Convert Access query to SQL View

Hi,
I have used an access table to create a chart report to show how many calls
were handled in a month. How do i conver the Access sql to MS sql server
view. Here is the access sql:
SELECT (Format([ComplaintDate],"mmm"" '""yy")) AS Expr1, Count(*) AS [Count]
FROM [Complaints]
GROUP BY (Format([ComplaintDate],"mmm"" '""yy")),
(Year([ComplaintDate])*12+Month([Complai
ntDate])-1)
ORDER BY (Year([ComplaintDate])*12+Month([Complai
ntDate])-1);
In the MS Sql, the word FORMAT is not recognised. I have tried several ways
like this w/o any luck. Can anyone tell me the correct syntax for the above
sql querry.
Thanks
SenthilkumarCheck out CONVERT() in the BOL.
Tom
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SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
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"Senthilkumar" <kesk32@.yahoo.co.in> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have used an access table to create a chart report to show how many calls
were handled in a month. How do i conver the Access sql to MS sql server
view. Here is the access sql:
SELECT (Format([ComplaintDate],"mmm"" '""yy")) AS Expr1, Count(*) AS [Count]
FROM [Complaints]
GROUP BY (Format([ComplaintDate],"mmm"" '""yy")),
(Year([ComplaintDate])*12+Month([Complai
ntDate])-1)
ORDER BY (Year([ComplaintDate])*12+Month([Complai
ntDate])-1);
In the MS Sql, the word FORMAT is not recognised. I have tried several ways
like this w/o any luck. Can anyone tell me the correct syntax for the above
sql querry.
Thanks
Senthilkumar|||To add to Tom's reply, you might want to consider leaving off the
formatting in the view and just return the raw data. Let the client
format the result set. Any time you format the data on the server, the
formatting functions you use have to operate on every single row, one
at a time.
--Mary
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:09:30 +0530, "Senthilkumar"
<kesk32@.yahoo.co.in> wrote:

>Hi,
>I have used an access table to create a chart report to show how many calls
>were handled in a month. How do i conver the Access sql to MS sql server
>view. Here is the access sql:
>SELECT (Format([ComplaintDate],"mmm"" '""yy")) AS Expr1, Count(*) AS [Count]
>FROM [Complaints]
>GROUP BY (Format([ComplaintDate],"mmm"" '""yy")),
> (Year([ComplaintDate])*12+Month([Complai
ntDate])-1)
>ORDER BY (Year([ComplaintDate])*12+Month([Complai
ntDate])-1);
>In the MS Sql, the word FORMAT is not recognised. I have tried several ways
>like this w/o any luck. Can anyone tell me the correct syntax for the above
>sql querry.
>Thanks
>Senthilkumar
>

Convert Access CROSSTAB query to SQL Table or View

I have a Crosstab query that I need to convert to SQL to complete upsize of a large DB.
I have a table (here referred to as Data) with the fields: Resource, Date and Count. I need to transform it to a table (or view) with a fields called Date, and one field for each Resource that exists in the Data table.

The Data table looks like this:
RES DATE COUNT
res1 Jan06 5
res2 Jan06 4
res3 Jan 06 2
res1 Feb06 9
res2 Feb06 5
res3 Feb06 7

etc

The Access crosstab query sql is:
=====================
TRANSFORM Sum(Data.Count) AS SumOfCount
SELECT Data.Date
FROM Data
GROUP BY Data.Date
ORDER BY Data.Date
PIVOT Data.Resource;

which gives the resultant data set for charting:
Date res1 res2 res3
Jan06 5 4 2
Feb06 9 5 7

TRANSFORM is not T-SQL. I assume I need a usp to create the required table. Any ideas please?

George Cooper.

In SQL Server, you can use either CASE statement to pivot the table or PIVOT function in SQL Server 2005.

