I am a beginner with SQL, so please excuse any ignorance here.
Under SQL 6.5, when executing a SELECT DISTINCT query against a table in a certain database, the results were returned alphabetized. Now, after migrating the database to SQL 7.0, the same query does not return the results alphabetized. If I add an index for the column specified in the query to the table, the results come back alphabetized. Is there any way to correct this other than adding indexes for all columns in all tables that are queried in this manner?
hi, like, if i need to do delete some items with the id = 10000 then also need to update on the remaining items on the with the same idthen i will need to go through all the records to fetch the items with the same id right? so, is there something that i can use to hold those records so that i can do the delete and update just on those records and don't need to query twice? or is there a way to do that in one go ?thanks in advance!
Hello. I currently have a website that has a table on one webpage. When a record is clicked, the primary key of that record is transfered in the query string to another page and fed into an sql statement. In this case its selecting a project on the first page, and displaying all the scripts for that project on another page. I also have an additional dropdownlist on the second page that i use to filter the scripts by an attribute called 'testdomain'. At present this works to an extent. When i click a project, i am navigated to the scripts page which is empty except for the dropdownlist. i then select a 'testdomain' from the dropdownlist and the page populates with scripts (formview) for the particular test domain. what i would like is for all the scripts to be displayed using the formview in the first instance when the user arrives at the second page. from there, they can then filter the scripts using the dropdownlist. My current SQL statement is as follows. SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [TestScript] WHERE (([ProjectID] = @ProjectID) AND ([TestDomain] = @TestDomain))" So what is happening is when testdomain = a null value, it does not select any scripts. Is there a way i can achieve the behaivour of the page as i outlined above? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, James.
ok can someone tell me why i get two different answers for the same query. (looking for last day of month for a given date)
SELECT DATEADD(ms, - 3, DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m, 0, CAST('12/20/2006' AS datetime)) + 1, 0)) AS Expr1 FROM testsupplierSCNCR I am getting the result of 01/01/2007
-- The 3rd query uses an incorrect column name in a sub-query and succeeds but rows are incorrectly qualified. This is very DANGEROUS!!! -- The issue exists is in 2008 R2, 2012 and 2014 and is "By Design"
set nocount on go if object_id('tempdb.dbo.#t1') IS NOT NULL drop table #t1 if object_id('tempdb.dbo
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This succeeds when the invalid column name is a valid column name in the outer query. So in this situation the sub-query would fail when run by itself but succeed with an incorrectly applied filter when run as a sub-query. The danger here is that if a SQL Server user runs DML in a production database with such a sub-query which then the results are likely not the expected results with potentially unintended actions applied against the data. how many SQL Server users have had incorrectly applied DML or incorrect query results and don't even know it....?
For each customer, I want to add all of their telephone numbers to a different column. That is, multiple columns (depending on the number of telephone numbers) for each customer/row. How can I achieve that?
I want my output to be
CUSTOMER ID, FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, TEL1, TEL2, TEL3, ... etc
Each 'Tel' will relate to a one or more records in the PHONES table that is linked back to the customer.
When I run the following query from Query Analyzer in SQL Serer 2005, I get a message back that says. Command(s) completed successfully. What I really need it to do is to display the results of the query. Does anyone know how to do this? declare @SniierId as uniqueidentifierset @SniierId = '85555560-AD5D-430C-9B97-FB0AC3C7DA1F'declare @SniierAlias as nvarchar(50)declare @AlwaysShowEditButton as bitdeclare @SniierName as nvarchar (128)/* Check access for Sniier */SELECT TOP 1 @SniierName = Sniiers.SniierName, @SniierAlias = Sniiers.SniierAlias, @AlwaysShowEditButton = Sniiers.AlwaysShowEditButtonFROM SniiersWHERE Sniiers.SniierId=@SniierId
I have a query that performs a comparison between 2 different databases and returns the results of the comparison. It returns 2 columns. The 1st column is the value of the object being compared, and the 2nd column is a number representing any discrepancies.What I would like to do is use the results from this 1st query in the where clause of another separate query so that this 2nd query will only run for any primary values from the 1st query where a secondary value in the 1st query is not equal to zero.I was thinking of using an "IN" function in the 2nd query to pull data from the 1st column in the 1st query where the 2nd column in the 1st query != 0, but I'm having trouble ironing out the correct syntax, and conceptualizing this optimally.
While I would prefer to only return values from the 1st query where the comparison value != 0 in order to have a concise list to work with, I am having difficulty in that the comparison value is a mathematical calculation of 2 different tables in 2 different databases, and so far I've been forced to include it in the select criteria because the where clause does not accept it.Also, I am not a DBA by trade. I am a system administrator writing SQL code for reporting data from an application I support.
