Hello all,
I'm verry new to SQL server, and find myself trying to sort a table ascendingly be several columns. For instance:
SELECT * FROM Sort ODER BY start_year AND start_month ASC
I've tried to run this, but it simply does not work.
Is there a simple way to do something like this?
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks so much
-Robert
hi all
an Interesting question
I have a column which stores a versin number in this format
1.5.5.19
1.5.5.9
...
...
I want to be able to sort this text column in an ascending order. Unfortunately it gives me 1.5.5.19 followed by 1.5.5.9 which is not the case.
Please let me know ASAP
Krish+
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I have the following table (which is an import from another system Ican't mod):-CREATE TABLE [tbl_wsg_maternity_observations] ([documentname] [varchar] (40),[clientguid] [decimal](16, 0) ,[docguid] [decimal](16, 0) ,[displayname] [varchar] (80),[valuetext] [varchar] (255) ,[valuenum] [float] NULL) ON [PRIMARY]GOWheredocumentname is the name of the documentclientguid is the unique identifier for my patientdocguid is the unique id for the documentdisplayname is the dataitem (e.g. diagnosis)valuetext is the "answer" (e.g. kidney failure)valuenum is used instead if the valuetext is an integer (e.g.number of toes)I am trying to split/change this table so that I have a different tableper document, with one row per patient occurance with the displaynamesas columns.I have been using the following but it is slow and for large tablestakes hours (literally) to run:-SELECT distinctclientguid,(SELECT DISTINCT case when t2.[ValueText] is null thencast(t2.[Valuenum] as varchar(10)) else t2.[ValueText]end FROMtbl_wsg_maternity_observations t2 WHERE 'How many vessels present incord' = t2.[Displayname] AND t1.ClientGUID = t2.ClientGUID ANDt1.docGUID = t2.docGUID) as [How many vessels present in cord],<SNIP...more identical lines, one per dataitem>INTOtbl_wsg_baby_delivery_detailsFROMtbl_wsg_maternity_observations t1WHEREdocumentname = 'Mat Baby Delivery Details'Does anyone have any ideas how to do this faster and preferably moresimply?Will
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a database of automobiles. I have many many columns, it is blank of course until I can start filling it with information.
I will have four main rows. Yearnum, Make, Model, and VehicleStyle columns
I will use Honda Accord as an example.
Honda has made the Accord since probably the 80's
I know that if I
SELECT yearnum
FROM YearNum
ORDER BY yearnum
I am using C++ Builder too..
it will put all my years in order, in a combo box. But I believe it will also have duplicates, like for example They may have made a 1995 Honda Accord and then made a 1995 Honda accord LS which may have different wiring colors and speakers sizes than the regular accord.
Is there anyway to filter out multiple years, so I could just have the regular order of years?
Has anyone ever looked at the way the grid data viewer sorts it data when
clicking on a column header? If you click on a column header, something
happens to the sorting of the data in the viewer, but it's not always clear
to me _what_ is happening. It appears the data is sorted ascending on the
column you clicked on. If you click again the sort order seems to inverse to
descending. However, if you look closely, it turns out that the data is not
always sorted correctly, especially when you click on an integer valued
column.
I found this when doing a demo on the AdventureWorks demo extracting data
from the SalesOrderDetail table. If you sort on the OrderQty column, data is
correctly sorted in ascending quantities. However, if you click the column
again, orders with an order quantity of 2 are displayed on top (while there
are orders with a much higher order quantity) and if you scroll down the
list, you notice that there is no clear sorting anymore. The same happens
with other columns.
Is this supposed to work as I would expect it to do or is there a logical
explanation for the behaviour I see?
