Schema Comparisons - Ignore column order

I'm using SSDT for the first time and I want to be able to ignore column ordering when doing schema comparisons.
There was a setting in GDR that I cannot find called - "Force table column order to be identical" - does this still exist?
Also in the old sqldeployment file there was an IgnoreColumnOrder setting. Cannot find either of these.

It's unfortunate that the general attitude of Microsoft seems to be geared towards coming up with excuses and explanations instead of solutions. I was excited to use schema/data compare in VS2013 but found that it's basically useless to us because of the
lack of this feature. I'm just glad there are other reasonable programs on the market to do comparisons (RedGate, for example).
It's evident that each year Microsoft becomes even more detached from reality. People complained about IE, Microsoft didn't solve the problems, and now hardly anyone uses IE. No one is going to use this shoddy comparison tool for the same reasons. You're
just wasting people's time with incomplete products like this, and that's frustrating and builds resentment in the people who are paying to use your products and services. I'll have no problem jumping ship for any given Microsoft product the second a competitor
releases something better.

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Any way to force an "Ignore Column Order" w/ SSDT (even if custom code)?

This used to be an option in the old VSDBCMD and VS DB Projects. Apparently it was lost when the move was made to SSDT. There has been some minor discussion of possibly bringing it back, but I was wondering if anything could be done to work around this in
some way? I know that there is a Codeplex project for DacFx and some discussion on working around things like index options. I'm hoping it's possible in some way to work around the column order issue.
Backstory - a well-intentioned DBA was trying to NULL out some columns, but decided that scrubbing would take too long so dropped the columns and added to the end of the table in one environment. That's a table with a couple hundred million rows and would
take quite a while to rebuild, likely filling the log in the process. It would also disrupt ETL against that table. It's not a production environment or we'd just try to get every other environment to match. That's not something we can do here so are
forced to manually work around it in this one environment every time we need to make changes.

That is a good question, to do this requires two functions and a restart of Bridge all done automagically
Copy and paste the script into ExtendScript Toolkit
This gets installed with Photoshop and can be found:-
PC: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Utilities
MAC: <hard drive>/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities
Start Bridge
PC: Edit - Preferences - Startup Scripts
Mac: Adobe Bridge menu - Preferences - Startup Scripts
At the bottom click the "Reveal Button" this will open the folder where the script should be saved.
Close and restart Bridge.
Accept the new script.
To use:
Tools - Backup Manual Sort
This will backup the hidden manual sort file .BridgeSort to .BridgeSortSave
Tools - Restore Manual Sort
This will copy the .BridgeSortSave back to .BridgeSort and will close and restart Bridge so that the manual sort is restored.
if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {
var backUpManSort = new MenuElement( "command","Backup Manual Sort", "at the end of Tools" , "backupms" );
var RestoreManSort = new MenuElement( "command","Restore Manual Sort", "at the end of Tools" , "restorems" );
backUpManSort.onSelect = function () {
var fileSort = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSort");
var fileSave = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSortSave");
if(fileSave.exists) fileSave.remove();
fileSort.copy(fileSave);
fileSave.hidden=true;
RestoreManSort.onSelect = function () {
var fileSort = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSort");
var fileSave = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSortSave");
if(!fileSave.exists){
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return;
app.document.sorts = [{ type:"string",name:"document-kind", reverse:false }];
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app.document.sorts = [{ name:"user",type:"date", reverse:false }];
Hope this works for you.

Physical Column Order

Is there a way to influence the physical column order when generating objects for an Oracle 11g database? It looks like the DDL that is generated has the columns in a random order. Even though I order the columns in the way I want on the columns tab of a table, when I click the review tab, the DDL generated seems to ignore any ordering I try to establish. I am using PowerDesigner 16.5 SP02. Do others see this behavior?

Hi,
I'm using 16.5. SP03 PL2 and when I create a new table with a some columns and change the order I can see the changes in the Preview tab and when I do "Generate Database" the DDL is right as well.
br
Stefan

Report Does Not Follow Select Column Order

Hi all,
Apex 2.2 on 10gXE
I always encounter this problem, the display column on report does not follow the select column sequence order in the "region source".
It is very tedious clicking the up/down arrow one-by-one in the "report attributes" especially if the display columns are plenty like 40 columns.
Is there a fix/patch or alternative tips for this bug?
Thanks a lot,
Edited by: 843228 on May 24, 2011 10:32 PM

Apex 2.2 on 10gXEStart by upgrading from this old unsupported version.
>
I always encounter this problem, the display column on report does not follow the select column sequence order in the "region source".
It is very tedious clicking the up/down arrow one-by-one in the "report attributes" especially if the display columns are plenty like 40 columns.
Is there a fix/patch or alternative tips for this bug?
>
This is not a bug. APEX maintains the original column order of the report. This avoids problems downstream in areas like the processing of <tt>g_fnn</tt> arrays in declarative tabular forms, where the assigned arrays are column-order dependent.
APEX 4.x fixes column ordering bugs that could lead to report corruption, and includes drag-and-drop column ordering in the new tree view in addition to the up/down arrow re-ordering.
If you really want column order to follow that in the source query, the workaround is to create a new report using the modified query.

