Have a view that has to reference a table in another database on the same server. This isn't the problem. I am just using Databasename..tablename in the from statement. Get the results required in testing.
The problem is that in production the table name has a space character. i.e. 'accounting info' would be the table name. I have not been able to figure out the proper syntax to capture this properly to reference in the from statement.
I have tried enclosing the name in ' ', " ", [], (), {} and just about every combination I can come up with.
Any help in this would be great, and changing the databse name isn't an option at this time.
I am attempting to how to truncate list of tables using STP. That is decalre a cursor for a list table names and then to truncate the table names one by one.
The code below shows what I want to achieve. I want to truncate all the tables with names beginning with ZZ but this is failing. I have tried using both delete and truncate.
DECLARE ZZtablenames_cursor CURSOR FOR select [name] from sysobjects WHERE [xtype] = 'U' and name like 'ZZ %'
OPEN ZZtablenames_cursor
FETCH NEXT FROM ZZtablenames_cursor into @tablename WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN set @localname = '[' + @tablename + ']' TRUNCATE + @localname FETCH NEXT FROM ZZtablenames_cursor END
CLOSE ZZtablenames_cursor DEALLOCATE ZZtablenames_cursor
GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO
I've got this security database that needs to create a login name using first initial and 7 characters of the lastname. No problem.
I wrote this:
select CASE WHEN LastName like '%.%' then LEFT(FirstName, 1)+left(replace(LastName,'.',''),7) else LEFT(FirstName, 1)+ LEFT(LastName,7) end as UserID from Security.dbo.tblUserInformation
The replace and case functions I used to get rid of the '.' Like the name St. Clair now I get "GSt Clai" I need it to also get rid of the space but am stuck. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I have a Detailsview with Insert and Update options connected to a SQL 2005 table with templated textboxes for input. The textboxes have maxlength set to the number of characters in each respective field in the SQL 2005 table. When text is inserted it gets padded with spaces if all the field length is not used. When you try to edit the field the cursor does not move because of the padded spaces. The End key must be pressed to find the end of the string and the padded space removed before adding edited text. I am working in VB.net. If I check the field in SQL Studio Express is shows the text I typed plus blank space for the remainder of the field. My question is how can I add text to the textboxes without the padded spaces being added when the maxlength of the field is not used?
just starting with sql server, thru the sql express edition, before i get to far wondering if it is ok to use the same database names, specifically the ASPNetDB.mdf in different web applications, or will this cause problems down the line,
ie will have different web site applications running on IIS and want to use the aspnet_regsl wizard,
also wondering if this has any implicaitons when publishing web application to web servers, are any of the local sql express server settings passed on to the web host provider, read about machine.config and if i understand i should put all the settings in the web.config file via the VS20005 ide.
also will it cause any problem inside the sql express magement console,
I am designing a package to export staging tables into a flat file.The names of the tables will be: TableAStaging_YYYYMM and TableBStaging_YYYYMM. As you can see the names of the tables will be changing each month.
The flat files will have similar naming: C:MyPathFlatFileTableAStaging__YYYYMM and C:MyPathFlatFileTableAStaging__YYYYMM.I want to run the package as an sql job in two steps, one for each table.I need to dynamically pass the table names and file names (together with the path) to the IS package.
As part if a recent requirement I have to export Chinese/Singaporean names in a CSV file. The data in the tables is a NVARCHAR(256).
I am using a FlatFile Connection manager where all the present columns from the table are exported as NVARCHARs. My understanding was that the Chinese/Singaporean names would blend seamlessly with NVARCHARs in place. But, they get garbled when pushed to the CSV.
Here is the connection manager setup
There are a lot of suggestions of fixing this by copying/pasting to a notepad file and changing the formatting... But I cant do that since the file is generated using a schedules SSIS package. How can I tweak the process to fix the issue?
Hello, I have ran into a problem when i'm getting table names in c#. I have tried the sql command: select name from sysobjects where type='U' order by name So it returns the names without a problem. But when I try to access to some tables using their names (to retrieve the columns) I sometimes get the error "Invalid object name" following by the name of the table. So I realized the if the table was not under dbo user then i would get this error. for example: "select name from ContactCreditCard" gives me error because in database management tool it is shown like this: Sales.ContactCreditCard How can i fix this problem? How to get that prefix of the tables?
Hello, { Merry xmas to all few hours early but hey !! }
I'm trynig to create an application that will connect to any database that i specify and return the colums names within any table that i specify.
I have done the code that establishes the connection but im a bit stumped on how to get the colum names from a tabel and was wondering if anybody had any sourse code for this in VB.
When connecting to an SQL Server (v7 in this case) the log file shows that old and deleted databases are still being opened as part of the process. Further, these db names are now reserved and cannot be reused, even thought I've deleted them.
Is there any way I can purge all traces of these deleted db names?
You might have guessed, I'm a newbie, which is why there are a few dozen deleted DBs.
I have a query return all the names of the table in my database via this code:
SELECT MSysObjects.Name FROM MSysObjects WHERE (((Left([Name],4))<>"MSYS"));
I need to further refine the search fitting in the critera LIKE 'qry_tbl%' I dont know how to fit this in .. i tried fitting it in to the end, but nothing comes up.. I also tried querying the results of this query with another query :-P but that didnt work either .. any ideas?
