I have a very big database with me. This database has large number of tables and each table has n number of fields.
My trouble now is that I desire to search for a field name called 'empname'. Is there any query possible for me to search all tables and return me the table names which contain fields which match with 'empname'. Adding essence to the porridge I would like to know if I specify something like '%pnam%' it should match any field name which contains 'pnam' as a portion of its name. Is all these possible ??
Im building up a query in my code behind. When I execute this query it returns a list of users who match the criteria.BUT, I want to add something extra. In my DB in the tblUserData there's a field "interests" datatype nvarchar(30) which contains the numbers (comma-delimited) of the interestsID in my tblInterests. For example, my interestsfield may contain something like: 1,4,8Now if someone wants to find someone who has number 4 and 8 as interests, how can I search in this textfield?!?I wrote this in a SP, but I'd really like it to be possible from code-behind and build the query myself...declare @s varchar(20)set @s='4,8'EXEC('SELECT * FROM tblUserData WHERE Interests in ('+@s+')')
I'm using the .NET Framework 1.1 together with SQL Server 2005 Beta.
I have a search page where you can search a db using a number of fields or combination thereof. Three are text fields (patient id, surname, forename) and I can do any search using one criteria or any combination without any problem.
However, I'd also like to search on a dob (datetime field in SQL Server) and I'm having real problems in making this work. The dates are stored in the following way in SQL Server: '1938-05-31 00:00:00.000', whilst they are displayed as 'dd/mm/yyyy' on a web page, which I guess corresponds to my regional settings.
My code is shown below. I 've tried any number of combinations for the dob string with no success. I do not get any error, just no records are returned.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong and how to correct it before this drives me crazy?!
TIA for any help.
P.S. chxPatID, chxSurname etc are all checkboxes.
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If chxPatID.Checked Then strSQL = strSQL & " patid= '" & txtPatID.Text & "' " strAND = " AND " End If
If chxSurname.Checked Then strSQL = strSQL & strAND & " surname ='" & txtSurname.Text & "' " strAND = " AND " End If
If chxForename.Checked Then strSQL = strSQL & strAND & " forename='" & txtForename.Text & "' " strAND = " AND " End If
If chxDoB.Checked Then strSQL = strSQL & strAND & " dob= " & CDate(Year(txtDoB.Text) & "-" & Month(txtDoB.Text) & "-" & Day(txtDoB.Text)) & "" End If
I have a varchar column which containd comma delimited values like Rec# Fruits 1 Apple, Peach, Strawberry 2 Orange, Mango 3 Banana, Grape ...........
Now i have to add search facility so that a user could search for more than 1 fruit at a time. I have a Stored Procedure which returns records from this table. that SP has a Parameter @SearchFruit Varchar(500) and the user could pass in values like 'Apple, Mango' to this parameter.
Now how should i write the SQL so that i get back the records Rec# 1 & 2 since apple is there in 1st record and mango is there in the 2nd ??
I know if a put the comma delimited values as individual records in a temporary table and also do the same for the parameter values then i can get the desired results. But i want to avoid doing that. Any other way ?
Hi, I am building a website in ASP.net C# for a university project, and would like to search a table (Member) for a field (UserName) using a session variable Session["sUserName"]. If that field is null, then I would like to insert that session variable into the field to start to create a new user. However, I am getting errors saying that I am using invalid expression terms. My code is; //Create the Command, passing in the SQL statement and the ConnectionString queryString = "SELECT UserName FROM Member WHERE (UserName = @myUsername); "; SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(queryString, sqlConn);cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@myUsername", Convert.ToString(Session["sUserName"]))); //If UserName is null, display confirmation, else display errorif (UserName == null) ; {UserNameCheckLabel.Text = "Username okay"; String queryString = "INSERT INTO Member (UserName) VALUES(@myUsername); ";SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(queryString, sqlConn); cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@myUsername", Convert.ToString(Session["sUserName"]))); }else; {UserNameCheckLabel.Text = "That username is in use"; } I have a feeling I should be checking the database for the UserName, but I'm not sure whether to put this in the SELECT statement part or as a method... I would be most grateful for any advice! Many thanks, Chima
I have the time of an event stored on each record as a datetime field.Itincludes the year,month,day, etc. Suppose my user wants to search the tablefor all events over the lunch hour, say between11am and 1pm. How do Iconstruct the SELECT query to peek into each datetime field and return onlythose records that satify the specified time range?Many thanks.
I have a customer who wants to SELECT records based on a partial match in atext field. For example, in a list of telephone numbers they want to searchfor all records that contain the digits '777' in any part of the string. Howdo I formulate such a query?Many thanks.
We have a application running on Sql server 2005, which require to browse/search text field. Does anyone know if Sql server's search/browse performance on text field is better than oracle?
The table the application will search on is a customer table that has a 10000 records in it, does this size of table casue a performance problem for sql server 2005 if I index the text field?
I am trying to run a like statement that has a datetime column and for some reason it does not return any values. I looked in the SQL help files and in states in there that when trying to select using a datetime that the preferred way of doing it is using a like statment. Does anybody know a better way of doing this? Here is my example: (I have dates in this column ie 2006-02-13 11:30:54.220)
SELECT * FROM workorderhistory WHERE wheninstalled LIKE '%2006-02%'
I am doing a search on a column of type varchar, the columns all contain dates in the future. When i perform a query
SELECT [CIFPan]
,[CIFMemNum]
,[CIFLName]
,[CIFFName]
,[CIFExpDate]
FROM [FutureSoft].[dbo].[zCIFRecord]
WHERE CAST([CIFExpDate] AS smalldatetime) between '12/01/2000' and '01/30/2015'
I get error:
Msg 295, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting character string to smalldatetime data type.
I can use this same query on an exactly same other field that contains dates in the past. Is there some kind of limitation on the dates as far as them being in the future or past?
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?
