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all groups > sql server (microsoft) > september 2007

Find unmatched records
Posted by msmith1265 NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com at 9/26/2007 1:56:08 PM
I have a table that holds donation amounts and dates. Here is a simplified version of it. Table Name: Donations Fields: Member_ID DonationDate Amount What I need to do is find every Member_ID who made a donation in 2006 that did not make a donation in 2007. Is there any way to do this? ...more >>

Group By Multiple Date Columns
Posted by sqlhiker at 9/22/2007 3:02:16 PM
Hi All, Thanks for dropping by my post. I have a table which is of this form. ID MS030_A MS030_F MS036_A MS036_F MS040_A MS040_F ZZ0023 2/16/06 2/16/06 8/10/07 8/10/07 11/21/05 11/21/05 ZZ0031 8/10/07 4/5/07 8/9/07 8/9/07 3/22/07 3/22/07 ZZ0077 8/9/07 9/7/07 8/10/07...more >>

Copying tables without data
Posted by tcb at 9/21/2007 12:37:51 PM
I have an existing SQL Server 2005 database. I want to copy the tables without data into another database. This seems like a simple thing, but I am new to SQL Server and can't seem to find the answer. How do I do that? ...more >>

Problem with Select Into and Insert Into.. Records Always Inserted at the Top
Posted by PavanR at 9/21/2007 7:44:02 AM
Friends, Take a look at the Code Below : drop table t5 go Select * into T5 from (Select * from T1) a Insert Into T5 (f1,f2) (select top 2 f1,f2 from T2 ) The above code from a T-SQL always inserts Records from T2 at the TOP of T5.. have also tried dividing Select Into and Insert Into i...more >>

How do I use ORDER BY CASE with multiple fields
Posted by Karl at 9/20/2007 7:01:18 AM
I have a fairly complicated stored procedure which can be ordered by the user by use of a sort parameter (@Sort) of data type int The code for this ORDER BY CASE is shown here... ORDER BY CASE WHEN @Sort = 0 THEN [CourseCode], [FullName] WHEN @Sort = 1 THEN [HierarchyName], [Full...more >>

Using wildcards in group by and having expressions in MS SQL
Posted by Karl at 9/19/2007 3:34:36 AM
Hi All, I have the need to perform a query on data at a certain hierarchical level to return summary data. If I explain what I want things might make more sense... At the moment I have a view that shows how many courses have been allocated to users throughout the entire company, how many ...more >>

SELECT * vs SELECT col1, col2
Posted by Danny Burton at 9/17/2007 9:25:30 PM
I know that in order to reduce network traffic you should always select only the columns you require but I have a stored procedure which must **always** return all columns from a specific table. When returning all columns from a table is there any performance gain (or any other reason) for ...more >>

Error converting data type nvarchar to float
Posted by Jerry at 9/15/2007 3:48:08 AM
Hi all ~ I'm trying to update the items table column picturename: UPDATE ITEM SET ITEM.PictureName=IMAGES$.PICTURE --ITEM.ExtendedDescription=SHEET1$.Ext_Discription FROM DBO.IMAGES$,ITEM WHERE ITEM.ITEMLOOKUPCODE=IMAGES$.UPC I recevied the folowing error: Server: Msg 8114, Level 1...more >>



Query to a Table...
Posted by Blue Streak at 9/14/2007 2:00:34 PM
Hi, folks!! I need a little advise from the gurus of this group. I am trying to copy data from a view/query in one database into another database as a table to troubleshoot a project I'm working on. One database is MS- SQL Server 2000 and my database is MSDE 2000. I have tried the method o...more >>

Replication issues after a Database Restore - Unable to drop or create Transactional Replication
Posted by Query Builder at 9/13/2007 10:01:29 AM
Hi, I have transactional replication set up on on of our MS SQL 2000 (SP4) Std Edition database server Because of an unfortunate scenario, I had to restore one of the publication databases. I scripted the replication module and dropped the publication first. Then did a full restore. When...more >>

SQL 7 & Server 2003
Posted by Neil at 9/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
Has anyone heard of any problems running SQL 7 under Windows Server 2003? We're upgrading to 2003 and are wondering if we can keep SQL 7 with the new OS. Question 2: If we upgrade SQL to SQL 2005, can I run our database in SQL 7 mode? Or would it be better to just convert it to SQL 2005? ...more >>

SQL Report Query
Posted by MC at 9/5/2007 1:32:13 PM
I have a report query I can't figure the select on. The table is like this: Account Customer Operation Amount -------- ---------- ---------- -------- 1 10 4 30 1 10 5 15 1 ...more >>


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