I am working with a table that has zip codes listed in lengths of 9,8,5 and 4 digits. The table is created this way and I have no way of changing the data outside of SQL. I am trying to get the last four digits off of all the zip codes so that I only have to work with zip codes in lengths of 5 and 4
Thanks,
Pizzo36
Hi All,
Is there a way to compare two dates fields that are different in length? For example, I have table1.datefield with a date of '040808' and table2.datefield with a date of '04082008'. Just comparing the two fields is not coming up equal. Has anyone had this situation before?
Thanks.
Frank
Is it possible to tell sql server to cast to a datatype and set thefield length to a variable.e.g. :-declare @flen intset @flen = 10select (cast somefield as char(@flen) newfield)into newtablefrom sometableI have also tried :-select (cast somefield as char(max(len(somefield))) newfield)into newtablefrom sometableWhen I try the above examples I get error in @flen; error in maxrespectivly.TIASimon
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column bldg_id format a8
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How can I do this in transact-sql ??
Can someone comment on why joining two tables on CHAR fields of different lengths would generate unexpected results?
I had an issue where I ran an update that used an inner join on two tables. The field I used in the join was char(50) in one table and char(13) in another table. The result gave bad matches. After changing the field types both to varchar(30), the problem was eliminate.
Any comments on this would be appreciated.
Rye Guy
Suppose I store cleartext strings in a field declared as varchar(100). Is there any way to know the minimum varbinary column sze to use for the encrypted data? (e.g. should it be varbinary(100) or (200)?, (8000)?). I'm sure it's algorithm specific but I don't know what factors influence the final length.
TIA,
Barkingdog
I just learned that bit masking a varbinary column can increase it's length in bytes unnecessarily. For example, I ran the following...
declare @v1 varbinary(max)
set @v1 = 0x0100AB
select len(@v1)
set @v1 = @v1 | (len(@v1) - 2) * 256
select master.dbo.fn_varbintohexstr(@v1)
select len(@v1)
...and get
3
0x00000000000101ab
8
This messes up a plan I had for varbinary column use.
So I quickly tried the following to look for strategies to deal with this unwanted growth...thought being that while I'm passed a varbinary(max), operating on a varbinary that matches its passed length would avoid the unwanted growth after bit masking....
declare @i int
set @i = 5
declare @v2 varbinary(@i)
...but got errors.
So I suppose I can use a combo of the len, substring etc functions to correct the situation after bit masking but would like to know if the more elegant approach of dynamically sizing a varbinary is possible in t-sql, or if perhaps there is a way to prevent the unwanted growth during bit masking.
I'll try to reproduce this later, but want to report it before I forget.
I just had my package fail on a VM I was testing on. It failed because on that machine, I logged in as MachineNameAdministrator instead of using my domain account (the VM is not in the domain).
This was a problem because the "User Name" column generated by the Audit Transformation was 17 characters long! This is the length of my domain + user name on my development machine. Similarly, the machine name length was 15 characters.
I'd love to know what the "correct" sizes are for these columns. In the meantime, I'm going to set these to 255 manually, and hope the size sticks.
P.S. There was one other post on this topic, though the thread isn't clear that this was the problem: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=472445&SiteID=1.
