SQL Scripts are lists of SQL sentences written in a single file, meant to be executed sequentially. Depending on the particular RDBMS system, SQL scripts can have procedural language characteristics, such as control-of-flow constructs.
Questions tagged [sql-scripts]
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Quickly generate ascii text sql scripts based off of sql 2008 database
This is starting to frustrate me, mostly because it should be easy to do but I can't find anything.
I am trying to version control my database. The method I have decided upon is to generate scripts at each check-in that creates a sql script for…

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Abort MySQL script conditionally
Given: MySQL database. Sometimes db schema changes and updates are rolled out (in the form of sql script). In order to guarantee correct order of updates applied (no duplicate updates, no updates missing, etc) I plan to deploy the following…

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Use the default database path to create a filegroup in a script sql server 2008
Quick question, it is possible to include in a SQL Script something like this?
IF FILEGROUP_ID('FG') IS NOT NULL
ALTER DATABASE [MYDB]
ADD FILE (Name=[FG_DATA], Filename='{My default server path}') TO FILEGROUP [FG]
GO
The idea is to create a…

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SQL script than create table and and fill it out file Resources.resx
I need to write a sql script that will create a table in the database and populate it with data from the file type Resources.resx
As far as I can see, there are only 3 fields: Name, Value and Comment. All string.
I using Microsoft SQL Server…

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LINQ's FirstOrDefault in SQL script?
What is the SQL language keyword for the LINQ-to-SQL FirstOrDefault or SingleOrDefault?
Is it TOP(1)?
EXAMPLE:
SELECT TOP(1) @ItemCode = ItemCode FROM VendorItem WHERE VendorId = @VendorId
There can't be more than 1 results anyway since there is a…

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How to work with javax.persistence.sql-load-script-source?
I want to automatically insert data into my MySQL tables. Therefore I try to use the JPA property "javax.persistence.sql-load-script-source" in my persistence.xml:

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SQL script to add reject reason
On the SQL below it finds "bad rows" in my excel sheet and copies them into another table.
This works perfect. However under each OR satement below i want to make the column "rejectionreason" = some error text.
So for example if the eventID was = 0…

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SQL Server script: ALTER PROCEDURE - Executing multiple ALTER PROCEDURE into one script without having to select each of the ALTER one after another
I know this is not a big issue, but it tickles me anyway.
I have a SQL Server 2005 script to create new data tables, constraints, altering some tables to add columns, altering procedures to take the table changes into account, etc.
Everything runs…

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How to create text file using sql script with text "|"
if i run below script without char "|" it working but when i am adding char "|" it is not working
how to add char "|" using sql script to text file ?
DECLARE @Text AS VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @Cmd AS VARCHAR(100)
SET @Text = 'Hello world| '
SET @Cmd…

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Operating system error 5(access is denied) when creating Database at Client Machine in C:\ Drive
I am installing SQL Server Express 2005 as a prerequisite of my c# windows form application, and under the Custom Action of my installer class, I'm trying to execute the script below, to create my database on the user machine.
However when I choose…

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Entity framework: ObjectContext get generated SQL change script?
Is there a way to get all the SQL change script of the object context?
Note: I am not talking about ObjectQuery.ToTraceString();

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Conditionally convert column data type from float to double precision
I have redesigned my Firebird based SQL database. As part of this process I created new table named HARMONICS. Using GUI based administration tool I created following columns:
HARM_LP_ID Integer NOT NULL
HNUMBER Integer NOT NULL
HAMPCHNL0 Double…

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Logging SQL script errors
I have a SQL script for postgres file with following command.
COPY product_master(productId, productName) FROM 'product.txt' DELIMITERS ',' CSV;
I want to handle errors of this command (log the error)
example
ERROR: duplicate key value…

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Query Help: Totaling parent / child items
[Ed. Note: Related to this SO question; didn't edit question because the problem has fundamentally shifted and question/answers from before are still valid]
Looking for advice of how best to create a view. The current query from my previous problem…

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How to change composite key column type from varchar to nvarchar?
I need to change all the varchar columns to the nvarchar type. I've generated a script with the help from this thread SQL Server - script to update database columns from varchar to nvarchar if not already nvarchar.
However this script cannot change…

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