Queries And Reporting From Corporative Database Non IT Staff
Oct 28, 2006
Hi! we have no Business Intelligence solution in my job and the general manager asked for a query and reports system where he (and other section managers and non IT staff) could query the corporative database (we work in healthcare, so it's mostly about patients, clinic histories, treatments) so I will propose them SQL SERVER 2005. I'll tell you my general idea and maybe you could tell me if I'm right: Through Integration Services we will load our data from the corporative database (it's Borland's InterBase) and generate a datawarehouse (now we don't have a datawarehouse) then through Reporting Services we can query this datawarehouse to generate different reports (this reports can be generated for non-technical staff, but staff who knows quite a lot about for example the different treatments that different groups of patients follow, so this staff may want to query about which patients followed which treatment in a period of time and generate by himself a report about that). And through Analysis Services we could (in a future) generate some OLAP solutions, Data Mining etc
But for the query and report system it could be enough to start with Integration Services and Reporting Services? it's very important for this system to work efficiently in terms of time: the non-technical staff generates the query and in seconds receives the report result... some of this non IT staff who will use the system knows exactly which information we house in each InterBase table, so through this system they would like to generate their own queries and reports (this is a different level of non-IT staff who is in between a Medical doctor and a Software engineer, this staff does have some technical background specially in SQL.
So my idea is to have an SQL SERVER 2005 to which this staff gets connected via LAN (all this system runs locally in one corporative place, will not run through Internet) feeded by the InterBase corporative database and delivering efficiently queries and reports... is this possible? could I test this using the trial free 6 months version? and after that if everything's working fine how much will I have to pay for 15 persons to access the SQL SERVER 2005 for keeping using the system?
Hi! we have no Business Intelligence solution in my job and the general manager asked for a query and reports system where he (and other section managers and non IT staff) could query the corporative database (we work in healthcare, so it's mostly about patients, clinic histories, treatments) so I will propose them SQL SERVER 2005. I'll tell you my general idea and maybe you could tell me if I'm right: Through Integration Services we will load our data from the corporative database (it's Borland's InterBase) and generate a datawarehouse (now we don't have a datawarehouse) then through Reporting Services we can query this datawarehouse to generate different reports (this reports can be generated for non-technical staff, but staff who knows quite a lot about for example the different treatments that different groups of patients follow, so this staff may want to query about which patients followed which treatment in a period of time and generate by himself a report about that). And through Analysis Services we could (in a future) generate some OLAP solutions, Data Mining etc
But for the query and report system it could be enough to start with Integration Services and Reporting Services? it's very important for this system to work efficiently in terms of time: the non-technical staff generates the query and in seconds receives the report result... some of this non IT staff who will use the system knows exactly which information we house in each InterBase table, so through this system they would like to generate their own queries and reports (this is a different level of non-IT staff who is in between a Medical doctor and a Software engineer, this staff does have some technical background specially in SQL.
So my idea is to have an SQL SERVER 2005 to which this staff gets connected via LAN (all this system runs locally in one corporative place, will not run through Internet) feeded by the InterBase corporative database and delivering efficiently queries and reports... is this possible? could I test this using the trial free 6 months version? and after that if everything's working fine how much will I have to pay for 15 persons to access the SQL SERVER 2005 for keeping using the system?
i am doing some statistics for staff ratios and have had no luckfinding any DBA's per sql server or DBA's per sql databases. If anyonehas any numbers, i would greatly appreciate.Thanks!
I am having a problem with several reports at work. We use an SQLgenerator package where we fill in a template, and the systemgenerates SQL code.The reports I have been running at a low level return a sales value of$96,000 for a specific office for 2006.Here is my filter,Office = 23Region = NortheastProduct Cat = (several different categories)Year = 2006When I added some additional columns, the sale for the same officewent to over $9 Million. When I analyzed this further, I found alloffices in the region were being returned for the second report, andthus I ended up with the sales for all of the regions sales.What I am really confused about is how using the exact same filter, asimple report can show one number and then by adding some facts orcolumns my sales went up. (and I did confirm character by characterwe are using the same filter.)Is this explainable based on some principle of SQL I am unfamiliarwith?One explanation I received from IT, who is too busy to look at myproblem, is that by adding additional columns, I essentially asked ourSQL generator to set up a larger join than I expected.If this were true, wouldn't the filter still eliminate records thatdon't meet the filter requirements?I suspect the SQL generator applied the filter at the wrong spot. Itried looking at the SQL: code, but it is very complicated.So I am turning to this forum to see if anyone can think of a logicalexplanation that would allow SQL to in effect return a larger datasetthan my original report.Thanks for any help.
I have 6 separate mailing label like reports with a textbox inside a cell. I tried to join them into one report with subreports"but" it does not work since you need the print layout in order to get both columns to show. What is the best way to accomplish this task?
