Hi!
I have a table with the following columns:
account_nr, account_totaling_members, account_type
the account_totaling_members column contains a pipe sperated list of accounts in a varchar: "1001|1002|1003"
I need to normalize this so that i get records like:
"10", "1001", "sum"
"10", "1001", "sum"
"10", "1002", "sum"
..and so forth
Does anyone have any idea how to accomplish this?
CREATE TABLE CATEGORIES(CATEGORYID VARCHAR(10), CATEGORYLIST VARCHAR(200))
INSERT INTO CATEGORIES(CATEGORYID, CATEGORYLIST) VALUES('1000', 'S01:S03, S09:S20, S22:S24')
INSERT INTO CATEGORIES(CATEGORYID, CATEGORYLIST) VALUES('1001', 'S11:S12')
INSERT INTO CATEGORIES(CATEGORYID, CATEGORYLIST) VALUES('1002', 'S30:S32, S34:S35, S60')
INSERT INTO CATEGORIES(CATEGORYID, CATEGORYLIST) VALUES('1003', 'S40')
The CATEGORYLIST strings are composed of value ranges separated by a colon (:) and multiple value ranges separated by a comma.
The results I need are:
CATEGORYID STARTRANGE ENDRANGE
1000 S01 S03
1000 S09 S20
1000 S22 S24
1001 S11 S12
1002 S30 S32
1002 S34 S35
1002 S60 S60
1003 S40 S40
I have tried taking the original data and parsing it out as an XML file. Is there a less cumbersome way to do this in TSQL?
Please i have created some tables Delivary with this columns (DelivaryId,DelivaryNo,QtyRecieved,DelivaryDate,ProductId) and Product with this columns (ProductId,ProductCode,ProductName,ProductPrice) as you can see the product table keeps record of products whlie the delivary table keeps record of stock supplied. I will like to create another table that will keep record of stock sold out (Invoice Table) based on the qty recieved from the delivaries table
Please help
So I'm creating an administrative back end for a site that's already been created, and whoever made the tables the site uses didn't know much about database design. So I need to normalize this table of Links so it can be easier to have someone make changes and updates to it, but then I need to put all my normalized tables back together to create a View exactly like the old table which the old site can select from. Basically the stipulation is I can't change the code for the old site so I have to make it think it's still selecting from the same table with the same type of parameters. Is it worth doing all this? Or should I just tough it out with this really ugly table?Here's the table: and here's the site that uses this table:http://waahp.byu.edu/links.aspThanks!~Cattrah~
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Please can someone point me in the direction, i built a very badly designed database consisting of only one huge table when i first started databases, since learning about normalization i have designed and set up a new database which consists of many more tables instead of just the one. My question is where do i start in transfering the data from the old single tabled database to my new multi-tabled database?
I have MS SQL server 2005 managment studio if that helps, but want to transfer around 200,000 rows of data into the new database. Both new and old databases are on the same server.
thanks in advance
I am a beginner, so please bare with me. I get very confused on how to normalize my database.
Firstly: The employees in the company I work for are in various departments and can have more then one title and work in more then one department.
Example: John Smith can work in the engineering department as a detailer and an engineer and at the same time work as a project manager for the management department.
How do I setup this table structure?
Employees Table
Login (PK) | First | Last | Extension.......
---------------------------------------------
jsmith | John | Smith | 280
Department Title Breakdown
Department | Title
--------------------------
Engineering | Detailer
Engineering | Engineer
Management | ProjectManager
Job Description
Login | Title
-------------------------
jsmith | Engineer
jsmith | Detailer
jsmith | ProjectManager
This is important to break this down because for each project the following is saved:
Project Listing
Project | Detailer | Estimator | Sales | Engineer |....... | Location
10001 | jsmith | jdoe | mslick | sjunk | ...... | Las Vegas
Or should the project be broken down as well
Project Listing
Project | Location
10001 | Las Vegas
Project Team
Project | Member | Activity
10001 | jsmith | Engineer
10001 | mstevens | Detailer
Any thoughts on how to normalize this?
Mike B
I have this table...CREATE TABLE #Test (ID char(1), Seq int, Ch char(1))INSERT #Test SELECT 'A',1,'A'INSERT #Test SELECT 'A',2,'B'INSERT #Test SELECT 'A',3,'C'INSERT #Test SELECT 'B',1,'D'INSERT #Test SELECT 'B',2,'E'INSERT #Test SELECT 'B',3,'F'INSERT #Test SELECT 'B',4,'G'....and am searching for this query....SELECT ID, Pattern=...?? FROM #Test....??....to give this result, where Pattern is the ordered concatenation ofCh for each ID:ID PatternA ABCB DEFGThanks for any help!Jim
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I have a table like this:
Col1 First_Year Last_Year
a 1990 1993
I want this data to be converted to
a 1990
a 1991
a 1992
a 1993
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Thx
THE LAYOUT:
I have two tables: "Applicant_T" and "StreetSuffix_T"
The "Applicant_T" table contains fields for the applicant's current address, previous address and employer address. Each address is broken up into parts (i.e., street number, street name, street suffix, etc.). For this discussion, I will focus on the street suffix. For each of the addresses, I have a street suffix field as follows:
[Applicant_T]
CurrSuffix
PrevSuffix
EmpSuffix
The "StreetSuffix_T" table contains the postal service approved street suffix names. There are two fields as follows:
[StreetSuffix_T]
SuffixID <-----this is the primary key
Name
For each of the addresses in the Applicant_T table, I input the SuffixID of the StreetSuffix_T table.
