I have statement which is comparing a smalldatetime column to literal string as follows:
sales_date ='21-9-2004 0:0:0.000'
when I run the statement in query analyzer it bombs out with:
Server: Msg 296, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of char data type to smalldatetime data type resulted in an out-of-range smalldatetime value.
If I alter the format of the date literal to '2004-09-21 00:00:00' the statement works.
Is there anyway of forcing the statement to treat '21-9-2004 0:0:0.000' as '2004-09-21 00:00:00' without modifying the statement itself ?
sorry for my question, maybe it seems un professional but I need to know the answer,
is it possible to enter the data in a sql table in a specific format and how it could be?
for example I want to have a mask in the table to enter the data in this format ##.## so it will not accept any other data to be typed in without this format.
We are having a problem with one of our SQL servers, and in comparing it to the backup server which is working fine, I noticed some differences. I attempted to correct the differences, but no luck. The dell server has 4 dual-core processors and at one point hyper-threading was enabled. One of our DBAs recommended that it be turned off. We didn't have any major problems until recently and it seems that getting this setting right is the lynchpin. Any suggestions?
John
EXEC sys.sp_configure N'show advanced options', N'1' RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
EXEC sys.sp_configure N'affinity mask', N'0'
GO
EXEC sys.sp_configure N'affinity I/O mask', N'0'
GO
RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
EXEC sys.sp_configure N'show advanced options', N'0' RECONFIGURE WITH OVERRIDE
GO
-----------------------------------------
Configuration option 'show advanced options' changed from 0 to 1. Run the RECONFIGURE statement to install.
Msg 5832, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The affinity mask specified does not match the CPU mask on this system.
Msg 15123, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_configure, Line 51
The configuration option 'affinity mask' does not exist, or it may be an advanced option.
Msg 15123, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_configure, Line 51
The configuration option 'affinity I/O mask' does not exist, or it may be an advanced option.
Msg 5832, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The affinity mask specified does not match the CPU mask on this system.
Configuration option 'show advanced options' changed from 1 to 0. Run the RECONFIGURE statement to install.
Msg 5832, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The affinity mask specified does not match the CPU mask on this system.
I have a table into which users can enter a To and From range, and an application returns all the values in between. Naturally the users can enter to and from values that don't exist, as all they need to do is satisfy a "between" expression. eg they can enter '1100' to '1399' and even though neither value actually exists in the data, the query will return all the values that fall into the desired range.
However the application now demands a bit more of a sophisticated approach. The target data may have the form 'nn-nnnn-nn' where n is '0' to '9', and the user wants to select all the values (in pseudo-code) which satisfy a pattern like '%-7040-%' and '%-7400-%'
A simple LIKE expression with a mask containing a RegEx won't work - ie LIKE '%-7[0-4][0-4]0-%' doesn't work because (eg) '00-7150-00' won't satisfy the mask because of the 5 falling outside [0-4], although it is within the range I want.
I have come up with a solution to this problem by using MIN and MAX aggregate functions on LIKE [From] and LIKE [To] respectively and this works fine. eg
"SELECT A.<something> from <target_table1> A, <table_with_ranges> B WHERE A.<something> BETWEEN (SELECT MIN(X.<something>) FROM <target_table1> X WHERE X.<something> LIKE B.[From]) AND (SELECT MAX(X.<something>) FROM <target_table1> X WHERE X.<something> LIKE B.[To])"
It's actually quite a bit more complicated than that - I have simplified the SQL a bit, but that is the basic algorithm.
The problem is that for the BETWEEN expression to work, both the MAX and MIN functions have to return a value that is not NULL- ie there has to be a value in the target table which satisfies the mask. In the application, this is not always going to be the case - Users will want to create large ranges to allow for future growth so every time they enter new data into target_table1 the don't then have to go out and redfine the [From] and [To] ranges to satisfy the new data. What I really need is an SQL expression along the lines of "SELECT .... FROM ... WHERE A BETWEEN <pattern1> AND <pattern2>" where <pattern1> and <pattern2> contain wildcards.
