I want to automatically populate an alternative date column with hijri (Arabic) dates. So I will have two date columns in my datawarehouse table, one is for gregorian dates, the other for the equivalent in Hijri - a bilingual date system if you like. Now I guess I could do it in the SSI ETL tool and use Julian Dates, but the problem is storing the resulting value. - what data type should I use for hijri dates?
The dates can be input by the user in either format, which means the alternate date has to be populated.
Eventually I hope to make a bilingual system, I don't understand the user-defined types or how to define them, but I suspect they could be used in someway to help. Why am I doing this? - well eventually I hope to populate a cube for analysis and deliver a dual-language-dashboard using the new CTP3 stuff.
Any suggestions on how I can make this dual-date system? - with a view to making a bilingual system eventually.
Hello there,I just want to ask if storing data in dbase is much better than storing it in the file system? Because for one, i am currenlty developing my thesis which uploads a blob.doc file to a web server (currently i'm using the localhost of ASP.NET) then retrieves it from the local hostAlso i want to know if im right at this, the localhost of ASP.NET is the same as the one of a natural web server on the net? Because i'm just thinking of uploading and downloading the files from a web server. Although our thesis defense didn't require us to really upload it on the net, we were advised to use a localhost on our PC's. I'll be just using my local server Is it ok to just use a web server for storing files than a database?
How can I do this with Parameters? I can get a single parameter to filter for a single date (or even a combo list of the dates in DB). But I want my parameters to interact so that they specify a range. Is this possible?
Today I have got one scenario to calculate the (sum of days difference minus(-) the dates if the same date is appearing both in assgn_dtm and complet_dtm)/* Here goes the table schema and sample data */
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[temp_tbl]') AND type in (N'U')) DROP TABLE [dbo].[temp_tbl] GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[temp_tbl]( [tbl_id] [bigint] NULL, [cs_id] [int] NOT NULL, [USERID] [int] NOT NULL,
I have a table that has hotel guests and their start stay date and end stay date, i would like to insert into a new table the original information + add all days in between.
I want to know if there is a way to compare dates in the sql statement with dates that I input into a database and todays date. the datatype that I'm using is smalldatetime.The statement I used is:Select Date from Table where Date > 'Today.now'I get an errorCould this be done or is there another approach?
I have a table which records employees'time-off records. There are 6 columns in this TimeOff table. They are RequestID, EmpName, StartDate, EndDate, Type, NumofDays. I have another table which has all the dates from 01/01/1950 to 01/01/2056.
I am trying write a query which lists all the dates between the timeoff startdate and enddate, including the the start and end dates, but my query so far only lists the start and end date in a timeoff record:
SELECT D.[Date], Datename(dw,D.[Date]) AS Weekday FROM Dates D LEFT JOIN TimeOff T ON D.[Date] = T.OffStartDate OR D.[Date] = T.OffEndDate WHERE (OffType = 'Sick Day' AND EmpName = 'Cat White') AND (D.[Date] BETWEEN T.StartDate AND T.EndDate)
Has anyone ever written a function to retrieve all individual dates between two given dates? Using DATEDIFF I can get the number of days between two dates. However I need to iterate through the days to identify weekend and holiday dates. Has anyone ever written a function to do this?
So, if select datediff(d,'07/01/2007','07/15/2007') as NumOfDays returns 14, I'd need to iterate through the 14 days and get the weekends and holidays. Would I have to use a cursor to iterate through the days?
I'm trying to generate this query, that displays Budget Current Year , Actual Current Year and Prior Year Revenue. When It comes to the Budget and Actual everything works fine, however when I try to add the query for the Prior Year I get an error, and I realized that the leap date is causing the error
Here is what I'm trying to generate
InnCodeID Quarterly Monthly Days Period Year BARmRev AARmRev PYRmRev
ADDIS Q1 Jan 1 1 2008 NULL NULL
ADDIS Q1 Jan 1 1 2008 3462.14 5107.65
ADDIS Q1 Jan 1 1 2008 NULL NULL
ADDIS Q1 Jan 1 1 2008 NULL NULL
Here is the error that I'm getting:
Code Snippet
Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.
