I have a table with addresses and activity dates. I need to be able to retrieve the past 3 activity dates and see if the first and last occurred within 15 days. If so, I need to flag them.
Using max date gets me the last date but not the previous two. I was trying to use top 3 in desc order and that didnt seem to work either.
select datediff(wk, '2015-01-11', '2015-01-19') returns 1 (shouldn't it return 2?)
select datediff(wk, '2015-01-10', '2015-01-19') returns 2
code that I can use to determine if a certain table has been accessed in the past?
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I have a date column and I am trying to build a query that will give me the dates > 48 hours ago (in the past).
For example using todays date 2006.10.05 and time 23:00 I would be looking for the dates prior to 2006.10.03 and time 23:00.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
I have a tricky question to Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005. I have failed to find a solution to the problem yet and others have failed too. So I thought that I throw it around here, because the fact that a lot of knowledgeable DBAs hang around in this forum.
I am looking for a script/stored procedure that is able to show me upcoming job executions for a selected date/time range based on the current settings for the jobs configured on the Database server.
Example
Date/Time From: 2/16/2007 00:00 a.m. (Friday)
Date/Time To: 2/17/2007 12:00 p.m. (Saturday)
A. Job 1 / Schedule 1 = Week Days, 1:00 a.m.
B. Job 1 / Schedule 2 = Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.
C. Job 2 / Schedule 1 = hourly, between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
D. Job 3 / Schedule 1 = every 3rd Saturday of the month, 5:00 a.m.
E. Job 4 / Schedule 1 = every 1st Friday of the month, 8:00 a.m.
The routine I have in mind would not return Job E, because 2/16/2007 is the 3rd Friday of the month and not the first.
Job A: 2/16/2007 01:00 a.m.
Job B: 2/16/2007 10:00 a.m.
Job B: 2/16/2007 11:00 a.m.
Job B: 2/16/2007 12:00 p.m.
Job B: 2/16/2007 01:00 p.m.
Job D: 2/17/2007 05:00 a.m.
Job A: 2/17/2007 10:00 a.m.
Job B: 2/17/2007 10:00 a.m.
Job B: 2/17/2007 11:00 a.m.
Job B: 2/17/2007 12:00 p.m.
Output
It needs to return the Job ID, the Job Name, the Schedule ID, the Date and the Time.
Disabled Jobs and Schedules are by default excluded from the selection, but an option to include or exclude those would be a bonus.
Information such as the min, max and average execution time would be great too.
Notes
The schedules of Job D and Job B overlap as you can see in my example above.
This happens only once per month though. I have over 20 jobs with sometimes very frequent execution times, like every 5 minutes or every 20 minutes and jobs that run hourly, daily, weekdays only, weekends only, monthly once etc.
Purpose
I want to do two things.
I want to determine where jobs overlap, not just by start date/time, but also by average run time and maximum run time.
I also want to be able to generate a report that shows me what should have been done and what was actually done by the jobs (note on the site, 6 of the jobs create new jobs on the fly for other database servers and this is sometimes not happening properly, without getting any error message. The volume of jobs makes the manual search like a search for a needle in a haystack.)
Findings so far:
I did some digging myself and found following stored procedures that do some of the steps that I need and involved tables for the calculation.
Stored procedures:
- sp_get_schedule_description (in db: msdb) (undocumented stored procedure)
- sp_add_schedule (in db: msdb) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187320.aspx
Tables:
- msdb.sysjobs
- msdb.sysjobschedules
- msdb.sysjobhistory
It is not a problem to determine the next execution of a job, but that is not what I need, anyway.
The problem is that it does not help you to determine all upcoming execution times, if the selected timeframe is long enough that SQL Server executes the job more than once.
There is no way around using the sysjobschedules table and calculate the execution dates and times based on the configured settings. See the Stored procedure: sp_get_schedule_description.
That one breaks down nicely the settings as documented for sp_add_schedule at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187320.aspx, but it does not allow the determination of the exact upcoming dates and times when the job is supposed to be executed.
