Sorting Numbers Stored As Varchar
Mar 19, 2008
Hi All,
I have a field in a table that is varchar. The field can contain numbers or alpha characters. I have a view against this table and I am trying to sort on the output of this field and am running into some problems.
I am trying to use 'isnumeric' to determine if the field contains numbers and if so, then I am using 'convert' to change it to an integer so I can sort it properly. I am using a CASE statement but I am encountering a conversion error on the alpha characters. I am new to SQL and my syntax may be wrong.
Can anyone help please?
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT SpaceName, CASE WHEN isnumeric(RoomTable.RoomNumber) <> 0 THEN CONVERT(int, RoomTable.RoomNumber)
ELSE RoomTable.RoomNumber END RoomNumber
FROM dbo.RoomTable
ORDER BY SpaceName, RoomNumber
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Jan 25, 2007
I have a field (varchar) in a list that contains numbers and letters. I want to sort this table but I have only two functions that will work to convert the values:
Val
The Val function sorts the numbers in the string, but the letters are not sorted
CStr
The CStr function sorts the letters, but the numbers are not sorted
How can I sort the numbers and letters?
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I have the attached picture in my SQL Report Builder 3.0 report. How do I combine the months that show more than once into a single column?
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Jul 20, 2012
i am pulling data from a read only database and the dates are i think in varchar format (they sort by 01-01-2012, 01-02-2011...etc)the dates are also in US format.how can i convert these to a EUROPE date format and also datetime so that i can use the > and just show logged events greater than a specific date
Code:
SELECT logId, logdate, logdesc
FROM dbo.log
WHERE (logdate >'07/07/2012')
the code about will not work as the logdate is in varchar.
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Mar 27, 2007
I'm trying to write data to excel from an ssis component to a excel destination.
Even thought I'm writing numerics, every cell gets this error with a green tag:
Convert numbers stored as text to numbers
Excel Cells were all pre-formated to accounting 2 decimal, and if i manually type the exact data Im sending it formats just fine.
I'm hearing this a common problem -
On another project I was able to find a workaround for the web based version of excel, by writing this to the top of the file:
<style>.text { mso-number-format:@; } </style>
is there anything I can pre-set in excel (cells are already formated) or write to my file so that numerics are seen as numerics and not text.
Maybe some setting in my write drivers - using sql servers excel destination.
So close.. Thanks for any help or information.
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Feb 1, 2007
I have a report with a column which contains either a string such as "N/A" or a number such as 12. A user exports the report to Excel. In Excel the numbers are formatted as text.
I already tried to set the value as CDbl which returns error for the cells containing a string.
The requirement is to export the column to Excel with the numbers formatted as numbers and the strings such as "N/A' in the same column as string.
Any suggestions?
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Jul 5, 2006
Hi, i'm trying to enable custom paging and sorting in my grid view control. The trouble i'm getting is the sorting. I have paging working fine with the following code:
WITH NewsEntries AS (
SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY fldTitle ASC) AS RowNum
FROM qryNews
)
SELECT *
FROM NewsEntries
WHERE RowNum BETWEEN @StartRowIndex + 1 AND @StartRowIndex + @MaximumRows
I tried replacing fldTitle ASC with @SortBy and passing that it but when i execute the query to test it doesn't do any sorting. After reading an article on a website i now realize i have to put:
DECLARE @Sql nvarchar(4000)
SET @Sql = 'SELECT *
FROM
(SELECT *, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ' + @SortBy + ') AS RowNum
FROM qryNews
WHERE fldTitle LIKE ''%' + @SearchBy + '%''
) AS NewsEntries
WHERE RowNum BETWEEN ' + CONVERT(nvarchar(10), @StartRowIndex) + ' + 1 AND
' + CONVERT(nvarchar(10), @StartRowIndex) + ' + ' + CONVERT(nvarchar(10), @MaximumRows)
-- Execute the SQL query
EXEC sp_executesql @Sql
and it works fine when i execute it sql server management studio but when i run my page with the grid view on i get the following error:
Incorrect syntax near ')'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Incorrect syntax near ')'.Source Error:
Line 4920: End If
Line 4921: Dim dataTable As KIT.tbdNewsDataTable = New KIT.tbdNewsDataTable
Line 4922: Me.Adapter.Fill(dataTable)
Line 4923: Return dataTable
Line 4924: End FunctionSource File: C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727Temporary ASP.NET Files
ootec31cfa3e7f364f7App_Code.jtrijhok.1.vb Line: 4922 Stack Trace:
[SqlException (0x80131904): Incorrect syntax near ')'.]
