Resources For ABSOLUTE Beginners
Jan 26, 2007
Seems to me like microsoft mentions learning, but it's never for beginners. I haven't found a single tutorial that says how to make a simple database step by step.
Does anybody know about a tutorial focused on teaching the very basics (a kind of "hello world" application) from setting up the new database with a few sample fields to "deploying" it (making it ready to be used)?
Please let me know.
Once I'm through with these first steps there seems to be a lot of helpful learning resources meant for experienced and expert users, but I'm not there yet...
Thanks,
Bernardo
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Oct 19, 2005
The followong statement is working
iif ([Measures].[Docsum]>500, "1","0")
But there is a need to count these Docsums
so
iif ([Measures].[Docsum]>500, Count[Docsum],"0")
but not this way
Can somebody help and explains, how to Count these sums
Thank's
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Sep 13, 2006
I have just started learning SQL server. Where from I start. I have downloaded SQL Management Studio & SQL Express Edition.
Now What should I do now ?
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May 20, 2004
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Hi,
I am following tutorials in a book to try and implememnt a basic select query using SQL.
However i am following all the instructions, which includes entering this header:
<%@ Page Language="VB" Explicit="True" Debug="True" %>
<%@ import Namespace="System.Data" %>
<%@ import Namespace="System.Data.SqlClient" %>
Then i am dragging a data grid onto my form, constructing a select query in query builder, however the resultamt code i get is totally different than the one in book.
The ideal poutcome refers to the SQL client, SQL reader etc, however in my code below, there is NO mention of SQL at all...simply dbconnection, IDatareader.
can anyone help me out here..I know it's probably soemthing simple.but I'm stumped, and I've followed everything in the book.
H
Function Page_Load() As System.Data.IDataReader
Dim connectionString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Ole DB Services=-4; Data Source=F:My Documents"& _
"shopping.mdb"
Dim dbConnection As System.Data.IDbConnection = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection(connectionString)
Dim queryString As String = "SELECT [Product].* FROM [Product]"
Dim dbCommand As System.Data.IDbCommand = New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand
dbCommand.CommandText = queryString
dbCommand.Connection = dbConnection
dbConnection.Open
Dim dataReader As System.Data.IDataReader = dbCommand.ExecuteReader(System.Data.CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)
Return dataReader
End Function
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Mar 22, 2001
I have "played" with DTS packages but I am now trying to do the following in an ActiveX VB script
Open a connection to database/table <---- Can't find how to do this!
Read a record from the table
Alter the content based on some rules
Post the record back to the table
Simple eh? If anyone has any examples or can point me to a good source of examples.
Many Thanks.
Geoff.
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Mar 30, 1999
Hi all,
I have just started getting stuck in to SQL Server and have a silly question - i cannot find an example trigger anywhere for
UPDATE
INSERT
DELETE
I know i can use the insered or deleted tables, but my TSQL doesn't seem to work.
Any assistance (in the form of an exmaple!) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Simon
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May 28, 2004
:) Hi dear fellow members,
I am a newbie to MS SQL. I already completed the installations on the SERVER side and CLIENT side. I have an inventory database in Ms Access that I want to transfer into MS SQL SERVER 2000. Is there anybody who can help me how to do it?
I would be very thankful to anybody who can help like me
who is new to SQL
Regards.
BOBOY PONCE
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Jul 23, 2005
This is probably straight forward, but let's see:Say I have a Family which includes an address field table and a relatedFamilyMembers table which includes an age field.I need to output a report on each Family where there is at least onefamily member with an age over 16.Any help gratefully received!
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Aug 21, 2007
Hi,
I just installed reporting services and now starting with the video tutorial for reporting services(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/express/aa718391.aspx)
In Video 10 and 11 some queries are used to demonstrate building reports. I would like to repeat the steps in the video but I need the SQL Queries used in those videos.
Does anyone have any idea where I can download those SQL queries in order to programm the same reports as shown in the videos?
Many thanks for your replies and best regards from Switzerland
Chris
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Dec 22, 2007
Hi,
Can anyone suggest me good books for learning sql server development ie stored procedures etc..
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Sep 4, 2006
I just started to learn Visual Basic 2005.NET. I have experience with VBA in Access and SQL Server.
I
now want to build applications (client/server) with VB & SQL
Server. Does anyone have a simple example with which I can start
learning?
Thank you in advance!
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Nov 26, 1999
Does anyone know how I can get just one record returned from a select statement - not by doing set rowcount, but saying I want, for example the third record returned.
I'm trying to do a stored procedure that does a select of current records that will reduce the output to roughly 24 records and then get a random record from this - I need to do it all in a stored procedure.
