I would like to use newId to generate random numbers. Usually you would use it just once, but I might be generating up to 10 random numbers per newId.
Is it random enough?
I have a TimeSheet table as:
CREATE TABLE TimeSheet
(
timeSheetID
employeeID
setDate
timeIn
outToLunch
returnFromLunch
timeOut
);
Employee will set his/her time sheet daily, i want to ensure that he/she doesn't cheat. What should i do?
Should i create a column that gets date/time of the system when insertion/update happens to the table and then compare the created date/time with the time employee's specified - If so in this case i will have to create date/time column for timeIn, outToLunch, returnFromLunch and timeOut. I don't know, what do you suggest?
Note: i'm concerned about tracking these 4 columns timeIn, outToLunch, returnFromLunch and timeOut
Hi
I am wondering how can do a mass insert and bulk copy at the same time? I have 2 tables that should be affect by the bulk copy as they both depend on each other.
So I want it that if while inserting table 1 a record dies it gets rolled back and table 2 never gets updated. Also if table 1 inserts good and table 2 an update fails table 1 gets rolled back.
Can this be done with bulk copy?
I have a table with 600+ columns imported from a csv with special chars % _ - in the column names, is there a way to change the column names to remove these special chars ?
the code can be tsql or tsql
I have the below
Name Date
A 2011-01-01 01:00:00.000
A 2011-02-01 02:00:00.000
A 2011-03-01 03:00:00.000
B 2011-04-01 04:00:00.000
A 2011-05-01 07:00:00.000
The desired output being
Name StartDate EndDate
-------------------------------------------------------------------
A 2011-01-01 01:00:00.000 2011-04-01 04:00:00.000
B 2011-04-01 04:00:00.000 2011-05-01 07:00:00.000
A 2011-05-01 07:00:00.000 NULL
How to achieve the same using TSQL in Set based approach
DDL is as under
DECLARE @t TABLE(PersonName VARCHAR(32), [Date] DATETIME)
INSERT INTO @t VALUES('A', '2011-01-01 01:00:00')
INSERT INTO @t VALUES('A', '2011-01-02 02:00:00')
INSERT INTO @t VALUES('A', '2011-01-03 03:00:00')
INSERT INTO @t VALUES('B', '2011-01-04 04:00:00')
INSERT INTO @t VALUES('A', '2011-01-05 07:00:00')
Select * from @t
select @[email protected]('*')
for xml raw,type
Above statement will generate following alert:
Msg 6819, Level 16, State 3, Line 2
The FOR XML clause is not allowed in a ASSIGNMENT statement.
for eg...
SELECT *
FROM ( SELECT RANK() OVER (ORDER BY stud_mark DESC) AS ranking,
stud_id,
stud_name,
stud_mark
FROM tbl_student ) AS foo
WHERE ranking = 10
Here foo is present...actually what it does ?..
I have a database project that goes through iterations (only one so far) and I need to deploy a testing version to a live server. I'm not sure how to go about this.
I can make all the changes in a copy and then remake those changes in the live version. That doesn't make sense.
Is there a way to change a server name to an existing server? What's the best practice for this scenario?
I'm trying to write a stored procedure to select employees who have birthdays that are upcoming.
SELECT * FROM Employees WHERE Birthday > @Today AND Birthday < @Today + @NumDays
This will not work because the birth year is part of Birthday, so if my birthday was '09-18-1983' that will not fall between '09-18-2008' and '09-25-2008'.
Is there a way to ignore the year portion of date fields and just compare month/days?
This will be run every monday morning to alert managers of birthdays upcoming, so it possibly will span new years.
Here is the working solution that I ended up creating, thanks Kogus.
SELECT * FROM Employees
WHERE Cast(DATEDIFF(dd, birthdt, getDate()) / 365.25 as int)
- Cast(DATEDIFF(dd, birthdt, futureDate) / 365.25 as int)
<> 0
I would like to create a stored procedure that takes in a string of comma separated values like this "1,2,3,4", and break it apart and use those numbers to run a query on a different table.
so in the same stored procedure it would do something like
select somefield from sometable where somefield = 1
select somefield from sometable where somefield = 2
select somefield from sometable where somefield = 3
select somefield from sometable where somefield = 4
Thanks!
I've banging my head for hours, it seems simple enough, but here goes:
I'd like to create a view using multiple select statements that outputs a Single record-set
Example:
CREATE VIEW dbo.TestDB
AS
SELECT X AS 'First'
FROM The_Table
WHERE The_Value = 'y'
SELECT X AS 'Second'
FROM The_Table
WHERE The_Value = 'z'
i wanted to output the following recordset:
Column_1 | Column_2
'First' 'Second'
any help would be greatly appreciated!
-Thanks.
I have a simple problem, I think, but I have googled and can't find the solution. I have a cube that has MeasureA, MeasureB and MeasureC. Not all three measures have values for each record, sometimes they can be null, it's depending if it was applicable.
Now for my totals, I need to average but the average must not take nulls into account. Any help will be much appreciated. When I view the measures, the null values show as zeros.
I have a following query. It uses only one table (Customers) from Northwind database.
I completely have no idea how does it work, and what its intention is. I hope there is a lot of DBAs here so I ask for explanation. particularly don't know what the OVER and PARTITION does here.