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +857306
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +734918
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +188
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +1838
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData() +31
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() +62
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString) +297
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async) +886
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result) +132
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method) +32
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method) +122
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteDbDataReader(CommandBehavior behavior) +12
System.Data.Common.DbCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior) +7
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal(DataSet dataset, DataTable[] datatables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +141
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataTable[] dataTables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior) +162
System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataTable dataTable) +107
KITTableAdapters.tbdNewsTableAdapter.GetNewsSubset(String SearchBy, String SortBy, Nullable`1 StartRowIndex, Nullable`1 MaximumRows) in C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727Temporary ASP.NET Files
ootec31cfa3e7f364f7App_Code.jtrijhok.1.vb:4922
[TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, SignatureStruct& sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner) +0
System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner) +72
System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks) +358
System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture) +29
System.Web.UI.WebControls.ObjectDataSourceView.InvokeMethod(ObjectDataSourceMethod method, Boolean disposeInstance, Object& instance) +482
System.Web.UI.WebControls.ObjectDataSourceView.ExecuteSelect(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments) +2040
System.Web.UI.DataSourceView.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments, DataSourceViewSelectCallback callback) +17
System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataBoundControl.PerformSelect() +149
System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataBoundControl.DataBind() +70
System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.DataBind() +4
System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataBoundControl.EnsureDataBound() +82
System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) +24
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +77
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +161
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1360
Appreciate the help. Thanks
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I have the following, which loads up a product search i now want to be able to sort it based on criteria such as price. This is what i have so far; String str = Session["subCategoryID"].ToString();
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["streamConnectionString"].ConnectionString);SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("stream_CategoryResults", conn);
command.Parameters.Add("@subCategoryID", SqlDbType.Int).Value = str;command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
conn.Open();SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection);
dgProducts.DataSource = reader;
dgProducts.DataBind();
conn.Close();
My question is would i need to have different stored procedures, for when loading it up, and when sorting it by price. This is what my stored procedure looks like;CREATE PROCEDURE stream_CategoryResultsByPrice
@subCategoryID INT
AS
SELECT DISTINCT Companies.companyName, Companies.companyLogo,SubCategories.subCategoryName, Products.productPrice, Products.productInfoURL FROM Companies INNER JOIN Products ON Companies.companyID = Products.companyID INNER JOIN SubCategories ON Products.subcategoryID = SubCategories.subCategoryID WHERE SubCategories.subCategoryID=@subCategoryID
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Nov 12, 2003
I'm brain-dead so forgive the simple question, but how do you sort a table based on the value in a money datatype field when sorting defaults to:
$1
$10
$15
$2
$20
$25
...
$5
$55
etc.
Obviously this isn't a "sorted by total amount", where I'd want the results returned like:
$1
$2
$3
...
$9
$10
$11
...
etc.
Links to examples or documentation would be great (I've tried searching both these forums and Google already).
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Dec 16, 2003
Normally when I do a sort for a stored procedure I use something like this:
ORDER BY
CASE WHEN @SortOrder = 'FirstName' THEN FirstName
WHEN @SortOrder = 'LastName' THEN LastName
WHEN @SortOrder = 'Extension' THEN Extension
ELSE LastName
How do I get that into a dynamic SQL statement with proper quotes?
Most of the SQL left out for cleanliness. The order by below would be the ELSE condition.
