Re: (ot) SQL Question - flattening data

2009-11-15 Thread Dominic Watson
Just read the original post properly - please ignore me. Dominic 2009/11/15 Dominic Watson > Depending on what you are doing with this data, seems to me that this > should be done in the front end and not the db. So get your data in the > original format: > > USER, CODE > > rick,AL > rick,FR >

Re: (ot) SQL Question - flattening data

2009-11-15 Thread Dominic Watson
Depending on what you are doing with this data, seems to me that this should be done in the front end and not the db. So get your data in the original format: USER, CODE rick,AL rick,FR rick,TR rick,HS joe,AL joe,FU Bob,FM And then use cfoutput with query and group (a very rough output here):

RE: (ot) SQL Question - flattening data

2009-11-14 Thread Dave Phelan
You wrote a pivot query without using pivot. BTW, the aggregate for the pivot query can be Count(). -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:rick.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 4:19 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: (ot) SQL Question - flattening data >From

Re: (ot) SQL Question - flattening data

2009-11-13 Thread Rick Root
>From the documentation, pivot tables seem to require aggregate functions... The generic description would seem to work but the examples make it difficult to see how. But... I figured out a solution! Using SQL Server's row_number() over (partition by XXX order by XXX) I can make a subquery that

RE: (ot) SQL Question - flattening data

2009-11-13 Thread DURETTE, STEVEN J (ATTASIAIT)
] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:11 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: (ot) SQL Question - flattening data Is there a particular reason to return them in this format? I would think that the straight query output would be simpler to work with. However, you can accomplish this either by using cursors to

RE: (ot) SQL Question - flattening data

2009-11-13 Thread Dave Phelan
Is there a particular reason to return them in this format? I would think that the straight query output would be simpler to work with. However, you can accomplish this either by using cursors to loop over the query output and build what you are looking for or by building a crosstab query of t

RE: (ot) SQL question...

2008-08-19 Thread Che Vilnonis
Mark/Dave... thanks so much. That worked perfectly! -Original Message- From: Mark Kruger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:19 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: (ot) SQL question... Che, Well you could it inline... something like Select sum(t.total) as total

RE: (ot) SQL question...

2008-08-19 Thread Mark Kruger
Che, Well you could it inline... something like Select sum(t.total) as total, t.source FROM ( select count(*) as total, source from listings group by source union all select count(*) as total, source from speclistings group by source union all select count(*) as total, source from psportl

RE: (ot) SQL question...

2008-08-19 Thread Dave Phillips
Che, Try this: SELECT count(total) as sourcetotal, source FROM ( select count(*) as total, source from listings group by source union all select count(*) as total, source from speclistings group by source union all select count(*) as total, source from psportlistings group by source ) GROUP B

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-26 Thread Brian Kotek
I actually prefer to do this in the ORDER BY clause (keeping the ordering logic in the ORDER BY instead of in the SELECT) but the end result is the same. If you won't or can't add a sort column to the table, a CASE statement is about the only other way to do this in the query itself. On Jan 25, 20

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Ian Skinner
Che Vilnonis wrote: > I was trying to do that w/o adding another column. Can it be done? Yes, see Crow's, Charlie's or my post on using CASE to create an inline sort column with SQL. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the m

RE: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Dawson, Michael
riday, January 25, 2008 12:55 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value? Do you mean put them in a predifind order based on the college, other than alphabetical? If so, and if you have a lookup table for your colleges, you will have to add a numerical column calle

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Ian Skinner
There is no way to do it with pure SQL alone. Dominic Well actually you can do in pure SQL. SQL has code that can be used to create dynamic columns and values on the fly in your record set and then one can order on this set. It sort of depends on whether the desire order is permanent or flex

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Crow T. Robot
Yes, you can do this using case statements in your order by: example: select * from viewoffers where [EMAIL PROTECTED] order by case status when 'active' then 1 when 'rejected' then 2 else 99 end Of course, this is really a kludge. The DB should be deisgned a little better, but sometime

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Ian Skinner
Che Vilnonis wrote: > Suppose I have a small set of data with a column named "Colleges". Is there > a way to write an ORDER BY statement to say something like... > ORDER BY Colleges 'Harvard', Colleges 'Princeton', Colleges 'Dartmouth'??? > > Just wondering... Che If I understand your question cor

