I would like to set a field to not null which I can do like this: ALTER TABLE table1 ALTER COLUMN field1 BIGINT NOT NULL
My question is there anyway to set this field to NOT NULL without having to specify the data type BIGINT? I'm using dynamic sql and if there was a way then I wouldn't need to go get the data type of the field dynamically and it would save me a step. Thanks.
Hi guys,
If I have a temporary table called #CTE
With the columns
[Account]
[Name]
[RowID Table Level]
[RowID Data Level]
and I need to change the column type for the columns:
[RowID Table Level]
[RowID Data Level]
to integer, and set the column [RowID Table Level] as Identity (index) starting from 1, incrementing 1 each time.
What will be the right syntax using SQL SERVER 2000?
I am trying to solve the question in the link below:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2093921&SiteID=1
Thanks in advance,
Aldo.
I have tried the code below, but getting syntax error...
ALTER TABLE #CTE
ALTER COLUMN
[RowID Table Level] INT IDENTITY(1,1),
[RowID Data Level] INT;
I have also tried:
ALTER TABLE #CTE
MODIFY
[RowID Table Level] INT IDENTITY(1,1),
[RowID Data Level] INT;
I need to alter datatypes from
numeric(18,0) to 'int' type across all the tables in the database of about 200 tables. Nearly 200 PK/FKs will be affected with this change..How can I do this with a script? Can anyone help witha script which drops all the constraints/indexs etc and then alters the datatype before re-creating the constraints/indexs..?
P.s. No rounding problem is expected as data is already in whole numbers.
Thanks,
Di.
how do you alter multiple data type in a table?
in oracle we have "modify"
is there something similar in sql server?
I'm trying to write some code that will alter column to change its type, in this case from Nvarchar to Int, but I'm not sure if there will be any columns that are uncovertable (say, there's a string that does not have an Int value). In this case, I'd like it to default to 0. Is there a way to write a T-SQL statement to do this, or will I have to write an UPDATE stamement first to clear out any problem cases?
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i've one database replicated from production server.
now i need to change one perticular table column datatype.
what steps i need to follow to do this?
thankyou very much
Arnav
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It is first time that I'm having this problem; I had developed an application which has been deployed on client's computer. Now he requested for some changes in application for which i have to change the tables structure as well as lot of coding too. What i am worry about is that if i make changes to the structure of tables so how i will incorporate the old data (the client has started working upon the application)into this newly structure tables because this newly structured tables will have more or less columns than the previous one.
My table for the time being is:
SaleID (Primary Key)
SaleTotalAmount
SalePaidAmount
SaleDiscount
SaleNetBalance
SaleDate
And fields have to incorporate are:
SaleTotalProfit
SaleTotalLoss
I ran the alter query and it worked fine for me. But the problem is that If i give this new DB to client, so how i will incorporate the old data into this newly altered DB?
Let me briefly explain my application. I developed a standalone PC application where both DB and application are installed on a single PC.
I am attempting to create a stored procedure that will launch at report runtime to summarize data in a table into a table that will reflect period data using an array type field. I know how to execute one line but I am not sure how to run the script so that it not only summarizes the data below but also creates and drops the table.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Current Table
Project | Task | Category | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Month | Total Hours
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 1 | 2007 | 01 | 40
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 2 | 2007 | 02 | 20
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 3 | 2007 | 03 | 35
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 1 | 2008 | 01 | 40
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 2 | 2008 | 02 | 40
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 3 | 2008 | 03 | 40
Proposed Table
Project | Task | Category | Fiscal Month 01 | Fiscal Month 02 | Fiscal Month 03 | Fiscal Year
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 1 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 2007
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 2007Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 3 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 2007
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 1 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 2008
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 2 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 2008
Proj 1 | Task 1 | Cat 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 2008
Thanks,
Mike Misera
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Seems simple, right?
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my code:
Alter table customers alter column age
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CREATE TABLE Table1 (
Email NVARCHAR(256)
)
CREATE TABLE Table2 (
Email <------
)
How can I use Table1's Email column's data type as for Email col in Table2. I remember it's possible in Oracle
Thank you
Can anybody tell me why can't we write this...
declare @tab1 as table
Plz tell me if there are any use of table data type rather than UDFs..
After testing out the application i write on the local pc. I deploy it to the webserver to test it out. I get this error.
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The conversion of a char data type to a
datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.
Notes: all pages that have this error either has a repeater or datagrid which load data when page loading.
At first I thought the problem is with the date, but then I can see
that some other pages that has datagrid ( that has a date field) work
just fine.
anyone having this problem before?? hopefully you guys can help.
Thanks,
Hi,
I have a stored procedure which uses:
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And I'd like to reuse the table in the stored procedure and have attempted to empty the table by calling
TRUNCATE TABLE @Tmp
But this doesn't work. How else can I do this? I don't want to use
DELETE FROM @Tmp
Because this doesn't reset the Row_ID, and I'm using the Row_ID in a WHILE loop. Any ideas?
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CONSTRAINT ID_PK PRIMARY KEY (SaleID,SalesRegion))
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Thanks!
