Use either DTS or bcp (preferred) depending on format of data (ie quoted data, field length).

Edited by - davidburrows on 04/22/2003 01:58:56 AM

Use a while loop

create table tblnames (nam varchar(20))

declare @s-2 varchar(1000),@i int

set @s-2 = 'John,,Mike,,,Sue,,'

set @i = charindex(',',@s)

while @i>0

begin

if left(@s,@i-1) <> ''

begin

insert into tblnames values (left(@s,@i-1))

end

set @s-2 = right(@s,len(@s)-@i)

set @i =...

Depending on what calls the proc you could put the 25 fields into one separated by commas and then parse this in the proc into a temp table for joining....

Ah I think the fog is beginning to clear a bit. I understand the tblprojecttasks table now and it should not give you an problems. I personally do not put...

I am still not certain where the problem lies. You use the NettblProjectTasks table to control what tasks belong to a project and what status the task is, e.g.

Project_ID TaskID...

The only way I can see is to summarise the data to see which columns are null or not null and then create sql from the results and use sp_executesql....

Are you saying that you cannot call the proc more than once? Are you getting errors from the proc? What do you mean by 'because that status is no longer...

No I don't. If you click on my name in this list then you see my email address.

I can load spreadsheet into table with or without commas in text, DTS is not processing the commas as delimiters.

Is the table you loading a permanent table?

If you email me...

Yes like this

UPDATE t1

SET t1.Field = t2.field

FROM 1stTable t1

INNER JOIN 2ndTable t2 ON t2.Field = t1.Field

but is this really a DTS question?

DECLARE @d1 AS char(6)

DECLARE @d2 as char(6)

SET @d1 = '200001'

SET @d2 = '200203'

SELECT YEAR(period) AS 'Year',DATEPART(quarter,period) as 'Quarter',

SUM(composite) AS Composite_Total

FROM tablea

WHERE CONVERT(CHAR(6),period,112) between @d1 and @d2

GROUP BY YEAR(period),DATEPART(quarter,period)

ORDER BY YEAR(period),DATEPART(quarter,period)

Edited...

Nice one Antares.

This type of query is becoming more common. I seem to remember this type in this forum before and can't remember if there was an easy solution.

My immediate thought was...

If I read you right then from your example of 200103 to 200303 you want

2002 sum value 200103 to 200203 inclusive

2003 sum value 200203 to 200303 inclusive

then I would use...

Not sure if this helps or not. SQL only stores decimal data type, numeric is a synonym for decimal. If you create a table with numeric data type sql will...