Another Example
If there is only one job scheduled to run
1) every 5 minutes,
2) on every weekday
3) between 1:30pm and 2:00pm
You would get the following results
1) start date/time 7/7/2007 12:00pm, end date/time 7/8/2007 2:00pm
nothing, because the 7/7/2007 and 7/8/2007 are on the weekend
2) start date/time 7/5/2007 12:00pm, end date/time 7/5/2007 1:45pm
7/5/2007 1:30pm
7/5/2007 1:35pm
7/5/2007 1:40pm
7/5/2007 1:45pm
3) start date/time 7/5/2007 1:45pm, end date/time 7/6/2007 3:00pm
7/5/2007 1:45pm
7/5/2007 1:50pm
7/5/2007 1:55pm
7/5/2007 2:00pm
7/6/2007 1:30pm
7/6/2007 1:35pm
7/6/2007 1:40pm
7/6/2007 1:45pm
7/6/2007 1:50pm
7/6/2007 1:55pm
7/6/2007 2:00pm
Now SQL has a lot more configuration options for the scheduler.
And don't forget that you can have more than one schedule record for any single job, including no-schedule record (which would not interest me).
Autom. when SQL starts freq_type=64
Starts when CPU idle freq_type=128
One Time On Date mm/dd/yyyy at time: hh:mm:ss am/pmfreq_type=1
or
Recurring
Occurs
Daily freq_type=4
Every x day(s)freq_interval=x
Weekly freq_type=8
Every x week(s) onfreq_recurrence_factor=x
Mo [ ], Tu [ ], We [ ], Th [ ],
Fr [ ], Sa [ ], Su [ ],
1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, 4 = Tuesday, 8 = Wednesday, 16 = Thursday, 32 = Friday, 64 = Saturday. Examples: Su and Mo enabled = 3 (1 (Su) + 2 (Mo)), Mo, We and Fr enabled = 42 (2 (Mo) + 8 (We) + 32 (Fr))
Monthly freq_type=16
Day X of every Y month(s)freq_interval=X
freq_recurrence_factor=Y
or
The 1st,2nd,3rd,4th,LAST WEEKDAYfreq_type=32
of every Y month(s)
freq_relative_interval=1,2,4 (3rd),8 (4th),16(last)
freq_interval= 1=Su,2=Mo,3=Tu,4=We,5=Th,6=Fr,7=Sa,8=Day,9=Weekday,10=Weekend day
freq_recurrence_factor=Y
Occurs Once at hh:mm:ss AM/PMfreq_subday_type=0x1
or
occurs Every X Hours/Minutes
Starting: hh:mm:ss A/PM freq_subday_type=0x4 (minutes) or 0x8 (hours)
Ending: hh:mm:ss A/PMfreq_subday_interval=X
active_start_time
active_end_time
Start Date mm/dd/yyy End Date mm/dd/yyyyactive_start_date
oractive_end_date
No End Dateactive_end_date=99991231
Does anybody has a script that does that or several individual scripts that would have to be combined to do what I want to do?
Thanks. I appreciate it.
Cheers!
Carsten Cumbrowski
http://www.sqlhunt.com/
why the statement "where WD.WRKD_WORK_DATE BETWEEN DATEADD(DD, -6, GETDATE()) AND GETDATE()) = 0' is successful, but "WD.WRKD_WORK_DATE BETWEEN (DATEADD(DD, -16, GETDATE())) AND (DATEADD(DD, -3, GETDATE()))" is an invalid statement? I've tried a lot of different syntax variations of this statement and cannot get to work between two lookback dates.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHi every one,
I have a database table and currently users may retrieve records for a specified date range by providing the start and end dates and then records between those dates provided are retrieved. For example if users wanted to view all records entered in april, they would have to select 04/01/2007 as the start date and then 04/30/2007 as the end date. The records for april would then be displayed in a gridview.
How can configure my sql query such that instead the user selectes a month from a dropdownlist of 12 months. I would love a user to just select the desired month from a list instead of selecting start and end dates. Eg if they are intrested in a report for june, then they should just select june from the list instead of specifying the start and stop dates. HOW can i achieve this.
Today I have got one scenario to calculate the (sum of days difference minus(-) the dates if the same date is appearing both in assgn_dtm and complet_dtm)/* Here goes the table schema and sample data */
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[temp_tbl]') AND type in (N'U'))
DROP TABLE [dbo].[temp_tbl]
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[temp_tbl](
[tbl_id] [bigint] NULL,
[cs_id] [int] NOT NULL,
[USERID] [int] NOT NULL,
[code]....
I have a table that has hotel guests and their start stay date and end stay date, i would like to insert into a new table the original information + add all days in between.
