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In SQL, how can I count the number of values in a column and then pivot it so the column becomes the row?

I have a survey database with one column for each question and one row for each person who responds. Each question is answered with a value from 1 to 3. Id Quality? Speed? -- ------- ----- 1 3 1 2 2 1 3 2 3 4 3 2 Now, I need to display the results as one row per question, with a...

Strange: Planner takes decision with lower cost, but (very) query long runtime

Facts: PGSQL 8.4.2, Linux I make use of table inheritance Each Table contains 3 million rows Indexes on joining columns are set Table statistics (analyze, vacuum analyze) are up-to-date Only used table is "node" with varios partitioned sub-tables Recursive query (pg >= 8.4) Now here is the explained query: WITH RECURSIVE ...

how to know on which column,the sequence is applied?

I have to fetch all sequences with their table name along with the column name on which sequence is applied .Some how i managed to fetch table name corresponding to sequence because in my data base sequence is stored with first name as table name from data dictionary(all_sequences and all_tables) . Please let me know how to fetch corres...

Python: Cannot concatenate str and NoneType objects

sql = """ INSERT INTO [SCHOOLINFO] VALUES( '""" + self.accountNo + """', '""" + self.altName + """', '""" + self.address1 + """', '""" + self.address2 + """', '""" + self.city + """', '""" + self.state + """', '""" + self.zipCode + """',...

Persisting Serializable Objects in Hibernate

I am attempting to persist objects that contain some large Serializable types. I want Hibernate to automatically generate my DDL (using Hibernate annotations). For the most part, this works, but the default database column type used by Hibernate when persisting these types is tinyblob. Unfortunately, this causes crashes when attempting t...

Working with sets of rows in (My)SQL and comparing values

Hello, I am trying to figure out the SQL for doing some relatively simple operations on sets of records in a table but I am stuck. Consider a table with multiple rows per item, all identified by a common key. For example: serial model color XX1 A blue XX2 A blue XX3 A green XX5 B red XX6 B blue XX1 B ...

Does the order of columns matter in a group by clause?

If I have two columns, one with very high cardinality and one with very low cardinality (unique # of values), does it matter in which order I group by? Here's an example: select dimensionName, dimensionCategory, sum(someFact) from SomeFact f join SomeDim d on f.dimensionKey = d.dimensionKey group by d.dimensionNa...

Does linq to sql make stored procedures in ms sql 2005?

Hi I am looking through my stored procedures on my server and I got alot of them. The thing is I only made like 10 of the 100 there. These stored procedures are not system ones(that has its own folder). They seem to be stored procedures for every table I have. Example of one USE [DB] GO /****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[usp_S...

ROW_NUMBER Alternative for SQL Server 2000

RIGHT now I'm using ROW_NUMBER() in my procedure in SQL Server 2008 as follows: WITH cars as(SELECT carid,mileage,retailprice,imageurl,model,year, Zips.Distance AS Miles, Manufacturers.mfgName as Make, dealers.companyname as companyname, CASE @sortby WHEN 'D' THEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Manufacturers.mf...

Call Single StrConn from Multiple Pages

I have a ocnnection to SQL Server set up in my vba code. The format is: strConn = "ODBC;Driver=SQL;Server=SQL1;Database=DB1;Uid=1;Pwd=1" I have this in 4 sheets, but there will be times when I will want to change it to call from SQL2 or SQL3, and instead of changing the code on each sheet 4 times, I want to change it only once. Is t...

Query crashes MS Access

THE TASK: I am in the process of migrating a DB from MS Access to Maximizer. In order to do this I must take 64 tables in MS ACCESS and merge them into one. The output must be in the form of a TAB or CSV file. Which will then be imported into Maximizer. THE PROBLEM: Access is unable to perform a query that is so complex it seems, as it ...

Fulltext Search in SQL Server 2008 Step by step

I am new to FullText Search. Can anyone explains me Fulltext Search in SQL Server 2008 Step by step Thanks ...

Why is Postgres doing a Hash in this query?

I have two tables: A and P. I want to get information out of all rows in A whose id is in a temporary table I created, tmp_ids. However, there is additional information about A in the P table, foo, and I want to get this info as well. I have the following query: SELECT A.H_id AS hid, A.id AS aid, P.foo, A.pos, A.size FROM ...

SQL Server 2008 Splitting string variable number of token per line

I have a fairly simple requirement -I have a table with the following (relevant) structure. with cte as( select 1 id,'AA,AB,AC,AD' names union all select 2,'BA,BB' union all select 3,'CA,CB,CC,CD,CE' union all select 4,'DA,DB,DC' ) i would like to create a select statement which will split each "names" column into multiple rows. For...

Sql query builder c# for windows mobile

I'm building a windows mobile app. And using SqlCe. I'm looking for a good sql query builder. So instead of writing "SELECT COLUMNS FROM TABLE WHERE etc... Is there a good free library that can build this sort of query? EDIT: You know when you write your code with ADO.net something like this SqlCeCommand command = new SqlCeCommand(...

get n records at a time from a temporary table

I have a temporary table with about 1 million entries. The temporary table stores the result of a larger query. I want to process these records 1000 at a time, for example. What's the best way to set up queries such that I get the first 1000 rows, then the next 1000, etc.? They are not inherently ordered, but the temporary table just has...

create temporary table from cursor

Is there any way, in PostgreSQL accessed from Python using SQLObject, to create a temporary table from the results of a cursor? Previously, I had a query, and I created the temporary table directly from the query. I then had many other queries interacting w/ that temporary table. Now I have much more data, so I want to only process 10...

Enumerate available SQL Servers from .Net

Anyone know if there is a more "up to date" way of enumerating all available SQL Server instances via .Net, i.e. without using System.Data - DataTable/DataRow bits. SqlDataSourceEnumerator sqlEnumerator = SqlDataSourceEnumerator.Instance; DataTable dt = sqlEnumerator.GetDataSources(); foreach(DataRow row in dt.Rows) { Console.WriteL...

Query to check the consistency of records

I have four tables TableA: id1 id2 id3 value TableB: id1 desc TableC: id2 desc TableD: id3 desc What I need to do is to check if all combinations of id1 id2 id3 from table B C and D exist in the TableA. In other words, table A should contain all possible combinations of id1 id2 and id3 which are stored in the other three...

Creating a [materialised]view from generic data in Oracle/Mysql

I have a generic datamodel with 3 tables CREATE TABLE Properties ( propertyId int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, name varchar(80) NOT NULL ) CREATE TABLE Customers ( customerId int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, customerName varchar(80) NOT NULL ) CREATE TABLE PropertyValues ( propertyId int(11) NOT NULL, customerId int(11) NOT...