Here is CASE solution:

SELECT sDate,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res1' THEN sCount END) as res1,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res2' THEN sCount END) as res2,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res3' THEN sCount END) as res3
FROM (SELECT sDate, res, sCount FROM myDATA) p
WHERE res IN ('res1', 'res2', 'res3')
GROUP BY sDate
ORDER By Convert(DATETIME,'01'+sDate,13)

PIVOT solution:(SQL Server 2005)

SELECT sDate, res1, res2, res3
FROM (SELECT sDate, res, sCount FROM myDATA) p
PIVOT (AVG(sCount) FOR res IN ([res1], [res2], [res3])) AS pvt
ORDER By Convert(DATETIME,'01'+sDate,13)

You need to pay attention to your so-called Date column. I convert the text (nvarchar) field to datetime for sorting purpose.

|||

Thanks,

Pivot soultion works well.

Regards\

George Cooper

|||There is an interesting article on this issue at:
http://tinyurl.com/mgrwo

|||

But if the number of destination columns (res1, res2, res3,...,resN) is unknown?

Using SqlServer 2000.

Later i found these great article:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/plarsson/pivottableformicrosoftsqlserver.asp

Convert Access CROSSTAB query to SQL Table or View

I have a Crosstab query that I need to convert to SQL to complete upsize of a large DB.
I have a table (here referred to as Data) with the fields: Resource, Date and Count. I need to transform it to a table (or view) with a fields called Date, and one field for each Resource that exists in the Data table.

The Data table looks like this:
RES DATE COUNT
res1 Jan06 5
res2 Jan06 4
res3 Jan 06 2
res1 Feb06 9
res2 Feb06 5
res3 Feb06 7

etc

The Access crosstab query sql is:
=====================
TRANSFORM Sum(Data.Count) AS SumOfCount
SELECT Data.Date
FROM Data
GROUP BY Data.Date
ORDER BY Data.Date
PIVOT Data.Resource;

which gives the resultant data set for charting:
Date res1 res2 res3
Jan06 5 4 2
Feb06 9 5 7

TRANSFORM is not T-SQL. I assume I need a usp to create the required table. Any ideas please?

George Cooper.

In SQL Server, you can use either CASE statement to pivot the table or PIVOT function in SQL Server 2005.

Here is CASE solution:

SELECT sDate,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res1' THEN sCount END) as res1,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res2' THEN sCount END) as res2,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res3' THEN sCount END) as res3
FROM (SELECT sDate, res, sCount FROM myDATA) p
WHERE res IN ('res1', 'res2', 'res3')
GROUP BY sDate
ORDER By Convert(DATETIME,'01'+sDate,13)

PIVOT solution:(SQL Server 2005)

SELECT sDate, res1, res2, res3
FROM (SELECT sDate, res, sCount FROM myDATA) p
PIVOT (AVG(sCount) FOR res IN ([res1], [res2], [res3])) AS pvt
ORDER By Convert(DATETIME,'01'+sDate,13)

You need to pay attention to your so-called Date column. I convert the text (nvarchar) field to datetime for sorting purpose.

|||

Thanks,

Pivot soultion works well.

Regards\

George Cooper

|||There is an interesting article on this issue at:
http://tinyurl.com/mgrwo

|||

But if the number of destination columns (res1, res2, res3,...,resN) is unknown?

Using SqlServer 2000.

Later i found these great article:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/plarsson/pivottableformicrosoftsqlserver.asp

Convert Access CROSSTAB query to SQL Table or View

TRANSFORM IIf(Sum(IIf([blockinyield]=True,[SIZE],0))>0,Sum([Y_TOTAL_ton])/Sum(IIf([blockinyield]=True,[SIZE],0)),0) AS Yield_THA
SELECT OILPALM.NAME, OILPALM.YEAR, formatyear([year]) AS yearDisplay, Count(OILPALM.BLOCK) AS CountOfBLOCK
FROM OILPALM
GROUP BY OILPALM.NAME, OILPALM.YEAR
PIVOT Year([D_PLANTED]);

how to convert the access query above to sql server 2000

In SQL Server 2000 you have't have predefined operator to get the PIVOT table..