In essence i need all the table names in my DB that start with 'qry_tbl' to be in a list for me..
I create a user then I create a database and assign my newly created user as owner
When I login as this new user everything works fine BUT my newly created user can still see other database names even though he is not allowed to use them.
How can I prevent him from seeing other database names.
We have recently copied a database from one machine to another. On the old machine, when we access the tables we do not need to use the username.tablename convention to query them. On the new box we do.
For example, to query a table called Page we would nee to do this on the new box.
SELECT * FROM webdev.page
unfortunately all the code is written, without the username prefix. Is there a way to not use the username prefix?
Thank you for your help...sorry for the newbie type question.
ho w do i get all the database names from my local machine which are present in the sql sevrer 2005 i also need how do i get the names of all the tables,views,stored procedure names in the particular database
Hi SQL server experts, I'm trying to restore from a backup file. I need to restore the datafile and logfile to different names. I modified the options page, changed the 'Restored As' file name. I clicked on the General page and Clicked on the Options page again, the old values came back. How do I handle this? Thanks in advance. Pingx
I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how we could find the table names and column names of the tables in our Sql server database at runtime/dynamically given our connection string? Please let me know.
Hi, In Ms SQL server if we create a user defined stored procedure it will be stored in the SysObjects table. simillarly the paramerter are stored in other table which is that table.
Hello All,i am trying to insert some values into a table in sql database. i keep getting error saying incorrect syntax near 'S'. i fired up my debugger and found that one of the row contains name like Georgia's way. i am getting error at the "S" in georgia's way. how can i fix that. here is my code for inserting the values in to the table SqlConnection mysqlcon = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ImportexcelConnectionString"].ConnectionString); mysqlcon.Open(); foreach (DataRow dr1 in objDataSet.Tables[0].Rows) { String sqlinsert = String.Format("insert into Det values('{0}','{1}','{2}','{3}','{4}','{5}','{6}',{7},{8},'{9}','{10}','{11}','{12}')" , dr1[0].ToString() , dr1[1].ToString() , dr1[2].ToString() , dr1[3].ToString() -- this is the column where georgia's way is , dr1[4].ToString() , dr1[5].ToString() , dr1[6].ToString() , Convert.ToDecimal(dr1[7].ToString()) , Convert.ToDecimal(dr1[8].ToString()) , dr1[9].ToString() , dr1[10].ToString() , dr1[11].ToString() , dr1[12].ToString());
new SqlCommand(sqlinsert, mysqlcon).ExecuteNonQuery(); LabelImport.Text = " Row Inserted"; } mysqlcon.Close(); can some please help me out.Thanks a lot
I have a database and I want to retrieve informations about all tables defined in this database. In other words I need the table list defined in database. Can you help me?
I'm currently implementing a German ERP system and I'm having aterrible time writing reports/SQL statements. The database is MS SQLServer 2000. I want to set permanant aliases for the columns that Ican use in SQL statements. Is this even possible? All of the researchI've done implies that you can only alias column names in the output ofa SQL statement.
Does anyone has a script which gives all databases names and thereallocated, used sizes in SQLserver2k. I want to schedule this to create adaily report.Thanks,Nasir
In the past, we had table names such as: PurchaseOrders SalesOrders
Now with SQL 2005, you can use schema namespaces, so it could become: Purchasing.Orders Sales.Orders
So essentially you can use exactly the SAME table names, in different schemas.
So... would you recommend to change to the last model, or just stay with the old way? What is best practice?
One of the reasons why I ask this question is that I looked at the AdventureWorks sample database included with SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft is using:
I'm not a full-time DBA, so excuse my style of expressing my question.I have a database which has 2 tables in SQL 2005. Both these tables have similar column names, EXCEPT for new extra columns in FY2007_DATA. I can visually see the difference in columns in Database Diagrams. My goal is to :- I want to compare FY2007 tbl column names to FY2006 column names and display only those columns as results that do not match.Tbl 1 :- FY2006_DATA Tbl 2:-
FY2007_DATA
With online reading and help I have managed to get this script to do exactly opposite of what i want. Below is the query
/* This query compares the column names from two tables and displays the ones that have an exact match. It does not care for case-sensitiveness */
Select a.Table_Name, a.Column_Name, (b.Table_Name), (b.column_name) From [2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS a Join [2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS b on a.Column_Name = b.Column_Name Where a.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2006_DATA' And b.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2007_DATA' AND a.Column_Name IN (Select Column_Name = LEFT(c.column_name, 20) FROM [H1B_2006-2011].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.Columns AS c WHERE c.TABLE_NAME = 'FY2007_DATA' )
When I change "AND a.Column_Name IN.." to "AND a.Column_Name NOT IN.." so that the results will (should) display the extra columns in FY2007, in fact I do not see any results, but query executes perfect.
I am trying to create a list of all the tables in one database and then list the size of each table. So for example I want to create a table with the table name and table size for one DB
E.g
Table1 1111KB Table2 123300MB Table3 120448KB
etc for all the tables in a particukar DB
I know there is a stored procedure to list the sizes: 'sp_spaceused' but not sure how to script all this together.
