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31-Aug-07 9:51

Does anybody know of a good on-line SQL "cookbook"?

I see that O'Reilly actually publishes a book by this name, but it is a book (perhaps not as googleable as online source). I see the same questions keep popping-up here repeatedly, and it's difficult to locate the "search forums" dialog here at codeproject (it took me a good while to locate it). Perhaps folks could get quicker answers to their specific questions if a searchable cookbook was readily available.

Actually, even having the Search function here at codeproject apply to the forums (instead of just Articles and Authors) would reduce some of the noise. But even then, a well written, easily searchable cookbook would sure be nice.

David

Re: SQL cookbook

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar1-Sep-07 1:22

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

1-Sep-07 1:22

How about BooksOnline?

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214.aspx[^]

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Re: SQL cookbook

DQNOK10-Sep-07 6:15

insertin data into new table

10-Sep-07 6:15

Thanks for the reply.

Actually, I had in mind more of a "cookbook"; simple pre-packaged answers to common issues and questions like the ones that crop-up repeatedly within this forum. Good link anyway. Think I'll download it!

David

rcwoods31-Aug-07 8:28

31-Aug-07 8:28

hi.
could someone please help me out.
im tryin to take data from one table, summarize it, and insert it into a new table.

what i have is a current 'daily' stats table for a user. but now what i want to do is take that data and add up 7 days worth of stats for each user. so, in other words, i have the last weeks stats for each user.

basically i need to know how to select data out daily table and then insert into weekly table.

Thanks!

Colin Angus Mackay31-Aug-07 8:36

Colin Angus Mackay

31-Aug-07 8:36

The INSERT command can contain a SELECT

INSERT INTO Destination
SELECT Column1, Column2, Column3
FROM SourceTable

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DQNOK31-Aug-07 10:07

31-Aug-07 10:07

Depending on what you mean by "summarize it", I suspect you may be looking for a "GROUP BY" construct.

INSERT INTO tblWeekly
SELECT userName, SUM(stats)
FROM tblDaily
GROUP BY userName;

Can you give a few-record example of 'daily stats' and then what a summary of those stats should look like in the weekly table?

David

rcwoods2-Sep-07 0:01

2-Sep-07 0:01

thanks for the reply.

i have a table "DailyUsage", which has 3 fields, namely Username, TheDate, DailyCount. primary key is a combination of Username and TheDate.

Now, because this table is pretty big, cos its storing daily usage for the last year, I want to do a sort of round robin methodoligy so my reports can run alot quicker.

So, ive created a table called "weeklyUsage" which will have Username, TheDate, and WeeklyCount. tbl WeeklyUsage will have only for example the last 3 or 4 weeks of data in it. So, I need to do a SUM of DailyCounts for each username for the last 3 or 4 weeks and then insert into tbl WeeklyUsage...

DQNOK10-Sep-07 4:01

10-Sep-07 4:01

Sorry about taking so long to respond; I have been out of town.

How about

INSERT INTO weeklyUsage
SELECT Username, SUM(DailyCount)
FROM DailyUsage
GROUP BY Username
WHERE TheDate > DATE() - 21;

to get summaries for the last three weeks.

David

rcwoods10-Sep-07 11:04

10-Sep-07 11:04

thanks for the reply.

i tried that DATE() function but its not working, im using SQL Server.dont know if thats the problem.
Is that 'DATE()' suppose to give me the current date?

DQNOK10-Sep-07 11:08

10-Sep-07 11:08

Yes, the current date. In Oracle, it's "SYSDATE()" plus some other synonyms. I don't use SQL Server, and don't know what it wants.

Since you didn't give examples, I am not sure the query I provided will give what you want, but from your description, i *THINK* it's what you want. Let me know how it turns out.

David

rcwoods15-Sep-07 3:51