Maybe that stupid question, but I don't know how to describe my problem to uncle google.
I have two simple tables with 3 rows: ID, Name, SomeVal;
Now I want update them with merge, and that's simple:
MERGE Locations T
USING Locations_2 S ON T.ID=S.ID
WHEN MATCHED THEN
UPDATE
SET
T.Name=S.Name,
T.SomeVal=S.SomeVal;
Ok, that works, but I wrote every column name by hand. So, when I want to update for example table with 30 columns, writing everything by hand will be painful. So, is there any option to update every column in the table no matter how many columns it has?
I tried "*". It is UPDATE SET T.*=S.*, and that didn't work.
What I normally do when I want to be time efficient (or lazy, depending on your view) is this:
Run this command:
sp_help TableName;
Copy/paste the first column, then hold down Alt whilst dragging the mouse cursor in front of the column names. This way I can then type one comma in front of all the fields. Then I do the same after the field name except with an = sign.
That's the only shortcut I can think to help you, and has saved me hours of typing over the years.
No. Merge statements are very verbose. You can hack a shortcut by scripting your table as CREATE, copy the column names using SHIFT + ALT to select a large swath of them, then paste them into the MERGE query, hit space, add the = sign, then paste again.
The statement is one direction, (i.e., you can't update S with T; only T can be updated) so you don't strictly need to provide the source/destination alias for each column.
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I have received help for splitting a column wit nr and letter.
In the SQL script it all works perfect. It runs complete, with no errors.
But the columns itself doesn't get filled.
I have tried to create te columns in advance as text or as integer. But it doesn't get filled. The SQL query it self turn out ok. But in reality it stay empty. What is wrong?
Your question is not completely clear, but it sounds like what you are trying to do is take a value from one column of a table, split it and use the result to update two other columns in the same table.
If that is the case, you would want to be using the SQL UPDATE command instead of SELECT.
UPDATE d1_plz_whatever
SET nr=SUBSTRING(hn FROM '^[0-9]+'),
zusatz =SUBSTRING(hn FROM '[a-zA-Z]+$');
Within excel I have connected my Microsoft SQL Server database to it, to display results. The system I have set in place is built off of a form. If a user chooses option 1, the query results will show:
Select person, car, house from mytable1
If the user chooses option 2, the query result will show:
Select job, person, land, truck from mytable2
The very first select statement will give me a table in the column order in which I would like it. However, as a user uses the form again, it will re-query it to use which ever select statement is requested. When the re-query happens the column order which items are shown are in different areas. Even if the select statment is stated within the same order. Is there a way in which I could order the columns in a specific order?
I've attempted to unchecked "Preserve Column Sort" within the Data Range Properties, but ends up leaving empty columns. I.E. : Column1, Column2, Column3, etc.
You may already know this, but since Excel allows you to move the columns in a table / ListObject around, it seeks to preserve any changes you make. So, if you run a query:
select one, two, three
And then move the column "three" in front of "one," when you re-run your query, it will keep them in that order in the ListObject, even though the query said otherwise.
This also means if you add a column, no matter where you add it, it will go to the end when MS Query renders the output.
select four, one, two three
("four" goes to the end in Excel, even though it was listed first in SQL)
In your example, the column "person" was common across the two queries, so Excel (MS Query) would move it to the first position and put all other columns after that.
When Excel deletes the old columns, it leaves a tracer behind -- you may notice the columns that follow your table aren't the normal size; they are the size of the fields that were deleted. I call them "ghosts."
This is a serious hack, but the only way I know of to alleviate this problem is to run a bogus query (ie select 1), delete the ghosts -- remove the entire columns, and then run your second query. Here is some ugly code I use in VBA to do this:
Dim lo As ListObject
Set lo = Sheets("Sheet1").ListObjects("Table_ExternalData_1")
Range(lo.HeaderRowRange.Offset(0, lo.HeaderRowRange.Columns.Count), _
Range("XFD1")).EntireColumn.Delete
Yes, this deletes every column after the table, which means if there is useful data above or below the table in columns after the table, those are wiped out.
