I have three user tables (identical structure) that holds customer information. Each has about 1200 records, give or take a dozen, 99% of which are identical. However, there are a few records in each table that differ. Im trying to select the differences in these tables using a query.
Each customer has a custmer ID, but cust_id 1234 in table a may not be the same customer as cust_id 1234 in table b. Therefore, i am trying to compare using the cuLoginName field which is the username/email address text field. This is what differentiates the records.
I have tried using
select cust_id, cuLoginName
from tblCustomerA
where NOT exists (
select cuLoginName from tblCustomerB)
to get the different records between the two tables (i.e. those in A but not in B), but even though there are two users in A that do not appear in B, the results are coming back with nothing. I am guessing this is a problem comparing on text fields?
I have a content management system that I am building. My CMS has a pages table which contains 60 fields, some are varchars, some are ntext some are dates etc. They have field names which match their purpose like varchar1, ntext3 etc. These fields are used up depending on which template is applied to the page.
The templatefields table holds holds the information about each field in a template. It's control type (rich text control, date control etc) and the field in the pages table that the data will be stored in (varchar1,ntext3 etc)
What I want to be able to do is loop through the templatefeilds table for a particular template and then using the field name for the pages table, go to the pages table and get the value to populate the control.
So to clarify, I would like to produce a stored procedure which outputs the page field name (varchar1) from the templatefields table and varchar1's value in the pages table. Maybe in a temporary table.
We have three fields in a table: firstname, Surname & Organisation. Firstname & surname will always be filled but in most cases organisation is NULL.
Part of what these fields will be used for is a mailshot. If there is no organisation data then the mailshot will open with 'Dear Firstname Surname, ' but if the organisation is present they would like 'Dear Organisation'.
Is it possible to create a select state that checks the organisation field, and if a value is present return that value else return the firstname, surname combination? I have tried various things but I cannot get it to work.
I know the ideal situation would be to do this type of condition check at scripting level (PHP, ASP, Visual Basic) but my bosses would like to try it at SQL level.
Hi, i'm trying to do a full text search on my site to add a weighting score to my results. I have the following database structure: Documents: - DocumentID (int, PK) - Title (varchar) - Content (text) - CategoryID (int, FK) Categories: - CategoryID (int, PK) - CategoryName (varchar) I need to create a full text index which searches the Title, Content and CategoryName fields. I figured since i needed to search the CategoryName field i would create an indexed view. I tried to execute the following query: CREATE VIEW vw_DocumentsWITH SCHEMABINDING ASSELECT dbo.Documents.DocumentID, dbo.Documents.Title, dbo.Documents.[Content], dbo.Documents.CategoryID, dbo.Categories.CategoryNameFROM dbo.Categories INNER JOIN dbo.Documents ON dbo.Categories.CategoryID = dbo.Documents.CategoryID GOCREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX vw_DocumentsIndexON vw_Documents(DocumentID) But this gave me the error: Cannot create index on view 'dbname.dbo.vw_Documents'. It contains text, ntext, image or xml columns. I tried converting the Content to a varchar(max) within my view but it still didn't like. Appreciate if someone can tell me how this can be done as surely what i'm trying to do is not ground breaking.
I have followed many tutorials on selecting and replacing text in text fields, varchar fields and char fields, but I have yet to find a single script that will to all 3 based on field type. Let's assume for a moment that I don't know where all in my database a certain value that I need changed resides ... i.e., the data's tablename and fieldname. How would I go about doing the following ... or more importantly, is this even possible in a SQL only procedure?1) Loop over entire database and get all user tables2) Loop over all user tables and get all fields3) Loop over all fields and determine the field type4) switch between field types and change a string of text from 'a' to 'b'Please be gentle, I'm a procedure newb.
I have a select statement which has to convert some date fields stored as varchar based on critera of adding numbers to the date. What I have below will return data show below but gives me an error message when it encounters any data with null in the field. Is there something wrong in my conversion? Thanks
I need to list all the records in Table2 which don't have matching field values in Table1.
This the the exact opposite of what I need: SELECT DISTINCT Field1, Field2, Field3, Field4, Field5 FROM [Table1] WHERE EXISTS( SELECT DISTINCT FieldA, FieldB, FieldC, FieldD, FieldE FROM [Table2] )
The above seems to give me all records in Table1 in which the five fields match the five fields specified in Table2. What does not show up is the test record I put in Table2 which is not in Table1.
What I need, however, is the exact opposite.
