Query which system table to answer this

I have a DB with 1 default defined: UW_Zerodefault
It simply puts a 0 into particular fields upon new record creation.
Is there a query I can run against a particular system table to give me a list of fields this default is applied against in the DB?
ThanksSqlSpec will give you this information, but I can't remember now what table it's hitting to get it. it may be as simple as querying sysdepends.

I'll take a look at the code tonight and post again.|||If I understand your query correctly (It's late and I'm tired!!) you can run exec sp_mshelpcolumns 'enter table name' and the col_dridefname column is the contraint name and the first text column is the default value.|||this give you all default usage by columns:

select
s.name as colname
,o1.name as tablename
,o2.name as defaultname
from
syscolumns s
inner join
sysobjects o1 on o1.id=s.id
inner join
sysobjects o2 on o2.id=s.cdefault

and this will give you default usage by udts:

exec sp_mshelptype @.typename=null, @.flags='uddt'

Query Tuning

I have a VB application and with the help of record sets i retrieve as many rows from the SQL Server 2000 DB.

The query that is in the SP is nested and so while retrieving it took 2 secs for a very few records and so I changed the query to a simple query but with more conditions on the WHERE clause..

But now also it takes the same 2 secs and i would like it to be reduced to milliseconds..

Any ideas are most welcome...

TIA,
NishaIf you can cut-n-paste the SQL into Query Analyzer you can Display the Query Plan (Ctrl+L) and see what Query Plan it's using, so you can determine whether indexes would help.
- Andy Abel|||It will be better if u put the script, u can use the Profiler to see the exact duration the Sql is taking,
Dont use Select * , better give the exact column names , and in the where condition u try to use id columns.
-Ashok|||Originally posted by iamnisha
I have a VB application and with the help of record sets i retrieve as many rows from the SQL Server 2000 DB.

The query that is in the SP is nested and so while retrieving it took 2 secs for a very few records and so I changed the query to a simple query but with more conditions on the WHERE clause..

But now also it takes the same 2 secs and i would like it to be reduced to milliseconds..

Any ideas are most welcome...

TIA,
Nisha

Reply-

Try to use 'primary key with clustured indexs' keys reference. after the where clause.

query to use

Hi
i have 2 tables. Table 2 can contain some values for each record in
table1. may vary for the no:of records in table2 for each record in
table1
table1
=====
id name
1 Arun
2 Hari
Table2
=====
id table1.id some_field
1 1 x
2 1 y
3 1 z
4 2 d
I want to get a display like the following
id name 1 2 3
1 Arun x y z
or
id name 1
1 Hari d
What query I have to use
?
Hi
--SQL Server 2000
create table #table1 (id int,name varchar(50))
insert into #table1 values(1,'Arun')
insert into #table1 values(2,'Hari')
create table #table2 (id int,anotherid int, some_field varchar(50))
insert into #table2 values(1,1,'x')
insert into #table2 values(2,1,'y')
insert into #table2 values(3,1,'z')
insert into #table2 values(4,2,'d')
select * from #table1
select * from #table2
select name,max(case when rn=1 then some_field end) as '1',
max(case when rn=2 then some_field end) as '2',
max(case when rn=3 then some_field end) as '3'
from
(
select t2.anotherid,t2.some_field,count(*)rn from #table2,#table2 t2
where t2.anotherid=#table2.anotherid and t2.id<=#table2.id
group by t2.anotherid,t2.some_field
) as d join #table1 on d.anotherid=#table1.id
group by name
--SQL Server 2005
select * from
(
select t1.id ,name,anotherid,some_field,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(
PARTITION BY anotherid
ORDER BY some_field) AS pos
from #table1 AS t1
join #table2 AS t2
ON t1.id = t2.anotherid
) as der
pivot
(
max(some_field)
FOR pos IN([1], [2], [3], [4])
) AS PVT
<arunonw3@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> i have 2 tables. Table 2 can contain some values for each record in
> table1. may vary for the no:of records in table2 for each record in
> table1
> table1
> =====
> id name
> 1 Arun
> 2 Hari
>
> Table2
> =====
> id table1.id some_field
> 1 1 x
> 2 1 y
> 3 1 z
> 4 2 d
> I want to get a display like the following
>
> id name 1 2 3
> 1 Arun x y z
> or
> id name 1
> 1 Hari d
> What query I have to use
> ?
>
|||Thank you very much for sending me such a useful answer
|||If you dont mind can you please explain the last 2 queries

