Is there a quick way to create a temp table that is the same as an existing table in the schema? I am used to Informix where "select * from <table A> into temp B" would create the temp table B with the same schema is table A. Is this same functionality available with MS SQL server using query analyzer?
View 2 RepliesI've been searching around for some info on how to set this up, but with no luck.I need to have a .sql file that will set up a few tables and these tables will have relationships and contraints.I can do this by hand in enterprise manager, but need to set up some procedures that will do the same thing.For instance, I can create the tables just fine.....CREATE TABLE students ( sId int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, studentId varchar(50) NOT NULL, course varchar(50) )
CREATE TABLE courses ( cId int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, course varchar(50) NOT NULL, sco varchar(50) )But, I need to set up relationships in there somehow.Once student may have many courses (one to many) and one course may have many sco's (one to many) SCO would be another table.Can someone point me to a good link that would show how to complete these procedures?Thanks all,Zath
Hello,
How can I delete duplicate entries from tables in my database using Query Analyzer, as there are many duplicate entries in my tables, I want to delete them.
Thanks in advance,
Uday.
Hi All,
I have 4 temporary tables that hold criteria selected through a report wizard.
I've created a SQL statement and used the four tables in my WHERE/ AND clauses but the results retuned are not being filtered correctly.
Would somebody be kind enough to help me out please.
To briefly summarise, I have created a SQL statement that returns all rows in my recordset, I now need to implement some additional SQL to filter the recordset using my temporary tables, which contain the filters as follows:
(1) Temp table 1 (##tblTempAssetFilt) is mandatory and will always contain at least one row.
(2) Temp table 2 (##tblTempRepairTypeFilter) is optional and may never contain any rows. If this is the case then I have no reason to filter my resultset against this table.
(3) Temp table 3 (##tblTempRepairFilter) / Temp table 4 (##tblTempRepairElementFilter) are both optional, only one of these tables will contain data at one time. Again, as an optional filter the tables may never contain rows, and thus need to be ignored.
I have the following SQL, can somebody tell me how I would go about filtering the recordset using the temporary tables. The creation of the temporary tables occurs at the beginning so will always exist even when no rows have been inserted.
SELECT *
FROM tblActualWork [ActualWork]
JOIN tblRepair [Repair] ON ActualWork.intRepairID = Repair.intRepairID
JOIN tblRepairElement [RepairElement] ON Repair.intRepairElementID = RepairElement.intRepairElementID
JOIN tblRepairType [RepairType] ON Repair.intRepairTypeID = RepairType.intRepairTypeID
JOIN tblAsset [Asset] ON ActualWork.intAssetID = Asset.intAssetID
WHERE ActualWork.intAssetID IN (Select intAssetID From ##tblTempAssetFilter) AND Repair.intRepairTypeID IN (Select intRepairTypeID From ##tblTempRepairTypeFilter)
AND Repair.intRepairID IN (Select intRepairID From ##tblTempRepairFilter)
AND Repair.intRepairElementID IN (Select intRepairElementID From ##tblTempRepairElementFilter)
Any filtering must be based on the recordset filtered by temp table 1, which is a mandatory filter. Rows will always exist in this temp table.
Please help, not having much joy with this. Many thanks.
I have the following query and I would like to combine it into one query instead of using several temp tables.
IF OBJECT_ID('Tempdb..#a') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #a
SELECT *
INTO #a
FROM #Web_table w WITH(NOLOCK)
WHERE w.generated_date IS NOT NULL
IF OBJECT_ID('Tempdb..#b') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #b
[code]....
I have a table T1 with columns: Date, Salesman, Sales. Salesman is a userid for each person and Sales is a decimal capturing sales done on Date.
From the data in T1 I would like to have a table with the following:
Salesman Sales-To-Date Sales-Last-Week
I have been able to do it with a temporary table, temp, as follows:
select Salesman, Sum(Sales) as ToDate into temp from T1 group by Salesman
with T2 as (
select Salesman, Lastweek=sum(Sales) from T1 where week>='1/28/2008' and week<='2/3/2008' group by Salesman
) select temp.Salesman, ToDate, Lastweek from temp full join T2 on temp.Salesman=T2.Salesman
How can I do the above in one query statement?