Here you have to manually write the query to get the pivot result...

(Example)

Code Snippet

Create Table #BikeSales
(
Year int,
Product Varchar(100),
Sales Int
)

Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2005', 'HONDA F1', 10000)
Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2006', 'HONDA F1', 6000)
Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2007', 'HONDA F1', 7000)

Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2005', 'HONDA IRL', 100)
Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2006', 'HONDA IRL', 99)
Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2007', 'HONDA IRL', 1000)

Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2005', 'HONDA MotoGP', 124)
Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2006', 'HONDA MotoGP', 344)
Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2007', 'HONDA MotoGP', 132)

Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2005', 'HONDA Super GT', 234)
Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2006', 'HONDA Super GT', 32344)
Insert Into #BikeSales Values ('2007', 'HONDA Super GT', 123232)

Select
[Main].Product
,Sum([2005].Sales) as [2005]
,Sum([2006].Sales) as [2006]
,Sum([2007].Sales) as [2007]
From (Select Distinct Product From #BikeSales) as [Main]
Left Outer Join (Select * From #BikeSales Where Year=2005) as [2005] On [2005].Product=[Main].Product
Left Outer Join (Select * From #BikeSales Where Year=2006) as [2006] On [2006].Product=[Main].Product
Left Outer Join (Select * From #BikeSales Where Year=2007) as [2007] On [2007].Product=[Main].Product
Group By [Main].Product

You can generate the above query dynamically using the following script..

Code Snippet

Declare @.JoinQuery as Varchar(1000);
Declare @.SelectQuery as Varchar(1000);
Declare @.PreparedJoinQuery as Varchar(1000);
Declare @.PreparedSelectQuery as Varchar(1000);
Select @.JoinQuery = '', @.SelectQuery = ''
Select @.PreparedJoinQuery = 'Left Outer Join (Select * From #BikeSales Where Year=?) as [?] On [?].Product=[Main].Product '
Select @.PreparedSelectQuery =',Sum([?].Sales) as [?]'
Select
@.JoinQuery = @.JoinQuery + Replace(@.PreparedJoinQuery,'?',Cast(year as Varchar))
,@.SelectQuery = @.SelectQuery + Replace(@.PreparedSelectQuery,'?',Cast(year as Varchar)) From #BikeSales Group By Year

Exec ('Select [Main].Product' + @.SelectQuery + ' From (Select Distinct Product From #BikeSales) as [Main]' + @.JoinQuery + ' Group By [Main].Product')

|||

Using Manivannan's data, this method of creating a 'pivot' table in SQL 2005 is quite a bit more efficient. (Single Pass, No JOINS, NO Sub-Queries, No Dynamic SQL.)

Code Snippet

DECLARE @.BikeSales table
( [Year] int,
Product varchar(25),
Sales int
)

Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2005', 'HONDA F1', 10000)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2006', 'HONDA F1', 6000)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2007', 'HONDA F1', 7000)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2005', 'HONDA IRL', 100)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2006', 'HONDA IRL', 99)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2007', 'HONDA IRL', 1000)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2005', 'HONDA MotoGP', 124)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2006', 'HONDA MotoGP', 344)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2007', 'HONDA MotoGP', 132)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2005', 'HONDA Super GT', 234)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2006', 'HONDA Super GT', 32344)
Insert Into @.BikeSales Values ('2007', 'HONDA Super GT', 123232)

Select
Product,
[2005] = sum( CASE [Year] WHEN 2005 THEN Sales END ),
[2006] = sum( CASE [Year] WHEN 2006 THEN Sales END ),
[2007] = sum( CASE [Year] WHEN 2007 THEN Sales END )
FROM @.BikeSales
GROUP BY Product
ORDER BY Product

Convert Access CROSSTAB query to SQL Table or View

I have a Crosstab query that I need to convert to SQL to complete upsize of a large DB.
I have a table (here referred to as Data) with the fields: Resource, Date and Count. I need to transform it to a table (or view) with a fields called Date, and one field for each Resource that exists in the Data table.

