Need to add expression when subreport returns NULL value

Help! @.=)
Using SRS 2000 SP2. I have a subreport which only returns a value to the
main report some of the time. At other times, it returns nothing (usually in
situations where the result would be NULL). In the main report, when it
returns NULL/Blank/Nothing, I want to that space to display "There was no
value for this query" or something similar. Unfortunately, when I
right-click the textbox containing the subreport, it doesn't give me an
expressions field.
Where could I put something like this? Or is this not something that can be
done?
Thanks in advance!
Catadmin
--
MCDBA, MCSA
Random Thoughts: If a person is Microsoft Certified, does that mean that
Microsoft pays the bills for the funny white jackets that tie in the back?
@.=)Click the table in your report and look for a property value called NoRows.
Add text to that, and it will be displayed in your main report.
Kaisa M. Lindahl Lervik
"Catadmin" <goldpetalgraphics@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Help! @.=)
> Using SRS 2000 SP2. I have a subreport which only returns a value to the
> main report some of the time. At other times, it returns nothing (usually
> in
> situations where the result would be NULL). In the main report, when it
> returns NULL/Blank/Nothing, I want to that space to display "There was no
> value for this query" or something similar. Unfortunately, when I
> right-click the textbox containing the subreport, it doesn't give me an
> expressions field.
> Where could I put something like this? Or is this not something that can
> be
> done?
> Thanks in advance!
> Catadmin
> --
> MCDBA, MCSA
> Random Thoughts: If a person is Microsoft Certified, does that mean that
> Microsoft pays the bills for the funny white jackets that tie in the
> back?
> @.=)|||AHA! That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you ever so much!!!
Catadmin
--
MCDBA, MCSA
Random Thoughts: If a person is Microsoft Certified, does that mean that
Microsoft pays the bills for the funny white jackets that tie in the back?
@.=)

Need summary rows in a query, but how?

I have ORDERS which contain a number of ITEMS. Both are stored as rows in a
single table, tblOrders.
I would like to make a query that returns a list of items, then a total for
the order as a whole. Something like...
ORDER ID PART ID NAME QUANTITY PRICE NET
1000 1 widget 10 10 100
1000 2 gazeeza 5 5 25
125 < summary row
It appears this is the idea behind CUBE or ROLLUP, but as is typical, the
documentation on this is useless. Does anyone have any examples of how to
actually use this and get the output the way you want?
It appears you have to use GROUP BY for this sort of thing, and this brings
up another question. In the examples above, I want the grouping for the
summary to work only on the ORDER ID. However, as far as I can tell, in order
to get any output at all you need to list every column in the GROUP BY. This
kind of defeats the purpose in this case.
Any pointers?
Maury
"Maury Markowitz" <MauryMarkowitz@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> ORDER ID PART ID NAME QUANTITY PRICE NET
> 1000 1 widget 10 10 100
> 1000 2 gazeeza 5 5 25
> 125 < summary row
>
That is not the result of a query. It's a report. It usually makes more
sense to use tools like reporting services for this kind of thing.
To do it in SQL you won't need CUBE/ROLLUP. UNION is probably more
appropriate:
SELECT order_id, tot, part_id, name, quantity, price, net
FROM
(SELECT 0 AS tot, order_id, part_id, name, quantity, price, net
FROM tbl_orders
UNION ALL
SELECT 1, order_id, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, SUM(net)
FROM tbl_orders
GROUP BY order_id) AS T
ORDER BY order_id, tot, part_id ;
Apparently your Order table is very denormalized. I hope and expect that you
are aware of that.
Hope this helps.
David Portas, SQL Server MVP
Whenever possible please post enough code to reproduce your problem.
Including CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements usually helps.
State what version of SQL Server you are using and specify the content
of any error messages.
SQL Server Books Online:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms130214(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
sql

Need summary rows in a query, but how?

I have ORDERS which contain a number of ITEMS. Both are stored as rows in a
single table, tblOrders.
I would like to make a query that returns a list of items, then a total for
the order as a whole. Something like...
ORDER ID PART ID NAME QUANTITY PRICE NET
1000 1 widget 10 10 100
1000 2 gazeeza 5 5 25
125 < summary row
It appears this is the idea behind CUBE or ROLLUP, but as is typical, the
documentation on this is useless. Does anyone have any examples of how to
actually use this and get the output the way you want?
It appears you have to use GROUP BY for this sort of thing, and this brings
up another question. In the examples above, I want the grouping for the
summary to work only on the ORDER ID. However, as far as I can tell, in orde
r
to get any output at all you need to list every column in the GROUP BY. This
kind of defeats the purpose in this case.
Any pointers?
Maury"Maury Markowitz" <MauryMarkowitz@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1AFFFE59-A8F4-4BD1-8626-C9757BE6597C@.microsoft.com...

