and empty filegroup/file drops.
I could not find and option to copy partition functions.
I have created a table Table with name as Varchar and id as int. Now i have started inserting the rows like, insert into Table values ('arun',20).Yes i have inserted a row in the table. Now i have got the values " arun's ", 50. insert into Table values('arun's',20) My sqlserver is giving me an error instead of inserting the row. How will you solve this problem?
I am trying to insert bulk data into main table from staging table in sql server 2012. If any error comes, this total activity is rollbacked. I don't want that to happen. I want to know the records where ever the problem persists, and the rest has to be inserted.
But now I am getting error "General Network Error. Check your network documentation" after specifying Use existing stored procedure in TableAdpater Configuration Wizard.
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.Insert_MailSignature( @Singnature image )
AS
SET NOCOUNT OFF;
INSERT INTO MailsSignature (Singnature) VALUES (@Singnature);
SELECT Id, Singnature FROM MailsSignature WHERE (Id = SCOPE_IDENTITY())
For testing I created a desktop application and found that the same Code, same(Use existing stored procedure in TableAdpater Configuration Wizard) and same stored procedure is working fine in inserting image into the table.
Hi, I have a table in which I will insert several redundant data. Don't ask why, is Integration services, it only reads data and inserts it in a SQL table. THis way, I have a SQL table with several lines repeating them selves. What I want to do is create a procedure that reads the distinct data and inserts it in another table, but my problem is that I am not able to select data line by line on the original table to save it in local variables and insert it on the another table, I just can select the last line. I've tried a while cycle but no succeed. Here is my code: create proc insertLocalizationASdeclare @idAp int, @macAp varchar(20), @floorAp varchar(2), @building varchar(30), @department varchar(30)select @idAp = idAp from OLTPLocalization where idAp not in (select idAp from dimLocalization)select @macAp=macAp,@floorAp=floorAp,@building=building,@department=department from OLTPLocalizationif (@idAp <> null)beginInsert into dimLocalization VALUES(@idAp,@macAp,@floorAp,@building,@department)endGO This only inserts the last line in the "oltpLocalization" table. O the other hand, like this:create proc aaaaasdeclare @idAp as int, @macAp as varchar(50), @floorAp as int, @building as varchar(50), @department as varchar(50)while exists (select distinct(idAp) from OLTPLocalization)begin select @idAp =idAp from OLTPLocalization where idAp not in (select idAp from dimLocalization) select @macAp = macAp from OLTPLocalization where idAp = @idAp select @building = building from OLTPLocalization where idAp = @idAp select @department = department from OLTPLocalization where idAP = @idApif (@idAp <> null)begin insert into dimLocalization values(@idAp,@macAp,@floorAp,@building,@department)endendgo this retrieves every distinct idAp in each increment on the while statement. The interess of the while is really selecting each different line in the OLTPLocalization table. I did not find any foreach or for each statement, is there any way to select distinct line by line in a sql table and save each column result in variables, to then insert them in another table? I've also thought about web service, that reads the distinct data from the oltpLocalization into a dataset, and then inserts this data into the dimLocalization table. Is there anything I can do?Any guess?Really needing a hand here!Thanks a lot!
I write a insert trigger on my table LeaveRegister(1000 rows) and inserting rows in audit table, but when i inserting a row in LeaveRegister table. In audit table 1000 + 1 rows are inserting every time.
I have a 2010 SSIS package where I am reading csv files with different fields and formatted data, I have created separate packages for each file and I am formatting the data to fit the final destination tables data elements, I've been instructed to create 7 separate packages to read each file and the format the data from the 7 csv files, and insert into their table tbl1, tbl2, tbl3...etc then, I'm taking a execute sql task and wanting to insert the tbl1, tbl2, tbl3...etc into destination table that will be the final table for all reports and other uses.
1- should I create a ID? 2- these files will be read once a month 3- I want to append the data, not drop and recreate each run, 4- It's 2012 SQL and 2010 SSIS
Each csv file is in a different format, some have 15 columns, other have 8 I have to parse the data, in SP to align with the fields in the destination table.
5- Can I force RowID to be the next auto gen number from tbl1,for the start of insert for tbl2, then last row of tbl2 for insert of tbl3???