query to use

Hi
i have 2 tables. Table 2 can contain some values for each record in
table1. may vary for the no:of records in table2 for each record in
table1
table1
===== id name
1 Arun
2 Hari
Table2
===== id table1.id some_field
1 1 x
2 1 y
3 1 z
4 2 d
I want to get a display like the following
id name 1 2 3
1 Arun x y z
or
id name 1
1 Hari d
What query I have to use
?Hi
--SQL Server 2000
create table #table1 (id int,name varchar(50))
insert into #table1 values(1,'Arun')
insert into #table1 values(2,'Hari')
create table #table2 (id int,anotherid int, some_field varchar(50))
insert into #table2 values(1,1,'x')
insert into #table2 values(2,1,'y')
insert into #table2 values(3,1,'z')
insert into #table2 values(4,2,'d')
select * from #table1
select * from #table2
select name,max(case when rn=1 then some_field end) as '1',
max(case when rn=2 then some_field end) as '2',
max(case when rn=3 then some_field end) as '3'
from
(
select t2.anotherid,t2.some_field,count(*)rn from #table2,#table2 t2
where t2.anotherid=#table2.anotherid and t2.id<=#table2.id
group by t2.anotherid,t2.some_field
) as d join #table1 on d.anotherid=#table1.id
group by name
--SQL Server 2005
select * from
(
select t1.id ,name,anotherid,some_field,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(
PARTITION BY anotherid
ORDER BY some_field) AS pos
from #table1 AS t1
join #table2 AS t2
ON t1.id = t2.anotherid
) as der
pivot
(
max(some_field)
FOR pos IN([1], [2], [3], [4])
) AS PVT
<arunonw3@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> i have 2 tables. Table 2 can contain some values for each record in
> table1. may vary for the no:of records in table2 for each record in
> table1
> table1
> =====> id name
> 1 Arun
> 2 Hari
>
> Table2
> =====> id table1.id some_field
> 1 1 x
> 2 1 y
> 3 1 z
> 4 2 d
> I want to get a display like the following
>
> id name 1 2 3
> 1 Arun x y z
> or
> id name 1
> 1 Hari d
> What query I have to use
> ?
>|||Thank you very much for sending me such a useful answer|||If you dont mind can you please explain the last 2 queries

