I'm quite new to SQL, just wondering is there a way to search
the entire database (instead of a table using select) for something?
Say I create a new database to keep track of my CDs. A new table is
created in this database for each CD, and of course each row of this
table represents one track. Is there a way, either using tsql or through
the enterprise manager or query analyzer, to say list all songs that are
sung by a singer with the first name "John"?
I've tried the object finder in query analyzer, doesn't quite work.
I'm looking for something like
select * from *
where singerfirstname = 'John'
This of course doesn't work...
please help! Thanks so much in advance!
I am trying to find all the email addresses with a " ._" I use '%._%' but it returns all records. What is the correct syntax? Also, is there a way to search for a field where the underscore is followed by a single alpha letter and then another underscore? like bla_A_bla or bla_Z_bla.thanksMilton SELECT DISTINCT fname, lname, inet FROM ocadbo.notes where inet like '%._%'
the application registers the student details to a course. each student gets a new registration no during registration.
the app should identify repeaters to a particular course by checking another table RegHistory, which stores the details of student registrations for the previous 5 years.
to determine whether a student is a repeater or not, we have to search for an exact match in RegHistory table (where the student name, guardian name and date of birth in both tables match with the corresponding entries in Registration table).
here is my question,
if there are 100,000 students registering in each academic year, we will have 500,000 records in RegHistory Table and 100,000 records in studReg table
if i start searching for a repeater, i guess i will have to loop through all records in studReg, for an exact match in RegHistory, which wil be a time consuming process.
is there any other options to search for repeaters ?
hi all, I need help in selecting records from a table based on the given search criteria. spec: select * from table where col1='x' and col2='y'... and col6='q' i may give any combination of column values. I mean I can't provide 6 values in 'where' condition all the time i submit query. help me with a stored proc which has 6 input parameters for the 6 columns.
I am searching for an add-in to ssms which lets me choose which server to deploy my code.
For example, I have a complete statement with CREATE PROCEDURE and all code in my query window.
Now I want to run/deploy this code to many servers at once. Instead of having to reconnect to all server (5), I want an add-in which have checkboxes for me to select.
Hi,I have come to point in my db design where I'm trying to figure whichis the best approach in making it generic (does this really matter?!?)Senario - I have a table called JOBS and this table contains fieldsuch as JobTitle, JobDescription, Salary etcI want to add to this table other attributes which are specific to acertain Job Industries.Solution - Add a join table for each type of industry containingattributes (db is now not generic) OR add a new table with a IndustryType field and a XML field containing the industry specificattributes.If I go the XML way will this just make it complex and slow to query?If not, what is the best way to query an XML field?Thanks,Jack
I am having a problem with seaching my tables. On my asp.net page ihave 3 text boxes. One for an ID and NAME and ADDRESS. I want to beable to search a table by using all or any combination of the 3 tosearch. But i cant get it right. i am using c# and sql server.any help ideas would be a great helpthanks in advanceructions
i'm making a web page for a clinic.it needs to be able to search for patients by first name, surname, date of birth and patient number.i'm using visual web developer and i have my database, my data source and GridView grid.i want 4 text boxes for my first name, surname etc. when u click enter on any of them i want to retrieve all their data and display it in the gridview.at the moment i have one text box on the web page and through the "Configure data source" option on the grid view i can retrieve the specified data but for only this one item, e.g. SELECT * FROM [Patients] WHERE ([DOB] = @DOB). if i add another text box to my web page, and don't do anything to it, the query wont run. if i add and "AND" statement to the query, e.g. SELECT * FROM [Patients] WHERE (([DOB] = @DOB) AND ([FirstName] = @FirstName)), again it won'r run or return and data. any ideas on what i can do or where i'm going wrong. thanks
