I have a table in which all entries are in form of arithmetic formulas (i.e. 1+2+3 etc).
In this table all columns are of type varchar. The table has many columns like this.
I want to calculate formula and insert the values into another. Any suggestions on how to achieve this?
You can try this. I hope this can assist you. It takes expression from t1 and put the result in t2. You won't want to make t1 the actual table as it deletes from the table, so you can copy the actual table value to a temp table
declare #t as table(val varchar(20))
declare #t2 as table(val varchar(20))
insert into #t values
('1+3'),
('2*3'),
('9+3*2')
declare #exp varchar(20)
while(exists(select 1 from #t))
begin
select top(1) #exp = val from #t
insert into #t2
exec ('select '+#exp)
delete top (1) from #t
end
select * from #t2
Result
val
------
4
6
15
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After you create function DBO.EVAL , just Run :-
select dbo.eval(column_name) from table_name;
You can declare two table variables:
#tabformula in which will be stored the formulas
#tabresult in which will stored the results
There is an ID column that will be used for joining the two tables.
After filling the first table with the required formulas, you declare a cursor, and then you execute the formula and store the result into the #tabresult table.
declare #tabformula as table (id int identity(1,1), formula
varchar(200)) declare #tabresult as table (id int, result int)
insert into #tabformula(formula) values('1+4+6+7') ;
insert into #tabformula(formula) values('10+4+60+7');
insert into #tabformula(formula) values('1+4+6+70') ;
insert into #tabformula(formula) values('1+44+65+7');
declare c cursor for select ID,formula from #tabformula declare #id as
int declare #formula as varchar(200)
open c fetch c into #id,#formula while ##fetch_status=0 begin print
#formula insert into #tabresult (id,result) exec( 'select '+ #id +
','+#formula ) fetch c into #id,#formula end close c deallocate c
select T1.id,t1.formula,T2.result from #tabformula t1 inner join
#tabresult t2 on t1.id=t2.id
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One of my table column stores ~650,000 characters (each value of the column contains entire table). I know its bad design however, Client will not be able to change it.
I am tasked to convert the column into multiple columns.
I chose to use dbo.DelimitedSplit8K function
Unfortunately, it can only handle 8k characters at max.
So I decided to split the column into 81 8k batches using while loop and store the same in a variable table (temp or normal table made no improvement)
DECLARE #tab1 table ( serialnumber int, etext nvarchar(1000))
declare #scriptquan int = (select MAX(len (errortext)/8000) from mytable)
DECLARE #Counter INT
DECLARE #A bigint = 1
DECLARE #B bigint = 8000
SET #Counter=1
WHILE ( #Counter <= #scriptquan + 1)
BEGIN
insert into #tab1 select ItemNumber, Item from dbo.mytable cross apply dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(substring(errortext, #A, #B), CHAR(13)+CHAR(10))
SET #A = #A + 8000
SET #B = #B + 8000
SET #Counter = #Counter + 1
END
This followed by using below code
declare #tab2 table (Item nvarchar(max),itemnumber int, Colseq varchar(10)) -- declare table variable
;with cte as (
select [etext] ,ItemNumber, Item from #tab1 -- insert table name
cross apply dbo.DelimitedSplit8K(etext,' ')) -- insert table columns name that contains text
insert into #tab2 Select Item,itemnumber, 'a'+ cast (ItemNumber as varchar) colseq
from cte -- insert values to table variable
;WITH Tbl(item, colseq) AS(
select item, colseq from #tab2
),
CteRn AS(
SELECT item, colseq,
Rn = ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY colseq ORDER BY colseq)
FROM Tbl
)
SELECT
a1 Time,a2 Number,a3 Type,a4 Remarks
FROM CteRn r
PIVOT(
MAX(item)
FOR colseq IN(a1,a2,a3,a4)
)p
where a3 = 'error'
gives the desired output. However, just the loop takes 15 minutes to complete and overall query completes by 27 minutes. Is there any way I can make it faster? Total row count in my table is 2. So I don't think Index can help.
Client uses Azure SQL Database so I can't choose PowerShell or Python to accomplish this either.
Please let me know if more information is needed. I tried my best to mention everything I could.