query to use

Hi
i have 2 tables. Table 2 can contain some values for each record in
table1. may vary for the no:of records in table2 for each record in
table1
table1
=====
id name
1 Arun
2 Hari
Table2
=====
id table1.id some_field
1 1 x
2 1 y
3 1 z
4 2 d
I want to get a display like the following
id name 1 2 3
1 Arun x y z
or
id name 1
1 Hari d
What query I have to use
?Hi
--SQL Server 2000
create table #table1 (id int,name varchar(50))
insert into #table1 values(1,'Arun')
insert into #table1 values(2,'Hari')
create table #table2 (id int,anotherid int, some_field varchar(50))
insert into #table2 values(1,1,'x')
insert into #table2 values(2,1,'y')
insert into #table2 values(3,1,'z')
insert into #table2 values(4,2,'d')
select * from #table1
select * from #table2
select name,max(case when rn=1 then some_field end) as '1',
max(case when rn=2 then some_field end) as '2',
max(case when rn=3 then some_field end) as '3'
from
(
select t2.anotherid,t2.some_field,count(*)rn from #table2,#table2 t2
where t2.anotherid=#table2.anotherid and t2.id<=#table2.id
group by t2.anotherid,t2.some_field
) as d join #table1 on d.anotherid=#table1.id
group by name
--SQL Server 2005
select * from
(
select t1.id ,name,anotherid,some_field,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(
PARTITION BY anotherid
ORDER BY some_field) AS pos
from #table1 AS t1
join #table2 AS t2
ON t1.id = t2.anotherid
) as der
pivot
(
max(some_field)
FOR pos IN([1], [2], [3], [4])
) AS PVT
<arunonw3@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1176193651.677044.91870@.l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
> i have 2 tables. Table 2 can contain some values for each record in
> table1. may vary for the no:of records in table2 for each record in
> table1
> table1
> =====
> id name
> 1 Arun
> 2 Hari
>
> Table2
> =====
> id table1.id some_field
> 1 1 x
> 2 1 y
> 3 1 z
> 4 2 d
> I want to get a display like the following
>
> id name 1 2 3
> 1 Arun x y z
> or
> id name 1
> 1 Hari d
> What query I have to use
> ?
>|||Thank you very much for sending me such a useful answer|||If you dont mind can you please explain the last 2 queriessql

Query to update 1 record in a duplicate set of records

How do I update a record that has duplicates. For example, I have 3612 orders some of these orders have multiple orderid's I want to update the record for each of these orders that was added most recently.

Without more info it's hard to tell, but you just need to qualify what you want to update:

UPDATE Table
SET column = 'New Value'
WHERE column = 'youNeedADateHere'

AND orderid = 'Whatever'
GO

|||Thanks for your response but I can't specify an orderid because there are 3612 records and within those 3612 records some of the id's are dups. The query above would do a specific orderid and a specific date. The dates are all different I just want the most recent per orderid. Thank you anyway.|||

Something along the lines of:

UPDATE Table1

SET NewCol = 1

FROM Table1 AS i

INNER JOIN (SELECT OrderID, COUNT(*) AS c, MAX(OrderDate) AS OrderDate

FROM Table1

GROUP BY OrderID

HAVING COUNT(*) > 1) AS Dupes

ON i.OrderID = Dupes.OrderID

AND i.OrderDate = Dupes.OrderDate

|||Thank you that is close enough to what I was looking for. I appreciate your response

query to return only non null fields

Is it possible to write a query that returns only non null fields from a specified record? I have a big table with a record for each customer. the record contains a field for each item that can be purchased (only 6 items). I need to write an invoice but not every customer buys every product. I get the feeling Im going about this all wrong. Any help would be great

ThanksOriginally posted by nicky w
Is it possible to write a query that returns only non null fields from a specified record? I have a big table with a record for each customer. the record contains a field for each item that can be purchased (only 6 items). I need to write an invoice but not every customer buys every product. I get the feeling Im going about this all wrong. Any help would be great

Thanks
It would have been better to have the up to 6 items as up to 6 records in a separate table. No SQL query can return a variable number of columns, you would have to write some procedural code to run the query and then present the NOT NULL data.|||are you still in a designing stage? then you should change the design.
What if more items will be offered?

referential integrity will prevent "lost childs"