I have a field with exam scores. 77, 89.5 ect. range :0-100
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Hi,
I have some stored procedures that create table data types for temporary tables. From everything I've read about these, they shouldn't occupy space in tempdb. However we've been having problems with our tempdb log growing quite large, so I've done some profiling on the database and found that the temporary tables are being created in tempdb, and I don't understand why.
The Stored Procedure looks like:
-- WORKING TABLES
DECLARE @t_InsertParams TABLE (ParamKey1 VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, ParamValue VARCHAR(1024), ParamOrder INT)
/*** POPULATE PARAMS TABLES ***/
INSERT @t_InsertParams
SELECT *
FROM dbo.GetParamsOffload(@p_ParamList, @p_TargetTable)
and GetParamsOffload is a user defined function that returns a table:
CREATE FUNCTION GetParamsOffload(@p_ParamsList AS VARCHAR(8000), @p_TargetTable AS VARCHAR(50))
RETURNS @t_Params TABLE (ParamKey1 VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL, ParamValue VARCHAR(1024), ParamOrder INT)
AS
<snip>
INSERT @t_Params
SELECT @_ParamKey
,@_ParamValue
,ISNULL(@_ParamOrder, 0)
<snip>
RETURN
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If I am stuck with the above using tempdb, is there something that should be explicitly called to Delete the specified objects from tempdb? Do I need to Drop those tables in my SP?
This SP is called via a CSV file parser - gets called A LOT over and over parsing files and I see these objects getting created in tempdb. I need to figure out how this process can manage the space in tempdb better.
I'm using SQL Server 2000.
Thanks for any help.
Beth
Hi,
I can populate a dataTable with type double (C#) of say '1055.01' however when I save these to the CE3.5 database using a float(CE3.5) I lose the decimal portion. The 'offending' code is:
this.court0TableAdapter1.Update(this.mycourtsDataSet1.Court0);
this.mycourtsDataSet1.AcceptChanges();
this.court0TableAdapter1.Fill(this.mycourtsDataSet1.Court0);
This did not happen with VS2005/CE3.01.
I have tried changing all references to decimal (or money in CE3.5) without luck.
I'm beginning to think that string may be the way to go!!!!!!!
Can someone shed some light on my problem.
Thanks,
Later:
It's necessary to update the datatable adapter as the 3.01 and 3.5 CE are not compatible.
We have some columns in a table where the date is stored as 19980101 (YYYYMMDD). The data type for this column is NUMBER(8) in Oracle.
I need to copy rows from Oracle to SQL Server using SSIS. I used the Data Conversion transformation editor to change it to DT_DATE, but the rows are not being inserted to the destination.
On Error, If I fail the component, then the error is :
There was an error with input column "ORDER_DATE_CONV" (1191) on input "OLE DB Destination Input" (29). The column status returned was: "Conversion failed because the data value overflowed the specified type.".
Regards
RH
Hi All
I want to retrieve the data type of table column and validate the input data whether same as data type of table column before insert into database. Any suggestion?
I use asp.net + msde
Thank you.
Hi,
I've a column col1 of image data type in table1. I would like to copy the data from col1 to another image column col2 in table2. Before moving the value, checking has to be done to specify which col1 data from table1 is needed and the destination has to be checked too.
Example: insert into col2
(select col1 from table1 where table1_id =5)
where table2_id =6
Hence bcp wouldn't work. Can anyone suggest me a way to do it. I tried using writetext but then, i've to get data from col1 in a variable, which is not possible. Any suggestions would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance.
Ramya.
Does any one have any examples of how to declare and use these properly?
MSDN doesn't seem to give any example for a beginner.
Can we retrieve data from table type variable as an array in oracle key values..
E.g.
ALTER PROCEDURE prn1( @p_prn as KeyValuePair readonly)
-- proc which having parameter table type as parameter
AS
declare @v_formatted_str varchar(50)
BEGIN
set @v_formatted_str = v_formatted_str + @p_prn(1)(1)
END
Folks:
I would like to know the total length of data type in a table. I ran the following query. Will this give me the correct information? I also ran sp_columns <table name> and it too give the length. But There is a difference in the numbers. Am I doing something wrong and which is the correct the query or sp_column.
select sum(length) from syscolumns
where id in (select id from sysobjects
where name = 'XYZABC')
sp_columns XYZABC
Thanks !
Hi all,
I'm trying to create a temporary table with one of the columns with a datetime datatype. Sql server 7.0 is giving me an error:
Error 195 date is not a recognized function name.
Example of my create table looks something like this:
create table #temp_table(column_one int, column_two(15,2), Column_three datetime)
Hi,
I need to prevent modification/update to a field.
So I created a trigger. To take the data from DELETED table then replace the field data.
However, I have problem with one field which data type is text.
MS SQL always return me this error:
Cannot use text, ntext, or image columns in the 'inserted' and 'deleted' tables.
I use the following code to take the data from deleted table
DECLARE @ptrval varbinary(16)
SELECT @ptrval = TEXTPTR(NOTES )
FROM DELETED
I also tried simple Select statement
Select notes from deleted
What code should I use to take the deleted data
Please help.
Thanks in advance