The Data table looks like this:
RES DATE COUNT
res1 Jan06 5
res2 Jan06 4
res3 Jan 06 2
res1 Feb06 9
res2 Feb06 5
res3 Feb06 7

etc

The Access crosstab query sql is:
=====================
TRANSFORM Sum(Data.Count) AS SumOfCount
SELECT Data.Date
FROM Data
GROUP BY Data.Date
ORDER BY Data.Date
PIVOT Data.Resource;

which gives the resultant data set for charting:
Date res1 res2 res3
Jan06 5 4 2
Feb06 9 5 7

TRANSFORM is not T-SQL. I assume I need a usp to create the required table. Any ideas please?

George Cooper.

In SQL Server, you can use either CASE statement to pivot the table or PIVOT function in SQL Server 2005.

Here is CASE solution:

SELECT sDate,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res1' THEN sCount END) as res1,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res2' THEN sCount END) as res2,
AVG(CASE WHEN res ='res3' THEN sCount END) as res3
FROM (SELECT sDate, res, sCount FROM myDATA) p
WHERE res IN ('res1', 'res2', 'res3')
GROUP BY sDate
ORDER By Convert(DATETIME,'01'+sDate,13)

PIVOT solution:(SQL Server 2005)

SELECT sDate, res1, res2, res3
FROM (SELECT sDate, res, sCount FROM myDATA) p
PIVOT (AVG(sCount) FOR res IN ([res1], [res2], [res3])) AS pvt
ORDER By Convert(DATETIME,'01'+sDate,13)

You need to pay attention to your so-called Date column. I convert the text (nvarchar) field to datetime for sorting purpose.

|||

Thanks,

Pivot soultion works well.

Regards\

George Cooper

|||There is an interesting article on this issue at:
http://tinyurl.com/mgrwo

|||

But if the number of destination columns (res1, res2, res3,...,resN) is unknown?

Using SqlServer 2000.

Later i found these great article:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/plarsson/pivottableformicrosoftsqlserver.asp

convert a table into tree

Hi..I have a table register..in this fields are username,parent id,downline ; I have to determine all the child of a particular parent.

suppose table is like this. username parentid downline

B A left

C A right

D B left

E B right...

I have to also determine the level in the tree...please help...

CREATETABLE [dbo].[#tree2](

[username] [char](1),

[parentid] [char](1),

[downline] [nvarchar](50),

[id] [int]NOTNULL

)

INSERTINTO [#tree2]([username],[parentid],[downline],[id])VALUES('b','a','left',1)

INSERTINTO [#tree2]([username],[parentid],[downline],[id])VALUES('c','a','right',2)

INSERTINTO [#tree2]([username],[parentid],[downline],[id])VALUES('d','b','left',3)

INSERTINTO [#tree2]([username],[parentid],[downline],[id])VALUES('e','b','right',4)

INSERTINTO [#tree2]([username],[parentid],[downline],[id])VALUES('a',NULL,'right',5)

;WITH myCTE(levels, parentid, username, tree, downline)

AS

(SELECT 1, parentid, username,CAST(usernameasvarchar(50)),downline

FROM #tree2

WHERE parentidisNULL

UNIONALL

SELECT t1.levels+1,

t2.parentid,

t2.username,

CAST(tree+'/'+ t2.usernameASvarchar(50)),

t2.downline

FROM myCTE t1JOIN #tree2 t2ON t1.username=t2.parentid

WHERE t1.levels<10--you can change this up to the level you want

)

SELECT levels, parentid, username, downline, treeFROM myCTE

ORDERBY levels

DROPTABLE #tree2

Convert a Date to a Day of the Week.

Hey, Im pretty sure this is possible, but let me know if it isnt.

