Basically what I am doing is uploading inventory information from our point of sale/inventory management software into our website. I have a third party app that does most of the work for me but I need a view of our item table in our POS that this 3rd party software will use as the data source for what gets uploaded into the web. I have created the view with the following sql statement:
CREATE VIEW dbo.vwsfwebitemswine
AS
SELECT dbo.Item.*, dbo.Category.Name AS CategoryName, dbo.Department.Name AS DepartmentName
FROM dbo.Item INNER JOIN
dbo.Category ON dbo.Item.CategoryID = dbo.Category.ID INNER JOIN
dbo.Department ON dbo.Item.DepartmentID = dbo.Department.ID
WHERE (dbo.Item.DepartmentID = 7) AND (dbo.Item.WebItem = 1)
As you can see I am pulling from 3 tables. Item, Category and Department so that I can get the actual category and department names not just their numeric ID codes referenced in the standalone item table. The view data looks like this:
What I need is an additional column created that combines the DepartmentName column values with the CategoryName column values and includes a ~ in between like this.
What is the best way to add two columns into a single column. Lets say I have two columns with first and last names. How can I have a new column with first,last name??
I have a windows app with a particular report that has 2 date columns in it. I need to combine these two columns based on a choice that the user makes on a previous form. So the user enters two dates (beginning and ending) and then makes a selection. So if my query brings back
If the user selects option 1 column1 is displayed on the report, option 2 then column2, and if they select option 3 then columns 1 and 2 must be combined together based on other criteria.
I'm passing a parameter with the selection to my report, is there any way to combine these columns strictly in the report, or would it be easiest to do this in my sql query, and if so how? Keep in mind that I must keep each column separate because after the user makes the selection I have to make certain comparisons to each column before combining them. If any more information is needed then just let me know and I will post it as well.
Greetings, I am trying to "Fix" a poorly normalized table, and I wanted some info on the best way to go about this. It is an orders table that has items associated with it, and also "add-ons" to those items in the same table, like so:
order# Part# Addon1 Addon2 Addon3
What I would like to do is break the addons into a new table. Is there a way using a query/view/SP to bring all the addon fields into one column to create a new table with? or would I have to create some form of append to add the additional columns one at a time. Here is an example of what I want:
Old Table: addon1 Addon2 Addon3
New Table: Addon1 Addon2 Addon3
Of course I would also provide a link between the part and the applicable addons.
I am using the JOIN function to pull data from two tables. Table_A has all columns I need; Table_B contains only 1 column I need. The column I need data from in Table_A is called CITY_NAME and stops May 1st. The column I need in Table_B (which has the same values but begins May 2nd) is labeled CITY. In Table_A I have NULL values starting Mat 1st for CITY_NAME. In Table_B, I have NULL values for any date before May 2nd.
I need to replace the NULL values in table B (May 1st and forward) with the values that are in Table B
SELECT a.DATE, a.STATE, b.CITY FROM TABLE_A a LEFT JOIN TABLE_B b ON a.ID = b.ID
I need to use a function similar to UNION, but TABLE_A has 10 columns and TABLE_3 has 3 columns.
Using MySQL 5, MySQLQuery (latest). Complete Newbie,
I have the following query:
SELECT i.IndivId, i.Surname, i.First_Names, i.Parents, (SELECT i.Surname FROM individuals i, families f where (i.IndivId = f.father_ID) and (i.indivId = f.Family_ID)) as "father" FROM individuals i where i.Parents>0 order by i.Parents;
It returns nulls for the subselect. There are 2 tables, individuals and Parents. I am trying to use a father id. in the PArents table to cause the individual id. (being the father of the individual(s)) to be named in the father column. I have a feeling I'm going wrong here.
I think the query above is pretty self explanatory!
Hi,I have the following SQLSELECT Table1.Col1, Table3.Col1 AS Expr1,COUNT(Table1.Col2) AS Col2_No, COUNT(Table1.Col3) AS Col3_No etc,FROM Table3INNER JOIN Table2 ON Table3.Col1=Table2.Col1RIGHT OUTER JOIN Table1 ON Table2.Col2=Table2.Col2GROUP BY Table1.Col1, Table3.Col1The output rows have a value in either Table1.Col1 or Table3.Col1 but notboth.I'd like to combine Table1.Col1 and Table3.Col1 and group by the combinedcolumn in the result but don't know how.Thanks gratefully
I have a table whose schema is already defined and populated with data. I would like to create a column named Name that combines the first and last name columns in the following format "last name, first name". I tried to create a formula that concatenated these two columns, but it kept spitting up on me. Any ideas?
