Earlier we were using Sybase as the back end. Now we are migrating to SQL server where as front end remains the same i.e. PowerBuilder.
Issue :
I have a DataWindow code which takes two retrieval arguments adt_from_date and adt_to_date. Both Date format. This works fine for PB-Sybase combination, but throws an error 37000 for SQL server.
Here is our code. If I hard-code the dates. i.e. for e.g. if I replace :adt_from_date by '20141001'. The code works fine.
SELECT A.MEMBER_NO AS 'MEMBER_NO',
ROUND(SUM(TRANSACTION_CHARGES),2) as 'AMOUNT',
SUBSTRING(DATENAME(MM, :adt_from_date ),1,3) +'-'+substring(convert(varchar,datepart(YY, :adt_from_date )),3,2) as 'REASON'
FROM TRAN_SERVICE_TAX_DRV A,
MEMBER_MASTER B
WHERE A.MEMBER_NO = B.MEMBER_NO
AND A.TRADE_DATE BETWEEN :adt_from_date AND :adt_to_date
GROUP BY A.MEMBER_NO
Please suggest something on this.
I'd suggest you look at the error text being loaded into the transaction instead of just the number; it will probably be much more helpful. If we're talking about SQLState 37000, that doesn't narrow it down much.
If that doesn't shed some light on it, I'd look at tracing either on the PowerBuilder side, or on the database side. Starting on the PB side probably makes most sense. If you're just running this DataWindow from the IDE, the trace is just a checkbox on the connection properties. If in the app, replace your "DBMS='xxx'" with "DBMS='tra xxx'" (there are other options described in the Connecting to your Database manuals).
Good luck.
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I am wondering if anyone can explain why I get different results for the same query string between using the ExecuteSQL function in FM versus querying the database through a database browser (I'm using DBVisualizer).
Specifically, if I run
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT IMV_ItemID) FROM IMV
in DBVis, I get 2802. In FileMaker, if I evaluate the expression
ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT IMV_ItemID) FROM IMV"; ""; "")
then I get 2898. This makes me distrust the ExecuteSQL function. Inside of FM, the IMV table is an ODBC shadow, connected to the central MSSQL database. In DBVis, the application connects via JDBC. However, I don't think that should make any difference.
Any ideas why I get a different count for each method?
Actually, it turns out that when FM executes the SQL, it factors in whitespace, whereas DBVisualizer (not sure about other database browser apps, but I would assume it's the same) do not. Also, since the TRIM() function isn't supported by MSSQL (from what I've seen, at least) it is necessary to make the query inside of the ExecuteSQL statement something like:
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(LTRIM(RTRIM(IMV_ItemID)))) FROM IMV
Weird, but it works!
FM keeps a cache of the shadow table's records (for internal field-id-mapping). I'm not sure if the ExecuteSQL() function causes a re-creation of the cache. In other words: maybe the ESS shadow table is out of sync. Try to delete the cache by closing and restarting the FM client or perform a native find first.
You can also try a re-connect to the database server via the Open File script step.
HTH
I'm getting a little confused about using parameters with SQL queries, and seeing some things that I can't immediately explain, so I'm just after some background info at this point.
First, is there a standard format for parameter names in queries, or is this database/middleware dependent ? I've seen both this:-
DELETE * FROM #tablename
and...
DELETE * FROM :tablename
Second - where (typically) does the parameter replacement happen? Are parameters replaced/expanded before the query is sent to the database, or does the database receive params and query separately, and perform the expansion itself?
Just as background, I'm using the DevArt UniDAC toolkit from a C++Builder app to connect via ODBC to an Excel spreadsheet. I know this is almost pessimal in a few ways... (I'm trying to understand why a particular command works only when it doesn't use parameters)
With such data access libraries, like UniDAC or FireDAC, you can use macros. They allow you to use special markers (called macro) in the places of a SQL command, where parameter are disallowed. I dont know UniDAC API, but will provide a sample for FireDAC:
ADQuery1.SQL.Text := 'DELETE * FROM &tablename';
ADQuery1.MacroByName('tablename').AsRaw := 'MyTab';
ADQuery1.ExecSQL;
Second - where (typically) does the parameter replacement happen?