THE PROBLEM:
I have never created a view that would require the primary key of one table to be associated with multiple fields of another table (i.e., SuffixID-->CurrSuffix, SuffixID-->PrevSuffix, SuffixID-->EmpSuffix). I want to create a view of the Applicant_T table that will show the suffix name from the StreetSuffix_T table for each of the suffix fields in the Applicant_T table. How is this done?
I have a view with patient data. It looks like below
patid date pulmdc pulmstatus endodc endostatus
100 4/1/05 10 Good null null
100 5/1/05 10 Good 12 Poor
I want to create sql which by each patient, by date, by these four fields ,get
patid 4/1/05 pulmdc-10 pulmstatus-good
patid 5/1/05 pulmdc-1 pulmstatus-good
patid 5/1/05 endodc-12 endostatus-poor
Greetings all,
I have created an SSIS package that takes data from a very large table (301 columns) and puts it in a new database in smaller tables. I am using views to control what data goes to the new tables. I also specified that it drop the destination table and recreate it prior to copying the data. The reason for this is so that old data removed from the larger database will get removed from the normalized databases.
I have 2 things I am trying to figure out..
1. I would like to have the package set a specific row in each new table to be the primary key (this will allow us to use relationships when querying the data).
2. I decided I wanted to sort the data as it copies. I am using the BI Visual Studio for my editing. In the Data Flow view I cannot seem to disconnect the output from the Source block so I can connect it to the Sort block and then feed that to the output block. What am I missing here?
Thanks
I am copying data from one denormalized table to a COUPLE of normalized ones.
I am using multicast, following advices from the forum.
The problem I have is that the two destination tables (A and B) are sharing a foreign key relationship.Filling in A is no problem, but when I want to fill in B, I don't know how to populate its foreign key, since the multicast doesn't know the corresponding primary key in table A.
I'm new to SSIS and have run into a problem I'm hoping someone can help me with.
Basically, I have a flat file that looks something like:
ID,Type,Description,Results
1,Test1,This is a test,5
2,Test1,This is also a 1 test,7
3,Test1,This is also a 1 test,13
4,Test2,This is a second test,14
5,Test2,This is also a second test,18
I'm trying to normalize the data by extracting out individual rows that have the same "Type" column value. So what I want is to extract each unique type and description into a separate table. This would give me two new rows, one for a type of Test1, and one for a type of Test2, with the descriptions. Does this make sense? Then I could relate the individual results to these test types. In my scenario, I don't care which description is used; I just want to take the first description that shows up with the associated "Type."
Does anyone have any idea of how I could go about doing this? I could pull out all unique "Types" from the rows with the Aggregate transformation, but I'm trying to figure out how to get the description that goes along with it.
Thanks,
Brian
I have a large data set with 10s of millions of rows of contact information. The data is in CSV format and contains 48 columns of information (First name, MI, last name, 4 part address, 10+ demographic points, etc.) and I'm struggling with how I should design the database and normalize this data, or if I should normalize this data.
My 2 thoughts for design were either:
Break the columns into logical categorical tables (i.e. BasicContactInfo, Demographics, Financials, Interests, etc.) Keep the entire row in one table, and pull out the "Objects" into another table (i.e. ContactInformation, States, ZIPCodes, EmployementStatus, EthnicityCodes, etc.)
The data will be immutable for the most part, and when I get new data, I'll just create a new database and replace the old one.
The reason I like option 1 is because it makes importing easier, since I can just insert the appropriate columns from each row into the appropriate tables. Option number 2 feels like it would be faster to get metrics on the data, like how many contacts live in which states, or what is the total number of unique occupations in the data set. Plus I'll be able to make relationships between the tables, like which state is tied to which zipcode, which city is tied with which county, etc. Importing that data might be more tricky, since I don't think SQL Bulk Copy will allow for inserting into normalized tables like that.
The primary use for this data is to allow our sales force to create custom lists of contact information based on a faceted search page. The sales person would create the filter, and then I will provide them with the resulting data so they can start making business contacts. Search performance needs to be good. Insert, update, and deletes won't happen once the data has been imported.