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I have a view in my database detailing the expiry date of each credential for each employee. The view is designed as to display one record per employee and in that record is the expiry date of each credential and the days remaining. So the columns are as follows:-
Employee CodeExpiry Date (x8 columns) (named as credential e.g. [Passport])
Days Remaining (x8 columns) (named as "TS_" + Credential)
I'm trying to use the CASE function to compare each DATETIME column with one another and retrieve the minimum. How can I return the minimum date as a run-time column and sort the view by this column? My code is as follows:-
SELECT [Passport],[TS_Passport],[Visa],[TS_Visa],[Civil_ID],[TS_Civil_ID],[KOC_Pass],[TS_KOC_Pass],[JO_Pass],[TS_JO_Pass],
[Ratqa_Pass],[TS_Ratqa_Pass],[Driving_License],[TS_Driving_License],[Health_Book],[TS_Health_Book], CASE
WHEN Passport <= Visa AND Passport <= Civil_ID AND Passport <= KOC_Pass AND Passport <= JO_Pass AND
[code]....
I've been told that this is the most efficient given the number of records in my database. The Min_Date is always NULL. I need the minimum of the 8 dates to be the Min_Date.
Hi,
We have a matrix report which displays columns in a default sorting order. This report columns vary dynamically depending on the user input.
e.g. If user wants to see the report for column Alfa, Beta , Gama then a report will be genarted with column Alfa, Beta , Gama sorted in alphabetical order.
Site
%Risk
Alfa
Beta
Gama
X
2
1
2
3
Y
10
4
5
6
However the users want the Columns to be sorted in the order which they provide the inputs e.g. if the user entered Gama, Alfa, Beta the report should display the columns in the same order instead of applying the default sorting order.
Site
%Risk
Gama
Alfa
Beta
X
2
3
1
2
Y
10
6
4
5
Any thoughts on ways to achieve this in SSRS matrix report would really help.
Cheers,
Viv
I'm trying to determine the oldest timestamp that meets given criteria which includes a specific action_type code. That code can legitimately be performed more than once on an item (all actions are recorded in an actions table, so the full history is available).
actions table (columns: action_id, request_id, action_type, action_time, action_reason)
I'm having trouble getting the most recent timestamp for the given action_type I'm looking for, when that action_type has been performed more than once.
My intent with the query below is to get the most recent action_time and it's request_id that meets the criteria
SELECT TOP 1 a.action_time, r.request_id FROM requests r JOIN incident i ON r.request_id = i.request_id LEFT JOIN actions a ON r.request_id = a.request_id WHERE i.refund_type = 1 AND (r.status_code = 3 OR r.status_code = 14) AND a.action_type = 3 ORDER BY a.action_time
So for example, if the item with request_id 1334 has had action_type 3 performed on it twice, once at 2007-10-15 13:30:00 and then again at 2007-10-17 14:40:00, it's picking up the former, when I want the later. That it had action_type 3 performed on it twice is legitimate. (larger context an item was approved by a manager, then rejected by a processor, and then approved by a manager again after resubmission)
Hopefully this has made sense so far.
So, how do I make sure I'm getting the most recent action time, when I don't know if the item in particular will have more than one of this action type performed on it?
I need to sort my tablix report where I have several calculated columns like:
=ReportItems!Textbox47.value+ReportItems!Textbox48.value..
Now I would like to sort these by using the Interactive sort functions - but I have seen elsewhere that this is not possible..(I'm also getting an error when trying..)Is there not a way that I can bypass this (using Code function or similar) ? The datasource for the data is a OLAP cube
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
SSRS 2012 - VS2010...The report compares two years with a sort order on a value that has been engineered based on text switched to int. When sorting A-Z this is the result in the horizontal axis is: 5th, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th..When sorting Z-A the result in the horizontal axis is:5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, PreK..Z-A is correct but A-Z sorting shows 5th as the start and end. The magnitude of the PreK location is correct but the label is wrong on the A-Z sort order. The sorting is implemented using the Category Group sorting option.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHello:
I am running into an issue with RS2k PDF export.
Case: Exporting Report to PDF/Printing/TIFF
Report: Contains 1 table with 19 Columns. 1 column is static, the other 18 are visible at the users descretion. Report when printed/exported to pdf spans 2 pages naturally, 16 on the first page, 3 on the second, and the column widths have been adjusted to provide a perfect page span .