Anyone got any suggestions??? By the way, using SUBSTRING or other string functions is NOT an option for a variety of reasons.
AnupG writes "hi, the most common feature that any RDBMS provides should be that if we want to store the data in the MSSQL tables then the data should be presented in masked/formatted like for eg.the password text in field should be like "*****". I am using SQL 2000 but i unofrtunately i couldn't find any such feature in defining the data type in SQL server 2000 ...?"
I have a dual 64 bit quad core server with 16 GB of memory. We are going to run an application server and SQL Server 2005 SP2 CU4 64 bit on this hardware, but we only want to purchase a single CPU license for SQL Server. The obvious choice is to use the affinity settings to prevent SQL Server from using one of the CPUs.
Initially, the development team simply went into SSMS and unchecked affinity mask and affinity io mask for the first four processors. This appeared to work fine in their testing. A problem arose when we started monitoring the maintenance plan and saw that the database integrity check was failing. The root problem was this invalid state that the affinity masks were in.
I have seen a lot of documentation stating the SQL Server will ignore an invalid mask setting, but in our testing, it appears that SQL Server respects the setting. For example, when we set CPU 7 to be available for processing and IO, Performance Monitor showed that only CPU 7 was used during a load test.
So from our preliminary testing, it looks like SQL Server will use a single CPU for both processing and IO if you tell it to. Is there some other reason why these affinity settings need to be mutually exclusive? Is there a test I can run that can illustrate why?
In the following procedure i write the results to a temp table called #temp1I now want to count the results of #temp1, if the count of #temp1 = 0 I want to insert 'No Records Found' into #temp.ERRORMSG else return what is in the table
any idea on how to do this?
ALTER PROC [dbo].[SPU_RPT_Savings_AnomalyDispatches] 40,'04/01/07|06/30/07' @PropertyID varchar(4000), @DropDown varchar(50)
AS SELECT Client.CLIENT, Client.CLIENTID, ErrorEmailLog.ID, ErrorEmailLog.SITEID, ErrorEmailLog.PROPID, ErrorEmailLog.DISTINCTERRORS, ErrorEmailLog.ERRORMSG, ErrorEmailLog.ERRORDATETIME, ErrorEmailLog.EMAILRECIPIENTS, Property.PROPERTY, Property.STREET, Property.CITY, Property.STATE, Property.ZIP, Property.PHONE INTO #TEMP1 FROM ErrorEmailLog INNER JOIN Property ON ErrorEmailLog.PROPID = Property.PROPID INNER JOIN Client ON Property.CLIENTID = Client.CLIENTID WHERE (ErrorEmailLog.ERRORDATETIME BETWEEN SUBSTRING(CONVERT(VARCHAR(12), @DropDown), 0, 9)
I have a character string for a zip code field. I am only looking for zip codes in the 01001 - 02791 range. Will where zip_code between '01001' and '02791' work on a character field? It seems to be dropping out some records but I cant find them.....
In my select statement I concatenate city+state+zipcode. In some cases the zipcode is 9 digits but is missing the '-'. How can I format zipcode to be '#####-####' when > 5 characters from the select statment. Thanks, Ken
Hi all, I am trying to change the negatives to (100,000) instead of -100,000. I am using N0 as my format but I dont want to use currency because I dont want the dollar sign. How can I change this? Is there anyway to use currency without the $ sign?
This can be acheived by writing a format expression for a text box, but i wanted this to be acheived in the bar chart where there is no expression(Fx) for format option(Chart Properties ->Data Tab -> Values ->>Value1 -> Edit tab -> Point Labels -> Format code) in the chart.
Please help me if anyone knows the answer to this issue.
Hello, I am attempting to modify an existing matrix report into something a bit more diverse and aesthetically appealing to our users. The problem is changing the size of columns, rows, border types, etc. So far I have not yet been able to locate any custom code samples that refer to ways of changing the overall appearance and properties of the matrix. I am not concerned with the data but in some cases a column's width will need to be larger or smaller based on the size of the data inside it. The strings can range from 3 characters to 15 or more and the number of columns can be just as dynamic in number. If that happens I need to shrink or expand a column to match.
