sql-server

Problem in dynamic pivoting + sql server 2005

I have a problem. Actually in our application, earlier the customer was allowed to pay 3 installemnt per month but now it can be any number . So I have the earlier query declare @tbl table([MonthName] varchar(50), [Installment] int) insert into @tbl select 'Jan',100 union all select 'Jan',200 union all select 'Jan',300 union all sele...

java 1.4 -sql server2000:is it safe to append text to String in java of size in gbs.

i am dynamically creating sql query for inserting multiple records in one hit.Suppose no of record to be inserted is 1000.in that case sql query will be generated as below in code String insertBatchSqlQuery=""; for(int currentRecordIndex=0;currentRecordIndex<totalNoOfRecords;currentRecordIndex++) { insertBatchSqlQuery+=getSQL...

Automated SMTP (not MAPI) emails using SQL Server Job Scheduler

Work on SQL Server 2000.i want to send birthday wishes to all customers whose birthday matches the current day.I have created a database Customers with a table called CustomerDetails with the following fields ID Name BirthDate Email I have written the SQL script shown below. The SQL script loops through the CustomerDetails table and...

Calling a UDF in LINQ without "dbo" database user

Hi every one! I am using LINQ to call a function named "GetTabMenuTheme", I dragged it in the Database Model to generate the function like this: [Function(Name="dbo.GetTabMenuTheme", IsComposable=true)] public string GetTabMenuTheme([Parameter(DbType="NVarChar(MAX)")] string state) { return ((string)(this.ExecuteMethodCall(this, ((...

How to get a time and Date Separately?

Using SQL Server 2005 Table1 Time 12/05/2009 08:30:49 12/05/2009 17:00:00 13/05/2009 21:00:00 ..., Above Table Both values are same column, Here I want to separate column like Date and Time Expected Output Date Time 12/05/2009 08:30:49 12/05/2009 17:00:00 13/05/2009 21:00:00 ...

SQL Conversion failed Error

WhenI call this stored procedure: ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetSorted] ( @OrderByColumn nvarchar(256) ) AS SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT itDocs.AddedDate, itDocs.AddedBy FROM itDocs ORDER BY CASE WHEN @OrderByColumn='AddedDate' THEN itDocs.AddedDate WHEN @OrderByColumn='AddedBy' THEN itDocs.A...

Update records from CVS file or drop all table?

Hi all well this is the first time in this forum so I'II be clear about my question and thanks in advance I'll create a software in C#, this app takes a CSV file (about 73,000 lines). This files comes from another system, also the CSV file can change, what's that means? the CSV file can change in one line ( the data ) or can have more ...

Database Design Theory For Multiple Application Instances

I'm working on a SaaS project that will have each customer having an instance of the application (customer1.application.com, customer2.application.com, etc.) and ideally each customer would have their "own" space in the DB. The current plan is to create a DB for each customer and deploy an instance of the application into the web farm. T...

Concat field value to string in SQL Server

I need a similar function to Oracle WM_CONCAT in SQL Server, which returns a comma separated list of whatever field you pass it as argument. For example, in Oracle, select WM_CONCAT(first_name) from employee where state='CA' returns "John, Jim, Bob". How can I do this in SQL Server? Thanks ...

I want to have a SQL computed column according to rules

Hi all! I want to be able to store a decimal value in one column, and in the other column to store an int that represents the option (will explain): should be base -% should be base -absolute should be base +% should be base +absolute 1 & 2 is a discount 3 & 4 is an upcharge 1 & 3 reduces/raises the amount by percentage (i.e. amount *...

How can a user pass their database schema to my web application?

A while ago, I wrote a program that outputs any localhost or network database to a series of protobuf-net marked up template generated classes that I then use for all my communications architecture for my web services. I want to put this application available online for myself so I don't have to run it locally on my machine any more, an...

INSTEAD OF UPDATE Trigger and Updating the Primary Key

Hi, I am making changes to an existing database while developing new software. There is also quite a lot of legacy software that uses the database that needs to continue working, i.e. I would like to maintain the existing database tables, procs, etc. Currently I have the table CREATE TABLE dbo.t_station ( tx_station_id VA...

T-SQL Database Relationships PK FK Same Name!?

Scenario I have 3 database tables. One is for Images and the other two are People & Places. Since each person can have many images and each place can have many images, I want to have a ONE TO MANY Relationship between both people and images, as well as places and images. Question Does the foreign key have to be called the same name as...

Why use Select Top 100 Percent ?

I understand that prior to SQL Server 2005, you could "trick" SQL Server to allow use of an order by in a view definition, by also include TOP 100 PERCENT in the select clause. But I have seen other code which I have inherited which uses SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT ... within dynamic SQL statements (used in ADO in a ASP.NET apps, etc). Is the...

Finding top n for each unique row

I'm trying to get the top N records for each unique row of data in a table (I'm grouping on columns b,c and d, column a is the unique identifier and column e is the score of which i want the top 1 in this case). a b c d e 2 38 NULL NULL 141 1 38 NULL NULL 10 1 38 1 NULL 10 2 38 1 NULL 1 1 38 1 ...

SQL Server 2008 Merge Replication over Internet

We have decided to put our servers in data centers on east and west coast of US, to keep high level redundancy. We like to replicate our SQL Server 2008 databases using merge replication, but going through configuration headaches. Our SQL Server are running on web front end boxes. Can Merge replication be set up over the internet. MSDN ...

Help with hard sql query to update based on daily totals to summary table

The following are my sql server 2005 table structures: Products (productID INT PK, ...) ProductBids (productID INT, userID INT, Created DATETIME) Users(UserID INT PK, TOTALBIDS INT) Each day a user can bid as many times as they want on all the products. There is a sql job that is run periodically, that counts the total bids a user ha...

SQL update to record with nearest data

In SQL server 2008: Suppose I have two tables. Table1 has 3 fields: Name, Date1 and Date2. Currently, all the Date2 entries are NULL. (Name, Date1) form a unique key. Table2 has 2 fields: Name and Date2. (Name, Date2) form a unique key. Every "Name" in Table1 has at least one corresponding entry in Table2. Now, I want to update all...

SQL-Server DB design time scenario (distributed or centralized)

We've an SQL Server DB design time scenario .. we've to store data about different Organizations in our database (i.e. like Customer, Vendor, Distributor, ...). All the diff organizations share the same type of information (almost) .. like Address details, etc... And they will be referred in other tables (i.e. linked via OrgId and we hav...

Need help with complex sorting in SQL

Hi, I have a complex sorting problem with my SQL statement. I have a table with the following columns. No Time Value -- ---- ----- 1 0900 '' 2 1030 '' 3 1020 '' 4 1010 '' 5 1100 '' 1 1015 'P' 2 1045 'P' I want to sort this table by doing the following steps. Select rows from the ...