I have a table GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Speech] ( [SpeechId] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL CONSTRAINT PkSpeech_SpeechId PRIMARY KEY, [UniqueName] [varchar](52) NOT NULL, [NativeName] [nvarchar](52) NOT NULL, [Place] [nvarchar](52) NOT NULL, [Type] [smallint] NOT NULL, [LanguageId] [char](2) NOT NULL CONSTRAINT FkSpeech_LanguageId FOREIGN KEY (LanguageId) REFERENCES Language(LanguageId) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE, [SpeakerId] [int] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT FkSpeech_SpeakerId FOREIGN KEY (SpeakerId) REFERENCES Speaker(SpeakerId) ON DELETE CASCADE, [IsFavorite] [bit] NOT NULL, [IsVisible] [bit] NOT NULL, [CreatedDate] [datetime] NOT NULL DEFAULT GETDATE(), [ModifiedDate] [datetime] NULL ) Now I want to search the Table Speech Sometimes by : SpeechIdSometimes by : SpeakerIdSometimes by : LanguageIdSometimes by : SpeechId And LanguageIdSometimes by : SpeakerId And LanguageId All can have conditions with IsVisible, IsFavorite and Type columns. for example I need all Speeches withany particular SpeakerId and LanguageIdwith IsVisible equals to trueand IsFvaorite No Matterand Type equals to Audio For these type of queries I think the solution is GO CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sprocGetSpeech] @speechId int = NULL, @uniqueName varchar(52) = NULL, @nativeName nvarchar(52) = NULL, @place nvarchar(52) = NULL, @type smallint = NULL, @languageId char(2) = NULL, @speakerId int = NULL, @isFavorite bit = NULL, @isVisible bit = NULL AS SELECT SpeechId, UniqueName, NativeName, Place, Type, LanguageId, SpeakerId, IsFavorite, IsVisible, CreatedDate, ModifiedDate FROM Speech WHERE SpeechId = @speechId AND UniqueName = CASE WHEN @uniqueName IS NULL THEN [UniqueName] ELSE @uniqueName END AND NativeName = CASE WHEN @nativeName IS NULL THEN [NativeName] ELSE @NativeName END AND Place = CASE WHEN @place IS NULL THEN [Place] ELSE @place END AND Type = CASE WHEN @type IS NULL THEN [Type] ELSE @type END AND LanguageId = CASE WHEN @languageId IS NULL THEN [LanguageId] ELSE @languageId END AND SpeakerId = CASE WHEN @speakerId IS NULL THEN [SpeakerId] ELSE @speakerId END AND IsFavorite = CASE WHEN @isFavorite IS NULL THEN [IsFavorite] ELSE @isFavorite END AND IsVisible = CASE WHEN @isVisible IS NULL THEN [IsVisible] ELSE @isVisible END Can anyone tell me? Is it right way to do?Do you have any better solution?If my solution is better then Is there any performance loss with that query?
hello all..i have make a searching, but is not good. my code like that:Public Class getall Public Function getitem(ByVal id As String) As DataSet Dim con As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection("Data Source=BOYsqlexpress;Initial Catalog=GAMES;User ID=ha;Password=a") Dim ds As New DataSet() Dim adapter As New SqlDataAdapter("select * from [item] where name like '%" & id & "%'", con) Try con.Open() adapter.Fill(ds, "user") Return ds Catch ex As Exception Console.Write(ex.Message) Finally con.Close() con = Nothing End Try ' Next Return ds End Functionand class my item in database is containning dragon ball 3, counter strikeif i insert dragon, it can display dragon ball 3.but if i insert dragon 3, it not display dragon ball 3.it should display dragon ball 3 .how should i change my code?thx...
hello everyone i need C# code in wh we sent "UserID" to table named "Users" and if such "UserID" exists in "User" table we get his name from the table else we got message that no such record exists. i have tried to write that code ,it works only if the value exists . in case of no value an exception is thrown. please do sent me that c# code. thanks for your consideration.
Just wanted to run this idea past u all before I have a go at it.
I have two tables A & B that are similar to the below
Table A Name1 Name2 Name3 Tom Bill John Gary Harry Eric
TableB Name1 Name2 Name3 John Bill Tom Tom Eric john Leslie Philip Colin
What I wanted to do is see if the the records from tableA row 1 exist in tableB
As you can see they can appear in any order, partially or not at all.
