Query Question- DISTINCT On First Level Of URL String
Oct 30, 2007
Hi!
I've got some .NET web tracking software that outputs all its data into an SQL Server database for record-keeping. The front-end for it isn't really that great, and I'm in the process of creating a (basic) alternative version.
My problem is this- I want to create a treeview that represents all the page requests on the site. I could do a SELECT DISTINCT on the whole table to build this, but that's very wasteful- a far better approach would be to select the first folder level, and fetch child pages only when that folder is expanded.
While I've got that second bit sorted (just doing a SELECT DISTINCT WHERE url LIKE 'http://www.mydomain.com/folder/%'), I can't work out how to only select the first folder level in the first place. I guess I want to do some kind of text manipulation based on forward slashes, but I have no idea how.
One of my varchar columns in a table has multiple key words enclosed in a pattern of special characters.
Eg: William Shakespeare was an English [##poet##], [##playwright##], and [##actor##], widely regarded as the greatest [##writer##] in the English language and the world's pre-eminent [##dramatist##]. He is often called England's national [##poet##] and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 [##sonnets##], two long narrative [##poems##], and a few other [##verses##], of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other [##playwright##].
I need to write to query to find all distinct key words that are enclosed within [## and ##]. My query should yield the following results from the string in the example above
[##actor##] [##dramatist##] [##playwright##] -- 2 occurrances, but I need it only once in my result set [##poems##] [##poet##] -- 2 occurrances, but I need it only once in my result set [##sonnets##] [##verses##] [##writer##]
I need to run this on a large table, so I am looking for the best possible way to minimize any performance issues.
Just give you sample code, I have provided below 2 separate snippets, one with table variable and another with temp table.
DECLARE @MyTable TABLE (MyString VARCHAR (8000)) INSERT @MyTable VALUES ('William Shakespeare was an English [##poet##], [##playwright##], and [##actor##], widely regarded as the greatest [##writer##] in the English language and the world''s pre-eminent [##dramatist##]. He is often called England''s national [##poet##] and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 [##sonnets##], two long narrative [##poems##], and a few other [##verses##], of which the authorship of some is uncertain.
I am having a question about document map on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. I found one problem with the values retrived for the document level. That is, the values are not distinct, they are duplicate for the document level. Is it possible for us to get the distinct values for a particular document level? Hope my question is clear for your help.
Thank you very much in advance for your help and advices. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
I need to run a SELECT DISTINCT query acrossmultiple fields, but I need to add another field that is NON-DISTINCTto my record set.Here is my query:SELECT DISTINCT lastname, firstname, middleinitial, address1,address2, city, state, zip, age, genderFROM gpresultsWHERE age>='18' and serviceline not in ('4TH','4E','4W')and financialclass not in ('Z','X') and age not in('1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','0')and (CAST (ADMITDATE AS DATETIME) >= DATEDIFF(day, 60, GETDATE()))ORDER BY zipThis query runs perfect. No problems whatsoever. However, I need toalso include another field called "admitdate" that should be treatedas NON-DISTINCT. How do I add this in to the query?I've tried this but doesn't work:SELECT admitdateFROM (SELECT DISTINCT lastname, firstname, middleinitial, address1,address2, city, state, zip, age, gender from gpresults)WHERE age>='18' and serviceline not in ('4TH','4E','4W')and financialclass not in ('Z','X') and age not in('1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','0')and (CAST (ADMITDATE AS DATETIME) >= DATEDIFF(day, 60, GETDATE()))ORDER BY zipThis has to be simple but I do not know the syntax to accomplishthis.Thanks
The problem that I am having is that with Visual Web Developer I am creating a webpage and having it directly put online, so for example when I start a new ASP.NET page, I select the location to be HTTP, with the location http://MYWEBSERVER/Website and for the language and Visual BasicI notice a couple of things, first that there is no longer a a link under the Main toolbar "Website" selection called the ASP.NET configuration. So how can I configure what I want to have users be able to do? It seems that this choice is only available if I am building the ASP.NET page on my "localhost". So that is the first problem. So I am able to get the pages to work, atleast the things such as the textboxes to show up etc, (Even things as advanced as the "Login" box). How ever when I try to get someone to try to login I am taken to a page that has an server error. The error is: "The SSE Provider did not find the database file specified in the connection string. At the configured trust level (below High trust level), the SSE provider can not automatically create the database file. " The Stack Trace Errors are at the bottom. I think this is happening because the automatically generated databases are not getting built online as they are on my computer. On my computer I have MSSQL express. So either the databases are not getting built for some reason, (and I think that is the case as I don't see any in the folder). So I think that somehow I have to create a database on my server, and then somehow configure the ASP.NET