User A elects to hide two of the columns, and show the rest. The report complies and the viewable version is perfect, the excel export is perfect.. the PDF export on the first page causes every fith column, starting with the last column that was hidden to be expanded to take up additional width. On the spanned page, it renders the first column on that page correctly, then there is a white space gap equal to the width of the hidden columns and then the rest of the cells show with the last column expanded to take up the same width that the original 2 columns were going to take up, plus its width.
We have tried several different settings to see if it helps this issue or makes it worse. So far cangrow/canshrink/keep together have made no impact. It is not possible to increase the page size due to limited page size selection availablility for the client. There are far too many combinations of what the user can elect to show or hide to put together different tables to show and hide on the same report to remove this effect.
Any help or suggestion on this issue would be appreciated
Ok this is what I have
$query = $query = "SELECT date, file name FROM comment WHERE file name ='', AND CorS='C', AND Approved='Y', ORDER BY file name DESC";
But what I want is to return all results based on the file name from the most recent to the oldest. Can anyone help????
hi,
i need a query based on sorting.
i have date column and time as varchar in another column and other order details
datecol timcol ordername type
12/31/2007 1:00 pm order1 1
12/31/2007 5:00 pm order2 1
12/22/2007 6:00 pm order3 1
so i need to get query o/p as
12/22/2007 6:00pm
12/31/2007 1:00 pm
12/31/2007 5:00pm
based on date and time. pls help!
here's a good one for you...I want to return the last 20 records I have modified. I have adatemodified field - excellent.So I run a query to select the top 20 when ordered by datemodifieddesc.But now I have these results I want them sorted by companyname.Is this possible?Yes I could use my GUI to do the second sort, but can it be done justin a query?ThanksTim
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a text field in the form of numbers separated by periods like this: 1,1.2,1.2.1
When I sort, it works fine unless I get out to 10 digits.
Desired sort: 1,1.1,1.1.1,1.1.2,.....,1.1.9,1.1.10
Actual sort: 1,1.1,1.1.1,1.1.10,1.1.2,.....,1.1.9
The 10 is showing up smaller than the 2 because of the straight text comparison, any ideas on how to get around this?
I have a gridview that has AllowSorting="true" however I need to implement my own sorting because I have DateTime and Integer data types in several of the columns and I don't want an int column sorted like 1,12,2,23,3,34,4,45,5,56, etc. So, I've added SortParameterName="sortBy" and adjusted my stored procedure to accept this. For only ASC sorting, I've got
ORDER BY CASE WHEN @sortBy='' THEN DateCreated END, CASE WHEN @sortBy='DateCreated' THEN DateCreated END
and so on. However, columns can also be sorted with DESC. I tried CASE WHEN @sortBy='DateCreated DESC' THEN DateCreated DESC END, but I get a syntax error on DESC. How can I do this?
