I was wondering if anyone knows of any way, including third party tools, to replicate a design change on a table across many different databases. I have written an ASP script that allows me to copy multiple tables to multiple databases in one go but I need something that will allow me to replicate the design of a table by comparing source and destination tables. So far I have scripted most of it but I have no idea on which system table to get the identity information and it seems there must be an easier way!
I am using sql server and I have a table called accnt with the fields ven1 and amnt1 and a table called acc1167 with fields ven, job#, and amnt. for this example these tables look like this
I need to sum amnt1 for all the records in accnt with the ven1 of 1167, we will call this sumA. Then sum amnt in acc1167 for all records, we will call this sumB. next I need to divide sumB by sumA to get a ratio. finally I need to multiply each amnt value from acc1167 by the ratio and get a number that will then replace the acc1167 amnt value.
for example, sumA = 3750, sumB = 1150. taking these values, sumB/sumA = 0.307. I then replace every value in acc1167 amnt with 0.307*itself, so the final table should look like this:
i have tried to use the sum function and and some insert, but i am very new to SQL and have never used sum before and don't know how to call from multiple tables, or how to store a ratio. Ive tried this:
UPDATE acc1167 sum1 = sum amnt1 where ven1 = '1167' from accnt sum2 = sum amnt from accnt SET amnt = sum2/sum1*amnt FROM acc1167
I have a Hits table that tracks the hits on the id of a Link table: Hits: int linkId (foreign Key to Link) datetime dateCreated varchar(50) ip We recently had to merge Links from different systems that are implemented similarly. As a result, all the linkIds are now wrong in the Hits table because the ids all changed. I managed to track down all the old ids and their associated new ids and have it in a table that I call joined_links joined_linksint oldId int newId
So, how do I do a mass update of these linkIds in the Hits table in SQL? I know I could do it in .NET, but I'd rather not write an app to do that runs thousands of update statements. There's gotta be a way to do it something like this:
UPDATE Hits h SET h.linkId = (SELECT newId FROM joined_links WHERE oldId=h.linkId) but obviously I don't have visibility of that linkId in the subselect... A Loop maybe?
I have a series of DTS packages. Each package has 20 queries. Each query has a server name. Is there a way to change the servername without editing each query in each DTS package. I'd like to copy the template DTS package, then perform the modification.
This is a run of the mill application that moves orders from one table to another. There are 2 tables, Ordersummary & HstOrders. Ordersummary has the following columns... Identifier FollowupId OrderNumber OrderReference OrderReferenceOrigin ...... ...... HstOrders has the following columns... Identifier OrderNumber OrderReference OrderType ...... ...... The above two tables are bound by Identifier. After each month end, Orders are moved from Ordersummary to HstOrders.
Now my task is to update all rows in OrderSummary with the order details as seen in HSTOrders for ordertype = 'CREDIT'. OrderReferenceOrigin(in Ordersummary) should be updated with the value of Orderreference(from hstorders).
I have to update each row at a time & I need to write a cursor for mass updates where ordersummary.identifier = hstorders.identifier.
Can someone please help with in writing this update statement as I never wrote a cursor.
I'm fairly new to SQL Server and I'm just wondering if it's possible to Update Statistice for all indexes somehow? I'm looking at the Update Statistics command and it doesn't seem to be possible.
The situation we have is a reporting DB that basically has all it's tables truncated and remade every night by some DTS jobs that import from another datasource and change the data and build some denormalzed tables etc. Some of the large Insert operations go from taking 8 mins to taking several hours sometimes and updating the stats seems to fix the problem for a while. So I'd like to make sure the optimizer has all the latest stats for all tables.
I have an user table with a single integer column. No indexes, no identities, nothing. I have to insert 600,000 rows via a client app. In tests, using BCP/Bulk Insert/DTS all runs OK (sub 3 seconds). However the app takes 5000 rows a second [considerably slower]. I can mimic this slow perfomance, within DTS, by removing the 'Fast Load' & 'Batch' options.
Question= why would the SQL insert run slower on one server and as fast as BCP/Bulk Insert/DTS on another? What can I check on the 'slow' running server? May there be a file version anomally ??
Does anyone know what the best way to do mass updates in SQL server is? I am currently using the methodology suggested in this article
http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=3141
But the article is assuming that once I update a field it is going to have a value that is NOT NULL. So I can loop through and update the rows that have a NOT NULL value. But my updated rows do contain NULL values, in this case what is the best way to go about this???