file, perhaps in the Web.Config file to look for that new database. Is this the correct methodology? Is there some simpler way that I can just somehow upload things as they are and have them work correctly on my server? The error says that either the Server did not find the database or that the trust level was insufficient. I don't think that is it as I just looked again and I don't see any .MDF files. So how would I go about getting this to work right? Is there a way to do this with MySQL also? So that I don't have to use MSSQL? My server only allows 1 DataBase for that. Thanks and I hope my question makes sense. It is basically how can I get it to be able to create and check users etc. online? Brian [ProviderException: The SSE Provider did not find the database file specified in the connection string. At the configured trust level (below High trust level), the SSE provider can not automatically create the database file.] System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHelper.EnsureSqlExpressDBFile(String connectionString) +2555237 System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHelper.GetConnection(String connectionString, Boolean revertImpersonation) +87 System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider.GetPasswordWithFormat(String username, Boolean updateLastLoginActivityDate, Int32& status, String& password, Int32& passwordFormat, String& passwordSalt, Int32& failedPasswordAttemptCount, Int32& failedPasswordAnswerAttemptCount, Boolean& isApproved, DateTime& lastLoginDate, DateTime& lastActivityDate) +1121 System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider.CheckPassword(String username, String password, Boolean updateLastLoginActivityDate, Boolean failIfNotApproved, String& salt, Int32& passwordFormat) +105 System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider.CheckPassword(String username, String password, Boolean updateLastLoginActivityDate, Boolean failIfNotApproved) +42 System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider.ValidateUser(String username, String password) +83 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Login.OnAuthenticate(AuthenticateEventArgs e) +160 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Login.AttemptLogin() +105 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Login.OnBubbleEvent(Object source, EventArgs e) +99 System.Web.UI.Control.RaiseBubbleEvent(Object source, EventArgs args) +35 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnCommand(CommandEventArgs e) +115 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +163 System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument) +7 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument) +11 System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData) +33 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +5102
Hi, I want to call a dll from Stored procedure developed in SQL Server 2005 at configuration level 80. but when I execute the stored procedure I get the following error.
Error Source: ODSOLE Extended Procedure Description: Invalid class string
Code of stored procedure and vb.net class is given below:
Public Shared Sub LogToTextFile(ByVal LogName As String, ByVal newMessage As String) ' impersonate the calling user Dim newContext As System.Security.Principal.WindowsImpersonationContext newContext = SqlContext.WindowsIdentity.Impersonate() Try Dim w As StreamWriter = File.AppendText(LogName) LogIt(newMessage, w) w.Close() Catch Ex As Exception
Finally newContext.Undo() End Try End Sub End Class ===============================================================
STORED PROCEDURE Create PROCEDURE [dbo].[PPGenerateFile] AS
BEGIN Declare @retVal INT Declare @comHandler INT declare @errorSource nvarchar(500) declare @errorDescription nvarchar(500) declare @retString nvarchar(100)
-- Intialize the COM component EXEC @retVal = sp_OACreate 'PositivePay.class', @comHandler OUTPUT IF(@retVal <> 0) BEGIN --Trap errors if any EXEC sp_OAGetErrorInfo @comHandler,@errorSource OUTPUT, @errorDescription OUTPUT SELECT [error source] = @errorsource, [Description] = @errordescription Return END
-- Call a method into the component EXEC @retVal = sp_OAMethod @comHandler,'LogToTextFile',@retString OUTPUT, @LogName = 'D: ext.txt',@newMessage='Hello' IF (@retVal <>0 ) BEGIN EXEC sp_OAGetErrorInfo @comHandler,@errorSource OUTPUT, @errorDescription OUTPUT SELECT [error source] = @errorsource, [Description] = @errordescription Return END select @retString
I do an distinct query like this:query = "SELECT DISTINCT name, total = COUNT(*) from products where name LIKE '%" & searchString & "%' GROUP BY name"The query works fine but I need to select one more field called "info" so I just tried this:query = "SELECT DISTINCT name, info, total = COUNT(*) from products where name LIKE '%" & searchString & "%' GROUP BY name"but then I get the error message:"Column 'products.info' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause"I want do group just by "name" and not "info"How can I select this "info" field to?? somebody know??
Have a query that uses TOP 10; but I'm not receiving unique results and haven't been able to figure out using DISTINCT with TOP. Is it possible to use TOP with DISTINCT?
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[CastCompare] @ID int, @TopRecords int, @Type int
AS
DECLARE @SQLSelect nVarchar(1000)
SET @SQLSelect = 'SELECT TOP ' + CAST(@TopRecords AS Varchar(10)) + ' * FROM TblCastList,TblCast where TblCastList.ProductResellerID=TblCast.ResellerID and TblCastList.ProductID=' + CAST(@ID AS Varchar(10)) + ' and TblCastList.Type=' + CAST(@Type AS Varchar(10)) + ' order by TblCast.[name] asc '
Exec sp_executesql @SQLSelect GO
how Can I add distinct command to query ? I tried something but none of them is work.
