holmm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First post so apologies if this sounds a bit confusing!!
>
> I'm trying to run the following update. On a weekly basis i want to
> insert all the active users ids from a users table into a timesheets
> table along with the last day of the week and a submitted flag set to
> 0. I plan then on creating a schduled job so the script runs weekly.
> The 3 queries i plan to use are below.
>
> Insert statement:
>
> INSERT INTO TBL_TIMESHEETS (TBL_TIMESHEETS.USER_ID,
> TBL_TIMESHEETS.WEEK_ENDING, TBL_TIMESHEETS.IS_SUBMITTED)
> VALUES ('user ids', 'week end date', '0')
>
> Get User Ids:
>
> SELECT TBL_USERS.USER_ID from TBL_USERS where TBL_USERS.IS_ACTIVE = '1'
>
> Get last date of the week
> SELECT DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk,0,getdate()), 6)
>
> I'm having trouble combing them as i'm pretty new to this. Is the best
> approach to use a cursor?
>
> If you need anymore info let me know. Thanks in advance.

On 28 Sep 2006 07:24:36 -0700, holmm wrote:

>Hi,
>
>First post so apologies if this sounds a bit confusing!!
>
>I'm trying to run the following update. On a weekly basis i want to
>insert all the active users ids from a users table into a timesheets
>table along with the last day of the week and a submitted flag set to
>0. I plan then on creating a schduled job so the script runs weekly.
>The 3 queries i plan to use are below.
>
>Insert statement:
>
>INSERT INTO TBL_TIMESHEETS (TBL_TIMESHEETS.USER_ID,
>TBL_TIMESHEETS.WEEK_ENDING, TBL_TIMESHEETS.IS_SUBMITTED)
>VALUES ('user ids', 'week end date', '0')
>
>Get User Ids:
>
>SELECT TBL_USERS.USER_ID from TBL_USERS where TBL_USERS.IS_ACTIVE = '1'
>
>Get last date of the week
>SELECT DATEADD(wk, DATEDIFF(wk,0,getdate()), 6)
>
>I'm having trouble combing them as i'm pretty new to this. Is the best
>approach to use a cursor?
>
>If you need anymore info let me know. Thanks in advance.

Ed Murphy wrote:

> holmm wrote:
>
> > Is the best approach to use a cursor?
>
> Almost never.

holmm wrote:

> Is the best approach to use a cursor?