Hi,
I want to setup one of the fields in a table so it increments
sequentially(int data type). i.e the first record should be record 1
and the second one should be 2 and so on. This field will also be the
key field. I am new to SQL and don't know how to do this.
I am using SQL server 2000.
Thanks for the help in advance.
-S
i have a field Count that i want it to be automatically increased by 1 whenever a SELECT stament is called. i come out with the following sql query and it works on SQL Query Analyzer:
declare @count int
select @count = count+1 from pictures_posts where itemtype='3'
update pictures_posts set count=@count where itemtype='3'
select postID, color, count from pictures_posts where itemtype='3'
go
but i am thinking it must be a much better to do this. can you guys help?
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Snoopy
Hey guys,
Was wondering if there was a way to add a new column to a table, and then use some type of INSERT statement to sequentially number the column from 1-end of the table without using an IDENTITY column.
For instance if I wanted to add a sequentially numbered column in a table with 50 rows that already had an IDENTITY column.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
How do i sequentially read the lines of the flat file that have different structures inside on how to parse it and store them in a table? Let's say, I have this excerpt from the file:
HA111Header1234
KLName1
KLName2
HA222Header4567
KLName3
KLName4
Below are the structures:
If Record type = 'HA' then
Length
Recordtype 2
Code 3
Description 10
else if Record type = 'KL' then
Length
Recordtype 2
Name 5
Code 3
The Code in the KL record type is actually the code in the 'HA' line. So to store the KLName1 in the relational table, it's value for the code field is 111. The same goes for KLName4 which has 222 code. So, when a record type 'HA' is encountered, it's like i want to save its value of the code in a variable and use that to populate the code field of the following recordtype 'KL'.
Can this be possible in Integration Services in which we will use the IS objects themselves to loop through the lines instead of creating a script (programming using script task... i think)?
cherriesh
cherriesh.
Hi
I have a SQL Server 2000 instance running on a Windows Server 2003 box with 4 processors. SQL Server is configured to use all 4 processors, and use all available processors for parallelism.
I have created a simple DTS package which has 2 "execute external process" tasks with no precedence constraints between them. There are no connections required or defined for the two tasks (sequential
processing is forced on tasks sharing connections). The DTS package
properties have the "limit the number of tasks to execute in parallel"
set to 4.
However, despite the above configuration, the two steps are never executed in parallel, but always sequentially.
Does anyone have any ideas as to why these tasks are not being executed in parallel?
Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
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A solution comes to mind that would be very long and db intensive, by querying on 'like 'D', followed by like 'E', followed by like 'F', etc, but I'm sure that there is a much more efficient way to do this. Below is the code that I'm using now.
' where @SortString = 'd' and @Test is a temp Table
BEGIN
Insert into @Test
Select CompanyName,ContactId, CompanyId
from vContacts where CompanyName like @SortString +'%'
Order by CompanyName
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Good morning...
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Sorry for my english....
Cordially
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