Thanks
do you have a general rule of thumb for breaking a complex query into temp tables? For someone who is not a sql specialist, a query with more than a few table joins can be complex. So a query with 10+ table joins can be overwhelming for someone who is not a sql specialist.
One strategy is to break a problem into pieces so to speak by grouping together closely related tables into temp tables and then joining those temp tables together. This simplifies complex SQL and although not as performant as one big query it's much easier to understand. So do you have a general rule of thumb as far as a threshold for the number of joins you include in a query before you break the query into temp tables?
Hi all,
Looking at BOL for temp tables help, I discover that a local temp table (I want to only have life within my stored proc) SHOULD be visible to all (child) stored procs called by the papa stored proc.
However, the following code works just peachy when I use a GLOBAL temp table (i.e., ##MyTempTbl) but fails when I use a local temp table (i.e., #MyTempTable). Through trial and error, and careful weeding efforts, I know that the error I get on the local version is coming from the xp_sendmail call. The error I get is: ODBC error 208 (42S02) Invalid object name '#MyTempTbl'.
Here is the code that works:SET NOCOUNT ON
CREATE TABLE ##MyTempTbl (SeqNo int identity, MyWords varchar(1000))
INSERT ##MyTempTbl values ('Put your long message here.')
INSERT ##MyTempTbl values ('Put your second long message here.')
INSERT ##MyTempTbl values ('put your really, really LONG message (yeah, every guy says his message is the longest...whatever!')
DECLARE @cmd varchar(256)
DECLARE @LargestEventSize int
DECLARE @Width int, @Msg varchar(128)
SELECT @LargestEventSize = Max(Len(MyWords))
FROM ##MyTempTbl
SET @cmd = 'SELECT Cast(MyWords AS varchar(' +
CONVERT(varchar(5), @LargestEventSize) +
')) FROM ##MyTempTbl order by SeqNo'
SET @Width = @LargestEventSize + 1
SET @Msg = 'Here is the junk you asked about' + CHAR(13) + '----------------------------'
EXECUTE Master.dbo.xp_sendmail
'YoMama@WhoKnows.com',
@query = @cmd,
@no_header= 'TRUE',
@width = @Width,
@dbuse = 'MyDB',
@subject='none of your darn business',
@message= @Msg
DROP TABLE ##MyTempTbl
The only thing I change to make it fail is the table name, change it from ##MyTempTbl to #MyTempTbl, and it dashes the email hopes of the stored procedure upon the jagged rocks of electronic despair.
Any insight anyone? Or is BOL just full of...well..."stuff"?
I have an application that I am working on that uses some small temptables. I am considering moving them to Table Variables - Would thisbe a performance enhancement?Some background information: The system I am working on has numeroustables but for this exercise there are only three that really matter.Claim, Transaction and Parties.A Claim can have 0 or more transactions.A Claim can have 1 or more parties.A Transaction can have 1 or more parties.A party can have 1 or more claim.A party can have 1 or more transactions. Parties are really many tomany back to Claim and transaction tables.I have three stored procsinsertClaiminsertTransactioninsertPartiesFrom an xml point of view the data looks like this<claim><parties><info />insertClaim takes 3 sets of paramters - All the claim levelinformation (as individual parameters), All the parties on a claim (asone xml parameter), All the transactions on a claim(As one xmlparameter with Parties as part of the xml)insertClaim calls insertParties and passes in the parties xml -insertParties returns a recordset of the newly inserted records.insertClaim then uses that table to join the claim to the parties. Itthen calls insertTransaction and passes the transaction xml into thatsproc.insertTransaciton then inserts the transactions in the xml, and alsocalls insertParties, passing in the XML snippet
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have 3 Checkbox list panels that query the DB for the items. Panel nº 2 and 3 need to know selection on panel nº 1. Panels have multiple item selection. Multiple users may use this at the same time and I wanted to have a full separation between the application and the DB. The ASP.net application always uses Stored Procedures to access the DB. Whats the best course of action? Using a permanent 'temp' table on the SQL server? Accomplish everything on the client side?
[Web application being built on ASP.net 3.5 (IIS7) connected to SQL Server 2005)
Can Query Analyzer deal with this or not???
Select FirstName into FirstNameTable From NameTable
Select Count(*) from FirstNameTable
Fails with FirstNameTable as invalid object.
