I looked in what appeared to be pertinent threads, but found no satisfaction (I realize you can't always get what you want, but if I try this time, I've found that I can't even seem to get what I need ??? ).
OK, seriously folks...
I have a batch job on windows NT that fires off a series of bcp operations to export data from tables to flat files as a part of daily processing.
If, for some reason, the bcp fails, is there a way to catch the failure in the batch file? Presently we are seeing the batch file attempt a bcp, which fails (due to a general network error, or something fun like that) and then go skipping happily along to the next bcp without telling us of the failure.
Select employeeID as id, startDt as startDate from Table1 union all Select CustomerID as id, startDt as startDate from Table2 order by startDt
This works fine, unfortunately, my problem is I only want to display the first latest customer. In a Union All, how do i distinguish whether I'm ordering the table it is trying to union or the actual unioned table tiself?
For example, this does not work.
Select employeeID as id, startDt as startDate from Table1 union all Select top 1 CustomerID as id, startDt as startDate from Table2 order by startDt desc order by startDt
hello, I have 2 tables which contain a lot of articles, and they have same structure. what I want to do is that, select top 10 articles from each table and then union those records to another table, also I need to order these articles in desc order by their added date before i union them.
what I know is that for union sql phrase , there is only one order by is allowed, so how could I order those 2 tables before i union them.
I am having problems retrieving some data from a table,Tablename = "Magazine"ColumnsMagazineID MagazineName12 Times3 People4 National Geographic5 US6 Sports IllustratedI am trying to bind a dropdownlist in .net with the 4 newest magazinesand the empty magazine.SELECT TOP 1 MagazineID, MagazineName from MagazineUNIONSELECT TOP 4 MagazineID, MagazineName from MagazineOrder by MagazineName;The first part returns1,''The second part returns1,''2,'Times'3,'People'4,'National Geographic'Given the above data, how can I get the sql results to display5 'US'4 'National Geographic'3 'People'2 'Times'1 ''Essentially i need to do the followingSelect Top 1 MagazineID, MagazineName from Magazine Order by MagazineIDand add to itSelect Top 4 MagazineID, MagazineName from Magazine Order by MagazineIDdesc
i have 2 selects:select * from view_veiculos where nome_marc like '%fiat%' and ano='2001'union select * from view_veiculos where nome_marc like '%fiat%'when i execute it on sql server, i get the following results:id 1 _______ ano 2004id 2 _______ ano 2001the row with ano 2004 is before the row with ano 2001the problem is that id like it to be ordered following the select order, which means that 2001 should be displayed before 2004,like that:id 1 _______ ano 2001id 2 _______ ano 2004all the results from the first select from the query need to be placed before the results from the second query.how can i make it ?thanks for all
I am trying to use dynamic ORDER BY with UNION in a stored procedure but I keep getting this error message:
ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if the statement contains a UNION, INTERSECT or EXCEPT operator.
