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Querying with foreign key

Say I have 2 tables whose structures are as follows: tableA id | A1 | A2 tableB id | tableA_id (foreign key) | B1 Entries in A have a one-to-many relationship with entries in B. What kind of query operation would I need to achieve "something like this: select all objects from table B where A1="foo""? Basically, apply a que...

Big table or multiple separate tables? (database design question)

This is a database design question. I want to build an invoice web application, an invoice can have many items, and each user can have an inventory list of product items that they can store and choose to add to an invoice item. My questions are: 1. Should I store all product inventory for all users using my application under one singl...

SQL to CodeIgniter Array Missing Data Issue

$query = $this->db->query("SELECT t1.numberofbets, t1.profit, t2.seven_profit, t3.28profit, user.user_id, username, password, email, balance, user.date_added, activation_code, activated FROM user LEFT JOIN (SELECT user_id, SUM(amount_won) AS profit, count(tip_id) AS numberofbets FROM tip GROUP BY user_id) as t1 ON user.user_id = t1.user_...

large amount of data in many text files - how to process?

Hi, I have large amounts of data (a few terabytes) and accumulating... They are contained in many tab-delimited flat text files (each about 30MB). Most of the task involves reading the data and aggregating (summing/averaging + additional transformations) over observations/rows based on a series of predicate statements, and then saving th...

How to insert rows in an Excel sheet into SQL Server 2005 or oracle

How to insert rows in an Excel sheet into SQL Server 2005 or oracle ? For example if I have 5000 rows in Excel sheet how can I insert these rows into a table in any database ...

Group SQL tables in SQL Server Management Studio object explorer

I have a table which has approximately sixty tables, and other tables are added constantly. Each table is a part of a schema. A such quantity of tables makes it difficult to use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008. For example, I must scroll up in object explorer to access database related functions, or scroll down each time I n...

Firebird: How to assign id to existing rows from newly added generator

I have a table which already contains some rows and does not have a primary key. I want to add a primary key now, but for that I need to set unique values for the primary key field of the existing rows. How can this be done, using the newly added generator? ...

Implementing a 1 to many relationship with SQLite

I have the following schema implemented successfully in my application. The application connects desk unit channels to IO unit channels. The DeskUnits and IOUnits tables are basically just a list of desk/IO units and the number of channels on each. For example a desk could be 4 or 12 channel. CREATE TABLE DeskUnits (Name TEXT, NumChanne...

Generic SQL builder .NET

I'm looking for a way to write an SQL statement in C# targeting different providers. A typical example of SQL statements differentiating is the LIMIT in PostgreSQL vs. TOP in MSSQL. Is the only way to solve SQL-syntax like the two above to write if-statements depending on which provider the user selects or using try catch statements as ...

Remove trailing zeros from decimal in SQL Server

I have a column DECIMAL(9,6) i.e. it supports values like 999,123456. But when I insert data like 123,4567 it becomes 123,456700 How to remove those zeros? ...

Changing SQL Server Database sorting

I have a request to change the collation of a SQL Server Database: ALTER DATABASE solarwind95 collate SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS but I get this strange error: Meldung 5075, Ebene 16, Status 1, Zeile 1 Das 'Spalte'-Objekt 'CustomPollerAssignment.PollerID' ist von 'Datenbanksortierung' abhängig. Die Datenbanksortierun...

Converting delimited string to multiple values in mysql

I have a mysql legacy table which contains an client identifier and a list of items, the latter as a comma-delimited string. E.g. "xyz001", "foo,bar,baz". This is legacy stuff and the user insists on being able to edit a comma delimited string. They now have a requirement for a report table with the above broken into separate rows, e.g....

Sort and limit queryset by comment count and date using queryset.extra() (django)

I am trying to sort/narrow a queryset of objects based on the number of comments each object has as well as by the timeframe during which the comments were posted. Am using a queryset.extra() method (using django_comments which utilizes generic foreign keys). I got the idea for using queryset.extra() (and the code) from here. This i...

sql server convert string to datetime

Hello, I have this string: '30/05/2010', and I would like to enter it to a smallDatetime field. In the database it should look something like this 2010-05-30 15:33:25 Any Idea how? TY ...

Mysql query problem

Below is an over-simplified version of table I'm using: fruits +-------+---------+ | id | type | +-------+---------+ | 1 | apple | | 2 | orange | | 3 | banana | | 4 | apple | | 5 | apple | | 6 | apple | | 7 | orange | | 8 | apple | | 9 | apple | | 10 | banana | +...

What is "Structured" in Structured Query Language?

Hi, What does the "Structured" word means in SQL? Is it because this(SQL) language statements are organized into Clauses, expressions and predicates? Because of this organization, is it called "Structured" ? Kind Regards, Pavan. ...

Problem with sending "SetCookie" first in php code

According to this manual: http://us2.php.net/setcookie I have to set the cookie before anything else. Here is my cookie code: if (isset($_COOKIE['watched_ads'])){ $expir = time()+1728000; //20 days $ad_arr = unserialize($_COOKIE['watched_ads']); $arr_elem = count($ad_arr); if (in_array($ad_id, $ad_arr) == FALSE){ ...

sDesigning a database with flexible user profile

I am working on a design where I can have flexible attributes for users and I am confused how to continue the design of the schema. I made a table where I kept system needed information: Table name: users id username password Now, I wish to create a profile table and have one to one relation where all the other attributes in prof...

Lexing partial SQL in C#

I'd need to parse partial SQL queries (it's for a SQL injection auditing tool). For example '1' AND 1=1-- Should break down into tokens like [0] => [SQL_STRING, '1'] [1] => [SQL_AND] [2] => [SQL_INT, 1] [3] => [SQL_AND] [4] => [SQL_INT, 1] [5] => [SQL_COMMENT] [6] => [SQL_QUERY_END] Are their any at least lexers for SQL that I base...

How is GUID pronounced?

Is it pronounced "Gewid" or is it prononced "G.U.I.D" by spelling out the letters. It seems inconsistently used. What is the proper pronountiaton? Same story goes for SQL. It seems more people say "S.Q.L." than "Sequel". My co workers and I often argue about this. I want a definitive answer with something to preferrably back it up....