Hi there,The age old question of creating a unique alphanumeric value automatically like ABC0001, ABC0002 Is it possible to do this automatically? That is, without having to update it which will slow the db down horribly?
I would like to get the primary key values in a DML CREATE TRIGGER as follows: CustomerID = 12 AND InvoiceID = 50 I create the DML trigger for UPDATE and DELETE only, how do I retrieve the values as above ? Jon Galloway provided a sample in http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2008/01.aspx but the Primary Key Field and Primary Key Value were inserted into separate columns while I need to combine the Primary Key Field and Primary Key Value into 1 single field, using his example, I want to form the primary key as: ScoreId = 423 ScoreId = 3064 etc. Note that his example only show a single primary key in a table whereas I need to handle multiple primary keys in a table.
I have two practice tables I have created and want to export the values of one into the source table. I want to know if I can export into a table and have the destination table automatically give a primary key value to a record? I haven't been able to figure this out even after fiddling with the "Enable identity insert" checkbox under the Column Mappings tab. I have created source tables with and without primary keys and neither works because of the fact that I need to have a value for a primary key in order to INSERT into the destination.
Do I have to copy the source records into a staging table and assign the PK values myself by hand? This can't be the answer.
How to auto increment an alphanumeric Primary Key in SQL? :( Because I want to add something like this in the Primary Key, for example i'll add a new data with an alphanumeric value of ABC-0001, then I'll add another 1, and it auto increments to ABC-0002 and so on.. How can I do it? And if I'll add a new alpha character in the Primary Key field, for example DEF-0001, then I'll add another and it auto increments to 002, and so on, and it will go back to 0001 if i'll use another combination of alpha characters. for example, i'll add a new alpha character AAA, will it go back to 0001 or it will continue? T___T I hope u get my point.. I want my table to look like this if i have added the dataABC-0001ABC-0002DEF-0001DEF-0002AAA-0001then if il add a new 1, for example ABCit will auto increment to 0003 in the same field, it will look like this after addingABC-0001ABC-0002ABC-0003DEF-0001DEF-0002AAA-0001Will it be possible? :(
I have a column called firstname ..in that it stores value like this
john smith andrew jr jim sr andrew bar tina *^ don $%
I need to retrieve all those rows where name consists of non alphabets...for example 5 and 6 has non alphabets..
I am using PATINDEX('%[^a-z]%',Firstname) function but if it finds space between names it is considering as error..I would like to find only non alphabets in name ..space is fine..is there any function to find out?
I need to generate random strings each of length 7 characters and update it in a table that contains employee data.For example. There is table called as Employee. It has Id, FirstName, LastName & Email as the columns. I need to mask the real names. So i have to generate random characters between a-z unique for individual records and update it in the table.
I went through some websites for generating random characters. These provide a 7 or 8 character random letters. URL...But i do need to update 2 columns of an entire table with random characters.
Trying to use LIKE / NOT LIKE to identify values that contain any alphanumeric characters outside of A-Z e.g £%$^&*_-{[@ etc etc
The field should contain only values between A-G with a numberic e.g ABCD1234567... but some rows have characters such as above, some have spaces (weeps) , and some have letters outside the A-G range ....
Hi, I am using SQL Server 2000. In database i am having one column named Address which contains full address of the customer. While searching i want to ignore starting numeric or alphanumeric values. Kinly guide how I can ignore numeric or alphanumeric values while searching the data.
Is it possible to write a sql statement to skip aplpha numeric values? I got a field containing these values; 20, 70, 150, 140, 100, KORT, 90, 180, 160. And I'm trying to check if any value is bigger than 175 (@Limit), but I want to skip the value 'KORT'. So is it possible to check if a value is numeric or not? ISNULL( CONVERT(int, ProductVariant.Size), 0) > @Limit Regards, Sigurd
I want to search for alphanumeric values between an upper and lower bound in a sql database.For example: search for a serial number like pvf-456-3b. Upper bound is q, lower bound is g.I should then get every serial number starting with g - q.If possible the bounds should be more specific like "search for serial number between gt2 and qy"Can anybody help me out?
