Traverse Columns Without Knowing Names/fields???
Mar 31, 2006
I've called a resultset from SQL Server
using an SQL Selection. I need to iterate over that entire result set
(200+ columns/fields) and all I need are the random numbers contained
in any of the rows/columns. I don't want to have to name each
field/column and then use an if > 0 statement.
Isn't there
some way to generically loop through the column's by index or something
instead of their field name so I can just use an integer loop to walk
the dataset? I know there is I've done it about 5 years ago. The
question is how do you do it in C#?
SqlConnection thisConn = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["SQLQuery"].ConnectionString);
SqlCommand thisCmd = new SqlCommand("Command String", thisConn);
thisCmd.CommandText = "Select * from SelectionsByCountry where [" + DropDownList1.SelectedItem.ToString() + "] > '0'";
thisConn.Open();
SqlDataReader thisReader = null;
thisReader = thisCmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection);
while (thisReader.Read())
{
DropDownList2.Items.Add(thisReader["System"].ToString().Trim());
/**
* There are 200+ columns left I want to walk over using a loop structure of some sort. How do I do that?
*/
}
- Rex
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Jul 20, 2005
I have two tables in my database called CartItems and OrderItems. Istore all of a session's shopping cart items in the CartItems tableusing the sessionID as the identifier (called cartID in my DB). Afteran order is placed and is approved, I would like to copy all of theitems in the CartItems table for that given cartID to the OrderItemstable given a new orderID.I will know the cartID and orderID ahead of time and would like tosend them both into a stored procedure and have the transfer takeplace.Example:take this data...CartItems (table)--------------------------------------cartID | itemID | quantity | price--------------------------------------12345 2 1 12.9512345 7 2 17.95and make it this data...OrderItems (table)--------------------------------------orderID | itemID | quantity | price--------------------------------------00001 2 1 12.9500001 7 2 17.95via some stored procedure that I send (@cartID,@orderID)Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Feb 22, 2008
Hi Folks,
Always sorry to have to ask what is most likely such a simple question. However I'm in no way a programmer, I'm just patching something together using scripts I've found all over the shop.
I'm reading in an excel source using a dataflow script component. I build up a SQL String in Vb.Net using the output column names and query the spreadsheet via microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 then processing it in code. I don't want to use the Excel Source task btw, more for the fact I want to learn from this as well as other less important reasons.
This all works fine. Adding new columns to the output means the query string dynamically changes without the script ever having those columns defined in code. Easy stuff so far.
The issue I have is writing back into the outputbuffer the results without explicitly mapping the result to the output column names.
An easy example to see is..
Excel Spreadsheet Looks like..
ServerName
Server1
Server2
Server3
Output Column Names..
ServerName
Code Snippet..
While Reader.Read
With OutputBuffer
.AddRow()
.ServerName = Reader.GetString(0)
End With
End While
Instead of defining what the column name (servername) is, I want to map back by matching the source column header to the output column name. By doing this I won't ever need to change any code when I add or remove output columns.
Could someone lend a hand with this, and I'll buy you a virtual beer or two. I've already spent more time searching for an answer than I have writing the code thus far, and I think my heads getting more and more muddled by it.
Many thanks,
Jode
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Oct 8, 2004
Hi All,
I need to get the names of tables and fields (or atleast the fields) from a database. Is there a query I can use that will return what all the db's tables and those tables fields are?
Thanks
Lee
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Jun 22, 2006
Hi, I am new to using SQL for anything more in depth than querying and reporting.
I am trying to create a series of SQL scripts which will be used across several customer sites so need to be easily customisable. What I want to do is have all of the table names, field names and customisable items handled by variables which will be declared and set at the beginning of the script, making them easy to find and change. The problem I am having at the moment is with creating a new table using variables for table name and field names, can anyone help?
quote:
DECLARE
@a_tmptbl varchar(15),
@a_fieldid1 varchar(15)
set @a_fieldid1 = 'newFieldid'
set @a_tmptbl = 'newTable'
create table @a_tmptbl ( @a_fieldid1 varchar(15), value float, counter INT);
insert into @a_tmptbl values ( "foobar", 21.76, 1);
select * from @a_tmptbl;
The error I am getting is:
quote:Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 8
Line 8: Incorrect syntax near '@a_tmptbl'.
Server: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1, Line 10
Must declare the variable '@a_tmptbl'.