CREATE TABLE hotel_guests
(
[guest_name] [varchar](25) NULL,
[start_date] [date] NULL,
[end_date] [date] NULL,
[comment] [varchar](255) NULL
[code]...
Hello,I have a query that I would like to schedule in DTS. The criteria ofthis query checks for records in the table that are within the currentquarter. Here is what I have.WHERE submit_date BETWEEN '01/01/2005' AND '03/31/2005'I would like to dynamically generate the Quarter End and QuarterBeginning dates within my where clause based on the date that DTWSpackage is being executed on. Can anyone show me how this can beaccomplished?Thank You.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedWhat would my statement look like if I have a column in a table (SoftwareInstall) called InstalledOn which stores a date in shortDateString format and I want to select all the records where that date is <= 30 days previous to today's date. Any ideas?
View 1 Replies View RelatedDelimitedSplit8k and PatternSplitLoop seem to have potential, but I'm just plain stuck on some things:
1. DelimitedSplit8k: the delimiter split the folder paths, but the pattern can be within the strings that result.
2. PatternSplitLoop: I would have to cross apply 16 times and have an awful WHERE clause to determine which of the four strings matched first.
Unless I'm missing something. Short example is below.
WITH testctes (string, pattern) AS (
SELECT 'oh_look_at_this.thing.hishers_stuffmine.craftyours_protein', 'his first' UNION ALL
SELECT 'i.am.a._thing.hershis_thingsmine.refrigeratoryours_potato', 'hers first' UNION ALL
SELECT 'path_like.things_minehers.some_elsehis_garbageyours_sneakers', 'mine first' UNION ALL
SELECT 'more_stuff.yoursminehershis_falafel', 'yours first'
)
SELECT string, pattern, ca.item, ca.itemnumber
FROM testctes
CROSS APPLY [dbo].[PatternSplitLoop] (string, '%his%') ca
I'm looking for feedback on a query I've devised to return a numeric value if the 3 most recent executions of a job have failed. The purpose of the query is to server as a custom counter alert for Idera SQL DM, and by definition an SQL Script alert must return a numeric value.
My environment is SQL Server 2008. Note that the job name is hard coded.
;WITH CTE_Restore_JobHistory AS
(SELECT h.[job_id]
,j.[name] as JobName
,h.[message]
,h.[run_status]
[Code] .....
I have these columns. TicketID, User, Date...I want to select 10 random tickets for each user for the past 30 days. I not sure whether to do this via sql or using VB in the report design.
View 5 Replies View RelatedAny function that determines the geometric function from a series of spatial points (geometric or geographic.)?
If not I am ready to build one ... I found a clean C++ implementation that I can translate to T-SQL.
I have several tables a varbinary column in a database. They have names like CSB_BLOB or OBJECT_BLOB. Now I am having intermittent success with getting the data out.
For example this query returns readable text from this data.
0x46726F6D3A20226465616E6E6167726.....etc --data as stored in the column
SELECT CAST(CSB_BLOB AS VARCHAR(MAX)) AS 'Message' FROM OBJECT_BLOB
However this column has the following query results.
0x0001000000FFFFFFFF01000000000000000C....etc. --data as stored in column
--this query returns empty result
SELECT (CSB_BLOB AS VARCHAR(MAX)) AS 'Message' FROM CSB_STATUS_LOG
--this query returns no change???
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX), CONVERT(VARBINARY(MAX), CSB_BLOB, 2), 2) FROM CSB_STATUS_LOG
0001000000FFFFFFFF01000000000000000C....etc
Obviously there is a difference between the two but I am not educated enough to interpret this difference. What do I need to learn / read so I can look at the data in one of these BLOB columns and know how to convert it to something meaningful?
Something like:
1. Try to cast as varchar to see if it is text.
2. Turn into a byte array and see if it is a jpg
3. Turn into a byte array and see if it is a pdf
4. Convert it to hex and then cast as varchar
5. etc....
