How to Saving Multiple ID in One Column

Dear Sir,
I need one Table Design information.
My requirement is:
I have some products (say 10 products) in my master table. Each product has
Product ID (PK).
ID Code Desc
--
1 A1 AAAA
2 B1 BBBBBB
etc. etc...
I have one interface where the user will select the products that he is
interestered with. Mean One user may select product ID 1, 3, 5 and other may
select 2, 7.
I have to save the product info selected by that user in one Column of the
user table.
(I have to save the selected product in one column only)
So What Type will be for that Column and how do i implement logic to save
all selected product so that it will be easy to save and extract the values
also.
I think I can use some binary kind of valu for each product and save the
selected binary combination or similar logic to store and retrieve.
Please suggest.
Thanks
PrabhatPrabhat
Use RDBMS. Split the User table into produtsSeclected and use usertable for
storing base information only. then you will have three tables
Products where product id is primary
users where users id is primary
and Junction Table : Products selected with foreign keys of productid and
userid. thus participating in many to many relationship.
Regards
R.D
"Prabhat" wrote:

> Dear Sir,
> I need one Table Design information.
> My requirement is:
> I have some products (say 10 products) in my master table. Each product ha
s
> Product ID (PK).
> ID Code Desc
> --
> 1 A1 AAAA
> 2 B1 BBBBBB
> etc. etc...
> I have one interface where the user will select the products that he is
> interestered with. Mean One user may select product ID 1, 3, 5 and other m
ay
> select 2, 7.
> I have to save the product info selected by that user in one Column of the
> user table.
> (I have to save the selected product in one column only)
> So What Type will be for that Column and how do i implement logic to save
> all selected product so that it will be easy to save and extract the value
s
> also.
> I think I can use some binary kind of valu for each product and save the
> selected binary combination or similar logic to store and retrieve.
> Please suggest.
> Thanks
> Prabhat
>
>|||However this is the example of bad DB design where you keep multiple
data in single column, you can make that column of varchar type and
build a string of product ID and use comma (,) separator to saperate
each Product ID.
While fetching you ll only need to split IDs from comma|||What is Bad Design ? Normalization or CSVs for OLTP:
IF you forget about Data intigrity and future intigration problems only
then you can use comma seperated values
this sipmle scenario is not possible with csv.
If you want to write a query to select particular product selected by
multiple users,
is it possible when u use CSV.
Regards
R.D
"Zero.NULL" wrote:

> However this is the example of bad DB design where you keep multiple
> data in single column, you can make that column of varchar type and
> build a string of product ID and use comma (,) separator to saperate
> each Product ID.
> While fetching you ll only need to split IDs from comma
>|||Hi R.D.,
You are right. I know the concept and I know we can use 3 tables for that.
But My question was, Is there a better way of calculation / procedure that
we can store all selected value in one column?
Also the Comma separated method is very critical, as if products will
increase we need to increase the width of the field.
Thanks
Prabhat
"R.D" <RD@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4A593B0A-B72F-4D7F-9FD4-43E851E2C70B@.microsoft.com...
> Prabhat
> Use RDBMS. Split the User table into produtsSeclected and use usertable
for
> storing base information only. then you will have three tables
> Products where product id is primary
> users where users id is primary
> and Junction Table : Products selected with foreign keys of productid and
> userid. thus participating in many to many relationship.
> Regards
> R.D
>

How to run DTS from stored proc

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Exec [master].[dbo].[xp_cmdshell] "dtsrun /S Server /U User /P Pass /N Package Name"

But i am getting an error :

The system can not find the path specified.

But i am able to run the same from DTS Design Wizard.

Please anyone of you help me out.set @.str varchar(8000)
set @.dtsname varchar(8000)
set @.dtsname=physical path and name of your dts package
SET @.str='DtsRun '+ '/F ' + @.DTSNAME

EXEC master..xp_Cmdshell @.str


I believe it will help you

Subhasish Ray

subhasishray@.sify.com

How to Restore the msdb DatBase

Hi,

i have reinstalled the SQL Server before it i have taken backup of both master and
msdb database.Because there were many scduled jobs.
After Installation i want recreate those scduled job.
That i think i can get by restoring msdb.
But it is not restoring how can i restore it.

Or there is any way to get the all scduled job list so that i can recreate it manully.

Regards
Sanjay

Make sure the SQL Server Agent is stopped which uses the msdb database, then the restore should work fine. As a best practise I always get the scripts of the scheduled jobs in addition to the backup of the msdb database. This allows me to execute single script for job creation.

HTH, Jens SUessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de
|||

Hi jens,

i am tryning restore after stopping SQL Server Agent is stopped.

But it is giving the error massage that

"The backup of the system database on device E:\EcoSystemDatabasebackup\msdb_2006070200.BAK can not be restored because it was created by a different version of the server (134218488) than this server (134219767) .RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.

How can i restore it .while i am able to restore it in another server by different name.

Soisthere is any way to collect information of secduled job form there and create it in re quired server .

it is possible or not ?

if possible how can i do it.

Regards

Sanjay

|||

This isn't replication related, so moving to Engine forum.

By the way, what version of sql server did you take the backup from, and what version are you restoring it to (do select @.@.version)? As the error message says, if you're trying to restore to an earlier version of sql server, it won't work.

|||

Sorry, to come back that late. As greg already said, you have a problem concerning your different versions of your database (might have a service pack or hotfix installed meanwhile ?).

This is what a kn article is telling about the problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/264474/EN-US/

Another option would be to transfer the data via DTS, although I never tried that I would make sure to have a backup of the current (running msdb) first.

HTH, jens Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de

|||

Hi guys,

As i saw your goal it is to recreate the same jobs on another MS Sql Server.

This can be done very simple without using the backup/restore mechanism. Just start Enterprise Manager from the server where you have all the jobs.

Go in the tree in Management/SQL Server Agent/Jobs and from the context menu choose generate SQL Script. You will get a nice file with all your jobs.

This script file you will need to run it on the new SQL Server to create all the jobs there.

I hope will help.

How to restore the master db to server w/ new name

Not sure where to post this. How do I restore the master database to a brand new server that has a different name than the server the master currently resides on? I am using SQL Server 2005.

Try this article:

Moving system dbs 2005
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345408(en-US,SQL.90).aspx