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SQL Server 2005 Syntax Help - "Select Info based upon Max Value of Sub Query"

The objective is below the list of tables. Tables: Table: Job JobID CustomerID Value Year Table: Customer CustomerID CustName Table: Invoice SaleAmount CustomerID The Objective Part 1: (easy) I need to select all invoice records and sort by Customer (To place nice w/ Crystal Reports) Select * from Invoice as A inner join...

Counting children in another table for each row

I have two tables: CATEGORY and SUBCATEGORY Table Structure for CATEGORY category_id int(11) category_name varchar(250) category_status enum('0', '1') Table Structure for SUBCATEGORY subcategory_id int(10) subcategory_name varchar(255) status enum('0', '1') For example there is a single...

How to select in result set UNION ALL operation

SELECT * FROM (SELECT BAR.DIAGNOSES FROM FOO INNER JOIN BAR ON FOO.AN = BAR.AN WHERE FOO.ADMWARD IN (16,17) AND (BAR.DIAGNOSES IS NOT NULL) UNION ALL SELECT BAR.UNDERLYINGCAUSE FROM FOO INNER JOIN BAR ON FOO.AN = BAR.AN WHERE FOO.ADMWARD IN (16,17) AND (BAR.UNDERLYINGCAUSE IS NOT NULL) UNION ALL SELECT BAR.UNDERLYINGCAUSE2 FROM FOO INNE...

Get list of parent and child records with multiple entries with criteria - SQL 2005

Hi, I have parent / child tables: parent table: id | description 1 | Alexandra 2 | Natalia child table: id | id_parent | description 1 | 1 | Programmer 2 | 1 | Surgery 3 | 2 | Programmer 4 | 2 | IT How to return set of record according filters, like if we want to get all records with "Programm...

GetNextID() - method in C#

How to execute this T-SQL command through a c# method so that I can get the next ID of a Table? declare @IDColumnName as varchar(150) declare @TableName as varchar(150) declare @SQL as nvarchar(1000) declare @returns as int set @IDColumnName = 'ID' set @TableName = 'User' set @returns = -1 set @SQL = 'select MAX([' + @IDColumnName + '...

Select from sql in condition that a certain column is start with a certain string.

I am using sql. How to select all items from a table. where a column (varchar) path is start with a certain string : "stringABC" select * from ATable where path like 'stringABC'; The above sql is wrong, can any one help me to fix it? Many thanks! ...

Multithread database access (.NET)

Hi, I'm currently building an app that generates quotes. The total time to generate all quotes is about 10 secs, and at present provides an unacceptable user experience. What I want to do is multi-thread each quote so the user can see results as they come in. The problem is that the app I've inherited does a lot of bus logic on the d...

Insert using single insert statement.

Hi, I want to insert the data in my table tblSubscriptions and I only want to use one insert statement. I am going to insert data for every userId in User Table. The following SQL doesnot work. Insert tblSubscriptions (UserID, ProductID, isACtive, SubscriptionDays, Price, MonthlyPrice, ProductType, CurrencyID) Values ((Select userID Fr...

how to Sql return only all duplicated entries

i have a table having create table test(id int not null primary key, day date not null); insert into test(id, day) values(1, '2006-10-08'); insert into test(id, day) values(2, '2006-10-08'); insert into test(id, day) values(3, '2006-10-09'); select * from test; +----+------------+ | id | day | +----+------------+ | 1 | 2006-1...

exception while retrieve a null field from sql ce 3.5

Hi, i am storing an image in a table in varbinary(max) format, actually first time it will be empty,i am checking whether it is empty of not but while checking for null field i am getting any exception stating invalid cast so can any one suggest what is the problem with this. code sample is con = new SqlCeConnection(CommonClass.Conn...

ANSI SQL question

I have a table which has fields (id, parent_id, name, created_at). I want to write a query to select id, name, created_at, parent_created_at. The 'parent_created_at' is the 'created_at' field for the records matching parent (if it has one - i.e. the records parent_id >0), otherwise the 'parent_created_at' field should be null. Any sugges...

sql pulling a row for next or previous row of a current row

id | photo title | created_date XEi43 | my family | 2009 08 04 dDls | friends group | 2009 08 05 32kJ | beautiful place | 2009 08 06 EOIk | working late | 2009 08 07 Say I have the id 32kJ. How would I get the new or previous row? ...

Inline query to update multiple rows

Here is a brief description of the tables I'm working with in Oracle 10g: Notes: Table : jnldetail : Single row with data as shown. There are multiple package id's attached to the same bill_ref_no for an account. Therefore, I'm trying to update "jnldetail " with the multiple package_id's. Relation between index_bill_ref and bill_ref_n...

SQL - Parsing a query

I worked on a parser for arithmetic expressions. The key there was building a syntax tree, where leaves are variables and nodes are operators. Not I'm thinking about parsing SQL queries. Parsing simple select won't be a problem, but I'm not pretty sure about the complex queries. Can you point me to a good reference about sql parsing. T...

How to set morethan max size charecters in NVARCHAR(MAX),sql Server2005

Hi All, I am using declare @insertsql nvarchar(MAX) --above @insertsql for sp_executesql takes only nvarchar as input set @insertsql='--i am giving More than 10000 characters here -----' EXEC sp_executesql @insertsql, N'@inXMLRequest XML OUTPUT', @inXMLRequest OUTPUT how to insert morethan 10000 charecters in NVARCHAR(MAX) in sql...

pgsql time diffrence?

How to write a query to find the time difference ? time format is like this 2009-08-12 02:59:59 i want to compare this time with 2009-08-12 02:59:10 how to check these two i want to return some row having the time difference is 30sec how to write a SQL statement ?? ...

"Smart" where clause for filtering values (Oracle 10g)

Imagine table t1 have 2 cols: col1 col2 -------------- test 900 1 test 901 2 test 902 3 user 901 4 test 909 5 I want to find just one row by 2 params (name, code) where name its (test, user ..etc) and code - (901, 902, null, .. etc). There could not be more than one row of the same (Code,name) - I Mean there ...

very strange string unique issue in C#

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS2008 + C# + .Net 3.0. Here is my code and related exception from ADO.Net. Here is my input two strings in both binary form and text form, any ideas what is wrong? Why the two different strings will be treated as the same by ADO.Net? Exception message: An unhandled exception of type 'System.Data.Constrain...

MySQL: Count entries without grouping?

I want to pull results and count how many of each name is pulled but without grouping... for example I want this: John Doe 3 John Doe 3 John Doe 3 Mary Jane 2 Mary Jane 2 instead of this: John Doe 3 Mary Jane 2 Does that make sense? Thanks. ...

What are valid SQL functions for OLEDB provider for querying a text file?

Does anyone know of any documentation out there that lays out what SQL functions are supported for the .NET Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 provider when querying a text file? For instance, the TRIM() function. However, there doesn't appear to be a CASE function like in SQL Server. ...