otherwise andrew is right. write some procedural code

Query to return latest record, multiple join fields

Hi
I need to write a query that returns the latest value(s) from a table,
'grouped' by the primary key (multiple fields), and the criteria to
derive the latest record is also based on multiple fields.
I have put together the DDL below as a simplified example, and want to
write a query that returns the following resultset:
company--project--value--
1 1 'fifth value'
1 2 '.2 fifth value'
2 1 '2 fifth value'
(KEY: company + project)
(LATEST RECORD: year + batch + item)
Thanks for any help
Sean
---
CREATE TABLE mytable (company INT, project INT, [year] int, batch int,
item int, value varchar(35))
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 1, 2003, 1, 1, 'first value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 1, 2003, 1, 2, 'second value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 1, 2003, 1, 3, 'third value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 1, 2003, 2, 1, 'fourth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 1, 2003, 2, 2, 'fifth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 1, 2002, 1, 1, 'sixth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 1, 2002, 1, 2, 'seventh value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 1, 2002, 2, 1, 'eighth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 2, 2003, 1, 1, '.2 first value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 2, 2003, 1, 2, '.2 second value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 2, 2003, 1, 3, '.2 third value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 2, 2003, 2, 1, '.2 fourth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 2, 2003, 2, 2, '.2 fifth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 2, 2002, 1, 1, '.2 sixth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 2, 2002, 1, 2, '.2 seventh value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (1, 2, 2002, 2, 1, '.2 eighth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (2, 1, 2003, 1, 1, '2 first value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (2, 1, 2003, 1, 2, '2 second value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (2, 1, 2003, 1, 3, '2 third value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (2, 1, 2003, 2, 1, '2 fourth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (2, 1, 2003, 2, 2, '2 fifth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (2, 1, 2002, 1, 1, '2 sixth value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (2, 1, 2002, 1, 2, '2 seventh value')
INSERT INTO mytable VALUES (2, 1, 2002, 2, 1, '2 eighth value')
---This table doesn't appear to have a primary key. I'll assume that the key is
supposed to be (company,project,year,batch,item). I've also assumed that the
batch and item numbers are in the range 0-999. If not, you'll have to amend
the YBI calculation accordingly.
SELECT T.company, T.project, T.value
FROM MyTable AS T
JOIN
(SELECT company, project,
MAX([year]*1000000+batch*1000+item) AS ybi
FROM Mytable
GROUP BY company, project) AS M
ON T.company = M.company
AND T.project = M.project
AND T.[year]*1000000+T.batch*1000+T.item = M.ybi
--
David Portas
--
Please reply only to the newsgroup
--sql

Query to find record selection on between dates

Table has five fields fields
PrimaryKey - Integer type
InfoField1 - String Type
InfoField2 - String type
StartDate - DateTimeType
EndDate - DateTimeType
My where clause should be something like
Where InfoField2 = 'something' And Today's date between StartDate and
EndDate.
How do I express Today's date in that query? The data for the startdate and
end date is stored in the database in shortdate format, so in some cases it
can be mm/dd/yyyy and in others it could be dd/mm/yyyy or any other
shortdate format possible.
Thanks for any help
RDWhere InfoField2 = 'something' And getdate()between StartDate and
EndDate.
"RD" <nospam@.nospam.net> wrote in message
news:OvI$1hQRFHA.504@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Table has five fields fields
> PrimaryKey - Integer type
> InfoField1 - String Type
> InfoField2 - String type
> StartDate - DateTimeType
> EndDate - DateTimeType
> My where clause should be something like
> Where InfoField2 = 'something' And Today's date between StartDate and
> EndDate.
> How do I express Today's date in that query? The data for the startdate
> and
> end date is stored in the database in shortdate format, so in some cases
> it
> can be mm/dd/yyyy and in others it could be dd/mm/yyyy or any other
> shortdate format possible.
> Thanks for any help
> RD
>
>

Query to combine several "records/rows" into one "record/row"?

Im new to SQL, Ive been getting by building lists from our student database by building or teacher (etc.). These have been all records that exist on only one row, so its been easy (so far).
Heres what Im trying to do and I dont even know what to call it, so I'm not even sure what to search for...

Ive got a MS SQL 6.5 database with the following:
ACTIVE students: each student has ID_NUM[8 digits], NAME, GRADE, SCHOOL with one rowof 4 data items per student.

SCHEDULE of courses with (student) ID_NUM[8 digits], SEMESTER[S1 or S2], HOUR[1-7], COURSE_NAME, ROOM_NUM with 14 records (rows) with these 5 items, in this SCHEDULE database for each student.

My mission is to combine then in to one row using the student ID_NUM as the key. (This is to help me with several things, spreadsheets/database for others to easily use, export to simple databases for teacher handhelds.).