I have a query that gets three columns of data. PRODUCT_ID, SMALL_TEXT_VALUE, AND LARGE_TEXT_VALUE. I'd like to know if there is a way that I can alter my query below so that whenever SMALL_TEXT_VALUE is Null, it uses the value thats in the LARGE_TEXT_VALUE column. Whenever the small is null, the data I need is in the large column. My Query: Select EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES.PRODUCT_ID, EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES.SMALL_TEXT_VALUE, EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES.LARGE_TEXT_VALUEFrom EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES, EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTESWhere EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES.Ext_Att_ID = EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES.Ext_Att_IDORDER BY Product_ID DESC
I have two tables (teachers, students) each table has 3 fields (FirstName, LastName, EMail). I'm trying to combine the data from both tables into one so I have a "master list" to send e-mails to all teachers and students via an ASP script/CDO.
I've been reading up on Joins but I can't figure out the SQL to combine data from both tables. Any ideas?
Hello all - I'm relatively new to SQL and has been struggling with the below query. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I have the following 2 tables:
I'm trying to get the below output:
Here's the SQL I've been using: SELECT a.PERSON_ID, sum(a.AMOUNT), CASE WHEN b.JOB_CODE = 10 then "Level 2 Seller" WHEN b.JOB_CODE = 15 then "Level 3 Seller" ELSE 'Level 1 Seller' END as "Job_Code" FROM tbl_SALES a, tbl_JOBFUNCTION b WHERE a.PERSON_ID = b.PERSON_ID GROUP BY a.PERSON_ID, b.JOB_CODE
Here's what my results are with the query I've been using:
Each person could have many job codes, but when they have 10 then they're consider "level 2". - If they have 15 then they're "level 3". - If they don't have either 10 or 15 then they're "level 1". - If they have both 10 and 15 they're still "level 3".
I have database with two different tables BaseData and QualityDetails as given below with ID as the Primary key BaseData.
Sent_to_Client  Name ID 1/2/2015  ABC1 1000000 2/24/2015  ABC2 1000001 5/24/2015 ABC3 1000002 3/24/2015  ABC4 1000003
QualityDetails
ID Error 1000000 Â Â 1 1000001 2 1000002 Â Â 0 1000003 Â Â 3
I want to write an SQL Query to get the data by combining both the tables by dates from 2/1/2015 to 5/30/2015 in BaseData table. My table after executing the query should be
ID Name Error 1000001 ABC2 2 1000002 ABC3 0 1000003 ABC4 3
I am working with a database derived from text documents. One of the tables (TEXT001) contains the text of the documents with each paragraph of each document assigned to its own row with a paragraph number in a SectionNo column. I want the entire text of each document in a single row with its own unique number (so that I can do a full text search with SQL Server 2005 that will search and return the entire document as a result). How do I combine the rows with the same DocumentID into a single row of text data? This will put the entire text content of each document in its own row.
TEXT001 table as it is
DocumentID
SectionNo
SectionText
1
1
Paragraph 1 of Document 1
1
2
Paragraph 2 of Document 1
1
3
Paragraph 3 of Document 1
2
1
Paragraph 1 of Document 2
2
2
Paragraph 2 of Document 2
New TEXT table
DocumentID
SectionText
1
Entire text of Document 1
2
Entire text of Document 2
I realize that I can use €œunion€? to combine tables with the same data type, but that is not what I am trying to do. Ideally, there is a way to create a new table and fill it with the combined SectionText data as a batch command. If anyone can tell how to do this, I would appreciate your help.
More modestly, I tried to use the €œGroup By€? clause to combine the SectionText data using this query:
SELECT DocumentID, SectionText FROM TEXT001 GROUP BY DocumentID
And got this error message:
Msg 8120, Level 16, State 1, Line 5 Column 'TEXT001.SectionText' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.
I figured that I could not contain the SectionText data as an aggregate function since it is text data and cannot be €œsummed€?, so I tried including it in the GROUP BY clause:
SELECT DocumentID, SectionText FROM TEXT001 GROUP BY DocumentID, SectionText
And got his error message:
Msg 306, Level 16, State 2, Line 5 The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be compared or sorted, except when using IS NULL or LIKE operator.