Hi,New to .Net and SQL. I have two tables that I have joined together. RentalControl_Main has the rental informationd and an Adjuster ID that links to the ADjuster table and the adjusters name. I am trying to create a report that gives the "Single" adjuster name and the totals for all of their contracts. I have a details report that gives each contract info. for each specific adjusters rentals. However, I want to just list the adjuster once and give all of their totals. In my SQL statement I have all of it written out and just need to knowwhat to do in place of 'Alex Early' that will give me all of the distinct adjusters.Do I need to code this on the page with a do while loop?Appreciate any help.SELECT SUM(dbo.RentalControl_Main.Rate) / COUNT(dbo.RentalControl_Main.Rate) AS AmtAvg, SUM(dbo.RentalControl_Main.DaysBilled) / COUNT(dbo.RentalControl_Main.DaysBilled) AS DayAvg, SUM(dbo.RentalControl_Main.Rate * dbo.RentalControl_Main.DaysBilled) / COUNT(dbo.RentalControl_Main.Rate) AS TotAvgFROM dbo.RentalControl_Main INNER JOIN dbo.RentalControl_Adjuster ON dbo.RentalControl_Main.AdjusterID = dbo.RentalControl_Adjuster.AdjusterIDWHERE (dbo.RentalControl_Adjuster.AdjusterName = 'Alex Early' AND (dbo.RentalControl_Main.DateClose IS NOT NULL) AND (dbo.RentalControl_Main.AgencyID = '2')
I was wondering if there was a keyword that would allow you to return the number of results from a query such as (this is fake just giving an example so that someone can give me the real answer)
I have this line of code that when run in the query doesn't return anything:
srv.AGENT_S_ACC_CODE IN ('" & Replace(Replace(Parameters!arcode.Value," ",""),",","','") & "') The parameter is setup and the query works when I hardcode it with a value but will not return anything with this, does anyone know why?
Hi guys, say i wrote a query that returns 1,000 records.. what kinda query could i write that only returns say the first 50 records of the 1,000 recs..
Hello, I want to select all the customerIDs where an email address exists. Easy: select customerid from customers where emailaddress = @emailaddress Now I want to use the resulted customerIDs from the above query as a parameter to select all the email addresses with emailstatus equal to 3. How do I create this type of while statement in a stored procedure? I prefer to not create a temporary table. My idea was to do it like this: select emailaddress from emailaddresseswhere emailstatus = 3 and customerid = (select customerid from customers where emailaddress = @emailaddress) This doesn't seems to work. I get the error: Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression. thanks
I have a pretty big SQL query with a one to many sort of relationship... There are client accounts that we're reporting on. Each account has four different historical categories attached. Each historical category can have maybe fifty entries in each, sorted by date. I need to figure out how to grab the unique accounts and show only the three most recent results per each historical subcategory with the account... the three most current results from each of the four subcategories, displayed by the parent client account number. I've created four views to isolate the subcategories as a start, thinking I could bring them into a parent query ... but my question would be... how do I generate JUST the top three historical transactions by account number? If I select TOP 3, I get only the 3 newest in the MASTER LIST, not per client account, which is what I need to do. Does this make sense? I could really use a good SQL helping hand with this one. Thank you!
Can anyone give me the basics of speeding up reports that use queries or views or nested views? Current reports are now taking over 2 minutes to show.We have thousands and sometimes even millions of records to report against.Queries have 4 and 5 table joins etc. We are using ASP.NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005 and Crystal Reports. Thanks
I have a database with some over normalized tables in it. The best I can do with one query is get the file ID. In the second query I want to get all the file names, based on all the fileID's I got from the first query. How would I go about doing this?
I have been searching this topic on and for quite some time and can't seem to find a decent answer. Is it feasible to do your paging strictly from a SQL query? Pass the query the pagesize, what page to return and what to sort by?
ok the following statement returns the correct results in sql query analyzer but in the .net environment with c# it returns back less 3 records SELECT SUM(ao.amount),bl.dpc,bl.city from billinglocation bl inner join shippinglocation sl on bl.billinglocationid = sl.billinglocationid inner join absorbentorder ao on sl.shippinglocationid = ao.shippinglocationid group by bl.dpc, bl.city billinglocation 1 - 1 shippinglocation 1 - many absorbentorder anybody have any ideas why this might be occuringthanks!
