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Crafting a query for distinct data from two fields where one is often NULL

hi! I have a table for players, a table for teams, and a table for team_players (using SQLServer 2005). Not all players are on a team. I would like to craft a query that will return one row for each non-team player, and one row for each team (i.e. there is one result row representing all 20 players on the Knicks, and that result row c...

Help needed with sql query.

I have a table which have an integer coloumn. Let table name is Table1 and ColName is Col1. I want to add number 15 to every value in col1. what will be the sql query for this. ...

Really slow schema information queries on SQL Server 2005

I have a database with a rather large number of tables, about 3500, and an application that needs to access a table list. On a particular server this takes over 2.5 min to return. EXEC sp_tables @table_type="'TABLE'" I know there are faster ways to do that but sadly I'm not in a position to modify the application and need to find a...

Dumping a table's content in sqlite3 to be imported into a new database

Is there an easy way of dumping a SQLite database table into a text string with insert statements to be imported into the same table of a different database? In my specific example, I have a table called log_entries with various columns. At the end of every day, I'd like to create a string which can then be dumped into an other database...

Getting data from data warehouse into relational database

Hi This fairly unusual, but because of office politics etc. we have (read-only) access to the data warehouse, but not to the live data. However we need up-to-date data to populate our relational (OLTP) database (MS SQL server. The data in the warehouse (also MS) is in star schema format (i.e. Dimensions and Facts). I am not very familia...

how do i filter out non-numeric values in a text field in teradata?

hello all, I have a teradata table with about 10 million records in it, that stores a numeric id field as a varchar. i need to transfer the values in this field to a bigint column in another table, but i can't simply say cast(id_field as bigint) because i get an invalid character error. looking through the values, i find that there co...

Update with a Min in the the table

I want to update a Column in a Table, based on the minimum of another column of the same table. eg. JobPositonId | JobPositonName | JobDescriptionId | ContactId 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 I want to updat...

Assertion in MySQL

I have a SQL script to run against a large database. I'd like to put a couple of simple queries at the start, just as a sanity check. Is there any way to write an assertion in MySQL? Or any kind of "select ..., and if it doesn't match this value, then abort the entire script"? ...

Sql Server 2005: Today's random records

I can easily get a random record with this: SELECT * FROM MyTable ORDER BY NewId() I can easily get a record with "today's date" with this: SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE MyDate = "2010-24-08" -- db doesn't store times But how would I combind the two? Get 1 random record... anything with today's date. If none are found...

store arabic in SQL database

I tried to store Arabic string in SQL 2008 database but it converted to " question mark " why ? and what should I do ? ...

HTML Table row edit/Delete

Hi, I have an HTML table with contents, I would like to have an feature of Edit/Delete to that table. How do I do it with PHP? ...

SQL error, I don't get it

INSERT INTO `tims`.`pending_profile`(`id`, `nickname`, `location`, `role`, `yog`, `interests`, `favMoment`, `gainThisYr`, `futurePlans`, `bio`) VALUES ('1', '1', '1', '1', '', '1', '1', '1', '1', '1') ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE ( nickname ='1', location= '1', role= '1',yog= '1',interests= '1',favMoment= '1',gainThisYr= '1',futurePlans= '1'...

replace string in sql

i have 500 records in a table. one column holds all html data. so e.g - html> body> ... /body> /html>. What i want to do is a find and replace. i have this tag in every single record - <table id="something something" /> i want to replace that in all the rows with <table id="" /> now the difficult part is all the "something something" is...

MySQL doesn't use indexes when query over BIT field using bitwise functions

I have a field of type BIT in my MySQL table. I want to store statuses of the record using bit value, for example: 1 = status1 2 = status2 4 = status3 8 = status4 Each record can have many statuses at once. For status1 and status3 the value will be 1 + 4 = 5. I can query table for all records with status3 using: SELECT * FROM `tab...

How to use like operator in SQL?

I want to select from C_Table where Name='John' and use like operator for example select Name from C_Table where Name='John' AND where Details like %Boy% How to do this? Please help me... (Table name is C_Table) ----------------------------------------------- Name | P_No | C_No | Details | ---------------------------...

SQL Server 2005 - Rows to Cols

I have a table CSFT_SuggestionItem with cols like: SuggestionItemID Title Description, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Item 1 Do more work 2 Item 2 I think more is good For each SuggestionItem, there can by multiple "Applic...

Match both www.website.com and website.com with sql like

I have a table that contains a list of websites. I have a sql variable @url, I want to select all the rows where the website is equal to @url. However, if there is no subdomain I want to match www and the root domain. So, if @url='http://website.com' it should match both 'http://website.com' and 'http://www.website.com' I'm currentl...

How can I write a SQL query which will return me all categories of an item?

I have a SQL query: SELECT b . * , CONCAT( GROUP_CONCAT( c.name ) ) categories, CONCAT( GROUP_CONCAT( c.id ) ) cids FROM books b JOIN categories_of_books cb ON b.id = cb.book_id JOIN categories c ON c.id = cb.category_id GROUP BY b.id And it returns to me in categories alias all categories of books and in cids all categories ids. A...

MySQL Query Help

Heh guys, I need help with a MySQL Query. The Output of the query should look like this User1 User2 xxx1 xxx2 xxx3 xxx1 but not User1 User2 xxx1 xxx2 xxx2 xxx1 and so on. I need all "friendships" between different users. A friendship exists i.e. when UserId 8 exists in Column User1_id Us...

MySQL: Pivot + Counting

I need help with a SQL that will convert this table: =================== | Id | FK | Status| =================== | 1 | A | 100 | | 2 | A | 101 | | 3 | B | 100 | | 4 | B | 101 | | 5 | C | 100 | | 6 | C | 101 | | 7 | A | 102 | | 8 | A | 102 | | 9 | B | 102 | | 10 | B | 102 | =================== to ...