It doesn't. That's the whole point. Data elements in your query stay data items. Code elements stay code elements. The two never intersect, and thus there is never an opportunity for malicious data to be treated as code.
connect via ODBC to an Excel spreadsheet... I'm trying to understand why a particular command works only when it doesn't use parameters
Excel isn't really a database engine, but if it were, you still can't use a parameter for the name a table.
SQL parameters are sent to the database. The database performs the expansion itself. That allows the database to set up a query plan that will work for different values of the parameters.
Microsoft always uses #parname for parameters. Oracle uses :parname. Other databases are different.
No database I know of allows you to specify the table name as a parameter. You have to expand that client side, like:
command.CommandText = string.Format("DELETE FROM {0}", tableName);
P.S. A * is not allowed after a DELETE. After all, you can only delete whole rows, not a set of columns.
I expend a lot of time trying to retrieve data from a Stored Procedure, here is the code
CREATE PROCEDURE aprocedure(
IN idin CHAR,
OUT returnvalue CHAR)
AS:
SET returnvalue=
(SELECT something
FROM sometable
WHERE id=idin)
I could create it, with no problems, but when I tried to call it like this:
call someprocedure('theid', ?)
Error -313 kept poping out, I did my homework and check the web, IBM forums were no help at all, I couldnt find any documentation, specifications, or anything that make this more clear, also SQL error code -313 means that the number of parameters in the procedure does not match the number of parameters you're using when you call it. So, after too much research, I started thinking that DB2 with JDBC driver and or SQuirreL have trouble when returning OUT values, (I also installed a DB2 CTL client, created a local database, created a table, created the procedure, I called, and everything worked nicely) so I change my code to this (to use a Result Set instead of an OUT):
CREATE PROCEDURE someprocedure(IN idin CHAR (22))
DYNAMIC RESULT SETS 1
P1: BEGIN
DECLARE cursor1 CURSOR WITH RETURN FOR
SELECT something FROM sometable WHERE id=idin;
OPEN cursor1;
END P1
aaaaaaaaaaaand NOTHING, SQuirreL gave me some error codes, when trying to create it, so... I enter that same code in Aqua Data Studio 4.7, and worked like a charm, I call the procedure from Aqua Data like this:
call someprocedure('theid');
and it returned what was supposed to return, I tried that same sentence with SQuirreL...
and it WORKED too !!
Im sure that my sintaxys was correct all along, even with the OUT type of return, so, my question, finally is this.
Does SQuirreL check the input you enter before passing it to the JDBC?
Also
Where do I can find how exactly DB2 is altering SQL code?? because we all know that all DBM change the SQL a bit, but MySQL have great documentation... and i honestly couldnt find any good one on DB2, also im talking about "pure" SQL since in DB2 you can enter stored procedures in C , Java etc...
I've hit a bit of an impasse. I have a query that is generated by some C# code. The query works fine in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio when run against the same database.
However when my code tries to run the same query I get the same error about an invalid column and an exception is thrown. All queries that reference this column are failing.
The column in question was recently added to the database. It is a date column called Incident_Begin_Time_ts .
An example that fails is:
select * from PerfDiag
where Incident_Begin_Time_ts > '2010-01-01 00:00:00';
Other queries like Select MAX(Incident_Being_Time_ts); also fail when run in code because it thinks the column is missing.
Any ideas?
Just press Ctrl + Shift + R and see...
In SQL Server Management Studio, Ctrl+Shift+R refreshes the local cache.
I suspect that you have two tables with the same name. One is owned by the schema 'dbo' (dbo.PerfDiag), and the other is owned by the default schema of the account used to connect to SQL Server (something like userid.PerfDiag).