How due I set up a database in SQL 7 to be accessed via the web and to have queries performed on it. What else do I need besides NT 4.0 SRV Pack 6. I need detailed instructions, really appreciate your help. Thank You!
i know that db.owner.tablename works in the query analyzer, but what i really appreciate from anyone is how to apply this in vb6 code since the recordset is opened only from one db using the following syntax:
Dear friends, ours is a product company,we are delivering our product presently in sql server.in future we r planning to deliver the product in all the big databases.
now the problem is conversion of the module to other back end.there are so many functions and procedures as well.some will execute only at runtime.through some where string.
is there any tools those can automatically convert queries, functions and procedures to the other back ends?
or is there any open source code to convert automatically?
Hi, newbie here:I have created a small (5 fields) Access table which I will beconverting to MS-SQL Server format when the ASP code has beencompleted. It is basically a collection of links to news releases frommining companies. The group of people who will be browsing thisdatabase want to know if the news release pertains to their area.Sometimes the news release pertains to multiple areas if the miningproperties are scattered. Given the possibility of a one-to-manyrelationship, ie one news release, many areas, I created an additionaltable for the areas. I created the ASP code to pull down the newsrelease information, then loop through the area records such as:set RSNewsRelease = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")NewsRelSQL = "Select date, company, title, newsreleaseID fromnewsreleases;"do while not RSNewsRelease.EOF'display news release date, company and titleresponse.write RSNewsRelease(0).Value & RSNewsRelease(1).Value &RSNewsRelease(2).Value'loop through areasset RSAreas = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")'run querydo while not RSAreas.EOF'display areasLoopset RSAreas = nothingLoopIn other words, the only way I could get the results I wanted was toset the Recordset to nothing, then reset it with each iteration of theouter loop.Is there a better way to do this?Jules
I'm working on an electronic register which people use to sign in and out of a building. It uses 3 tables, one to store personal information (Name & Visitor Number), one to store what time they come in, and one to store what time they leave. Visitor Number is the primary key in the Visitor_Info table, and is used as a foreign key in the other 2 tables.
I've been asked to put in an 'emergency print' function where, when you click the print button, it compares the data in the time in database and the time out database and prints a list of people still in the building.
So, what I'm trying to do is create a SQL query that will give me this information. Having never used SQL before, it's a little tricky. I've spent the last few days looking at tutorials on the net and learning about queries and this is what I've come up with:
Select Time_In_Table.Visitor_Number Not Union Select Time_Out_Table.Visitor_Number
If I'm right (and I'm probably not), this will give me the people who are in the time in table, but not in the time out table.
Can someone please help me by letting me know what I'm doing wrong in the statement above, and also, advise me as to where it goes since none of the tutorials I've found cover where to put the statement in my programming? At a guess, I'd say it goes in the print button click function.
Hi, I have the following error logged in SQL Server's error log whenever I run a query on a particular database :
2002-01-04 22:54:02.46 spid11 Error: 823, Severity: 24, State: 1 2002-01-04 22:54:02.46 spid11 I/O error 1117(The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.) detected during read of BUF pointer = 0x14eac480, page ptr = 0x73c94000, pageid = (0x1:0x158c89), dbid = 8, status = 0x801, file = d:mssql7datamydb.mdf..
2002-01-05 05:54:22.01 kernel SQL Server terminating because of system shutdown. 2002-01-05 05:54:22.14 kernel LogEvent: Failed to report the current event. Operating system error = 31(A device attached to the system is not functioning.).
and get this error in the Results pane of Query analyzer : Server: Msg 823, Level 24, State 1, Line 1 I/O error 1117(The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.) detected during read of BUF pointer = 0x14ace4c0, page ptr = 0x35df6000, pageid = (0x1:0x44b73), dbid = 14, status = 0x801, file = d:MSSQL7DATAmydb.mdf.
Connection Broken
select @@version returns, Microsoft SQL Server 7.00 - 7.00.961 (Intel X86) Oct 24 2000 18:39:12 Copyright (c) 1988-1998 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 2)
Books Online Help on Error 823 indicates that it is a disk problem and suggests that DBCC checkdb needs to be run on the database. But, hardware diagnostics on the server do not report any disk problems and dbcc checkdb also returns no errors.
