Problems With Identity Specification - Deleting Rows
Apr 6, 2006
First of all, I'm new to the forums, and I'm still getting started with VBEE and SQL.
I'm building a simple Windows Application that has a SQL Database with three tables, related to each other. In all of them I need to set one column as a simple index for the rows (1, 2, 3... etc), to work as a PK and relate to the other tables' FKs.
I've set the property Identity Specification of the column to Yes, and added some rows of data for testing. If you just keep adding rows, the PK columns work fine, but if you start deleting rows, the numbering gets fragmented, and the relations between the tables lose integrity.
I've tried the MSDN Online Help topics, but they just tell you this:
If an identity column exists for a table with frequent deletions, gaps can occur between identity values. If you want to avoid such gaps, do not use the identity property.
So, my questions are: is there another way around this problem? How to number rows automatically and re-number them when a row is deleted, and keep the table relations working? It has anything to do with constraints?
Sorry if my question was already answered, I really couldn't find anything like my problem searching the forums. Thanks in advance.
Hi, How do I determine what the next "id" will be in a collumn where the Identity Specification is turned on with Identity Increment? I have two tables, the one contains product information and the other is a photo album. When I create a new product, then I automatically create an associated photo album. It all works fine, but I have found some problems after using this setup for a while to manage products. For example, say I have created 10 products (id's 1 to 10) , and then I decide to remove the last 5 products from the list. The next time I add a new product, it will be product number 6, but the id will be 11 (seeing that the id's will always be unique). How do I determine what the next Identity value will be seeing that the actual last id might not be the last one that was allocated? RegardsJan
I am not very clear about the use of 'identity specification properties'. There does not seem to be a great use of identity increments and seeds, it seems something that saves manual work, but to a very little extent Anyone willing to shed some light?
what happens when a column marked as Identity Specification reaches the limit? for example, I have some code tables using tinyints as keys, the actual number of entries will be 20 or so but there is some volatility, so eventually the 255 limit will be reached, what happens then?
the same thing applies to ints or bigints used as keys, eventually the database must run out of numbers
I am trying to build a Windows application using: Windows XP Pro ; VS Pro 2005, C# and SQL2005.
I have a database table as follows: eg 1) myGameRecency which contains columns : GameId (identity specification column/primary key/not null), Date (not null), [1], [2], [3], [4]
Using the myGameRecencyAllBalls table ---
I wish to insert a date into a new row but have not been able to determine how to with the identity specification on the GameId column.
Can anyone please assist? Thank you. lpbcorp
sqlCmd.CommandText = "DECLARE @date datetime SET @date = '" + Date +
"DECLARE @lastRowGameId int " +
"DECLARE lastrow_gameidcursor CURSOR SCROLL FOR " +
"(SELECT GameId FROM " + DBGameName.ToString() + "RecencyAllBalls) " +
"OPEN lastrow_cursor " +
"FETCH LAST FROM lastrow_gameidcursor INTO @lastRowGameId " +
"' INSERT INTO " + DBGameName.ToString() + "RecencyAllBalls.Date VALUES (@date) WHERE GameId = @lastrow_gameidcursor + 1";
subject says it all -- is it possible to automatically expand the identity specification node in table properties for the Management Studio or VS2005 diagram mode? when creating a DB, it seems ridiculous that for EVERY table I have to add an extra click to get to just one more clickable item that ought to be exposed by default.
Using Management Studio, when I import data from one identical database to another, any identity specifications get dropped from the destination database.
(From columns which have them on the source database and which had them on the destination database.)
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[dbo.ServiceLog] Script Date: 07/18/2014 14:30:59 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO ALTER proc [dbo].[ServiceLogPurge]
-- Purge records dbo.ServiceLog older than 3 months: -- Purge records in small portions to avoid locking production tables -- for a long time. The process takes longer, but can co-exist with -- normal usage of the tables.
[Code] ...
*** Getting this error below when executing the code ***
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure ServiceLogPurge, Line 45 Incorrect syntax near 'Failed:'.
If I right click on a primary key in SQL Server management studion, I can set the identity specification for a primary keyId so that it is indexible. I do this by setting the properties for "Is Identity", "Identity Increment", and "Identity Seed". This is wonderful, but I have been asked to perform this using a script instead of the SQL server GUI/Sql Server management studio. Is this possible? Does anyone know how to do this? If so, can you show me how? Ralph
Hi, I am having a bit of hassle with trying to enter details to multiple tables in SQL Server 2005. I have four tables, an Attendance Table (AttendanceID(PK Identity specific), MembershipNo, Date) Resistance Table (ResistId(PK Identity specific), Weight , Reps, Sets) Aerobics Tables(AerobicsID(PK Identity specific), MachineID, Intensity, Time) and a linking table for all of them.... ExerciseMaster(AttendanceID,ResistanceID,AerobicsI D)
My problem is that I can insert data to each specific table by itself using seperate insert statements.....eg....