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@entrytype nvarchar(50),@strYears nvarchar(20), @company nvarchar(20)
AS
Declare @SQL nVarchar(4000)
Select @SQL = 'SELECT Media_Tracking_Companies.COMPANY '
Select @SQL = @SQL + 'WHERE (LTRIM(STR(DATEPART(yyyy, dbo.Media_Tracking_Ad_History.ADDATE))) IN ('
Select @SQL = @SQL + @strYears + '))'
Select @SQL = @SQL + 'ORDER BY dbo.Media_Tracking_Ad_History.PUBLICATION, dbo.Media_Tracking_Publications.AdDate DESC '
exec (@sql)
GO
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@SortValue varChar(30)= SHARE_DESCRIPTION
as
SELECT SHARES.SHARE_DESCRIPTION, SHARES.SHARE_SYMBOL, SECTORS.SECTOR_NAME
FROM SHARES INNER JOIN
SECTORS ON SHARES.SECTOR_ID = SECTORS.SECTOR_ID
ORDER BY @SortValue
but it does not seem to be possible to use variable after order by
is there any way to achieve something with sorting by variable?
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Feb 11, 2007
I have a report where I am giving the users a parameter so that they can select which field they would like to sort on.The report is also grouping by that field. I have a gruping section, where i have added code to group on the field I want based on this parameter, however I also would like to changing the sorting order but I checked around and I did not find any info.
So here is my example. I am showing sales order info.The user can sort and group by SalesPerson or Customer. Right now, I have code on my dataset to sort by SalesPerson Code and Order No.So far the grouping workds, however the sorting does not.
Any suggestions would help.
Thanks
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Apr 28, 2008
This is for SQL Server 2000. The purpose of the procedure is to return a subset of a filtered and sorted result set. The subset, filter criteria, and sort column and sort direction can be set dynamically. It uses the rowcount technique for paging.
This would be used to drive an ASP.NET gridview which supports filtering of the data, paging, and sorting. Please let me know what improvements I can make or if you have an idea for a better solution. (I didn't put this in a vBulletin code block because personally I find two sets of scroll bars annoying, but I can if people think it's better).
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.Books_GetFilteredSortedSubset
(
-- paging
@startRowIndex INT = 1,
@maximumRows INT = 999999,
-- sorting
@sortColumn NVARCHAR(30) = 'title_id',
@sortDirection NVARCHAR(4) = 'ASC',
-- filtering
@title VARCHAR(100) = NULL,
@type VARCHAR(30) = NULL,
@price MONEY = NULL
)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @parameters NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @tableSource NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @orderByExpression NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @searchCondition NVARCHAR(4000)
DECLARE @uniqueKey NVARCHAR(30)
-- set the unique key used to ensure the rows are sorted deterministically
SET @uniqueKey = 'title_id'
-- build the FROM table source used throughout this procedure
SET @tableSource = 'titles t
inner join publishers p on t.pub_id = p.pub_id'
-- build the WHERE search condition used to control filtering throughout this procedure
SET @searchCondition = '(1 = 1)'
IF @title IS NOT NULL
SET @searchCondition = @searchCondition + ' AND (title LIKE ''%' + @title + '%'')'
IF @type IS NOT NULL
SET @searchCondition = @searchCondition + ' AND (type LIKE ''' + @type + '%'')'
IF @price IS NOT NULL
SET @searchCondition = @searchCondition + ' AND (price = ' + CAST(@price AS NVARCHAR) + ')'
-- build the ORDER BY expression used to control the sorting throughout this procedure
SET @orderByExpression = @sortColumn + ' ' + @sortDirection
-- add uniqeKey to ORDER BY statement to ensure consistent ordering of results when @sortColumn is not unique
IF @sortColumn <> @uniqueKey
SET @orderByExpression = @orderByExpression + ', ' + @uniqueKey + ' ' + @sortDirection
-- Get the column value at the position specified by @startRowIndex when the results are sorted in the desired sort order
SET @sql = 'SET ROWCOUNT @rowcount; SELECT @start_row = ' + @sortColumn + ', @start_row_id = ' + @uniqueKey +
' FROM ' + @tableSource +
' WHERE ' + @searchCondition + ' ORDER BY ' + @orderByExpression
PRINT @sql
SET @parameters = '@rowcount INT, @start_row sql_variant OUTPUT, @start_row_id sql_variant OUTPUT'
DECLARE @start_row sql_variant
DECLARE @start_row_id sql_variant
EXEC sp_executesql @sql, @parameters, @rowcount = @startRowIndex, @start_row = @start_row OUTPUT, @start_row_id = @start_row_id OUTPUT
-- Get the filtered subset of results
-- add sql to filter the results based on criteria passed in as parameters
