Hi all, What I'm trying to do and having a lot of trouble with is pulling how one user is related to another user from my database. I'll explain...
I set up a table called relationships that looks like this:
ID
type: int
RELID1
type: int, is the user id that initiated the relationship request.
RELID2
type: int, is the user id of the second person in the relationship.
Story
type: varchar(255), quick blerb on how they are related.
Type
type: int, a number 1-20 based on the relationship they have
Status
type: int, 1 = confirmed by second person, 0 = not confirmed
What i'd like to have pulled is a list of the people that person (for example: 70) is related to. I am having the two following problems:
1. unqid of "70" could be in RELID1 or RELID2 as they could have initiated the request or been the second person.
2. I don't want to display them selves in their own relationship listing
Example Data:
ID
1
2
3
4
RELID1
25
15
70
12
RELID2
54
70
13
8
Story
Met on the east coast
Met at walmart
Met walking
Met outside
Type
14
11
3
8
Status
1
1
1
1
Example Output:
Again assuming the current user is "70", the sql should pull: 15, 13.. but i'd like to pull their names from another table called "Users" where "15" and "13" are the UnqID's in a column called "ID".
So:
15 = Bob Smith
13 = Jane Doe
The following code works great that I got with the help on another form:
SELECT Relationship.RELID1
, Relationship.RELID2
, ReMembers.FirstName
, ReMembers.LastName
FROM Relationship
INNER
JOIN ReMembers
ON ReMembers.AccountID = Relationship.RELID1
WHERE Relationship.RELID2 = 70
UNION ALL
SELECT Relationship.RELID1
, Relationship.RELID2
, ReMembers.FirstName
, ReMembers.LastName
FROM Relationship
INNER
JOIN ReMembers
ON ReMembers.AccountID = Relationship.RELID2
WHERE Relationship.RELID2 = 70
My question is: What is the best way to set this table up? I'm not committed to any any design as of right now, but want to be sure I set it up in the most efficient manner.
I have a family table and would like to group all related members under the same familyID. This is a replication of existing business data, 14,000 rows. The familyID can be randomly assigned to any group, its sole purpose is to group the names:
declare @tv table (member varchar(255), relatedTo varchar(255)) insert into @tv select 'John', 'Mary'union all select 'Mary', 'Jessica' union all select 'Peter', 'Albert' union all
[Code] ....
I would like my result to look like this:
familyID Name 1 John 1 Mary 1 Jessica 1 Fred 2 Peter 2 Albert 2 Nancy 3 Abby 4 Joe 4 Frank
--Table 1 "Employee" CREATE TABLE [MyCompany].[Employee]( [EmployeeGID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [BranchFID] [int] NOT NULL, [FirstName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, [MiddleName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, [LastName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_Employee] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [EmployeeGID] ) GO ALTER TABLE [MyCompany].[Employee] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_Employee_BranchFID] FOREIGN KEY([BranchFID]) REFERENCES [myCompany].[Branch] ([BranchGID]) GO ALTER TABLE [MyCompany].[Employee] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_Employee_BranchFID]
-- Table 2 "Branch" CREATE TABLE [Mycompany].[Branch]( [BranchGID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [BranchName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, [City] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, [ManagerFID] [int] NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_Branch] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [BranchGID] ) GO ALTER TABLE [MyCompany].[Branch] WITH CHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [FK_Branch_ManagerFID] FOREIGN KEY([ManagerFID]) REFERENCES [MyCompany].[Employee] ([EmployeeGID]) GO ALTER TABLE [MyCompany].[Branch] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_Branch_ManagerFID]
--Foreign IDs = FID --generated IDs = GID Then I try a simple single row DELETE
DELETE FROM MyCompany.Employee WHERE EmployeeGID= 39
Well this might look like a very basic error: I get this Error after trying to delete something from Table €śEmployee€?
The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "FK_Branch_ManagerFID". The conflict occurred in database "MyDatabase", table "myCompany.Branch", column 'ManagerFID'.