//insert an attendance record to the attendance table string userID;
userID = Session["User"].ToString();
SqlDataSource pgpDataSource = new SqlDataSource(); pgpDataSource.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionStringLogin"].ToString();
finally { pgpDataSource = null; } //same code as above for the resistance table
However, i am facing the problem where this does not populate the link table(ExerciseMaster) with any information as i am unable to write the relevant IDs into the table that have been auto generated by SQL Server for each of the subTables. I have read several forums where they recommend using something called @@IDENTITY but i have no idea how or where to use this in order to fill my exercise table... Any help would be so much appreciated.... Also, hopefully what i have said all makes sense and someone will be able to help me...oh and one more thing...this is an ASP.NET page coding in C# Cheers Scotty
Hi all, (I am using SQL Server 2005) I have created a new 'CUSTOMERS' table and created a colum 'CustomerID' as an Identity column. Now, a problem I find is that when I delete a particular record, its Identity value is used automatically for the New record I insert later! I do not want to re-use the already used Identity value. I just want to have the last CustomerID to be higher that all the previous ones. Is there any way to do this? Thanking you in advance, Tomy
I have a table with approx 5 million rows and 36 columns. It takes approx 4 minutes to delete 1 row. The table has 3 indexes in addition to it's primary key and has twelve foreign key constraints. We are still using sequel 7. There is a backup run every night as part of the nightly maintenence that reorg/reindexes and checks the database integrity. Any thoughts?
I have a csv file that I need to import daily into a SQL Server 2005 table. Much of the table contents could just be overwritten with the new csv file, however there are a set of Rows within the table that need to be appended to , rather than overwritten. There is no Primary Key in the csv file that can be used. I'm not sure this is the best approach, but what I have been trying to do, is append the entire csv file to the existing table, and then go back and delete the duplicates. When I run the Delete, it does delete the majority of the records, but leaves a couple hundred behind. The number left behind varies with each run, can't seem to identify a pattern here. Running the Delete a second time does clean up the rows left behind in the first execution of the Delete, and gives the result I want. Any thoughts as to why this needs to be run twice? Or is a better approach available? Here is my code - SELECT [Pkg ID], [Elm (s)], [Type Name (s)], [End Exec Date], [End Exec Time], dupcount=count(*) INTO temppkgactions FROM pkgactions GROUP BY [Pkg ID], [Elm (s)], [Type Name (s)], [End Exec Date], [End Exec Time]HAVING count(*) > 1
DELETE TOP (SELECT COUNT(*) -1 FROM dbo.temppkgactions WHERE dupcount > 1 ) FROM dbo.pkgactions DROP TABLE temppkgactions
What I'm trying to do is delete a user and all their related information within the other tables. I'm not wanting to delete the table, just one column with that user and their related information. So my Primary_Key is UserID within the table [alumni] and my three Foreign_Keys are CommentID, PhotoID, and AlbumID within the tables [comments], [photos], and [albums]. Here is some of the code that I have: <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource2" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:SoderquistString %>" DeleteCommand="DELETE FROM [alumni] WHERE [UserID] = @UserID" SelectCommand="SELECT [UserID], [UserName], [FirstName], [LastName], [State] FROM [alumni] WHERE ([State] = @State)"> <DeleteParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="UserID" Type="Int32" /> </DeleteParameters> <SelectParameters> <asp:ControlParameter ControlID="DropDownList1" Name="state" PropertyName="SelectedValue" Type="String" /> </SelectParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource> The users are set up in GridView form. Is there some type of DELETE command that I need to be writing that is different than the one above? I have tried adding onto the following DELETE statment: DeleteCommand="DELETE FROM [alumni] WHERE [UserID] = @UserID DELETE FROM [photo] WHERE [UserID] = @UserID; DELETE FROM [album] WHERE [UserID] = @UserID; DELETE FROM [comment] WHERE [UserID] = @UserID; ...but that doesn't work...and doesn't look right. I would really appreciate anyones suggestions or help that you may be able to provide. Thank you!
I have problem in deleting duplicate rows. I have a identity column in my table, if I try to use correlatted sub query with Delete command it gives error.
The other problem I have is I have a date column in my table and update that column with current date and time. If use a query to fetch a records on a particular day , it does not return any rows
select * from rates where ch_date >='02/11/99' and ch_date<='02/11/99'
If I use convert also there is some other problems. Is there any way to force date checkings to be done excluding time.
This is an imaginary problem while discussing ROWID in ORACLE.
Consider a table without primary key, unique key, uniuqe index. A row has inserted into the table many times. I want to delete all but one dulicated rows. With any 'where' clause all rows(duplicated) will be deleted. In ORACLE i can achieve this using ROWID as follows:
Delete from Table_name where < all column values > and ROWID <> ( Select max(rowid) from Table_name where < all column values > )
How can this be achieved in MS SQL Server 6.5 ?
According to Dr. Codd's Golden rules for RDBMS one is that One should be able to reach each data value in the database by using table name, row idenfication value and column name.
Does MS SQL Server 6.5 satisfy this requirement ?
Also How many of Dr. Codd's 13 Golden Rules for RDBMS does MS SQL Server 6.5 Satisfy? Which doesn't ?
