I'm trying to run a statement where I retrieve tuples from a database. However my attribute has a space which is "State Name".
Im calling the SQL statement as follows:
select * from States where State Name = 'Michigan';
I'm pretty sure there is something wrong with the attribute having a space. How can I fix this problem without changing the name of the attribute? How can I call a SQL statement with the attribute constraint having a space?
Thanks,
select * from States where [State Name] = 'Michigan';
Try throwing square brackets around it:
select * from States where [State Name] = 'Michigan';
The Standard SQL delimiter (and supported by SQL Server) is the double quote e.g.
SELECT *
FROM States
WHERE "State Name" = 'Michigan';
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I am writing a very simple query where I need to retrieve the records based on a column that has two values: 0 and 1. I didn't realize this column has a bit type, therefore when I write the query SQL Server is giving me the message
"Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'Primary'."
My query is simple:
select * from [table name]
where Primary = '1'
I've tried searching the site but couldn't find a good answer. BTW, I only have access to retrieve the data from the table. I can't declare variables or create a stored procedure or any of that stuff. Surely this can't be that complicated. Please assist!
PRIMARY is reserved word and it needs to be quoted:
select * from [table name] where [Primary] = 1;
The problem has nothing to do with the datatype being a bit, the error, in fact, is telling you exactly what the problem is:
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'Primary'.
Emphasis added.
PRIMARY is a reserved keyword. Ideally don't use keywords for object names, but if you "must" then you must delimit identify the object. In fact, really you should avoid any names for objects that require delimit identifing:
SELECT {Your Columns} --Define the columns, don't use *
FROM dbo.[Table Name] --I hope you don't have white space in your object names too
WHERE [Primary] = 1; --Don't wrap bit/numerical values in quotes.
That's because primary is a reserved word in SQL Server. You would need to quote it:
select * from [table name] where [Primary] = 1
I would warmly recommend changing the column name so it does not conflict with a langauge keyword. There are less than 200 reserved works in SQL Server, which leaves a lot of room for alternatives.
So:
sp_rename '[table name].[primary]', 'prim', 'COLUMN';
When I update a column using phpmyadmin in database with following query
UPDATE members
SET `refered` = (SELECT COUNT (*)
FROM `user_details`
WHERE `user_details.sponser`=`members.username`
)
It show a error message like this
#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near '*) FROM `user_details` WHERE `user_details.sponser`=`members.username`)' at line 1
What may be reason?
Error is in
COUNT (*)
-----^
Remove the space between COUNT and (*).
Try the below query
UPDATE members SET refered = (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM user_details
WHERE user_details.sponser=members.username)
Does the Select query returns any result. If so what is the result. Looks like all your query is inside '' single quotes that you are using it should be removed. Single quotes need to be removed for example .
UPDATE members
SET refered = (SELECT COUNT (*)
FROM user_details
WHERE user_details.sponser=members.username
)
-- there is not single quotes in the query above. please remove it from yours.
Part of your problem, or maybe the whole problem, is the WHERE clause. You've used backticks for the table name, which is correct (or, at least, it's optional in this case; it's needed if your database name or table name has a MySQL reserved name or is otherwise ambiguous). The problem, though, is that the dot separating the database from the table needs to be outside the backticks. So your WHERE clause should look like this instead:
WHERE `user_details`.`sponser`=`members`.`username`
Is square bracket in table name, column name or datatype is not supported in postgresql ?
I am getting below error while running the query in pgadmin:
CREATE TABLE [Test];
ERROR: syntax error at or near "["
SQL state: 42601
In PostgreSQL you can use double quotes :
CREATE TABLE "Test";
Same for columns, square brackets are used in SQL-Server.
If you mean the table name would be [Test] with brackets included then you would use "[Test]".
Create table "[Test]" ...;
If you meant it as an identifier, you could simply use without brackets or double quotes as Test.
Create table Test ...;
This way, you could refer to it as Test or test or tESt without double quotes in subsequent queries, ie:
select * from test;
If you use "Test" then postgreSQL would treat it as case sensitive and you would always use "Test".
Create table "Test" ...;
If you were trying to emphasize the identifier name by using square brackets, then sagi's answer is correct. On the other hand, if you really want to use square brackets in your table name, postgresql supports this as "[Test]". In this case your table name will include square brackets. You can get additional info from postgresql documentation
The setup consists of Hibernate 3. Am trying to execute the raw query as it is. The setup works fine for other simple queries , db inserts & updates.
The query in issue is :
org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: unexpected token: ( near line 1, column 29 [
SELECT keyMain, value FROM (select distinct K.[key] as keyMain,
( SELECT value FROM com.trans.dto.Resources as L WHERE L.[key] = K.[key]
and L.lang_code = 'A11' ) as value from com.trans.dto.Resources as K )
as test order by keyMain ]
Resources is the table & has mapping setup in hibernate.cfg.xml
I was under a thought "KEY" is name of one of the column which can not be changed. How do i escape key words ?
If not 1, then is the multi selects in sub query.
Please advise. Any suggestion is of great help.
From here:
You can force Hibernate to quote an identifier in the generated SQL
by enclosing the table or column name in backticks in the mapping document.
Hibernate will use the correct quotation style for the SQL Dialect.
This is usually double quotes, but the SQL Server uses brackets and MySQL uses backticks.
So, try to escape your field with double quotes or with square parenthesis('[key]').
I'm debugging an app with the following code:
sql = myTable
Set datTable.Recordset = myDB.openRecordset(sql, dbOpenDynaset, dbSeeChanges)
where
sql = "select * from table Order by Precipition,Date/Time"
An error occurs on the second line saying "Run-time error '3061': Too few parameters. Expected 2". I believe the issue is the with the value of sql. I don't know to much about SQL, so does anyone have any ideas?
I thingk you can try
sql = "select * from table Order by Precipition,[Date/Time]"
Note the "[]"
You should try to avoid using table names/columns that contains spaces, or keywords, as this will make life very dufficult.
Use name that explain the field in context to the table.
The problem is in your order clause: more specifically here:
Date/Time.