I am familiar with using custom code just not in using it to access the matrix properties.
hi siri have table hh .it has two columnsone is hhno is integer datatype another hhdoc is xml data type likehh tablehhno hhdoc---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------100<suresh>sfjfjfjfjf</suresh>....................................101<ramesh>hhfhfhf</ramesh>..................................how to convert the xml data format into the general data format plshelp me with examples
I am trying to get this to work - but it only returns minutes & seconds:
Function Seconds2mmss(ByVal seconds As Integer) As String Dim ss As Integer = seconds Mod 60 Dim mm As Integer = (seconds - ss) / 60 Seconds2mmss = String.Format("{0:0}:{1:00}", mm, ss) End Function
Can anyone help me out? I am not that familiar with VB.
-- Prepare sample data DECLARE@Sample TABLE (ID INT, NetworkIP VARCHAR(15), SubnetMask VARCHAR(15))
INSERT@Sample SELECT1, '192.168.1.0', '255.255.255.128' UNION ALL SELECT2, '10.1.1.64', '255.255.255.240' UNION ALL SELECT3, '172.16.11.0', '255.255.255.252'
-- Show the expected output SELECTID, NetworkIP, SubnetMask, dbo.fnIsInRangeIP('192.168.1.5', NetworkIP, SubnetMask) AS IsInRange FROM@SampleAnd here is the function codeCREATE FUNCTION dbo.fnIsInRangeIP ( @IP VARCHAR(15), @NetIP VARCHAR(15), @MaskIP VARCHAR(15) ) RETURNS BIT AS BEGIN RETURNCASE WHENCAST(PARSENAME(@IP, 4) AS TINYINT) & CAST(PARSENAME(@MaskIP, 4) AS TINYINT) = CAST(PARSENAME(@NetIP, 4) AS TINYINT) & CAST(PARSENAME(@MaskIP, 4) AS TINYINT) AND CAST(PARSENAME(@IP, 3) AS TINYINT) & CAST(PARSENAME(@MaskIP, 3) AS TINYINT) = CAST(PARSENAME(@NetIP, 3) AS TINYINT) & CAST(PARSENAME(@MaskIP, 3) AS TINYINT) AND CAST(PARSENAME(@IP, 2) AS TINYINT) & CAST(PARSENAME(@MaskIP, 2) AS TINYINT) = CAST(PARSENAME(@NetIP, 2) AS TINYINT) & CAST(PARSENAME(@MaskIP, 2) AS TINYINT) AND CAST(PARSENAME(@IP, 1) AS TINYINT) & CAST(PARSENAME(@MaskIP, 1) AS TINYINT) = CAST(PARSENAME(@NetIP, 1) AS TINYINT) & CAST(PARSENAME(@MaskIP, 1) AS TINYINT) THEN1 ELSE0 END ENDE 12°55'05.25" N 56°04'39.16"
I'm using the ForEach File task and masking the files I want to process as ABC??.TXT. It all works well until I drop a file there like ABC12 Copy.TXT, which I don't expect to be process, but the loop still picks it up. Am I using the wrong wildcards?
Hello, I have this Access 2K query that I need to re-create in MS SQLServer 2000, so I'm using the Query Analyzer to test it.One of the Access fields stores the home phone number. In the Accessquery, if the phone number is null, it fills it up with zeroes"000000000." If the phone has an input mask, it only gets the 9 numbers(area code included) and if the phone number's good (all numbers) thenit leaves it alone. That Access query is using immediate ifs toaccomplish that task.Does anyone have any idea how to copy this behavior into SQL Server2000? I've using the CASE statement but so far my code is not correct.I get stuck in the input mask. This is the Access code:HomePhone:IIf(IsNull([HomePhone]),"0000000000",IIf(Left([HomePhone],1)="(",Right(Left([Homephone],4),3)& Right(Left([Homephone],9),3) & Right([HomePhone],4),[HomePhone]))Thanks for all your help.JR.