What should I look for in designing this database? Any good articles on designing tables around wide data sets like my contact information?
I need to normalise comma separated strings of tags (SQL Server 2008 R2).
E.g. (1, 'abc, DEF, xyzrpt') should become
(1, 'abc')
(1, 'DEF')
(1, 'xyzrpt')
I have written a procedure in T-SQL that can handle this. But it is slow and it would be better if the solution was available as a view, even a slow view would be better.
Most solutions I found go the way round: from (1, 'abc'), (1, 'DEF') and (1, 'xyzrpt'), generate (1, 'abc, DEF, xyzrpt').
If memory serves, it used "FOR XML PATH". But it's been a while and I may be totally wrong.
I have a script that resolve's data into xml like this, ex:
<root>
<title>A</title>
<id>1</id>
<nodes>
<node>
<id>2</id>
<title>A.1</title>
</node>
</nodes>
</root>
And works perfectly, but ... how to make sure every item has an element "nodes" ? The case here is for the child leafs obviously. This, because on the client i have to inject this element "nodes" on a json version of this xml, and just wanted to avoid normalizing the structure on the client.
For the root I am using
FOR XML PATH('root'),TYPE; and for the hierarchy that follows
FOR XML RAW ('node'), root('nodes'), ELEMENTS
I'm presented with a problem where I have a database table which must be migrated via a "custom tool", moving the data into a new table which has special character requirements that didn't exist in the source database. My data resides in an SQL Server 2008R2 instance.
I envision a one-time query which will loop through selected records and replace the offending characters with --, however I'm having trouble understanding how this works.
There are roughly 2500 records which meet the criteria of "contains bad characters", frequently containing multiple separate bad chars, and the table contains roughly 100000 rows.
Special Characters are defined as #%&*:<>?/{}|~ and ..
While the field is called "Filename" it isn't always so, it is a parent/child table where foldernames are also stored.
Example data:
Tablename = Items
ItemID Filename ListID
1 Badfile<2015>.docx 15
2 Goodfile.docx 15
3 MoreBad#.docx 15
4 Dog&Cat#17.pdf 15
5 John's "Special" Folder 16
The examples I'm finding are all oriented around SELECT statements, to change the output of what I see returned, however I'd rather just fix the entire column using an UPDATE. Initial testing using REPLACE fails because I don't always have a single character as the bad thing in a string.
In a better solution, I found an example using a User Defined Function to modify the output of a select, but I cannot use that UDF in an UPDATE.
My alternative is to learn enough C# to modify the "migration tool" to do this in-transit, but I know even less about C# than I do of SQL.
I gather I want to use @@ROWCOUNT to loop through the rows but I really can't put it all together in a cohesive way.
Hi. I am fairly new to reporting. I have a report that currently displays queried data in both a table and a matrix. I'd like for the data that is displayed to be based off of my report parameters. I have three, all of which are multivalue. Currently, I am able to display the report, based on the only the first value of TWO of the three parameters. I tried using the dataset parameters, but was not successful with linking them to my report parameters. Please help! In addition, is there a way to set multivalue parameters to only display distinct values? Thanks, in advance, for any help.
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I need to set a label in my report when all the values in a certain multivalue parameter are selected. In other words, i would need to check whether this parameter has the value "Select All" selected or not.
How do i accomplish this?
Thanks in advance,
Claudio
We have a report that has a banner page. The user can select categories from a multi-select parameter and then this is passed into the report as a csv file. The actual report works doing this, however, we need the banner page to use this parameter's value (the multiple selected labels) to display a string of the selected values. For the textbox expression, we are using =Parameters!Cat.Value, but it always wants to reference Paramaters!Cat.Value(0). We were thinking of using a function in code to pass in the parameter and then concantenate each value into on string and return that string, but isn't there an easier way to do this?
Thanks for the information.
I have passed a list of parameters to a multivalue parameter in a SQL Report.
I can click the drop down and see the list of parameters that were passed.
In my select statement for the report, here is the condition I am using in the where clause.
AND (SUBSTRING(C.CHARTOFACCTSACCOUNTNO,9,3) IN (@RUs))
Nothing is returned in the result set if more than one value is passed to the multivalue parameter.
Shouldn't the above conidition have the effect that no matter how many account numbers there are, the last three digits in the account number will be compared to each element in my multivalue parameter and if there is a match, it will be selected on the report.
For example, in the multivalue dropdown list, there are the following values:
211
212
If I pass 211 to the report, data is returned. If I pass 211, 212 to the multivalue parameter no data is returned.
how do I create a multivalue parameter that has a default value of 'All' Or how to I I get the "Select All" option as the default parameter?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have multivalued parameter in my report. I have text box to display heading of the report. the report heading is dependent on the parameter selected.
with single value parameter the text box displays the correct parameter but it cannot with multi valued parameter. Is there any way to display the last value of the parameter in the heading of the report in case of multivalued parameter?
