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Negative Primary Keys

Are there any repercussions using Negative Primary Keys for tables (Identity Increment -1, Identity Seed -1 in SQL Server 2005)? The reason for this is we're creating a new database to replace an existing one. There are similar tables between the two databases and we'd like the "source" of the information to be transparent to our appli...

ibatis/Oracle - SELECT query inside INSERT is failing

Hi, I'm trying to do an Insert operation using iBatis. INSERT INTO SCHEMA.TABLE (FIELD1, FIELD2, FIELD3) VALUES (#field1#, (SELECT ANOTHER_FIELD FROM SCHEMA.TABLE WHERE FIELD4= #field2#), #field2#) ...

showing null rows using join

Hi, In mysql i m selecting from a table shouts having a foreign key to another table named "roleuser" with the matching column as user_id Now the user_id column in the shouts table for some rows is null (not actually null but with no inserts in mysql) How to show all the rows of the shouts table either with user_id null or not I m ...

MySQL: Select remaining rows

I've searched everywhere for this, but I can't seem to find a solution. Perhaps I'm using the wrong terms. Either way, I'm turning to good ol' trusty S.O. to help my find the answer. I have two tables, we'll call them 'tools' and 'installs' tools = id, name, version installs = id, tool_id, user_id The 'tools' table records available ...

mysql query is producing more results than it should

SELECT S.CLIENT,S.IP_DOMAIN as IP, IFNULL(K.DATE, DATE '0000-00-00') AS RecentDate FROM PLD_SERVERS AS S JOIN PLD_SEARCHES AS K ON S.ID = K.SERVER_ID This query will produce as many results as entries in the PLD_SEARCHES. For example: I have 3 entries in PLD_SERVERS and 18 entries in PLD_SEARCHES. The output of this query will b...

The "first past the post election" query problem

This problem may seem like school work, but it isn't. At best it is self-imposed school work. I encourage any teachers to take is as an example if they wish. "First past the post" elections are single-round, meaning that whoever gets the most votes win, no second rounds. Suppose a table for an election. CREATE TABLE ElectionResults ( ...

How do I Handle Ties When Ranking Results in MySQL?

How does one handle ties when ranking results in a mysql query? I've simplified the table names and columns in this example, but it should illustrate my problem: SET @rank=0; SELECT student_names.students, @rank := @rank +1 AS rank, scores.grades FROM student_names LEFT JOIN scores ON student_names.stude...

Date calculating (SQL, Oracle 10g)

How do I calculate number of years since product was made (rounded to 1 decimal point) for products that were made less than five years ago? Thank you. ...

How can I programmatically drop a SQL Server database from .NET code

I'm trying to drop a SQL Server database from .NET code. I've tried using the SMO classes but get an exception saying the database is in use. Then I tried executing a query (opening a SqlConnection, executing a SqlCommand), along the lines of: ALTER DATABASE foo SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE (pause) DROP DATABASE foo But...

MySQL join headaches, please help!

Ok, I've hit the wall here and need some help. Sample tables are as follows: SCENARIO_NATIONS [scenID] [side] [nation] scen001 1 Germany scen001 2 Britain scen001 2 Canada SCENARIO_NEEDUNITS [scenID] [unitID] scen001 0001 scen001 0003 scen001 0107 scen001 0258 scen001 0759 UNIT_BASIC_DATA [u...

How to create database project from existing SQL Server database?

By using VS TFS Database Edition 2008, how to create dbproject from an existing SQL SERVER database? ...

Querying Two Tables At Once

Hello, I am trying to do what I believe is called a join query. First, in a MySQL table called "login," I want to look up what "loginid" is in the record where "username" equals $profile. (This will be just one record / row in the MySQL table). Then, I want to take that "loginid" and look up all rows / records in a different MySQL ...

how to count NULL categories in one SQL question

hi, i have a blog application were Post belongsTo Category and Category hasMany Post Post can have a Category or not - in latter case NULL value is present in Post.category_id field. Now i would like to have following category count with single SQL query category|post_count -------------- PHP | 2 JavaScript | 4 SomeOtherCat | 1 NULL...

CakePHP repeats same queries

I have a model structure: Category hasMany Product hasMany Stockitem belongsTo Warehouse, Manufacturer. I fetch data with this code, using containable to be able to filter deeper in the associated models: $this->Category->find('all', array( 'conditions' => array('Category.id' => $category_id), 'contain' => array( ...

Which jar to use for connecting to MS SQL server

Hi, Can some one please guide me to understand which jar file i need to include in my application to be able to set up a jdbc connection with ms sql server. thanks in advance. ...

Optimize the sql query

UPDATE employees SET job_id = (SELECT job_id FROM employees WHERE employee_id = 205), salary = (SELECT salary FROM employees WHERE employee_id = 205) WHERE employee_id = 114; This is the query i have been using. Here i use 2 subqueries but they have th...

Need some help with a MySQL subquery count

I'm running into my own limits of MySQL query skills, so I hope some SQL guru can help out on this one. The situation is as follow: I have images that can be tagged. As you might expect this is stored in three tables: Image Tag Tag_map (maps images to tags) I have a SQL query that calculates the related tags based on a tag id. The q...

Why DB constraints are not added during table creation.

Hi All, What is the difference between these to ways of table creation. CREATE TABLE TABLENAME( field1.... field2... add constraint constraint1; add constraint constraint2; ) AND CREATE TABLE TABLENAME( field1.... field2... ) ALTER TABLE TABLENAME add constaint1 ALTER TABLE TABLENAME add constaint2 Moreover the first...

Question on SQL Grouping

Hi Team, I am trying to achieve the following without using sub query. For a funding, I would like to select the latest Letter created date and the ‘earliest worklist created since letter created’ date for a funding. FundingId Leter (1, 1/1/2009 )(1, 5/5/2009) (1, 8/8/2009) (2, 3/3/2009) FundingId WorkList (1, 5/5/2009 ) (1, 9/9/20...

Which user account is running SQLCMD in T-SQL Script without -U and -P option?

I am using sqlcmd in a T-SQl script to write a text file to a network location. However SQLCMD is failing to write to that location due to access permission to the network folder. SP is being run under my user account which has access to the network folder. Could you please help me under which account sqlcmd will run if I do not specify...