I am having a table which contain data in below form
id startvalue endvalue
1 12:00a 12:29a
2 12:30a 12:59a
3 1:00a 1:29a
4 1:00p 1:29p
5 2:00a 2:29a
Through SQL query I want to select the id column value for the row returned for the following query
select id from mytable where '1:24a' >= startvalue and '1:24a' <= endvalue
Idea is I will pass a literal value that lies between the startvalue (nvarchar column) and endvalue (nvarchar column) to fetch the id of the row returned, which should be 3 But when I run the query it returns me 2 rows for id 3 and 4.
I believe this is because I am trying to compare nvarchar columns with ">=" and "<=" operators.
Can anyone suggest how i can select the correct value or how to do this.
They need to be grouped by range specific to the alpha numeric part, which can vary within the same despatch. I was thinking of using a row over partition after splitting the numeric and alpha part and to check if they are consecutive and build the range. But I am thinking that this approach is an overkill and there may be a better way to achieve this in SQL 2012.
I have included the create table scripts and example data below:
SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SAMPLE_TABLE]( [DESPATCH_ID] [nvarchar](30) NOT NULL, [SAMPLE_ID] [nvarchar](30) NOT NULL
I need to auto increment an alphanumeric field in a table.
The process is as follows:
1. First position is static letter C for contact or static letter A for account - field contact_id 2. The following 6 positions are numeric - example of the string would be C004658 3. When new contact is entered, it should look up the highest numeric value (in this case 004658) and increment it by one - resulting in C004659
INSERT INTO #Activities VALUES('Field phase S14-04932-01') INSERT INTO #Activities VALUES('Phase reporting') INSERT INTO #Activities VALUES('Phase running') INSERT INTO #Activities VALUES('RD1')
Is there a way to write an SQL statement to choose random values from a particular select statement..for example: select * from address I was thinking, if there was a way to use an include statement for it like: select * from address where id IN ('generates some random values')
I have a table with 3 fields SiteID (PK), SiteCode, SiteName. For each SiteCode I have several rows with different SiteName. For example: 1 327 a 2 327 b 3 327 c 4 328 aa 5 328 bb......
I need to retrieve each time SiteCode with random SiteName. For example: 327 b , 327 a , 327 c 328 aa 328 bb 328 aa.
I need it very urgent, so any ideas will be very helpful. Thanks to all,
i want to anonymous data by multiplicating with a random generated value. After a little bit research i know that is only solvable with a script task, but i dont have seen a working example script. Does anybody knows where i can found a little scriptlet or post something? Thank you!
Hi,I like to have a SQL script which could update a table to set one attributeto a random value picked from a given list. The prototyping code is asbelow:select @value_list = ('John', 'David', 'Mathew', 'Paul')....update EMP set emp_name = @random_namewhere ...where random name is randomly got from the given list. Of course there willbe a cursor so that different row may have different random name but notnecessary unique. Also the attribute and the list could be any valid commonSQL data typesThanks!Ximing
Hi I am using VS 2005 with SQL 2005. I had a Datagrid and i Need to bind data into it. I need to show Random Unique ID's based on the Parameter i pass. I wrote select top 5 * from Employee order by NEWID() for this i had created a Stored Procedure as create Proc Demo(@N int)as beginselect top @N * from Employee order by NEWID()end Its showing a syntax error near @N. How can i pass the parameter for Select Top @N * from .......