Yes what I€™ve been doing is to deactivate the foreign key constraint, in both tables when performing these kinds of operations, same thing if I try to delete a €śBranch€? entry, basically each entry in €śbranch€? and €śEmployee€? is child of each other which makes things more complicated.
My question is, is there a simple way to overcome this obstacle without having to deactivate the foreign key constraints every time or a good way to prevent this from happening in the first place? Is this when I have to use €śON DELETE CASCADE€? or something?
Sorry for the previous mail.. Didnt mean to send it like that..
I have a question about replication. I have created the destination machine as the subscriber, where I created a pull subscribtion and tried to replicate I got this error. "Subscriber must be running in perseat license moe to use this."
The cd I used to install MSSQL 7.0 is the msdn back office test platform. Where am I going wrong??/ because I never got to specify the per seat license anywhere.. The documentation says that If I can have it installed on a 95/98 box then it means I have a perseat licesne, which I was able to do..
I have a windows application that connects to a SQLExpress database hosted on a shared server. The client machines will run an interface software and interact with the info within SQL The SQL database isn't huge (50 megs) and all of the info is text. The interface application isn't too complex either, it was designed using VB.net05. I have a few setup questions:
1 - Is it best to use Windows or SQL authentiaction? Currently I am using Windows authentication and I have a user group setup on the DNS that is setup as a user for the SQL database. That has worked so far, but I've only had a few users logged in at one time so far. My plan was to add all DNS accounts that will use the software to the DNS user group, thus giving them access to the SQL database.
2 - I know this gets asked a TON, but I am interested in knowing how many users I should be able to support using the current setup. I have the one user acount setup for the DNS user group. The SQL table is not huge and it is all reading and writing text. The server is running Windows Server 03 and is a couple years old (not sure of exact specs).
Thanks for any help, I am still learning my way around SQL and it's great to have such a vast amount of support for the product.
Looking up surrogate keys in a dimension table and adding these to your data flow is easy when there is a match in your dimension table for every key in your fact table. However, I am puzzled by how to manage the data flow when no match can be found for a specific key in the fact table when doing the lookup AND I then want to insert this unknown key as an unknown/inferred member in the dimension table. The problem is further complicated by the fact that when I have inserted the unknown member in the dimension table and it has been assigned a surrogate key there, I want to add this surrogate key to my fact table - just as if there had been a match in the lookup in the first place.
I'm attempting to load some data into an explicit hierarchy in MDS 2012 via the staging table and struggling with the HierarchyName field. Specifically I'm loading data into stg.[Entity Name]_Consolidated and using the exact name of the explicit hierarchy I've set up in the front end web application.
Originally my hierarchy was labelled "Reporting Hierarchy" and when loading the data into staging using this name then running the batch from the Import Data screen I can see the error message "Error - The HierarchyName is missing or is not valid.". I've checked the table mdm.tblHierarchy and can see that the name there is exactly as it was in the staging table and have since renamed the hierarchy as "Reporting_Hierarchy" with the same results.
The relationship between state and sales region is n:1, i.e. one state belongs to exactly one sales region, and one sales region can consists of one or multiple states.  Unfortunatly I can't define this attribute relationsship in the dimension because it would lead to a diamond-shaped relationsship without a user-defined-hierarchy to back it up. So far that isn't much of a problem, user don't drill down from sales region to state. But now I want to define a calculated member that multiplies a measure from the main measure group with another measure from a weighting factor measure group at the state level and above. The granularity attribute of the geography dimension in the dimension usage tab of the weighting factor measuregroup is the state.Â
So far what I've got is:
CREATE MEMBER Currentcube.Measures.[weighted measure state and above] AS NULL; SCOPE (Measures.[weighted measure state and above], Descendants(geography.[political territory].[all member],3,SELF_AND_BEFORE), Descendants(geography.[salesterritory].[all member],2,SELF_AND_BEFORE), ... Descendants(geography.[hierarchy 9].[all member],1,SELF_AND_BEFORE)); this = sum(existing(geography.[political territory].state.members), measures.[main measure group measure] * measures.[weighting measure group measure]);END SCOPE;
This works from a functional point of view, but is rather slow when querying any other hierarchy than the political territory hierarchy, because SSAS first goes down from the state level to the key attribute of the geography dimension, and then aggregates from there to the sales region.In other words, I want SSAS to resolve the relationsship (which state belongs to which sales region) through the dimension, and not through the fact, and apply the calculation afterwards. Like some kind of currency conversion, but only from a certain level upwards.