*************************************** Here is my code. I want to avoid using Upd_flag becos after the following code runs I need to reset that flag before I run my next query ***************************************
--Set rowcount to 50000 to limit number of inserts per batch Set rowcount 50000
--Declare variable for row count Declare @rc int Set @rc=50000
While @rc=50000 Begin
Begin Transaction
--Use tablockx and holdlock to obtain and hold --an immediate exclusive table lock. This usually --speeds the insert because only one lock is needed.
update t_PGBA_DTL With (tablockx, holdlock) SET t_PGBA_DTL.procedur = A.[Proc code], t_PGBA_DTL.Upd_flag = 1 FROM t_PGBA_DTL INNER JOIN CPT_HCPCS_I9_PROC_CODES A ON t_PGBA_DTL.PROC_CD = A.[Proc code] WHERE t_PGBA_DTL.Upd_flag = 0
--Get number of rows updated --Process will continue until less than 50000 Select @rc=@@rowcount
I have the following problem. I need to insert 100.000 records (50Kb each) in one operation from a VB program into a SQL Server 2005 database. All of these records will be ready for inserting at the same time. How to make this insert as one big transaction instead of 100.000 small ones?
The company i work for changed names and all email addresses within the company have changed. While it was OK for a while they are no longer going to be forwarding email to the old addresses to the new ones. There are Tons of subscriptions and tons of email addresses that need to be changed to the new names.
If i could find the table with the TO: part of the subscription held in it i could just run an update on that field and it would be solved...however, i cannot find that field...
So, Without going into every subscription in report manager, how can i change the email addresses? Any Suggestions?
Most of the time my solutions consist of 1 or 2 packages and config files work well.
Now i have a solution with about 50 packages i have to move to QA.
However a config file has the package ID, so even thoug they use the same data source connection. I would have to create and change 50 config files.
Data sources are kept in the package xml , so if i copy all the packages to QA , and then change the Global Data Source connection, i still have to open each package maually and save it again.
Surely there must be an easy way to move all 50 packages and have the connection now point to QA. But config files and global data sources dont do the trick, what am i missing here ?
I am making a prog that needs to import many records from a spreadsheet on a local computer through asp.net into sql server is there a simple command to do this or is there information on how to do this please give all the information that you can thank you
I want to backing up my hourly transaction log backups direct to a mass storage unit as opposed to the local server. However when trying to set this up it only gives me option of backing up to local drives, even though I have a drive mappping to the mass storage unit.. I'm there is a simple around this.Would appreciate any advice..many Thanks..
If I have a trigger on a field in a table, and I update one record trigger fire properly. If I do a update to that same field on all records in the table the trigger does not fire. I the error in the trigger, or do I need to change my update statement?
I have an existing SQL table that I want to import 300,000 rows into. I have copied the table headers into Excel and added all the rows but constantly getting multiple errors no matter what way I try to import it.
So far tried Import Method from SQL Management Studio, BULK INSERT and SQL Script. What is the easiest way?
If I try this
select * into Coupon FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0', 'Excel 8.0;Database=D:coupon.xls;HDR=YES', 'SELECT * FROM [coupon$]')
I get
OLE DB provider 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' cannot be used for distributed queries because the provider is configured to run in single-threaded apartment mode.
I've been having problems with my tempdb filling up, and causing all databases on the server to stop functioning properly. I've been removing alot of data lately (millions of rows), and I think this is the reason why my tempdb log is going thru an unusual load.
Whats the best way to make sure the tempdb doesnt fill up causing me major problems? I had temporarily turned off backups while I was having a new HD put in. Am I right in thinking that when a DB is backed up, the tempdb log is reduced in size? Should maintaining a daily backup solution help keep things under control ?
Hi,I need to update a field in about 20 records on a table. The table hasan update trigger (which updates the [lastedited] field whenever arecord is updated). As a result I'm getting an error: "Subqueryreturned more than 1 value.", and the update fails.Is there a way in the stored procedure to handle this issue?thanks for your help.Paul
I've deleted about 3-4 million rows from one of my tables as the data was old and no longer needed. The problem is that now queries are runnning extra slow. I am in the process of running taras isp_ALTER_INDEX however its taking quite a long time and seems to be slowing things down even further while its running as expected. (It's been running 4 hours already, I have stopped it and will rerun it a slower traffic period for the db server)
Just wondering if I have the right approach here or if anyone else has any suggestions.
Hello,I need to alter fields in all my tables of a given database, and Iwould to do this via a t-sql script.Example, I want to change all fields called SESSION_ID to char(6). Thefield is usually varchar(10), but the data is always 6 characters inlength. I have serveral fields that are fixed length that I want tomove from varchar to char.I believe I can find all the tables where the field exists usingselect * from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns where column_name ='SESSION_Id'but I dont know how to take this into an ALTER TABLE , ALTER COLUMNthat can be automatedTIARob
Say you have an existing populated SQL 2005 database, with 700+ tables, and you want to just change the order of the columns inside every table. Short of manually building conversion scripts, anyone know an automated way to do this? I was thinking thru ways to do them all in one shot, and have tools like Erwin and DbGhost that could be used also. Basically moving some standard audit columns from the end of the tables to just after the PK columns.