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Charlie Griefer
something like... SELECT Colleges, CASE when Colleges = 'Harvard' THEN 1 when Colleges = 'Princeton' THEN 2 when Colleges = 'Dartmouth' THEN 3 END AS collegeOrder FROM myTable ORDER BY collegeOrder (not tested) :) On Jan 25, 2008 10:41 AM, C

RE: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Che Vilnonis
I was trying to do that w/o adding another column. Can it be done? -Original Message- From: Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 1:50 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value? Nope, add a sort_order column and sort your col

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Todd
Sorry, add sort_order column and then do an ORDER BY sort_order and set all the colleges in the appropriate sorting that you want it to be. On Jan 25, 2008 1:49 PM, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nope, add a sort_order column and sort your colleges appropriately. > > > On Jan 25, 2008 1:41 P

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Dominic Watson
Do you mean put them in a predifind order based on the college, other than alphabetical? If so, and if you have a lookup table for your colleges, you will have to add a numerical column called 'Ordinal' (or something else) with which you can set their order. Then simply order by that in your SQL s

Re: OT: SQL Question -- Order by a column's value?

2008-01-25 Thread Todd
Nope, add a sort_order column and sort your colleges appropriately. On Jan 25, 2008 1:41 PM, Che Vilnonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suppose I have a small set of data with a column named "Colleges". Is > there > a way to write an ORDER BY statement to say something like... > ORDER BY Colleges

Re: OT: SQL Question

2007-04-02 Thread Jerry Barnes
Thanks for your replies. I didn't get a chance to play with anything this afternoon due to meetings. I'll try to implement something tommorrow and fill you all in on the results. The recordsets aren't that big. About 9k records in one table and 3k in the other.

Re: OT: SQL Question

2007-04-02 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jerry Barnes wrote: > The following query is slow. I'd like to speed it up a bit. Any > suggestions would be appreciated. > > > SELECT >F.pid, >F.acrostic, >F.recid, >F.recordthread, >F.aed_onset, >F.d_form > FROM >vfrm

Re: OT: SQL Question

2007-04-02 Thread Dean Lawrence
Has the i_recid field in the v_sae_jna_mr table been indexed? If your table is very large, this could slow your performance. Dean -- __ Dean Lawrence, CIO/Partner Internet Data Technology 888.GET.IDT1 ext. 701 * fax: 888.438.4381 http://www.idatatech.com/ C

RE: OT: SQL Question

2007-04-02 Thread Bader, Terrence C CTR MARMC, 231
LAN? I think the sql statement you have is just about as straight forward as you are going to get. how long does a straight SELECT * FROM F INNER JOIN M taking?? -Original Message- From: Kris Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:43 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT

Re: OT: SQL Question

2007-04-02 Thread Kris Jones
How about something like this: SELECT F.pid, F.acrostic, F.recid, F.recordthread, F.aed_onset, F.d_form FROM vfrm_sae F WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM v_sae_jna_mr WHERE recid=F.recordthread) Not sure it'll be much faster, but it's worth a try. Cheers, Kris > The following

Re: OT: SQL question

2006-11-30 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Chad Gray wrote: > > I am basically doing a query on a table of catalogs and elements > inside of the catalog. Each element has a history of status changes > (new, in progress, done etc). So each element always has a corresponding value in the history table. > SELECT c.CatalogID, c.CatalogNa

RE: OT SQL question-SOLVED

2005-02-08 Thread Eric Creese
danke! -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:12 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT SQL question Eric Creese wrote: > I want to verify email addresses that are entered into one of my apps. > Unfortunately I already inh

Re: OT SQL question

2005-02-08 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Eric Creese wrote: > I want to verify email addresses that are entered into one of my apps. > Unfortunately I already inherited close to 100k email address. So I want to > do the following in SQL via a stored procedure so I can write the bad > addresses out to an error table. Need to check if th

RE: OT SQL question

2005-02-08 Thread Eric Creese
Thanks but I also need to try to test the TDLs like .com, .net, .uk... -Original Message- From: Qasim Rasheed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:19 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT SQL question I think you can write a UDF to validate email addresses. Here is