WITH NumberedWomen AS
(
SELECT CustomerId ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER
(
PARTITION BY c.Country
ORDER BY LEN(c.CompanyName) ASC
)
women
FROM Customers c
)
SELECT * FROM NumberedWomen WHERE women > 3
If you needed the db schema, it is here
I just started my database and query class on Monday. We met on Monday and just went over the syllabus, and on Wednesday the network at school was down so we couldn't even do the power point lecture. Right now I am working on my first homework assignment and I am almost finished but I am having trouble on one question.
Here is is...
Write a SELECT statement that returns one column from the Customers table named FullName that joins the LastName and FirstName columns.
Format the columns with the last name, a comma, a space, and the first name like this:
Doe, John
Sort the result set by last name in ascending sequence.
Return only the contacts whose last name begins with letters from M to Z.
Here is what I have so far...
USE md0577283
SELECT FirstName,LastName
FROM Customers
ORDER BY LastName,FirstName
My question is how do I format is Lastname, FirstName like the professor wants and how do I only select names M-Z?
If someone could point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
PS With all do respect, I didn't ask for the answer I asked for a nudge in the right direction so why the down vote guys?
At work we have a number of databases that we need to do the same operations on. I would like to write 1 SP that would loop over operations and set the database at the beginning of the loop (example to follow). I've tried sp_executesql('USE ' + @db_id) but that only sets the DB for the scope of that stored procedure. I don't really want to loop with hard coded database names because we need to do similar things in many different places and it's tough to remember where things need to change if we add another DB.
Any thoughts
Example:
DECLARE zdb_loop CURSOR FAST_FORWARD FOR
SELECT distinct db_id from DBS order by db_id
OPEN zdb_loop
FETCH NEXT FROM zdb_loop INTO @db_id
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
USE @db_id
--Do stuff against 3 or 4 different DBs
FETCH NEXT FROM zdb_loop INTO @db_id
END
CLOSE zdb_loop
DEALLOCATE zdb_loop
I have to find the indentid from the status table based on below two conditions:
1. If there are more than one record having same indentid in status table and the same indentID has count1 in feasibilitystatus table then
I don't want to display the record.
2. If there is only one record of indentid in status table and the same indentID has count0 in feasibilitystatus table then
I don't want to display the record.
Query:
select distinct s.indentid
from status s where
s.status='true'
and s.indentid
not in(select case when count(s.indentid)>1 then (select indentid from feasibilitystatus
group by indentid having count(indentid)>1)
else (select indentid from feasibilitystatus group by
indentid having count(indentid)>0)
end as indentid from status)
Error:
An aggregate may not appear in the WHERE clause unless it is in a subquery
contained in a HAVING clause or a select list, and the column being aggregated is
an outer reference.
When i query
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEWS it list all views but when i query
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEW_TABLE_USAGE it displays only few views.
How can i rebuild all the views info in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.VIEW_TABLE_USAGE?
My code does not update the thread field. It is null. Anyone have any ideas?
INSERT INTO [Messages]([Sender], [Receiver], [Job_Number], [Subject], [MessageText], [DateSent])
VALUES(@Sender, @Receiver, @Job_Number, @Subject, @MessageText, @DateSent)
SET @ThreadID = SCOPE_IDENTITY()
UPDATE [Messages]
SET Thread = @ThreadID
WHERE MessageID = @ThreadID
I've got a record set that consists of a start and end time in two separate fields:
id - Int
startTime - DateTime
endTime - DateTime
I'd like to find a way to query a record and return it as X records based on the number of 15 minute intervals found between the start and end times.
For example, let's say I have a record like this:
id, StartTime, EndTime
1, 1/1/2010 8:28 AM, 1/1/2010 8:47 AM
I would return 3 records, the first would represent the 8:15 interval, #2 for the 8:30 interval and then a 3rd for the 8:45 interval.
I realize this could be done using logic in an sproc, but we are trying to remain db neutral as we support multiple database engines.
I have a table like this
foo(id, parentId)
-- there is a FK constraint from parentId to id
and I need to delete an item with all his children and children of the children etc.
anybody knows how ?
I need to find the amount of updated rows
UPDATE Table SET value=2 WHERE value2=1
declare @aaa int
set @aaa = @@ROWCOUNT
It doesn't work. How can I do that?
I have query like below
declare @str_CustomerID int
Insert into IMDECONP38.[Customer].dbo.CustomerMaster
( CustomerName , CustomerAddress , CustomerEmail , CustomerPhone )
values ( ‘werw12e’ , ‘jkj12kj’ , ‘3212423sdf’ , ‘1212121'
)
select @str_CustomerID= scope_identity()
after execution it returns null in my parameter
i want to get value of identity how can i do that
Hi All,
I am struggeling finding an effectient way to find a distance between a Point that interetcts a polygon and the border of that polygon. I was able to use the STDistance comparing the point to every point that made up the polygon but that is taking a lot of time. Using SPatial indexed wasnt much helpful because the STDistance is not part of any constraint and even when I did put the constraint, the index didnt help much.
I appreciate any feedback.
Thanks.
I have 10 rows for today's date but my select statement based on date dosen't seem to work....
SELECT Id,WirelessId,RegNo,DriverName1,MobileNo1,DriverName2,MobileNo1 from
DailySchedule where IsDeleted=0 and CreatedDate='2010-05-28'
Any suggestion...