TIA
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
THis is so annoying. I have 3 ADO executes in my program. THe first one creates a view, the second one performs an outer join on that view and returns a result set, the third execute drops the aforementioned view. THe program that is using this is installed on about 200 computers scattered across Germany and Italy, all querying the same MSsql server 7.0. THe queries run quite quick when few users are actively using the program (after hours for example). however in the heat of the day performance goes up and down dramatically with identical queries taking from 1 to 20 seconds to return their result set. Now I initially thought 'bandwidth issue out of our server'. However I noticed that if I take those three queries and run them from the sql server enterprise manager( running on the same computer as the aforementioned program) then the queries run instantly and the data is in my result pane in less than 2 seconds ALWAYS....even when the program is dogging it with 20 second delays before the result set returns. I know it is hanging on the return of the result set as I put a stop after before each ADO execute in order to check which one was eating up my time. Why is there this dichotomy between running the queries from my enterprise manager versus running them from an ADO object. Both are using TCP/IP (no named pipes involved). I havent monkied with the attributes of the ADO result set so they are all set to default.
I have used the sql server profiler to trace these queries and they always run in less than 33 milliseconds. THe duration is also never more than 33 milliseconds. THis stinks of a network resource issue but what always leads me somewhere else is how consistent the performance of the enterprise manager is when it runs the exact same three queries.
Here is my slightly edited connection string
Public Const connection_string = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Server=000.000.000.000;" & _
"User ID=johndoe;Password=janedoe;Network=dbmssocn;" & _
"database=fidojoe"
Here are the 3 ADO executes:
conn.Execute (sqlstr_create_view)
Set resultset1 = conn.Execute(sqlstr_get_providers_by_DMISID)
conn.Execute (sqlstr_drop_view)
When I run query in excel it gives result with different column sequence. The same query gives result with different column sequence when used in query analyzer or VBA Macro. E.g., Select * from ABC.
result in Excel 2003 SQL OLE DB query
col-A col-B col-C
values...
Result with Query Analyzer and VBA Macro
col-c col-B col-A
values...
I hope I am not asking about something that has been done before, but Ihave searched and cannot find an answer. What I am trying to do is torun a query, and then perform some logic on the rowcount and thenpossibly display the result of the query. I know it can be done withADO, but I need to do it in Query Analyzer. The query looks like this:select Varfrom DBwhere SomeCriteriaif @@Rowcount = 0select 'n/a'else if @@Rowcount = 1select -- this is the part where I need to redisplay the resultfrom the above queryelse if @@Rowcount > 1-- do something elseThe reason that I want to do it without re-running the query is that Iwant to minimize impact on the DB, and the reason that I can't useanother program is that I do not have a develpment environment where Ineed to run the queries. I would select the data into a temp table, butagain, I am concerned about impacting the DB. Any suggestions would begreatly appreciated. I am really hoping there is something as simple as@@resultset, or something to that effect.
View 6 Replies View RelatedSQL BPA says the following:"One or more objects are referencing tables/views withoutspecifying a schema! Performance and predictability of theapplication may be improved by specifying schema names.""When SQL Server looks up a table/view without a schemaqualification, it first searches the default schema and then the'dbo' schema. The default schema corresponds to the currentuser for ad-hoc batches, and corresponds to the schema of astored procedure when inside one. In either case, SQL Serverincurs an additional runtime cost to verify schema binding ofunqualified objects. Applications are more maintainable andmay observe a slight performance improvement if objectreferences are schema qualified."How important is to specify the schame (dbo. in my case) instored procedures? Will it really improve performance if I goand fix each object that is missing "dbo."?The problem is I have thousands and thousands of themwith no schemas. Before I invest a lot of time fixing themI am trying to determine if it's really worth it or not?Thank you
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to execute a stored procedure as the sql query for a data transformation from sql into an excel file. The stored procedure I am calling uses temp tables (#tempT1, #tempT2, etc.) to gather results from various calculations. When I try to execute this sp, I get
'Error Source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server
Error Description: Invalid Object name "#tempT1"'
Is there a way to make a DTS package call a stored procedure that uses temp tables?
Thanks.
Hi,
I want to check to see if a temporary table exists before I try creating one but I can't seem to find which sys table or schema collection I check. Any ideas?
Seoras
I have a stored proc that creates a temporary table, then calls several other stored procs to insert data.
CREATE PROCEDURE usp_CreateTakeoff
@iEstimate int,
AS
CREATE TABLE ##Temp_Takeoff
(
Field1 ......