I need to delete records from a table (Table1) which has a foreign key column in a related table (Table2).
Table1 columns are: table1Id; Name. Table2 columns include Table2.table1Id which is the foreign key to Table1.
What is the syntax to delete records from Table1 using Table1.Name='some name' and remove any records in Table2 that have Table2.table1Id equal to Table1.table1Id?
I am trying to tweak some code which is used to display the newest comments left on photos created by my members.
The existing code is this:
SELECT top 15 pnumber,pcomment,puser FROM photocomments order by pdate DESC
So the latest comment left was for photo #210879 from user "Cla" (redacted user names). The 2nd newest comment would be for photo #211072 from a member named "mo". pdate is a date field
However for the script I have coded I don't want all of the photo comments to show up. This is because I use access levels based on the type of location (higher levels mean more restricted galleries). I check the access levels as I go through the recordsets.
I use this method to get the top 15 comments:
SELECT top 15 pnumber,pcomment,puser FROM photocomments order by pdate DESC
Now I have to use two other tables to determine the access level. Since PHOTOCOMMENTS is just a list of photo #'s and the people who left comments for those photos, I need to:
a) determine what location the photo is from and b) determine the access level of that location
I use: select creator,access from locations where id=(select dir from photos where id="&pnumber&")"
This is a two step process as you can see. The first part is:
select dir from photos where id=(pnumber)
ID is the same value as pnumber seen in PHOTOCOMMENTS. That is to say PHOTOS.ID = PHOTOCOMMENTS.PNUMBER
If I haven't confused you yet, the executed code for the first example would be:
select dir from photos where id=210879
which would get me a value for DIR. DIR is the location number which would be:
select creator,access from locations where id=(dir value)
Just to simplify it a bit....
There are three tables (shown below)
PHOTOCOMMENTS PHOTOS LOCATIONS
I need to: SELECT top 15 pnumber,pcomment,puser FROM photocomments order by pdate DESC (first table shown)
but then also
select creator,access from locations (The last table shown) where id=(select dir from photos where id="&pnumber&")"
So the first table PHOTOCOMMENTS has to also join PHOTOS table where PHOTOS.DIR = PHOTOCOMMENTS.PNUMBER in order to get the value of "DIR" and then DIR is joined to the LOCATIONS tables where PHOTOS.DIR = LOCATIONS.ID
Here is the actual code, which I am trying to make into a single SQL command
strSQL = "SELECT top 15 pnumber,pcomment,puser FROM photocomments order by pdate DESC" set ors = oconn.Execute(strSQL) tl = 0 do until ors.eof or tl > 15 ' until we have 15 results because not every recordset will be of the proper security level
[Code] ....
Bonus points if you can also get it to select from LOCATIONS only WHERE userlevel >= 2
PeopleID in People Table is the primarykey and foreign Key in PeopleCosts Table. PeopleID is an autonumber
The major fields in People Table are PeopleID | MajorVersion | SubVersion. I want to create a new copy of data for existing subversion (say from sub version 1 to 2) in the same table. when the new data is copied my PeopleID is getting incremented and how to copy the related data in the other table (PeopleCosts Table) with the new set of PeopleIDs..
