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Re: ACL vs SQL for fuzzy matching

Ben Dessau29-Nov-12 6:43

Ben Dessau

29-Nov-12 6:43

Currently we're using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 but could upgrade to the latest for this project.

Re: ACL vs SQL for fuzzy matching

Pete O'Hanlon29-Nov-12 6:50

Pete O'Hanlon

29-Nov-12 6:50

At the most basic, you're talking about Soundex matching, which isn't great. You might want to consider Full Text Indexing, which will return misspelled items if they are close enough. Of course, you can always implement your own fuzzy logic inside SQL Server, using CLR functions.

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SQL Query

berba29-Nov-12 2:22

berba

29-Nov-12 2:22

I have the following query:

select CASE when EA.Address1 <> '' and EA.Address2 <> '' and EA.Address3 <> '' then Replace(EA.Address2, ',' , ' ') + '' + Replace(EA.Address3, ',' , ' ')

else EA.Address1 end as employeeaddress

from EmployeeAdress EA

However employeeaddress should hold a maximum of 35 characters irrespective the number of characters in columns Address1, Address2, Address3.

Any advice how to do this?

Thanks
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Re: SQL Query

Richard Deeming29-Nov-12 2:50

Richard Deeming

29-Nov-12 2:50

Try:

SQL

SELECT LEFT(CASE ... END, 35) As EmployeeAddress ...

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Re: SQL Query

berba2-Dec-12 18:30

berba

2-Dec-12 18:30

Thanks. It works Smile | :)

SQL Server windows authentication

Zeyad Jalil28-Nov-12 23:49

Zeyad Jalil

28-Nov-12 23:49

Hi All,

We want to disable the windows authentication mode in the sql server, because we use the sql authentication and we don't want the user to login from the management studio using windows authentication.

so we need a sql script to disable the windows authentication from our windows application, what is the script please.

Thanks all

Re: SQL Server windows authentication

Garth J Lancaster28-Nov-12 23:59

Garth J Lancaster

28-Nov-12 23:59

not sure if it can be done with t-sql or such - but this may help http://sqlblog.com/blogs/allen_white/archive/2011/05/19/change-sql-servers-authentication-mode-with-powershell.aspx[^]

Re: SQL Server windows authentication

jschell29-Nov-12 8:09

jschell

29-Nov-12 8:09

Rather certain that isn't possible nor logically advisable.

SQL Server supports Windows authentication and as an option SQL identification. The later is an option the former isn't.

Additionally you seem to think that you can disallow access to SQL server completely. Which suggests that you think that there will never be problems that need investigation. Which is unlikely to be true.

If you don't trust your users then either address that at the management level or the contract level. And don't try to solve it with technology.

Re: SQL Server windows authentication

Chris Meech30-Nov-12 3:45

Chris Meech

30-Nov-12 3:45

jschell wrote:
If you don't trust your users then either address that at the management level or the contract level. And don't try to solve it with technology.

That's got my five.

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Need help with a tricky MS SQL Query

muya mwansa27-Nov-12 6:46

muya mwansa

27-Nov-12 6:46

Hi, I was given a tricky challenge question to attempt and allowed the use of any resources at my disposal. So far all my attempts have produced results close to the expected output but not quiet the expected out put. Here's the link to the question: Question and here's where you can test your query: test here.

Here's my query that produced the closest results:

SELECT        DISTINCT Competencies.CompName AS compname, Users.FirstName AS firstname, Users.SurName AS surname, CompPos.Level AS positionlevel, CompUser.Level AS userlevel
FROM            Positions INNER JOIN CompPos 
				ON Positions.PosId = CompPos.PosID 
				INNER JOIN Competencies   
				ON CompPos.CompID = Competencies.CompID
				INNER JOIN CompUser
				ON Competencies.CompID = CompUser.CompID	
				CROSS JOIN Users
WHERE 		(Users.UserId IN ('999209', 'helpdesk1', '999339', 'helpdesk5', '999827'))
AND        (CompUser.UserID IN ('999209', 'helpdesk1', '999339', 'helpdesk5', '999827'))
AND 		(Positions.Position LIKE '%Corp HR-People Development-Wellness-Manager(Process)%')
ORDER BY CompPos.Level DESC, Competencies.CompName, CompUser.Level, Users.FirstName, Users.SurName

Re: Need help with a tricky MS SQL Query

Eddy Vluggen27-Nov-12 13:31

Eddy Vluggen

27-Nov-12 13:31

Website wrote:
I only want to see results for users with the following userids '999209','helpdesk1','999339','helpdesk5','999827'

Even if they don’t have records in compuser.

"Want"? How about learning SQL, breaking the problem into smaller pieces?

..and no, it's generally not a good idea to have a server open like that; it's obvious that you're running Sql Server, and one can request a list of all the databases in there.