Re: OT SQL question

2005-02-08 Thread Qasim Rasheed
I think you can write a UDF to validate email addresses. Here is link http://vyaskn.tripod.com/handling_email_addresses_in_sql_server.htm On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:55:42 -0600, Eric Creese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to verify email addresses that are entered into one of my apps. > Unfortu

Re: OT: Sql question

2005-02-04 Thread Umer Farooq
Well.. oneway to do it is to create a new relationship table.. i.e tblRelatedTrails > relationID > trailID > relatedTrailID and when doing a select for review you can do a sub select on the relatedTrails table.. and use IN() anotherway is to use the geo info of the trails.. and sele

RE: OT: Sql question

2005-02-04 Thread John Munyan
From: Umer Farooq [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 2/4/2005 12:54 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: Sql question John Munyan wrote: > I have a question about how a relationship would be best modeled in SQL. > Currently I have a hiking website, which hosts trail r

Re: OT: Sql question

2005-02-04 Thread Umer Farooq
John Munyan wrote: > I have a question about how a relationship would be best modeled in SQL. > Currently I have a hiking website, which hosts trail reviews. People can add > their own comments which are associated with the hike. > > For instance maybe I hiked snow lake on 12/1/05 and also 6/

Re: ot: sql question

2004-09-22 Thread Tony Weeg
yeah, i figured that, i made sep. dsn's and its all good now :) thanks. tony On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:21:53 -0400, Qasim Rasheed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know you cannot. > > > > > - Original Message - > From: Tony Weeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:59:

Re: ot: sql question

2004-09-22 Thread Qasim Rasheed
As far as I know you cannot. - Original Message - From: Tony Weeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:59:03 -0400 Subject: ot: sql question To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is it true that we cannot use go in sql statements using cfquery? -- tony Tony Weeg macromedia cert

RE: ot: sql question

2003-10-01 Thread Tony Weeg
ieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ot: sql question Tony Weeg wrote: > how would I use HAVING to select out where the difference between > reportsInDatabase and DistinctTimes is above 15% > select r.IpAddressNumb

Re: ot: sql question

2003-10-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Tony Weeg wrote: > how would I use HAVING to select out where the difference between > reportsInDatabase and DistinctTimes is above 15% > select r.IpAddressNumber, v.VehicleIp, > Count(r.ReportId) as ReportsInDatabase, > Count(DISTINCT Time) as DistinctTimes, v.VehicleName, c.companyName > fro

Re: OT: SQL Question

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Hait
> I have a ColdFusion app that is dynamically managing a SQL Server 2K > database. What I am running into is the need to change a column > data type - specifically an ntext data type. Anybody got any > suggestions? > > It appears that I cannot used ALTER TABLE/COLUMN with an ntext data > type,

Re: OT SQL Question

2003-03-03 Thread Stephen Hait
> Can someone assist me with a quick SQL statement. > > I have a table with 3 columns: A, B, C (A would be the primary key) > I need to swap the values in column B with the values in column C > and vice versa. This should work with MS SQL assuming columns b and c are the same data type: UPDATE

RE: OT SQL Question

2003-03-03 Thread Cantrell, Adam
Are you talking about a one time query to change the values stored in the DB? UPDATE tableName SET tableName.B = tableName.C, tableName.C = tableName.B WHERE tableName.A = tableName.A Adam. > -Original Message- > From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Se

RE: OT SQL Question

2003-03-03 Thread webguy
yeap actually simplier... INSERT t1 SELECT a as a , b as c ,c as b FROM t1 TEST b4 you do it WG -Original Message- From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 March 2003 14:44 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT SQL Question SQL 7 does this still apply? -Original

RE: OT SQL Question

2003-03-03 Thread Tangorre, Michael
SQL 7 does this still apply? -Original Message- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT SQL Question SQL server ? use a format like this.. INSERT author_sales EXECUTE (' SELECT ''EXEC STRING&#

RE: OT SQL Question

2003-03-03 Thread webguy
SQL server ? use a format like this.. INSERT author_sales EXECUTE (' SELECT ''EXEC STRING'', authors.au_id, authors.au_lname, SUM(titles.price * sales.qty) FROM authors INNER JOIN titleauthor ON authors.au_id = titleauthor.au_id INNER JOIN titles ON titleauthor.title_id = titles.