I have the following tablestblUserdatausercode username firstname lastname5 peter peter smith11 john433 john doe15 simonsays Simon SmithtblEventsID postedbycode title eventtext createdate1 5 woodstock 'oldies' 12/12/20082 11 love parade 'dance all night 1/1/20083 11 spring break 'great party' 2/2/2006tblEventVisitorsusercode eventid5 15 311 111 211 3As you can see User John433 is going to 3 events.But I only want to select the one that has the first upcoming startdate bigger than now: getdate()Desired output would be:username firstname lastname eventid title eventtext eventdatepeter Peter Smith 1 woodstock 'oldies' 12/12/2008john433 john doe 2 love parade 'dance all night 1/1/2008simonsays Simon Smith NULL NULL NULL NULLHow can I make such a selection? (perhaps see this thread for similar info: http://forums.asp.net/t/1201266.aspx)Thanks!
I have two tables. In tblUsers is all userdata. In table tblMoreInfo is some info on a user (0-15 records).Now I want to select tblUsers.username and tblUsers.usercode and the matching top 1 row tblMoreInfo.schoolname (top 1 based on tblMoreInfo.createdate) IF IT EVENT EXISTS from tblMoreInfo. If no matching record exists I want the value NULL to be returned for the schoolname...In all cases tblUsers.username must be unique (and I cant use the distinct keyword as im already using the row_number() function.Any help?Thanks!
I have table 1 from which I select some values belonging to users.In table 2 I store tips a user might give: tipid, tiptitle, tiptext,tipcreatedateA user may give more than one tip.But now I want a query that selects the info of a SINGLE user and the LATEST tip he created, so resultset might look like:username lastname sex tiptitle tiptext tipcreatedateSo even though a user might have given more tips, only the latest will be retreived...and thus 1 row for a particular user is returned...How would I construct such a query? The problem is that I want to get exactly 1 row but more than 1 column from the table 2, so I think I cannot use the SQL Server "TOP" command...
I have two tables. When my user completes an insert of data in table (1), I would like the second "related" table (2) to be automatically populated with defaults. Is this possible? My logical approach to this is: 1. Build a handler for the OnInsert event of the first table 2. In the handler, call the Insert Command on the SQLDataSource for the second table with the defaults specified in the DataSource. What I'm not sure how to do is Step 2 or whats the best way. How do I call the Insertcommand programmatically for a DataSource? Or, is there a better way such as some kind of traditional hardwired SQL insert statement like in classical ASP? Or is there a way to programmatically call a stored procedure and if so is the 3rd approach the best way?
How exactly would someone do this best? It seems this would be a rather common thing someone might need to do.
The problem of mine is, I have a datagrid, Which displays data from a Employee(parent) table. Now I want to delete some records based on the user selected checkbox,only those records which has no related records in the EmployeeProject(child) can be deleted.I want to know which are all the record that cannot be deleted? How can I achieve this?
Hi,I've got VS 05 web dev express installed and i'm trying the walkthroughs for login admin. I've succeeded and noticed the tables VS05 produces in the database ASPNETDB.MDF. I've created a new table "Customers" also with a UserID and also configured it as "UniqueIdentifyer" as VS05 has done in the table aspnet_users. The Customers table has two other fields: CustID (autoint) and CustomerName. Now i'm setting up a detailsview control that should insert a CustomerName but I also want it to insert the current logged in userID to the Customers.UserID field so that the aspnet_users and customers tables can be related. My question is how would my Sql insert statement look like to incorporate the parameter of the current logged in UserID and insert it into the Customers.UserID field?thanks.
Hey guys, I have created an asp.net page where users can select multiple items and then submit the form. I would like to return related items back. The catch is, I want to only return items that are related to all of the selected items. I've created a SQL Procedure that puts each of the inputted item's ItemId in to a temp table, I have a second table called RelatedItems which I use as my junction table that has ItemId, and ReleatedItemId, I then have my Item table that has the data I want to get to (I've excluded this because I have no trouble pulling out data once I have an ItemId) I can pull out all related ItemIds with a simple join, however I don't know where to start when it comes to pulling out only items related to all ItemIds in the @TempTable. Any help or suggestions would be great. Thanks, Matt
I have a query/report that I need to create that needs to look at the size of a company and based on that size apply different rules. I am sure that this is not the only query/report I'll need to do using this and I'm also not so sure that the size ranges won't be changed in the future. Given this, I'd like to store the size ranges in a lookup(global) table. That way, if the ranges ever change I can just alter them in that table and not in all of the queries/reports that use them. What I need to figure out is how to join the live table with the look up table.