I have two tables. Table 1 contains a distinct ID(3,4,5). Table 2 contains multiple ID's(3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,5,5,5). I want to be able to use a join. If an ID is found in table 2, remove all entries of it. Any ideas? Thanks...
delete b.id from table1 a join table2 b on a.id = b.id
In my database, I have a table "tbl_c_extract" that consists of 4 columns that look the following. I'm looking at a daily batch of around 4000 records, of which 150 are likely to be duplicates.
In the example above, I need to remove 2 of the entries, leaving only the one that with the maximum leave date. In this case, those without a leave date have the 2099 entry.
Using CTE works exactly as I want it to, however SQL Server Agent doesn't seem to like the use of CTE..
Code: WITH CTE (Proprietary_ID, LeaveDate, RN) AS ( SELECT Proprietary_ID, LeaveDate, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Proprietary_ID ORDER BY Proprietary_ID, LeaveDate) AS RN FROM tbl_c_extract ) DELETE FROM CTE WHERE RN > 1
Hi, I have a table named "std_attn", where, by some bad coding, lots of duplicated rows have been created. And the table don't have any PK. So Now tell me the way to remove the duplicaies..................
int1 must have the value 1 int2 must have the value 1 int3 must have the value 0 and now we get to the difficult part - first character in the field [Cost No] have to be different from the letter 'B'. [Cost No] have the datatype varchar(20)
I expected the code to look something like this: DELETE Table1 FROM Table 1 WHERE ([Int1] = 1) AND ([Int2] = 1) AND ([Int3] = 0) AND ((LEFT([Cost No]), 1) <> 'B')
But I get this error message: The left function requires 2 arguments
What am I doing wrong and what should the right code look like?
I need to delete the duplicate rows from a table. How to do that in SQL server 7.0 ? If possible write an example, so that it will be much useful for me..
i have 6 read only tables that every night all the data gets dumped and a new updated copy of the data is copied over. the tables range from 500,000 rows to almost 4 million. i have indexes set up on the fields i use to query against. my questions are 1.since i dump all the data every night and replace it, do i need to rebuild the indexes every night or is that done after the data is reentered? 2.i want to use a fill factor on the table since it is read only, but will dumping the data every night and reinputting it have adverse affects with a fill factor? 3.should i be shrinking the database or defragging it everynight cause of my data dumps and reloads?
How can I quickly delete thousands of rows in a table (SQL2000) according a query and without blowing up the log file? For instance executing the query: Delete from transactions WHERE transactiondatestamp < DATEADD (m,-4,GETDATE())
increases my log file to almost 6GB before job was done an normal size was re-obtained. In addition it took a long to time to get the job done. With the command truncate table I cannot use query unfortunately but this would be faster.
I have an SQL tables [Keys] that has various rows such as: [ID] [Name] [Path] [Customer] 1 Key1 Key1 InHouse 2 Key2 Key2 External 3 Key1 Key1 InHouse 4 Key1 Key1 InHouse 5 Key1 Key1 InHouse
Obviously IDs 1,3,4,5 are all exactly the same and I would like to be left with only: [ID] [Name] [Path] [Customer] 1 Key1 Key1 InHouse 2 Key2 Key2 External
I cannot create a new table/database or change the unique identifier (which is currently ID) either. I simply need an SQL script I can run to clean out the duplicates (I know how they got there and the issue has been fixed but the Database is still currently invalid due to all these duplicate entires).
I have an SQL tables [Keys] that has various rows such as: [ID] [Name] [Path] [Customer] 1 Key1 Key1 InHouse 2 Key2 Key2 External 3 Key1 Key1 InHouse 4 Key1 Key1 InHouse 5 Key1 Key1 InHouse
Obviously IDs 1,3,4,5 are all exactly the same and I would like to be left with only:
I cannot create a new table/database or change the unique identifier (which is currently ID) either. I simply need an SQL script I can run to clean out the duplicates (I know how they got there and the issue has been fixed but the Database is still currently invalid due to all these duplicate entires).
im having problems deleting rows in a reference table. is there any tools which tables to delete first before deleting the rows in the table which contains the primary key?
i have a lot of tables let say over 300 so its hard for me to guess which comes first... what should i keep in mind deleting rows with a referential integrity?
I made an application that insert some data to MS SQL 2005 DB Express Edition. One of columns in my database store text. The content of that field must, beyond the existing text, append the current id to its text string. Practically, it means that if on row nr 15 I store text value "15text", on the next row i will store "16text". I figured out that I can get value of max ID by creating following stored procedure.
Once i get the maxID value i simply concat max id and string like:
string.Concat(max_id.ToString(), file_name);
where "max_id is integer return value from stored procedure and "file_name" is a string to rename like "max_id+file_name"
Two problems occur!!!
Problem nr 1.
Since I use to insert 10 new rows each time, the values from 0-9 are appended to text like "(0-9)text"
Problem nr 2.
If I delete some rows, ID does not get update. It means that after deleting all rows from table, next inserted item gets last existed ID before delting +1. New inserted item should get value 1 since table is empty after deleting all rows from it!!!