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Re: Need help with a tricky MS SQL Query

jschell28-Nov-12 8:43

jschell

28-Nov-12 8:43

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
..and no, it's generally not a good idea to have a server open like that; it's
obvious that you're running Sql Server, and one can request a list of all the
databases in there.

From the question I would guess that the OP doesn't own the database server.

Re: Need help with a tricky MS SQL Query

Deepak Kr128-Nov-12 1:03

Deepak Kr1

28-Nov-12 1:03

Please try this one, if this helps, u might need to do some modification.
=============
select Competencies.CompName AS compname, Users.FirstName AS firstname, Users.SurName AS surname, CompPos.Level AS positionlevel, CompUser.Level AS userlevel from Users
left outer join compuser
on users.userid = compuser.userid
left outer join Competencies
on compuser.compid = Competencies.compid
left outer join CompPos
on CompPos.compid = Competencies.compid
left outer join Positions
on Positions.posid = CompPos.posid and Positions.Position LIKE '%Corp HR-People Development-Wellness-Manager(Process)%'
WHERE Users.UserId IN ('999209', 'helpdesk1', '999339', 'helpdesk5', '999827')
--and Positions.Position LIKE '%Corp HR-People Development-Wellness-Manager(Process)%'
ORDER BY CompPos.Level DESC, Competencies.CompName, CompUser.Level, Users.FirstName, Users.SurName

Best Approach For Designing Database

AmbiguousName27-Nov-12 3:59

AmbiguousName

27-Nov-12 3:59

Hello. I am developing a small project in C#, in which I show chosen passages from a book.
Now I am not sure how do I store these passages in database? Currently I am considering these two options
1 - Storing passages as pictures in folders BUT their paths in the database. My application will get these paths and load the content in the window.
2 - Storing the actual text content in the database and load it in the window.

Can you please help me decide which way is better? Or is there any better way to do it? Thanks

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Re: Best Approach For Designing Database

jschell27-Nov-12 13:13

jschell

27-Nov-12 13:13

Probably 2 but it could be 1.

Some examples for 1.
- text from illuminated book
- ancient text whose translation is in doubt
- legal documents where originals matter

Re: Best Approach For Designing Database

Mycroft Holmes27-Nov-12 13:14

Mycroft Holmes

27-Nov-12 13:14

Storing an image will give you the least amount of useful data, storing the text allows it to be searchable.

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Re: Best Approach For Designing Database

Eddy Vluggen27-Nov-12 13:23

Eddy Vluggen

27-Nov-12 13:23

AmbiguousName wrote:
Can you please help me decide which way is better?

There is no "better" way; each has it's own advantages and disadvantages, and you'd need to check your requirements which suits better.

On a folder;

You can have clashes in naming. Filenames must be unique.
You have the advantage of the virusscanner picking things up. Most scanners don't do databases.
You track an external asset

In a database;

Easy with backups/restores; are you gonna backup that folder?
Centralized; no need to document outside-repositories
As easy to (hyper)link to as a document on a webserver. However, not being a file, the server cannot response to a header-request on it's freshness.

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Re: Best Approach For Designing Database

Krishna Kumar Soni3-Dec-12 1:04

Krishna Kumar Soni

3-Dec-12 1:04

Plz try this...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5095533/storing-a-book-using-sql-server

EXEC sp_helptext

jojoba201126-Nov-12 22:43

jojoba2011

26-Nov-12 22:43

my stored procedure is :

SQL

USE [CRM-CMSAlmas]
GO
/****** Object:  StoredProcedure [dbo].[tblVacationDaily_GetAllDetailsSenderReciverbyRecordIdANDJobIdAndStepId]    Script Date: 11/27/2012 13:07:29 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[tblVacationDaily_GetAllDetailsSenderReciverbyRecordIdANDJobIdAndStepId] 
(@RecordId INT,@JobId INT,@StepId int)
AS
BEGIN

SELECT     WF.Cartable.JobId, Forms.tblVacationDaily.Id,  Forms.tblVacationDaily.IsWorkFlow, Forms.tblVacationDaily.CreateUserID, 
                      Forms.tblVacationDaily.CreateDate, Forms.tblVacationDaily.StepId, Forms.tblVacationDaily.RecordId, Forms.tblVacationDaily.OrderId, Forms.tblVacationDaily.PersonId, 
                      WF.Cartable.ForwardedUserId, WF.Cartable.RecieveUserId, WF.Cartable.IsDeleted, p1.FullName AS RecieveUserName, p2.FullName AS ForwardedUserName, 
                      WF.Cartable.IsBack
FROM         WF.Cartable INNER JOIN
                      WF.JobFormConjuction ON WF.JobFormConjuction.JobId = WF.Cartable.JobId INNER JOIN
                      Forms.tblVacationDaily ON Forms.tblVacationDaily.RecordId = WF.JobFormConjuction.RecordId AND Forms.tblVacationDaily.StepId = WF.Cartable.StepID - 1 INNER JOIN
                      Persons.People AS p1 ON p1.Id = WF.Cartable.RecieveUserId INNER JOIN
                      Persons.People AS p2 ON p2.Id = WF.Cartable.ForwardedUserId
WHERE     (Forms.tblVacationDaily.RecordId = @RecordId) AND (WF.Cartable.JobId = @JobId) AND (Forms.tblVacationDaily.StepId<=@StepId)
END

