I don't have this problem on my local machine, but if I run this statement against the database provided by my hosting service provider I always got a "Incorrect syntax near '(' error".
This statement is here: Select Top(10) From dbo.Album;
As you see it is so common, a text book example, but it just doesn't work.
The database provided by the hosting company is SQL Server 2005 Standard.
The problem can be avoided if I change statement to "Select Top 10 * From dbo.Album", however, I would like user to specify search criteria, the value of "Top" clause has to be an parameter.
So, if I run "Select Top(@count) * From dbo.Album" the same "Incorrect syntax near '(' error" shows up again.
Any body has the same problem as me?
Hi! I think the order by clause is driving me crazy.The following T-SQL query works: SELECT count(*) AS c From F_POST Where id=@id Order by c Ok, so far so good, but in the following case it is NOT possible to order the result set according to "count(*)": Select T_Date AS TDATE, count(*) AS c From F_Post Where id=@id Order By case when @OrderBy = 1 then c elseT_DATE DESC This is just strange since it is essentially the same query!? Furthermore, it seems to be inpossible to have a order-by-clause that looks like: Order By case when @OrderBy = 1 then T_Column1 ASC elseT_Column2 DESC
Does anyone know how I can implement querys that do (almost) exactly this what the last 2 querys "should" to do?
I€™m suffering a queer behaviour when I use BIDS. Concretely, when I open a dtsx from my project (it has 10 packages) many times Sequence Container and Data Flow tasks are invisible. I mean, its lines are not visible at all whereas its titles are. I mean, what you see is just a white box€¦
Then, I€™m gonna Data Flow layer and I have to do double-clik over the tasks and are visible but on Control Flow I don€™t see how to solve.
Curiously in our development and production server such behaviour doesn€™t happen (we are accessing by mean Terminal Server from our workstations)
How odd!. Everything is fine except this.
I want to remark you that such project has been copied from the server, this is, these packages are been built on the server
I have a quite big SQL query which would be nice to be used using UNION betweern two Select and Where clauses. I noticed that if both Select clauses have Where part between UNION other is ignored. How can I prevent this?
I found a article in StackOverflow saying that if UNION has e.g. two Selects with Where conditions other one will not work. [URL] ....
I have installed SQL Server 2014 and I tried to use tricks mentioned in StackOverflow's article but couldn't succeeded.
Any example how to write two Selects with own Where clauses and those Selects are joined with UNION?
Hi, can anyone shed some light on this issue?SELECT Status from lupStatuswith a normal query it returns the correct recordcountSELECT Status from lupStatus GROUP BY Statusbut with a GROUP By clause or DISTINCT clause it return the recordcount= -1
ON dbo.Track_ID.SM_ID = dbo.transactions.sm_session_id
GROUP BY dbo.Track_ID.TrackID
)
) Once moved to SQL Server 2005 the statement would not return and showed SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD to be the waittype when executed. This machine is SP1 and needs to be upgraded to SP2, something that is not going to happen near time.
I changed the SQL to the following, SQL Server now runs it in under a second, but now the app is not functioning correctly. Are the above and the following semantically the same?
UPDATE dbo.Track_ID
SET dbo.Track_ID.Processed = 4 --Regular 1 leg call thats been completed
1) Rows ordered using textual id rather than numeric id
Code Snippet select cast(v.id as nvarchar(2)) id from ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) v order by v.id
Result set is ordered as: 1, 11, 2 I expect: 1,2,11
if renamed or removed alias for "cast(v.id as nvarchar(2))" expression then all works fine.
2) SQL server reject query below with next message
Server: Msg 169, Level 15, State 3, Line 16 A column has been specified more than once in the order by list. Columns in the order by list must be unique.
Code Snippet select cast(v.id as nvarchar(2)) id from ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) v cross join ( select 1 id union select 2 id union select 11 id ) u order by v.id ,u.id
Again, if renamed or removed alias for "cast(v.id as nvarchar(2))" expression then all works fine.
It reproducible on
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86) May 3 2005 23:18:38 Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
and
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3042.00 (Intel X86) Feb 9 2007 22:47:07 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
In both cases database collation is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1251_CS_AS
If I check quieries above on database with SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collation then it works fine again.
Could someone clarify - is it bug or expected behaviour?