The ORDER BY works fine without the UNION, and the UNION works fine without the dynamic ORDER BY (just putting an ORDER BY works fine)
Here is the whole query in case this helps, thank you
SELECT leave_id, leave_type, annualLeave.from_date, convert(nvarchar(10), annualLeave.request_date, 103) as dated, convert(nvarchar(10), annualLeave.from_date, 103) as from_date, convert(nvarchar(10), annualLeave.to_date, 103) as to_date, annualLeave.canceled, annualLeave.working_days, staff.staff_name, Case WHEN annualLeave.canceled = 'True' THEN 'canceledPO' WHEN annualLeave.authorized_mng is not NUll AND annualLeave.authorized_hr is not Null THEN 'greenItem' ELSE '' END AS pendingStyle, Case WHEN annualLeave.canceled = 'True' THEN 'canceledPO' ELSE '' END AS historyStyle FROM annualLeave INNER JOIN staff ON annualLeave.staff = staff.staff_id WHERE staff.department like @Department and (@staffID is Null or annualLeave.staff = @StaffID) and (@Canceled is Null or annualLeave.canceled = @Canceled) and (@AuthorizedMng is Null or annualLeave.authorized_mng is Null) and (@AuthorizedHR is Null or annualLeave.authorized_hr is Null) and (@StartingDate is Null or annualLeave.from_date > @Startingdate) and (@IsPastLeave is Null or annualLeave.from_date < @IsPastLeave) and (@EndingDate is Null or annualLeave.to_date <= @EndingDate)
UNION
SELECT leave_id, leave_type, annualLeave.from_date, convert(nvarchar(10), annualLeave.request_date, 103) as dated, convert(nvarchar(10), annualLeave.from_date, 103) as from_date, convert(nvarchar(10), annualLeave.to_date, 103) as to_date, annualLeave.canceled, annualLeave.working_days, staff.staff_name, Case WHEN annualLeave.canceled = 'True' THEN 'canceledPO' WHEN annualLeave.authorized_mng is not NUll AND annualLeave.authorized_hr is not Null THEN 'greenItem' ELSE '' END AS pendingStyle, Case WHEN annualLeave.canceled = 'True' THEN 'canceledPO' ELSE '' END AS historyStyle FROM annualLeave INNER JOIN staff ON annualLeave.staff = staff.staff_id WHERE staff.department like @Department and (@staffID is Null or annualLeave.staff = @StaffID) and (@Canceled is Null or annualLeave.canceled = @Canceled) and (@AuthorizedMng is Null or annualLeave.authorized_mng is Null) and (@AuthorizedHR is Null or annualLeave.authorized_hr is Null) and annualLeave.leave_type like 'Leave in lieu' ORDER BY CASE @OrderDir WHEN 'ASC' THENannualLeave.from_date END ASC, CASE @OrderDir WHEN 'DESC' THEN annualLeave.from_date END DESC
I have the following query and for some reason when I try to run it, it tells me there is an incorrect syntax near the 'union' statement. Can you tell me what is wrong with this?
SELECT MDN, DATEPART(d,CallDate) as CallDate, DATEPART(hh,CallDate) as Hour, sum(ceiling((Cast(DurationSeconds as Decimal)/60))) as Minutes FROM VoiceCallDetailRecord WHERE DurationSeconds > 0 and CallDate >= '02/19/2007' and calldate < '03/19/2007' and COS = 3 AND (((CONVERT(varchar, CallDate, 108) Between '21:00:00' AND '23:59:59') OR (CONVERT(varchar, CallDate, 108) Between '00:00:00' AND '07:00:00')) OR DATEPART(weekday, CallDate) in (1,7)) and NOT (Left(Endpoint,3) IN ('011') or (Left(Endpoint,4) IN ('1340','1876','1868','1809', '1246','1242','1780','1403', '1250','1604','1807','1519', '1204','1506','1709','1867', '1902','1705','1613','1416', '1905','1902','1514','1450', '1418','1819','1306','1867'))) order BY DATEPART(d,CallDate), DATEPART(hh,CallDate), MDN UNION SELECT MDN, DATEPART(d,CallDate) as CallDate, DATEPART(hh,CallDate) as Hour, sum(ceiling((Cast(DurationSeconds as Decimal)/60))) as Minutes FROM ZeroChargeVCDRecord WHERE DurationSeconds > 0 and CallDate >= '02/19/2007' and calldate < '03/19/2007' and COS = 3 AND (((CONVERT(varchar, CallDate, 108) Between '21:00:00' AND '23:59:59') OR (CONVERT(varchar, CallDate, 108) Between '00:00:00' AND '07:00:00')) OR DATEPART(weekday, CallDate) in (1,7)) and NOT (Left(Endpoint,3) IN ('011') or (Left(Endpoint,4) IN ('1340','1876','1868','1809', '1246','1242','1780','1403', '1250','1604','1807','1519', '1204','1506','1709','1867', '1902','1705','1613','1416', '1905','1902','1514','1450', '1418','1819','1306','1867'))) order BY DATEPART(d,CallDate), DATEPART(hh,CallDate), MDN
I'm currently have a problem with a query using a top clause. When I run it by itself as a single query, I have no problems and the results are valid. However, if I try duplicate the query after a union clause, the order by ... desc doesn't order properly.
