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Need assistance
Posted by Cupid Shan at 10/30/2005 11:50:17 PM
Am a newbie to SQL QUERIES (reporting) - Please assist Scenario: I have a simple table where I have columns like empno empname latedate reasonlate justification This table contains mulitple data for a single empno as you can see the structure for eg: empno empname latedate ...more >>


Problem with HOST_NAME Function with Linked View
Posted by Neil at 10/30/2005 8:55:45 PM
I have an Access 2000 MDB file with a SQL 7 back end. I have a main table with 50,000 records; and I have a selections table with 50,000 records for each machine that uses the database (about 25-50). This allows each user to have their own set of selections. The selections table has three f...more >>

Identifying row with duplicate column entry with different Primary
Posted by Ramez at 10/30/2005 8:42:01 PM
I have a table of users similar to this: ID, NAME, EMAIL 1, Name1, john@yahoo.com 2, Name2, mike@yahoo.com 3, Name3, john@hotmail.com 4, Name4, john@yahoo.com 5, Name5, mike@yahoo.com What I want to do is to idenify all the rows in which the email address is the same. To get a result li...more >>

remove duplicate row
Posted by Howard at 10/30/2005 6:18:42 PM
how do i write a query that will remove duplicate rows (rows with the same "username" field) and keep the one with lower ID ID USERNAME 1 john 2 john2 3 john after executing this query this should become ID USERNAME 1 john 2 john2 Thanks, Howard ...more >>

Date/Time formatting
Posted by ryan.mclean NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 10/30/2005 3:34:35 PM
Hi all, I'm hoping this is an easy solution . . . How can I format the system date: getdate() as mm/dd/yyyy hh:mi am? Am I missing something? I am fairly new to sql server . . . I would use datepart, but I cannot find a way to display the time like I have shown. Your help is appreciate...more >>

Where to get Query Analyzer SP3
Posted by Mr. Smith at 10/30/2005 3:19:01 PM
Hello, I have an eariler version of Query analyzer and were I'm working has recently upgraded their SQL Server 2000 systems to SP4. I have discovered that I need to upgrade my Query analyzer otherwise the Debugger doesn't work. But for the life of me I can't locate where to download...more >>

Trbasaction in trigger?
Posted by ReTF at 10/30/2005 2:09:30 PM
Hi all, I have one Transaction in one Update trigger, this trigger insert and update data in a lot of other tables, if this Transactin fail, how I know, how I chek if this transaction have rollback, how I can report this to my cliente application? Thanks ...more >>

Aggregate Problem
Posted by Scott at 10/30/2005 1:30:09 PM
When I run the my code in Northwind, the ExtendedPrice is wrong because UnitPrice is averaged. I have AVG([Order Details].UnitPrice) AS UnitPrice in my statement because I couldn't figure out a better aggregate function to use. My goal is to simply get a GROUP by Orders.OrderDate and SUM th...more >>



Improving Joins
Posted by Roy Goldhammer at 10/30/2005 1:14:40 PM
Hello there I have table with primary key Clustered and 100 Records I have also table with foreign key to the first table. and it is indexed The second table has 100000 records. And when i do simple select on both table i get hash join and it shouldnt happen. What can cause this problem?...more >>

Format number with 2 decimal places
Posted by Sonny Sablan at 10/30/2005 1:11:00 PM
I am having trouble formatting a DATEDIFF with 2 decimal places.=20 Can anyone help? tbVisitLog VisitID | ChildID | DateTimeIn | DateTimeOut | etc... tbChild ChildID | ChildLastName=20 When calculating duration of stay...=20 SELECT c.ChildFirstName + ' ' + c.ChildLastName AS ChildNa...more >>

Check constraints
Posted by Niclas at 10/30/2005 1:01:33 PM
Hi, If I have three columns called 'userid' 'event' and 'result' and only allow one result row per event and userID. I.e. each user can only have one result per event. How would a constraint expression look like for this ? Nic ...more >>

set @var = (exec stored proc)
Posted by Test Test at 10/30/2005 11:27:46 AM
Is that possible to execute a stored procedure and store result to a local variable? The stored proc 'up_get_result' returns a single value and I am trying to store it in a variable. declare @result set @result = (exec up_file_path) It is not working. What I ended up doing is this: cre...more >>

Connection Broken
Posted by Tor Inge Rislaa at 10/30/2005 10:52:54 AM
I am updating records in my database with the procedure below. The data is updated as it should but the Enterprise Manager (SQL Query Analyzer) gives the error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Shared Memory]ConnectionCheckForData (CheckforData()). Server: Msg 11, Level 16, State ...more >>

Computed field with a maximum
Posted by ehsan.akhgari NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 10/30/2005 1:17:24 AM
Hi all, I have a table with some fields, and I'm builiding a query upon it which should have a computed field based upon the values in each row. For example: CREATE TABLE mytable( -- ... price decimal NOT NULL, number decimal NOT NULL ); The computed field should be the product of ...more >>

Trigger rule problem
Posted by Agnes at 10/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
I would like to get what changes after save, So, I use trigger to do . I can detect whether there is change. however, it is fail to put it in the description. DECLARE @d nvarchar(100) IF UPDATE(postsw) BEGIN SET @d = 'POST STATUS CHANGE -'+STR(postsw) <-- error INSERT HISTORY(desc...more >>

Percentage calculation in SQL Server
Posted by ReTF at 10/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi all, Anyone knows if have same math function to do Percentage calculation in SQL Server I have 988 and I need get 97.32 Percent of this, how I can do this in SQL. Thanks ...more >>


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