Can u pls tell me How to Get the SQL Affinity Mask value in Sql 2005.
and what is the table/views name that store this info.
for SQL 2000 , we were using following query:
SQLStatement.printf("select c.value from master..sysconfigures c, master..spt_values v," "master..syscurconfigs r where v.type = 'C' and v.number = c.config and v.number >= 0 " "and v.number = r.config and v.name ='affinity mask'");
I have an Itanium 64bit server to run SSIS packages on. I have one package with three parralell streams. When I run the package in 64 bit mode using dtexec, it runs through validation and exits with no reported errors, when I run it from a job, the job fails and says to see job log, which has no errors.
When I run it in 32 bit mode using the GUI, it runs all the way through.
Does anyone know how to launch SSIS in 32 bit mode from a job on an Itanium?
This is a really wide spread - more than a time discussed - on SQL CE MSDN Forums - Issue !!! Is there any way i can commit changes which happens during runtime (when i am developing the application) such as inserts/updates and deletes to the .sdf DB on the machine ?????
As our DB has no primary keys or indexes ive taken a copy of all populated tables and tried to force primary keys within a new DB.
the problem is all off the tables have multiple datasets within them, a dataset for each year. This causes all instances of ID numbers to not be unique as they are replicated for every year they are active.
Its a school database so a student who has been here for 3 years will have 3 instances of his ID number, one for each years' data set.
So how do i force primary keys if there is no unique identifier? ive been highlighting both data set and ID columns and setting that combination as the primary key.
Essentially i need to analyse the relationships between the tabls in a diagram and also run some speed tests to see how fast the db works when it has indexes and primary keys.
the reason im writing is that ive done this on ten tables and with another 160 to do im just checking im doing the right thing?
CASE WHEN CAST(wo.start_date AS TIME) BETWEEN '00:00:00' AND '00:59:59' THEN 0 WHEN CAST(wo.start_date AS TIME) BETWEEN '01:00:00' AND '01:59:59' THEN 1 WHEN CAST(wo.start_date AS TIME) BETWEEN '02:00:00' AND '02:59:59' THEN 2 WHEN CAST(wo.start_date AS TIME) BETWEEN '03:00:00' AND '03:59:59' THEN 3 WHEN CAST(wo.start_date AS TIME) BETWEEN '04:00:00' AND '04:59:59' THEN 4
[code]....
The purpose is to take a row and set it to the hour of the day that it occurred in. This works fine, however I would like to force it to display every hour 0-23 regardless of whether or not it has a corresponding row.
So, if no row exists for 0, display 0 with null values for the rest of the columns.
Hello all, Is there any way to force Autonum to generate a number before an entire record is created? Some of my forms will not work because it needs a number already listed in its index (which uses Autonum) and cannot add to the table until it is created.I really need it to have a number ready and waiting upon the last record's completion.
im testing an application change that should handle a timeout on a stored procedure being called from the application. thing is, the timeout that we experience in production that led to this fix is random. so is there some way for me to setup a test stored procedure or some way to call the SP so that i can test a timeout scenario? im using MFC and the CDatabase::ExecuteSQL method to call this SP if you were wondering at all. this app is running locally on the server that has an instance of SQL Server Express 2k5 on it. server is running win 2k3.
I have a slight problem, a query that i have written produces data with 2 primary keys the same... however, DINSTINCT wont work in this case as the rows are still different...
Is their a way to force 1 column to always be unique?
Heres the query:
SELECT TOP 5 ORDER_ITEM.ItemID AS 'Item ID', ITEM.ItemName AS 'Item Name', (SELECT SUM(OrdItem2.ItemQuantity) FROM ORDER_ITEM OrdItem2 WHERE OrdItem2.ItemID = ORDER_ITEM.ItemID ) AS Total_Purchased, SUM(ORDER_ITEM.ItemQuantity) AS 'Customer Purchased', CUSTOMER.customerForename AS 'Customer Forename', CUSTOMER.customerSurname AS 'Customer Surname' FROM ITEM, ORDER_ITEM, ORDER_T, CUSTOMER WHERE ITEM.ItemID = ORDER_ITEM.ItemID AND ORDER_ITEM.OrderID = ORDER_0510096.OrderID AND ORDER_T.CustomerID = CUSTOMER.CustomerID GROUP BY ORDER_ITEM.ItemID, ITEM.ItemName, CUSTOMER.customerForename, CUSTOMER.customerSurname ORDER BY Total_Purchased DESC
The query is supposed to select the TOP 5 Products sold as well as selecting the customer that purchased the greatest amount of that item and the amount they purchased.