Hi there,I am trying to create a UID that is unique within my SQL Server. There are many users accessing the Server in seperate databases, but then I want to combine all the data from these tables, keeping the ID from each one as a primary key. I have written the following function, but when i call it as a default value for a field, it does not produce a unique number. CREATE FUNCTION GETNEXTID(@CURDATE DATETIME)RETURNS BIGINTASBEGINRETURN (SELECT CAST(CAST(DATEPART(YY,@CURDATE) AS VARCHAR) +RIGHT('0' + CAST(DATEPART(M,@CURDATE) AS VARCHAR),2) +RIGHT('0' + CAST(DATEPART(D,@CURDATE) AS VARCHAR),2) +RIGHT('0' + CAST(DATEPART(HH,@CURDATE) AS VARCHAR),2) +RIGHT('0' + CAST(DATEPART(SS,@CURDATE) AS VARCHAR),2) +RIGHT('00' + CAST(DATEPART(MS,@CURDATE) AS VARCHAR),3) AS BIGINT))END Can anyone help?
Ok I have a query "SELECT ColumnNames FROM tbl1" let's say the values returned are "age,sex,race".
Now I want to be able to create an "update" statement like "UPATE tbl2 SET Col2 = age + sex + race" dynamically and execute this UPDATE statement. So, if the next select statement returns "age, sex, race, gender" then the script should create "UPDATE tbl2 SET Col2 = age + sex + race + gender" and execute it.
use AFMIF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE type = 'U' AND name='uye_idler') drop table uye_idlerCREATE TABLE uye_idler ( uye_no int NOT NULL, ) GO DECLARE @uye_numarası int Set @uye_numarası = 1 WHILE @uye_numarası < 15001 BEGIN INSERT INTO uye_idler VALUES (@uye_numarası) Set @uye_numarası = @uye_numarası + 1 EndHi , I am able to create 15000 records by the codes above .By the same way I want to create random texts as ASD ,WER,SAD,DFG etc. How can I do this ? Thanks ...
I am trying to audit data quality based on some defined data quality rules. The rules are stored in tables and processed using stored procedures. I am facing a problem while generating audits. Let's say I am trying to audit data in OrderDetail table. The table design is mentioned below...I inserted some sample data into the table using RedGate data generator.The audit table output I am expecting is as mentioned in the screenshot below
Its the PrimaryKeyAttributeValues column I am facing problems with. I am using STUFF function within a dynamic SQL query to get the primary key's as a list of comma separated values.
i would to make a column contains of 3 characters and 6 auto increment numbers (example: "DLL - 123456")
and made it primary key and which data type i should use. i do not know whether i use after insert trigger in two columns one for three characters and another for code which has identity property >>>so please help me
I'm trying to write a function that will retrieve the last backup date/time of a particular database on a remote server (i.e. by querying msdb.dbo.backupset). Unfortunately, you can't use sp_executesql in a function, so I can't figure out a way to pass the server name to the query and still be able to return the datetime value back to the calling TSQL code (so that rules out using EXEC().
I use ODBC driver to perform SQLServer commands from C/C++ application.
An "INSERT INTO <table> (<column>) VALUES (NULL)" command has a random behavior in a SQL2000 Server running on WindowsXP.
The <column> in this command has 2 definitions about the NULL value :
- the NULL is accepted in the table definition, with <column> ut_oui_non NULL".
- the NULL is rejected in the type definition, with EXEC sp_addtype ut_oui_non, 'char(1)', 'NOT NULL' and a rule to check values with '0' or '1'
1/ The column definition in any explorer show the NULL from table deffinition
2/ The "INSERT INTO" is completed in SQL Query tool, used on Windows2000 and WindowsXP computers, connected to the same SQL2000 server.
3/ The "INSERT INTO" is completed in the application, running on Windows2000 with an ODBC driver to the same SQL2000 server.
4/ The "INSERT INTO" is rejected in the application, running on WindowsXP witjh an ODBC driver to the same SQL2000 server. The error 513 means that INSERT VALUES conflicts with previous rule. So only the type definition seems to be used.
But :
5/ This is a random error, and some INSERT with the same values in this column are completed.
6/ This random error seems to be discarded by using the "Use NULLs, paddings and warnings ANSI" checkbox in the ODBC driver user source configuration.
This checkbox is only use for enforcing the ANSI syntax in SQL commands, and has no known effect on type checking.
Do you know about any conflict of column NULL value between a type definition and a table definition ?