The following is the query I'm using along with the results. Then I'll have the query I was trying to unite and the results (date ranges selected were the same in both):
QUERY 1
select top 1 (s.ldate), v.mdtid, po.odometer, pi.odometer, (pi.odometer-po.odometer) as 'Total Miles'
from EventStrings ES
JOIN schedules s ON ES.SchId=S.SchId JOIN vehicles v ON v.vehicleid=es.vehicleid JOIN Events PO ON PO.schid=es.schid AND PO.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId AND po.activity=4 JOIN Events PI ON PI.schid=es.schid AND PI.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId AND pi.activity=3
WHERE es.providerid in (0,1,4) and s.ldate>=? and s.ldate<=? and v.mdtid=20411
order by s.ldate desc
RESULTS 1
DATE MDT IDPU Odometer DO Odometer Total Miles 12/6/2007 2041112810.6 12874.5 63.9
QUERY 2 (with Union)
select top 1 (s.ldate), v.mdtid, po.odometer, pi.odometer, (pi.odometer-po.odometer) as 'Total Miles'
from EventStrings ES
JOIN schedules s ON ES.SchId=S.SchId JOIN vehicles v ON v.vehicleid=es.vehicleid JOIN Events PO ON PO.schid=es.schid AND PO.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId AND po.activity=4 JOIN Events PI ON PI.schid=es.schid AND PI.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId AND pi.activity=3
WHERE es.providerid in (0,1,4) and s.ldate>=[From Date,Date] and s.ldate<=[To Date,Date] and v.mdtid=20411
Union
select top 1 (s.ldate), v.mdtid, po.odometer, pi.odometer, (pi.odometer-po.odometer) as 'Total Miles'
from EventStrings ES
JOIN schedules s ON ES.SchId=S.SchId JOIN vehicles v ON v.vehicleid=es.vehicleid JOIN Events PO ON PO.schid=es.schid AND PO.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId AND po.activity=4 JOIN Events PI ON PI.schid=es.schid AND PI.EvStrId=ES.EvStrId AND pi.activity=3
WHERE es.providerid in (0,1,4) and s.ldate>=? and s.ldate<=? and v.mdtid=2642
order by s.ldate desc
RESULTS 2
DATE MDT ID PU OdometerDO Odometer Total Miles 4/10/2007 20411 1207.21252.5 45.3 1/2/2007 2642 193652.6193817 164.4
As you can see, the results are sorted very differently. Is there any way to have the order by apply to both queries?
SELECT *FROM tblCountryWHERE Country_Id = 26UNION ALLSELECT *FROM tblCountryWHERE Country_Id <26--order by country_Namei need to select country_id =26 and then the rest i want them ordered byname.if i put order by country_name, the country_id 26 isn't displayed as thefirst one.is there anyway to apply the order by only to the second select not thewhole?*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
All,I've seen several posts regarding using UNION or UNION ALL to mashtogether two or more resultsets into a single result set, but can'tseem to find enough info here to help me answer my particularquestion.I have a stored procedure that gets the column names in a particularformat (i.e. "chassis_id"|"chassis_description"|"modify_date") as wellas actual data for a given table (in a quote-separated, pipe-delimitedmanner i.e. "1"|"description for the chassis"|"2004-09-08").I'd like to get both of these resultsets and mash them together. Thisworks, but when I need to order the second resultset (i.e. select *from chassis order by chassis_id), SQL Server returns an errorcomplaining about the chassis_id column name (invalid column name'chassis_id') in the Order By clause.From what I can tell, I'm using the UNION and Order By in correctly,but I'm not sure exactly what's wrong with it. If I take out the OrderBy, everything works great. Although I would like to be able to ordermy second resultset (in the same sproc) if possible.The actual queries I'm running are actually quite long, but here's onethat's a bit shorter to help illustrate:SELECT '"app_group_id"|"app_group_name"|"create_date"|"create_by"|"modify_date"|"modify_by"'UNION ALLSELECT + ISNULL(CONVERT(varchar,app_group_id), '') + '|'+ SUBSTRING(RTRIM(LTRIM(CONVERT(varchar, 1))), 1,0)+ '"' + ISNULL(CONVERT(varchar(1000), +REPLACE(CONVERT(nvarchar(4000),app_group_name), '"', '""')), '') +'"|'+ SUBSTRING(RTRIM(LTRIM(CONVERT(varchar, 2))), 1,0)FROM app_grouporder by app_group_idThank for any help on this./bc
I need to run two select statment on the same tabel and i Use Union to join the result comes from the first table with the one comes from the second one. but one i use order by union dose not work.
