I'm the assistant to the assistants assistant and have no SQL base at all but have to change dates in our SQL database. I've got the script for how to do an update/replace for non date fields and have been successful at that. Unfortunately when I try to use the script to change date fields it does not work. It goes through the process and acts like it is working (even asks me if I want to update the records) but when I look in the database the dates have not changed. Below is the script that I am using, any help you can give me will help me keep my job (and pay for the beer I'm sure to need after work today) Thanks in advance for your help. I am trying to change the date '30/08/2007' to '28/08/2008'.
My Script:
update Main_table set valuedate=replace(valuedate,'30/08/2007','28/08/2008')
where country='FR'
and valuedate='30/08/2007'
I am building a site which provides an online handbook. I have two fields - date and update_date. The first is when the contents was originally entered and the second is meant to be updated every time the record is changed. I have no idea how to do this - any help welcome.
Hello.I've read many topics about this problem but i couldn't figure it out.I use form where user must insert 2 dates using texboxes.-One is required and other is optional.Sql 2000 is inserting either '20061105' or '2006.11.05' on insert update but select query returns 05.11.2006 on my report. Question 1.How do I insert or update dates from my form where date is entered dd.mm.yyyy to sql 2000 table?question 2. What to do if user left optional texbox date empty.I'm using SP and function with arguments (byval texbox1.text as date, byval texbox2.text as date)and parameters @date1, sqldbtype date =texbox1.text
And I would like to produce the following outcome to the same table (using update statement): As what you all observe, it merge all overlapping dates based on same promotion ID by taking the minimum start date and maximum end date. Only the first row of overlapping date is updated to the desired value and the flag value change to 1. For other overlapping value, it will be set to NULL and the flag becomes 2.
The second part that I would like to acheive is based on the first table as well. However, this time I would like to merge the date which results in the minimum start date and End Date of the last overlapping rows. Since the End date of the last overlapping rows of promotion ID 1 is row with ID 4 with End Date 2015-05-29, the table will result as follow after update.
How can I do this with Parameters? I can get a single parameter to filter for a single date (or even a combo list of the dates in DB). But I want my parameters to interact so that they specify a range. Is this possible?
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,
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.
I am very new to SQL Server 2005. I have created a package to load data from a flat delimited file to a database table. The initial load has worked. However, in the future, I will have flat files used to update the table. Some of the records will need to be inserted and some will need to update existing rows. I am trying to do this from SSIS. However, I am very lost as to how to do this.
I want to know if there is a way to compare dates in the sql statement with dates that I input into a database and todays date. the datatype that I'm using is smalldatetime.The statement I used is:Select Date from Table where Date > 'Today.now'I get an errorCould this be done or is there another approach?
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I want to replace the value in a column with the content from listbox.
I have wrote the code like,
Dim i as Integer dim sql as string For i = 0 to Customerslist1.ListCount-1 sql = "UPDATE master (gstl) VALUES(" +chrb(34)+Customerslist1.Cell(i,8)+chrb(34)+")" app.Gudangstock.SQLExecute(sql) app.Gudangstock.commit next msgbox"insert ok" UpdateCustomerList1
but no error found and the sql command is not executing.
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We are trying to migrate a SQL Server 2005 database/schema onto SQL CE. The original SQL Server 2005 schema uses views. And VIEWs are not supported on SQL CE. What can we use as an alternative?
Here are the option I can think of:
Use Tables instead of views : We are currently using this approach. But the disadvantage is that data remains on the DB. We need to clean and reuse the table everytimeCan we use a DataSet or DataTable instead? Any sample code available? Can we replace them by some in-memory data structure?
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So when the reader reads Expr4 its either true or false.
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