I want to list Dates for particular day between two dates.
for eg. if user enters 08/01/2014 and 08/31/2014 with value 0 then all the Sundays and related dates should be display.
if above contamination with 1 then all Mondays,
I'm looking to identify the people who visited an office more than once and the dates that they visited. For example I have a table that looks like the following:
Name |Office Visit Date
-----------------------------
John| 2002-01-23
Mary| 2003-02-04
Fred| 2002-11-02
Jane| 2012-06-05
John| 2003-07-12
Mary| 2004-10-12
Fred| 2011-03-20
John| 2009-02-14
I want to display the following:
Name |Office Visit 1 |Office Visit 2 |Office Visit 3
----------------------------------------------------------------------
John|2002-01-23| 2003-07-12| 2009-02-14
Mary| 2003-02-04| 2004-10-12|
Fred| 2002-11-02| 2011-03-20
Note that Jane does not show up because she has only visited the office once and everybody else has visited the office at least two times.
I have a table with Employee, it lists their department, and has a row for each "position/promotion". (Just the pertinent fields below in the example shown of course and only a single employee for example)
An employee may have a single row in a department, or if they were promoted from line staff to manager they could have many.
Additionally, an employee may move around departments during their employment.
I need to get the min and max dates (basically duration) of their time at each department.
The issue is because they repeated departments when I go to group it loses movement between departments.
Raw data:
Employee DepartmentId StartDt EndDt
----------- ------------ ---------- ----------
999 5 2000-01-01 2001-04-30
999 7 2001-05-01 2005-06-30
999 7 2005-07-01 2006-09-30
999 5 2006-10-01 2009-10-31
999 5 2009-11-01 2012-01-01
Result of doing MIN/MAX:
Employee DepartmentId MinStartDt MaxEndDt
----------- ------------ ---------- ----------
999 5 2000-01-01 2012-01-01
999 7 2001-05-01 2006-09-30
However, Ideally I would get 3 rows (Department 5, then the stay at Department 7, then back to Department 5 again).
Employee DepartmentId MinStartDt MaxEndDt
----------- ------------ ---------- ----------
999 5 2000-01-01 2001-04-30
999 7 2001-05-01 2006-09-30
999 5 2006-10-01 2012-01-01
I played with RANK and ROW_NUM hoping I could get it to group / partition on each department and repeat the number for each department so the first department 5 would be RowNum=1, then the next group of Dept 7 would be =2 and the last group of Dept 5 would = 3 and then I could min/max on that grouping, but I didn't have any luck with that approach either.
My table:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[EmployeeDepartmentHistory](
[Employee] [int] NOT NULL,
[DepartmentId] [int] NOT NULL,
[StartDt] [date] NOT NULL,
[EndDt] [date] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
[Code] .....
I'm trying to find gaps in times in a table of sessions where the session endings aren't sequential. That is, session 1 can start at 10:00 and finish at 10:30, while session 2 started at 10:05 and finished at 10:45, and session 3 started at 10:06 and finished at 10:20. Only the starting times are in order; the ending times can be anywhere after that.Here's a bunch of sample data:
CREATE TABLE #SessionTest(SessionId int,Logindatetime datetime, Logoutdatetime datetime)
INSERT INTO #SessionTest
SELECT '1073675','Mar 3 2014 1:53PM','Mar 3 2014 1:53PM' UNION ALL
SELECT '1073676','Mar 3 2014 2:26PM','Mar 3 2014 3:51PM' UNION ALL
SELECT '1073677','Mar 3 2014 2:29PM','Mar 3 2014 3:54PM' UNION ALL
SELECT '1073678','Mar 3 2014 2:29PM','Mar 3 2014 5:47PM' UNION ALL
SELECT '1073679','Mar 3 2014 2:30PM','Mar 3 2014 3:37PM' UNION ALL
[code]....
The following query was used for retrieving dates for the last 7 days . Untill February this query was running fine and would return the last seven days date including today.
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 7 Convert(DateTime, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, DateCreated)) AS DateCreated,
datepart(dw,DateCreated) AS WeekNum from [TechnologyRepository].[helpdsk].[WorkDetails]
WHERE DATEDIFF(DAY, Convert(DateTime, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, DateCreated)),GETDATE()) <= 7
However from March (not sure of the exact date)..the query below would only give us 7 days until yesterday..i.e it would list dates from 3/19,3/20,3/21,3/22,3/23,3/24,3/25 and not 3/26 ..
I changed the query to <= 6 and it works as expected. But still not sure why it would not return todays date with <= 7.