I want to add distinct TblCastList.[ProductResellerID]
I want to write a query to see the Authors and their last articles with no distinct values. Like AuthorImage - AuthorFullName - ArticleTitle - ArticleDate
If anyone knows the solution i will be glad . Thanks from now on
SELECT DISTINCT PC.ContentID, PC.GeoUnitID, PC.ContactID, CT.ID, CT.PageTitle, C.FirstName, C.LastName, C.MainPhoneNO, C.EmailAddress FROM ProductContacts PC INNER JOIN Content CT ON PC.ContentID = CT.ID INNER JOIN Contacts C ON PC.ContactID = C.ContactID WHERE PC.GeoUnitID = @GeoUnitID ORDER BY CT.PageTitle ASC
The problem I'm having is two rows have the same ContentID with a different ContactID. I want to only return a single row for each ContentID.
SELECT NotYetPublished, Available, Catalogx, pubdate, pubdate_full, NYP, Fulfillment, Title from finaldata where available <> 'Out-of-Print' or (totalnew <>0 and totalused <>0 and totalcollectible<>0) order by NYP desc, pubdate_full desc, Fulfillment desc, Title
I only want to return records that do not have the same Catalogx. I can't use distinct since some of the other data is different.
I'm kind of newbie and I like to know if you can solve me a question,
The fact is I'm trying to gather some information and I don't know how. What I want to do is retrieve the values of five columns, the first one is the primary key, but the others must be unique (all together)
This is probably easy but I can't work it out. I have this statementSELECT DISTINCT TOP 100 PERCENT dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.NameFROM dbo.CIF_Departures INNER JOINdbo.CIF_PlaceReference ON dbo.CIF_Departures.EndPoint= dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.PlaceIDORDER BY dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.NameThis results in a column of placenames which is OK. There are also multiple'time of day' values against each placename however I only want to returnthe one nearest to the current time. If I do this...SELECT DISTINCT TOP 100 PERCENTdbo.CIF_PlaceReference.Name,dbo.CIF_Departures.Sta rtTimeFROM dbo.CIF_Departures INNER JOINdbo.CIF_PlaceReference ON dbo.CIF_Departures.EndPoint= dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.PlaceIDORDER BY dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.Name.... I get multiple place names.Any ideas?
Hello to all, I have a problem with ms sql query. I hope that somebody can help me. i have a table "Relationships". There are two Fields (IDMember und RelationshipIDs) in this table. IDMember is the Owner ID (type: integer) und RelationshipIDs saves all partners of this Owner ( type: varchar(1000)). Example Datas for Table Relationships: IDMember Relationships . 3387 (2345, 2388,4567,....) 4567 (8990, 7865, 3387...) i wirte a query to check if there is Relationship between two members. Query: Declare @IDM int; Declare @IDO int; Set @IDM = 3387, @IDO = 4567; select * from Relationship where (IDMember = @IDM) and ( cast(@ID0 as char(100)) in (select Relationship .[RelationshipIDs] from Relationship where IDMember = @IDM))
But I get nothing by this query. Can Someone tell me where is the problem? Thanks
Hello, I have a reference table. This table has an effective date and end date, and I need to get a single set of values at a point in time. Suppose the following hotel rating values are the values that I want to pull out of the table: 1 Star2 Star 3 Star 4 Star 5 Star This value has other information associated with it (benchmarks and such) and so it's possible that one of the 2 star entries gets end-dated, and then a new 2 Star entry gets created with an effective date and no end date. How can I query so that I only get one 2 Star entry at any point, and get the point in time where the date is between the effective and end date, but only pull back a single set of entries, one distinct rating value. So, suppose the first entry is end-dated 7/1, if I look at old data, I want to see the old benchmarks and so I want the previous entry end-dated 7/1; otherwise, I want to see the new end-date, with the new 2 star entry with no end date. How do I do that? Make sense?
Select A.SNO , A.Name , B.Picfrom Student A Left Join Picture BWhere A.SNo = B.PNoNo SNo Name Pic1 000 Andy /Doc/andy.jpg2 001 Andy /Doc/andy2.jpg3 002 VIVI /Doc/vivi.jpg4 003 VIVI /Doc/Vivi2.jpg The same person will only show 1 pic Pathlike this resultNo SNo Name Pic1 000 Andy /Doc/andy.jpg3 002 VIVI /Doc/vivi.jpgcan you please help? I trid use Group By but it not works..thank you
I have a table with following fields tdate custcode prodcode
table is filled with full year data and i want following result
I want count of distinct custcode in every past three months.
for example Result like this
month tjan tfeb tmar tapr tmay ..... tdec
prod1 prod2 . . prod5
And data under tmar should be count of distinct custcode of (jan,feb and mar) for corresponding prod code is required. Under tapr, count of distinct custcode of (feb,mar and apr) for corresponding prod code is required.
