Im running SQL Server 2005. I was wondering if there is a tool our there that would allow to to say something like:
SELECT top 10 *
FROM ct
And the ct will be converted to CustomerTable
It does not have to be a SQL Server add on, could just be a windows app.
I just find that I keep calling the same tables many times over, and even though I have SQL Complete to autocomplete, it still takes a while to get the full table name out of it.
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I'm following a course on edX and I'm using the AdventureWorksLT database for the exercises, everything seems fine.
However, in the Object Explorer I can't see the attributes (columns) of a table.
When I expand the table I see 4 subfolders:
Keys (which generates an error when I try to open it)
Constraints
Triggers
Statistics
No attributes/columns of the table.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I really need this sometimes to see, for instance, the type of attribute (i.e. varchar or int).
The database is hosted on Microsoft Azure and I'm using SQL Server 2014 Management Studio and database.
The following query is written using SQL Server 2014 CONTAINS function.
SELECT
Org1.OrganizationPK
,*
FROM Organization Org1
WHERE Org1.Deleted = 0
AND CONTAINS (Org1.NAME,'"chris6*"')
AND org1.OrgDomainInd = 1
But, the above query is NOT working.
I have followed this article to understand more about CONTAINS function. I have verified those examples as-they-are. Even here also, I am not getting any results.
I have verified this post from stackoverflow, but I could not apply for my requirement.
Hence, I am getting doubt whether I need to do anything more to configure SQL Server 2014 to work with CONTAINS fuction? Please let me know if there is anything I need to do to make SQL Server 2014 ready to use CONTAINS function.
If there is nothing like that, please suggest me the solution.
Please don't suggest me to use LIKE operator. I am telling this why because, most of my colleagues suggested me same; hence, as a precautionary matter I am writing this statement here.
I am running behind my schedule to complete this task.
Before CONTAINS will work against a column you need setup full text index. This is actually a different engine which runs as a separate service in SQL Server, so make sure it is installed an running.
Once you're sure the component is installed (it may already be installed) You need to do the following:
Create a Full-Text Catalogue
Create a Full-Text Index (you can have multiple of these in the same catalogue) against the tables/columns you want to be able to use full-text keywords
Run a Population which will crawl the index created & populate the catalogue (these are seperate files which SQL Server needs to maintain in addition to mdf/ldf )
There's an ok tutorial on how to do this by using SSMS in SQL Server 2008 by Pinal Dave on CodeProject. SQL Server 2014 should be very similar.
You can also perform these steps with TSQL:
CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG
CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX
ALTER FULLTEXT INDEX
I believe that contains functionality can only be used in tables configured to use/support Full Text Search -- an elderly feature of SQL Server that I have little experience with. If you are not using Full Text Search, I'm pretty sure contains will not work.
I'm new to SQL Server and today I began writing an SQL query. While writing SQL queries in SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) for insert statements, I noticed that only table names were getting auto completed, but there is no option to auto complete the column name. Is there any way to autocomplete column names in a query?
INSERT INTO table_name (column1,column2,column3,...)
/* Here table name is auto completed. When i type a,a related tables were generated, but for columns there is no autocomplete. */
VALUES (value1,value2,value3,...);
Assuming you are using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), which most use people use when working with SQL Server, there is a weaker built in Intellisense that will fill in certain parts of SQL queries for you. If you want something stronger, you can check out third party addins. The most popular are probably SQL Prompt by Red Gate and SQL Complete by dbForge.
I am new to MS SQL and I am trying to do something that seems simple but is driving me crazy.
I want to write a query to pull data from two databases. Each database is on a different instance on the same DEV machine. (one is MS SQL 2008 and the other MS SQL 2005). I am using the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (MSSMS).
I have the basics figured out. I know the format of the query and what I need to do. My big problem is figuring out what the NAME of each server is?
SELECT LastName
FROM [servername1].CHA2.dbo.Customer
UNION
SELECT LastName
FROM [servername2].OBXKites.dbo.Contact
ORDER BY LastName
I used the server name that I connect to MSSMS (DLPT\HENRY) with and what is also returned by ##SERVERNAME
SELECT ##SERVERNAME returns DLPT\HENRY
I tried
DLPT\HENRY.CHA2.dbo.Customer
did not work
I tried it without the DLPT HENRY.CHA2.dbo.Customer
did not work
I need to future out what the NAME of the server is to use in the query.
[DLPT\HENRY].CHA2.dbo.Customer
The namo contains a backslash which is normally illegal in an identifier. You surround illegal names with brackets.
Note that you surround just the server name. In other words, it is [DLPT\HENRY].CHA2.dbo.Customer, not [DLPT\HENRY.CHA2.dbo.Customer].
You have to configure Linked servers. Then only different instances of SQL Server are able to communicate with each other.
Unfortunately you can't access tables in databases in separate SQL Server instances by default. You have a couple of options here - neither are simple and might require help from a DBA:
1) Use linked servers like this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff772782(v=sql.110).aspx
Then you will be able to refer to the second table in the format INSTANCENAME.DatabaseName.SchemaName.TableName
2) Use replication to get the table from the second database into the first database. Then the contents of the second table will be synched to the first database in more or less real time
Read about SQL Replication here
I have an application in classic ASP, and a database in SQL server 2005.
I transfer the database in SQL server express edition and I have one strange problem, I can see the tables in the database in this way:
information_Schema.dbo.test, so when I execute SQL command
select * From test
I get error that it can't find the table.
When I execute
select * From information_Schema.dbo.test
I do get results.
The problem is that my application is many many files and I can't rewrite the SQL commands.
Is there any way to find a solution in SQL without changing anything in my application?
I would guess you are not connecting to the information_Schema database but to some other db that does not contain the table. Did you put the table in the wrong place(Information_Schema doesn't sound like a typical application db location to me) or is your connection wrong?