SET @sql = 'SET ROWCOUNT @rowcount; ' +
'SELECT
t.title_id,
t.title,
t.price,
t.type,
p.pub_name,
p.city,
p.state,
p.country
FROM ' + @tableSource +
' WHERE (' + @searchCondition + ') AND '
-- add sql to control the starting row
IF @sortDirection = 'ASC'
SET @sql = @sql + '( (' + @sortColumn + ' > @start_row) OR (' +
@sortColumn + ' = @start_row AND ' + @uniqueKey + ' >= @start_row_id) )'
ELSE
SET @sql = @sql + '( (' + @sortColumn + ' < @start_row) OR (' +
@sortColumn + ' = @start_row AND ' + @uniqueKey + ' <= @start_row_id) )'
-- add sql to control the ordering of everything
SET @sql = @sql + ' ORDER BY ' + @orderByExpression
PRINT @sql
SET @parameters = '@rowcount INT, @start_row sql_variant, @start_row_id sql_variant'
EXEC sp_executesql @sql, @parameters, @rowcount = @maximumRows, @start_row = @start_row, @start_row_id = @start_row_id
-- Reset the rowcount for others
SET ROWCOUNT 0
END;
GO
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I can't cast the field to numbers because there are some records that have
letters also.
What function can I use to get rid of all the 0s at the left of each record?
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Sep 27, 2007
Hello you all CLR stored procedure experts,
When a self-developed CLR stored procedure throws an Exception and the Exception is caught in the code and for example logged, there only are class and method names in the stack trace lines, but not the line numbers. Can the line numbers somehow be included in the stack trace?
I'm not familiar with .NET framework stack traces, but when I tried to find out more information I hit concepts like PDB files, are such things somehow needed to enable line numbers in stack traces?
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J
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Why does M$ Query Analyzer display all numbers as positive, no matterwhether they are truly positive or negative ?I am having to cast each column to varchar to find out if there areany negative numbers being hidden from me :(I tried checking Tools/Options/Connections/Use Regional Settings bothon and off, stopping and restarting M$ Query Analyer in betwixt, butno improvement.Am I missing some other option somewhere ?
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Mar 11, 2008
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Aug 1, 2007
Hi..
I m working on MS SQL Server 2000.
I am trying to pass a list of numbers to a stored procedure to be used with 'IN()' statement.
I was doing something like..
Create Procedure proc
(
@Items varchar(100) --- List of numbers
)
AS Begin
Declare @SQL varchar(8000)
Set @SQL =
'
Select Query......
Where products IN (' + @items + ') '
'
Exec (@SQL)
This stored procedure is working fine, but when i m adding more required stuff to that, the size exceeds 8000, & it gives the error "Invalid operator for data type. Operator equals add, type equals text."
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Jul 13, 2007
I work with a large and complex reporting system with several hundred reports: the Programmability; Stored Procedures node of the object explorer has become very difficult to navigate.
Is there any metadata that can be embedded in the stored procs that would create subfolders like the existing System Stored Procedures node in this node of the object explorer?
I suspect that the correct answers are:
Rename all your queries with a rational naming convention;
Cull the deadwood;
Assign them to categories then export them to separate databases.
Unfortunately, one of these has already been done, and the other two will break several hundred dependent processes - the recoding and retesting is neither economical nor desirable.
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Nile.
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i have an excel sheet
in it there is a column that holds values of item numbers
some of these values are preceeded with zeros E.G "00123" (with out the ")
when i view the data in excel i get this little green corner whice states (when pressed) that these values are numbers stoerd as text.
no inside the excel sheet i have no problem with that
but when i try to import the excel sheet into ssis using an excel source task
all these values are imported as nulls!!!
i am lost
i tried converting the format of these cells to numbers but then i loose the leading zeros
what i done temporarly to solve this problem is to accept excel's suggestion and turn these values into numbers
i then import them and convert them to strings in ssis and then ad dthe zeros.
now althouge this works, this isnt realy a solution.