(4834 row(s) affected)
Here is my Transact-SQL Syntax (summarized because I Couldn't post it):
SELECT
(CASE WHEN (CASE WHEN dbo.Trans.Tr_Dept = '10' AND dbo.Trans.TR_Main = '5120' AND dbo.Trans.tR_sub = '01'
AND Year(dbo.Trans.TR_Date) = Year(dbo.CurrentDate.CurrDate) AND dbo.trans.Datatype = '1'
THEN dbo.trans.Tr_Amount ELSE NULL END) IS NOT NULL THEN
(SELECT Trans1.TR_Amount
FROM dbo.Trans Trans1
WHERE Trans1.TR_Dept = '10' AND TR_Main = '5120' AND TR_Sub = '01' AND trans1.TR_Date = CAST((CAST(Month(dbo.Trans.TR_Date)
AS varchar(2)) + '/' + CAST(Day(dbo.Trans.TR_Date) AS varchar(2)) + '/' + CAST(Year(dbo.CurrentDate.CurrDate) AS varchar(4))) AS datetime)
AND Trans1.TR_Entity = dbo.Trans.TR_Entity AND trans1.datatype = dbo.Trans.DataType) ELSE NULL END) * - 1 AS BARmRev,
--AA Script Here AS AARmRev,
(CASE WHEN (CASE WHEN dbo.Trans.Tr_Dept = '10' AND dbo.Trans.TR_Main = '5120' AND dbo.Trans.tR_sub = '01' AND Year(dbo.Trans.TR_Date)
= Year(dbo.CurrentDate.CurrDate) AND dbo.trans.Datatype = '1' THEN dbo.trans.Tr_Amount ELSE NULL END) IS NOT NULL THEN
(SELECT SUM(Trans1.TR_Amount)
FROM dbo.Trans Trans1
WHERE RIGHT(RTRIM(Trans1.TR_Dept), 2) = '10' AND Trans1.TR_Main = '5120' AND Trans1.TR_Sub NOT BETWEEN '04' AND '05' AND
trans1.TR_Date = CAST((CAST(Month(dbo.Trans.TR_Date) AS varchar(2)) + '/' + CAST(Day(dbo.Trans.TR_Date) AS varchar(2))
+ '/' + CAST(Year(dbo.CurrentDate.CurrDate)-1 AS varchar(4))) AS datetime) AND Trans1.TR_Entity = dbo.Trans.TR_Entity AND
I need to store a user ID of whoever made the last change to a record in a table. I have added a field with a default set to 'suser_sid()'.
Is it wise to store SID's in a database table if you are using NT authentication? My concerns are that if the user is deleted by the NT system administrator then I lose data integrety also if the database is backed up and restored onto a different machine with different users it won't work at all.
Hi, can someone help me with this problem. I have recently downloaded VWD and have been playing around with it a bit. I was windering how do I add an image file to a SQL database. I have used SQL in the past but I have never store an image in it. I can add text data and so forth, but I need some pointers into adding images to the sql database. I want to be able to store the images and then retrieve them to a GridView. I have the images in an image folder within the website, but I do not know how to input the reference or link to the images in an sql table. A quick example, say I have a table called Images, with the following info:imgID (int)imgDesc (varchar(max)imgFile (img)imgTitle (varchar(20)) To input this in sql I would write Insert Into Images (imgDesc,imgFile,imgTitle) Values ("Large fishy", "", "The Big Fish") what would I need to put for imgFile? I would really appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction.
Hi all! I am back with a new problem. I am designing a database in which the booking is on an hourly basis instead of daily basis. So I want my colums in a table to be like this: ================================ID(PK)Date(In this table I want date only)TimeSlot(in this table I want time only)CourtNo(facility which is to be booked)Booking ID(FK to booking table)================================
The thing is that SQL server donot have a date only format. I am totally stuck on this one, please help! The database which I created will be ideal if I can just store the date! Regards, Taimoor
Hi All,Does anybody know how i can store a paragraph with spaces, newline, empty lines in a sql server 2005 database table? What data type should i declare the table entry to take? I will also like to retrieve the data with what ever i would have stored it with.