Where do I go from here to accomplish my goal of combining the paragraphs of each document into one row per document?
I have a requirment to take data from a large set of tables where thetotal number of these tables may change on a regular baisis andoutput into another table. All the tables willl have the samecolumns. Frequency is being debated but it maybe as much as once perhour.Example1) I need to choose all the following tablesselect * from dbo.sysobjects where name like '_CPY%.2) then I need the followingfor each of the tables found above, I need the outfrom from each ofthose tables to be inputted into another table. basically, I wouldwant the following output from each of the tables found in step 1select machineid,name from _cpy_offermanager_6783) In the end I would have something like dbo.ALLCPY with recordscombined from all other _CPY tablesRon Sorrell
Hi allI need to add data from two Excel sheets (both on the same workbook)to an existing table in my SQL DB.The problem is that each sheet holds different fields for the samerecord, though the records are sorted by row numbers.(I had to split the fields to different sheets because Excel has alimit of 256 fields in each sheet)My sheets are quite large (~55,000 rows and 200 columns each) and I'llhave to repeat this action many time, so some kind of an automationwill nice (VB, DTS package?)I am new to SQLServer, so an example will be most helpful.Many thanks,Ilan
Well the first half of it I am able to retrieve meaning the 'Demand' part by pivoting it from the table request and the next part i.e. 'Supply' is also obtained in the similar fashion.
Tbl_User may contain more skill categories than those mentioned in Tbl_Request. So the output should reflect only those categories that are existing in tbl_Request. How can we combine the both? I have taken both the outputs in two temp tables. Now I would like to know if I can combine them and show it as one output or if there is any other better way of doing it.
I am using a stored procedure which is called for my web application so I didn't go for views. Can someone tell me how to do it.
I have two tables that I UNION to retrieve data for users. A combination of these should have only one employee in the table. The problem is there is a unique id created for the position of instructors. In the other table, it holds all employees with an employee number. Some data such as username, email address, etc., does not change. So even though UNION should remove duplicates, I still have duplicates because of usernames is what I'm filtering on, it is the same in each table. In the combined table I'm only selecting specific employees based on Job class and Job code. For employee id in the first table it is preceeded with 'B', and the second by 'T' (this is only to identify which table the data is taken from). Here is what I am getting when I Union both tables.
query SELECT distinct 'B-'+ Employee_IDÂ as Employee_ID , Username ,EmailÂ
Hi, I am stumped and was hoping someone could help me out. Any help isappreciated.I have a view that looks sort of like this (but with a lot moreentries of course)UniqueIdentifyierColumn1Column21 9999 1002 9999 2003 9999 300What I want to do is to add a column to the view that will contain alist of the values from column 2 where column 1 is the same.UniqueIdentifyierColumn1Column2Column31 9999100100, 200, 3002 9999200 100, 200, 3003 9999300100, 200, 300
Currently we have one customer database containing various tables. As part of requirements for a new client, we need to manage their data in a totally separate database. The tables and structure are exactly the same but we would be loading data into a separate database.
I am looking for a way to combine tables with the same name in each database when I run queries, rather than having to query each database separately. Currently we actually have many queries set up in MS Access which use an ODBC link to query the data off SQL server. I am aware it is possible to apply a UNION SELECT in Access from 2 separate ODBC connections, but this is extremely slow.So my initial question is - is there a way to provide access to the tables from both databases over the same ODBC link? If this cannot be done over ODBC I guess we can consider more "modern" methods, but ideally we want to keep this in MS Access as that is where our existing queries are based. I was hoping that some kind of view can be treated as an ODBC connection.I mentioned ideally we want to keep the reporting queries in MS Access.
I have a business need to create a report by query data from a MS SQL 2008 database and display the result to the users on a web page. The report initially has 6 columns of data and 2 out of 6 have JSON data so the users request to have those 2 JSON columns parse into 15 additional columns (first JSON column has 8 key/value pairs and the second JSON column has 7 key/value pairs). Here what I have done so far:
I found a table value function (fnSplitJson2) from this link [URL]. Using this function I can parse a column of JSON data into a table. So when I use the function above against the first column (with JSON data) in my query (with CROSS APPLY) I got the right data back the but I got 8 additional rows of each of the row in my table. The reason for this side effect is because the function returned a table of 8 row (8 key/value pairs) for each json string data that it parsed.
1. First question: How do I modify my current query (see below) so that for each row in my table i got back one row with 19 columns.