I have a table ABSENCE that has 40 employee ids and need to add two columns from a table variable, which acts as a reference table. For each emp id, I need to randomly assign the values from the table variable. Here's the code I tried without randomizing:
USE TSQL2012;
GO
DECLARE #MAX SMALLINT;
DECLARE #MIN SMALLINT;
DECLARE #RECODE SMALLINT;
DECLARE #RE CHAR(100);
DECLARE #rearray table (recode smallint,re char(100));
insert into #rearray values (100,'HIT BY BEER TRUCK')
,(200,'BAD HAIR DAY')
,(300,'ASPIRIN OVERDOSE')
,(400,'MAKEUP DISASTER')
,(500,'GOT LOCKED IN THE SALOON')
DECLARE #REFCURSOR AS CURSOR;
SET #REFCURSOR = CURSOR FOR
SELECT RECODE,RE FROM #REARRAY;
OPEN #REFCURSOR;
SET #MAX = (SELECT DISTINCT ##ROWCOUNT FROM ABSENCE);
SET #MIN = 0;
ALTER TABLE ABSENCE ADD CODE SMALLINT, REASONING CHAR(100);
WHILE (#MIN <= #MAX)
BEGIN
FETCH NEXT FROM #REFCURSOR INTO #RECODE,#RE;
INSERT INTO ABSENCE (CODE, REASONING) VALUES (#RECODE,#RE);
SET #MIN+=1;
END
CLOSE #REFCURSOR
DEALLOCATE #REFCURSOR
SELECT EMPID,CODE,REASONING FROM ABSENCE
Though am inserting into two columns only, it is attempting to insert into empid (which has already been filled) and as it cannot be NULL, the insertion fails.
Also, how to randomize the values from the REARRAY table variable to insert them into the ABSENCE table?
Since this is a small dataset, one approach might be to use CROSS APPLY with a SELECT TOP(1) ... FROM #rearray ORDER BY NEWID() approach. This will essentially join your ABSENCE table with your reference table in an UPDATE statement, selecting a random row each time in the join. In full, it would look like:
UPDATE ABSENCE
SET col1 = x1.recode, col2 = x2.recode
FROM ABSENCE a
CROSS APPLY (SELECT TOP(1) * FROM #rearray ORDER BY NEWID()) x1(recode, re)
CROSS APPLY (SELECT TOP(1) * FROM #rearray ORDER BY NEWID()) x2(recode, re)
I'm using MSQL 2005. I have 2 table.A and B
Table A
- ID DOVKOD
- 1 KURSATIS
Table B
- ID KURALIS KURSATIS
- 1 2,2522 2,2685
- 2 2,4758 2,4874
Table A has only 1 record
When I execute Select (Select DOVKOD from Table A) from Table B I want to get same result as Select KURSATIS from Table B
I am gonna use it in a view. How can I do that. Thanks..
You can simply use a CASE expression:
SELECT CASE WHEN (SELECT DOVKOD FROM A) = 'KURSATIS' THEN KURSATIS
ELSE KURALIS
END
FROM B
SQL Fiddle Demo here
You must use Dynamic TSQL
SELECT #column=DOVKOD from Table A
EXEC ('Select ' + #column + ' from Table B')
If I understood you right then in table A you have the name of the column that you want to return. Then your solution is bad at all. I'll rather do something like that:
CREATE TABLE #TableA
(
ID INT, DOVKOD VARCHAR(100)
);
INSERT INTO #TableA VALUES (1, 'KURSATIS');
CREATE TABLE #TableB
(
ID INT, Value DECIMAL (18,2),Name VARCHAR(100)
);
INSERT INTO #TableB VALUES (1, 2.2522 , 'KURALIS');
INSERT INTO #TableB VALUES (2, 2.4758 , 'KURSATIS');
SELECT #TableB.* FROM #TableB JOIN #TableA ON #TableA.DOVKOD = #TableB.Name
The only way how to do this in MySQL is using Prepared statements. Dynamic pivot tables (transform rows to columns) is a good article about this.
SET #sql = NULL;
Select DOVKOD INTO #sql
FROM from Table A;
SET #sql = CONCAT('SELECT ', #sql, 'FROM Table B');
PREPARE stmt FROM #sql;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;
create table #sample (rowguid int identity ,id_frm int ,id_to int)
insert into #sample values( 1,5)
insert into #sample values( 7,13)
insert into #sample values( 17,20)
In the above table I have values starting Id and Ending Id. I need to prepare a table which has all the numbers falls between starting Id and Ending Id
i have tried it with looping but response is very slow in real world.
any body help me with query ???