What I have so far is :
BEGIN
DECLARE @Count int
DECLARE @RowCount int
DECLARE @IDint
/* Randomise the Data */
SELECT @Count = Count(*) FROM MyTable WHERE fRotation = 1
SELECT @ID = Rand() * @Count
END
As you can see, @ID will hold a record no.
I cant use batch cursors as they are giving me problems - work for a short while and then they mess up.
Any ideas anyone?
Thanks
Rich Hopwood
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Oct 16, 2008
I create the cube and KPI successfully.Now want to define the "trend" in MDX.the problem is the trend is not linear, but a quadradic function, which means the kpi target is the highest point in the function.in order to get the "trend expression", to get the "absolute value" is needed (as to measure how near to the target point).but i browsed the operators available, there is no ||.
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Apr 5, 2008
I'm almost embarassed to ask such a simple question but I'm pretty new to SQL and want to the do the following SQL select. I have two tables:
WORK ORDER HEADER DETAILS (WORKH)
WorkOrderNumber | CustomerNumber | StartDate | EndDate
WORK ORDER LINES (WORKD)
WorkOrderNo | Service
I want to select all customer numbers that have a work order that includes a line with the service code XXXXX and a start date of YYYYYY and end date of ZZZZZZ. Note that the first field in each table contains the same data but is named differently. It's this that's causing me a headache.
Thanks in advance.
BB
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May 20, 2006
I just downloaded and installed Visual Basic Express Edition and SQL Server Express Edition. All I have in the Start menu is SQL Configuration Tools. My absolutely stupid question is, how do I get started with this?
I know a little bit about SQL from using SQL command line in Oracle, and I've built small databases before using Access. Where does this program fit into all of that? And what do I use and how can I get started with this program?
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Feb 10, 2008
Hi all,
I'm a user interface designer working for a small development shop in a government agency. My boss feels it would help our team out if I learned a bit more programming (I'm on that already in VS2k8, VB.NET), and some general database theory and practical knowledge. The more I learn about programming, the more my utter ignorance of databases proves to be an obstacle. We use SQL2k5, so I've decided to cut my teeth on that; I don't have the free time to learn something simpler and then graduate to SQL, so it is what it is.
So, I'm looking for a "Dumb Even for a Dummy" guide to database fundamentals, with a strong emphasis on SQL in particular. I slogged through the first 30 pages of this forum and found a couple of MSDN resources but nothing stuck me as being basic enough. I'm hoping someone can provide me with some "Go here, newb" resources to get me started.
Thanks in advance!
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Oct 13, 2006
Hi everyone.
Using C# 2005 EE with SQL 2005 EE
I am really new to SQL, got qns here.
Can my program with SQL database run correctly on another com using win xp home edition, with only C# 2005 EE installed?
Is it compulsory for every table in a database to have a primary key?
Can I extract a data from a specific cell in a database table(click button get data)? How do I go about doing it (the simplest n straight forward method)?
Many Thanks in advance.
Regards,
dragoncells.
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Jul 16, 2007
I have a table that expands and pushes down objects under it, i don't want this to happen i want my objects to use an absolute position so i can jiggle things how i want them - this doesn't seem to be an option in SSRS 2005?
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Jul 17, 2007
when i put a table beside 2 graphs on my report, as the table expands it pushs the bottom table down ONLY when when it's displayed on the final webpage. the preview features shows it as being correct.
how do i prevent the expanding table from pushing the tables BESIDE it down? i could understand if it was a table below it, but it's not.
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Nov 15, 2002
Hello there...
Pending receiving the full version from the higher powers at my work, I have downloaded the Evaluation version of SQL 2000, and set up an instance on my desktop machine. This was set up on an administrator account, and works fine.
My main aim with SQL 2000 is to upsize all the companies piddling little Access 97 databases into an SQL backend and keep the 97 frontends. I have migrated some of the tablesets into SQL, and linked to them in Access 97 and they work fine.
However, the problems are when I try and set up ODBC. When I enter ODBC as a different user on the server itself, the ODBC list of available SQL Servers shows me the correct server information - my PC ID no, followed by the server name. However, when I try and connect with another machine on the network, it only displays the PC ID no of the server, and not the server name. When I attempt to add the server with just the PC name, it doesnt find the server - same when I add the name of the database to the end of the PC ID no.
I'm sure there is something really basic I have not done, but I'm totally stumped now. I am using Windows Auth, and have set up the login of the other PC I am trying to connect, as an authorised user.
Please help me - I am just a doofus, please feel free to laugh at me...
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Apr 20, 2006
I cannot play any of these video files in RealPlayer or in Windows Media Player. Any suggestions? Anyone else having this problem?
Thanks,
Brian
Video Series: SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for Beginners
C00D1199: Cannot play the file
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Oct 1, 2000
Hi all,
I have a strange situation. I have a field in the database that has to be a string type field of around 4000 characters.