I am running SQL Server 7.0 on NT 4.0. I have created a simple query:
SELECT SUM(month1) As total_month1 FROM eac_manload WHERE project_number = 8800 and dept IN (50,51,52,55,57,60,61,62,63,64,65,68,69)
I first time I run the query I get the correct result. Subsequent times that I run the query the result is 1 record with a Null value. The data has not changed. If I stop MSSQLSERVER and restart the service I get the correct result the first time and the Null value each time thereafter. Anybody out there with any idea of what is going on here? Any help will be appreciated!!
I have duplicate results in from my query. I am using the distinct clause but this does not seem to be working. In the example below, I do not want the 79.15 to repeat multiple times eventhough the first column has all distinct values. I am using distinct in my select but this is not stopping the duplicates on the second row. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I have a table in a database that has very old and not very relational and I want to create a quick view to show the information in a better way. Let's say that the table has 4 fields : id , child1, child2, child3. I want to create a view from this table that will show two fields : id and child. So, my table currently looks like this:
First, I'm a complete noob to anything other than basic SQL queries so any help is greatly appreciated.
I have a project I'm working on that involves analyzing syslog messages from our web filter. It's been pretty simple in getting the data into a SQL table, but now I'm fumbling around with setting up the data analysis portion. The data I need to analyze is space delimited in a single column in the table. I can query the data, but I don't know how to parse the results and insert each field into it's own column in another table.
Would one of the great SQL gurus around here help a brotha out?
Im running a query using isql from the command line and outputting the results to a file. Ideally I'd like to have the file in csv format so that it can be used by a client to import the results into their system.
I can run a query and output the results to a file but get i dont get the csv format I require. I can separate the columns using /s parameter but I also additional space within the column fields.
I know it is possible to create the csv format using the SQL query tool and ISQL_w but I was wondering if there was some parameter that I can call that will format the output like the format options in ISQL_w allows me to do.
Is there a way in SQL Server 2000 to output your query results to a file (example comma-delimited) in the SQL CODE ITSELF? I know you can check the option under Tools->Options->Results but I want to have it do it in the SQL code. Thanks Eric
Could someone please tell me how I could format my output to look something like this:
What I have:
Code:
customer street city telnum ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- Ann 12 bpem there 34215 Ben 2 blim here 344365 Carl 512 crom there 34725 Dean 62 blon here 2132345 El 142 brom there 657345 Frank 71 clom here 6345215
What I would like: NOTE: I edited this myself incase you are confused about how I got these results, not that Im calling anyone stupid, just to make clear up any possible misunderstandings
Code:
customer contact details ---------- ----------------- Ann 12 bpem there 34215 Ben 2 blim here 344365 Carl 512 crom here 34725 ...... etc
Thanks for taking the time with this. Your help is always appreciated.
Is it even possible to sort/format this query in SQL to return the same data but in this type of format? Using the values of the 'reason' column as column names?
I have an SQL2K5 database where a group of users share a custom database role and access the database via trusted connections (Windows authentication).
I have a stored procedure which reports all of the users in this database role using an SQL statment something like this:
select name from sysusers inner join sysmembers on sysmembers.memberuid=sysusers.uid and sysmembers.groupuid=7
As the programmer, and the dbo, when I log in to execute this query, I get the list of a dozen, or so, users.
When one of the users executes the same query, they only see a return of their own username.
I'd like to have the users be able to execute this query and get the full list of users. Can someone tell me how to accomplish this?
I assume that this is some security, or permissions, thing involving system tables, or Windows authentication security.
Thank you.
BTW--the users never actually directly execute the stored procedure I mentioned; They are using a VB client application that affects the execution.
I have a query that I am trying to run, but I discovered I am not getting the desired results.
This query here goes across the tables as seen below. One thing that I notice about this query as I am trying to figure out the source of the problem is that it is bringing back the same results even when I change the @userID parameter.
As long as the @userID I pass exists in "tblUserDetails" then we get results back. When it doesnt exist we dont get any records.
Basically to explain whats going on. I am passing the userID of the person who has "photocomments"
Since the table "tblPhotoComments" doesnt have a column that represents who the photocomment was for, we must join
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblExtraPhotos]( [counterID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [photoID] [tinyint] NOT NULL, [userID] [int] NOT NULL, [photoDate] [smalldatetime] NOT NULL, [caption] [varchar](50) NULL, [status] [tinyint] NOT NULL
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblPhotoComments]( [photoCommentID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [photoCounterID] [int] NOT NULL, [CommentFromID] [int] NOT NULL, [Comment] [varchar](1000) NOT NULL, [commentDate] [smalldatetime] NOT NULL, [Active] [tinyint] NOT NULL, [deletedbySender] [tinyint] NOT NULL, [deletedbyRecipient] [int] NOT NULL, [IP] [varchar](15) NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY]
