I'm new to MDX and I cannot get the ordering correct. I looked at references online and I think i sorted the query correctly, but the result of the query doesn't agree with me. Can anyone shed some light into what I'm not doing.
I have included a hypothetical example that is close to my problem.
The result of the query comes out without being sorted.
Any help is deeply appreciated.
Thanks
The 2nd argument to the Order()-function on your Rows-axis, must be the value or string to sort by. If you want to sort by the names of the SalespersonID-members, do something like this:
Order([Sales].[SalespersonID], [Sales].CURRENTMEMBER.MEMBER_NAME) on Rows
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SQL learner here, trying to make a join, but it seems to not work.
I have the following 2 tables:
#device_combined_players
#final_results2
The goal is to have a new table replacing the player_store_id from #final_results with the pseudo_name from #device_combined_players.
I have tried with:
SELECT #final_results2.player_store_id,
#device_combined_players.pseudo_name, #final_results2.genre FROM #device_combined_players INNER JOIN #final_results2 ON #final_results2.player_store_id = #device_combined_players.store_id
but I can't make it work, my output is simply an empty table.
Could you guys, please, give me some light? Thank you!
My expected result would be: as #final_results2 (image 2), but replacing player_store_id column by pseudo_name from #device_combined_players table.
EDIT: a screenshot with more details:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/lSyLb.png
And, I am answering myself, since I had 2 different issues here. Both are rookie mistakes, but I will leave them here so it helps somebody else in the future:
Take a look at the data type of your columns. They can cause conflicts if they are not the same as the columns you are referencing in a JOIN.
Check if your data doesn't have spaces. You can use TRIM and LEN to help you out answering this.
I sorted my problem like that.
I am new to Access but I have experience with Excel and Power BI. I could use a little help with what is probably a very simple problem for most of you.
I searched for a simple solution to this same problem quite extensively before posting here. I tried adapting solutions for similar problems to my problem, but I'm just not familiar enough with Access yet to bridge that gap.
I have a [request date] field. I want my [age] field to return the number of days since that request date. Sounds simple enough. o_O
Through trial and error I eventually determined that I cannot do this without a query (please prove me wrong?). And why can't I use datediff() or date() in a calculated field, anyway? Grr.
So I set up an update query for a new field (called [today]) with the expression "date()".
Then I set the [age] field to be calculated with the expression [today]-[request date].
This gives me the result I want for [age]. But now I'm thinking I need to write an autoexec macro to run this query every time the database is opened so that [today] stays current.
At this point I stopped. Seems like a lot of work for such a simple problem. I hate being inefficient. I'm hoping someone out there knows a more elegant solution that might also teach me some new tricks, too.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Calculated fields belong in queries, not tables.
Just use a SELECT query. It could be as simple as
SELECT *, DateDiff("d",[request date],Date()) AS Age
FROM yourTable
and then use that query wherever you would use the table.
So, I'd like to do some random ordering when displaying data the code I have at this point is:
Timsheet.limit(1).offset(RANDOM(Timesheet.count)).first
I know that postgresql's (RANDOM) syntax is different than MYSQL's (RAND()) and Oracles (dbms_random.value) syntax.
I'd just like to confirm that my code is correct, from what I understand it's doing is, it's grabbing the first row, and offsetting the data in a random order?
Please help clear this up, thanks!
I think the following will work with all DBMS's
Timsheet.offset(Random.new.rand(Timsheet.count)).first
I have a field in a table that contains positive and negatives numbers. The field is a number field. I need to be able to sum the field according to ID. It didn't seem to be returning the expected results so I dug a bit deeper. For some reason when I select from the table I only get positive results. Can anyone tell me why this is happening?
This is the SQL statement. Nothing fancy as you can see. XAMT is the number field.
SELECT XACCT,
FROM Table1
WHERE XAMT>0
order by xamt desc
XAMT
Note that I did google this before I posted the question, I just couldn't find anything useful.
Um....pardon me, but that seems like what you're searching for.
WHERE XAMT>0
This will only give you values above zero. I hope I understood correctly, but it looks like that's your issue here.
I use PostgreSQL database and C to connect to it. With a help from dyntest.pgc I can access to number of columns and their (SQL3) types from a result table of a query.
Problem is that when result table is empty, I can't fetch a row to get this data. Does anyone have a solution for this?
Query can be SELECT 1,2,3 - so, I think I can't use INFORMATION SCHEMA for this because there is no base table.
I'm not familiar with ecpg, but with libpq you should be able to call PQnfields to get the number of fields and then call various PQf* routines (like PQftype, PQfname) to get detailed info. Those functions take a PGResult, which you have even if there are no rows.
Problem is that when result table is empty, I can't fetch a row to get this data. Does anyone have a solution for this?
I am not sure to really get what you want, but it seems the answer is in the question. If the table is empty, there are no rows...
The only solution here seems you must wait a non empty result table, and then get the needed informations.