Field2 ......
)
-- Add Structural data
usp_AddStructural @iEstimateID, 1, 'Structural'
usp_AddForming @iEstimateID, 2, 'Forming'
...
...
...
GO
Now, a couple of problems, after the table is created and populated, I cannot find it in my list of tables, even after "refreshing".
I checked to ensure that it exists using the query analyzer and it does so I know the table is being created.
Also, I cannot see the table using crystal reports, connecting etc...... Can I not access a temporary table from 3rd party applications? I have crystal reports 7.0 professional.
Any ideas?
Mike B
Hey,
I am in the process of modifying some stored procedures that currently do not use temp tables. For this modification I am required to make the stored procedures use temp tables. There are several UDF's within this stored procedure that will need to use the temp tables, and this is where in lies the problem. Does anyone know of a work around that would allow UDF's to use temp tables, or does anyone know of alternate methods instead of temp tables that wouldn't involve too much change?
Thanks
Hi,
I have a called stored procedure which creates a bunch of temporary tables, inserts data into them, indexes the tables and then returns to the main calling SP. In the main stored procedure I then do SELECTs from the temporary tables. My problem is I keep getting
invalid object errors on the temporary tables:
Invalid object name '#temp_table1'
The stored procedure is in a test environment. In the SELECT I tried a prefix of database owner (my logon) as well as "dbo." but still get the error. Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff
hi All,
I am using a temp table creating it as
create table #process
(
tons of coomuns in here
)
then
insert into #process(collumns)
select from peon
where etc....
Can i use the same temp table definition , but insert into another tempTable.Does alias help me accomplish this task.
Thanks for your input
In these two tables im just to bring the data back where the two DesignID's dont match. Im gettin an error
Server: Msg 107, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The column prefix '#ttTopSellers' does not match with a table name or alias name used in the query.
Declare @CustomerID as VARCHAR(25)
Set @CustomerID = 'DELCOZ01-10'
/*Figure the designs that stores carry*/
Select Design.Description, Item.DesignID,
CustomerClassificationID, CustomerID, Region.[ID] as RegionID, Region.Name
Into #ttDesign
From Mas.dbo.Item Item
Inner Join MAS.dbo.Style Style
on Item.StyleID = Style.[ID]
Inner Join MAS.dbo.Line Line
on Style.LineID = Line.[ID]
Inner Join MAS.dbo.Design Design
on Item.DesignID = Design.[ID]
Inner Join Mas.dbo.DesignRegionIndex DRI
on Design.[ID] = DRI.DesignID
Inner Join MAS.dbo.Region Region
on DRI.RegionID = Region.[ID]
Inner Join MAS.dbo.CustomerClassificationRegionIndex CRI
on Region.[ID] = CRI.RegionID
Inner Join MAS.dbo.CustomerClassification CC
on CRI.CustomerClassificationID = CC.[ID]
Where @CustomerID = CustomerID
Group By Design.Description, Item.DesignID,
CustomerClassificationID, CustomerID, Region.[ID], Region.Name
/*This finds the top retail sales globally*/
Select Top 10 Sum(Sales) as Sales, DesignID, Design.[Description]
Into #ttTopSellers
From Reporting.dbo.RetailSales_ByStore_ByCustomer_ByDay_ByItem DI
Inner Join Mas.dbo.Item Item
on DI.ItemNumber = Item.ItemNumber
Inner Join MAS.dbo.Style Style
on Item.StyleID = Style.[ID]
Inner Join MAS.dbo.Line Line
on Style.LineID = Line.[ID]
Inner Join MAS.dbo.Design Design
on Item.DesignID = Design.[ID]
Where [Date] >= Month(getdate())-12
and DesignID <> 0
Group By DesignID, Design.[Description]
Order by Sum(Sales) Desc
Select *
From #ttDesign
Where #ttDesign.DesignID <> #ttTopSellers.DesignID
--Drop Table #ttDesign
--Drop Table #ttTopSellers
Why cant I use the same temptable name i a stored procedure after i have droped it?I use the Pubs database for the test case.CREATE PROCEDURE spFulltUttrekk ASSELECT *INTO #tempFROM JobsSELECT *FROM #tempDROP TABLE #tempSELECT *INTO #tempFROM EmployeeSELECT *FROM #temp
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I am having problem with my temp table.