Server: Msg 137, Level 15, State 1, Line 12
Must declare the variable '@a_tmptbl'.
Any advice would be gratefully accepted
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Dec 19, 2006
My query returns fields that have spaces in the names, for example:
select o.OrderID as 'INVOICE NUMBER', etc..
When I created the DataSet for this query in report designer, it changed all spaces in the field names to underscores, i.e. INVOICE_NUMBER.
This report must be exported to CSV, and the names of the fields (first row in csv) must have the spaces, not underscores. But it appears RS uses the field names (not the names in the column headers of the report table control) as the field names. Is there any way for me to force the field names in the first row of the csv to something other than the field names in the DataSet?
Thanks!
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Dec 6, 2000
Hello all!
I have a table defined as:
create table OrgTree (parent int, child int)
OrgTree has the following data:
1,2
1,3
2,4
2,5
3,6
4,7
4,8
8,9
Is there a SQL stmt that will return, given a particlar parent, all of the children (and children's children, etc.) of that parent?
So, parent value 1 returns 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
parent value 2 returns 4,5,7,8,9
parent value 3 returns 6
etc.
Thanks in advance for your help!!
Palmer F
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Apr 11, 2014
Create Table #Temp (ID int not null primary Key, Name varchar(25) not null, DOB datetime not null, Sex char(1), Race char(1), Height int, Weight int)
insert #Temp
select 1, 'Kenneth', '1963-02-26 00:00:00.000', 'M','C', 516, 160
union
select 2, 'Kenneth', '1963-02-26 00:00:00.000', NULL,NULL, NULL, NULL
union
select 3, 'William', '1962-06-28 00:00:00.000', 'M','C', 600, 223
[Code] .....
/* Expecting Output */
select 1 as ID, 'Kenneth' as Name, '1963-02-26 00:00:00.000' as DOB, 'M' as Sex,'C' as Race, 516 as Height, 160 as Weight
union
select 2, 'Kenneth', '1963-02-26 00:00:00.000', 'M','C', 516, 160
union
select 3, 'William', '1962-06-28 00:00:00.000', 'M','C', 600, 223
union
[Code] .....
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 C:RaviN91Newborn.txt
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C:RaviN93Newborn.txt
How to read the files using the for each loop container"
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Mar 19, 2004
I need a querry to get all columns names.
thanks
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May 28, 2004
Hey,
I'm creating registration form.
To show fields names I thought to read columns names.
It's ok if columns is named like "Name", "Age" etc.
But if the columns is named [Country, Address, PostCode] then, I think, it can course some problems. Am I right?
First problem I thought about - changing database in the future (Now MS SQL 2k to MySQL etc.)
Is this the only problem?
To solve this I think using table which store syscolumn names as user defined columns names.
My system is speed critical and using this I would get less performance.
Which way should I go?
Case saving columns names in table, how to generate safe column name from user specified name, which can have special charters.
Thanks
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Oct 16, 2004
Hi, I need do get a columns names from a table? How to do this in pure SQL? I thought about creating a stored procedure or user function with a result of a string ( col1name,col2name ....) I do not know how to count the number of columns in a specyfied table? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. magicxxxx
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Aug 31, 2004
Hi,
I am looking for some help in MS SQL server. I want to access the columns of a table without using the names of the colulmns.
Example - SELECT table1.field[1], table1.field[2] FROM table1;
Any information to this effect is much appreciated.
cheers/- Pradeep
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May 8, 2007
I have one column name that is: description
when i write a query the world lights up with blue, I think I saw someone using [ ] around the word but I no longer remember if this is the way to handle reserve words that have been use as columns names
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Nov 12, 2001
I'm looking for a query that will return all index names, the table the index is on and the columns in the index...
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Aug 14, 2001
I've got a database with an unknown number of columns. Hence, the column names are also unknown. What's the easiest SQL to present the values in each column and the column headings?
