I want to go through a table, and change all instances of 'notify4-N' to 'notify5-N', where N is a number from 1-9. Is there a way to do that in SQL? It would be easy in perl, but I'm not sure the customer even has perl on his servers. ...
Say, in a typical university's Database System, what might be a SQL statement that can find all classes with no student registering in them yet? (when registration process is for 10 days and it is now the 3rd day). What might be other SQL statement solutions? Details: Assuming the university have many Departments, and each Departmen...
Hi there, What'd be the most effective and efficient sql query to grab an article and the comments? It'd be two tables (articles, comments.) Would it be best to have it in one SQL query or two SQL querys? Speed is the main concern. Thanks in advance ...
I have a Business Layer that passes a Conn string and a SQLCommand to a Data Layer like so public void PopulateLocalData() { System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand cmd = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand(); cmd.CommandType = System.Data.CommandType.StoredProcedure; cmd.CommandText = "usp_PopulateServiceSurveyL...
Hi can some body help me please? I'd like to know how to add a sql script to a setup project, so that after the instalition the data base is implémented? I mean that the setup project implement the data base that I add it to the setup project with the sql script I'm using c#, wpf, SQL SERVER2008, VisualSutdio 2008 thank's ...
Hello I want to use XQuery on a column of data type NTEXT (I have no choice!). I have tried converting the column to XML using CONVERT but it gives the error: Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'CONVERT'. Here's the query SELECT y.item.value('@UserID', 'varchar(50)') AS UnitID, y.item.value('@ListingID', 'varchar(100)') A...
When calling a stored procedure from vb.net is there a default SQL timeout time if no timeout is specified in the connection string? I am unsure if there is a CommandTimeout specified in the connection string but am going through all the possibilites. Example if no results after 30 seconds (or more) throw: `System.Data.SqlClient.SqlExc...
We're using Visual Studio Database Edition (DBPro) to manage our schema. This is a great tool that, among the many things it can do, can analyse our schema and T-SQL code based on rules (much like what FxCop does with C# code), and flag certain things as warnings and errors. Some example rules might be that every table must have a prima...
i know this should be simpel and im probably staring straight at the problem but once again im stuck and need the help of the code gurus. im trying too take one row from a column in jdbc, and put them in an array. i do this as follows: public void fillContactList() { createConnection(); try { ...
Is there an method for programatically (in T-SQL) retrieving the maximum (and minimum) value of a datatype? That it would act like float.MaxValue in C#. I would like to use it in some selection when the parameter does not equal any actual values in the database, so I would use something like declare @min float declare @max float --fill...
Kind of a whimsical question, always something I've wondered about and I figure knowing why it does what it does might deepen my understanding a bit. Let's say I do "SELECT TOP 10 * FROM TableName". In short timeframes, the same 10 rows come back, so it doesn't seem random. They weren't the first or last created. In my massive sample si...
Another developer created a stored procedure that is set up to run as a sql job each month. It takes one parameter of datetime. When I try to invoke it in the job or in just a query window I get an error "Incorrect syntax near ')'" The call to execute it is... exec CreateHeardOfUsRecord getdate() When I give it a hard coded date lik...
Is there a tool or code to convert a sql statement to class? Something like: Dim sqlText = "SELECT CustomerID, Name, Address, City FROM dbo.Customer WHERE CustomerID = 1" Dim obj As New ***SqlStatementTool***(sqlText) obj.GetTables() 'Will Return Tables in sqlText obj.GetWheres() 'Will Return conditions in sqltext obj.GetParameters() ...
Here is my actual table schema (I'm using Mysql) : Table experiment : code(int) sample_1_id sample_2_id ... until ... sample_12_id rna_1_id rna_2_id ... until ... rna_12_id experiment_start How can I optimize both part : sample_n_id and rna_n_id (all are bigint(20) and allow null=true) ? About values : we can have : ex : sample_1_id ...
Hello, I want to do a ranking grid. I have a table with different values indexed by a key: Table SimpleValue : key varchar, value int, playerId int I have a player which have several SimpleValue. Table Player: id int, nickname varchar Now imagine these records: SimpleValue: Key value playerId for 1 1 int ...
Ok, so I'm trying to select an amount of rows from a column that holds the value 3, but only if there are no rows containing 10 or 4, if there are rows containing 10 or 4 I only want to show those. What would be a good syntax to do that? So far I've been attempting a CASE WHEN statement, but I can't seem to figure it out. Any help woul...
I’ve read that logical operator AND has higher order of precedence than logical operator IN, but that doesn’t make sense since if that was true, then wouldn’t in the following statement the AND condition got evaluated before the IN condition ( thus before IN operator would be able to check whether Released field equals to any of the valu...
Here's my query: SELECT my_view.* FROM my_view WHERE my_view.trial in (select 2 as trial_id from dual union select 3 from dual union select 4 from dual) and my_view.location like ('123-%') When I execute this query it returns results which do not conform to the my_view.location like ('123-%') condition. It's as if that condition is b...
Hi When u use Varchar(max), it is 8000 chars for a variable, and around 2^32 for a column, what is COLLATE and how it affects that? Thanks ...
I've 2 databases, which are set up as mentioned here. How can I write a SQL query which involves database_1.table_1 and database_2.table_1 ? E.g. consider this query $sql = "SELECT distinct database_1.users.id, database_1.users.name FROM database_1.users, database_2.sales WHERE database_2.sales.user_id = database_1.use...