I cannot get the syntax correct.
I need to do the following, If @mybit & br > 0 then
insert childid 'condidtion case when br & @mybit > then 0'
into the temp table.
CREATE TABLE #tmp_table(
childid integer null
)
IF @mybit & br > 0 THEN
INSERT INTO #tmp_table
SELECT c.childid
VALUES (childid,
CASE WHEN br & @mybit > 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0
END)
FROM
child c
I am trying to determine which of three stored procedure designs arefastest in the Query Analyzer:One query is a straight SELECT query with all desired rows and a dozen(tblName.RowName = @param or @param = Null) filters in the WHEREstatement.One query populates a #Temp table with the UniqueIDs from the resultsof the SELECT query in the above example, then joins that #Temp tableto get the desired rows.One query users EXEC sp_executesql @sql, @paramlist, @paramin which the @param has the dozen filters.What I'm trying to determine is which is the fastest.Each time I run the query in Query Analyzer it returns the samerecordset (duh!) but with much different Time Statistics.Are the Time Statisticts THE HOLY QRAIL as far as determining which isfastest, and what so I want to look at, the Vale or the Average? Inotice there are different numbers of bytse sen and bytes received foreach of the three queries.Any illumination on this is appreciated.lq
View 4 Replies View RelatedHi there
Running query analyzer against two different server.
the first only need 1-2 secs to return the query result,
the other return 7-8 secs for the query result.
plz advice what could cause this slow performance?
thx
I have a stored procedure which contains a temp table called #NamesThis has n rows of values which are peoples names (they are varchars)i.e#NamesRickRobFrankI have a table called tblPeople.tblPeopleid Name Telephone1 Ric 012334213452 Robert 0321120931233 Paul 123 123 123 123 I want to find all the people in tblPeople whose names are like those in the temp table #NamesHow do I do this?
View 1 Replies View Related Please tell me there's something I haven't set. I've done several tests now. If your final return in a stored proc is from a temp table (ala #mytable ) the system cannot read the schema - for that matter, it won't run at all, complaining that the object #mytable doesn't exists.
It can't possible be that temp tables aren't allowed in procs used by SQLDatasource - please tell me what I am doing wrong.
This proc, when fed to a sqldatasource, fails in the designer with #temp does not exists.
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.repTest_TempASBEGIN
CREATE TABLE #Temp( [iTestID] uniqueidentifier, [bTest] [bit], [cTest] [varchar] )
INSERT INTO #TempSELECT *FROM tTest
SELECT *FROM #Temp
END
I have been researching some performance problems in a very large
application and I have a couple of questions about temp tables. (SQL 7.0
SP2)
I have one large procedure that I have been using as a test case.
Originally this procedure was a cursor with lots of processing steps
involving writing to, reading from and deleting in temp tables inside the
cursor. I remember reading that temp tables inside a cursor were a
potential performance problem, so I rewrote the procedure, replacing the
cursor with a While Loop.
Doing this showed no increase in performance. Since Profiler was showing .5
second duration times on statements in the procedure accessing the temp
tables I tested some more. I moved all the create statements to the top of
the procedure, as I know these statements after processing steps can cause
recompiles to happen. Still no performance increase.
Finally I replaced all the temp tables with actual tables, just to see what
would happen. With no other changes the performance increased by more than
500%.
Can someone give me some clues as to what is happening here, because if this
is a symptom of something I don't understand, the potential performance
problems from other places where temp tables are similarly used in the
application are enormous.
Thanks.
The problem is we need local tables in Access for SubReports (can't use store procedures as record source for this), therefore trying to create temp table and link to Access for each report instance.
When we create the ## type table in tempdb this cannot be linked from Access (cannot be seen via DSN).
The only other option we can find is doing
CREATE TABLE tempdb.dbo.[tablename]
but this requires the user to have admin permissions and therefore be 'dbo' on tempdb and not 'guest'.
Any clues?
Palmy
Is there any way to test if a table exists in the temp dB. In a procedure I create table called ##Test but I want to test if it exists before it's created and if it does I want to delete it. (It has to be a ## table because it's in a procedure being called in another procedure depending on an IF statement). The reason I want to do this is that I have multiple users and Occasionally they get the ... There is already an object named '##Test' in the database. error
Many Thanks