I am trying to set up custom paging and sorting with my gridview. All is well but the sorting. The problem is with the stored procedure. If I pass in the value @sortExpression as, for example "discussions_Posts.post_time", i does not sort it at all. But if I replace the @sortExpression with discussions_Posts.post_time in the actual stored procedure, it gets sorted. how do I sort this query with a input parameter with values like "discussions_Topics.topic_title" or something? ALTER PROCEDURE discussions_GetTopicsSubSet@startRowIndex as int,@maximumRows as int,@sortExpression as nvarchar(50),@board_id as intASDECLARE @Topics TABLE(RowNumber INT,topic_id INT,topic_title VARCHAR(50),topic_replies INT,topic_views INT,topic_type INT,topic_time DATETIME,post_id int,post_time DATETIME,Topic_Author_UserName nvarchar(256),Topic_Author_ID uniqueidentifier,Post_Author_Username nvarchar(256),Post_Author_ID uniqueidentifier)--DECLARE @TopicsFrom Datetime--SELECT @TopicsFrom = CASE @TopicsDays WHEN '1' THEN DATEADD(day,-1,getdate()) WHEN '2' THEN DATEADD(day,-7,getdate()) WHEN '3' THEN DATEADD(day,-14,getdate()) WHEN '4' THEN DATEADD(month,-1,getdate()) WHEN '5' THEN DATEADD(month,-3,getdate()) WHEN '6' THEN DATEADD(month,-6,getdate()) WHEN '7' THEN DATEADD(year,-1,getdate()) ELSE DATEADD(year,-1,getdate()) END-- populate the table CAST(getdate() as int)INSERT INTO @TopicsSELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY @sortExpression), discussions_Topics.topic_id, discussions_Topics.topic_title, discussions_Topics.topic_replies, discussions_Topics.topic_views, discussions_Topics.topic_type,discussions_Topics.topic_time, discussions_Posts.post_id, discussions_Posts.post_time, user_1.UserName AS Topic_Author_Username, user_1.UserId AS Topic_Author_ID, user_2.UserName AS Post_Author_Username, user_2.UserId AS Post_Author_IDFROM discussions_Topics INNER JOIN discussions_Posts ON discussions_Posts.post_id = discussions_Topics.topic_last_post_id INNER JOIN aspnet_Users AS user_1 ON user_1.UserId = discussions_Topics.topic_poster INNER JOIN aspnet_Users AS user_2 ON user_2.UserId = discussions_Posts.poster_idWHERE (discussions_Topics.board_id = @board_id ANDdiscussions_Topics.topic_type NOT LIKE '1' )SELECT * from @TopicsWHERE RowNumber BETWEEN @startRowIndex AND (@startRowIndex + @maximumRows) - 1
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis is more of a SQL question than a .NET question, but if you could indulge me, I'd appreciate it.
I have a table that has 2 columns of particular interest for the purposes of this question. One is a foreign key to another table (int), the other is a name (varchar(50). I want to sort the results set in a specific way. I want to sort it in such a way that all entries that have the foreign key = 0 come first (sorted ASC by name) then I'd like all the other results with foreign key column > 0 to be sorted ASC by name. I was trying to be cute and tried an order by statement like this: "ORDER BY (foreignKey > 0), name" but it's a syntax error (as I initially thought it might be). I know I could probably do a stored procedure that will create a temporary table and I could insert a new column to help put these in order, and I also know I could put all the results into an array, then sort the array in code, but I was just wondering if there was a simpler, slicker way (tricky SQL query perhaps).
Hi,
I hope I can explain what I am trying to achieve (in MS SQL Server):
The results set that shows Names and Dates (plus others, but not relevant here), that needs to be sorted by Date and then by name.
I have tried:
ORDER BY date, surname, forename (gives dates in right order but not names)
and
ORDER BY surname, forename, date (gives names in right order but not dates)
Thanks for any advice!
I noticed when looking at the execution path that the SQL sort (order by) was taking up 16% of the total for the query. However the execution time for the sort was like .007 ms in SQL so I doubt it was really that much overhead.
Is it more effecient to sort a dataset within my asp.net program?
Hi,
i have a simple table with NAME and a SORTORDER. Now i want to sort my table on the NAME desc and then insert a number into the SORTORDER. The number has to correspond with the number the NAME has in the list.
EXAMPLE
Initial situation:
BAKKER 0
AKKER 0
CARNIE 0
Now my question is how can i update the table with a sp in wich te outcome is:
AKKER 1
BAKKER 2
CARNIE 3
Can someone please help me?
Greetings,
Mark
i have a question that is there any methods to order by the column which's datatype is ntext with t-sql?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAnybody know how to accomplish lexigraphical sorting? Any how-tos, docs, tuts or if you just want to paste code
THanks!
I'm trying to sort by domain user id, I can pull the user id fine but now I want to sort my SELECT by that name. How do I put the value of getUserIdentity into my SELECT statment.