I am using web developer 2008, while connecting to I wanted to fetch data from Lotus notes database file, for this i used notesql connector, while connectiong to notes database i am fetting error
ERROR [42000] [Lotus][ODBC Lotus Notes]Table reference has to be a table name or an outer join escape clause in a FROM clause
I have already checked that database & table name are correct, please help me out How i can fetch the lotus notes data in my asp.net pages.
I am using web developer 2008, while connecting to I wanted to fetch data from Lotus notes database file, for this i used notesql connector, while connectiong to notes database i am fetting error
ERROR [42000] [Lotus][ODBC Lotus Notes]Table reference has to be a table name or an outer join escape clause in a FROM clause
I have already checked that database & table name are correct, please help me out How i can fetch the lotus notes data in my asp.net pages.
what is differance between conditions put in ON clause and in WHERE clause in JOINS????
see conditions that shown in brown color
select d1.SourceID, d1.PID, d1.SummaryID, d1.EffectiveDate, d1.Audit, d1.ExpirationDate, d1.Indicator from[DB1].[dbo].[Implicit] d1 inner join [DB2].[dbo].[Implicit] d2 on d1.SummaryID=d2.SummaryID AND d1.ListType = d2.ListType AND (d1.EffectiveDate <= d2.ExpirationDate or d2.ExpirationDate is null) AND (d1.ExpirationDate >= d2.EffectiveDate or d1.ExpirationDate is null) whered1.ImplicitID >= d2.ImplicitID AND (d1.SourceID<>d2.SourceID OR (d1.SourceID IS NULL AND d2.SourceID IS NOT NULL) OR (d1.SourceID IS NOT NULL AND d2.SourceID IS NULL) )
select d1.SourceID, d1.PID, d1.SummaryID, d1.EffectiveDate, d1.Audit, d1.ExpirationDate, d1.Indicator from[DB1].[dbo].[Implicit] d1 inner join [DB2].[dbo].[Implicit] d2 on d1.SummaryID=d2.SummaryID AND d1.ImplicitID = d1.ImplicitIDAND d1.ListType = d2.ListType AND (d1.EffectiveDate <= d2.ExpirationDate or d2.ExpirationDate is null) AND (d1.ExpirationDate >= d2.EffectiveDate or d1.ExpirationDate is null) whered1.ImplicitID >= d2.ImplicitID AND (d1.SourceID<>d2.SourceID OR (d1.SourceID IS NULL AND d2.SourceID IS NOT NULL) OR (d1.SourceID IS NOT NULL AND d2.SourceID IS NULL) )
another thing...
if we put AND d1.ImplicitID = d1.ImplicitID condition in second query then shall we remove d1.ImplicitID >= d2.ImplicitID from WHERE clause????
Hi everyone, I saw some queries where SQL inner join clause and the where clause is used at the same time. I knew that "on" is used instead of the "where" clause. Would anyone please exaplin me why both "where" and "on" clause is used in some sql Select queries ?
I have a datasource where i assign the control Parameter value depending on whether theres a value in the querystring or a gridview selectedvalue is indeed selected.When i do this using a querystring it works fine, however, when i do it using gridView_selectedIndexChanged it doesn't work.Here's the code <asp:SqlDataSource ID="jobDetailsDS" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:promanConn %>" SelectCommand="SELECT tblJobs.intJobId, tblJobs.intJobStaffId, tblJobs.intJobUserId, tblJobs.intJobCategoryId, tblJobs.strJobTitle, tblJobs.strJobDesc, tblJobs.strJobNotes, tblJobs.dateJobLogged, tblJobs.dateJobDeadline, tblJobs.dateJobCompleted, tblJobs.intJobPriorityId, tblJobs.strJobSolution, tblJobs.boolJobCompleted, tblPriority.priorityName, tblPriority.id, tblPriority.priorityOrder, tblStaff.staffName, tblStaff.id AS staffID, tblProblemCategoriesLookup.strProblemCatName, tblProblemCategoriesLookup.intProblemCatId, tblStaff_1.id AS Expr1, tblStaff_1.staffName AS UserName FROM tblJobs INNER JOIN tblPriority ON tblJobs.intJobPriorityId = tblPriority.id INNER JOIN tblStaff ON tblJobs.intJobStaffId = tblStaff.id INNER JOIN tblProblemCategoriesLookup ON tblJobs.intJobCategoryId = tblProblemCategoriesLookup.intProblemCatId INNER JOIN tblStaff AS tblStaff_1 ON tblJobs.intJobUserId = tblStaff_1.id WHERE (tblJobs.intJobId = @intJobId)" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO tblJobs(intJobStaffId, intJobUserId, intJobCategoryId, strJobTitle, strJobDesc, strJobNotes, dateJobLogged, dateJobDeadline, intJobPriorityId, boolJobCompleted) VALUES (@intJobStaffId, 56 , 39, @strJobTitle, @strJobDesc, @strJobNotes,{ fn NOW() }, { fn NOW() }, @intJobPriorityId, 0); "> <SelectParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="intJobId" Type="int32" /> </SelectParameters> <InsertParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="intJobStaffId" Type="Int32" /> <asp:Parameter Name="strJobTitle" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="strJobDesc" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="strJobNotes" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="intJobPriorityId" Type="Int32" /> <asp:Parameter Name="intJobUserId" Type="Int32" /> </InsertParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource>Code Behind ElseIf dest > 0 Then jobDetailsDS.SelectParameters.Item("intJobId").DefaultValue = Request.QueryString("dest") notesDS.SelectParameters.Item("intJobId").DefaultValue = Request.QueryString("dest") notesDS.InsertParameters.Item("intJobId").DefaultValue = Request.QueryString("dest") gvActiveJobs.Visible = "False" End If End Sub Protected Sub gvActiveJobs_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles gvActiveJobs.SelectedIndexChanged gvActiveJobs.Visible = "False" jobDetailsDS.SelectParameters.Item("intJobId").DefaultValue = gvActiveJobs.SelectedValue notesDS.SelectParameters.Item("intJobId").DefaultValue = gvActiveJobs.SelectedValue notesDS.InsertParameters.Item("intJobId").DefaultValue = gvActiveJobs.SelectedValue End Sub I also debugged and checked the value of gvActiveJobs.SelectedValue and it is what i was expecting but its still no good.Can anyone help?ThanksMatt
I moved a table from one file group to another file group. After moving the table the row count show 0 but when I open the table it’s returning all the rows. Is something wrong with the table? Do I have created a cluster index and drop on the table?
Hi, I have table in my db thats used as a temporary table. At the end of the day it contains thousands of records which get summarized then all are deleted. I recently moved the application over to a new server with pretty much the same hardware config and noticed a big performance hit when running queries on this temp table (455 milliseconds as opposed to 1) In short, the fix was dropping the table and re-creating it. Anybody know how this could be? I know that even if you delete records from a table, the table still seems to retain its physical size on the hard drive, could this have something to do with it?
CREATE TABLE #users(users varchar(50),pasw varchar(50),title varchar(50)) insert into #users select 'test','abcdef','ceo' SELECT * FROM #users alter table #users alter column pasw nvarchar(50) update #users set pasw=pwdencrypt(pasw) SELECT * FROM #users
What happens to the TITLE column? I had a table like the above with users and passwords in the Production DB. The password column had VARCHAR type. I changed it to NVARCHAR and encrypted the passwords. When i executed the SELECT *, the title column appeared like this. :eek: If i query the table by column names instead of * i see the correct values. I couldn't understand what behaviour is it.