What I propose to do is take tableA Name1 and see if it matches tableb row1 name 1 OR name 2 OR name 3 and if I find a match use a variable to assign the the value 1 (so I can then see if the match is full (score three) partial socre 1 and two or not at all (0)
Then I will need do the same for tableA row 2
Then goto row 2 of table a and start again.
Does this make sense? Are there beter ways of doing this.
hi i am working on sql server200.I m using "LIKE" to search the records.There is freetexttable and containstable table also.just like to know the difference between them.Could anyone provide me a good link regarding this??Thanks
I have a products table with product attributes in a second table, together they describe a full product. I have a product title, a list of providers, description text, and keywords. I would like to do a search across these fields, and so far my research has shown that the Full Text Search component of SQL Server is the way to go. However, I am not sure this will be possible based on what is installed on the hosted server, so I am wondering if there is a unique, cool way of doing this without Full Text Search?
i currently have a function and a storedpro in my sql database they are:CREATE PROCEDURE SearchCatalog (@PageNumber tinyint,@ProductsOnPage tinyint,@HowManyResults smallint OUTPUT,@AllWords bit,@Word1 varchar(15) = NULL,@Word2 varchar(15) = NULL,@Word3 varchar(15) = NULL,@Word4 varchar(15) = NULL,@Word5 varchar(15) = NULL)AS /* Create the temporary table that will contain the search results */CREATE TABLE #SearchedProducts(RowNumber SMALLINT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1), ProductID INT, Name VARCHAR(50), Description VARCHAR(1000), Price MONEY, ImagePath VARCHAR(50), Rank INT, ImageALT VARCHAR(100), Artist VARCHAR(50)) /* Populate #SearchedProducts for an any-words search */IF @AllWords = 0 INSERT INTO #SearchedProducts (ProductID, Name, Description, Price, ImagePath, ImageALT, Artist, Rank) SELECT Product.ProductID, Product.Name, Product.Description, Product.Price, Product.ImagePath, Product.ImageALT, Artist.ArtistName, 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word1, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word1, Description)+ 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word2, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word2, Description)+ 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word3, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word3, Description)+ 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word4, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word4, Description)+ 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word5, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word5, Description) AS TotalRank FROM Product INNER JOIN (Artist INNER JOIN AlbumSingleDetails ON Artist.ArtistID = AlbumSingleDetails.ArtistID) ON Product.ProductID = AlbumSingleDetails.ProductID ORDER BY TotalRank DESC /* Populate #SearchedProducts for an all-words search */IF @AllWords = 1 INSERT INTO #SearchedProducts (ProductID, Name, Description, Price, ImagePath, ImageALT, Artist, Rank) SELECT Product.ProductID, Product.Name, Product.Description, Product.Price, Product.ImagePath, Product.ImageALT, Artist.ArtistName, (3*dbo.WordCount(@Word1, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word1, Description)) * CASE WHEN @Word2 IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word2, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word2, Description) END * CASE WHEN @Word3 IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word3, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word3, Description) END * CASE WHEN @Word4 IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word4, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word4, Description) END * CASE WHEN @Word5 IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 3*dbo.WordCount(@Word5, Name)+dbo.WordCount(@Word5, Description) END AS TotalRank FROM Product INNER JOIN (Artist INNER JOIN AlbumSingleDetails ON Artist.ArtistID = AlbumSingleDetails.ArtistID) ON Product.ProductID = AlbumSingleDetails.ProductID ORDER BY