I'm working on a database for a financial client and part of what i need to do is calculate a value from two separate rows in the same table and insert the result in the same table as a new row. I have a way of doing so but i consider it to be extremely inelegant and i'm hoping there's a better way of doing it. A description of the existing database schema (which i have control over) will help in explaining the problem:
id metric_id metric_type_id metric_name 1 80 2 Fiscal Enterprise Value Historic Year 1 2 81 2 Fiscal Enterprise Value Current Fiscal Year 3 82 2 Fiscal Enterprise value Forward Fiscal year 1 4 83 2 Fiscal Enterprise Value Forward Fiscal Year 2 5 101 3 Calendar Enterprise value Historic Year 1 6 102 3 Calendar Enterprise Value Current Fiscal Year 5 103 3 Calendar Enterprise value Forward Year 1 6 104 3 Calendar Enterprise Value Forward Year 2
Table Name: metric_type_details
id metric_type_id metric_type_name 1 1 Raw 2 2 Fiscal 3 3 Calendar 4 4 Calculated
The problem scenario is the following: Because a certain number of the securities have a fiscal year end that is different to the calendar end in addition to having fiscal data (such as fiscal enterprise value and fiscal earnings etc...) for each security i also need to store calendarised data. What this means is that if security with security_id = 3 has a fiscal year end of October then using rows with ids = 1, 2, 3 and 4 from the metrics_ladder table i need to calculate metrics with metric_id = 83, 84, 85 and 86 (as described in the metric_details table) and insert the following 4 new records into metrics_ladder:
Metric with metric_id = 101 (Calendar Enterprise value Historic Year 1) will be calculated by taking 10/12 of the value for metric_id 80 plus 2/12 of the value for metric_id 81.
Similarly, metric_id 102 will be equal to 10/12 of the value for metric_id 81 plus 2/12 of the value for metric_id 82,
metric_id 103 will be equal to 10/12 of the value for metric_id 82 plus 2/12 of the value for metric_id 83 and finally
metric_id 104 will be NULL (determined by business requirements as there is no data for forward year 3 to use).
As i could think of no better way of doing this (and hence the reason for this thread) I am currently achieving this by pivoting the relevant data from the metrics_ladder so that the required data for each security is in one row, storing the result in a new column then unpivoting again to store the result in the metrics_ladder table. So the above data in nmetrics_ladder becomes:
-- Dummy year variable to make it easier to use MONTH() function -- to convert 3 letter month to number. i.e. JAN -> 1, DEC -> 12 etc... DECLARE @DUMMY_YEAR VARCHAR(4) SET @DUMMY_YEAR = 1900;
with temp(security_id, metric_id, value) as ( select ml.security_id, ml.metric_id, ml.value from metrics_ladder ml where ml.metric_id in (80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,etc...) -- only consider securities with fiscal year end not equal to december and ml.security_id in (select security_id from company_details where fiscal_year_end <> 'dec') ) insert into @calendar_averages select temppivot.security_id -- Net Income ,(CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR))/12*[80]) +((12 - CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR)))/12*[81]) as [101] ,(CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR))/12*[81]) +((12 - CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR)))/12*[82]) as [102] ,(CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR))/12*[82]) +((12 - CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR)))/12*[83]) as [103] ,NULL as [104] -- Share Holders Equity ,(CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR))/12*[84]) +((12 - CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR)))/12*[85]) as [105] ,(CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR))/12*[85]) +((12 - CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR)))/12*[86]) as [106] ,(CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR))/12*[86]) +((12 - CONVERT(DECIMAL, MONTH(cd.fiscal_year_end + @DUMMY_YEAR)))/12*[87]) as [107] ,NULL as [108] -- Capex -- Sales -- Accounts payable etc... .. .. from temp pivot ( sum(value) for metric_id in ([80],[81],[82],[83],[84],[85],[86],[87],[88],etc...) ) as temppivot inner join company_details cd on temppivot.security_id = cd.security_id
********* END SQL *********
The result then needs to be unpivoted and stored in metrics_ladder.
And FINALLY, the question! Is there a more elegant way of achieving this??? I have complete control over the database schema so if creating mapping tables or anything along those lines would help it is possible. Also, is SQL not really suited for such operations and would it therefore be better done in C#/VB.NET.
I am looking for an alternate logic for below-mentioned code where I am inserting into a table and having left join with the same table
insert TABLE1([ID],[Key],[Return]) select distinct a.[ID],cat1,cat2Â from (select ID,[Key] Cat1 ,[Return] cat2 from @temp as temp) a left join TABLE1 oon a.ID= o.ID and a.Cat1 = o.[Key] and a.cat2 = o.[return] where [key] is null order by ID
Hey all, Quick question for ya. If I wanted to insert 1 value into 1 table and another value into another table, how would I do that with closing connections and reopening and whatnot? I am using Visual Web Dev and SQL server 2005 express. I have been trying to mess around with it but I can't figure it out. Here is the situation. I want to insert a GroupName and GroupDescription that a user fills in in 2 text boxes named GroupNametxt and GroupDescriptiontxt. This data will go into the "Group" table. I then also want to Insert the data UserID (taken from the aspnet ID table), and GroupName from the Grouptxt.text into a GroupMembership table. How would I do all this in 1 button click? I know some basic TSQL but I don't know how to handle the opening and closing of connections and whatnot. Thanks, Chris
