.Hi i'm working with Asp and SQL-Server and i have no problem with writing dynamic query
I'm trying to Write a search page for searching people.
I have 3 related tables:
See my table diagram in : http://tinypic.com/r/21159go/5
What i'm trying to do is to design a search page that a person can search users with a dynamic number of attributes.
Example:
think that a username called "User1" has 3 attributes named "Attr1", "Attr2" and "Attr3" related to him in "UserAttributes" table and "User2" has 3 attributes named "Attr1", "Attr2" and "Attr4".
Attribute names and other bunch of items unrelated to search function saved in "Attributes" Table. This is because i want to relate an attribute between multiple users. and their values are stored in "UserAttributes" table.
Well someone wants to search upon "Attr1" and "Attr2" and wants to return all users that have "Attr1" and "Attr2" with specific value.
I need a query to know how to implement this. I can write a dynamic query with asp.net so if someone please give me a query for this one example i have brought, i would be thankful
P.S. This is not my real database. my real database is much more complex and has more fields and tables but i just cut it and brought only necessary items. and because attributes are very dynamic they can't be embedded in table columns.
Thanks in advance
Based on your DB diagram your code would be something like this
update:
SELECT u.*
FROM users AS u
LEFT OUTER JOIN UserAttributes AS ua1
ON u.USER_ID = ua1.USER_ID
LEFT OUTER JOIN UserAttributes AS ua2
ON u.USER_ID = ua2.USER_ID
WHERE (
ua1.attribute_id = 'att1'
AND ua.attribute_value = 'MyValue' )
AND (
ua2.attribute_id = 'att2'
AND ua.attribute_value = 'MyValue2' )
In where clause you would specify the attirbute_Id and what value you are expecting out of it. Than just decide if you want to restrict users to have all values match or just one of them, in that case modify AND between statements to be OR
if you just want to do this quick and dirty you can create your own class library that can create adhoc sql that will pass to the database.
if you want more organized matter, create SP that will bring back users and accepts any left of id and value. Do a lot of that by passing list separated by comma, colon or semicolon. Than split it up in SP and filter results based on those values
there are many other alternatives like EntityFramework, LINQ-to-SQL and other options, just need to figure out what works best for you, how much time you want to spend on it and how easy will it be to support later.
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I'm new to MS Access and am trying to speed up a data gathering process that is taking forever in Powershell. In Powershell I have 10 or so web API calls to get data and each comes back as an object with multiple properties (fields.) Each set of data has related fields to 1 or more of the other sets of data. Getting the data is very quick but piping an array of objects to where-object to select-object takes over an hour and there's really not that much data. Each object contains 500-1500 "records" and 5 to 10 "fields" so I thought why not export that data and use something that's intended to search through data to do the job? I exported each object as a separate .CSV file. So enter MS Access..
I imported each of the CSV's as a separate table (easy enough.) I'm going to simplify this down for this example to the following 3 tables:
[Tables]https://i.stack.imgur.com/UCH1F.jpg
Every table has fields that relate it over to other tables. Pretty much there's some sort of Id field in every table that is related to another Id field in a different table that I need to pull a field called "name" from. I'm trying to follow the bread crumbs from the Player name to it's Network name to it's Application name, to it's Layout name, etc... I want to build a query that I would eventually just be able to export as an Excel file. I also would prefer to just write out the SQL unless it's really easier to to understand the visual query builder. I'm looking to build a sheet with the following information:
Player's Name would include all names from the Players table and getting just that data makes sense to me. SELECT Name AS PlayerName FROM Players Everything else, not so much. I feel like this will end up being some mega query as I get deeper into related table after related table. In Excel, it would be straightforward using Vlookups across tabs but that doesn't seem to be the best approach. Given the info above, I'm trying to achieve the following output:
Result table
Any help with strategy and syntax greatly appreciated!
You're looking for the JOIN clause.
SELECT
Players.Name PlayerName, Networks.Name PlayerNetwork, Applications.Name ApplicationName
FROM
Players
LEFT OUTER JOIN
Networks
ON
Networks.ID = Players.NetworkId
LEFT OUTER JOIN
Applications
ON
Applications.Id = Players.ApplicationID
Been rattling my brain for a while and I could not get pass how to do the SQL query that will show the relationship/connections between my two tables.
I'm working on an IT equipment inventory program. I have two tables;
SELECT serial_number, model, ship_dat, status FROM items_list
SELECT item_serial, connected-to_serial FROM connections
All items like desktops, laptops, monitors, etc are on the items_list table. To track down the relationship/connections of the items, I created the connections table. IE, Monitor with serial_number=Screen#1 is connected to a Desktop with serial_number=Serial#1. It works ok with my Window Form application because I
used a datagridview control to list all devices simple SQL query.
However, when trying to show the relationship/connection on SQL Reports I've ran out of ideas how to do it. I'm aiming to get the report look like below or something along the lines. I just need to show the connections between the items.
Thank you
You should be able to do this with a table in SSRS if that is what you are using. The query you would need to drive the table of all related items would be:
SELECT item_serial, connected-to_serial, mainItem.*, connectedItem.*
FROM connections
INNER JOIN items_list mainItem ON connections.item_serial = items_list.serial_number
INNER JOIN items_list connectedItem ON connections.connected-to_serial = connectedItem.serial_number
You can of course tailor the SELECT statement to your needs, mainItem.* and connectedItem.* will not give you the most descriptive column names. Using column aliases (found under column_alias here) you can give a more descriptive name to each column.