but when i use <pre lang="SQL">EXEC sp_helptext [dbo.tblVacationDaily_GetAllDetailsSenderReciverbyRecordIdANDJobIdAndStepId]</pre><br />
<br />
the result is :[Note: I have change Create ----> Alert

SQL

Alter PROCEDURE [dbo].[tblVacationDaily_GetAllDetailsforSenderAndReciversbyRecordIdANDJobId] 
(@RecordId INT,@JobId INT,@StepId int)
AS
BEGIN

SELECT     WF.Cartable.JobId, Forms.tblVacationDaily.Id,  Forms.tblVacationDaily.IsWorkFlow, Forms.tblVacationDaily.CreateUserID, 
                      Forms.tblVacationDaily.CreateDate, Forms.tblVacationDaily.StepId, Forms.tblVacationDaily.RecordId, Forms.tblVacationDaily.OrderId, Forms.tblVacationDaily.PersonId, 
                      WF.Cartable.ForwardedUserId, WF.Cartable.RecieveUserId, WF.Cartable.IsDeleted, p1.FullName AS RecieveUserName, p2.FullName AS ForwardedUserName, 
                      WF.Cartable.IsBack
FROM         WF.Cartable INNER JOIN
                      WF.JobFormConjuction ON WF.JobFormConjuction.JobId = WF.Cartable.JobId INNER JOIN
                      Forms.tblVacationDaily ON Forms.tblVacationDaily.RecordId = WF.JobFormConjuction.RecordId AND Forms.tblVacationDaily.StepId = WF.Cartable.StepID - 1 INNER JOIN
                      Persons.People AS p1 ON p1.Id = WF.Cartable.RecieveUserId INNER JOIN
                      Persons.People AS p2 ON p2.Id = WF.Cartable.ForwardedUserId
WHERE     (Forms.tblVacationDaily.RecordId = @RecordId) AND (WF.Cartable.JobId = @JobId) AND (Forms.tblVacationDaily.StepId<=@StepId)
END
 Go

Now the BUG/ERROR :
The content is same but the names are diffrent :
[dbo].[tblVacationDaily_GetAllDetailsforSenderAndReciversbyRecordIdANDJobId] 

but the sp is :

[dbo].[tblVacationDaily_GetAllDetailsSenderReciverbyRecordIdANDJobIdAndStepId]

why the names are different ?

Re: EXEC sp_helptext

Mycroft Holmes26-Nov-12 23:30

Mycroft Holmes

26-Nov-12 23:30

You probably renamed the proc and the sp_help has not refreshed the name.

If one of my devs named a proc like that he would get a first warning, there would be no second.

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RAH

Re: EXEC sp_helptext

jojoba201126-Nov-12 23:38

jojoba2011

26-Nov-12 23:38

Thanks in advanced but the sp was renamed before and now its working properly!
but when i right click the sp and click on modify is diffrent from sp_helptext. and event the name of it in sp list is also different from sp_helptext !

But i dont get why this is happing@

Re: EXEC sp_helptext

Corporal Agarn27-Nov-12 0:59

Corporal Agarn

27-Nov-12 0:59

Try updating your statistics, "UPDATE STATISTICS..." This may not do anything but it might help

Re: EXEC sp_helptext

jojoba201127-Nov-12 3:09

jojoba2011

27-Nov-12 3:09

thanks but no use ...
on google :
should update :sys.object/sys.storedprocedures/sys.sql_modules

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=d&q=sp_helptext+renamed+stored+procedures++%2B+sql&oq=sp_helptext+renamed+stored+procedures++%2B+sql&gs_l=serp.3...8091.13502.0.13693.20.20.0.0.0.0.488.3055.7j7j2j2j1.19.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.MmW-E40j8mE[^]

I dont know how

modified 27-Nov-12 9:20am.

Re: EXEC sp_helptext

Eddy Vluggen27-Nov-12 13:33

Eddy Vluggen

27-Nov-12 13:33

Try logic; you renamed it?

Drop it, and create it anew?

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RECORD VALIDATION IN ACCESS

teto26-Nov-12 5:19

teto

26-Nov-12 5:19

HOW TO MAKE ACCESS CHECK THE WHOLE RECORD FORM THE OTHER TABLES
I WANT TO CHECK THREE FIELDS IN TABLE FROM ANOTHER TABLE DURING DATA ENTRY

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