Not sure if this is the right place to post this but hopefully someone can help me. I would like to determine what the last automatically incremented ID is in a table I need to return it as a variable to a VB.NET program but I'm not sure what the SELECT statement would look like for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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should do one thing, if it does not exist I want the SP to do something else.
Any help as to how I can determine if this table exists at the current time
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for you help,
Jon
I am trying to find a global way of when the last time a row in one of my tables was updated or data inserted. I say global because I don't want to drill down through each table looking for modified rows.
I am a DBA of several hundred databases and want to retire those no longer being used.
Is there a column of a system table that has this info.
Hello all ...
I'm looking at writing some customized insert, update and delete stored procs for a replication target. For various reasons I would like to write a "one size fits all" custom stored proc for each of these tasks.
It looks like I can get the data values passed as parameters just fine.
I was wondering if there's a way to also pass the source schema and table name as parameters, or to determine these on the fly in my all purpose stored procs. Some replication products refer to these types of values as "tokens" that can be included in the replication data stream sent to the target.
I can adjust the source database replication publications, and article definitions, but I cannot modify the actual source database tables to include these as values in data columns. It is possible a view that contains these elements as strings might fly, but I was hoping to avoid cluttering the source database.
A handy trick or technique would be helpful!
Thanks!
DB
I have a column defined as smalldatetime. Default length (4), and "allow NULLS" is checked.In the Enterprise Manager UI, when i enter data into that table row, if i just tab past that column, all is well, and the value is represented in the UI as <NULL>.The problem comes once i ever enter a date into that column. Say i have entered a date (all is well), and now i want to remove that entry and go back to NULL (after the date value has been committed, different entry session, say).How is that done?It seems to me, once a date has ever been entered into that column, now, if i try to remove it, i get the error "The value you entered is not consistant with the data type or length of the column, or over grid buffer limit". I have tried deleting the value, entering spaces, entering the string NULL or the string <NULL>; maybe some other tries as well, but none works, i always get that error message and am not allowed to proceed past that cell until i restore a date value to it. I want to get back to <NULL>.Anybody know?Thank you.Tom
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What's the quickest/cleaniest way to do this ?
thanks,
Clayton
While i execute the below query ,Entry is put in status_report table.But the same if i put in scheduling (Sql Agent) no entry is made in the table and the message success is shown in "Agent Job Activity".
Purpose of the sp is to transfer data from One Server to Another Server.
But if see in the Destination Tables No entry is made.
CREATE procedure RBI_Control_sp
as
begin
set nocount on
begin try
BEGIN TRANSACTION
insert into fin_wh..Status_report
(
[object_name],
row,
st_date
)
select
'Data Tranfer',
'Inprogress--',
getdate()
--Data Transfer From the Live Server [RamcoFin02(scmdb)] to Dw-Server[Ramcovm392(fin_ods)]
exec fin_ods..RBI_Data_Transfer_sp
--temp table Table population,Fetching data from the fin_ods[erp Table]
exec FIN_wh..RBI_SPExecution_sp
Update fin_wh..Status_report
set row= 'Success',
[error_message] = 'No Error',
end_date= getdate()
where row= 'Inprogress--'
COMMIT TRANSACTION
end try
begin catch
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
Update fin_wh..Status_report
set row= 'Failure',
end_date= getdate(),
[error_message]= cast(error_number() as varchar) + '***' + error_message()
where row= 'Inprogress--'
end catch
set nocount off
end
Txs in advance
hi, If I have a table which contains customer names. I want to have some kind of process to validate any new insert record into the customer table. so if the inserted new customer already exist in the table I will get a message that say " Sorry , this customer name is already in the system " .... how can I do that,
I am using sql server 2000. thanks
Ali
is there a way when making a stored procedure if i can enter the information in multiple tables?? say the primary key into another table to link the relationship? or should i just pull it out and then put in?
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(
empid varchar(100)
,empbadgeid varchar(100)
,emplunchtime decimal(18,4)
,empbreaktime decimal(18,4)
,empworktime decimal(18,4)
[code]....
We are trying to do some utilization calculations that need to factor in a given number of holiday hours per month.
I have a date dimension table (dimdate). Has a row for every day of every year (2006-2015)
I have a work entry fact table (timedetail). Has a row for every work entry. Each row has a worked date, and this column has a relationship to dimdate.