Specifically, here is what I have. The look up table would be:
Code Block CREATE TABLE #gl_sizerange ( glsid int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, lowsize int, highsize int, sizecat varchar(10), milestone varchar(25), days int ) ON [PRIMARY] INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(1, 24, 'Small', 'Approach', 14) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(1, 24, 'Small', 'Interview', 14) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(1, 24, 'Small', 'Demonstrate', 21) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(1, 24, 'Small', 'Negotiate', 14) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(1, 24, 'Small', 'Close', 7) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(25, 99, 'Medium', 'Approach', 14) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(25, 99, 'Medium', 'Interview', 21) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(25, 99, 'Medium', 'Demonstrate', 21) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(25, 99, 'Medium', 'Negotiate', 14) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(25, 99, 'Medium', 'Close', 7) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(100, 499, 'Large', 'Approach', 14) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(100, 499, 'Large', 'Interview', 21) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(100, 499, 'Large', 'Demonstrate', 21) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(100, 499, 'Large', 'Negotiate', 14) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(100, 499, 'Large', 'Close', 7) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(500, 300000000, 'Super', 'Approach', 28) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(500, 300000000, 'Super', 'Interview', 35) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(500, 300000000, 'Super', 'Demonstrate', 28) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(500, 300000000, 'Super', 'Negotiate', 35) INSERT into #gl_sizerange VALUES(500, 300000000, 'Super', 'Close', 35)
Then what I have is two more tables, one that indicates the size of the company and another that has the milestone contained within it and I will also calculate how long that milestone has been open and if it is longer than what is in the lookup table for that milestone and size range I need it returned in the report. Here are some quick sample table to represent that data (I've condensed the size and number of tables for the example):
Code Block CREATE TABLE #en_entity ( enid int NOT NULL, orgsize int, ) ON [PRIMARY]
INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(1, 5) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(2, 18) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(3, 24) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(4, 25) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(5, 47) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(6, 101) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(7, 499) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(8, 500) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(9, 10000) INSERT into #en_entity VALUES(10, 567890) CREATE TABLE #op_opportunity ( opid int NOT NULL, enid int NOT NULL, milestone varchar(25), daysopen int ) ON [PRIMARY] INSERT into #op_opportunity VALUES(1, 1, 'Approach', 5) INSERT into #op_opportunity VALUES(2, 2, 'Interview', 18) INSERT into #op_opportunity VALUES(3, 4, 'Negotiate', 24) INSERT into #op_opportunity VALUES(4, 7, 'Demonstrate', 25) INSERT into #op_opportunity VALUES(5, 7, 'Approach', 7) INSERT into #op_opportunity VALUES(6, 9, 'Close', 35) INSERT into #op_opportunity VALUES(7, 8, 'Close', 36)
So, given the sample data, I would expect the results to return me the following opids from the #op_opportunity table because they don't comply with what is in the look up table based on milestone, size and days open: 2,3,4,7
Hi everyone! I'm on my way to learn SSIS by myself and it's a little complicated! I'd like to ask you one thing:
I have two tables at my data source, one is "Clients" and the other one is ClientsAddress. That is, a client can have more than one address. Both tables are related by a one to many relationship and the tables description is:
CLIENTS CLIENTSADDRESS #PK_Client #PK_Client other fields.. #ID_address ... other fields
What i intend to do is to obtain one table with approximately 3 fields, each one for a possible client address; something like this: CLIENTS PK_Client ID_Address1 ID_Address2 ID_Address3
My question is what transformation can i use? an how ?
Thanks very much in advance!! Emilio Leyes Salta, Argentina
I want with PowerPivot to tell what stage is in progress for project. I looked at RElatedTable, LOOKUPVALUES, but I can't find a way to associate this to get working. I got however the one telling me which projects are Completed.