I have a table of dates in the format "DD/MM/YYYY", is there a way of converting it to output the day of the week? for example 16/11/2007 would display Friday insted.

Thanks in advance John

selectdatepart(dw,GETDATE())

selectdatename(dw,GETDATE())

|||

Hi u can check out this

select datepart(dw,date_created) from users

select datename(dw,date_created) from users

Thank u

Baba

Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on this post if it helped you.

|||

Thanks to the both of you, both methods worked amazingly faultlessly. Thanks John

convert a datatype

i have table tt.
it contains two fields one is ttno int,doj datetime . i want to
convert to datetime to varchar .
how it is ... give me some examplesNo problem, look at the CONVERT function for a specific format you want
to extract. I prefer using the ISO one, though its good for ordering
and international.

CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),GETDATE(),112)

HTH, jens Suessmeyer.

--
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--|||Check the topic CONVERT in SQL Server Books Online.

--
Anith|||Anith Sen (anith@.bizdatasolutions.com) writes:
> Check the topic CONVERT in SQL Server Books Online.

Actually, the topic is CAST and CONVERT, lest someone looks in the wrong
place and don't find it.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...oads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodin...ions/books.mspx

Convert 1084313300 (Ten Digit) value to Datetime

I have a field in a table that contains ten digit value representing a datetime. Is there any way to convert it to default datetime format
Thanks
Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
Imran Irfan via SQLMonster.com wrote:
> I have a field in a table that contains ten digit value representing
> a datetime. Is there any way to convert it to default datetime format
> Thanks
Please don't multipost. Cross-post the message to multiple groups
instead if you think multiple groups are necessary. See my repsonse in
"Clients"
David
sqlsql

Convert 1084313300 (Ten Digit) value to Datetime

I have a field in a table that contains ten digit value representing a datetime. Is there any way to convert it to default datetime format
Thanks

--
Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.comHi,
Whats the column data type. is it int or varchar?? what's the date that
reprasenting 1084313300 ??

Cheers
Dishan|||On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:04:02 GMT, Imran Irfan via SQLMonster.com wrote:

> I have a field in a table that contains ten digit value representing a datetime. Is there any way to convert it to default datetime format
> Thanks

I'm guessing that it represents a unix time. If that's true, you want

select dateadd(second,1084313300,'1970-01-01')
which returns
2004-05-11 22:08:20.000

You may want or need timezone corrections as well...

Convert 1084313300 (Ten Digit) value to Datetime

I have a field in a table that contains ten digit value representing a datetime. Is there any way to convert it to default datetime format.
Plese Help me
Thanks
Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
Imran Irfan via SQLMonster.com wrote:
> I have a field in a table that contains ten digit value representing
> a datetime. Is there any way to convert it to default datetime
> format. Plese Help me
> Thanks
We would need to know what format the 10 digit value was using in order
to convert it. Do you know what it is using? How do you currently
interpret the value in your application? i.e. is there an algorithm in
the application that clearly shows what's being done at the application
level?
David Gugick
Imceda Software
www.imceda.com
|||I assume that is a UNIX timestamp (seconds since 01/01/1970):
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2451
Jacco Schalkwijk
SQL Server MVP
"Imran Irfan via SQLMonster.com" <forum@.SQLMonster.com> wrote in message
news:b4d9fd153fd8404c87ca2328c54bcbd9@.SQLMonster.c om...
>I have a field in a table that contains ten digit value representing a
>datetime. Is there any way to convert it to default datetime format.
> Plese Help me
> Thanks
> --
> Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com

convert ###,###,##0 to INT

Hi,

I've imported an Excel file into a work table, via an Access Project. One of my fields is an integer, represented in Excel with thousands separator e.g. 3,137,458

The above now sits in a varchar column, and I need to convert these values to an INT. Strangely, is numeric() returns One, but then convert( int, ...) does not like the commas.

