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sql: trying to select the second biggest element but selects the biggest

we want to have the second biggest element. We first use ANY to exclude the biggest one. Then we use all to select the biggest. However when we run this query, it shows the biggest and not the second one. Why? SELECT * FROM bestelling WHERE totaalprijs > ALL ( SELECT totaalprijs FROM bestelling WHERE totaalprijs < ANY (...

SQL: How to join a view with a table?

UPDATED: I am using MySQL statement to create a view: I need to show Editors First Name, Last Name and the City if they shipped more than 50 books. The three tables I have are: create table editors ( ed_id char(11), ed_lname varchar(20), ed_fname varchar(20), ed_pos varchar(12), phone varchar(10), address varchar(30), ...

Retrieving Top 10 rows and sum all others in row 11

Hello all, I have the following query that retrieve the number of users per country; SELECT C.CountryID AS CountryID, C.CountryName AS Country, Count(FirstName) AS Origin FROM Users AS U INNER JOIN Country AS C ON C.CountryID = U.CountryOfOrgin GROUP BY CASE C.CountryName, C.CountryID What I need is a wa...

ODBC continually prompts for password

I have an application built in Access 2003 that uses a system DSN ODBC to connect to a SQL Server. The ODBC uses SQL authentication. When the application is started, the user is prompted to authenticate into the database. I have another computer set up within the same domain that has Access 2007 installed on it. I log in using the same ...

Don't display dynamic query in result

Hi all, Is it possible to hide a dynamic query from the result sets provided from a Stored Procedure? I am using the @@rowcount of the dynamic query to set a variable that is used to determine whether another query runs or not. The other query is used by code that I cannot change - hence why I am changing the Stored Procedure. The dyn...

How to Auto-Increment Non-Primary Key? - SQL Server

CREATE TABLE SupplierQuote ( supplierQuoteID int identity (3504,2) CONSTRAINT supquoteid_pk PRIMARY KEY, PONumber int identity (9553,20) NOT NULL . . . CONSTRAINT ponumber_uq UNIQUE(PONumber) ); The above ddl produces an error: Msg 2744, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Multiple identity columns specified for table 'SupplierQuote'. On...

How Do I Escape Apostrophes in Field Valued in SQL Server?

I asked a question a couple days ago about creating INSERTs by running a SELECT to move data to another server. That worked great until I ran into a table that has full on HTML and apostrophes in it. What's the best way to deal with this? Lucking there aren't too many rows so it is feasible as a last resort to 'copy and paste'. But, even...

ms sql use like statement result in if statement

declare @d varchar set @d = 'No filter' if (@d like 'No filter') BEGIN select 'matched' end else begin select 'not matched' end the result of above is always not matched can anybody tell me why and how can I use the like or '=' result in my stored procedure. thanks ...

SQL Collation & Datatype: Support Both Western and Arabic data in a field

I have a Delphi + SQL Server (2k or 2005 supported) app that is used by both western and Arabic users. For some fields (i.e. name) my app needs to be able to support both Arabic language and western language characters. Is it possible to set a single collation & datatype for a field to handle either English or Arabic data? NB: I do not...

SQL Join to only the maximum row puzzle

Given the following example data: Users +--------------------------------------------------+ | ID | First Name | Last Name | Network Identifier | +--------------------------------------------------+ | 1 | Billy | O'Neal | bro4 | +----+------------+-----------+--------------------+ | 2 | John | Skeet |...

max count with joins

I have 3 tables: users: Id Login 1 John 2 Bill 3 Jim computers: Id Name 1 Computer1 2 Computer2 3 Computer3 4 Computer4 5 Computer5 sessions: UserId ComputerId Minutes 1 2 47 2 1 32 1 4 15 2 5 5 1 2 7 1 ...

“Function” calling inside store procedure

Hi, I have a big store procedure, that contains a lot of INSERTs. There're many INSERTS that almost identical - they're different by some parameter(s) (all INSERTs to the same table) Is there a way to create a function/method, to which I'll pass the above parameter(s) and the function/method will generate concrete INSERT's? Thanks ...

SQL: count days in date range?

I have a query like this: SELECT COUNT(*) AS amount FROM daily_individual_tracking WHERE sales = 'YES' AND daily_individual_tracking_date BETWEEN '2010-01-01' AND '2010-03-31' I am selected from a date range. Is there a way to also get the total days in the date range? ...

MySQL query String contains

Hello. This may sound easy, but I've been trying - in vain, apparently - to figure out how I can make a query with MySQL that checks if the value (string $haystack ;) ) in a certain column contains certain data ( $needle ;) ), like this: mysql_query(" SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `column`.contains('{$needle}') "); In PHP, the function...

Use a stored procedure parameter for unit parameter of DATE_SUB

I would like to know if it's possible to pass a parameter to a mysql stored procedure and use this parameter as the unit parameter of the DATE_SUB function. It seems that the unit parameter is a reserved word so I don't know if there's a type for unit. Exemple of what I'm trying to do : DELIMITER $$ DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `test` $$...

Unique identifiers for users

If I have a table of a hundred users normally I would just set up an auto-increment userID column as the primary key. But if suddenly we have a million users or 5 million users then that becomes really difficult because I would want to start becoming more distributed in which case an auto-increment primary key would be useless as each no...

Union on two tables with a where clause in the one

Currently I have 2 tables, both of the tables have the same structure and are going to be used in a web application. the two tables are production and temp. The temp table contains one additional column called [signed up]. Currently I generate a single list using two columns that are found in each table (recno and name). Using these two ...

How to access Oracle system tables from inside of a PL/SQL function or procedure?

I am trying to access information from an Oracle meta-data table from within a function. For example (purposefully simplified): CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE MyProcedure IS users_datafile_path VARCHAR2(100); BEGIN SELECT file_name INTO users_datafile_path FROM dba_data_files WHERE tablespace_name='USERS' A...

Microsoft SQL Count problem

Hey smarties. I'm having trouble with the following SQL statement. I know that I can't do a GROUP BY on the OnlineStatus column, and it makes sense because it's a function call, not an actual column in my table. How would I modify this so that I can get a count of how many users are online? SELECT CASE dbo.fnGetWebUserOnlineStatus(W.Id)...

Sharepoint OLE DB - cannot insert records? "Field not updateable" error

I need to write a simple C# .NET application to retrieve, update, and insert some data in a Sharepoint list. I am NOT a Sharepoint developer, and I don't have control over our Sharepoint server. I would prefer not to have to develop this in a proper sharepoint development environment simply because I don't want to have to deploy my appl...