When you have an unqualified reference to a schema object (such as a table) — one not qualified by schema name — the object reference must be resolved. Name resolution occurs by searching in the following sequence for an object of the appropriate type (table) with the specified name. The name resolves to the first match:
Under the default schema of the user.
Under the schema 'dbo'.
The unqualified reference is bound to the first match in the above sequence.
As a general recommended practice, one should always qualify references to schema objects, for performance reasons:
An unqualified reference may invalidate a cached execution plan for the stored procedure or query, since the schema to which the reference was bound may change depending on the credentials executing the stored procedure or query. This results in recompilation of the query/stored procedure, a performance hit. Recompilations cause compile locks to be taken out, blocking others from accessing the needed resource(s).
Name resolution slows down query execution as two probes must be made to resolve to the likely version of the object (that owned by 'dbo'). This is the usual case. The only time a single probe will resolve the name is if the current user owns an object of the specified name and type.
[Edited to further note]
The other possibilities are (in no particular order):
You aren't connected to the database you think you are.
You aren't connected to the SQL Server instance you think you are.
Double check your connect strings and ensure that they explicitly specify the SQL Server instance name and the database name.
In my case I restart Microsoft SQL Sever Management Studio and this works well for me.
If you are running this inside a transaction and a SQL statement before this drops/alters the table you can also get this message.
I eventually shut-down and restarted Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio; and that fixed it for me. But at other times, just starting a new query window was enough.
If you are using variables with the same name as your column, it could be that you forgot the '#' variable marker. In an INSERT statement it will be detected as a column.
Just had the exact same problem. I renamed some aliased columns in a temporary table which is further used by another part of the same code. For some reason, this was not captured by SQL Server Management Studio and it complained about invalid column names.
What I simply did is create a new query, copy paste the SQL code from the old query to this new query and run it again. This seemed to refresh the environment correctly.
In my case I was trying to get the value from wrong ResultSet when querying multiple SQL statements.
In my case it seems the problem was a weird caching problem. The solutions above didn't work.
If your code was working fine and you added a column to one of your tables and it gives the 'invalid column name' error, and the solutions above doesn't work, try this: First run only the section of code for creating that modified table and then run the whole code.
Including this answer because this was the top result for "invalid column name sql" on google and I didn't see this answer here. In my case, I was getting Invalid Column Name, Id1 because I had used the wrong id in my .HasForeignKey statement in my Entity Framework C# code. Once I changed it to match the .HasOne() object's id, the error was gone.
I've gotten this error when running a scalar function using a table value, but the Select statement in my scalar function RETURN clause was missing the "FROM table" portion. :facepalms:
Also happens when you forget to change the ConnectionString and ask a table that has no idea about the changes you're making locally.
I had this problem with a View, but the exact same SQL code worked perfectly as a query. In fact SSMS actually threw up a couple of other problems with the View, that it did not have with the query. I tried refreshing, closing the connection to the server and going back in, and renaming columns - nothing worked. Instead I created the query as a stored procedure, and connected Excel to that rather than the View, and this solved the problem.
I'm part of a team writing an ERP using , Seam, and Jboss, and on one of my pages, I keep getting an SQL error: 8152 whenever I try to input something. SQL error:8152, for those of you who don't know, is when you try to input a value over the maximum limit of the column.
I've double checked my entity and the database, and their maximum value limits are the same (50 nvarchars). In addition, I'm pretty sure that we're not using audit tables. I then put System.out.println(""); all over the place, and found that the error was happening in between these two println(s):
System.out.println("Flushing");
entityManager.flush();
System.out.println("Flushing complete");
Which is part of a method that process all changes to the table. But I'm pretty new to programming and not sure what's going on.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance, Jeff.
P.s. Code on request, but I didn't post it because there is a lot of it all over the place.
I would verify the SQL that is being executed when the flush() is performed. That way you can see the length of your data and verify that it is too big as shown by the DB error.
If you are using Hibernate, you can output SQL to the console. You don't say what your DB is, but if it's SQL Server you can use the profiler to see what SQL is being executed.