From here you should be able to use a table and create a row group on the main item (either name or serial number) to get the type of look you are looking to achieve here. I believe the Report Wizard actually has most of the functionality you are looking for and should handle the bulk of this. You may have to move some of the cells around to get the look you are going for though.
So, basically, I have two tables called "dadoscatalogo" and "palavras_chave", with a common field, "patrimonio" which is the primary key of "dadoscatalogo".
I'm using a servlet to connect to the database with these tables, and passing a query to search for entries based on some search criteria that's defined by the user.
Now, since the user can search for entries based on information present in both tables, I need to do an INNER JOIN, and then use WHERE to search for that info. I'm also using LIKE, because the user may pass just part of the information, and not all of it.
So, to test it all out, I tried passing it a few parameters to work with, and see how it went. After some debugging, I found out that there was some mistake in the query. But I can't seem to be able to point out exactly what it is.
Here's the test query:
SELECT dadoscatalogo.patrimonio
FROM dadoscatalogo
INNER JOIN palavras_chave
ON dadoscatalogo.patrimonio=palavras_chave.patrimonio
WHERE dadoscatalogo.patrimonio LIKE '%'
AND dadoscatalogo.titulo LIKE '%tons%'
OR palavras_chave.palchave LIKE '%programming%';
So, basically, what I'm trying to do with this query is, get all the primary keys from "dadoscatalogo" that are linked to a record with a "titulo" containing "tons", or a "palchave" containing "programming".
PS. Sorry for the names not being in English, hopefully it won't be too much of a distraction.
EDIT: Right now, the tables don't have much:
This is the dadoscatalogo table:
http://gyazo.com/fdc848da7496cea4ea2bcb6fbe81cb25
And this is the palavras_chave table:
http://gyazo.com/6bb82f844caebe819f380e515b1f504e
When they join, I'm expecting it to have 4 records, and it would get the one with patrimonio=2 in dadoscatalogo (which has "tons" in titulo), and the one with palchave=programming (which would have patrimonio=1)
As per my understanding run below query:
SELECT dadoscatalogo.patrimonio
FROM dadoscatalogo
INNER JOIN palavras_chave
ON dadoscatalogo.patrimonio=palavras_chave.patrimonio
WHERE dadoscatalogo.titulo LIKE '%tons%'
OR palavras_chave.palchave LIKE '%programming%';
This is an updated part 2 of a question I asked earlier. I'm trying to make the following update, but this query does not actually seem to do anything.
UPDATE u
SET graduation_class_id = gc.graduation_class_id
FROM [user] u
JOIN graduation_class gc
ON u.graduation_class_id = gc.graduation_class_id
JOIN graduation_term gt
ON gt.graduation_year_id = gc.graduation_year_id
TABLE SCHEMA
**user
user_id
graduation_class_id
**graduation_class
graduation_class_id
graduation_year_id
**graduation_term
graduation_term_id
graduation_year_id
The goal is to get the matching graduation_class_id value into the user table. I've been told this won't work because the match won't be found unless the user already has the matching graduation_class_id. That is a problem, because I'm trying to actually get the proper one in there!
This idea is fundamentally doomed to fail. You're trying to get the SQL server to link a graduation class to a user by itself, despite the SQL server not having information on which graduation class should be linked to the user. Unless you have some data somewhere (in user, in graduation_class, in some other table) that links a user_id to the graduation term, class, or year (or someone manually telling SQL which data match up), SQL can't magically do that job for you.
So, another in my series of Kohana 3 ORM questions :)
I have, essentially, a pivot table, called connections. The connections table connects a song to a keyword. That's all great and working (thanks to my last two questions!)
I want to output the most connected songs by keyword. So, to somehow query my connections table and output an object (with an arbitrarily limited number of iterations $n) that ranks songs by the number of times they have been connected, ie. the number of times that particular song_id appears for that particular keyword_id.
I have literally no idea how to achieve this, without querying every single row (!!!) and then counting those individual results in an array.... There must be a more elegant way to achieve this?
I believe this is more of an SQL question. Using the DB query builder:
DB::select('songs.*')->select(array('COUNT("keywords.id")', 'nconnections'))
->from('songs')
->join('connections', 'LEFT')->on('connections.song_id', '=', 'songs.id')
->join('keywords', 'LEFT')->on('connections.keyword_id', '=', 'keywords.id')
->group_by('songs.id')
->order_by('nconnections')
->as_object('Model_Song')
->execute();
or in SQL
SELECT `songs`.*, COUNT(`keywords`.`id`) AS `nconnections` FROM songs
LEFT JOIN `connections` ON `connections`.`song_id` = `songs`.`id`
LEFT JOIN `keywords` ON `connections`.`keyword_id` = `keywords`.`id`
GROUP BY `songs`.`id` ORDER BY `nconnections`
should return the result you want.
You'll want to have an accessible property called nconnections in your song model. The simplest way to do that is to add a public member so you don't tamper with ORM's inner workings.
I'm assuming you're using a model called 'Song', linked to a 'songs' table, a 'Keyword' model linked to a 'keywords' table and in the 'connections' table foreign keys 'song_id' and 'keyword_id' for each model respectively.