Questions tagged [sql-server]
Microsoft's SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It originated from the Sybase SQL Server codebase, which is why both products use the extension of SQL called Transact-SQL (T-SQL).
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Are there other means to apply place holders to an array in a loop for pdo statements for search functions with unknown numbers of keywords in php
I'm a newbie to PHP and other programming for that matter.
I'm doing this simply to learn. Figured the code could be used to search through a police database or something.
The statements are Microsoft ...
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Find All Recent Winners and Calculate an Encoding of What They Won
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I was proud of this code for a little while, but the repetition wounds me. I know that the function name sucks, but the name and interface to this function are not under my control. ...
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Find All Recent Winners and Calculate an Encoding
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I was proud of this code for a little while, but the repetition wounds me. I know that the function name sucks, but the name and interface to this function are not under my control. ...
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What is the percentage of customers who increase their closing balance by more than 5%?
The Question
What is the percentage of customers who increase their closing balance by more than 5%?
Source Code
The database and all details can be found here.
ERD
My Proposed Solution
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Efficient Connection Pooling in ODBC-MSSQL with Rust (odbc-api)?
I want to connect to MSSQL using ODBC (odbc-api) at the beginning of my server application created with hyper.rs.
I want to have a connection pool and obtain a connection within each request, which ...
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Is there a more concise way to write this Procedure
I have this stored Procedure that is passed in the data below that will building the SQL select that will get EXEC. The data that can be passed in can me null so I have three ...
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Is there a more concise way to write this query in SQL Server?
I'm playing with data from a Time Use survey as a beginner SQL user.
Gender is represented as 1's (Male) and 2's (Female), and the age of each participant is listed. I would like to divide them into ...
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Changing the state of an entity in a multi threaded environment using Stored Procedures
According to my current design various processes and threads(written in .net core or framework) will call this stored procedure to change the status of various entities in a multi threaded environment:...
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Employee Attendance structure design
I am designing a solution to store employee day attendance, which can be recorded either as hours or as an interval within a day. The goal is to maintain a monthly attendance list for each employee.
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Write SQL Server table to Parquet file
This is a C# console application that creates Parquet file for SQL Server table.
Given a 5GB SQL table, it takes nearly 65 minutes, so for our bigger tables (up to 500GB), it may end up taking days to ...
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Count how many active and inactive users are in a group/unit/department/team
Given the following example data:
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username
group
unit
department
team
status
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user1
g1
u1
d1
t1
active
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user2
g1
u1
d1
t2
active
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user3
g1
u1
d1
t3
inactive
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user4
g3
u6
d12
t30
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Optimizing a TRANSACT SQL statement [closed]
I'm in need to optimize the following TRANSACT SQL statement :
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SQL query to pivot table into dynamically growing set of columns
I am working on SQL Server I have sample data like this in a table.
CustId
Bank
city
rating
date
rnk
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Deutsche
Delhi
5
10/10/2022
1
1
BOA
Pune
6
10/10/2022
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1
UBS
Mumbai
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10/10/2022
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SBI
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Query to get data out of a dirty database
Preface / Background
Feel free to request for more information about the data and please let me know of redundant information I can remove to help keep this question as clear as possible.
I do not ...
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Nested table in query
I have transaction tables called MaterialRequest and MaterialRequestDetails.
What I want to check my query and review that it's ...
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Select certain row if it is in the date range otherwise take fallback
SQL Server 2017
The table contains duplicate contracts per factory with different From and To dates.
I'd like to select the correct row based on a declared YearMonth parameter.
If this falls in the ...
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updated Accounting system data database design
Many thanks for your valuable comments in my previous post.
In my previous link Accounting system data database design
The primary key and foreign key was not assigned i was thinking handle from front ...
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Accounting system data database design
I have created an accounting database as per my accounting knowledge.
I want to check: Is that database correct which I design for the accounting system?
I have table called Mst_AccountGroup(Asset,...
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Find dogs who stopped being good boys without ever being good boys - Was HAVING the wrong approach?
The problem I have solved is as follows:
Consider a table of dogs, DOGGIES, that records on each row the ID of a doggy, one ...
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Creating database and two tables linked by foreign key
These commands do what I want, but I'm trying to find out the best approach for this. My main areas of concern are: error handling and disposal of resources. In regards to error handling, I'm catching ...
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dotnet - creating db records in bulks in a background job
UPDATE: I found the namespace Channels, and this does exactly what I want to do, but in a much more stable way. Please don't use my code for anything important! :)
Use case
I have a site that (at peak ...
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T-SQL Query Performance [closed]
The query below already has indexes based its execution plan but it is still under performant with larger datasets. Are the additional null checks needed and why? Do you see anything that can be done ...
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Database schema for discussion forum scraping
I'm scraping posts from various discussion forums and storing those posts, along with some metadata, into a relational database (SQL). My actual use case is a bit more complex, but I think I can give ...