So naturally I setup the field as
type: varchar
length: 4000
However when I try to put any text in this field I find that I can put no more than 1023 characters of ascii text in there.
To check if this was a max record length prob I setup a test table with only 2 fields:
ID: int, PK, Identity
longVarchar: varchar, 4000
and tried to put some ascii text into the field called longVarchar. Again the most I could put in was 1023 characters!
Thinking that it could just be that SQL svr box that was wacky, I tried it on another one with the same result.
I have tried using other field types (nvarchar, char) and have found that they all could only hold 1023 characters max, no matter what how high I defined the size of the field.
Try it out yourselves and see if you get the same result. Any useful suggestions would really be appreciated.
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Mar 2, 2005
In SQL SERVER 2000,I had built a function that retrieved absolute day, month, and year between two dates.
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Feb 28, 2015
Have a bit of an SQL challenge in that I need to create a well performing view in SQL2008R2 which calculates hours remaining at any given point in time. This is not a simple sum but has some absolute values included.
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-- Basic simplified structure of maintenance and usage tables
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CREATE TABLE #Maintenance (Id int NOT NULL
IDENTITY(1, 1)
CONSTRAINT PK_Maintenance PRIMARY KEY,
MaintenanceDate smalldatetime NOT NULL, -- When maintenance hours are reset
HoursAvailable numeric(5, 1) NULL -- Available hours until next maintenance
)
[Code] ....
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-- Required output view so that at any given point in time I can determine hours remaining
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-- AtDate HoursAvailable
-- '01-Jan-2015 15:00' NULL -- before first maintenance hence unknown
-- '10-Jan-2015 10:00' 10.1 -- maintenance hours reset
-- '11-Jan-2015 07:30' 8.9 -- subtract 1.2
-- '11-Jan-2015 11:10' 2.9 -- subtract 6.0
-- '15-Jan-2015 00:00' -0.1 -- subtract 3.0
-- '01-Feb-2015 00:00' 12.2 -- maintenance hours reset
-- '02-Feb-2015 13:00' 10.0 -- subtract 2.2
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Apr 29, 2008
hi
i am learning SQL basic commands ( like , where, having, group by, order by , join ,and simple sub-query) and I got one exersice I cannot solve
table RECIPE has 3 columns , ( pizza ,ingredient,amount)
each pizza could use 1 / many ingredient, each ingredient could be used by 0 / 1/ many pizza, amount means the quantity of that ingredient used in certain pizza
question:
(List the ingredients, and for each ingredient, also list the pizza that contains the largest amount of this ingredient.)
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Raw data :
recipe
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pizza ingredient amount
--------------------------------
margarita spice 5
margarita cheese 120
ham ham 150
ham spice 5
napolitana anchovies 100
napolitana olives 75
napolitana spice 10
hawaiian ham 100
hawaiian pineapple 100
hawaiian spice 5
cabanossi cabanossi 150
cabanossi spice 10
siciliano onion 50
siciliano capsicum 75
siciliano olives 50
siciliano anchovies 50
siciliano spice 15
americano salami 120
americano pepperoni 75
americano spice 10
mexicano onion 75
mexicano capsicum 75
mexicano mushroom 50
mexicano chilli 25
mexicano spice 20
seafood seafood 200
seafood spice 5
garlic garlic 25
garlic spice 10
vegetarian onion 50
vegetarian capsicum 50
vegetarian mushroom 50
vegetarian peas 50
vegetarian tomato 50
vegetarian spice 5
mushroom mushroom 100
mushroom spice 5
special cheese 25
special tomato 25
special ham 25
special anchovies 25
special olives 25
special mushroom 25
special bacon 25
special egg 25
special pineapple 25
special cabanossi 25
special salami 25
special capsicum 25
special onion 25
special peas 25
special seafood 25
special spice 10
stagiony ham 75
stagiony mushroom 50
stagiony olives 50
stagiony anchovies 25
stagiony spice 10
====================================================
Query Results needed:
ingredient pizza amount
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anchovies napolitana 100
bacon special 25
cabanossi cabanossi 150
capsicum mexicano 75
capsicum siciliano 75
cheese margarita 120
chilli mexicano 25
egg special 25
garlic garlic 25
ham ham 150
mushroom mushroom 100
olives napolitana 75
onion mexicano 75
peas vegetarian 50
pepperoni americano 75
pineapple hawaiian 100
salami americano 120
seafood seafood 200
spice mexicano 20
tomato vegetarian 50
=============================================
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Apr 10, 2007
Hello,
I have a report that prints cards for customers. The body of the report contains an address box, letter body, followed by a table that contains all the people to be printed on the cards. If the number exceeds 6 people, another page is to be printed, with no address or letter body, but the table with the remainder of the people on it.