TotalRank DESC /* Save the number of searched products in an output variable */SELECT @HowManyResults=COUNT(*) FROM #SearchedProducts WHERE Rank>0 /* Send back the requested products */SELECT ProductID, Name, Description, Price, ImagePath, ImageALT, Artist, RankFROM #SearchedProductsWHERE Rank > 0 AND RowNumber BETWEEN (@PageNumber-1) * @ProductsOnPage + 1 AND @PageNumber * @ProductsOnPageORDER BY Rank DESCand:CREATE FUNCTION dbo.WordCount(@Word VARCHAR(20),@Phrase VARCHAR(1000))RETURNS SMALLINTASBEGIN /* If @Word or @Phrase is NULL the function returns 0 */IF @Word IS NULL OR @Phrase IS NULL RETURN 0 /* Calculate and store the SOUNDEX value of the word */DECLARE @SoundexWord CHAR(4)SELECT @SoundexWord = SOUNDEX(@Word) /* Eliminate bogus characters from phrase */SELECT @Phrase = REPLACE(@Phrase, ',', ' ')SELECT @Phrase = REPLACE(@Phrase, '.', ' ')SELECT @Phrase = REPLACE(@Phrase, '!', ' ')SELECT @Phrase = REPLACE(@Phrase, '?', ' ')SELECT @Phrase = REPLACE(@Phrase, ';', ' ')SELECT @Phrase = REPLACE(@Phrase, '-', ' ') /* Necesdbory because LEN doesn't calculate trailing spaces */SELECT @Phrase = RTRIM(@Phrase) /* Check every word in the phrase */DECLARE @NextSpacePos SMALLINTDECLARE @ExtractedWord VARCHAR(20)DECLARE @Matches SMALLINT SELECT @Matches = 0 WHILE LEN(@Phrase)>0 BEGIN SELECT @NextSpacePos = CHARINDEX(' ', @Phrase) IF @NextSpacePos = 0 BEGIN SELECT @ExtractedWord = @Phrase SELECT @Phrase='' END ELSE BEGIN SELECT @ExtractedWord = LEFT(@Phrase, @NextSpacePos-1) SELECT @Phrase = RIGHT(@Phrase, LEN(@Phrase)-@NextSpacePos) END IF @SoundexWord = SOUNDEX(@ExtractedWord) SELECT @Matches = @Matches + 1 END /* Return the number of occurences of @Word in @Phrase */RETURN @MatchesENDmy database has many table but product is linkinked to albumsingledetails with productid in the albumsingledetails table, the the albumsingledetails table has the artistid in it which links to the artist table. I have tried searching for an artist but it does not find them!! can anyone see where i have gone wrong?
I want to search all of the employeeid #'s in the employee table for any mis-typed information. so if they put a . in the string i want to return that employee's info. as well as any letter a - z. I need to do this in sql and return it to a dataset for my crystal report. any ideas?
Hello,How do I search through the gridview? Would I do this at the sqldatasourcelevel?I figured that I sould search with the datatable.select but how do I accessthe datatable of the sqldatasource?I am using ASP.NET 2.0 with VB.Thanks for your helpJ
I need to search all user written SPs which have particular text in them. One way to do it is to open each SP in some notepad or word processor and search for the particular text.Is there any efficient way to do it ??
I'm trying to find out what modifies a certain table (yay for more debugging without documentation). Using some TSQL provided by a friend, I've searched through the stored procedures, and I've searched through the various pages in the web app, but the only references to the table are updates and selects (not inserts).
The table itself is intended as an archive for another table.
Unfortunatly, the documention for this web app is worthless, and the code has little to no comments to boot.
Is there any way to search through DTS packages aside from opening them each individually and looking at the parts?
I want to create a stored procedure which takes a project name and returns any project with a name similar or = to the input parameter. This is so the user can search for a project although the spelling may be incorrect or whatever.....
Any hints on how to start this? It seems that I could use SOUNDEX or DIFFERENCE, but I don't know where to start.
How can you search for the occurance of a whole word in a string? but not return any results that have the word as a substring.
For instance, if I search for the term 'scene' in a column. Then it will only return rows that have the word 'scene' and not those with the word 'scenery'. I've tried the following sql, but it relies on having text either side of the word as well. If the word 'scene' is on the begining or end of the cell then it is not returned.