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 7 Convert(DateTime, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, DateCreated)) AS DateCreated,
datepart(dw,DateCreated) AS WeekNum from [TechnologyRepository].[helpdsk].[WorkDetails]
WHERE DATEDIFF(DAY, Convert(DateTime, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, DateCreated)),GETDATE()) <= 6
I've a request: I've a table with a date column and an if numeric data type.
I've to check from now on 7 days ago if any value is missing in my date field.
So if I've f.i. in my table
ID DAYS
1 2014-08-11
2 2014-08-12
3 2014-08-13
4 2014-08-14
5 2014-08-17
then my output should be:
2014-08-15
2014-08-16
2014-08-18
How to do this?
I have two dates. How do I get the one that is the lowest. One may be null. I don't want null unless they are both null
I tried..
DECLARE @Handle date
SELECT @Handle = dbo.getTrkLeastDate('2014-12-09',NULL)
print @Handle
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[getTrkLeastDate] (@d1 date, @d2 date)
RETURNS datetime
[Code] .....
I have a problem with SP when passing in Parameters. Basically something like this:
-- Pass 1, 2 or 3 as parameter
EXEC SP_mySP 1
-- The SP will do the following SQL Statement
SELECT * FROM myTable
WHERE
(
(If @Parameter1 = 1 then myColumn = 'A' or myColumn = 'B')
(If @Parameter1 = 2 then myColumn = 'C')
(If @Parameter1 = 3 then myColumn is not null)
)
How to make the above condition?
I am working on some payroll related code which currently has the following hard-coded CASE statement (I won't include the entire thing, it is lengthy):
AND b.TCDateTime BETWEEN '2013-01-01 0:00' and '2013-12-31 23:59'
I want to get rid of the hard coding, and have this use current year dates. So for 2014, it should reference rows where the TCDateTime is >='2014-01-01 0:00' AND <'2015-01-01 0:00'..I think the following would accomplish this, but would like confirmation that this is the 'best' way (and that it will work!)
SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(CHAR(4), DATEPART(yyyy, GETDATE())) + '0101') AS curryrbegin
--output should be yyyy-01-01 00:00:00.0 where yyyy is current year
SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(CHAR(4), DATEPART(yyyy + 1, GETDATE()))
+ '0101') AS nextyrbegin
--output s/b nextyear-01-01-00:00:00.0
Then, change the CASE statement to read:
AND (b.TCDateTime >= curryrbegin AND < nextyrbegin)
I'm trying to find if the Saturdays worked in Bi-Weekly period is first or second, based on the Saturday occurrence the CODEID column value changes from 01 to another #, for example if it's first Saturday then CODEID changes from 01 to 02 and it's second Saturday then the CODEID changes from 01 to 03.
Below is my table, current result and desired results.
My Table:
WITH SampleData (PERSON,[HOURS],[RATE],[CODEID],[DOW],[DATE]) AS
(
SELECT 1234,7.00,40.00,01,'Thursday','05/01/2014'
UNION ALL SELECT 1234,8.0,40.0,01,'Friday','05/02/2014'
UNION ALL SELECT 1234,3.5,40.0,01,'Saturday','05/03/2014'
UNION ALL SELECT 1234,3.5,40.0,01,'Monday','05/05/2014'
UNION ALL SELECT 1234,8.0,40.0,01,'Tuesday','05/06/2014'
UNION ALL SELECT 1234,3.5,40.0,01,'Wednesday','05/07/2014'
UNION ALL SELECT 1234,3.5,40.0,01,'Thursday','05/08/2014'
UNION ALL SELECT 1234,7.0,40.0,01,'Friday','05/09/2014'
UNION ALL SELECT 1234,3.0,40.0,01,'Saturday','05/10/2014'
)
SELECT * FROM SampleData
Current Results
PERSONHOURSRATECODEIDDOW DATE
12347.0040.0001Thursday05/01/2014
12348.0040.0001Friday 05/02/2014
12343.5040.0001Saturday05/03/2014
12343.5040.0001Monday 05/05/2014
12348.0040.0001Tuesday 05/06/2014
12343.5040.0001Wednesday05/07/2014
12343.5040.0001Thursday05/08/2014
12347.0040.0001Friday 05/09/2014
12343.0040.0001Saturday05/10/2014
Expected Results
PERSONHOURSRATECODEIDDOW DATE
12347.0040.0001Thursday05/01/2014
12348.0040.0001Friday 05/02/2014
12343.5040.0002Saturday05/03/2014
12343.5040.0001Monday 05/05/2014
12348.0040.0001Tuesday 05/06/2014
12343.5040.0001Wednesday05/07/2014
12343.5040.0001Thursday05/08/2014
12347.0040.0001Friday 05/09/2014
12343.0040.0003Saturday05/10/2014
I have a dataset as such:
Student TestTypeDate TestCnt
111-22-1111English2015-09-01 10:00:00 1
111-22-1111Math2015-09-02 11:00:00 2
111-22-1111Geo2015-09-03 12:00:00 3
222-11-2222English2015-09-01 10:00:00 1
333-22-1111English2015-09-01 10:00:00 1
[Code] ...
