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SQL Query convert integer to hex and hex to integer

So I have this Query working (where signal_data is a column) in Sybase but it will not work with Microsoft SQL Server: HEXTOINT(SUBSTRING((INTTOHEX(signal_data)),5,2)) as Signal I also have it in Excel (where A1 contains the value): =HEX2DEC(LEFT(DEC2HEX(A1),LEN(DEC2HEX(A1))-2)) Does anyone know how I would do this in SQL? ...

How to write this SQL Statement

table1 has 3 columns: Id UserName SubmittedDate 1 Joe 1/1/2006 2 Joe 1/1/2007 3 Nat 1/1/2008 4 Pat 1/1/2009 I want to return this: Id UserName 2 Joe 3 Nat 4 Pat I just want just one record for Joe, the most recent one. How do I write this query? Thanks ...

I would like to extract the SQL queries from Crystal Report .rpt files, is there a way to do this?

I would like to extract the SQL queries from Crystal Report .rpt files, is there a way to do this? I don't have any of the Crystal Reports products, just the .rpt files. ...

Dynamic columns for Pivot

I have a table of equipment, a table of customers and a sparse table of equipment and customers. I want to produce a query that returns a 1 if the equipment/Customer table record exists and a 0 if it doesn't for each customer. There are only a small number of customers in this problem, so what I want back should look like this: Equipme...

how to write sql query? for ms sql server

I need to write a sql query that adds one column from one database (DB1) to another column and the sum is save in that column in the second database(DB2). where userIds are the same DB1 TableA UserId People DB2 TableB Amount UserId it would be something like this DB2.TableB.Amount = DB2.TableB.Amount + DB1.TableA.People ...

Case insensitive ClearQuest queries

How can I make my clearquest search query case insensitive? ...

How would you solve this tricky SQL problem?

Say you have a table layout like the following: couses: id (INT), courseName (VARCHAR) instructors: id (INT), courseId(INT), instructor(VARCHAR) Create a query which will print the all the courses and if one instructor is present display their name, if two instructors are present print both of their names on the row in sorted ord...

Return sql query results in separate columns sorted vertically.

How can I rewrite the query "select col1 from tbl1" so it splits the results into three columns - each column sorting the results vertically? So if the data I'm getting back is: aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg I need the query to return it as: aaa ddd ggg bbb eee ccc fff Is this possible? Thanks ...

Can I write my own mySQL functions to use in mySQL queries?

Can I write a custom function that I can call when making mySQL queries eg. My database table has fields 'filetype' and 'filename'. I want to perform a function on filename before returning the result. $query = "SELECT filetype, MY_FUNCTION(filename) FROM table.."; $result = mysql_query($query); return $result SO $result now has the ...

MySQL performance optimization: order by datetime field

I have a table with roughly 100.000 blog postings, linked to a table with 50 feeds via an 1:n relationship. When I query both tables with a select statement, ordered by a datetime field of the postings table, MySQL always uses filesort, resulting in very slow query times (>1 second). Here's the schema of the postings table (simplified): ...

MYSQL: Complex Query Question

Hello all, I am working with polls: Each poll has many options and users can vote in polls once. Thus I have a 'votes' table with the following fields: id (id of the vote) option_id (id of the poll option chosen) user_id (id of the user) poll_id (id of the poll) So here is what I'm trying to do: Given an array of poll_ids, I want ...

Query to return 1 instance of a record with duplicates

INFO: I am working with Microsoft SQL. Ok the title is confusing but here is an example of the table I'm working with: ID Value Signal Read Firmware Date Time 5 123 656 444 217 3/30/2009 11:00:00 AM 5 123 421 333 217 3/30/2009 04:00:00 PM 5 123 ...

Using PHP variable variables in SQL quiery

Hi, sorry for this question to be a "can you fix it" one, but this little bit of code has been confusing me for a while now. I'm basically making a table with a bunch of rows and columns and in each one I have a slightly changing SQl query. To make it a bit easier instead of typing all that out I made this bit of script but it is starti...

Optimal timestamp-based query in Django

What is the optimal query to obtain all the records for one specific day? In my Weather model, 'timestamp' is a standard DateTimeField. I'm currently using start = datetime.datetime(2009, 1, 31) end = start + datetime.timedelta(hours=23, minutes=59, seconds=59) Weather.objects.filter(timestamp__range=(start, end)) but wonder if there...

MySQL - Extracting numbers out of strings

In a MySQL database, I have a table which contains itemID, itemName and some other fields. Sample records (respectively itemID and itemName): vaX652bp_X987_foobar, FooBarItem X34_bar, BarItem tooX56, TOOX_What I want to write a query which gives me an output like: 652, FooBarItem 34, BarItem 56, TOOX_What In other words,...

How to tell if a MySQL process is stuck?

I have a long-running process in MySQL. It has been running for a week. There is one other connection, to a replication master, but I have halted slave processing so there's effectively nothing else going on. How can I tell if this process is still working? I knew it would take a long time which is why I put it on its own database in...

How do you take input values from users in T-SQL?

I want to know how to take input from users in T-SQL. For example, how would I do a program which takes two numbers from user and adds them together? ...

Connecting to MySQL database with PHP

I have this little function do connect to a MySQL database: function connectSugarCRM() { $connectorSugarCRM = mysql_connect ("localhost", "123", "123") or die ("Connection failed"); mysql_select_db("sugar5") or die ("Failed attempt to connect to database"); return $connectorSugarCRM; } And then, to run a query, I'm doi...

Query by month from date field

I have a set of Access d/b's grouped already by year. within a given year, I have a field caleld REPORTDATE which is a standard mm/dd/yyyy field. However, I need to produce queries that return data by the month. For example, I just want to see records for Jan, recs for Feb, Recs for March, etc., so that I can sum them and work wwith thm....

convert a string to int using sql query

i want to convert a string field to integer using sql query? ...