Ex. multivalued parameter is "YEAR"
my report shows the data for 3 years say 2003,2004,2005. report header should show 2005(last of the parameter list) report.
regds,
Hello,
I have in my report a text box that lists the user selection. When the user select a few of the values I display the selection but when the user select "All" I would like the text box to say "Parameter: All".
Is there anyway to know if "All" was selected, I don't want to list all the values because sometime there are too many of them.
Thank you,
Itzhak
i am trying to build a report that uses multivalue parameters - the report is a simple listing report that lists out a list of cases as a table - the data is obtained from a view which just returns all details for all cases
there is no user input for the selection details - am going to be calling the report and passing over the parameter values directly to it.
there are several parameters for the report - they all default to "All"
for each of these parameters, i need to be able to either use the default value of "ALL" or to enter a list (comma separated ?)
q1) could i just enter the list as a string comma separated list (rather than as multivalued parameters) and then use this list to filter the data using the FILTERS tab on the dataset
q2) if q1 is not possible, if i use multivalue parameters, how do i get my list of parameters into the report as the application calling the report just has a list of values
thx
mark
I know I can't do this but I dont know will work. any help is much appreciated. the code below in red will always return more than one value, and yes the ?? is actually data (dont ask i didnt do it).
I am basically coding this because of the ?? someone before me thought was a good idea.
inner join MHDDTest.dbo.Admin_tbl_Vendor f on
(case when len(b.vadr) > 0 then
(case when (b.vadr = '??') then
(select vendorNumber from MHDDTest.dbo.Admin_tbl_Vendor
where (substring(afunction,3,2) + object) = '42305' and substring(vendorNumber,1,5) = b.vend)
else
b.vend + '-' + b.vadr
end)
else
b.vend
end
= f.vendorNumber)
Is there an easy way to handle a multivalue parameter where the values could have comma's? I have County and State in a single column and want to select one from the multivalue parameter but when the string is passed it is not being found because I am parsing the parameter on comma. Here is what the drop down list looks like.
Dade,CA
Marion,CA
Brown,CA
Thanks,
vmon
In SQL Server 2005 reporing services, I am using the syntax in the documentation for a multivalue parameter.
AND c.Track IN (@Track)
It works fine when I just select one value, but if I select 2 or more, I get an error about the commas being wrong. Is the syntax correct? Is there a way I can see the SQL generated by the report so I can see what is wrong?
Thanks,
Linda
Hi,
I'm calling a report based on values collected from an ASP.NET page. It worked fine until I tried to pass a multivalue integer value.
ReportParameter seems to take a string[] just fine, but not a int[].
For example...
int[] incidents = prevPage.IncidentIDs;
string[] assets = prevPage.Assets;
ReportParameter[] parameters = new ReportParameter[2];
parameters[0] = new ReportParameter("IncidentID", incidents);
parameters[1] = new ReportParameter("Assets", assets);
throws the error: cannot convert from 'int[]' to 'string'
but changing incidents to a string like so:
string[] incidents = prevPage.IncidentIDs;
string[] assets = prevPage.Assets;
ReportParameter[] parameters = new ReportParameter[2];
parameters[0] = new ReportParameter("IncidentID", incidents);
parameters[1] = new ReportParameter("Assets", assets);
results in "The 'IncidentID' parameter is missing a value"
I've verified that incidents has values.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Tonya
There is a select all option for each multivalue parameter. If this option is selected, I would like to display in the report that the parameter selected is "ALL" instead of using the Join(parameter!parametername.value,",") to display all the values. Any idea how I check to see if the select all at the beginning is checked?
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I have a report (Say Report 1)which is asking for a multivalue parameter Period. The user selects three period from the dropdown list available for the Parameter. Lets say that the user select 0407,0507,0607. Now is this report 1 there is a particular field which is linked to another sub report. So if the top level Report 1 supplies the revenue for 3 regions say for the periods selected then clicking on any of the regions would open a second detailed report, say Report 2 for the three periods as selected.
Till this everything is fine.
Now the problem is that in this detailed Report 2 there would be a particular text box as "Click here to naviagate back to parent report". So that when the user clicks on this cell he is taken back to the parent report, Report 1 which was originally generated for the 3 periods.
Can anyone please advise as to how the Multivalue Parameter which was passed from Report 1 to Report 2 can again be looped back to Report 1 from Report 2.
Thanx Friends,
Raktim
I'm trying to output all the values selected through a multivalue parameter, but I am having difficulties. In the text box, the parameter contains only four member functions (value, label, count, ismultivalue). However, to output a value or label for the parameter you need to specify an index in the form of:
Parameters!Names.Value(0)
Ideally, I would like to be able to obtain all these values with a function call, but it doesn't look like there is one. Any ideas of how to get all the values?
Thank you!!