> ORDER ID PART ID NAME QUANTITY PRICE NET
> 1000 1 widget 10 10 100
> 1000 2 gazeeza 5 5 25
> 125 < summary row
>
That is not the result of a query. It's a report. It usually makes more
sense to use tools like reporting services for this kind of thing.
To do it in SQL you won't need CUBE/ROLLUP. UNION is probably more
appropriate:
SELECT order_id, tot, part_id, name, quantity, price, net
FROM
(SELECT 0 AS tot, order_id, part_id, name, quantity, price, net
FROM tbl_orders
UNION ALL
SELECT 1, order_id, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, SUM(net)
FROM tbl_orders
GROUP BY order_id) AS T
ORDER BY order_id, tot, part_id ;
Apparently your Order table is very denormalized. I hope and expect that you
are aware of that.
Hope this helps.
David Portas, SQL Server MVP
Whenever possible please post enough code to reproduce your problem.
Including CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements usually helps.
State what version of SQL Server you are using and specify the content
of any error messages.
SQL Server Books Online:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms130214(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
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Need summary rows in a query, but how?

I have ORDERS which contain a number of ITEMS. Both are stored as rows in a
single table, tblOrders.
I would like to make a query that returns a list of items, then a total for
the order as a whole. Something like...
ORDER ID PART ID NAME QUANTITY PRICE NET
1000 1 widget 10 10 100
1000 2 gazeeza 5 5 25
125 < summary row
It appears this is the idea behind CUBE or ROLLUP, but as is typical, the
documentation on this is useless. Does anyone have any examples of how to
actually use this and get the output the way you want?
It appears you have to use GROUP BY for this sort of thing, and this brings
up another question. In the examples above, I want the grouping for the
summary to work only on the ORDER ID. However, as far as I can tell, in order
to get any output at all you need to list every column in the GROUP BY. This
kind of defeats the purpose in this case.
Any pointers?
Maury"Maury Markowitz" <MauryMarkowitz@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:1AFFFE59-A8F4-4BD1-8626-C9757BE6597C@.microsoft.com...
> ORDER ID PART ID NAME QUANTITY PRICE NET
> 1000 1 widget 10 10 100
> 1000 2 gazeeza 5 5 25
> 125 < summary row
>
That is not the result of a query. It's a report. It usually makes more
sense to use tools like reporting services for this kind of thing.
To do it in SQL you won't need CUBE/ROLLUP. UNION is probably more
appropriate:
SELECT order_id, tot, part_id, name, quantity, price, net
FROM
(SELECT 0 AS tot, order_id, part_id, name, quantity, price, net
FROM tbl_orders
UNION ALL
SELECT 1, order_id, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, SUM(net)
FROM tbl_orders
GROUP BY order_id) AS T
ORDER BY order_id, tot, part_id ;
Apparently your Order table is very denormalized. I hope and expect that you
are aware of that.
Hope this helps.
--
David Portas, SQL Server MVP
Whenever possible please post enough code to reproduce your problem.
Including CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements usually helps.
State what version of SQL Server you are using and specify the content
of any error messages.
SQL Server Books Online:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms130214(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
--

need stored procedure

Hi,
my table : tab1
id int
name varchar(50)
i want to write a stored procedure that returns the max(id) from the table.
how to create it.
thanks in advance
dnkHi
Use MAX() function
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> Hi,
> my table : tab1
> id int
> name varchar(50)
> i want to write a stored procedure that returns the max(id) from the
> table.
> how to create it.
> thanks in advance
> dnk
>sql

Need sql to return the result of a query as comma seperated values.