Hi , I have a database that records the users entrance to a building.The dates are recorded also .I have written some codes that to detect the period of dates that the person has entered.Lets say that a person named as jhon has entered the building on the days 02/08/2006 and 05/08/2006 and 11/08/2006 .Those dates are formated as dd/mm/yyyy . So that john has entered building for 3 times and the periods for the dates are one after another entrance is 3 days + 6 days =9 days .If you divide 9 by 3 we get the arithmetic average number 3 .So that we can say as john visits this building every 3 days and we can guess the next day that he may come. I have coded this and works great .I will paste the codes to the end of my message.But a master programmer friend of mine has said that I should have get this result by without writing code , by just using sql database .But some kind of stored procedure I mustn't use.So that I thought it can be done by views in sqldb .By using sql server enterprise manager I tried to use views but I could not succees. Can anyone guess this ? Here are my vb codes ... database data types : entry_id : int , identity user_id : int movie : nvarchar (50) dateenter : datetime stored procedure that selects the data from db: CREATE PROCEDURE veri_al ( @user_id int ) AS SELECT entry_id ,user_id, movie, dateenter from uye_aktiviteleri where (user_id=@user_id) ORDER BY entry_id ASC GO Code:Dim conn As New SqlClient.SqlConnection conn.ConnectionString = "data source=localhost;initial catalog=AFM;uid=nusret;pwd=araz" Dim command As New SqlClient.SqlCommand command.CommandText = "[veri_al]" command.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure command.Connection = conn command.Parameters.Add("@user_id", SqlDbType.Int, 4).Value = Val(TextBox1.Text) If Not IsNumeric(TextBox1.Text) Then Exit Sub End If Try Dim adapter As New SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter adapter.SelectCommand = command Dim ds As New DataSet adapter.Fill(ds, "uyeler") DataGrid1.DataSource = ds.Tables("uyeler") Dim recordcount As Integer 'Found the recordcount recordcount = ds.Tables("uyeler").Rows.Count Dim mydatarow_ilk As DataRow Dim mydatarow_son As DataRow 'in stored procedure I used ORDER BY entry_id ASC so that first datarow 'will always be the first visit date and the last record of the 'datarow will be the last visit date mydatarow_first= ds.Tables("uyeler").Rows(0) mydatarow_last = ds.Tables("uyeler").Rows(recordcount - 1) Dim first_date As String Dim last_date As String first_date = mydatarow_first("dateenter") last_date =mydatarow_last("dateenter") Dim average_ As Integer 'What is the aveare of the visits ortalama = DateDiff("d", first_date , last_date ) / recordcount Label2.Text = "Member had visited for " & recordcount & "times" Label3.Text = "by average he/she comes here " & ortalama & " day to another." Dim last_time_visit As Integer last_time_visit = DateDiff("d", last-date , DateTime.Today()) Label4.Text = "Until the last visit it had been" & last_time_visit & " days" Label5.Text = "Guess for the next visit is" & DateAdd("d", average_ , last_date) ' MsgBox("average visits" & ortalama & " days" ) Catch z As Exception MsgBox("error : " & z.Message()) Finally MsgBox("Successfully calculated") End Try End Sub
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I have another question about ADO (using C++). I have searched the MSDN but I haven't found a answer to my question (maybe I'm just too stupid)... If I make a connection to my SQL Server there may occur some errors, but how to find out what went wrong ?
In terms of code I have e.g. something like that:
try { connection->Open(ConnectionString,Username,Password,ADODB::adConnectUnspecified);
...} catch (_com_error& e) { long numErrors = connection->Errors->Count; for (long i=0; i<numErrors; i++) { ADODB::ErrorPtr pErr = connection->Errors->GetItem(i); ..... }}
Now I could get the error number by pErr->GetNumber().
But with which symbolic constant has this to be compared to find out which error occured ?? I didn't find any...Or is there another better way to do this ?
P.S. I am using SQL Server 2005 Express
How can I test sql codes and don't want to connect to company database?
My company is using sql server 2000.
Below is the test codes which create a simple table, calculate and just want to check before
writing more complicated codes.