my question is : How Can i run the two select statment on the same table and join the results and order each select?
my queries: Select ProductID,ProductSerial,ProductDate Where productID = @ProductID Order by ProductID
Union Select ProductID,ProductSerial,ProductDate Where productID = @ProductID Order by ProductID
I have the following UNION ALL statement that is my attempt to gather data for the past 5 weekdays (adding a "dummy" row for today's data).
I want the final output to end up in descending order, so for today, I would want today first, then Tuesday, then Monday, then Friday, then Thursday (provided there is data for each sequential day - if not, you get the idea, I want to select back to get the latest 5 days, most recent to oldest).
This select fails, because it doesn't like the ORDER BY in the subqueryselect CASE WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Monday' THEN 'MON' WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Tuesday' THEN 'TUES' WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Wednesday' THEN 'WED' WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Thursday' THEN 'THUR' WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Friday' THEN 'FRI' END AS Dow, 'N/A' AS Freight UNION ALL (select top 4 CASE WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Monday' THEN 'MON' WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Tuesday' THEN 'TUES' WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Wednesday' THEN 'WED' WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Thursday' THEN 'THUR' WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Friday' THEN 'FRI' END as DOW, CAST(CONVERT(int, (Freight * 100)) as VARCHAR(10)) as Freight from Northwind.dbo.orders where employeeid = 9 order by [OrderDate] desc )
I know you can't use an ORDER BY in a subquery, UNLESS the subquery also uses a TOP n (which this one does)...but does anyone know why this isn't liking my code?
I got the select to work the way I want it to by doing the following (really UGLY) code...SELECT U.DOW, U.Freight FROM ((select GETDATE() as [OrderDate], CASE WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Monday' THEN 'MON' WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Tuesday' THEN 'TUES' WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Wednesday' THEN 'WED' WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Thursday' THEN 'THUR' WHEN DATENAME(dw, GETDATE()) = 'Friday' THEN 'FRI' END AS Dow, 'N/A' AS Freight ) UNION ALL (select h.OrderDate as [OrderDate], h.DOW, h.Freight FROM (select top 4 [OrderDate] as [OrderDate], CASE WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Monday' THEN 'MON' WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Tuesday' THEN 'TUES' WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Wednesday' THEN 'WED' WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Thursday' THEN 'THUR' WHEN DATENAME(dw, [OrderDate]) = 'Friday' THEN 'FRI' END as DOW, CAST(CONVERT(int, (Freight * 100)) as VARCHAR(10)) as Freight from Northwind.dbo.orders where employeeid = 9 order by [OrderDate] desc ) H)) U order by OrderDate descbut am still confounded about why my original sub-select is rejected with such impunity.
My confusion seems likely related to understanding the set theory or basic concepts of the building of the select/Union rather than the way I am using the ORDER BY syntax, but I just can't seem to explain it to myself.
This query works perfectly and orders by just as I need
Code: Select '1st' As [Type], #Uno.ID #Uno.Address, #Uno.shippingInfo FROM #Uno
[Code] ....
However, when I use it in a Union All so I can pull data from 2 diff tables, the order by statement no longer works. How can I order by data in 2 tables?
