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SQL Server 2000: search through out database

Some how some records in my table are getting updated with value of xyz in a certain column. Out of hundred of stored procedures, functions, triggers, how can I determine which code is doing this action. Is there a way to search through the database some how through each and every script of the code? Please help. ...

SQL Double-Outer Join??

I have two tables A and B... A and B can be joined by a common column. A and B will have some rows that match on the join column. But A has some rows that B doesn't have, and B has some rows that A doesn't have. A LEFT OUTER JOIN from A to B will give all rows in A, filling in NULLS for the B columns that couldn't be matched. A R...

Functions in SQL Server 2008

Does sql server cache the execution plan of functions? ...

Joining Against Derived Table

I'm not sure of the terminology here, so let me give an example. I have this query: SELECT * FROM Events -------------------- Id Name StartPeriodId EndPeriodId 1 MyEvent 34 32 In here, the PeriodIds specify how long the event lasts for, think of it as weeks of the year specified in another table if that helps. No...

How can I get a JSON object from a SQL Server table?

I have a view that I want to be converted into JSON. What is the SQL that I can use to produce on the server the JSON string needed to be returned? ...

Control flow in T-SQL SP using IF..ELSE IF - are there other ways?

I need to branch my T-SQL stored procedure (MS SQL 2008) control flow to a number of directions: CREATE PROCEDURE [fooBar] @inputParam INT AS BEGIN IF @inputParam = 1 BEGIN ... END ELSE IF @inputParam = 3 BEGIN ... END ELSE IF @inputParam = 3 BEGIN ... END END Is there any other ways? For example, in C...

SQL Server dynamic column list in contains function

I have a database table in SQL Server 2008 with 5 nvarchar(max) columns. We're using the CONTAINS function to look for text in these columns. We can look in all five columns using this kind of query: SELECT * FROM SomeTable ST WHERE CONTAINS( (ST.ColumnA, ST.ColumnB, ST.ColumnC, ST.ColumnD, ST.ColumnE) , '"Strawberry"') Now we want ...

Ledger format for datagrid or dataset

I am trying to work up a general ledger appearance in an asp.net page. Here's the data i have so far. AccountName Desc Type Amount ----------------------------------------- Account1 Stuff Debit 5000 Account1 Stuff Credit 4000 Account2 Other Debit 3000 Account2 Other Credit 6000 A...

one-to-many query selecting all parents and single top child for each parent

There are two SQL tables: Parents: +--+---------+ |id| text | +--+---------+ | 1| Blah | | 2| Blah2 | | 3| Blah3 | +--+---------+ Childs +--+------+-------+ |id|parent|feature| +--+------+-------+ | 1| 1 | 123 | | 2| 1 | 35 | | 3| 2 | 15 | +--+------+-------+ I want to select with single query every row fro...

(SQL) Grouping by End of week

I have a report which needs to total up the number of registrations per week, over the last ten weeks and display it as "Week Ending October 10th, 2009" 500" "Week Ending OCtober 3rd, 2009" 400" "Week Ending September 26, 2009" 1000" etc... Here is my query: SELECT Count(*) as [Total] ,Week = DateAdd(day, -1 * da...

Get the date of a given day in a given week...

i need to start at a year-month and work out what the date it is in a given week, on a given day within that week.. i.e year: 2009 month: 10 week: 5 day-number: 0 would return 2009-10-25 00:00:00 which is a sunday. Notice week 5, there is no day 0 in week 5 in 2009-10 as the sunday in that logical week is 2009-11-01 00:00:00... so w...

do spaces in sql tables fubar queries?

I'm having an issue I'm generating sudoku puzzles and the solution to the puzzle are being stored in this format: xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx 8 spaces between the 9 sets, I cannot seem to query the row, it returns a blank row.. Is this because there is spaces? If I do a sel...

Select 1 row per order, but include order_line table?

I have two tables order [ order_id ] order_line [ order_id, product_id, cat_id ] I want to select every order & associated order_line, but I want row per order, and i only want to select cat_id from order_line so i want a result like this.. results: [0] order_id, cat_id1 , cat_id2, cat_id3 [1] order_id, cat_id Possible? ...

How to fix "domain error" in SQL Server 2005 when using LOG() function to get product of set

I have a inline select statement to calculate the product of the set of values. Since SQL Server 2005 doesn't have a built in Product aggregate function, I am using LOG/EXP to get it. My select statement is: (select exp(sum(log(value))) from table where value > 0) Unfortunately I keep getting the following error: Msg 3623, Level 16...

How to convert records in a table to xml format using T-SQL?

I've got a simple table and want to store its content into a xml on the harddrive. There should be one root element for the whole table, one element per table row and one child element per table column. What possibilities do I have? Thanks a lot Tomas ...

Help with a SQL Query

Hi All, I am wanting to perform a Threshold query, whereby one would take the Value of a field from Today, and compare it to the value from yesterday, this query would look something like this, but obviously, it is wrong, and I can't find how to do it: select TableB.Name, TableA.Charge, ( select Charge from Tabl...

Using StringWriter for XML Serialization

I'm currently searching for an easy way to serialize objects (in C# 3). I googled some examples and came up with something like: MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream ( ); XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer ( typeof ( MyObject) ); XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter ( memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8 ); xs.Serialize ( x...

Reducing values in one table until reserves depleted in another - recursion?

Hello everyone, I have two tables - let's call them dbo.ValuesToReduce and dbo.Reserve The data in the first table (dbo.ValuesToReduce) is: ValuesToReduceId | PartnerId | Value ------------------------------------- 1 | 1 | 53.15 2 | 2 | 601.98 3 | 1 | 91.05 4 ...

Building a comma separated list?

hi there I'm tryin to use SQL to build a comma separated list of cat_id's the code is: declare @output varchar(max) set @output = null; select @output = COALESCE(@output + ', ', '') + convert(varchar(max),cat_id) edit: changed '' to null, STILL same. but the output im getting is like so: , 66 , 23 the leading comma sh...

Foreign Key constraint

Hi Two table are tied with each other because of FK constraint. I am trying to update these tables by disabling ALL Trigger but still getting the following error :- The UPDATE statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_TEST_REFERRING_REFPHYSI". The conflict occurred in database "ccdb", table "dbo.RefPhysician", column 'R...