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all groups > sql server data mining > august 2004

Question about database size and performance...
Posted by Roger at 8/26/2004 4:46:15 PM
I have a project where I will be loading ~ 242 Million Rows of data to a table and then adding to this on a monthly basis. Maybe 3 million a month added. This will be used mainly for reporting purposes. Is there a limit as to how many rows a table in SQL can have? SQL Server 2000 is what I ...more >>


Newbie Question
Posted by Ted Dixon at 8/24/2004 3:16:54 PM
I am new to the world of dataming and I have what I think is a fairly simple question. I have 2 tables - tablea and tableb. tablea contains 2 pertinent fields, category_num and category_name. tableb contains contains 2 pertinent fields, product_id and category_num. There are approx. 100000 r...more >>

How to add Calendar
Posted by Sasha at 8/20/2004 9:20:21 AM
I have a schedule table and I need to add to the existing date column all dates for the year of 2005. The normal format 1/1/2005. To do it manually will take me forever, so what type of query can I use to do it. Thank you, Sasha...more >>

CrossTabulate names
Posted by fredy at 8/20/2004 5:42:33 AM
How can I convert to horizontal records the following data: party_id name_type name -------- --------- --------------------- 1 lnme Smith 1 nme Jhon 1 alias Jhonny 2 lnme Hernandez 2 nme Fredy 2...more >>

Trying to get just the first record for each grouping
Posted by Atley at 8/19/2004 1:09:45 PM
I have a query that produces several copies of the same line based on a grouping by different days, product ids and product styles and I just want the first in each style group... in Access I can do this using the FIRST commmand in the query, how do I something similar in SQL server? I have lo...more >>

Datamining financial data
Posted by Michael Vardinghus at 8/16/2004 7:28:17 PM
Does anybody have examples of mining agaist finance ledger / budget ? The examples I have seen have been against customers. If not a specific example then a hint to what mining could be used for related to this area. --Michael V. ...more >>

Problem with tables
Posted by Nikolay Petrov at 8/16/2004 3:40:56 PM
Hi everyone! I am kind of new to SQL, databases and programing and I have a question, that looks very easy to me, but I kaind figure it out. Please help me. I am designing VB .NET application and underlying SQL database (using MSDE), and I have two tables: UserDetails table with columns: ID...more >>

Data Length exceesing 8000 chars
Posted by Kevin Humphreys at 8/12/2004 10:27:09 AM
Hi, I am having diffuclty in preparing dynamic select statemet where length exceed 8000 characters because too many columns in tables. How can i overcome this situation..Is there anyway to retain if exceeds 8000 characters.. I tried to use the text field but this is not valid for local va...more >>



Query retreiving dfferent results on same data
Posted by Ashish Nanda at 8/9/2004 5:19:50 PM
Hi i am running a query where i am creating intermediate tables andthen doing a distinct select from these tables. For some reason the result obtained from this is different i run it the first few times and then finaly it stops and gives me same numer of rows. Does it have to do SQL Server ...more >>

Hourly format
Posted by Preet Kanwaljit Singh Shergill at 8/7/2004 5:32:44 AM
I am passing the following query for a single hour select convert(int, avg(fld_logged_in_agents)) from tbl_groups_state_details where fld_group_no = 824 and day(fld_date_time) = day(getdate()) and month(fld_date_time) = month(getdate()) and fld_date_time between '2004-08-07 12:00:00' and '200...more >>

Substracting two adjacent rows
Posted by Yakimo at 8/6/2004 4:53:20 PM
I have a table with some departures at stations. I want to calculate the time difference between two departures. basically I want to subtract Timevalue of every two records for the one and the same IdStationDirection. I use the table joined to itself to get that. My SQL looks like: SELECT TOP...more >>

sqlserver 2000 - dts import jobs, analysis manager cubes, dimensions
Posted by Hubert Mayr at 8/6/2004 11:58:54 AM
Hi! where are these things stored on a sqlserver 2000? how could i backup them? how could I transfer them to a new server? Thanks! ...more >>

new hardware - sqlserver 2000 transfer
Posted by Hubert Mayr at 8/6/2004 11:57:05 AM
Hi! I have a sqlserver 2000 (windows 2000 server) running and my machine is now too slow. So I want to buy a new one (dualprocessor) and transfer my database to that server. I have a lot of dts jobs, user, roles, rights, cubes, dimensions how could I get that all to my new server? my main...more >>

Best way to Import data from EXCEL using a TSQL
Posted by Ian at 8/4/2004 4:58:57 PM
Hi All I have a excel spread sheet that i need data from. This is the Data. MyID TextField DateField IntField FloatField 1 Ian One 01/04/04 10 10.0304455900 2 Ian Two 02/04/0...more >>

need help on select
Posted by SqlJunkies User at 8/4/2004 6:18:57 AM
hello i have 3 tables Issues, distribution, returns i would like to get out for each issue the sum of quantity in distribution table and the sum of quantity in returns table i perform this select but does not work well because the table distribution and returns have different rows results ...more >>

Selecting most recent record
Posted by Micromanaged at 8/2/2004 3:42:45 PM
Trying to get the most recent record for each company that is returned in the following SQL statement. For example, the SQL statement returns: DatePulled Company Name Revenue 2004-01-01 ABC Corp 1000.0000 2004-02-01 ABC Corp 1234.0000 2004-02-01 XYZ Co...more >>

How to get the day of week in SQL function
Posted by Vincent at 8/1/2004 9:08:47 PM
There is a function called WEEKDAY... any similar one in SQL ? Thanks....more >>


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