Our holidays fluctuate, and we offer floating holidays that our staff get to pick. So we cannot hard code which individual dates in dimdate as holidays. So what we have done is added a column to our dimdate table called HolidayHoursPerMonth.
This column will list the number of holiday hours available in the given month that the individual date happens to fall within, thus there are a lot of duplicates. Below is a brief example of dimdate. In the example below, there are 0 holiday hours for the month of June, and their are 8 holiday hours for the month of July.
DateKey MonthNumber HolidayHoursPerMonth
6/29/2015 6 0
6/30/2015 6 0
7/1/2015 7 8
7/2/2015 7 8
I have a pivot table create based of the fact table. I then have various date slicers from the dimension table (i.e. year, month). If I simply drag this column into the pivot table and summarize by MAX it works when you are sliced on a single month, but breaks if anything but a single month is sliced on.
I am trying to create a measure that calculates the amount of holiday hours based on the what's sliced, but only using a single value for each month. For example July should just be 8, not 8 x #of days in the month.
Listed below is how many hours per month. So if you were to slice on an entire year, the measure should equal 64. If you sliced on Jan, Feb and March, the measure should equal 12. If you were to slice nothing, thus including all 15 years in our dimdate table, the measure should equal 640 (10 years x 64 hours per year).
MonthNumberOfYear HolidayHoursPerMonth
1 8
2 4
3 0
4 0
5 8
6 0
7 8
8 0
9 8
10 4
11 16
12 8
Hi,
I'm running a merge replication on a sql2k machine to 6 sql2k subscribers.
Since a few day's only one of the merge agents fail's with the following error:
The merge process could not retrieve generation information at the 'Subscriber'.
The index entry for row ID was not found in index ID 3, of table 357576312, in database 'PBB006'.
All DBCC CHECKDB command's return 0 errors :confused:
I'm not sure if the table that's referred to in the message is on the distribution side or the subscribers side? A select * from sysobjects where id=357576312 gives different results on both sides . .
Any ideas as to what is causing this error?
Is there a quick and easy way to figure out if a server is 64 bit or 32 bit? I have been looking and cannot figure out an easy way. If there is a script that will figure it out could you please tell me. I am a DBA and manage over 100 servers and need a fast and easy way to figure this out. I need to know this to pick the correct upgrade version.
-Kyle
Is there a quick and easy way to figure out if a server is 64 bit or 32 bit? I have been looking and cannot figure out an easy way. If there is a script that will figure it out could you please tell me. I am a DBA and manage over 100 servers and need a fast and easy way to figure this out.
-Kyle
I'm trying to connect to a sql database, but I don't know what myserver is in the following code.Dim strConn As String = "server=myserver;database=Northwind"I can't get the code to link up with my Northwind database.I'm running everything locally if that helps.Thanks!Jon
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Hi,
Is it possible to determine when last a DBCC statement was run on a database & what that DBCC was.
TIA
Shaun Tinline
Database Administrator
Alcatel Altech Telecoms
Hi,
I need to be able to identify if a parent has the same child names as another parent.
Have a look at my data (in pic)
Can you think of a SELECT that will count for each parent, the number of other parents including themselves with all the same children's names?
So you would get something like:
Bob | 2
Bill | 1
Glen | 2
thanks,
david.
Forgive the easy question but I'm afraid it might be also a trick question and I'd like to hear the experts' opinion. I am using SQL Server 2005 Express edition and I know the limitation is 4GB per database. So far none of my users is anywhere near the limit but I have to be prepared for when that day finally comes. As it stands, they use a single database through a program so I have full control over it. There are no fancy backup programs on the system so no fancy recovery models and automatic shrinking can be done - data is only inserted in that database.
My question is simply how can I determine programmatically (I use ADO.Net but it can execute SQL commands just fine) the size of the database as it relates to the limitation? That is, I don't know whether it is the amount of data stored - with or without overhead, or it is simply the size of the *.mdf file (maybe together with the *.ldf file), or whether the 4GB is 4 billion bytes or 2^32 bytes - I just want the same method that the SQL Server is using so that, for example, I can bring up a warning at 90% full and lock out the user at 99% full.
I'd appreciate any insights.