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Jan 11, 2007
hi,
i am sure this question must have been anwsered some where, but after a lot of searching i still have not find the anwser.
i have flat files without column headers (267 columns in total).
since i have the file's description i have created a table to house these extracts with the columns in the same order as in the flat files.
additionally, i have an excel containing a list of the column names their data types and length as well as their position on the flat files.
in the old, DTS would map the columns without headers to those columns in the destination table using their order, in which case it works like a breeze for me. but i can not find a way of doing that in SSIS.
i would very much appreciate someone's assistance on this one since i am sure that there must be a better way than manually (and tediously & error prone) to map all those columns.
thanks in advance
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May 12, 2015
I am able to get a list of columns in a table from the query I have written shown below:
select sc.name ColumnNames,st.name TableName from sys.columns sc inner join sys.tables st on sc.object_id=st.object_id
order by st.name
But I am looking for the resultset with the format below:
TableName  Columns
employee    employeeid,employeename,employeesalary
order       orderid,address,priceÂ
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Aug 3, 2007
I am trying to do a PIVOT on a query result, but the column names created by the PIVOT function are dynamic.
For example (modified from the SQL Server 2005 Books Online documentation on the PIVOT operator) :
SELECT
Division,
[2] AS CurrentPeriod,
[1] AS PreviousPeriod
FROM
(
SELECT
Period,
Division,
Sales_Amount
FROM
Sales.SalesOrderHeader
WHERE
(
Period = @period
OR Period = @period - 1
)
) p
PIVOT
(
SUM (Sales_Amount)
FOR Period IN ( [2], [1] )
) AS pvt
Let's assume that any value 2 is selected for the @period parameter, and returns the sales by division for periods 2 and 1 (2 minus 1).
Division CurrentPeriod PreviousPeriodA 400 3000 B 400 100 C 470 300 D 800 2500 E 1000 1900
What if the value @period were to be changed, to say period 4 and it should returns the sales for periods 4 and 3 for example, is there a way I can change to code above to still perform the PIVOT while dynamically accepting the period values 4 and 3, applying it to the columns names in the first SELECT statement and the FOR ... IN clause in the PIVOT statement ?
Need a way to represent the following [2] and [1] column names dynamically depending on the value in the @period parameter.
[2] AS CurrentPeriod,
[1] AS PreviousPeriod
FOR Period IN ( [2], [1] )
I have tried to use the @period but it doesn't work.
Thanks in advance.
Kenny
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Mar 2, 2012
I am imagining something you might pass the names of 2 stored procs (an old version and new one), and a query to produce valid parameters. It would then fire off each proc for a set number of executions, while storing off the results in temp tables, and at the end it would do a data compare, and store off performance data from dynamic management views.
Now I know how to get the parameters for a stored procedure out of the catalogue views, but is SQL Server aware at all of the schema of the results of stored procedures that return result sets, becuase I was thinking of doing something like...
INSERT INTO #datacompare(col1,col2)
EXEC mystoredprocedure
... but I can not seem to figure out how to dynamically gather the schema of the result set.
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Jan 7, 2015
I am trying to figure out how to pivot a temporary table. I have a table which starts with a date but the number of columns and columns names will vary but will be type INT (Data, col2,col3,col4………….n)
So it could look like
Date , TS-Sales, Budget , Toms sales
01-Jan-14,100,120,300
02-Jan-14,80,150,300
03-Jan-14,100,20,180
Turned to this
01-jan-14, 02-jan-14, 03-jan-14
100,80,100
120,150,20
300,300,180
Or even just the date and a SUM
What I want is to be able to sum al the columns but without knowing the name and the amount columns to start with this is a manually processes. How could I automate this?
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May 7, 2015
While looking forward to design a multi-columnar cross-tab query I am anxious to know if there could be a way to change the default names of the pivot columns? In other words for the query like the following can there be a way to apply anAS type command to reflect some other names, instead of having the four dates in heading? Something like Month_A, Month_B?
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT
X.REP_DT,
X.CUST_ID
AMOUNT_1
FROM
X) P
PIVOT (SUM(AMOUNT_1) FOR REP_DT IN ([2014-12-31], [2015-01-31], [2015-02-28], [2015-03-31])) PVT_01
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Sep 15, 2002
I need to find column names if any after 2 “check” columns.
Scenario: I have a database, with approx 400-1500 tables, depending on installation of software. The software is structured so that, when it synchronizes the SQL database it will create all the columns e.g. custacc, custname etc. and then it will always put in two check columns “CheckOne” and “CheckTwo” these two columns has to be the two last ones. In 99.9 this always works fine, but sometime if the users creates a new field in the software, when it synchronizes the new field “lands” behind the two checkfields, which is not good.
So what I am after is a script, which can run through all user tables, tell me if there are columns after the two checkfields and list those tables if any.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Henrik.