Hola!I'm currently building a site that uses an external database to store all the product details, and an internal database that will act as a cache so that we don't have to keep hitting the external database to retrieve the products every time a customer requests a list.What I need to do is retrieve all these products from External and insert them into Internal if they don't exist - if they do already exist then I have to update Internal with new prices, number in stock etc.I was wondering if there was a way to insert / update these products en-mass without looping through and building a new insert / update query for every product - there could be thousands at a time!Does anyone have any ideas or could you point me in the right direction?I'm thinking that because I need to check if the products exist in a different data store than the original source, I don't have a choice but to loop through them all.Cheers,G.
DTSTransformCopy: ValidateSchema failed; see Extended Error Information. TransformCopy 'DTSTransformation_10' validation error: Source column too narrow to contain a valid value of destination column's datatype for column pair 1 (source column 'Col010'(DBTYPE_STR), destination column 'CHECKDAT' (DBTYPE_DBTIMESTAMP)).
Basically, I need to insert the wbs2 and wbs3 where it does not exist in each wbs1.
What I have now will find the values that need to be inserted for a particular project but I don't know how to go through each project and perform the insert:
Select * from PR_template Where Not Exists (Select Wbs1, Wbs2, Wbs3 from PR where PR.WBS2 = PR_Template.WBS2 And PR.WBS3 = PR_Template.Wbs3 and pr.wbs1 = '123-456') Order by wbs2, wbs3 asc
Hi. I'm trying to find out which "cases" have a new items added to our database. I have provided a sample layout.
ID ParentID Name CreateDate 358 2 SMITH, JOHN 3/3/2008 11:15:23 am 359 358 Invoice 3/5/2008 4:13:52 pm 360 358 Shipping 3/5/2008 5:11:09 pm 361 358 Receiving 3/6/2008 4:22:01 am
The main ID for this is 358. The invoice, shipping, and receiving items are child items. I would like to run a query that can report which cases have newly added items. This is hierarchical I guess and I'm quite lost. I hope this makes sense. Thanks for any help!
I need to do SUM on a column values and then subtract it from the SUM of values on a column from another table. I am using SQL server Management Studio, but getting the errors on the following Query
SELECT note_id, cap_int_amt)- SUM (ttl_cap_int_amt) as SUM1, sum(orig_fee_amt)-sum(ttl_qualfyng_fee_amt) as SUM2 FROM [spstrd00_starrpt].[dbo].[rpt23t] where [rpt20t].note_id =[rpt23t].note_id
ERROR Message Msg 208, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Invalid object name 'dbo.rpt23t'. Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 7 The multi-part identifier "rpt20t.note_id" could not be bound. Msg 207, Level 16, State 1, Line 8 Invalid column name 'ttl_qualfyng_fee_amt'.
I want to write a query that joins data in a different table based on a column value. The table is for a "Playlist" and holds play list items. The items can be video, audio, images, etc. The playlist table looks like this:
Table_Playlist ----------------- ID (int) MediaType (char) MediaId (int)
Table_Audio ----------------- MediaId (int)
Table_Video -------------- MediaId (int)
If the Table_Playlist.[MediaType] column value = "Audio" then I want to join to the Table_Audio table. If the value = "Video" then I need the video table.
I have got a column with the string "I too Love Sql Server". I am trying an output as shown below:
I want to divide this into 4 columns :
Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4 I too Love Sql Server I.t.L.S.S
The Column 4 contains the first letter of each word. If the string contains only 2 words, Eg: "Sql Server" then Column 2 will be empty and only Column 1,3 and 4 will be filled.
Hi,Have a database that contains various tables.I need to run a query on two tables.Table A contains a column called TitlesTable B contains a column called Uni_TitlesIn Table B's column it contains multiple titles as shown belowseparated by semi-colons in each row.Table B Uni-Title Column__________________________Row 1: Landlord and tenant; Leases; Rent reviewsRow 2: Acquisitions; Advisers; Appointment; Contract termTable A - Titles Column_________________________Table A's column contains a only one of the words in Table B's columni.e. Landlord and tenantI would like to obtain a count of how many times the same word orphrases appears in the column of Table B.ThanksSteve
Hi, I want to copy xls file from remote server to my server. i want to use xp_cmdshell to perform this operation. can anybody help me out how to pass parameter to xp_cmdshell.
I have to look up a mapping table and add 5 more columns from the mapping table if the look on the first column in the mapping table and corresponding column in source is successful. But if there is no matching record in then mapping table I still need the record to pass through with NA values. Please help?