To add insult to injury, my MSDE does not seem to allow me to CREATE FUNCTION. It protests even if I do Grant Create Function to Login, while running as 'sa'. Side question: is this a known limitation of MSDE ?

Is there an efficient way to convert such strings to Int ?

I note that the commas may actually be missing, since their presence depends on the "Digit Grouping" value in the Regional Settings of Control Panel.

In the past, I was using Sybase, and I had to use set-based queries, running against a few work fields in my table. The first query would use charindex() to find the position of the first comma, if any. The second query would pick up the portion of the string up to the comma, then another query chasing the next comma, etc. Rather painful.Hmm...maybe you could try playing around with the replace command to filter out the commas.

I tested this 1 line code in QA and it works fine.

select cast(replace('3,137,458',',','') as int).|||oops, temporary blindness ... apologies ... please ignore this question

convert( int, REPLACE( column_name, ',', '' ) )|||thanks, mate, I've just found it at the same time. Works like a charm.
Me self-learner too...

convert

hi,
How do I convert this into smalldatetime please?
I am doing this because there is a field of type varchar which has to go into a separate table with field of type smalldatetime.

select convert(smalldatetime, '14/10/04', 101)

This is what I have but the error is:
Conversion failed when converting character string to smalldatetime data type.

This looks like a locale issue; try executing a SET DATEFORMAT DMY before executing your convert. You might also want to give a look to Umachandar's comments in this post:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=597495&SiteID=1

Note the suggestion to try to use one of the ISO formats when possible.

Code Snippet

set dateformat dmy

select convert(varchar, cast('14/10/7' as datetime), 101) [a date/time]

/*
a date/time
10/14/2007
*/

select cast('14/10/7' as smalldatetime) as [converted]

/*
converted
2007-10-14 00:00:00
*/

|||

Try this:

select convert(smalldatetime, '10/14/2004', 101)

You already had smalldatetime and the system was probably expecting the MM/DD/YYYY format rather than DD/MM/YYYY

sqlsql

convert

can someone give me the command to conver varchar to date please.
In my table I have varchar(50) Tue Nov 21 00:00:06 EST 2006 for the column
but need to update the colum with 2006-11-21 00:00:06.
Thanks,
Stoneystoney wrote:
> can someone give me the command to conver varchar to date please.
> In my table I have varchar(50) Tue Nov 21 00:00:06 EST 2006 for the column
> but need to update the colum with 2006-11-21 00:00:06.
> Thanks,
> Stoney
Try to look up the CONVERT command in BOL. Here you can see the various
styles you can use. I think in your case you can use 20/120.
Regards
Steen Schlüter Persson
Database Administrator / System Administratorsqlsql

conversion to date

HI everyne,

I have a varchar field in one table, which contains data in the form '010706' and I want to convert this to date datatype to 01/07/2006 (Jan 07, 2006). When I just import the data to the other table it gets converted to 7/6/2001, how can I convert it right? Please help.

CAST(RIGHT(datafield,2)+LEFT(datafield,4) AS datetime)

|||Thanks Motley. It works!

Conversion problems between mssql and access

Hello

When I trying to insert data with datatype datetime or smalldatetime from SQL Server into a table in a linked access database I get this error :

Server: Msg 257, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
Implicit conversion from data type smalldatetime to float is not allowed. Use the CONVERT function to run this query.

I dont understand why it try to insert it as a float?!Because from a SQL Server point of view DateTime values ARE float values.