I have been able to get everything to work except for the location of the table on the subsequent pages. They do not appear at the bottom as they do on the first page, but at the top of the page. I've tried using a rectangle as a container for the table, with no luck.
I seem to remember doing this in the past, but as projects get shelved for an extended period of time, the technical knowledge tends to fade.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Oct 2, 2007
We are facing some issues with SSIS and thought if you could be of some help.
Actually, instead of Deploying our SSIS projects we copy the SSIS files to a different server from where we execute the SSIS Packages. The reason being, we have a Core Version of the application and this is deployed to different markets and subsequent customisations are performed in the market specific version of the Packages. The problem is although we have a Package Configuration Xml File for our Connection object, the first time when we copy the Packages, we have to manually open each of the Package and change the URL of the Xml File for Configuration. I read through some of the articles on the internet and came to know that the Package Configuration does not support relative path and only absolute path is possible.
Can you please share some of your suggestions on the above problem.
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Apr 26, 2007
Hi,
I have a table with a BLOB column, and I need to populate this table including the BLOB column (image type in the database).
What I have done is:
1. use a flat file transform to read a .csv file which specifies the names of the files that store the binary contents for the BLOB column for each row.
2. use an Import Column Transform to read the binary files.
3. use an OLE DB Dest transform to dump the data into my destination table.
I got the error saying:
Error: 0xC02090BB at XXXX, Import Column [1]: Opening the file ".diagram1.bin" for reading failed. The file was not found.
I guess this is because my file "diagram1.bin" is not in the current path? (The current path can be found by "System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() call, in my case it is "c:program filesmicrosoft visual studio 0common7IDE".)
My question is: how to determine the directory path information of the package I am running?
Thanks!
Wenbiao
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Feb 19, 2007
Help!!!
I want to install SQLExp2K5 with Advanced Services on a standalone basis on my Dell Inspiron XPS laptop (Win XP sp2, .NET 2.0; 2gb RAM; 8mb broadband; hardware firewall/router) so that I can learn SQL/VB/VWD, and want to use SQL E 2K5 without internet connectivity (at least until I know what the hell I'm doing!)
Really confused as to what component(s), and services I should/should not install - so I've listed my questions below:
1. Service Account: As I'm not on / dont have a domain, i presume using a domain user account is not an option for me. Should I use the Local Service account ? If so, what are/can be the issues in doing so?
2. Authentication Mode: Is Windows Authentication the one to use for a standalone install?; how would I enable the "sa" account and set an "sa" password? In fact, do I even need an"sa" account / password for a standalone, non internet connected install?
3. Components at install: Is it OK to install all components first off?
4. IIS: Is it possible to install IIS and not allow it access to the internet (or is this a stupid question -bearing in mind I dont really know what IIS is/does)
5: Business Intelligence Development Suite: How do I add BIDS once (IF) I manage to install SQLExp2K5-Adv.Ser,?
6. SQLExp2K5 Books on-line: Am I right in thinking that I should install this after installing SQLExp2K5?
7: Visual Basic Express/Visual Web Developer Express: Do these need to be configured seperately to work with SQLExp2K5?
Sorry about the length of this post, but have tried to be as clear as possible. Also apologise in advance for silly/stupid questions :)
All help and advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
sqlexpressbeginner
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May 20, 2015
We have the customer requirement to display the footer of a SSRS Report fixed at the absolute bottom of a DIN A4 format page. The footer contains information like company address and stuff.
I searched quite a while on this topic and only found workarounds for SQL Server 2005 with Custom Code in the SSRS Report to calculate the size of the body content and then insert some empty lines to get the space needed to push the footer to the bottom of the page. But this won't work in SQL Server 2012. And I wasn't able to figure out how to achieve this yet.
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Nov 10, 2003
I used SqlConnection/SqlDataReader to read data from SQL Server 2000 in my ASP.NET project, but I found that the CPU usage is too high, and I used SQL Query Analyzer to run the same SQL statement, The CPU usage is the half of the previous, is there anyone can tell me why? Thank you!
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May 8, 2006
Hi everyone!Being new the SQL, I wanted to ask everyone if there are good resources out there that they use? I could use all the help I can get! Books, links, websites, etc.Recently my friend sent me this, I found it informative and best of all, free! https://store.pentontech.com/index.cfm?s=9&promocode=qe2165f7
Thanks in advance for your help!- Lizzy
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Jul 5, 2001
Sometimes logging in to SQL 7 I get 'Memory resources not available...' and
log in process terminates. Do I need to up number of locks !
If so, how ! Pls. suggest any other ideas !
I have 2g ram, 4 CPUs NT 4 SP5
Thanks,
Rick
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