Hi,
I need a sql that returns thequery result as comma seperated list of values, instead of several rows. Below is the scenario...
Table Name - Customer
Columns - CustomerID, Join Date
Say below is the data of Customer table ...
CustomerID JoinDate
1 04/01/2005
2 01/03/2003
3 06/02/2004
4 01/05/2002
5 09/07/2005
Now i want to retrieve all the customerid's who have joined this year. Below is the query that i use for this case.
Select CustomerID from Customer where JoinDate between '01/01/2005' and GetDate()
This gives the below result as two rows.
CustomerID
1
5
But i need to get the result as '1,5' (comma seperated list of resulting values).
Any help is highly appreciated
Thanks in Advance
Ramesh

You need declare a variable :
declare @.value nvarchar(200)
Select@.value=case when @.value is null then '' else @.value+',' end+cast(CustomerID as varchar) from Customer where JoinDate between '01/01/2005' and GetDate()
|||Hi,
You can manage your goal by using COALESCE
Please check the following URLs for sample COALESCE usage for returning the column values of a tables in a string seperated by a delimeter character.
http://www.kodyaz.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=76
http://www.kodyaz.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=29

As a sample you can run the below code on Northwind database also
DECLARE @.s as nvarchar(4000)
DECLARE @.char as char(1)
SELECT @.char = ','
SELECT @.s = @.char
SELECT @.s = COALESCE(FirstName + @.char + @.s , '') FROM Employees
SELECT SUBSTRING(@.s, 0, LEN(@.s)-1) AS Employees

I hope this helps,
Eralper
|||

Hi All,

I Solved the problem with the below query...

DECLARE @.CustomerIDs VARCHAR(8000)

SELECT @.CustomerIDs = ISNULL(@.CustomerIDs + ',', '') + CAST(CustomerID AS VARCHAR(10))
FROM CUSTOMER
WHERE JoinDate BETWEEN '01/01/2005' and GetDate()

SELECT @.CustomerIDs AS CustomerID

|||It's great! It really worked fine. Thanks a lot...

Need help with UPDATE with PARTITION & PARAMETER

Hi,

I wrote this stored procedure that works, and returns what I want, but now I want to mark the "Active" field to 1 for each of the records returned by this. I have had no luck so far.

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SelectCurrent_acmdtn]

@.extractNum char(10)

AS

BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;

SELECT id, efctv_from_dt, efctv_to_dt, modify_ts, extractno, Active, acmtdn_RECID

FROM (SELECT dbo.acmdtn.*, row_number() OVER (partition BY id

ORDER BY extractno, efctv_to_dt DESC, efctv_from_dt DESC, modify_ts DESC, acmdtn_RECID DESC) rn

FROM dbo.acmdtn

WHERE extractno > @.extractNum) Rank

WHERE rn = 1

END

I have tried inserting Update between the 2 "WHERE" statements, but it returns an error

"Invalid column name 'rn'."

I have also tried opening the recordset in Access VB, but I am restricted to read-only.

I would prefer to have a stored procedure do this.

I can get it to work if I take out the parameter, but I need that part.

The purpose of this (if you care..) is I have a large amount of historical data (this is one of 42 tables) that I need to run reports on, but I need to have the data "as of a certain date (or extractno)". This is data exported from another application that I only get flat files for, that I have imported into SQL Server tables. So, by running this procedure, I get the latest "id" record as of the extractno (I get a new extract every day, with changes that were made the previous day). I want to mark these latest fields in the "Active" field so when I create reports, I can have them filter on this field.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I wrote this stored procedure that works, and returns what I want, but now I want to mark the "Active" field to 1 for each of the records returned by this. I have had no luck so far.

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SelectCurrent_acmdtn]

@.extractNum char(10)

AS

BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;

SELECT id, efctv_from_dt, efctv_to_dt, modify_ts, extractno, Active, acmtdn_RECID

FROM (SELECT dbo.acmdtn.*, row_number() OVER (partition BY id

ORDER BY extractno, efctv_to_dt DESC, efctv_from_dt DESC, modify_ts DESC, acmdtn_RECID DESC) rn

FROM dbo.acmdtn

WHERE extractno > @.extractNum) Rank

WHERE rn = 1

END

I have tried inserting Update between the 2 "WHERE" statements, but it returns an error

"Invalid column name 'rn'."

I have also tried opening the recordset in Access VB , but I am restricted to read-only.

I would prefer to have a stored procedure do this.

I can get it to work if I take out the parameter, but I need that part.