SELECT Name, Description FROM tblWine WHERE Name LIKE '%[^a-zA-Z]scene[^a-zA-Z]%' OR Description LIKE '%[^a-zA-Z]scene[^a-zA-Z]%'
i have to make the following but i have no clue any help will be appreciated
i have to search through three tables based on user preferences.
the tablkes are author name, book name and topics.( i have created ttables and their relations)
now i want to the user to select the option from the drop down menu. The problem is how do i ascertain(dynamically) which table to search based on the action selected by the user. Thanks
I'm having problems constructing an SQL statement to find records from a user entered string searching record. a record consists of a comma separated string. for example:
user entered string: charts record: bars, graphs, charts
i've tried:
SELECT MI_FILENAME, MI_EXT, MI_KEYWORDS FROM MEDIA_ITEMS WHERE (MI_KEYWORDS IN ('bars'))
What I need to do is identify records from Table 2 that do not have an Activity in the Act_Listing field contained in Table 1. So for Part_ID=1927, code 33 exists in Table 1, but code 14 doesn't, so that record should be selected.
I need to search for a name of a company in the DB but the company name can be written in many formats such as ABC Inc. ABC international, Abc Ltd etc.
I basically want a return on everything that starts with Abc.
I have my WHERE clause so it reads customers.name LIKE '%ABC%' but that is not returning all of the records that I would expect it to.
This is the first database I have ever created, so please bear with me.
I've created a simple database with 1 column and about 80,000 rows. In each row is a word (basically a dictionary without definitions).
I have written a query which works, and is, as follows (you'll notice that i'm not the most original of people)
SELECT word FROM dbo.words WHERE word= 'hello'
This finds the word hello.
In excel I have a row with 25 letters and then a column with every single combination of letters from 3 to 10 lettered words. (It makes sense to me!)
This comes back with a lot of possibilities (thousands), but is great in the sense that when I change any of the 25 letters the entire column automatically updates.
What I am trying to do is then take all of these possibilities and compare them against the dictionary.
I have written a line in excel which automatically creates a cell a bit like this, for the first couple of thousand possibilities:
WHERE word= 'abc' or word= 'fgm' or word= 'klm' or word= 'pqr' or word= 'uvw' or word= 'bcd' or word= 'ghi' or word= 'lmn' or word= 'qrs' or word= 'vwx'
I then whack this into the query from above and off it goes. The only problem is that the search takes ages, and because of limitations in excel I can't put more than a thousand or so words in the cell.
I am certain there is a faster way of searching through all the possibilities, any help would be much appreciated.
hi all... how do i write my where clause if i wanna search BETWEEN something to something, but at the same time, find ALL if user send nothing (''), NOT searching for '' column... and also find date if they send a date, and if they dont send date, do not consider date at all(find all at any dates).. is this possible to in one where clause without any IF statement... thanks..
WHERE d.Ownership LIKE '%' + @ClientID +'%' AND d.WhsID LIKE '%' + @WhsFrom + '%' AND d.CustomLotNo LIKE '%' + @CustomlotnoFrom+ '%' AND d.LocID BETWEEN @LocFrom AND @LocTo AND d.ItemID LIKE '%'+ @ItemFrom + '%' AND substring(d.LocID,1,1) LIKE '%' + @ZoneFrom AND d.RecvDate <= @Date
Im trying to do a database query based on user input from a text field. I pulled apart the string that was entered into the search form and stored it in textArray. The problem I am having is when I include commmon words such as the, near, view and so on into the search field I end up with zero results. when I only search for less common words such as rocky and argentina for example the search works fine. at first I thought that maybe it was generating too many results and was screwing up but when i search for rocky it works and when i search for near rocky it doesnt.
I realize the code might not be the most efficient but here it is...
def getSearch(textArray,selectedCountry ) result = [] string = "" if selectedCountry != "Optional Field" string << "country = (?) and " end textArray.each do |x| if textArray[textArray.length - 1] == x string << "match(country,caption, keywords, notes) against (?) " else string << "match(country, caption, keywords, notes) against (?) and " end end result << string if selectedCountry != "Optional Field" result << selectedCountry end textArray.each do |x| result << x end result end
Im not sure if i supplied enough information but I am trying to finish this project soon so any type of responses would help. Also, if there is an easier way to do an sql search based off of what is entered into the search field please let me know. The reason I did this is because I wasn't sure how many words the user would be entering into the field. And without knowing this I could not hard code the conditions => so I wrote a helper method.