Thanks
Daniel Ku
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
create table EquipmentUptime (
equipmentId int not null
,transactionId int not null
,dateOccured datetime not null
)
go
--
insert into EquipmentUptime values (1,200,'01/01/2007')
insert into EquipmentUptime values (2,200,'01/01/2007')
insert into EquipmentUptime values (3,200,'01/01/2007')
insert into EquipmentUptime values (2,100,'02/12/2007')
insert into EquipmentUptime values (1,100,'02/25/2007')
insert into EquipmentUptime values (3,100,'03/10/2007')
insert into EquipmentUptime values (1,200,'03/14/2007')
go
--
select
equipmentId
,100*(cast((cast(sum(UpDays)as decimal(6,3))/cast(365 as decimal(6,3))) as decimal(4,3))) 'PctUpTime'
from
(
select
c.equipmentId
,datediff(dd,c.[UpDate],c.DownDate) 'UpDays'
from
(
select
a.equipmentId
,a.dateOccured as 'UpDate'
,coalesce(
(select top 1
b.dateOccured
from
EquipmentUptime b
where
transactionId=100
and b.equipmentId=a.equipmentId
and b.dateOccured >= a.dateOccured
order by
b.dateOccured asc
),'01/01/2008') as 'DownDate'
from
EquipmentUptime a
where
a.transactionId=200
) c
) d
group by
d.equipmentId
My data flow component is throwing an error and the only help I get is the following:
error code: -1071607694
error column: 257
What in the world does this mean? Can it get more cryptic than this?
Hi,
I have a table with a primary key, what I really need is something like an IDENTITY, but with the character 'X' and the last to digits of the year added on the front. Is there another way to update the field automatically like an IDENTITY would do, automatically incrementing as fields are inserted.
I apologize for the length of this message, but I think I need to include all this info so that the problem is understood. I am having what appears to be a problem capturing the return code from a failed BCP.
I create a stored proc to use BCP to load a table:
create procedure sp_bcp_load as
declare @RC int
execute @RC = master..xp_cmdshell "bcp JON..W4KPV in e:inetpubftprootfinreslaw4kpv.g4000.data /Sdbmtss1 /m 0 /f d:mssqluserdatafinresW4KPV.fmt /Usa /P /e d:mssqluserdatafinrescp1.err /t""|"" /r "
select 'Return code from bcp = ', @RC
if @RC <> 0
BEGIN
print 'BCP Error.'
return (8)
END
GO
If I execute the SP, and encounter a transaction log full error, the return code is still zero:
1000 rows sent to SQL Server. 45000 total
1000 rows sent to SQL Server. 46000 total
Msg 1105, Level 17, State 2:
Server 'DBMTSS1', Line 1:
Can't allocate space for object 'Syslogs' in database 'Jon' because
the 'logsegment' segment is full. If you ran out of space in Syslogs,
dump the transaction log. Otherwise, use ALTER DATABASE or sp_extendsegment to increase the size of the segment.
(54 row(s) affected)
----------------------- -----------
Return code from bcp = 0
If I execute the SP again, it correctly returns a non-zero value:
Msg 1105, Level 17, State 2:
Server 'DBMTSS1', Line 1:
Can't allocate space for object 'Syslogs' in database 'Jon' because
the 'logsegment' segment is full. If you ran out of space in Syslogs, dump the transaction log. Otherwise, use ALTER DATABASE or sp_extendsegment to increase the size of the segment.
(6 row(s) affected)
----------------------- -----------
Return code from bcp = 1
(1 row(s) affected)
BCP Error.
Does anybody have an idea why this behaves this way? Any suggestions on how to trap an error on the first call?
Thanks,
Jon Carter
hey all
i am stuck with this little problem
I have a table with people's names and addresses and i have one column for the zip codes. sometimes it includes 5 digit zip codes like '70820' and some times it includes all nine digits like '70820-4565'
is there anyway to move the last 4 digits of the long zip codes into a new column? and remove the dash?
thanks
Aloha !
I am posting this information simply as an FYI. This is in reference to the MS-SQL command "CONVERT"
I spent over 2 hours :rolleyes: screwing around trying to find out different ways of formatting dates from MS-SQL into something that makes sense for what I needed. I googled everything I could think of and found multiple references that said the info is available on MSDN.. but I could not find it. What I did find were thousands of relatively useless references to "format codes" for converting dates, but with no references to what the different format codes would ultimately yield, or what format codes were available to use.
What I ended up doing was writing a small script to generate a list of all of the variations I could find.
Below is the script, and the output that it yielded.