Code: Select '1st' As [Type], #Uno.ID #Uno.Address, #Uno.shippingInfo FROM #Uno
I'm trying to write a UNION statement with 2 selects and can't figure out for the life of me how to do it.
select top 10 * from tblusers ORDER BY dateJoined UNION select top 10 * from tblusers ORDER BY lastLogin
The union works fine without the order by's, but I really need the order by's in there and I don't understand why its so difficult to do. Surely there must be some other strategy?
I am trying to combine 2 queries, each with their own 'order by' and I am having trouble.
This is just an example, not what I'm trying to do, my query is more elaberate but looks simular to this.
SELECT TOP 10 *, 'FieldA' AS SortedBy FROM TableA Order By FieldA Desc UNION ALL SELECT TOP 10 Precent *, 'FieldB' AS SortedBy FROM TableA Order By FieldB Asc
Anyway not to get the following error? Server: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 34 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'UNION'.
Hi, Can anyone help as to how to get this to work? dbo.parseInt is a Function which sorts Alpha Numerically. If I removed the top part of the UNION, the Procedure works fine.
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.ByJobNoAlphaNumeric as SELECT 0 AS JobID, '<All Jobs>' AS JobNo UNION SELECT JobID, JobNo FROM tbl ORDER BY dbo.parseInt(JobNo)
i have the following union statement, which works like a charm:SELECT [Name], [EventID] AS [ItemID], [TourID], [Date], NULL AS [StartDate], [Date] AS [SortDate], [Type] FROM [Events] WHERE [TourID] IS NULL AND AccessLevel <= @AuthenticationLevel UNION SELECT [Name], [TourID] AS [ItemID], [TourID], NULL AS [Date], [StartDate], [StartDate] AS [SortDate], '2' AS [Type] FROM [Tours]WHERE AccessLevel <= @AuthenticationLevel ORDER BY [SortDate]
now i want to ad a limit to this statement, but i can't get it working. i have tried this:SELECT * FROM (SELECT [Name], [EventID] AS [ItemID], [TourID], [Date], NULL AS [StartDate], [Date] AS [SortDate], [Type] FROM [Events] WHERE [TourID] IS NULL AND AccessLevel <= @AuthenticationLevel UNION SELECT [Name], [TourID] AS [ItemID], [TourID], NULL AS [Date], [StartDate], [StartDate] AS [SortDate], '2' AS [Type] FROM [Tours]WHERE AccessLevel <= @AuthenticationLevel) ORDER BY [SortDate] LIMIT 2 but i keep getting an error message saying "Incorrect syntax near the keyword "ORDER". what am i doing wrong?
I'm trying to get the results from three different tables, where they have some of the same results. I'm only interested in where they match and then trying to order by date (that's in three columns - M, D, Y). I read previous post in 9/07 but the result doesn't seem to order correctly. It does not have any rhyme or reason to the outputed results as it bounces back and forth through Oct, Nov and Dec posting and throughout all three tables. Here's my query below. Any ideas how I can get my ordering correct for all three tables to display all Oct, all Nov and all Dec?
Thanks so much
select date3, date2, date1, who, what from ( select date3, date2, date1, who, what from shows union select date3, date2, date1, who, what from shares union select date3, date2, date1, who, what from soiree ) a order by date3, date2, date1
I also want to order by date but when I do that it doesn't order correctly because of the conversion to char data type (for example, it puts 6/15/05 before 9/22/04 because it only looks at the first number(s) and not the year). If I try to cast it back to smalldatetime in the order by clause it tells me that ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if the statement contains a UNION operator. I get the same message if I try putting just "r.RRDate" in the ORDER BY clause. It's not that big of a deal - I can lose the formatting on the date if I need to to get it to sort correctly, but this query gets used frequently and I'd like to keep the formatting if possible.
Hi, I need to get first entries orderd by datetime asc, but I need the newest of this block returned first. Imagine to have some entries:
08:00 ... 09:00 ... 10:00 ... .... ... 15:00 16:00 17:00 .... I want to get the first 3 but the highest in time first. Like this: 10:00 ... 09:00 ... 08.00 ...
I never paid much attention to this before but I noticed this today in a new table I was creating.