So you cannot do an implict cast but you have to do explictly by using the T-SQL statement "CONVERT"

Look in Books On Line for better help on conversions.|||Hello

I have tried CONVERT. But I dont know to which datatype I should convert my source value.
I have converted to varchar and nvarchar but I still got the same error.|||can you post your code, and specify from what kind of data type you what convert to?|||INSERT INTO LINKEDACCESS...ContactTarget
Select ChangedBy, ChangedDate, PersonIdNo,IdNo,TargetCode,TargetCodeproductCode,T argetCodePotentialCode
from tblContactTarget
WHERE Id NOT IN(select Id from LINKEDACCESS...ContactTarget CT
WHERE CT.Target = tblContactTarget.TargetCode)

ChangedDate is of datatype Datetime in SQL and Date/Time in Access.
This INSERT will trigger the error I wrote about.|||Try to convert it to a varchar. use the CONVERT function so that you can even specify the dateformat you need to have

Conversion Of Oracle Date Time To Sql Server Date Time in SSIS

This is driving me nuts..

I'm trying to extract some data from a table in oracle. The oracle table stores date and time seperately in 2 different columns. I need to merge these two columns and import to sql server database.

I'm struggling with this for a quite a while and I'm not able to get it working.

I tried the oracle query something like this,

SELECT
(TO_CHAR(ASOFDATE,'YYYYMMDD')||' '||TO_CHAR(ASOFTIME,'HH24:MM : SS')||':000') AS ASOFDATE

FROM TBLA

this gives me an output of 20070511 23:06:30:000

the space in MM : SS is intentional here, since without that space it appread as smiley

I'm trying to map this to datetime field in sql server 2005. It keeps failing with this error

The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data

I'm struck with error for hours now. Any pointers would be helpful.

Thanks

Any idea why this simple straight forward string to date time conversion keeps failing with the error message, conversion failed due to potential loss of data?

The input values looks like this 20070511 23:06:30, what is that I'm missing here for the conversion to fail?

Thanks

|||

As much as it sounds ridiculous, looks like SSIS does not understand YYYYMMDD format...

Thanks to Jamie Thomson' s post here, which solved the problem.

http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2006/06/26/SSIS_3A00_-Parsing-datetime-values.aspx

Conversion of IDENTITY to UNIQUEIDENTIFIER during Replication?