Now, before I get bombarded with "there is a better way" I know there probably is. But this is the way that I needed to do it this particular time. If there are technical errors in my explanation, anyone is welcome to correct them. But after 2 hours of messing with this for what should have been a super simple single .0009 second command, I am just irritated beyond belief that it had to be this complicated to find any useful information on the subject. That is why I am creating this. Hopefully it helps someone else.
The format for the MS SQL CONVERT command is :
CONVERT( length_of_output, date, format_code )
length_of_output : is exactly that . the number of characters that you want returned as your result. If you use a length of 6 you will only see the first 6 characters that are returned. I found the longest valid length to be 28 characters, but I went as high as 128 just for giggles and to see if it revealed any secrets.
date : is a valid date, I used directly the getdate() function
format_code : well.. that's the tricky part. See below.
What I did was ran a script that originally went from 1 to 20,000. It crashed at 15. Apparently the format codes are not totally sequential. So I put in an on error resume next.
What I found is that :
1) the codes are not uninterrupted sequential numbers.
2) the code output repeats every 255
3) negative numbers can be used, but its pointless.
4) useful valid codes are in the ranges of : 0-14, 20-25, 100-114, 120, 121, 126, 130 and 131
5) 0-25 typically represent "short dates" with the year being only 2 digits, but there are exceptions
6) 100 and above always returned a 4 digit year. the exception was 130 and 131, I don't know what it was trying to do.
Here is the script i ran
<%
on error resume next
for iintCounter = 0 to 256
SQL = "SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), " & iintCounter & " ) as TheDate"
Set rsTheDateFormat = TheDatabase.Execute(SQL)
response.write SQL & " = " & rsTheDateFormat("TheDate") & "<br>"
set rsTheDateFormat = nothing
next
%>
and here is the output
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 0 ) as TheDate = Aug 28 2007 6:46AM
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 1 ) as TheDate = 08/28/07
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 2 ) as TheDate = 07.08.28
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 3 ) as TheDate = 28/08/07
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 4 ) as TheDate = 28.08.07
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 5 ) as TheDate = 28-08-07
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 6 ) as TheDate = 28 Aug 07
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 7 ) as TheDate = Aug 28, 07
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 8 ) as TheDate = 06:46:45
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 9 ) as TheDate = Aug 28 2007 6:46:45:507AM
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 10 ) as TheDate = 08-28-07
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 11 ) as TheDate = 07/08/28
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 12 ) as TheDate = 070828
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 13 ) as TheDate = 28 Aug 2007 06:46:45:507
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 14 ) as TheDate = 06:46:45:507
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 20 ) as TheDate = 2007-08-28 06:46:45
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 21 ) as TheDate = 2007-08-28 06:46:45.540
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 22 ) as TheDate = 08/28/07 6:46:45 AM
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 23 ) as TheDate = 2007-08-28
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 24 ) as TheDate = 06:46:45
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 25 ) as TheDate = 2007-08-28 06:46:45.540
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 100 ) as TheDate = Aug 28 2007 6:46AM
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 101 ) as TheDate = 08/28/2007
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 102 ) as TheDate = 2007.08.28
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 103 ) as TheDate = 28/08/2007
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 104 ) as TheDate = 28.08.2007
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 105 ) as TheDate = 28-08-2007
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 106 ) as TheDate = 28 Aug 2007
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 107 ) as TheDate = Aug 28, 2007
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 108 ) as TheDate = 06:46:45
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 109 ) as TheDate = Aug 28 2007 6:46:45:913AM
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 110 ) as TheDate = 08-28-2007
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 111 ) as TheDate = 2007/08/28
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 112 ) as TheDate = 20070828
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 113 ) as TheDate = 28 Aug 2007 06:46:45:930
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 114 ) as TheDate = 06:46:45:930
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 120 ) as TheDate = 2007-08-28 06:46:45
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 121 ) as TheDate = 2007-08-28 06:46:45.943
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 126 ) as TheDate = 2007-08-28T06:46:45.990
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 130 ) as TheDate = 15 ????? 1428 6:46:46:040AM
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 131 ) as TheDate = 15/08/1428 6:46:46:040AM
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(128), getdate(), 256 ) as TheDate = Aug 28 2007 6:46AM
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D:SQL Server x86Servers>echo %errorlevel%
3010
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Other error codes that were seen are 1603 and 9009.