This is what I have tried so far...
declare #sql varchar(8000) = '
select top '+cast((select max(id_to) from #sample) as varchar(100))+' identity(int,1,1) as guidid into tally from sysobjects,syscolumns '
exec (#sql)
alter table Tally add slab varchar(10)
create clustered index idx on Tally(guidid)
create clustered index idx on #sample(id_frm asc,id_to desc)
update Tally set slab = rowguid
from #sample join Tally on guidid between id_frm and id_to
delete from Tally where slab is null
select * from Tally
This query works fine with small numbers
But My real time table have 13 digit nos. It through Arithmetic overflow error
Assuming the range id_frm and id_to is relatively small integers, e.g. < 1M, one technique to approach this problem is to create a table with all values in the range and join to it:
WITH lotsOfNumbers AS
(
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY o1.object_id) AS id
FROM sys.objects o1 CROSS JOIN sys.objects o2
)
INSERT INTO #targetTable
SELECT l.ID
FROM lotsOfNumbers l
INNER JOIN #sample
ON l.ID BETWEEN #sample.id_frm AND #sample.id_to;
SqlFiddle here
A permanent table with the necessary range of ID's and a clustered index on the ID would improve performance, obviously.
Add in a DISTINCT if your ranges overlap, and you don't want duplicates in the result.
If you are able to get a full range of acceptable values into another table, you can use it without looping. The meathod below gets the minimum (1) and maximum (20), and the temporary table named #range will return everything in between.
drop table #sample
drop table #range
create table #sample (id_frm int ,id_to int)
insert into #sample values( 1,5)
insert into #sample values( 7,13)
insert into #sample values( 17,20)
create table #range (id int)
insert into #range select 1
go
insert into #range select top 1 max(id)+ 1 from #range
go 100
declare #min int
declare #max int
set #min= (select min(id_frm ) from #sample )
set #max = (select max(id_to) from #sample )
select * from #range where id between #min and #max
I am trying to achieve:
declare #TEMP table (ID int, Name varchar(max))
insert into #temp SELECT ID, Name FROM Table
SELECT * FROM #TEMP
WHERE #TEMP.ID = 1 <--- ERROR AT #TEMP.ID
But I'm getting the following error:
Must declare the scalar variable "#temp".
What am I doing wrong?
A table alias cannot start with a #. So, give #Temp another alias (or leave out the two-part naming altogether):
SELECT *
FROM #TEMP t
WHERE t.ID = 1;
Also, a single equals sign is traditionally used in SQL for a comparison.
Either use an Allias in the table like T and use T.ID, or use just the column name.
declare #TEMP table (ID int, Name varchar(max))
insert into #temp SELECT ID, Name FROM Table
SELECT * FROM #TEMP
WHERE ID = 1
There is one another method of temp table
create table #TempTable (
ID int,
name varchar(max)
)
insert into #TempTable (ID,name)
Select ID,Name
from Table
SELECT *
FROM #TempTable
WHERE ID = 1
Make Sure You are selecting the right database.
If you bracket the # you can use it directly
declare #TEMP table (ID int, Name varchar(max))
insert into #temp values (1,'one'), (2,'two')
SELECT * FROM #TEMP
WHERE [#TEMP].[ID] = 1
You should use hash (#) tables, That you actually looking for because variables value will remain till that execution only.
e.g. -
declare #TEMP table (ID int, Name varchar(max))
insert into #temp SELECT ID, Name FROM Table
When above two and below two statements execute separately.
SELECT * FROM #TEMP
WHERE #TEMP.ID = 1
The error will show because the value of variable lost when you execute the batch of query second time.
It definitely gives o/p when you run an entire block of code.
The hash table is the best possible option for storing and retrieving the temporary value. It last long till the parent session is alive.
try the following query:
SELECT ID,
Name
INTO #tempTable
FROM Table
SELECT *
FROM #tempTable
WHERE ID = 1
It doesn't need to declare table.
You could stil use #TEMP if you quote the identifier "#TEMP":
declare #TEMP table (ID int, Name varchar(max));
insert into #temp SELECT 1 AS ID, 'a' Name;
SELECT * FROM #TEMP WHERE "#TEMP".ID = 1 ;
db<>fiddle demo
You've declared #TEMP but in your insert statement used #temp. Case sensitive variable names.
Change #temp to #TEMP