Help on the cause of error 823 would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Praveena
I have the following fieldname in an Access_Table:Field 1 = Cust_ID (Primary key)Field 2 = DateField 3 = DescriptionField 4 = Inv_NoField 5 = AmountMy SQL Input syntax are:"Select distinct Cust_ID,Date,Description,Inv_No,Amount fromAccess_Table WHERE Date <Now()-30 And Date >Now()-60 AND Date =Main.Date"It failed to generate the result I want,anywayMy "Required" Output is:Cust_ID Date Description Inv_No >30DYS >60DYS8000 21/05/2004 PC RAM 2008000 26/06/2004 Modem 180---------------------------------------------------------------Total: 180 200---------------------------------------------------------------8001 22/04/2004 Cable 508001 23/05/2004 HD 210---------------------------------------------------------------Total: 260---------------------------------------------------------------Grand Total: 180 460can anyone help? ThanksFrom:Cady Steldyn*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
Say for example DatabaseA has failed over to the mirror. Then you call a stored procedure in that database that queries a table on DatabaseB that is on the principle (has not failed). What happens? Is mirroring smart enough to know that? If not, are there workarounds? Perphaps manually failing over the other databases?
I am using SQL 2008 r2. I have two SQL Queries from 2 different database but they share one server. I need to linked these two SQL Queries as they share the same Primary key which CustomerID see example below
Query 1
Database::Student Select StudentID , FName, LName From Student
Query 2
Database ::Finance Select StudentID,Tution FROM Payment
I need to be able combine two query which come from two database but they share one server.I would like to use two temp tables so that I can perform a left / right join to retrieve the data by linking two queries using primary id which they both share ( StudentID)
Summary : I have two DB's on the same server. I have two simple select queries for each DB which work correctly.
As a part of DBA, I used to execute various SQL files. Most of the time, it is like a manual effort to execute the files individually.
I am looking to automate the process, like a single click to execute all the .SQL files.
The main hurdle I have is, some files needs to be executed in A1 database, some in B1 database and some other SQL files need to be executed in C1 database. In this scenario, I need to pass the DBName information to the powershell query dynamically.
My design for this requirement is, say each .SQL file need to contain a template like
@DBName = 'your Database name' @Executeon = 'When to execute'
In this case, the powershell first need to read the SQL file and finds the value for @DBName and replace it in the powershell query and execute the SQL files automatically.
Is it feasible ? Or any other alternate easier way to proceed.
I'm using connection strings to SQL Server Express that have the form
"DataSource= .SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename="(path to my development directory)CurrentDevelopmentDB.mdf;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;User Instance=True"
I'm assuming this works because the DB is already there, created "manually".
How might I build a connection string for a SQLCommand for a "Create DataBase" query?
I'm confused about what the AttachDbFileName would be, or if there would be another variable in its place, since there's no file yet.
We have a client who runs SQL Server 2000 queries on one database server and performance is approx. 4 seconds. If the database is backed up, no tables in the query or indexes on these tables are modified (we may run a small script that affects stored procedures, views, etc.) the query can run virtually forever.
The customer is runing a cluster and we are running a stand-alone. Although, the two environments that they run in and have these wildly different results in are the same.
The queries are not worth listing (join a couple of tables and views, select a few columns, put on a few conditions--nothing crazy).
Is this normal behavior for MS SQL Server?
I've personally seen where a database is backed up and query plans and performance are different from one server to another, but we are looking at extreme cases here. In fact, on the second server, the majority of the queries are faster and only a couple run very slowly.
Also, the query optimizer seems to be making poor decisions at this custoemer. For example, two tables will be cross joined (forming over 200 million records) and then table scans ensue. The process in some cases will take a 4 second query to 45 minutes.
To me none of this makes any sense. I've been working with SQL Server since 1997 and have not experienced any type of performance problems or variances of this magnitude. Although this is a 6GB database, SQL Server 7 ran on a terabyte without even blinking, so I wouldn't understand why this would have anything to do with it.
Also hampering our efforts is that we do not have easy access to this SQL Server database to get our hands on it and debug these issues.
Does anyone know of a way to examine these issues in a "system wide" manner to determine what the problems could be since the problems are not specific to the database (i.e. .bak file) but seem to be specific to the server?
They have also had database corruption (an index that wouldn't update) and had to roll back the database. Would that indicate that the MDF/LDF's are unstable? Is there a way to figure out if there is some type of MDF/LDF file structure corruption?
I am running MS SQL 2000 server. The table involved is only about10,000 records. But this is the behavior I am seeing.The local machine is querying the table looking for a particularrecord. Everything works fine.The remote amchine goes to clear the table and then insert all 10,000records, into the table the following happens.1) the local machines queries do not compilete until the remotemachine is done.2) the remote machine can take up to 6 minutes to do these 10,000insert operations. So nothing on the local machine works right forthese 6 minutes.I do not have access to the remote machines source to see what isrunning but I am told it is simply a for loop with a insert query init. Nothing of a locking natture.Any idea the types of things I should look for to track this down? Ifound this by doing SQL profiler profiling and finding the remoteoperations. Turn these operatiiosn off and the local machine worksfine again, with no other action.Thanks,David
I had my database in 6.5 which i upgraded to 7.0 using SQL Server upgrade wizard.Then I created full text catalog. When I say incremental population It gives me warning that You can create full text indexes but can not execute queries against it as the database is still in SQL server 6.5 mode.What is the reason behind this?
