How to auto insert values in dependency table? - sql-server

I have created three tables. One is named as User and second is Folder and third one is User Folder Rights Table . I have inserted values in table by using Query
Insert into Users values ('admin','123');
Insert into Folders values ('folderA');
Third table is Normalized Table and dependent on both these tables. As i executed these above defined queries, Nothing stores in third table User Folder Rights Table shown in this above image.
What is the reason of this behavior and secondly how to automatically generate values in this Third Table when these two above explained queries will execute?
If my question is not clear to you please ask me.

Use Triggers to achieve this goal. Please follow this Article . It has detailed description.
Thank's
Tameen.

You must be missing the sequence of insertion , First of all insert values into independent tables e.g User,Folders then take the latest Primary Keys and insert them into third normalized form.
Its even more good you use triggers, but that will lead you in a bit complex workload.

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Insert into two SQL Server tables and pass unique ID from one to the other

I'm hoping someone can help me because, despite finding numerous other questions like this one, I can't seem to find an answer specific to this problem?
I have two tables, TblReportsStore and TblReportsStoreComments as follows:
I want to add a new record to TblReportsStore, and then pass the TblReportsStoreID of that record to the intReportID column of a new record in TblReportsStoreComments. If it helps at all, the data is coming from a spreadsheet where the only changing data is the txtSchoolID and the txtComment.
One way is to use output. This assumes that it is an Identity column. Otherwise you could use NEWID() with the values:
INSERT INTO TblReportsStore(...)
OUTPUT INSERTED.TblReportsStoreID,txtComment
INTO TblReportsStoreComments(intReportID,txtComment)
VALUES ...

SQL Delete vs Update

I have seen something like this asked a number of times but not quite in this configuration. I have a table that has a one to many relation.
Let’s say I have a computer table and a parts table. The user enters a generic info in the computer table then selects parts that are stored in the parts table with a relationship to the computer table of computerId. So the original write is a simple insert. Now let’s say the user select the computer again and changes the part on the pc, adds some new, removes some, and updates a few. Then the user hits save to save the changes. I run a simple update on the computer table but now the issue with the parts table.
Would it be better to delete all the records from the parts table for the computer Id and then do a clean insert of all the parts selected.
Or Run some method that would look at the existing parts in the table and where the part has been updated update the record, where the part no longer exists do a delete, and then insert the remaining parts?
Clearly the simple solution is to delete all and then insert all.
The down side of this SQL traffic, locks, and table fragmentation.
If it is small table and only few concurrent users then fine.
In a high volume environment I do the following
There is no update - that is just an ignore
- delete items gone
- ignore any items not changed
- insert new items
And you can do that in one pass two/three statements.
Or you could define a stored procedure.
Do the delete before the insert to clear space first.
You can get real fancy and use an update for delete / insert but that just gets more complex than it is worth in my mind. You would still have an insert or a delete if the item count is not the same.
delete comp_part
where compID = #compID and partID not in (....);
Insert is a little more tricky:
You can to it with a series of inserts and if you have a PK just let the insert fail
The other way is to create a #table and use it for both the delete and insert
This is only worth the hassle if you have a REALLY busy table.
It all depends upon the business model, if you would want to track the transaction than its not a good option to delete it. If you have all your old transactions with your customers than it would be beneficial for tracking purposes., Your CustomerID would be Primarykey and you can have another Unique key as PartOrderID which will be a unique value for each insert.
Hope this helps
Really you should have three tables. Product, Part, and ProductPart; the ProductPart table would store the association of "this product has these parts". As far as updating, the simplest thing would be to delete all ProductParts for a given Product and re-insert the records you want.

Database Design for Filtering Database

I'm new to complex database design. I'm currently into a project where the user should be able to retrieve Instructions based on a combination of 18 columns. So my parameter Table has the following columns
Job
State
Manager
ProcessCode
ProcessType
(rest of the columns truncated).
InstructionID (FK of Instruction Table)
When adding / Modifying the instruction, he can choose multiple options in each of the above parameters. The Stored Procedure will store data in all combinations possible, in order facilitate easy retrieval, as during search (retrieval) only one option will be chosen in each of the columns.
There can be multiple instructions for same combination and the same instruction can apply to multiple combinations.
I have somehow created the SP for adding instruction, but am now struck with modification. When my Webpage passes the new combination to SP, what is the best way to update the Table?
I could delete all existing rows and create new rows for new combination, but I wanted to maintain the created date and created user columns. Further, there is a requirement to maintain history of these in a separate history table.
Sorry for the length of the question... And, Thank you for help.
If you're trying to retrieve data based on a combination of parameters then you can set the parameters to have the default value of NULL e.g.
CREATE PROC spProcName
#FieldName INT = NULL
The only other thing to do is set the WHERE section of the statement to look at the parameter values and compare them to see if they or null or not e.g.
WHERE ((FieldName = #FieldName) OR (#FieldName IS NULL))
Use this for querying the tables and use standard update queries in a similar fashion using the default parameter value of null but setting the value like this:
FieldName = ISNULL(#FieldName, FieldName)
Which lets you update only given parameters.
Hope this is something you are after, I can give a full example if needed.
What you have is many-to-many relationship, so I would suggest you use:

inserting into a view in SQL server

I have a SQL Server as backend and use ms access as frontend.
I have two tables (persons and managers), manager is derived from persons (a 1:1 relation), thus i created a view managersFull which is basically a:
SELECT *
FROM `managers` `m`
INNER JOIN `persons` `p`
ON `m`.`id` = `p`.`id`
id in persons is autoincrementing and the primary key, id in managers is the primary key and a foreign key, referencing persons.id
now i want to be able to insert a new dataset with a form in ms access, but i can’t get it to work. no error message, no status line, nothing. the new rows aren’t inserted, and i have to press escape to cancel my changes to get back to design view in ms access.
i’m talking about a managers form and i want to be able to enter manager AND person information at the same time in a single form
my question is now: is it possible what i want to do here? if not, is there a “simple” workaround using after insert triggers or some lines of vba code?
thanks in advance
The problem is that your view is across several tables. If you access multiple tables you could update or insert in only one of them.
Please also check the MSDN for more detailed information on restrictions and on proper strategies for view updates
Assuming ODBC, some things to consider:
make sure you have a timestamp field in the person table, and that it is returned in your managers view. You also probably need the real PK of the person table in the manager view (I'm assuming your view takes the FK used for the self-join and aliases it as the ID field -- I wouldn't do that myself, as it is confusing. Instead, I'd use the real foreign key name in the managers view, and let the PK stand on its own with its real name).
try the Jet/ACE-specific DISTINCTROW predicate in your recordsource. With Jet/ACE back ends, this often makes it possible to insert into both tables when it's otherwise impossible. I don't know for certain if Jet will be smart enough to tell SQL Server to do the right thing, though.
if neither of those things works, change your form to use a recordsource based on your person table, and use a combo box based on the managers view as the control with which you edit the record to relate the person to a manager.
Ilya Kochetov pointed out that you can only update one table, but the work-around would be to apply the updates to the fields on one table and then the other. This solution assumes that the only access you have to these two tables is through this view and that you are not allowed to create a stored procedure to take care of this.
To model and maintain two related tables in access you don’t use a query or view that is a join of both tables. What you do is use a main form, and drop in a sub-form that is based on the child table. If the link master and child setting in the sub-form is set correctly, then you not need to write any code and access will insert the person’s id in the link field.
So, don’t use a joined table here. Simply use a form + sub-form setup and you be able to edit and maintain the data and the data in the related child table.
This means you base the form on the table, and not a view. And you base the sub-form on the child table. So, don't use a view here.

trigger insertions into same table

I have many tables in my database which are interrelated. I have a table (table one) which has had data inserted and the id auto increments. Once that row has an ID i want to insert this into a table (table three) with another set of ID's which comes from a form(this data will also be going into a table, so it could from from that table), the same form as the data which went into the first table came from.
The two ID's together make the primary key of the third table.
How can I do this, its to show that more than one ID is joined to a single ID for something else.
Thanks.
You can't do that through a trigger as the trigger only has available to it the data that you already inserted not data that is currenlty only residing in your user interface.
Normally how you handle this situation is that you write a stored proc that inserts the meeting, returns the id value (using scope_identity() in SQL Server, but I'm sure other databases would have method to return the auto-generated id as well). Then you would use that value to insert to the other table with the other values you need for that table. You would of course want to wrap the whole thing in a transaction.
I think you can probably do what you're describing (just write the INSERTs to table 3) in the table 1 trigger) but you'll have to put the additional info for the table 3 rows into your table 1 row, which isn't very smart.
I can't see why you would do that instead of writing the INSERTs in your code, where someone reading it can see what's happening.
The trouble with triggers is that they make it easy to hide business logic in the database. I think (and I believe I'm in the majority here) that it's easier to understand, manage, maintain and generally all-round deal with an application where all the business rules exist in the same general area.
There are reasons to use triggers (for propagating denormalised values, for example) just as there are reasons for useing stored procedures. I'm going to assert that they are largely related to performance-critical areas. Or should be.

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