So some have just 1 test and some have multiple. I have a count for each. What I need to do is use that count and get an average time between each test per student.
I want to display week between two dates as below.
requirement is as:
suppose there are two dates.(which will comes dynamically, so no. of weeks varied)
10/20/2015 and 01/01/2016
Now between this two dates, i want to calculate number of weeks on another date which is coming from table.
Say for example the column date is coming as 10/23/2015 then it will fall in week-1
Same way if 11/01/2015 falls in week2.
I have a table which uses multiple joins to create another table but it turns out that the effective_date which is used in the join to match row together does not work all the time since some of the dates for the effective date column are out of sync meaning records that show data as missing even when the other table contains the data. I try the SQL script below but it returning 6 rows instead of 3–
select t2.[entity_id]
,t2.[effective_date]
,[company_name]
,[last_accounts_date]
,[s_code]
,[s_code_description]
,[ineffective_date]
[code]....
Hello,
I m writing a stored procedure to query a table Population that has the following fields - CityId, CityName, Plus0, Plus10, Plus20, Plus30, Plus40, Plus50, Plus60, Plus70, Plus80. The field Plus0 contains the number of people of age > 0 living in the city, Plus10 contains the number of people of age > 10 living in the city and so on. Given the city id and age groups like 20To40, 50To60, 40Plus, etc., I should be able to query the number of people in the city corresponding to the requested age group. Note that if the requested age group was 20To60, I need to make use of only 2 fields Plus20 and Plus60 in the table to compute this value. And if the requested age group was 40Plus, then I need only the value in the field Plus40. The problem is that a wide variety of age groups can be requested like 0Plus, 10Plus, ... , 80Plus, 0To10, 0To20, 0To30, .... 70To80.
Which is the most effecient way to handle this ?
1. Have a stored procedure that returns all the fields even though only 1 or 2 of them would be actually used ?
In this case, if I returned data for a large number of cities then there would be a lot of unnecessary information that was returned by the query. Lots of data would be passed through the network though most of it would not be used.
2. Have a stored procedure that takes in parameters @Plus0, @Plus10, @Plus20, .. @Plus80 that are bits indicating whether the field was required or not and then using a CASE statement to return values for a field only if the corresponding bit parameter was set, and returning NULL if the corresponding bit paramter was not set ?
In this case, I would be returning NULL for all those fields that were not required for a particular age group. This would save some network bandwidth, wouldn't it ?
3. Pass in the age group itself (ex: 0To20) as a parameter to the stored procedure and have lots of IF statements, one for each age group, that return only the fields that are needed for that age group.
This leads to a lot of code repitition.
4. Use a similar approach as above but use dynamic SQL queries to avoid code repitition.
But using dynamic SQL queries can affect the performance of the stored procedure as they need to be compiled each time.
5. Any other possible approaches ??
Looking forward to your responses,
Thanks much,
bmgun.
I am currently trying to find a way in which I can determine if a column in a Select clause is Japanese. The column currently supports English and Japanese Kanjis and other kanas. Is there a way to determine if this column is not English or if it is Japanese without physically looking at it.?
Thanks .... Chris
I have a simple script where I want to pull GLAcct, GLDesc and Amounts by Period. I want my results to look like attached snip.
I tried playing around with the dates; however, I'm receiving errors. Just to note that when I ran for 07/01/14 - 07/31/14 with the transaction date in where clause I was able to retrieve the correct results. Now I want to expand to get a view set up for the whole year....automation!
select
gl_account.id as GLAcct,
gl_account.descr as GLDesc,
sum(gl_ledger.amount_n) as Net
from gl_account
[Code] ....