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Large strings: Text files or SQL DB?

I am coding a forum system using PHP. I am currently storing a threads ID, title, author, views and other attributes in an SQL database and then storing the thread body (the HTML and BBcode) in text files inside a folder named after the thread ID. In practise it's really simple to grab the database values then just grab the thread bod...

excel quotes in formula question

i have a column with this data: IT_AMPH IT_BARB IT_BENZ IT_BUP SOMA i want the column next to it to be literarely =like "*,IT_AMPH,*" =like "*,IT_BARB,*" =like "*,IT_BENZ,*" etc please note that i want the equal signed to be displayed, exactly as shown above what would be the formula for this? ...

SQL SELECT INSERTed data from Table

its in ASP Classic. MS-Access DB. i do: INSERT INTO Orders (userId) VALUES (123)" what i want to retrieve is orderNumber from that row. its an auto-increment number. so i did: SELECT orderNumber FROM Orders WHERE userId=123 but since it is on the same page, the SELECT returns: Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has bee...

Replace into equivalent for postgresql and then autoincrementing an int

Okay no seriously, if a postgresql guru can help out I'm just getting started. Basically what I want is a simple table like such: CREATE TABLE schema.searches ( search_id serial NOT NULL, search_query character varying(255), search_count integer DEFAULT 1, CONSTRAINT pkey_search_id PRIMARY KEY (search_id) ) WITH ( OIDS=FALSE ...

Does the order of the columns in a SELECT statement make a difference?

This question was inspired by a previous question posted on SO, "Does the order of the WHERE clause make a differnece?". Would it improve a SELECT statement's performance if the the columns used in the WHERE section are placed at the begining of the SELECT statement? example: SELECT customer.id, transaction.id, ...

What is 'type' in systypes?

In sys.systypes ... what exactly is 'type'? What exactly does .... bigint > int > varchar ... order mean when I execute select * from sys.systypes order by type desc ...

Is there a way to give a subquery an alias in Oracle 11g SQL?

Is there a way to give a subquery in Oracle 11g an alias like: select * from (select client_ref_id, request from some_table where message_type = 1) abc, (select client_ref_id, response from some_table where message_type = 2) defg where abc.client_ref_id = def.client_ref_id; Otherwise is there a way to join the two subque...

Generating Table / array on the fly in postgresql function

I need to create postgresql function CREATE FUNCTION date_ranges (_start date, end date) RETURNING TABLE(day_in_range date) AS... if I call date_ranges('2010-06-01', 2010-06-05') I should receive 2010-06-01 2010-06-02 2010-06-03 2010-06-04 2010-06-05 Any Ideas how to do it? ...

How do I do proximity search in Oracle right?

Oracle's NEAR operator for full text search returns a score based on the proximity of two or more query terms. For example: near((dog, bite), 6) matches if 'dog' and 'bite' occurs within 6 words. What if I'd like it to match if either 'dog' or 'cat' or any other type of animal occurs within 6 words of the word 'bite'? I tried: ...

TransFusion: Should I denormalize Loan, Purchase, Inventory and Sale tables into one Transaction table?

Based on the information I have provided below, can you give me your opinion on whether its a good idea to denormalize separate tables into one table which holds different types of transactions?.. What are the pro's/con's?.. Has anyone attempted this before?.. Banking systems use a CIF (Customer Information File) [master] where customers...

How to add a default value to an already existing column?

I have an existing column in my SQL Server database. I have tried about everything I can think of but can not get a default value to be added to the column. What works in every other database is alter table mytable alter column mycolumn set default(now()) --mycolumn is a datetime How do I do this in SQL Server? The error I get f...

One table, need multiple values from different rows/tuples

I have tables like: 'profile_values' userID | fid | value -------+---------+------- 1 | 3 | [email protected] 1 | 45 | 203-234-2345 3 | 3 | [email protected] 1 | 45 | 123-456-7890 And: 'users' userID | name -------+------- 1 | joe 2 | jane 3 | jake I want...

Best practices for querying an entire row in a database table? (MySQL / CodeIgniter)

Sorry for the novice question! I have a table called cities in which I have fields called id, name, xpos, ypos. I'm trying to use the data from each row to set a div's position and name. What I'm wondering is what's the best practice for dynamically querying an unknown amount of rows (I don't know how many cities there might be, I wan...

Does a Postgresql dump create sequences that start with - or after - the last key?

I recently created a SQL dump of a database behind a Django project, and after cleaning the SQL up a little bit was able to restore the DB and all of the data. The problem was the sequences were all mucked up. I tried adding a new user and generated the Python error IntegrityError: duplicate key violates unique constraint. Naturally I ...

Picking Random Names

I saw an interesting post sometime back but with no solution. Trying luck here: There is a table which contain 10 names (U1, U2, U3..and so on). I have to choose 5 names everyday, and display one as the Editor and 4 as Contributors While selecting the random names, I have to also consider that if one user is selected as Editor, he can...

Variable table or column names.

INFORMIX-SQL or any other SQL-based DB: Suppose I have an app where depending on the value of some columns, example: company.code char(3) {abc} company.branch char(2) {01} Can I construct table name "abc01" for inclusion in SELECT * FROM abc01; ? In other words, a variable table name.. same question applies for column names. ...

CONTAINSTABLE with wildcard works different in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008?

I have two same databases one on SQL Server 2005 and one on SQL Server 2008, it have same SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS Collation, and full text search catalogs have the same settings. These two databases contains table with same data, NTEXT string: "...kræve en forklaring fra miljøminister Connie Hedegaard.." My problem is: CONTAINST...

Is it possible to make a non-nullable column nullable when used in a view? (sql server)

Hi, To start off I have two tables, PersonNames and PersonNameVariations. When a name is searched, it finds the closest name to one of the ones available in PersonNames and records it in the PersonNameVariations table if it's not already in there. I am using a stored proc to search the PersonNames for a passed in PersonNameVariationand...

Getting table schema from a query

As per MSDN, SqlDataReader.GetSchemaTable returns column metadata for the query executed. I am wondering is there a similar method that will give table metadata for the given query? I mean what tables are involved and what aliases it has got. In my application, I get the query and I need to append the where clause programically. Using...

what is an index in a table?

What is an index in table? Related with realworld entitly like librabry. what are the types of indexes? please related this too also with real world entity. ...