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Using Stored Procedure into Select (T-SQL)

Hi, I need to access result of a stored procedure withinf a select statement (ie : SELECT * FROM [dbo].[sp_sample]) in SQL_Server 2005. Regards, Stéphane ...

How do I avoid a repetitive subquery JOIN in SQL?

Hi In SQL Server 2008: I have one table, and I want to do something along the following lines: SELECT T1.stuff, T2.morestuff from ( SELECT code, date1, date2 from Table ) as T1 INNER JOIN ( SELECT code, date1, date2 from Table ) as T2 ON T1.code = T2.code and T1.date1 = T2.date2 The two subqueries are exactly identical. Is there...

SQL statement to grab table names, views, and stored procs, order by schema

Is there a SQL statement that will list the names of all the tables, views, and stored procs from MS SQL Server database, ordered by schema name? I would like to generate an Excel spreadsheet from this list with the columns: schema, type (table, view, stored proc), and name. ...

SQL SERVER 2005 Self Joins output

HI I am looking for some help I just can't seem to get my head how self joins work. I have this sql code select Persno'Name',convert(char(20), A_Date , 13)'Logins',acode from atrail as LOGIN where acode = 'LOGIN' OR acode = 'LOGOUT' order by a_date desc Which produces a list of User names and when the have logged in and out. What ...

SQL: Daily Average of Logins Per Hour

This query is producing counts of logins per hour: SELECT DATEADD(hour, DATEDIFF(hour, 0, EVENT_DATETIME), 0), COUNT(*) FROM EVENTS_ALL_RPT_V1 WHERE EVENT_NAME = 'Login' AND EVENT_DATETIME >= CONVERT(DATETIME, '2010-03-17 00:00:00', 120) AND EVENT_DATETIME <= CONVERT(DATETIME, '2010-03-24 00:00:00', 120) GROUP BY DATE...

Select count / duplicates

Hello! I have a table with all U.S. zip codes. each row contains the city and state name for the zip code. I'm trying to get a list of cities that show up in multiple states. This wouldn't be a problem if there weren't X amount of zip codes in the same city... So basically, I just want to the city in a state to count as 1 instead of ...

Newbie database index question

I have a table with multiple indexes, several of which duplicate the same columns: Index 1 columns: X, B, C, D Index 2 columns: Y, B, C, D Index 3 columns: Z, B, C, D I'm not very knowledgeable on indexing in practice, so I'm wondering if somebody can explain why X, Y and Z were paired with these same columns. B is an effective date....

EXEC with an EXEC

Is it possible to have an EXEC within an EXEC in SQL? e.g. EXEC('EXEC ...') ...

add schema to path in postgresql

I'm the process of moving applications over from all in the public schema to each having their own schema. for each application, I have a small script that will create the schema and then create the tables,functions,etc... to that schema. Is there anyway to automatically add a newly created schema to the search_path? Currently, the on...

Convert Yes/No/Null from SQL to True/False in a DataTable

I have a Sql Database (which I have no control over the schema) that has a Column that will have the varchar value of "Yes", "No", or it will be null. For the purpose of what I am doing null will be handled as No. I am programming in c# net 3.5 using a data table and table adapter to pull the data down. I would like to directly bind the...

How do I make a sql query where fields are the result of a different query?

I have two tables, the first is like this: f1 | f2 | f3 | f4 ----------------- data.... the second contains info about the fields of the first: field | info ------------ f1 a f2 b f3 a etc. I would like to query the first table selecting the fields with a query on the second. So, for example, I might want to get ...

What's the difference between !col and col=false in MySQL?

The two statements have totally different performance: mysql> explain select * from jobs where createIndexed=false; +----+-------------+-------+------+----------------------+----------------------+---------+-------+------+-------+ | id | select_type | table | type | possible_keys | key | key_len | ref | rows |...

Scrubbing IPv4 dotted-quad addresses in SQL

Given a table containing dotted quad IPv4 addresses stored as a VARCHAR(15), for example: ipv4 -------------- 172.16.1.100 172.16.50.5 172.30.29.28 what's a convenient way to SELECT all "ipv4" fields with the final two octets scrubbed, so that the above would become: ipv4 ------------ 172.16.x.y 172.16.x.y 172.30.x.y ...

LEFT OUTER JOIN in Linq - How to Force

I have a LEFT OUTER OUTER join in LINQ that is combining with the outer join condition and not providing the desired results. It is basically limiting my LEFT side result with this combination. Here is the LINQ and resulting SQL. What I'd like is for "AND ([t2].[EligEnd] = @p0" in the LINQ query to not bew part of the join condition b...

inserting number into oracle sql - using jython

I have this insert command where iam trying to insert a number to be taken from loop i=0 for line in column: myStmt.executeQuery("INSERT INTO REVERSE_COL ( TABLE_NAME,COL_NAME,POS) values (,'test','"+column[i]+"','"+i+"'") i=i+1 POS IS NUMBER DATATYPE but it works if i hard code as 1 i=0 for line in column: myStmt.execut...

Delphi ADO SQL Syntax Error

Hello. I am getting an Syntax Error when processing the following lines of code. Especially on the AQ_Query.Open; procedure THauptfenster.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var option: TZahlerArray; begin option := werZahlte; AQ_Query.Close; AQ_Query.SQL.Clear; AQ_Query.SQL.Add('USE wgwgwg;'); AQ_Query.SQL.Add('INSERT INT...

SQL DATEDIFF Not working!?

Hi all, I am running a simple DATEDIFF query but it doesn't seem to calculate the days properly or i'm doing something wrong. If I run PRINT DATEDIFF(Day, 2010-01-20, 2010-01-01) RETURN 19 Which is correct. If i change the month in the first date to Feb (02) I get something strange. PRINT DATEDIFF(Day, 2010-02-20, 2010-01-01) RETUR...

Images in database vs file system

We have a project coming up where we will be building a whole backend CMS system that will power our entire extranet and intranet with one package. The question I have been trying to find an answer to is which is better: storing images in the database (SQL Server 2005) so we may have integrity, single replication plan, etc OR storing on ...

Retrieve and entry for all "type"s but only the most recent entry for each "type" from MySQL table

Basically if I had a mysql table with columns: id, type, content, version. There will be multiple entries with the same type. Version is a number which increments with each new entry of a certain type. I want to be able to get the most recent entry of each type for all types with one query. Is this possible or do I need to do separa...

How do I get the entity framework to work with archive flags?

I'm trying to create a set of tables where we don't actually delete them, but rather we set the archive flags instead. When we delete an entity, it shouldn't be deleted, it should be marked as archived instead. What are the programming patterns to support this? I would also prefer not to have to roll out my own stored procs for every t...