Hi Experts, Am able to restart my local sql server using a login which dont have a sysadmin privileage.This login only have access to a particular database .Its only having datareader and datawriter as DB roles but still am able to restart the server.Please help
I am using c# and ASP.NET 2 and I am getting a very strange error. I have a field called CompanyID in SQL Server 2005, and it allows null values in it. When this CompanyID is not NULL, ie for example it is 202, then when i press the update button it allows me to update perfectly in the database. However if the CompanyID is NULL, and I try to update the companyID, to lets say 202, the application just crashes with the following message:- System.InvalidCastException: Object cannot be cast from DBNull to other types. I tried to set some breakpoints in the application to debug, however it does not even pass through these breakpoints! Any ideas on what the problem can be or how I can debug? Thanks for your help and time Johann
This is the actual statement displayed from Response.Write in classic ASP. INSERT INTO WOTasks (WoNum,TaskNum,TaskDesc,TaskMemo,Account,ModifyDate,Estimate,TaskHours,Unit,UnitCost,TotalCost) SELECT '06-012497',TaskNum,TaskDesc,TaskMemo,Account,'2006-Oct-3',1,TaskHours,Unit,UnitCost,TotalCost FROM Tasks WHERE procnum = '000002' There are 4 records returned from the SELECT part of the statement. In some situations, 4 records are inserted to WOTasks table, in others, only 1 record is inserted. I can't find out why 1 record, instead of 4, record is inserted. A form page submits the form to the save page using post method. The above statement is contained in the save page. When one of the form textbox is filled, 1 record is inserted. When the textbox is not filled, 4 records are inserted. You may think the textbox has something to do with the behaviour. I also think so but the content of the textbox does not affect the sql statement. In both cases, the insert statement is the same. In the actual codes, only strings in quotes are variables and the rest are hardcoded. When I run the statement in SQL Server, 4 records are affected. No such problem when connected with Access.The actual code belowSub AddTask(ByVal proc, ByVal wonum) Dim sSQL sSQL = "INSERT INTO WOTasks (WoNum,TaskNum,TaskDesc,TaskMemo,Account,ModifyDate,Estimate,TaskHours,Unit,UnitCost,TotalCost) SELECT '" & wonum & _ "',TaskNum,TaskDesc,TaskMemo,Account,'" & curDate & "',1,TaskHours,Unit,UnitCost,TotalCost FROM Tasks WHERE procnum='" & proc & "'" 'Response.Write sSQL:Response.End conn.Execute sSQL, , 128 End Sub
Hi there I have this statement I have written as follows:strCommand = "SELECT * FROM tblstock WHERE Type='"&Statement &"' AND Description like'"&criteria &"%' OR Tag like'"&criteria &"%'OR Location like'"&criteria &"%' OR LAN like'"&criteria &"%' OR RAM like'"&criteria &"%' OR CD like'"&criteria &"%' OR OS like '" &criteria &"%' OR SN like'" &criteria &"%' OR DeviceStatus like'" &criteria &"%' ORDER BY " &sSortStr The variable "Statement" is passed into the sub as "PC" which means only records of type "PC" should be displayed along with any other criteria. The issue I'm having is that when I specify criteria I'm also recieving other types eg "Cameras" if they contain any of my criteria.. I can't understand how because in the statement I tell it only to display records of type "PC".. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks
I've done a new tabel that insert the UserId that in a uniqueidentifier get from Membership.GetUser().ProviderUserKeySo if I want to make a select statement threw storedprocedure in codebehind it runs as it shouldCode behindDim GetCustomersCars As CustomerCarByUserId = New CustomerCarByUserId MyCars.DataSource = GetCustomersCars.CarByUserId(Membership.GetUser().ProviderUserKey)MyCars.DataBind() But in when I use ObjectDataSource it fails<asp:ObjectDataSource id="ObjectDataSource1" runat="server" selectmethod="CarByUserId" typename="CustomerCarByUserId"> <SelectParameters> <asp:Parameter defaultvalue="Membership.GetUser().ProviderUserKey" name="UserId" type="Object" /> </SelectParameters> </asp:ObjectDataSource>I've tried with Membership.GetUser().ProviderUserKey.ToString(), but that doesnt work. Error message:InvalidCastExceptionI connect to the same source in both cases.Any one with an Idee ?
So we currently are running a SQL 7 Server, which hopefully we will be updating this year but untill then we're stuck. I've got a web app using ASP.NET 2.0 and on occasion I get this error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Connect(Boolean& useFailoverPartner, Boolean& failoverDemandDone, String host, String failoverPartner, String protocol, SqlInternalConnectionTds connHandler, Int64 timerExpire, Boolean encrypt, Boolean trustServerCert, Boolean integratedSecurity, SqlConnection owningObject, Boolean aliasLookup) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SqlConnection owningObject, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreatePooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnectionOptions options) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.CreateObject(DbConnection owningObject) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.UserCreateRequest(DbConnection owningObject) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.GetConnection(DbConnection owningObject) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open()
I Some sql that it keeps throwing the following error
SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 52 generated fatal exception c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SQL Server is terminating this process.
