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Bootstrapper Package for SQL Server 2008 Native Client and SQL Server 2008 Management Objects

I'm using the Bootstrapper Manifest Generator to make bootstrapper packages for the following redistrbutables: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Objects Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types I have a MsiProductCheck install conditions to determine if t...

SQL left join with multiple rows into one row

Basically, I have two tables, Table A contains the actual items that I care to get out, and Table B is used for language translations. So, for example, Table A contains the actual content. Anytime text is used within the table, instead of storing actual varchar values, ids are stored that relate back to text stored in Table B. This allo...

SQL Group By Modulo of Row Count

I have the following sample data: Id Name Quantity 1 Red 1 2 Red 3 3 Blue 1 4 Red 1 5 Yellow 3 So for this example, there are a total of 5 Red, 1 Blue, and 3 Yellow. I am looking for a way to group them by Color, but with a maximum of 2 items per group (sorting is not important). ...

Sleep function in ORACLE

I need execute an sql query in ORACLE it takes a certain amount of time. so i wrote this function CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION MYSCHEMA.TEST_SLEEP ( TIME_ IN NUMBER ) RETURN INTEGER IS BEGIN DBMS_LOCK.sleep(seconds => TIME_); RETURN 1; EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN RAISE; RETURN 1; END TEST_SLEEP; and i call in this way ...

No database connection when trying to use IIS locally with asp.net MVC 1.0

Login failed for user ''. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. When I try to use IIS locally instead of Cassini I get this error. The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 site is running on WinXP. The database is local and has SQL Server and Windows Authentification mode enabled. The website runs OK using Cassini, with the sam...

SQL latest/top items in category

What is a scalable way to select latest 10 items from each category. I have a schema list this: item category updated so I want to select 10 last update items from each category. The current solution I can come up with is to query for categories first and then issue some sort of union query: categories = sql.execute("select cate...

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and the Report Viewer

I am having an issue embedding my report into an aspx page. Here's my setup: 1 Server running SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 1 Workstation running XP and VS 2005 The server is not on a domain. Reporting Services is a default installation. I have one report called TestMe in a folder called TestReports using a sha...

Is SQLlite strong enough to use as wordpress database ?

i'm just curious. so i ask this particular question about SQLite. I haven't use this type of database extensively. but care to explain what is the basic different between SQLite and Mysql ? The reason behind all of this is i just want to know whether it possible to use it to store wordpress data and act as a database ? ...

sql server 2005 express - Invalid Object Name error

I have a copy of a query from a view (by filtering) and when i tried to excute it, it throws an error message that says "invalid object name 'bla bla'". How can i fix it? I am using windows 7(ultimate) os and sql server 2005 express. ...

Use a named custom column in SQL 2005 in WHERE clause?

Can I name a custom column in the SELECT statement and reference that in the WHERE clause without duplicating code? For example; SELECT RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 5) + RTRIM(SOME_ID)), 5) AS DISPLAY_ID FROM dbo.MY_TABLE WHERE DISPLAY_ID LIKE '%005%' Only much more complicated. I want to maintain this code in one place only but SQL Server 2...

Get data types from arbitrary sql statement in SQL Server 2008

Given some arbitrary SQL I would like to get the data types of the returned columns. The statement might join many tables, views, TVFs, etc. I know I could create a view based on the query and get the datatypes from that, hoping there's a quicker way. Only think I've been able to think of is writing a .net utility to run the SQL and e...

How can I remove an "ALMOST" Duplicate using LINQ? ( OR SQL? )

This should be and easy one for the LINQ gurus out there. I'm doing a complex Query using UNIONS and CONTAINSTABLE in my database to return ranked results to my application. I'm getting duplicates in my returned data. This is expected. I'm using CONTAINSTABLE and CONTAINS to get all the results I need. CONTAINSTABLE is ranked by SQL a...

Combine stored procedure and query in T-SQL

What ways are there to combine executing of a stored procedure and using it's result or parameters in a regular SQL query? Or not supported yet but planned in future versions of SQL Server. I'm afraid that I use variables when it's possible do not. I mean next: -- passing result of SELECT to SP SELECT a, b FROM t EXEC my_sp a, b -- pa...

Begin Viewing Query Results Before Query Ends

OK, so say I have a table with 500K rows, then I ad-hoc query with unsupported indexing which requires a full table scan. I would like to immediately view the first rows returned while the full table scan continues. Then I want to scroll thru the next results. In the meantime, I would like to display the progress of the table scan, examp...

How do I correctly use two Not Exists statements in a where clause using Access SQL VBA?

I have 3 Tables: NotHeard,analyzed,analyzed2. In each of these tables I have two columns named UnitID and Address. What I'm trying to do right now is to select all of the records for the columns UnitID and Address from NotHeard that don't appear in either analyzed or analyzed2. The SQL statement I created was as follows: SELECT UnitID,...

SQLite is the CASE statement expensive?

I'm wondering if using a CASE statement in SQLite (or other SQL engines) to replace data is not advised. For example lets say I have a query. SELECT Users, CASE WHEN Active = 0 THEN 'Inactive' WHEN Active = 1 THEN 'Active' WHEN Active = 2 THEN 'Processing' ...

Selecting the first row out of many sql joins

Alright, so I'm putting together a path to select a revision of a particular novel: SELECT Catalog.WbsId, Catalog.Revision, NovelRevision.Revision FROM Catalog, BookInCatalog INNER JOIN NovelMaster INNER JOIN HasNovelRevision INNER JOIN NovelRevision ON HasNovelRevision.right = NovelRevision.obid ON Has...

Create a Cumulative Sum Column in MySQL

I have a table that looks like this: id count 1 100 2 50 3 10 I want to add a new column called cumulative_sum, so the table would look like this: id count cumulative_sum 1 100 100 2 50 150 3 10 160 Is there a MySQL update statement that can do this easily? What's the best way to accomplish this? ...

Isolate SQL field using regex

I'm trying to isolate a specific field in a SQL dump file so I can edit it but I'm not having any luck. The regex I'm using is: ^(?:(?:'[^\r\n']*'|[^,\r\n]*),){6}('[^\r\n']*'|[^,\r\n]*) Which is supposed to grab the seventh field and place it inside reference 1. The trouble is that this is stumbling when ever it finds a comma inside...

Server authorization with MD5 and SQL.

I currently have a SQL database of passwords stored in MD5. The server needs to generate a unique key, then sends to the client. In the client, it will use the key as a salt then hash together with the password and send back to the server. The only problem is that the the SQL DB has the passwords in MD5 already. Therefore for this to wo...