The purpose of this (if you care..) is I have a large amount of historical data (this is one of 42 tables) that I need to run reports on, but I need to have the data "as of a certain date (or extractno)". This is data exported from another application that I only get flat files for, that I have imported into SQL Server tables. So, by running this procedure, I get the each latest "id" record as of the extractno (I get a new extract every day, with changes that were made the previous day). I want to mark these latest fields in the "Active" field so when I create reports, I can have them filter on this field.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.|||

Hi,

I wrote this stored procedure that works, and returns what I want, but now I want to mark the "Active" field to 1 for each of the records returned by this. I have had no luck so far. I am working in SQL server 2005.

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SelectCurrent_acmdtn]

@.extractNum char(10)

AS

BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;

SELECT id, efctv_from_dt, efctv_to_dt, modify_ts, extractno, Active, acmtdn_RECID

FROM (SELECT dbo.acmdtn.*, row_number() OVER (partition BY id

ORDER BY extractno, efctv_to_dt DESC, efctv_from_dt DESC, modify_ts DESC, acmdtn_RECID DESC) rn

FROM dbo.acmdtn

WHERE extractno > @.extractNum) Rank

WHERE rn = 1

END

I have tried inserting Update between the 2 "WHERE" statements, but it returns an error

"Invalid column name 'rn'."

I have also tried opening the recordset in Access VB , but I am restricted to read-only.

I would prefer to have a stored procedure do this.

I can get it to work if I take out the parameter, but I need that part.

The purpose of this (if you care..) is I have a large amount of historical data (this is one of 42 tables) that I need to run reports on, but I need to have the data "as of a certain date (or extractno)". This is data exported from another application that I only get flat files for, that I have imported into SQL Server tables. So, by running this procedure, I get the latest "id" record as of the extractno (I get a new extract every day, with changes that were made the previous day). I want to mark these latest fields in the "Active" field so when I create reports, I can have them filter on this field.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.|||

You are returning the results of a data manipulation - there may not be a 'match' between the resultset and the actual table.

My 'simple' recommendation is to:

capture the resultset in a @.Table variable, then use the [ID] value from that table variable to UPDATE the data, finally, returning the contents of the table variable with a SELECT.|||

Thanks for the reply. I posted this question a few too many times (was told it was deleted by administrator!).

Anyway, [ID] is not the primary key, [acmdtn_RECID] is. Any changes made to the master database simply add another record, and retain the old record, so historical queries can be run. So there can be dozens of records for each [ID]. What I want is the most recent record, for each [ID], as of a certain date.

I guess I just don't get why I can display the information, but I can't write back to the database based on that displayed information. It's a complex query, but there's no joins, or other tables involved, there can only be a 1:1 relationship between records in the table, and records in the resultset.

Need help with UDF useage. Trying to get away without using cursor.

I have a Function (say X) that takes 2 parameters and returns back a table result of multiple records.

And I have a query (say Q) that return rows of 2 columns that I need to feed Function X.

They way I do it right now is I have a cursor that loops through the result of Query Q
and call Function X as I pass the 2 values the the function.

As Function X return with the result set, I load it into a temporary table.

At the end of the cursor processing, I query the temporary table to return the complete result set.

Is there a way do this without using a cursor?

Here is my Function X top part:

alter FUNCTION ReturnItem
(
@.tableName varchar(50),
@.ItemID int
)
returns @.returnTable table
(
ItemName varchar(50),
ItemValue varchar(50),
[Timestamp] datetime
)

JB..

You want to use the CROSS APPLY capability of SS2k5 to "apply" the rows of one table to a UDF. Here is an example:

CREATE TABLE QuerySource
(
c1 INT,
c2 INT
)

INSERT QuerySource VALUES (1,1)
INSERT QuerySource VALUES (2,3)
INSERT QuerySource VALUES (10,15)
INSERT QuerySource VALUES (16,13)

CREATE FUNCTION ReturnItem
(
@.p1 INT,
@.p2 int
)
returns @.returnTable table
(
AddResult int,
SubtractResult int,
TimesResult int,
DivideResult int
)
AS
BEGIN
INSERT @.returnTable SELECT @.p1+@.p2, @.p1-@.p2,@.p1*@.p2,@.p1/@.p2
RETURN
END

SELECT *
FROM QuerySource qs CROSS APPLY dbo.ReturnItem(qs.c1, qs.c2)

|||Hello. Thank you very much for you help. That is exactly what I wanted to do. I never knew such feature exist. Anyway, I was afraid that when the number of data being passed becomes really big, the cursor will slow things down hence, I have to find this solution.

Thank you again.

JB..