i canot manualy correct each excel file each time i get a new copy
and in the future i will not have the luxuery of having fixed lenght values (so i wont be able to know how many zeroe i"d need to add)
there must be a better way
please help
thanks in advance
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as
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select @name
end
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I'm having the following (abbreviated) stored procedure:
Code Snippet
CREATE PROCEDURE proc_SomeSmartName @SomeVariable VARCHAR AS
BEGIN SELECT COUNT(ID) AS SomeLabel, SomeField
FROM SomeTable
GROUP BY SomeField
HAVING SomeField = @SomeVariable
END
Now my problem: It doesn't seem to work if I give the @SomeParameter a string to work with, neither via SqlCommandObject nor directly in the Management Studio. The following returns zero rows:
Code Snippet
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EXEC @return_value = [dbo].[proc_SomeSmartName]
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SELECT 'Return Value' = @return_value
Funny enough, when I have the following query, it works perfectly:
Code Snippet
SELECT COUNT(ID) AS SomeLabel, SomeField
FROM SomeTable
GROUP BY SomeField
HAVING SomeField = 'MyText'
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Hi Guys
I am wondering if you could spare some time and help me out with this puzzle.
I am new to this stuff so please take it easy on me.
I’m trying to create procedure which will take 2 input parameters and give me 1 back.
Originally there will be more outputs but for this training exercise 1 should do.
There are 2 tables as per diagram below and what I’m trying to do is
Verify username & password and pull out user group_name.
|---------------| |-----------------------|
| TBL_USERS | |TBL_USER_GROUPS|
|---------------| |-----------------------|
| USERNAME | /|GROUP_ID |
| PASSWORD | / |GROUP_NAME |
| GROUP_ID |< | |
|---------------| |-----------------------|
For my proc. I am using some ideas from this and some other sites, but obviously i've done something wrong.
'====================================================
ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.try01
(
@UserName varchar(50),
@Password varchar(50),
@Group varchar Output
)
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT TBL_USERS.USERNAME, TBL_USERS.PASSWORD,@Group = TBL_USER_GROUPS.GROUP_NAME,
TBL_USERS.USER_ID, TBL_USER_GROUPS.GROUP_ID
FROM TBL_USERS INNER JOIN TBL_USER_GROUPS
ON TBL_USERS.GROUP_ID = TBL_USER_GROUPS.GROUP_ID
WHERE (TBL_USERS.USERNAME = @UserName)
AND (TBL_USERS.PASSWORD = @Password)
'====================================================
and this is what i'm getting in VS.Net while trying to save.
'====================================================
ADO error: A select statement that assigns a value to variable must
not be combined with data-retrieval operation.
'====================================================
I did not see any samples on the net using ‘varchar’ as OUTPUT usually they where all ‘int’s. Could that be the problem?
Please help.
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I am using SQL Server 2005 and calling the procedure in asp.net
The procedure is as follows
Code Snippet
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetProductsByCategoryId]
@Category VARCHAR(255),
@Range INT,
@PageIndex INT,
@NumRows INT,
@CategoryName nvarchar(255) OUTPUT,
@CategoryProductCount INT OUTPUT
AS
BEGIN
/*
Get product count
*/
SELECT @CategoryProductCount=(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Products LEFT JOIN tblVar on Products.ProductID = tblVar.prodidvar WHERE Products.Category=@Category AND Products.Range=@Range)
/*set row variables*/
Declare @startRowIndex INT;
set @startRowIndex =(@PageIndex * @NumRows) + 1;
/* get full list of products */
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FROM Products LEFT JOIN tblVar on Products.ProductID=tblVar.prodidvar
WHERE Range=@Range
AND Category = @Category
)
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FROM ProductEntries
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END
The problem seems to be with the line
AND Category = @ Category
in the query to make the ProductEntries
If I take this query and run it in an SQL pane I need to enclose the argument for @Category in single quotes.
If I try to do this in the procedure it simply searchs for @Category as a string rather than the value of @Category.
The query returns and displays results with no problems without this line, and also if it is returning a result set that has no values in tblVar to join to.
Also if I run the query on just the Products table removing the left join it will return results with no problems.
Thanks to anyone who can help!
And I apologise if it is something simple but asp and SQL Server is not my usual coding platform.
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