Thanks
<script language="C#" runat="server"> protected string getUserIdentity() { return HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.ToString().Replace("DOMAIN\", ""); }
protected void Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) { username = getUserIdentity(); SqlConnection myConnection = new SqlConnection("Data Source=CLIENTELE;Initial Catalog=forms;Integrated Security=True"); SqlDataAdapter myCommand = new SqlDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM formTable WHERE userID = @username ORDER BY status DESC", myConnection);
DataSet ds = new DataSet(); myCommand.Fill(ds, "names");
MyDataGrid.DataSource=ds.Tables["names"].DefaultView; MyDataGrid.DataBind(); }
</script>
hi,
i am trying to figure out how to sort the data in a column in an ascending way when the column contains numeric and char data.
In the example I want to sort by category,lookup value. However, as you can see the top two rows are sorted right but the others are all messed up.
I would really appreciate any hints you can give me.
thanks
Rozina
Category ID lookupvalue
CPU Type4CPU Type 1
CPU Type4CPU Type 2
CPU Number51
CPU Number516
CPU Number52
CPU Number532
CPU Number54
CPU Number564
CPU Number58
I have a table with a composite primary key (ie a,b, autoInteger)
that includes an auto-incrementing system generated integer.
How do I sort out the records such that if a and b above repeat, I only
get the records with the highest autoInteger?
Thanks for any suggestions
Shelly
I need help sorting a date field. My field looks like this: dd/mm/yy. I want to sort by month. How would I do that?
Any help would be appreciated...
Hiya,
I'm back with another question.
I have a view of a table which contains users. the SQL is:
CREATE VIEW dbo.vwTravellers
AS
SELECT TravellerID AS ID, LTRIM(RTRIM(LastName)) + ', ' + LTRIM(RTRIM(FirstName)) + ' - DOB:' + LEFT(RTRIM(DOB), 11) AS Value
FROM dbo.tblTravellers
I would like to be able to sort the view by LastName, Firstname, but it doesnt allow a SORT BY in the view. Does anyone know of a cheeky little trick I could use to get around this?
Cheers
Guy
I wish I'd listened in that SQl Server training course I attended :(
I am trying to sort a matrix by column. I first tried adding an interactive sort to the column heading, but it either gave me a run-time error, or there was not response. I then tried adding sorting to the row groups, and that doesn't seem to work either. I feel I have done every combination of groupings and sort expressions. Has anyone been able to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Kris
Hi,
I'm not sure why this is happening, but I'm trying to sort/order on this special field/column that I have created to allow precise ordering. However, for all of the values that are returned, if there are any NULLS, they are returned first/ahead of the values of what I want to be returned first. This field/column I created is called 'POW' (stands for Priority on Web). The values are just integers, 1-whatever, and we try to make sure that they're all unique. So for example, if we have a 1 in that field, then that row should be returned first, and if another row has 2, then it should be next. However, this is not working exactly - all of the NULL values are returned FIRST, then the proper values in the correct order. I want the NULLS to be last, because it may take some time for someone to go into each record, and assign it a unique value. My current SQL statement reads:
mySQL = "SELECT SignTypes.Id, SignTypes.SignType, SignTypes.SignDescription, SignTypes.FinalSignWidth, SignTypes.FinalSignHeight FROM SignTypes JOIN PropLocSigns ON SignTypes.Id = PropLocSigns.SignTypeID WHERE PropLocSigns.PropLocID = " & Session("PropID") & " AND (RestrictOnWeb = 0 OR RestrictOnWeb IS NULL) ORDER BY SignTypes.POW; SELECT @@ROWCOUNT"
So if someone knows of a way to put NULLS last, and still have my proper ordering, that would be great! I would think that there's some simple way of doing this, but not being an expert, I don't know. Thanks for the help!
Generally speaking, say using normal SQL if u wanted to sort month names in correct order how would u do it???
View 7 Replies View Relatedhi all..just a quick question about sorting a query. let us say that i am running a select statement that involves 3 or 4 tables and one of the columns in one of the tables is a divisions column. based on the records, there is a specific division that i want to appear first in the list. its not alphabetically possible nor is it the keys associated with it allow it to be selected first. how would i go about pulling that particular record from the divisions column to be listed first in my query? thanks alot
tibor