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Forum: MS SQL May 29th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 536
Posted By pty
I think a self join is required:


select distinct
d1.id
from dtlstbl as d1
inner join dtlstbl as d2
on d1.id = d2.id
and d2.refid = 2
where
Forum: MS SQL Mar 25th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 2,496
Posted By pty
A quick and dirty method would be to select into a temp table that has a identity column and then use that as the basis for your query. I wouldn't use this method if performance is high on your...
Forum: MS SQL Jan 21st, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 727
Posted By pty
Books Online (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa257103.aspx) is probably a decent way to start.

Also I suggest trying some queries with the Northwind database; work out how to add...
Forum: MS SQL Dec 29th, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 1,031
Posted By pty
sqlite (http://www.sqlite.org/) is exactly what you're after.

"...SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite...
Forum: MS SQL Dec 29th, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 877
Posted By pty
I hope you didn't quit your day job.
Forum: MS SQL Sep 11th, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 1,157
Posted By pty
Create a job, insert what you get from your query into another table.
Forum: MS SQL May 9th, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 1,135
Posted By pty
Don't store images in your database; you're best storing them on your file system and storing their location/filename in the database



name | age | image...
Forum: MS SQL Apr 19th, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 2,468
Posted By pty
try grant select on sales to sqluser

If you look up the grant function on msdn you can finely tune the privileges for each table/database/user/whatever.
Forum: MS SQL Mar 21st, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 1,892
Posted By pty
Limitation of SQL server I presume (I use PostgreSQL).

Here is an ugly way to do it


select *
from t1
where task not in (select task1 from t2)
and task not in (select task2 from t2)
Forum: MS SQL Mar 21st, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 1,892
Posted By pty
Ok,

For this I've called the tables t1 and t2.


select *
from t1
where task not in (
select task1
from t2
Forum: MS SQL Mar 21st, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 1,892
Posted By pty
Hi,

Could you give us the names of the columns? I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're doing.
Forum: MS SQL Feb 19th, 2007
Replies: 13
Views: 27,131
Posted By pty
duplicate of what? all duplicates? why don't you have a unique identifier? do you have any validation? why are you here? why am i answering you?
Forum: MS SQL Feb 8th, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 2,118
Posted By pty
I don't think there is anything wrong with updating two tables using two statements.

If you wrap them in a transaction you will ensure that you don't only update one (ie if one fails neither are...
Forum: MS SQL Feb 7th, 2007
Replies: 5
Views: 2,118
Posted By pty
ALTER PROCEDURE UpdateAccounts
@contactID int,
@accountID int
AS
begin transaction
UPDATE [Contact Account ]
SET [Account ID] = @accountID
WHERE [Contact ID] = @contactID

UPDATE...
Forum: MS SQL Jan 31st, 2007
Replies: 1
Views: 2,989
Posted By pty
AFAIK MSSQL does not support partial indexes (like PostgreSQL, Teradata, Oracle etc).

You may be able to get the functionality you require using a indexed view.
Forum: MS SQL Jan 3rd, 2007
Replies: 2
Views: 6,490
Posted By pty
Storing movies in the actual database will impact its performance hugely.

I think the approach you should be taking is storing the location of the file in the db and storing the file on the file...
Forum: MS SQL Oct 20th, 2006
Replies: 5
Views: 5,089
Posted By pty
SELECT RNO,PNAME,AGE,'discharged' as STATUS
FROM TAB1
WHERE enroll_status = 'D'
union
SELECT RNO,PNAME,AGE,'queued' as STATUS
FROM TAB1
WHERE enroll_status = 'Q'
union
SELECT...
Forum: MS SQL Oct 2nd, 2006
Replies: 1
Views: 2,117
Posted By pty
may be typos here but you should try not to use square brackets in your sql; makes it much harder to read

also it is easier to join tables in the from clause rather than where, it makes more...
Forum: MS SQL Sep 20th, 2006
Replies: 2
Views: 5,310
Posted By pty
I don't know much about access (except to avoid it).

It was SQL I'd suggest you look at the convert() function in tsql.

I don't really get what you mean with your data conversion either but you...
Forum: MS SQL Sep 5th, 2006
Replies: 1
Views: 2,818
Posted By pty
select top 1 with ties your_column
from your_table
group by your_column
order by count(*) desc
Forum: MS SQL Sep 4th, 2006
Replies: 3
Views: 11,622
Posted By pty
Forum: MS SQL Jul 31st, 2006
Replies: 1
Views: 1,714
Posted By pty
SELECT product,max(transaction_date)
FROM tbl
GROUP BY product (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177673.aspx)
Forum: MS SQL Jul 17th, 2006
Replies: 2
Views: 2,893
Posted By pty
select id from mytable mt where (mt.id % 5) = 0
Forum: MS SQL Jul 11th, 2006
Replies: 7
Views: 6,024
Posted By pty
select @newrowcount = 'NUM'
from ExcelToSql
where NUM = @rowcounter



this bit is wrong. it should be :


selec @newrowcount = NUM
Forum: MS SQL Jul 4th, 2006
Replies: 7
Views: 6,024
Posted By pty
missed the from and where clause off the select



use barcodedb

declare @rowcounter integer,
@rowcount integer,
@newrowcounter integer,
@newrowcount integer
Forum: MS SQL Jul 3rd, 2006
Replies: 7
Views: 6,024
Posted By pty
ok, i'm assuming you have an id column as your pk

i probably have loads of errors in here but don't have mssql to try it with, hopefully what im doing is apparent though.




declare...
Forum: MS SQL Jun 17th, 2006
Replies: 1
Views: 14,941
Posted By pty
this (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q164485/) article on Microsoft's support site may help
Forum: MS SQL May 20th, 2006
Replies: 2
Views: 1,572
Posted By pty
Forum: MS SQL Apr 17th, 2006
Replies: 4
Views: 8,489
Posted By pty
i dont use SQL Server much these days, but is there not a isNumber() or isNumeric() function?

If there isn't im sure writing your own wouldnt be that difficult. Just attempt to cast a varchar as...
Forum: MS SQL Nov 20th, 2005
Replies: 4
Views: 4,119
Posted By pty
i think the best way to tackle this is to make a stored proc that does the check and put the details of the birthday people in a temp table, once you've got them all use xp_sendmail...
Forum: MS SQL Nov 18th, 2005
Replies: 5
Views: 73,759
Posted By pty
that would work if

a) the values were in another table

b) and they werent in a comma delimited list as per the original question :)
Forum: MS SQL Nov 16th, 2005
Replies: 4
Views: 2,465
Posted By pty
no problem, but with your solution i don't understand why you use an if..else statement here



im sure you'd get the same result by just saying

select NoOfVacancies, JobRole
from JobVacancy...
Forum: MS SQL Nov 16th, 2005
Replies: 2
Views: 4,335
Posted By pty
I don't think you need to implement raid to solve this issue (it would do, albeit expensively), adding a new hard disk and creating new filegroups on it would be sufficient. Creating file groups and...
Forum: MS SQL Nov 13th, 2005
Replies: 4
Views: 2,465
Posted By pty
select
NoOfVacancies,
JobRole
from JobVacancy
where (JobRole like @JobRole + '%')
or (JobRole is null)
Forum: MS SQL Oct 31st, 2005
Replies: 5
Views: 73,759
Posted By pty
i'd imagine making a stored procedure to deal with the inserts would be the easiest way.

you can modify this sp to scroll through the list and put the whole lot of your list into variables then...
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