Currently, i will get 2 duplicate rows (except for customers name and the items the purchased. Like this:
ItemID 83630Mathew Smith 8 366Tony Wattage
Which is kinda annoying.... is there anyway i can prevent this?
And also apart from the Where Joins... is there a more efficient way of writing this?
I am developing a simple DB-Library program in C calling SQL Server 2000 onwindows 2003 and NT 4. I have some T-SQL code that checks for the existenceof a table and want to abort the program if the table doesn't exist. I issuea raiserror if the table doesn't exist and then call RETURN.I construct the string using sprintf and pass it dbfcnd and dbsqlexec. Sincethe commands work, there is no error to halt the execution of the program.Is there an easy, clean way to force dbsqlexec to fail? Do I need a storedprocedure to return an error code and then deal with that?Thanks for any advice,-Gary
A stored procedure in the cache is automatically recompiled when a table it refers to has a table structure change. User defined functions are not. Here's a simplified code sample:
set nocount on go
create table tmpTest (a int, b int, c int)
insert into tmpTest (a, b, c) values (1, 2, 3) insert into tmpTest (a, b, c) values (2, 3, 4) go
if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[fTest]') and xtype in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF')) drop function [dbo].[fTest] GO
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fTest (@a int) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN (SELECT * from tmpTest where a = @a) GO
select * from fTest(1)
CREATE TABLE dbo.Tmp_tmpTest ( a int NULL, b int NULL, d int NULL, c int NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM dbo.tmpTest) EXEC('INSERT INTO dbo.Tmp_tmpTest (a, b, c) SELECT a, b, c FROM dbo.tmpTest TABLOCKX') DROP TABLE dbo.tmpTest EXECUTE sp_rename N'dbo.Tmp_tmpTest', N'tmpTest', 'OBJECT'
select * from fTest(1)
drop table tmpTest
Running it, the output is:
a b c ----------- ----------- ----------- 1 2 3
Caution: Changing any part of an object name could break scripts and stored procedures. The OBJECT was renamed to 'tmpTest'. a b c ----------- ----------- ----------- 1 2 NULL
(I know that "select *" is bad, but it's a lot of legacy code that I'm working with here, and that's how it's written.)
The function doesn't detect that the table has changed in structure, or even that there is no longer a dependency on tmpTest. (Appending a column rather than inserting has the same effect, in that only the first 3 columns are returned.)
DBCC FREEPROCCACHE has no effect, not that I really expected it to, but you never know...
Is there any way, other than dropping and recreating, to force a recompilation of a particular function in memory, or perhaps all functions?
Due to a lack of planning during an Active Directory migration last year, I'm now stuck with an immutable service master key on one of my production servers. Since I'm posting here, I guess it's obvious that we have no backup from which to restore. The account that all of the SQL services used to run under no longer exists, so the WITH OLD_ACCOUNT workaround is not viable. And REGENERATE fails, as expected, with Msg 15329, Level 16, State 2, Line 2, "The current master key cannot be decrypted..."
After some research, including several of Laurentiu's blog entries, it seems that my only path at this point is to use the FORCE option to REGENERATE. (And then to immediately backup the service master key at several geographically disparate locations!!
Considering that:
We aren't actively using any of SQL Server's encryption capabilities, the closest we come is that one of our legacy applications calls the old PWDENCRYPT() function to hash passwords
##MS_ServiceMasterKey## is the only record in master.sys.symmetric_keys, and every other database's sys.symmetric_keys table is empty
What, if anything, am I likely to lose if I ALTER SERVICE MASTER KEY FORCE REGENERATE? My understanding is that since we don't have any database master keys and aren't using encryption, there's no real potential for corruption or loss. However, I want to be a little more confident about this before I give it a go.