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Mar 22, 2007
Hello,
I've been able to startup a transactional replication between 2 database for some tables that only have different table names. Now there are still some tables that not only have different names but also different column names, can this be done in the wizzard ??
Thx
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May 29, 2006
I€™m using the ImportExport wizard to export the top 5 lines from a MS Sql table into a fixed format (€śragged€?) file. But I want the first record to contain the column names of the exported fields so I selected the €śColumn names in the first data row€? option of the €śChoose a Destination€? box. When I run the Package I get:
>>>
· Information 0x402090dc: Data Flow Task: The processing of file "C:arkingdogExportWithheader.txt" has started (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
· Error 0xc0202095: Data Flow Task: Failed to write out column name for column "CustomerID".
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc004701a: Data Flow Task: component "Destination - ExportWithheader_txt" (49) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC0202095.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
>>>
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TIA,
Barkingdog
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Feb 26, 2015
I am using CROSS APPLY instead of UNPIVOT to unpivot > one column. I am wondering if I can dynamically replace column names based on different tables? The example code that I have working is based on the "Allergy" table. I have thirty more specialty tables to go. I'll show the working code first, then an example of another table's columns to show differences:
select [uplift specialty], [member po],[practice unit name], [final nomination status]
,[final uplift status], [final rank], [final uplift percentage]
,practiceID=row_number() over (partition by [practice unit name] order by Metricname)
,metricname,Metricvalue, metricpercentilerank
[code]....
Rheumatology Table:The columns that vary start with "GDR" and [GDR Percentile Rank] so I'm just showing those:
GDR (nvarchar(255), null)
GDR Percentile Rank (nvarchar(255), null)
GDR PGS (nvarchar(255), null)
GDR Rank Number (nvarchar(255), null)
PMPM (nvarchar(255), null)
[Code] ....
These are imported from an Excel Workbook so that's why all the columns with spaces for now.
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Apr 20, 2014
I have one table namely consumer with approx 50 columns.
I have created one same table with audit prefix including 2 more column for action n timestamp fields.
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Apr 9, 2008
hi need help from the wonderful people here
i am working on project and convert a OLD DOS program to SQL server on the web
this is the resalt i need to show
napipot
Fname
new_unit
day1
day11
day111
day2
day22
day222
day3
day33
day333
day4
day44
day444
1
aaaa
1_1
A
C
Q
D
E
y
2
bbbb
2_2
-
E
A
d
3
cccc
3_3
B
F
B
z
f
4
dddd
1_1
-
*
5
eeee
4_4
C
A
C
--------------------------------------------------------add space row-------------------------
result row
Ok
OK
OK
ok
B
ok
ok
ok
ok
A
B
C
i need check only the
A
B
C
if not show the missing A B C
like this
A on the left
B on middleC on right
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Not nice but a work around: is there a way to get the amount of fields or rows from a table or query within MS SQL, to pick out the lastfield-4 for example ?
SELECT LASTFIELD-4
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Jul 19, 2006
Hello,
I've been busy all night searching and reading trying to figure out how I can do the following.
I have a table that tracks user IDs in multiple fields. When I select records from this table I need a way to resolve those ID fields back into user names by referencing the users table. SQL statement thus far...
SELECT A.Username as NameA, B.Username As NameB, FROM theTable, Users As A, Users As B WHERE theTable.UserIDA ???
How do I resolve theTable.UserIDA and theTable.UserIDB back to Users.Username so that the records returned fill the fields NameA and NameB?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Mike
Ontario, Canada
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Jan 31, 2006
Hi,
I'm trying to add a heading to my report using Table and TableGroups. But I don't want my group headings to line up with the detail rows. This seems like a common requirement in my mind but I can't figure out how to do it.
See made up example of a report below:
Person Name Address <-Report header
Area: A12 3BC, Newtown, Someplace <-TableGroup header
Mr Some Body 1 The Street <-Detail rows
Mrs Anne Other 2 The Street
Area: B23 4CD, Oldtown, Someplace <-TableGroup header
Mr Ran Dom 3 The Avenue <-Detail rows
So the TableGroup displays Area which is grouped by Post code, city etc.
The detail rows displays individual people and their street address.
NOTE: The Area fields do not line up with the Person fields in fact they overlap how can I do this in SSRS?
Thanks in advance for your help,
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