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Re-using aggregate level formulas in SQL - any good tactics?

Imagine this case, but with a lot more component buckets and a lot more intermediates and outputs. Many of the intermediates are calculated at the detail level, but a few things are calculated at the aggregate level: DECLARE @Profitability AS TABLE ( Cust INT NOT NULL ,Category VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL ,Income DECIMAL(10, ...

MySQL: Query Cacheing (How do I use memcache?)

I have an query like: SELECT id as OfferId FROM offers WHERE concat(partycode, connectioncode) = ? AND CURDATE() BETWEEN offer_start_date AND offer_end_date AND id IN ("121211, 123341,151512,5145626 "); Now I want to cache the results of this query using memcache and so my question is How can I cache an query using memcache. I am...

How can I replace ” with " in a mysql Query?

I am trying to run this SQL from ASP.NET 2005 but am getting an invalid SQL error because it has a weird character ” in it. In my code I am trying to replace ” with " but it is not doing it as the special character in the replace command is changing to ". Query: insert into userquery(description) values ('In fact, Topeka Google May...

How to log sql statements in grails

Hi I want to log in the console or in a file, all the queries that Grails do, to check performance. I had configured this without success. Any idea would help. ...

Why does this Rails named scope return empty (uninitialized?) objects?

In a Rails app, I have a model, Machine, that contains the following named scope: named_scope :needs_updates, lambda { { :select => self.column_names.collect{|c| "\"machines\".\"#{c}\""}.join(','), :group => self.column_names.collect{|c| "\"machines\".\"#{c}\""}.join(','), :joins => 'LEFT JOIN "machine_updates" ON "machine_upd...

mysql - query group/concat question??

I have a situation where I return results with mutiple rows. I'm looking for aw way to return a single row, with the multiple items in separate cols within the row. My initial query: SELECT a.name, a.city, a.address, a.abbrv, b.urltype, b.url FROM jos__universityTBL as a LEFT JOIN jos__university_urlTBL as b on b.universityID...

Base 36 to Base 10 conversion using SQL only.

A situation has arisen where I need to perform a base 36 to base 10 conversion, in the context of a SQL statement. There doesn't appear to be anything built into Oracle 9, or Oracle 10 to address this sort of thing. My Google-Fu, and AskTom suggest creating a pl/sql function to deal with the task. That is not an option for me at this...

Conditional Operator in SQL Where Clause

I'm wishing I could do something like the following in SQl Server 2005 (which I know isnt valid) for my where clause. Sometimes @teamID (passed into a stored procedure) will be the value of an existing teamID, otherwise it will always be zero and I want all rows from the Team table. I researched using Case and the operator needs to c...

How do I correctly model data in SQL-based databases that have some columns in common, but also have columns that are unique?

For instance, let's say I have a User model. Users have things like logins, passwords, e-mail addresses, avatars, etc. But there are two types of Users that will be using this site, let's say Parents and Businesses. I need to store some different information for the Parents (e.g. childrens' names, domestic partner, salaries, etc.) than f...

PHP error can't figure it out something to do with SQL stuff I think

Ok the error is showing up somewhere in this here code if($error==false) { $query = pg_query("INSERT INTO chatterlogins(firstName, lastName, gender, password, ageMonth, ageDay, ageYear, email, createDate) VALUES('$firstNameSignup', '$lastNameSignup', '$genderSignup', md5('$passwordSignup'), $monthSignup, $daySignup, $yearSi...

SQL Oracle LEFT JOIN and SUBQUERY error: ORA-00905: missing keyword

Hello everyone. Asking for your help on this Oracle query. It's giving me the error 2 "ORA-00905: missing keyword". It was working fine before I added the LEFT JOIN statement. Obviously it won't deliver the information as we need it without the LEFT JOIN statement. Please provide any help to know which keyword is missing in this query ...

How can I duplicate a SQL Server symmetric key?

We have a server with a database that has a symmetric key (Database -> Security -> Symmetric Key). We have a backup duplicate databases that we are using as a test databases, but we don't have this key in there. How can I duplicate this symmetric key (or make a new one exactly like the old) and put it in the existing databases? It has t...

Using Excel to work with SQL data (read/write)

I have a ton of data in a sql database which I would like to be able to import and display in excel (I can already do this) and additionally modify or append to the dataset within excel and write the changes/additions back to the database. What is the best way to go about doing something like this? Please let me know, thanks! ...

To store images in SQL or not?

Generally, I had thought it was always better to store images in the filesystem and link to it via the database entry. However, I am trying to optimize my db design and am having a few questions. My images are all really small thumbmails in black and white (not greyscale, but true B&W) and are 70x70 in size. If we take the images (whi...

Viewing recently edited etherpads (note new 'etherpad' tag for open sourced etherpad code!)

Prescript: The amazing etherpad was recently open sourced. Get it here: http://code.google.com/p/etherpad. This is the first question that I know of on StackOverflow about the etherpad code. If you're part of the etherpad open source community, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for questions tagged 'etherpad' just in case t...

sqlite3.OperationalError: database is locked - non-threaded application

Hi, I have a Python application which throws the standard sqlite3.OperationalError: database is locked error. I have looked around the internet and could not find any solution which worked (please note that there is no multiprocesses/threading going on, and as you can see I have tried raising the timeout parameter). The sqlite file is...

What's a reasonable number of rows and tables to be able to join in MySQL?

I have one table that maps locations to postal codes. For example, New York State has about 2000 postal codes. I have another table that maps mail to the postal codes it was sent to, but this table has about 5 million rows. I want to find all the mail that was sent to New York State, which seems simple enough, but the query is unbelievab...

SQL Query - Need some basic help

I'm in need of some basic TSQL help. Here's my table layout: Orders Table SSN ZipCode ZipLookup Table ZipCode State All columns are varchars. How would I get a list of States with the number of distinct SSN's in each state? Preferably, if a particular SSN has orders from multiple states only the state with the most orders wou...

SQL Outer Join on a bunch of Inner Joined results

I received some great help on joining a table to itself and am trying to take it to the next level. The SQL below is from the help but with my addition of the select line beginning with COUNT, the inner join to the Recipient table, and the Group By. SELECT Event.EventID AS EventID, Event.EventDate AS EventDat...

Spring's JdbcDaoSupport (using MySQL Connector/J) fails after executing sql that adds FK

I am using Spring's JdbcDaoSupport class with a DriverManagerDataSource using the MySQL Connector/J 5.0 driver (driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.driver). allowMultiQueries is set to true in the url. My application is an in-house tool we recently developed that executes sql scripts in a directory one-by-one (allows us to re-create our sche...