Here is the sql
UPDATE dbo.temptable SET code = 'MM' FROM dbo.temptable T JOIN dbo.Item I WITH (NOLOCK) ON T.ProductID = P.ProductID JOIN dbo.cars C WITH (NOLOCK) ON I.ModelID = C.ModelID JOIN dbo.carmakes CM WITH (NOLOCK) ON CM.MakeID = C.MakeID JOIN dbo.CarDealerMakes CDM WITH (NOLOCK) ON CM.MakeID = CDM.MakeID WHERE T.ProductID NOT IN (
SELECT distinct A.ProductID FROM dbo.Action A WITH (NOLOCK) JOIN dbo.ActionPurchases AP WITH (NOLOCK) ON A.ActionID = AP.ActionID WHERE A.CustomerID = 2
UNION
SELECT distinct A.ProductID FROM dbo.Action A WITH (NOLOCK) JOIN dbo.ActionServices S WITH (NOLOCK) ON A.ActionID = S.ActionID WHERE 2 = A.ProductID)
That sql will run on windows 2000 but it will not run on windows 2003. I have the latest service pack.
Has anyone ever come across this before or have and suggestions ?
I have a query as follow: SELECT @resRate = (SELECT resRate FROM ProjectAssign WHERE proNo = (SELECT projNo FROM Timer_Cust WHERE refNum = @actProjNo AND username= (SELECT username FROM Timer_Emp WHERE refNum = @actEmployee) ) ) the definition of table Timer_cust contains refNum(int), projNo(varchar) and projName(varchar).Timer_cust table doesn't contain column username. So this query shoud generate a runtime error. however it works fine without error.But if I run SELECT projNo FROM Timer_Cust WHERE refNum = @actProjNo AND username= (SELECT username FROM Timer_Emp WHERE refNum = @actEmployee)A runtime error message appears.Why?
Can any one tell me why sp_helpindex shows several indexes though there is only one index on the table. When i use Enterprise manager it shows only one index..Any idea..is it a bug ..do I need to apply latest service pack ?
i have four separate jobs which run at scheduled time daily..out of which one job has run properly and the other three have not run at all(there is no details of it in "View job history")for only one day in between..again from the next day all the four jobs are running properly.what could be the reason for the three jobs not running on a particular day?(The jobs were scheduled between 3 and 4am in the morning..so nobody would be using the system at that time and the system was definitely up at that time as that one job has run) i could afford to have such strange behaviour in future as the jobs are important and should run daily.any ideas by which i could make sure all four jobs run daily?
We've been finding some strange indexes in our SQL 7 database. They are not indexes we put in, but seem to be system generated. They always have the format "hind_" and then a series of numbers and underscores. Most of the time they replicate indexes we already had in place. The strangest part is that in some cases they seem to be generating multiple clustered indexes on the same table. A previous question recieved an answer saying that they were statistical indexes. Could someone shed a little more light on what these are, where they came from, and how I can prevent them from coming back? Our queries usually take much longer on tables with these "rogue" indexes on them. Thanks.
I have a SP that usually works fine (0-16 CPU time, 40 ms Duration), but from time to time the server hangs with apparently no reason. The SP has a lock timeout set to 500, so it should abort if a lock timeout error (1222) occurs but it doesn't. The Profiler reports very long execution time (over 30 sec), and because of that all other SP calls are blocked, 'cause the transaction opened by the first sp execution is not finished yet. Any other attempts to identify other blocking queries did not show me anything suspect (sp_lock, dbcc opentran) other then the usual blocked chain. I'm starting to think about an IO bottleneck, or IO failure, that could block the disk access and cause the delay. The status of RAID 5 is healthy.
The server is used as storage system for a website (approx. 2000 concurrent users), and occasionally I noticed an ASP queue, but this strange behavior occurs even during the peak-off hours.
Any thoughts ? ----- HP Server - 2 CPU @ 3,4 ; 4 GB RAM; SCSI - RAID 5 Windows 2000 Advanced Server - SQL Server 2000 SP4
I have a table. It shows "Rows: 2" when I open it in the table properties dialog. But there is no record in the table when I open it from Open Table -> Return All Rows.
I don't understand how this can happen. Any help is appreciated.
Hello I have one PC with SQL server 2000 and I am working on one database called TaxReg but today I found it gray and (suspect) beside it could you please tell what is the problem and how to fix it ?