I tried the above using NOT EXISTS but I get no records at all.
I have the following table structure.group1 group2 group1_result group2_result'One' 'Two' 3 2'One' 'Two' 3 1'One' 'Two' 2 5'One' 'Two' 4 1'One' 'Two' 0 5I need to sum up the number of times 'One' is greater than 'Two', andvice-versa. For example, the result I would like to achieve is asfollows.group1 group2 group1_total group2_total'One' 'Two' 3 2I'm using the following SQL statement, but I get 5 rows returned,giving me a '1' or '0' for each row.select group1, group2,sum(CASE WHEN group1_result > group2_result THEN 1 ELSE 0 END),sum(CASE WHEN group2_result > group12_result THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)FROM table1GROUP BY group1, group2Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a data table in my project that has a "text" (not varchar) field in it. I am trying to load this field with little paragraphs of text for showing on my pages. How do I get the free text loaded into the table? The database explorer and all the data grid controls cut the text off at one line. There doesn't seem to be any way to get multiline text into this table.
I have recently converted reports from Crystal Reports 10 to RS 2005. These reports are run daily via a SQL job and exported to PDF files, where users are able to view them.
A user pointed out to me that in the PDF's exported from Crystal Reports, they could select text, starting with the first row of data, and highlight each row by dragging the Adobe Selection tool down the page, row by row.
Now, with the PDF's exported from RS, when you try using the selection tool to highlight each row by dragging down the page, it appears to randomly highlight rows in no particular order.
I am using SSRS 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 (10.50.4276.0) . I have simple set of data which has a persons Title and Name e.g. Mr Smith, Miss Jones, Doctor Foster
The report has a parameter where the user can select which records to show based on the matching titles (Mr, Miss, Doctor)
The Query for the report uses Title in (@Title) where @Title is the only parameter which can take multiple values. The report works correctly for any 1 value selected, but as soon as 2 or more values are ticked in the drop down, it fails.
I believe the parameter value is being passed into the query with a comma separating the values e.g. Mr,Miss which causes the IN statement to give an error, as the statement would be where Title IN ('Mr,Miss') which does not match any of the data values.
The parameter value passed needs to be 'Mr','Miss' for the IN statement to work. What statement do I have to put in the report query to get it to select any of the data rows where the title matches any 1 of the selected values?
using SQL 6.5 sp_makewebtask in a stored procedure I want to create a press-info file. My query calls four fields, a datum field, two varchar fields and a text field, it's the field "PrText" in my example:
EXEC sp_makewebtask @outputfile='F:EntwicklungRedaktionZeitwenden27.ht m', @query='SELECT Datum, Ort, Headline, PrText FROM news WHERE ID = 27', @templatefile='F:EntwicklungRedaktionZeitwendenTem plates.htm'
My question: Am I limited to 255 characters in this case? After 255 characters the text is cut off and I have only a truncated text fragment.
Is there a possibility to get the whole text without using @blobfmt (I don't want to use this parameter because I want to have the datum data, the varchar headline AND the text in ONE HTML-file.)
I have tried the same as dynamic query in ASP where I have no problem to get the whole content of the text field, but I want to create a static file because this information will be read often, but won't be updated frequently and I don't want to charge the server resources to much.
Has anybody an idea? Any help would be appreciated.
The Text datatype can hold several million characters The size of a record can be no more than 8 KB in normal data.
Created a table with one text field. For some reason can only store 1K of data into it. Even if the 8K limit was a factor (which it shouldn't for a text field) I cannot add more than 1K of data into my text field. 1023 characters to be exact.
Why is SQL Server 2000 doing this and more importantly how to resolve?
Hi, I'm sure that this is probably a really easy question to most of you, but I seem to be spending ages on it as I am new to SQL. how do I add the carraige return char between joining two text fields ie.
New to using MS SQL server! I have a requirements DB. Before I came on board, the DB was seeded with requirements text and a requirements ID in separate columns. I've been asked to append the ID in front of the text:
Text - The user shall be able.... ID - 1.01.01. Combined - 1.01.01.The user shall be able....
I've created the following query that displays the columns:
CREATE VIEW dbo.ReqID AS SELECT RQREQUIREMENTS.ID, RQREQUIREMENTS.REQUIREMENTNAME, RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.FIELDVALUE
FROM RQREQUIREMENTS LEFT OUTER JOIN RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES ON RQREQUIREMENTS.ID = RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.REQUIREMENTID
WHERE (RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.FIELDID = 171)
The Text field is REQUIREMENTNAME The ReqId is FIELDVALUE
Should I create an UPDATE query based on this SELECT, updating the REQUIREMENTNAME column with FIELDVALUE + REQUIREMENTNAME?