What do these error codes mean? Is there a place where they can be looked up?
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All the records get stored into text file along with some SQL Server error_code and error_column.
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Is there any way to map these error codes and columns and get relevant information out of it?
Example
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As part of our application deployment we have wrapped and automated the SQL Server Express install by launching the setup.exe with our parameters and waiting around for the process to exit.
I had been checking for a Exit Code != 0 to detect errors returned by setup.exe but this does not appear to be foolproof. Several customers' deployments have returned non-zero exit codes, but SQL Express seems to be successfully installed.
I have not found a reference of possible codes returned and their meaning that I could use to fine tune our checking. Does one exist? Or am I going about this the wrong way and should just check for the existence of our instance after setup is complete?
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Protected Sub gvSales_RowEditing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewEditEventArgs) Handles gvSales.RowEditing
-- What are the codes here??
End Sub
I have a CommandField in my Gridview with the ShowEditButton set as True.
What do I type at the RowEditing so that I can edit the data in any row in my database (SQL Express) displayed in the gridview?
Thanks!!!
I have a system using asp pages & ADO & SQL Server 2000, which processes files, builds a SQL insert statement from the file content and then executes it.
If the insert SQL fails, I need to know whether there was something wrong with the insert SQL, or something wrong with the database (e.g. SQL Server times out), and handle those differently,
Questions
=======
1. Is there an easy way to do this without checking against a list of error codes?
2. Can anyone point me to a list of errorcodes? Can't find this anywhere
thank you
Where can I find a list of all the format codes, complete with their definitions?
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The data resides in app_data.
In my webconfig file I have this.
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I understand that there are several different ways to connect and manage information to the database. I think I want to use the behind the codes (.aspx.vb) and on the top of the page I have this. Imports System.Data.
That is where I am stuck. Can you push me in the direction by either explaing to me or post a link that has more information about this.
Thanks.
I am trying to use the haversine function to find the distance betweentwo points on a sphere, specifically two zip codes in my database. I'mneither horribly familiar with SQL syntax nor math equations :), so Iwas hoping I could get some help. Below is what I'm using and it is,as best as I can figure, the correct formula. It is not however,giving me correct results. Some are close, others don't seem right atall. Any ideas?SET @lat1 = RADIANS(@lat1)SET @log1 = RADIANS(@log1)SET @lat2 = RADIANS(@lat2)SET @log2 = RADIANS(@log2)SET @Dlat = ABS(@lat2 - @lat1)SET @Dlog = ABS(@log2 - @log1)SET @R = 3956 /*Approximate radius of earth in miles*/SET @A = SQUARE(SIN(@Dlat/2)) + COS(@lat1) * COS(@lat2) *SQUARE(SIN(@Dlog/2))SET @C = 2 * ATN2(SQRT(@A), SQRT(1 - @A))/*SET @C = 2 * ASIN(min(SQRT(@A))) Alternative calculation*/SET @distance = @R * @Cthnx,cjrsumner
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I can't find it in BOL or anywhere
Send Mail works fine when I just want to send a message. However, when I try to send the results from a query as an attachment, I get a ODBC error. Here is example of the code and the error code that I recieve.
Use MyDatabase
go
exec master.dbo.xp_sendmail 'Doe,John',
@query = 'Select * from tblMyTable',
@subject = 'SQL Server Report',
@message = 'The contents of the tblMyTable:',
@attach_results = 'TRUE', @width = 250
go
---------------------------------------------------
Error: ODBC error 208 (42S02) Invalid object name 'tblMYTABLE'.
Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong?
I have to find the number of orders sent to two different postal codes but to get all of the right columns, I have to use 2 different tables.
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