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Table-Value Function with row-level-locking
I'm implementing row-level-locking on a MS SQL Server. The function I created below works, but even with a very small data set, it takes a significant amount of time to return the results.
If I were ...
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Get result of a scalar-valued SQL function from C#
I do not receive files on holidays; I only receive files on regular days—i.e., non-holidays. I want to skip 2021-09-06 since that's a holiday (Labor Day) and I know I will not receive any files. ...
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IF SELECT statement will break SQL ACID Compliance? [closed]
My QA told me that I should not use IF SELECT before doing an UPDATE statement because it will breaks the atomicity of a ...
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Alter authorization on all non-system SQL Server databases
I am not very experienced with T-SQL and feel this can be done better. The script changes ownership of all "user" (non-system) databases to sa.
Usage of a ...
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Complex reporting query suggestion needed for different approach as per latest Tsql format
We have recently migrated from SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2017 web edition. I am not a SQL developer but enthuses to learn.
Since many of our scrips are of old SQL format, I am searching for ...
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PySpark SCD Type 1
I am using PySpark in Azure DataBricks to try to create a SCD Type 1.
I would like to know if this is an efficient way of doing this?
Here is my SQL table:
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Re-organizing indices in case of fragmentation is T-SQL
In order to keep the fragmentation ratio of indices low, you should re-organize the indices from time to time on MSSQL. Microsoft describes in the link below how you can check the fragmentation of ...
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Basic schemas for database and tables creation, bulk import from .csv and basic queries
The following SQL code serves the purpose of assessing basic SQL Server literacy.
I am creating database and tables schemas, inserting data from .csv files.
Constructing 8 simple queries as answers to ...
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SQL Query to perform a "reverse exclusion" on a LEFT JOIN with a select from the left side table
I have a set of tables that I want to execute a LEFT JOIN on and bring back "excluded" rows. In addition, I would like the left table's ID included as ...
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Optimizing database access using LINQ [closed]
I have the following method that I am trying to optimize. Currently, the method works great, however, it takes a little over 3 hours to complete. I feel like, using some nifty LINQ joins, it should be ...
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Retrieve data from two different rows in a single SQL query?
I've a table with the following data
and I need to find the number of minutes between two jobs (Say A and C).
The following query works but wondering, if there is a simpler way to achieve the same.
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all appointment based on interval distance
Currently with a given Date and an Interval in Day, I can calculate all of the appointment in the future. for example if you are ...
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Basic login by username logic with SQL Server
My goal is to make a very simple library with the authentications basics: create a user and save its hashed password, change its password, have a method to check if the password is correct for login.
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How to make this query better (e.g. avoid repeating subquery in a query)?
Stack Exchange provides access to query their MS SQL databases. They have a table Posts where each post is either a question or an answer (see the schema on right ...
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Performance stored procedure update multi-coulmn sql
I have a stored procedure the every 5 min run in sqlserver
high cost iO/cpu
do you have any idea to tune this query
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Receive data from SQL and CSV and send it to MySQL database using Python
Details:
I have a code, which does the following:
Get data from CSV and insert it into MySQL table
Get data from SQL Server and insert it into MySQL table
Run this code every 240 seconds - to ...
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Code for tracking changes and deletions to tables
I have written a SQL server stored procedure to generate "log" tables which store the old values of rows when a table is updated, and also record when rows are deleted ( and by who ). It's quite ...
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API Layer ClientId and Security style
Im at the point where I am designing my api security and I was going with a custom attribute I don't want to use third party systems as they cost money.
I was going to use the client id and the ...
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Faster/Better Processing for SQL While Loop
I have a list of about 55k Accounts that I am cleaning up. 95% of them are from US/Canada which is what I'm most concerned with. I am going through record by record and will perform various checks ...
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Calling a function within stored procedure to derive a value
I am trying to write a sql storeprocedure that basically returns a derived value from an outcome of a function call. The derived field returns the difference in days and if the difference is less ...
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Get average post score of TOP 10 tags on StackOverflow using Stack Exchange Data Explorer
I want to use the Stack exchange data explorer in order to display some basic information about the top tags.
The query should print the number of questions and answers, the average number of answers ...
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Export sql data to xml and csv
I have the below code that takes the sql data and exports it to xml or csv. The xml is processing at good speed but my csv sometimes takes 1 hour depending on how many data rows it exports. My ...
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Creating SQL Server Database Users Dynamically from User Input
The Application
I have an application in testing that runs off of an MS SQL Server database. The app allows users to authenticate using Windows authentication (that is, using the Windows username the ...
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Excel to SQL server
I am self-taught when it comes to coding. I want to improve, so please give me advice if I have some bad habits or if there is in general a better way of doing this.
The idea of this code is to look ...
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NewSequentialId - pure net core 2.2 implementation of sql server function
i'm currently trying to rewrite sql server newSequentialId() function in pure c# that is performing as fast as possible and eats minimum memory.
Question is can I it be done better - current ...
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