Can any1 help me please.
I am using MS SQL 2005 and above table is a big table (approx 10 million records)
I am trying to append data from a source table to a destination table, the only difference between the tables is that a primary key has been established on the destination table. Problem is, the source table has a handful of duplicate values in the column that corresponds to primary on destination table; so when I run the query I get a primary key conflict. What I'd like to do is select distinct values from the source table to avoid the conflict, but am having trouble getting it to run. Here is the statement-
INSERT INTO cust_master SELECT DISTINCT cust_master_temp.* FROM cust_mast_temp LEFT OUTER JOIN cust_master ON cust_master.temp.CUST_NUMBER = cust_master.CUST_NUMBER
I have a problem with a SQL SELECT query. As far as my research goes i figured out that UNIQUE is used when you have one column that you whant unique and DISTINCT is used when you have more than one column that you want to all be unique. But i have a query where i want just some of the columns to be unique and some not. Here is the full query (It's in a stored procedure):
set ANSI_NULLS ON set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[rpt_ExecSum_Combined_4fields](@BondGroupID int) AS SELECT DISTINCT SUM(dbo.Bond.LoanAmount) AS SumOfBondValue, COUNT(dbo.Bond.BondID) AS CountOfBond, dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType FROM dbo.BondGroup INNER JOIN dbo.TransactionTable ON dbo.BondGroup.BondGroupID = dbo.TransactionTable.BondGroupID INNER JOIN dbo.Bond ON dbo.TransactionTable.TransactionID = dbo.Bond.TransactionID INNER JOIN dbo.ProgressStep ON dbo.TransactionTable.TransactionID = dbo.ProgressStep.TransactionID INNER JOIN dbo.ProgressStepType ON dbo.ProgressStep.ProgressStepTypeID = dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepTypeID WHERE (dbo.BondGroup.BondGroupID = @BondGroupID)
GROUP BY dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType, dbo.ProgressStep.ProgressStepID HAVING (dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType = 'AIP (Approval in Principle) received') OR (dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType = 'Grants') OR (dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType = 'Attorney') OR (dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType = 'Feedback received from bank') ORDER BY dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType
********* With the DISTINCT it gives me a full set of unique values but what i want is this: Every CountOfBond may have more than one SumOfBondValue and they may be the same, but if there is more than one dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType the query should only read it once. In other words the dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType is a unique value and the rest not...
I am developing a web site for my buddies and I to track the winnings fom my home poker games.
Table that keeps track of games goes like:
PlayerID PokerGameID curWon
I want to sort by top money maker nd show total won to date
I have tried to use:
Select Distinct Sum(G.curWon) AS curCash, P.playerID FROM GameReults As G, Players As G WHERE G.PlayerID=G.PlayerID Group By G.curWon, G.PlayerID
I can not getit to sort from highet to lowest and it itrates through each record. I only want it to show distinct players and their winnings. Can you please help?
Select top 500 email, custnumber from MailingList order by email
There may be some duplicate email addresses with different custnumbers. What would the query look like to only show records with unique email addresses, but still return the unique custnumbers in the query.
I'm trying to query the pubs database for last title for each author.The query returns each title for each author. How can I operate on maxof title?Here's what I'm trying:select distinct au_id,max(title_id)as title from titleauthorgroup by au_id,title_idorder by au_iddito*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
I need p.phonenumber in there but then it messes up my DISTINCT ON m.number because I end up with dup m.numbers if I run just the inner select statement during testing.
But then I need the phonenumber in that subquery so that I can do list.phonenumber
ahh!
UPDATE Master SET master.homephone = list.phonenumber FROM MASTER m INNER JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT p.number, topphone.phonenumber FROM phones p INNER JOIN (SELECT top 1 phonenumber from phones) as topphone ON topphone.number = p.number WHERE p.phonetypeID = 1 AND ISNULL(p.good, 0) <> 0 AND LEN(p.phonenumber) = 10 ) AS list ON m.Number = list.Number WHERE m.homephone IS NULL OR m.homephone = ''
Error:
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure Skiaa, Line 66 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'top'. Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure Skiaa, Line 88 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'top'.
I want to update m.homephone with the p.phonenumber based in the filtering critiria I have specified but this simple task is turning out to be a pain.
I'm familiar with MySQL and recently started working with MSSQL. I have a general understanding of how the DISTINCT command works, but would like to expand on that a bit.
I need to do a DISTINCT query on a record's 'name' column, but i need all of the values for each of those returned records. So, I need the query to only apply the DISTINCT command to the 'name' column, not the other columns of the received records.
Can someone explain a bit how to word this
Many thanks in advance.
EDIT: Upon reflection, I realize now that this request is counter to the way DISTINCT works. D'oh. Move along, nothing to see here. :(