Maybe there is a better way -- I'm curious to see if you get any other solutions.
you most probably going to think "what an idiot" but remember i never done any type of coding before so this is all new to me,
My problem are that i'm working on a HUGE excel sheet with loads of data that is not needed. i need to sort the data into a few columns, i only need column "A,K,AN,AQ" but in column "AS" i only need certain values (yes,no,blank) i only want the yes and blank values. like i said never done any coding before but i know that you can use an macro to do it so please help, how do i go about this?
before trying to get into macros, try to use functions with if else statements. They are quite easy to handle. Like: If (yes) then put it into X. Later, you could select all needed. Also, check the, how the dollar sign is used
use this links to see, if it is something for you.
One quick and dirty way of getting this job done would be to:
Delete the columns you don't need.
Select all cells in the range you're interested in, click the Insert menu, and choose "Table". If your columns have titles, select the box for "My Table has Headers."
-This turns your data into an array so that Excel recognizes that each row is an entry (instead of thinking that the cells are unrelated).
Now you can use the filter icon in the column headers to select and display only the rows containing the values in column X that you're interested in.
Note that there are some limitations to what the table feature is good for, so, as always, whether this is a good solution for you depends on what you want to do with the data.
I have a query which grabs data from Access with contents:
A,1,z
A,2,z
B,1,y
A,1,i
I created 3 dropdowns in excel and I want to populate them with rows from these columns. The problem is that in each column there are duplicates and I want to get rid of them. I am looking for a solution to get rid of these duplicates.
Current process is following:
run a query. I use VBA in Excel. Access is being queried.
paste results into a separate sheet (it takes A LOT of time because there are 20k reocrds)
assign a range for my dropdows
As you can see my second step is very resource hog and the proccess time should drop drastically by removing duplicates from each column.
What is the best approach to populate dropdowns with unique values from query?
My ideas
create a query which will output me:
A,1,z
B,2,y
, ,i
In that case i will not have to distinct values manually in excel. Not possible to do, as I understand...
Add values from each columns to List, remove doubles, paste result into excel. This is my personal favorite because I see no other ways to fix the issue.
create multiple queries to DISTINCT each table_column separately.. Not very fast solution, I suppose
some other approach
Run three SELECT DISTINCT Colx FROM table queries to get the values for the three dropdowns. Your option two. The work has to be done sometime so you might as well use the tools designed to do the work instead of reinventing that wheel.
If you use select distinct columna, columnb... instead of select columna, columnb... you will get what you want. The SQL will take longer to run, though.
I have a query that runs in Excel, that will need to show data from an SQLbase database where I only have read-access. I cannot modify the database in any way. The column I need to be able to filter on is a varchar column, but it's values are only numbers. I need to be able to filter with between in Excel, so I've tried to do column + 0 so Excel picks it up as a number. This worked before, but now it fails on some numbers.
The number 704977990024 works, but 991098000265 doesn't. With the second one I get Data is not numeric.
This is the query:
SELECT (TABLE1.COLUMN + 0) AS "Artikelnummer"
FROM DB.TABLE TABLE1
LEFT JOIN DB.OTHERTABLE TABLE2
ON TABLE1.COLUMN = TABLE2.COLUMN
How can I make sure I get it as a number in Excel? If not in the query, then how in Excel itself? When I set the column to number in excel, it still displays as text and will not be numeric unless I try to edit the cell.
It's probably overflowing. An alternate way to get what you need Is to pad the numbers with leading zeroes. This will avoid the overflow and let you use a range. I don't know the syntax... something like where Right('000000000000000' + nu, 17) between ....
I have not found a solution to this, but I did find a manual workaround.
You select the whole column and cut&paste is somewhere else. You cut it because the colum needs to be empty when putting the data back. After that, you select your newly created column, and copy or cut it. Then you select the column where the data needs to be (the one you just emptied), and press paste > paste special. Then you select multiply (or any other) and press ok. That way the columns will be numeric.
It might be a manual thing, but it was the one solution I've found to this problem.