Hi, Not too long ago I was looking to change a primary key in a table from one column to another, the standard accepted procedure to so procedure to do so (I was told) was: 1) drop primary key constraint from old_key_column 2)add primary key constraint to new_key_column 3) drop old_key_column (optional).
In order to carry out the first step, I needed the name of the primary key constraint, at which point I asked around for a command that would return that name (and would quite probably take as a parameter the name of the column that key is related to). The answer was :
Try this: select name 'constraintName' from sys.indexes where object_id=object_id('<tableName>') and is_primary_key=1
Unfortunately this command never worked for me. Probably because I don't have a table sys.indexes in my DB, but I can see a table sysindexes in the system tables folder, then again that table doesn't have an object_id column, but it has an id column, finally this column only contain obscur numbers.
So I am asking you all (again) for help, do you know about a command that returns every single constraint related to a column (or a table, or both).
One more thing, I am running SQL SERVER 2000, I do know that there are graphic ways to do those very operations (in the enterprise manager or the query analyzer) and I do know those ways (that's how i got past the problem mentioned earlier), I just think that knowing how to do it programmatically would be a plus.
PS: I am a total newbie to T-SQL (and a still a beginner in SQL, so please take it easy with me )
OK heres the situation, I have a Categories table and a Products table, each Category can have one or many Products, but a product can only belong to one Category hence one-to-many relationship.
Now I want to do a SELECT query that outputs all of the Categories onto an ASP page, but also displays how many Products are in each category eg.
CatID | Name | Description | No. Products
0001 | Cars | Blah blah blah | 5
etc etc
At the moment I'm doing nesting in my application logic so that for each category that is displayed, another query is run that returns the number of products for that particular category. It works ok!
However, is there a way to write a SQL Statement that returns all the Categories AND number products from just the one SELECT statement, rather than with the method I'm using outlined above? The reason I'm asking is that I want to be able to order by the number of products for each category and my method doesn't allow me to do this.
I have around 3 tables having around 20 to 30gb of data. My table A related to table B by a FK and same way table B related to table C by FK. I would like to delete all rows satisfying certain condition from table A and all corresponding related records from table B and C. I have created a query to delete the grandchild first, followed by child table and finally parent. I have used inner join in my delete query. As you all know, inner join delete operations, are going to be extremely resource Intensive especially on bigger tables.
What is the best approach to delete all these rows? There are many constraints, triggers on these tables. Also, there might be some FK relations to other tables as well.
I can't get my head around this:I want to select all IDs from table A that do not have a related record intable B according to some condition:Table A contains, say, Parents and table B contains Children. I want toselect all Parents that have no children called "Sally" (this is a noddyexample, reminds me of being at Uni again :) ).Any ideas?Thanks
sorry if this is a dumb question. i've tried several searches here and on the net, but no joy.
i'm comfortable with my Access/mySQL/innodb setup, but now i have a one-off project to move a back-end database to an existing MSSQL machine. i have not touched MSSQL life-to-date.
admin will set up my instance, and then what? how do i get to create my tables and relationships etc... i hope it's not a bunch of CREATE TABLE command lines!
for mySQL i use dbdesigner-4 which is a joy! is there some equivalent GUI for MSSQL table design? ...where?
my prototype tables are currently in Access but they will certainly need modification for MSSQL use.
My ASP.Net app is multilingual and all my translations are stored in seperate MSDE tables, for example, tblEN for English, tblES for Spanish and tblTH for Thai.
When I send the installation files to my clients, I get them to double click on 4 MS DOS batch files that use OSQL to run 4 scripts.....
1. DataBase&Tables.sql - creates the database and tables 2. Logins&Users.sql 3. StoredProcedures.sql 4. Permissions.sql
This worked great before my language table came along to spoil the party and I now need some way of getting the data stored in the language on my server into the table on the client.
If I export the data to a text file and then send it out with the rest of the installation files - what are my options for transferring the data into the table ?