I have been trying to export an sql2000 database to sql2005 with no luck. I continuosly get the error
Msg 0, Level 11, State 0, Line 0
A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded.
I have looked upon all support material and have installed the latest sql2005 service pack, but this has not fixed the problem. a simple query as:
select * from [transaction] ta,transactionentry tr
where tr.transactionnumber=ta.transactionnumber and
glacctid=6 and ta.[time]> '3/01/2006'
would produce this fatal error.
the current version I am using is:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.1399.06 (Intel X86) Oct 14 2005 00:33:37 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 1)
This problem is happening on some of the most important tables in the database.
HelloWhen I use a PreparedStatement (in jdbc) with the following query:SELECT store_groups_idFROM store_groupsWHERE store_groups_id IS NOT NULLAND type = ?ORDER BY group_nameIt takes a significantly longer time to run (the time it takes forexecuteQuery() to return ) than if I useSELECT store_groups_idFROM store_groupsWHERE store_groups_id IS NOT NULLAND type = 'M'ORDER BY group_nameAfter tracing the problem down, it appears that this is not preciselya java issue, but rather has to do with the underlying cost of runningparameterized queries.When I open up MS Enterprise Manager and type the same query in - italso takes far longer for the parameterized query to run when I usethe version of the query with bind (?) parameters.This only happens when the table in question is large - I am seeingthis behaviour for a table with > 1,000,000 records. It doesn't makesense to me why a parameterized query would run SLOWER than acompletely ad-hoc query when it is supposed to be more efficient.Furthermore, if one were to say that the reason for this behaviour isthat the query is first getting compliled and then the parameters aregetting sent over - thus resulting in a longer percieved executiontime - I would respond that if this were the case then A) it shouldn'tbe any different if it were run against a large or small table B) thisperformance hit should only be experienced the first time that thequery is run C) the performance hit should only be 2x the time for thenon-parameterized query takes to run - the difference in response timeis more like 4-10 times the time it takes for the non parameterizedversion to run!!!Is this a sql-server specific problem or something that would pertainto other databases as well? I there something about the coorect use ofbind parameters that I overall don't understand?If I can provide some hints in Java then this would be great..otherwise, do I need to turn/off certain settings on the databaseitself?If nothing else works, I will have to either find or write a wrapperaround the Statement object that acts like a prepared statement but inreality sends regular Statement objects to the JDBC driver. I wouldthen put some inteligence in the database layer for deciding whetherto use this special -hack- object or a regular prepared statementdepending on the expected overhead. (Obviously this logic would onlybe written in once place.. etc.. IoC.. ) HOWEVER, I would desperatelywant to avoid doing this.Please help :)
I work as Online Excel Developer and I develop analyzing and reporting applications downstream from all kinds of database or specialized applications from SQL to Oracle, SAP, etc.
To do the job (transforming data into information) I use the SUMPRODUCT function in 75% of the applications that I develop.
This function ignored by many is the function that makes Excel the best reporting tool. It allows the user to transform any database extract into a report. With it you can sum a column (amounts) based on ANY number of criteria located in other columns (account, city, product,...). It is simple to use yet one of the most powerful function in Excel for Accountants, Financial Analysts and Data Analysts.
There is an example on my website at: http://www.excel-vba.com/e-formula-sumproduct.htm
We have a production database, but due to the crippling load of somereporting tools, we are looking to have a separate reporting database.Due to it's nature, the reporting database doesn't need to be as upto date as the master, perhaps it could be refreshed every evening?What I wish to know is the best way to go about this. Replicating awhole database seems excessive as there are 7000+ tables and we don'tneed it so closely matching the production database. Log shippingalso seems out as we need the reporting database to be highlyavailable and if we keep applying transaction logs ever 15 minutes orso, we need to kick all the users out.Is there a way of scripting or automatically getting SQL Server 2k tocopy over the last full backup it did and apply this to anotherserver? Also if we used this method, what would happen to the usersstored in the database? Would I have to keep re-adding them after theupgrade?Is there a better way to tackle this problem? All help gratefullyreceived. We are running SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition on aWindows 2000 Server machine.Thanks.
The article says that once you create the mirror that "At this point, new client connections can be programmatically directed to the latest snapshot."
My question is, how can you programmatically direct connections to the latest snapshot?
Does anyone have a suggestion, or know what the article is getting at? We will use SQL Server Reporting services to query off of the database snapshot.