Hi,
I tried to find an answer to this via BOL and web but to no avail.
Consider this situation:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[foodetail] (
[fooid] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
[footext] [varchar] (100) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[foofact] (
[fooid] [int] NOT NULL ,
[volume] [float] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[foodetail] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_foodetail] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[fooid]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
I.e. a fact and a detail table that are joined via fooid but there is no
foreign key defined.
Now, is it possible to replicate content of these two tables and have
fooid converted consistently to a UUID during replication? If not, is it
possible to do it if there is a FK defined?
Thanks a lot!
Kind regards
robertWhy would you want to convert your primary key to GUID? Merge replication
will add rowguid column when you set it up and replicate independently. You
could add your own guid column and populate it, but there's no 'during
replication'. It stays
MC
"Robert Klemme" <bob.news@.gmx.net> wrote in message
news:uxsiRk07FHA.2716@.TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I tried to find an answer to this via BOL and web but to no avail.
> Consider this situation:
> CREATE TABLE [dbo].[foodetail] (
> [fooid] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL ,
> [footext] [varchar] (100) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL
> ) ON [PRIMARY]
> GO
> CREATE TABLE [dbo].[foofact] (
> [fooid] [int] NOT NULL ,
> [volume] [float] NOT NULL
> ) ON [PRIMARY]
> GO
> ALTER TABLE [dbo].[foodetail] WITH NOCHECK ADD
> CONSTRAINT [PK_foodetail] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
> (
> [fooid]
> ) ON [PRIMARY]
> GO
>
> I.e. a fact and a detail table that are joined via fooid but there is no
> foreign key defined.
> Now, is it possible to replicate content of these two tables and have
> fooid converted consistently to a UUID during replication? If not, is it
> possible to do it if there is a FK defined?
> Thanks a lot!
> Kind regards
> robert
>|||MC wrote:
> "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@.gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:uxsiRk07FHA.2716@.TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Why would you want to convert your primary key to GUID? Merge
> replication will add rowguid column when you set it up and replicate
> independently. You could add your own guid column and populate it,
> but there's no 'during replication'. It stays
I want to get data from n databases to a single centralized DB. In oder
to minimize changes needed to be done to application code ideally I use
IDENTITY columns on local instances and have them converted to GUID
columns during replication because IDENTITY is not globally unique (in
fact likelyhood of collisions is extremely high :-)).
Now, in order to not having to change application code and join generation
on the centralized server ideally we would continue to use the same column
names ("fooid" in this example).
As far as I understand functionality of merge replication, every row in a
table gets a GUID to uniquely identify the row. This would work for the
detail table but not for the fact table as that contains other detail id
columns as well and in order to be able to join them properly we would
need all detail table's GUID's here.
Basically the product in question was never meant to support replication
and now I'm trying to find out whether there's a way to retrofit that
efficiently (meaning developer time as well as run time). :-)
Cheers
robert|||I believe you're better off with adding the column on each table with local
info and extend keys to include it.
Something like 'locationID'. PK in that case is on two columns.
Not very nice, but it could be good enough. Implementing it wouldnt take a
lot of time since you would implement same changes on all databases and all
'LocationID' values are the same for each database.
As far as I can see, alternative would be to add guid column and then update
all FK columns with values from PK and then start replication or something.
MC
"Robert Klemme" <bob.news@.gmx.net> wrote in message
news:eWnGOS17FHA.1000@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> MC wrote:
>
>
> I want to get data from n databases to a single centralized DB. In oder
> to minimize changes needed to be done to application code ideally I use
> IDENTITY columns on local instances and have them converted to GUID
> columns during replication because IDENTITY is not globally unique (in
> fact likelyhood of collisions is extremely high :-)).
> Now, in order to not having to change application code and join generation
> on the centralized server ideally we would continue to use the same column
> names ("fooid" in this example).
> As far as I understand functionality of merge replication, every row in a
> table gets a GUID to uniquely identify the row. This would work for the
> detail table but not for the fact table as that contains other detail id
> columns as well and in order to be able to join them properly we would
> need all detail table's GUID's here.
> Basically the product in question was never meant to support replication
> and now I'm trying to find out whether there's a way to retrofit that
> efficiently (meaning developer time as well as run time). :-)
> Cheers
> robert
>|||MC wrote:
> "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@.gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:eWnGOS17FHA.1000@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
[vbcol=seagreen]
> I believe you're better off with adding the column on each table with
> local info and extend keys to include it.
Unfortunately "each table" means all tables that have to be replicated.

> Something like 'locationID'. PK in that case is on two columns.
> Not very nice, but it could be good enough. Implementing it wouldnt
> take a lot of time since you would implement same changes on all
> databases and all 'LocationID' values are the same for each database.
This would mean that the number of columns in fact tables (large!) nearly
doubles. Plus, this would necessitate an application change to change SQL
query generation (joins!).

> As far as I can see, alternative would be to add guid column and then
> update all FK columns with values from PK and then start replication
> or something.
Hmm... I'll have to think about this a bit. Thanks for the valuable
feedback!
Kind regards
robert

conversion from 'text' to 'int' is not supported

Changing the data type of a column (from text to int) in a saved table the
following error occurs:
conversion from 'text' to 'int' is not supportedHi,
yes this is correct, SQL Server does not allow text-> int on int->text
see the explicit and implicit data type conversions chart in bol (see the
CONVERT function)
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> Changing the data type of a column (from text to int) in a saved table the
> following error occurs:
> conversion from 'text' to 'int' is not supported
>

conversion from 'text' to 'int' is not supported

Changing the data type of a column (from text to int) in a saved table the
following error occurs:
conversion from 'text' to 'int' is not supportedHi,
yes this is correct, SQL Server does not allow text-> int on int->text
see the explicit and implicit data type conversions chart in bol (see the
CONVERT function)
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> Changing the data type of a column (from text to int) in a saved table the
> following error occurs:
> conversion from 'text' to 'int' is not supported
>