Id like one row of the 75 items combined, resulting in 32 items (ACTIVE 4 items + 14 * 2 SCHEDULE items [COURSE_NAME, ROOM_NUM]) since I want stuff plugged into the correct field, for each student. I'd refer to this as COMBINEDRECORD and Id turn the field names into the following:
ID_NUM[8 digits], NAME, GRADE, SCHOOL, S1HOUR1_NAME, S1HOUR1_ROOM_NUM, S1HOUR2_NAME, S1HOUR2_ROOM_NUM, S1HOUR3_NAME, S1HOUR3_ROOM_NUM, S1HOUR4_NAME, S1HOUR4_ROOM_NUM, S1HOUR5_NAME, S1HOUR5_ROOM_NUM, S1HOUR6_NAME, S1HOUR6_ROOM_NUM, S1HOUR7_NAME, S1HOUR7_ROOM_NUM, S2HOUR1_NAME, S2HOUR1_ROOM_NUM, S2HOUR2_NAME, S2HOUR2_ROOM_NUM, S2HOUR3_NAME, S2HOUR3_ROOM_NUM, S2HOUR4_NAME, S2HOUR4_ROOM_NUM, S2HOUR5_NAME, S2HOUR5_ROOM_NUM, S2HOUR6_NAME, S2HOUR6_ROOM_NUM, S2HOUR7_NAME, S2HOUR7_ROOM_NUM

I dont care if there are any blanks I just want to get the data if
SEMESTER='S2', HOUR='5' & COURSE_NAME='Basketweaving' & ROOM_NUM='Pool'
to end up being in the right spot (S2 and Hour 5) in the new COMBINEDRECORD row with
S2HOUR5_NAME='Basketweaving' & S2HOUR5_ROOM_NUM='Pool' for the correct student ID_NUM. Of course with the correct ACTIVE student info into the same "row"

Does that make sense? It might not be the best way, but itll make the data more accessible to everyone and some programs we already use with our old student system. Obviously theres more data than that but I think this is enough to explain my issue and give me enough to work with

Any help, directions to a webpage or book with the correct terms to look up would be very helpful.

Thank you for any help or direction you can give,
GarySounds like a join. Are you trying to creat a new table or just do a report?|||Or a view with a join if you want to leave the existing tables alone.|||Originally posted by barneyrubble318
Or a view with a join if you want to leave the existing tables alone.

I'll probably be doing two (similar) things:

1) An SQL query that just puts my COMBINEDRECORD table into an Excel Spreadsheet. (Why Excel? Everyone here knows how to merge from it, so they can then manipulate it how they want.)

2) An SQL query from Desktop2MobileDB which will convert the COMBINEDRECORD table into a Palm OS (MobileDB) database so principals and teachers can have more data on hand. (They can see where the kid in the hall is really supposed to be...)

I pretty much do the above two things with data now, the problem is the multi-line data from the SCHEDULE/

If I have to create a new table and then access it from there, I guess I can do that. I might not be able to automate it as easily though...

Thanks,
Gary

Query syntax: select parent record, including number of children?

OK, I'm totally blanking on how to get my query to do the right thing. I have two tables, "SurveyQuestion" and "SurveyAnswer" with a one-to-many relationship: a Question has many Answers, and they're hooked up by including a field in Answer that specifies the Question ID.

What I want to select is: all the columns of SurveyQuestion, and a count of how many SurveyAnswer records are associated with the SurveyQuestion. What's the right way to do this?? Should I make a stored proc or something to run the row count? Is there an easier way? I think the complication stems from the fact that I want to return a GROUP column alongside regular records, but I'm not really sure. I'm using MySQL 4.x if that affects your answer.4.x is not specific enough, you must be on at least 4.1 to run this --select Q.foo
, Q.bar
, Q.qux
, ( select count(*)
from SurveyAnswer
where questionID = Q.ID ) as answers
from SurveyQuestion as Q