My forms are taking user input, then HtmlEncoding them prior to being stored in the SQL DB. For some reason, SQL is storing quotes as � and it is causing the HTML when decoded in the page to not be rendered properly.
Has anyone come across this issue before?
For example (without encoding for readability):
SQL should store the parsed string as: <a href="someurl" class="main">
but for some reason it's being stored as: <a href=�someurl� class=�main�>.
Does anyone have thoughts or know of resources that explain the pro's and con's of storing images in a database versus keeping the image in the file system and just storing the path to the image in the database?
Hello All! Can some one give SQL Statement on storing images from disk to the database columns. Once I store the image how do I test it out that the image is stored correctly? For example this is what I did I have a table called table1., field called name
insert into table1(name) values(C:123.bmp)
Is the above statement correct? will it store the file or not?
if it does store them then how do I view them?
Can some one please help me... Thanks in advance for your help Venkat
best way to store questionnaire data in a database.Since different questionnairs have different questions and formats i.e dropdown, radio, checkboxes etc building such a database model becomes highly complex.
I've read that if data schema is complex and higly variable it may be better to use an xml document and store that in a databse. However I dont quite understand how you store xml to a database. Do you simply store the entire structure in something like a nvarchar column or is there some other way to store xml to a database.
If you store the entire structure to the databse then how do you query the content to generate reports.
I use SQL 2K with an Access 2000 project as front end. I have four date fields in a table. The first one should contain a date (eg 20th of February), the second one a starting hour (eg 8:00h), the third one the finishing hour (eg 10:00h) and the fourth should calculate the difference between the second and third column. So I created four datetime fields. Storing a date in the first column is no problem, but storing only hours doesn't seem to do what I want. When I enter 8:00 from within the Access, it is stored 1/1/1900 8:00 in SQL Server. How can I make sure that the hours are saved with the date of the second column, so either as 8:00 without further information or as eg 20-2-2004 8:00?
I'm having a DB designed for me, and I'm inspecting it and wondering what in general is the better way to do this.
We have a product, which we are counting "product views". The DB designer has created columns called "view_today" and "views_alltime".
I specified I wanted a normalized database, I'm thinking this is technically not normalized ? Am I correct ?
Wouldn't it be better to have a query that counted the views off the logging table ? I can't see any advantage to doing it the way its been designed except to save time.
Hello all,I have been working with several databases here that are basically datamarts. A lot of the entities have an attribute that is a particularyear and month. For example, a financial transaction may be posted fora particular month, regardless of the actual date on which it occurred.In this system, these year/month combinations have typically beenstored as integers of the form YYYYMM. My question is, how have othersstored this type of information and what advantages/disadvantages haveyou found to your method?The problem that I have found with the current method is that youcannot easily find the difference between two of these dates. Forexample, 200401 - 200312 = 89 (not 1). Storing the values as datetimes(using the first of the month) allows for DATEDIFF(mm, '2003-12-01','2004-01-01') = 1. Of course, a little extra (and meaningless) data isbeing stored. In case the table sizes makes a difference here due tothe extra data being stored, we are usually talking about over 100Mrows.I don't like the idea of storing the values in two columns (year andmonth) because that does nothing to improve on the ability to performuseful functions on the values and very importantly, the month reallyhas no meaning without the year, so I don't think that it should bestored by itself.Thanks for any advice/insight.-Tom.
I am writing an app in c#. I will be using the following code to get a number from the user. I had to make the variable a string to prevent any kind of conversion to be required.
string newID;
Console.WriteLine("Enter a new ID");
newID = Console.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("The new ID is {0}", newID);
Console.ReadLine();
The ID that this will be collecting will be stored in a SQL Server 2005 Express database. The field in the database is of the type int. Will there be a problem saving this number from the code above into the database? Will there be a problem b/c the datatypes don't match?
..........................................thanks to any willing to help