For tables defined in the tabular model the table properties have something like SELECT Blah FROM TableName ORDER BY Blah Then in the tabular model the table's data is in the same order it was ordered by in the data source for the table.
I have a date table I setup and I noticed it is NOT respecting the sort order.
I have it sorted by DateID which sorts with the oldest date first and newest date as last row.However, the table that is imported and stored in the data model is not in that order.
I can of course manually sort the rows in BIDS/DataTools, but I find this discrepancy odd.
Would this have negative impacts on the EARLIER function for example if the data rows are not in the order specified?
I'm trying to get a SQL 7 and 6.5 DB to interact, but while there is no problem in SQL7, I cannot create a table called "Public" or a field called "Primary"!! Does anyone know why this might be and if so where I might get a list of any other "invalid" names??
I'm trying to call a Stored Procedure from a Inline Table-Valued Function. Is it possible? If so can someone please tell me how? And also I would like to call this function from a view. Can it be possible? Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks
I started with an inline table returning function with a hard coded input table name. This works fine, but my boss wants me to generalize the function, to give it in input table parameter. That's where I'm running into problems.
In one forum, someone suggested that an input parameter for a table is possible in 2012, and the example I saw used "sysname" as the parameter type. It didn't like that. I tried "table" for the parameter type. It didn't like that.
The other suggestion was to use dynamic sql, which I assume means I can no longer use an inline function.
This means switching to the multi-line function, which I will if I have to, but those are more tedious.
Any syntax for using the inline function to accomplish this, or am I stuck with multi-line?
A simple example of what I'm trying to do is below:
Create FUNCTION [CSH388102].[fnTest] ( -- Add the parameters for the function here @Source_Tbl sysname ) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN ( select @Source_Tbl.yr from @Source_Tbl )
Error I get is:
Msg 1087, Level 16, State 1, Procedure fnTest, Line 12 Must declare the table variable "@Source_Tbl".
If I use "table" as the parameter type, it gives me:
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure fnTest, Line 4 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'table'. Msg 137, Level 15, State 2, Procedure fnTest, Line 12 Must declare the scalar variable "@Source_Tbl".
I have a query which does 3 selects and Union ALLs each to get a final result set. The performance is unacceptable - takes around a minute to run. If I remove the Union All so that the result sets are returned individually it returns all 3 from the query in around 6 seconds (acceptable performance).
Any way to join the result sets together without using Union All.
Each result set has exactly the same structure returned...
Query below [for reference]...
WITH cte AS ( SELECT A.[PoleID], ISNULL(B.[IsSpanClear], 0) AS [IsSpanClear], B.[SurveyDate], ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY A.[PoleID] ORDER BY B.[SurveyDate] DESC) rownum FROM[UT_Pole] A LEFT OUTER JOIN [UT_Surveyed_Pole] B ON A.[PoleID] = B.[PoleID]
Is there a way to attach a single record to a Select expression without another table?
Here's my case: I am developing a Select query for a report. The report has to show a row for each month, but not all months are necessarily represented in the data, so the result is a report with some of the months missing. Can't have that. To "force" the appearance of all months, I'd like to UNION my Select query to "dummy" records for each month with zeros in the data fields, or something like that. But I'd like to avoid creating a table just to hold the months for the Union. Is there a way to attach records to the result of a Select without those records coming from a table? I'd like to be able to say something like this:
"Do this SELECT. Now, append a row with the following values..."
I have three tables "UNIONED" and I want the this inserted into a table.
INSERT INTO mytable (A, B, C, D, E) SELECT A, B, C, D, E FROM (SELECT * FROM temp_PARTS1 UNION SELECT * FROM temp_PARTS2) UNION (SELECT A, B, C, D, E FROM a_lot_of_parts) GROUP BY A,B,C,D,E
This part alone works just like I want it:
(SELECT * FROM temp_PARTS1 UNION SELECT * FROM temp_PARTS2) UNION (SELECT A, B, C, D, E FROM a_lot_of_parts)
I just want it inserted inte stated columns in my table.
I've stared so much at this I'm "homeblind", ie I can't see the forest because of all the trees...