RE: OT: SQL Question

2002-10-10 Thread Tony Carcieri
Thanks Everyone! I appreciate the help! Thanks, Tony -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 7:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SQL Question Tony Carcieri wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's what I want t

Re: OT: SQL Question

2002-10-09 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Tony Carcieri wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's what I want to do: > UPDATE tablename > SET column = 0 > WHERE ID = ??? > > I want to specify a range of numbers (like 100-200) and increment it by 2. > So, 100, 102,104etc would only be updated and the rest wouldn't. WHERE ID BETWEEN 100 AN

RE: OT: SQL question

2002-08-01 Thread Alistair Davidson
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 21:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SQL question Great. You did not provide your database or setup. I can only assume you are working on a mainframe hitting DB2. On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Phillip B wrote: > I need to do this and don't know where to start

Re: OT: SQL question

2002-07-29 Thread Alex
Great. You did not provide your database or setup. I can only assume you are working on a mainframe hitting DB2. On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Phillip B wrote: > I need to do this and don't know where to start. > > Compare part of a part number in one table to another table. The part numbers look >like

RE: OT: SQL Question (Access) the solution

2001-03-30 Thread Mike Kear
Well DOH!! Thanks to all of you who pointed out to me the blindingly obvious - all I had to do was join the tables. Jeez, I knew that .. I had just momentarily forgotten is all. Bob's answer was one of many who pointed out what I should obviously have known and recalled. The only extra piece

Re: OT: SQL Question

2001-01-17 Thread Bud
On 1/16/01, Gieseman, Athelene penned: > > INSERT X_Invoices (Vendor, Inv_GL, Inv_City, Inv_Dept, Inv_Date, >Inv_No, Inv_Desc, ApprovedDate, Notes, Inv_Amount) > values ('#Vendor#', '#Inv_GL#', '#Inv_City#', '#Inv_Dept#', >'#Inv_Date#', '#Inv_No#', '#Inv_Desc#', '#ApprovedDate#', '#Not

RE: OT: SQL Question

2001-01-17 Thread Gieseman, Athelene
That was it! Thank you! -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 4:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SQL Question On 1/16/01, Gieseman, Athelene penned: > > INSERT X_Invoices (Vendor, Inv_GL, Inv_City, Inv_Dept, Inv_Date, &

Re: OT: SQL Question

2001-01-16 Thread Bud
On 1/16/01, Gieseman, Athelene penned: > > INSERT X_Invoices (Vendor, Inv_GL, Inv_City, Inv_Dept, Inv_Date, >Inv_No, Inv_Desc, ApprovedDate, Notes, Inv_Amount) > values ('#Vendor#', '#Inv_GL#', '#Inv_City#', '#Inv_Dept#', >'#Inv_Date#', '#Inv_No#', '#Inv_Desc#', '#ApprovedDate#', '#Not

Re: ot: sql question

2000-09-28 Thread David Shadovitz
This hurts to look at. Is that the entire table? Or are there additional fields that make those rows unique? If it's the entire table, why do you have identical rows, and why do you want to retain them? If there's more to the table, extend your 'where' clause to identify the unique row that yo

Re: ot: sql question

2000-09-28 Thread David Cummins
Oh dear. Non-unique rows. Hmmm... Unless its possible to do this with cursors (I know nothing about them), I'd say you'd have to delete, then re-insert the data, or better yet add another column to make it unique... ;) David Cummins Gavin Myers wrote: > > here's what i'm doing > > delete from

RE: OT - SQL question

2000-05-04 Thread Paul Wakefield
Which of Fred's OrderNums do you want? If you don't care, then use SELECT DISTINCT Name FROM table If you want the Minimum, try SELECT Name, MIN (OrderNum) FROM table GROUP BY Name > -Original Message- > From: PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:45 PM >

RE: OT - SQL question

2000-05-04 Thread Pete Freitag
SELECT DISTINCT Name, OrderNum FROM tablename ___ Pete Freitag CFDEV.COM Cold Fusion Developer Resources http://www.cfdev.com/ -Original Message- From: PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 4:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su