Kamen
suppose you have a large table with 2 columns
create table tick
(
ID bigint identity (1,1) primary key not null
, price money not null
)
and I want to know 3 things
Starting with ID = 1 through ID = (last)
give me the low and high price (that satisfies the below WHERE clause), and the last ID
WHERE high price - low price = 0.10
and the last ID (last) is the minimum ID to satisfy: high price - low price = 0.10
So the last ID will coincide with the record containing either the low or high price, the problem is you don't know which record in that range has the corresponding high/low price, it could be the first record or the 10,000th record.
I am thinking I need to create two summary tables, maybe calculate the min(ID) that goes down 0.01 then the min(ID) that goes down 0.02, etc...
Then calculate the min(ID) that goes up 0.01 then up 0.02, etc..finally join against these two summary tables to figure out which combination of downSummary and upSummary have a difference of 0.10.
Hi,
I have a C# server application which clients can send arbitrary SQL statements to. These can be absolutely anything - creating tables/views, selecting from tables/views, inserts, updates, deletes, you name it.
There are two return parameters from the server method which executes the SQL - a results set containing the data, and a count of the rows that were updated - (either one or the other should be populated depending on the type of command sent to it). To deal with this, what I planned on doing was (pseudocode follows..):
try
{
reader = OpenReaderCursor(statement)
}
catch
{
updatedCount = ExecuteNonQueryCommand(statement)
}
Unfortunately this doesn't really work, as OpenReaderCursor is able to execute Non Queries (eg. UPDATE/INSERT/DELETEs etc) but doesn't give me a row count, and trying the other way round, ExecuteNonQueryCommand is happy to execute SELECT statements, but I can't then of course return a results set as I don't have access to it.
My question then, if you will excuse the waffle above, is "Is there a simple way of determining if a string containing an SQL statement is a query?" - or will I have to come up with some way of dealing with this in my application code?
Please don't slate the design (ideally I would have two methods on the server, one for queries which returns results and the other for nonqueries which returns an updatecount) but there's nothing I can do, this is how it must be done (the interface was defined long long ago)
Thanks for your time, all ideas appreciated
Jim
Does anyone have a suggestion for how to efficiently determine what columns in a table are NULL for all rows? - Shean
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I want to provide a small app that creates a merge publication but only if the database isn't a subscriber.
Thanks for your help
Graham
hi peter... i have a question about, how i can see if my sql server is the version 2005 sp2 and, what is the diference with server and server agent... i've checked the updates and the machine says i have up to date... but i dont know witch is.
thank you for your help
I am writing a client application that offers an UI that allows an administrator to remotely add/delete/update user accounts accross many different SQL Servers running on XP and up.
When the operating system is W2K3 or higher I want to take advantage of the "check_expiration, check_policy, must_change' arguments to create login and exclude those features when the host OS does not support them.
Is there an easy way to determine if those arguments are supported?
Thanks
Mark
How to find out that there is a null value in a column rather than a valid integer, DateTime or bool value, for strings I use 'as' operator to cast the column value and it returns null when column value is null, but for value types using 'as' operator causes compile error and using simple casting causes runtime error, for example:
int count = (int)row["Count"];
and
int count = row["Count"] as int;
the first one throws an exception when Count is null and the second doesn't compile at all since 'as' applies to reference types, so what is the way other than exception handling to determine null value in a column?
Does anyone have a script that will roll through the tables in a database and identify tables without primary keys defined? I did not see any in the online script database.
Thanks,
Rick
Is there a way to determine if a local variable exists or not?
There's a parameter I often use in code called @guid_batch that is usually declared in the parameter of a stored proc, but when in debugging it would be nice to have it available without having to change code.
Is there something that I could do similar to the following
Code:
IF VARIABLE_ID('@guid_batch') IS NULL
BEGIN
DECLARE @guid_batch UNIQUEIDENTIFIER
SELECT @guid_batch = NEWID()
END
Thanks in advance,
-MBirchmeier
I am new to MS SQL 2000 and have a couple of questions. First, how do you check the version of MDAC that Windows 2003 server is running and second, how do you determine what service pack that SQL is at.
I am having issues of extreme slowness using ODBC. I checked to see that tracing was not enabled and found that it wasn't. I am using TCP/IP for the connection.
Thanks
I have a table that contains spatial points and the name of the polygon they belong to (geography and varchar columns). I need to write a function to accept a point and determine which polygon contains that point. How can I write the query so that it will search through each polygon (derived from the geography points found in the table) and return the name of the polygon that contains that point?
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