I've just gotten my data into SQL Server, and changed the connection stringon the program.There was a memo field (Access 2000) and we put that in a text field (with adefault length of 16?).Now, when displaying the data online (through asp pages), there are bigwhite-space gaps in the pages (that display the memo field data), imageshave a "double" url(http://www.mysite.com/thisfolder/ht...thelinksite.com)there are lots of place with " ".The field data has html tags in it, if that has anything to do with it.It seems like I've heard that there are issues with text fields. Is thiswhat they meant? Is there anything I can do?Thanks, JA
I am trying to update text fields where the field only has the value"closed." So a field that has closed and anything else will not beupdated.update dbo.Histset dbo.Hist.Notes = ''FROM dbo.HistWHERE (Notes LIKE 'closed_')update dbo.Histset dbo.Hist.Notes = ''FROM dbo.HistWHERE (Notes LIKE 'closed%') and len(convert(varchar(7000),notes)) = 7Neither code works and i get this error: "Subquery returned more than1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <=, >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.The statement has been terminated."What's another way to make the update?
I am trying to get at some text fields from an AS400(JBA) system. the problem i'm having is that for each new line of text on AS400 it creates a new row with a line number associated in the SQL table. When trying to export to excel this causes problems because i need the text in one cell not spread over 15/20 lines.
I need to create a query/function that will concatenate the text lines together. I'm fairly new to T-SQL so could do with some help.
Example:- ID TxtLn Text
R262965 1 Text 1
R262965 2 Text 2
R262965 3 Text 3
What i'm aiming for is:- ID ConcatText R262965 Text1 Text2 Text3
Can anyone please help me or guide me towards a starting point.
Hi, I am saving a couple of paragraphs of text into a varchar(max) field in a SQL database table. But when I try to use display the information again, then all the linefeed and return characters seem to be removed. How do I keep this text formating in the database field? I am sure that I am missing something simple here, but I can not figure out what. Can someone please help with some advise? Thanks RegardsJan
in SQL 7, can i set up a constraint or rule where a data entered in [field 1, table a, database 1] has to exist in [field 3, table a, database 2]? i know i can't set up a relationship, and i haven't been able to get a constraint or rule to work either. if i can't do the above, what is the recomended way to do this? i don't want to, nor should i have to duplicate the table. also, when importing data from one sql server to another, any field that was a data type of text came across as null? any help would be great
I'm trying to transfer a table from SQL Server 7 database to another SQL server 7 database on another server. This table has a text field with lots of data (~.5-1 G). I'm using the export wizard and the transfer appears to complete successfully, but when I view it, the text field data has been truncated.
I have been trying to write a query that will allow me to search through text fields. This is a problem because SQL doesn't let me use any functions on TEXT datatypes.
When I was using access I did it like this:
where upper(searchtext) like ('%SEARCHSTRING%')
However UPPER doesn't work on text fields (I want the search to be case insensitive)
I tried this: where patindex(searchtext, '%SEARCHSTRING%') <> 0
but that is not case-insensitive... Help me SQL gurus, you are my only hope
CREATE TABLE saved_query ( id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL, query_text VARCHAR(2048) NOT NULL )
CREATE TABLE saved_query ( id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL, query_text VARCHAR(2048) NOT NULL)
and whenever I insert or update the query_text field, it's always truncated to 255 characters. Why? I clearly specified a larger field size. I also tried defining query_text as a "TEXT" but got the same result.
I'm using a view where I do a few things, including merge two short text fields into one. Just wanted to know if there was an alternative way of doing this:
Example: SELECT first_name + ' ' + last_name AS full_name FROM names
It works - but it seems rather blah. Is there something that'd be more "proper"?
I hope someone has already done this, but I have a table with a text column- example ColA, now i want to run a query to select the ColA in this table and combine the results of ColA into a ColB in another table.
Something like - Note: the codes below doesn't work!!
DECLARE @ResultID as int DECLARE @AccID int DECLARE _rows CURSOR FOR SELECT AccID FROM tableA
FETCH NEXT FROM _rows INTO @AccID
WHILE (@@fetch_status <> -1) BEGIN
UPDATE TableB SET Report = Report + (SELECT txtField FROM tableA WHERE AccID = @AccID)
