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SQLite Parameter Issue with Guids

I am having issues with getting Guids to match in SQLite (0.4.8) when using parameters, when I use something like userGuid = 'guid here' it works, but userGuid = @GuidHere it does not. Anyone have any ideas? Create: CREATE TABLE Users ( UserGuid TEXT PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, FirstName TEXT, LastName TEXT ) Sample Data: INSE...

Help with Join

I need help with a join I think. Can't figure it out. I have these tables: Posts `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `title` varchar(140) DEFAULT NULL, `text` text COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci Posts tags `post_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `tag_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL Tags `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` varc...

How to create "Upcoming birthdays" module in Rails?

Hi, I have a table "users" with a column "date_of_birth" (DATE format with day, month, year). In frontend I need to list 5 upcoming birthdays. Spent ages trying to work out the logic.. also browsed every possible article in Google with no luck.. Any suggestions how to do this in RoR? Thanks! ...

PostgreSQL: Why can I connect to a user with a set password without having to give the password?

After creating a new user john with: CREATE USER john PASSWORD 'test'; CREATE DATABASE johndb OWNER john; I can connect to the PostgreSQL server with: psql -U john johndb The problem is that psql never asks me for the password. I realy need to know what's wrong, because of obvious reasons. ...

Need help/suggestions for creating fantasy sports scoring databases and queries

I'm trying to create a website for my friends and I to keep track of fantasy sports scoring. So far, I've been doing the calculations and storage in Excel, which is very tedious. I'm trying to make it more simplified and automated through a SQL database that I can then wrap a web app around to enter daily stat updates. It's premised...

Difference between numeric,float and decimal in sql server

Hi, I searched in google and also visited the decimal and numeric and SQL Server Helper to glean the difference between numeric , float and decimal datatypes and also to find out which one should be used in which situation. For any kind of financial transaction, which one is prefered and why? e.g. for salary field ...

Activerecord, select on string compare

Hi all, I have a table called Basic , start_time is one field with type :VARCHAR(5), which actually stores a 5 bytes time data: byte 0 and 1 map to the year , month and day, and byte 2 to 4 map to the hour, min and second. So, it could possible bytes 2 ,3 ,4 are all 0. And I want to do following query : Basic.find (:all , :conditions =...

How to use SQL user defined functions in .NET?

Hello I created a scalar function in the DB SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_GetUserId_Username] ( @Username varchar(32) ) RETURNS int AS BEGIN DECLARE @UserId int SELECT @UserId = UserId FROM [User] WHERE Username = @Username RETURN @UserId END Now I want to ru...

Count multiple rows in SQL Server Query

I have this table called Online_Transaction and i want to show all the types of transactions and how many where made of each type (completed,rejected,pending for authorization) in a specific month. I have this query until now but I get repeated results any ideas? SELECT DISTINCT TRANSACTION_TYPE_ID , YEAR(CREATED_ON) AS YEAR , ...

Database tools

Hi, Can any one out there suggest a microsoft tool similar to Red Gate's sql promt,sql compare,sql data compare etc.Any help is appreciated.Thanks ...

SQL Delete if the row is not affected by constraints

First note that I have seen this question:TSQL delete with an inner join I have a large table and several foreign key relations, each of which have data of a given age. We need to remove data older than a given data on a regular basis to stop the DB from growing without bound. I'm writing a query that will delete from each point on th...

SQL bulk update, a field increment

So i learned how to do a bulk insert using data from one table as the userId from another table. Now i tried to do the same thing but i have a SQL(ite) error. I took a guess at the syntax and i got it wrong. After i bulk insert into the subscription i want to add 1 to each of the users media count. I have a left join error. How do i corr...

How to deal with silent mysql sum() integer overflow?

I've got this table with an int(11) column and hundreds of millions of rows. When I run a query like SELECT SUM(myIntColumn) as foo FROM myTable; the return value does not make sense--it is smaller than the the single largest max value. My values for this column max out somewhere around 500m, and the signed int should be able to ha...

Master Table Information required for the Replication Process

In SQL Server 2005 while doing Replication (Snap Shot/ Transactional/ Marge Replication), what are the master tables are used ? ...

Problems with More than 1 Left joins in MSAccess

This is related to my previous question More than 1 Left joins in MSAccess The problem is that I have 3 left joins followed by an AND operator to check 1 condition. If I run, then I am getting an error "Join Expression not supported". The query goes like this: SELECT * FROM(( EMPLOYEE AS E LEFT JOIN DEPARTMENT AS D ON E.EID=D.EID) ...

How do I combine/merge columns from two SQL query results?

I have a set of data in a table named BWHourlyReadings, for example: ServiceID Hour InputOctets OutputOctets ========= ==== =========== ================= 27222 1 383088 804249 27222 2 270529 688683 27222 3 247251 290124 ... up to 24 hours of data 27222...

limit of rows in SQL Server 2005 when performance degrades

What is the limit of rows in a table for SQL Server 2005, when SQL query starts getting slower? Is there any way to find out the limit? I understand it will depend upon the data length of a row. This will also depend on how many more data in other tables and the hardware available. ...

join table more than once in the same query?

Hi, I'm looking for some help on constructing a query. I have three tables like this: Products id | (20 other columns I don't need) 1 product_names product_id | product_name 1 my product 2 my second product 3 my third product cross_sell_products (where each product may h...

Linq - calculate multiple averages in one query

I'm trying to convert some SQL queries into Linq to avoid multiple trips to the database. The old SQL I'm trying to convert does: SELECT AVG(CAST(DATEDIFF(ms, A.CreatedDate, B.CompletedDate) AS decimal(15,4))), AVG(CAST(DATEDIFF(ms, B.CreatedDate, B.CompletedDate) AS decimal(15,4))) FROM dbo.A INNER JOIN dbo.B ON B.Par...

asp.net mvs ASPNETDB - uploading sql server to hosting site

i have taken the default asp.net mvc template and customized to work for me. I want to now upload this to my hosting provider. how do i get the sql server database into my server. Do i just upload the ASPNETDB.mdf file. What is this file actually? Does it represent the whole database. Can i simply copy that file around to migrate m...