SELECT A.ITEM1,A.ITEM2,A.ITEM3,A.ITEM4, B.* FROM PRODUCT A CROSS APPLY fnSplitJson2(A.ITEM5,NULL) B
If updated my query (see below)Â and call the function twice within the CROSS APPLY clause I got this error: "The multi-part identifier "A.ITEM6" could be be bound.
2. My second question: How to i get around this error?
SELECT A.ITEM1,A.ITEM2,A.ITEM3,A.ITEM4, B.*, C.* FROM PRODUCT A CROSS APPLY fnSplitJson2(A.ITEM5,NULL) B, Â fnSplitJson2(A.ITEM6,NULL) C
I am using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 version. Windows 7 desktop.
Here's another one of my bitchfest about stuff which annoy the *** out of me in SSIS (and no such problems in DTS):
Do you ever wonder how easy it was to set up text file to db transform in DTS - I had no problems at all. In SSIS - 1 spent half a day trying to figure out how to get proper column data types for text file - OF Course MS was brilliant enough to add "Suggest Types" feature to text file connection manager - BUT guess what - it sample ONLY 1000 rows - so I tried to change that number to 50000 and clicked ok - BUT ms changed it to 1000 without me noticing it - SO NO WONDER later on some of datatypes did not match. And boy what a fun it is to change the source columns after you have created a few transforms.
This s**hit just breaks... So a word about Derived Columns - pretty useful feature heh? ITs not f***ing useful if it DELETES SOME of the Code itself after there have been changes in dataflow. I cant say how pissed off im about that SSIS went ahead and deleted columns from flow & messed up derived columns just because the lineageIDs dont match.
Meta-data - it would be useful if you could change it and refresh it - im just sick and tired of it that it shows warnings and errors when there's nothing wrong - so after a change i need to doubleclick all my transforms so that those red & yellow boxes would disappear.
Oh and y I passionately dislike Derived columns - so you create new fields based on some data - you do some stuff - combine multiple columns to one, but you have no way saying remove the columns from the pipeline. Y you need it - well if you have 50K + rows with 30+ columns then its EXTRA useless memory overhead for your package.
Hopefully one day I will understand how SSIS works (not an ez task I say) - I might be able to spend more time on development and less time on my bitchfest - UNTIL then --> Another Day - Another Hassle with SSIS
So I have been trying to get mySQL query to work for a large database that I have. I have (lets say) two tables Table_One and Table_Two. Table_One has three columns: Type, Animal and TestID and Table_Two has 2 columns Test_Name and Test_ID. Example with values is below:
In Table_One all types come under one column and the values of all Types (Mammal, Fish, Bird, Reptile) come under another column (Animals). Table_One and Two can be linked by Test_ID
I am trying to create a table such as shown below:
This should be my final table. The approach I am currently using is to make multiple instances of Table_One and using joins to form this final table. So the column Bird, Reptile, Mammal and Fish all come from a different copy of Table_one.
For e.g
Select Test_Name AS 'Test_Name', Table_Bird.Animal AS 'Birds', Table_Mammal.Animal AS 'Mammal', Table_Reptile.Animal AS 'Reptile, Table_Fish.Animal AS 'Fish' From Table_One
[Code] .....
The problem with this query is it only works when all entries for Birds, Mammals, Reptiles and Fish have some value. If one field is empty as for Test_Two or Test_Three, it doesn't return that record. I used Or instead of And in the WHERE clause but that didn't work as well.
i want to import data from an excel sheet into a database. While reading from the excel sheet OleDb automatically guesses the Datatype of each column. My Problem is the first A Column which contains ~240 Lines. 210 Lines are Numbers, the latter 30 do contain strings. When i use this code:
Code BlockDim sConn As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & conf_path_current & file_to_import & ";Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=NO""" Dim oConn As New OleDb.OleDbConnection(sConn) Dim cmd1 As New System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand("Select * From [Table$]", oConn) Dim rdr As OleDb.OleDbDataReader = cmd1.ExecuteReader Do While rdr.Read() Console.WriteLine(rdr.Item(0)) 'or rdr(0).ToString Next
it will continue to read the stuff till the String-Lines are coming. when using Item(0), it just crashes for trying to convert a DBNull to a String, when using rdr(0).ToString() it just gives me no value.
So my question is how to tell OleDB that i want that column to be completly read as String/Varchar?
Thanks for Reading
- Pierre from Berlin
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