How to set the column order of a sealed column in a custom Content Type for the new item form NewDocSet.aspx?

Dear SharePoint Developers,
Please help.
I need to know How to set the column order of a sealed column in a custom Content Type for the new item form NewDocSet.aspx?
I think this is a "sealed column", whatever that is, which is shown in SPD 2013 as a column of content type "document, folder, MyCustomContentType".
I know when I set the column order in my custom Content Type settings page, it is correct.
But, when I load the NewDocSet.aspx page, the column order that I set in the settings page is NOT used for this "sealed column" which is bad.
Can you help?
Please advise.
Thanks.
Mark Kamoski
-- Mark Kamoski

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to set the column order of a sealed column in a custom Content Type for the new item form NewDocSet.aspx.
Per my knowledge, if you have Content Type management enabled for the list or library (if you see a list of content type with the option to add more), the display order of columns is set for each content type.
Drill down into one of them and you'll see the option under the list of columns for that content type.
To apply the column order in the NewDocSet.aspx page, you need to:
Select Site Settings, under Site Collection Administration, click Content type publishing. In the Refresh All Published
Content Types section, choose Refresh all published content types on next
update.
Run two timer jobs(Content Type Hub, Content Type Subscriber) in central admin(Central Administration--> Monitoring--> Review timer jobs).
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http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/95028/content-types-not-refreshing-on-sp-online
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Is that important column order in a query with row_number function

Hi folks,
I am using Oracle 11g R2 on HP-UX machine.
I have 2 types of query with row_number and I think they are same but output of each of them are different. I changed only column order in query2.
Query 1 :
(SELECT
"LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"."CONTRACT_SK" "CONTRACT_SK",
"LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"."SIMCARD_SK" "SIMCARD_SK"
FROM (
SELECT row_number ()
OVER (
PARTITION BY "R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK".
"CONTRACT_SK"
ORDER BY
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."START_DATE" DESC,
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."SEQ_NUM" DESC NULLS LAST) /* EXPRESSION_3.OUTGRP1.SIRA */
"SIRA",
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."CONTRACT_SK" "CONTRACT_SK",
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."SIMCARD_SK" "SIMCARD_SK"
FROM "SRC_OZRDS"."R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK" "R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK")
"LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"
WHERE ("LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"."SIRA" = 1))
Output of this like that :
CONTRACT_SK SIMCARD_SK
1     1
1     3
1     4
1     5
1     6
1     11
1     12
1     14
1     15
1     16
Query 2 :
(SELECT
"LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"."CONTRACT_SK" "CONTRACT_SK",
"LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"."SIMCARD_SK" "SIMCARD_SK"
FROM (
SELECT
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."CONTRACT_SK" "CONTRACT_SK",
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."SIMCARD_SK" "SIMCARD_SK",
row_number ()
OVER (
PARTITION BY "R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK".
"CONTRACT_SK"
ORDER BY
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."START_DATE" DESC,
"R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK"."SEQ_NUM" DESC NULLS LAST) /* EXPRESSION_3.OUTGRP1.SIRA */
"SIRA"
FROM "SRC_OZRDS"."R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK" "R_CON_SUBS_SIMCARD_LK")
"LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"
WHERE ("LOOKUP_INPUT_SUBQUERY"."SIRA" = 1))
Output of this like that:
2     874812
7     70097256
8     18734091
9     158024
10     815397739
13     22657919
19     83177779
20     82579529
22     5829949
23     35348926
25     3865978
I expected the second output, because there are lots of contract sk but there is one contract_sk in first query result. i did not get the point. What is the problem ?

user8649469 wrote:
I changed only column order in query2.So what else do you expect? If you order, for example, by last name, fist name don't you think rows will be returned in a different order (and therefore same row will have different row number) than ordering by first name, last name?
SY.

Column order in a select * query

Suppose I have 256 columns in a table and if I query select * from tablename ,what will the column order in the result.Will this be always same as order as in created statement?

If the columns were all in the original CREATE TABLE statement, then, yes, the ordering of columns in SELECT * FROM will match the order from the CREATE TABLE statement.
If columns were added after the initial create, then the original columns will come first (in their order) and then the added columns (in their order), etc.
In the real world, it is a very bad practice to use SELECT * and have expectations about the ordering of the columns. Consider this scenario:
Table T was created and implemented in production a year ago with columns A, B, C
A project started up three months ago and added column D but the project is stalled in development. So in development T had columns A, B, C, D
Later, another project started up and added columns E and F. Unlike the other project, it has progressed to Test. and Production. So in Development the table has columns A, B, C, D, E, F. In test and production the table has columns A, B, C, E, F.
Now that stuck project has progressed to Test and Production. Now T has columns A, B, C, E, F, D in test and production but still A, B, C, D, E, F in development.
Until someone notices and decides to fix it (where and how?)
Be very, very careful about using SELECT *.

Column order in SQL Query (PL/SQL function returning a query)

Hi,
when I define a PL/SQL function returning a query inside a region, I often find that the column order is arbitrarily changed.
How do I enforce the column order ?
Bye,
Flavio

I removed the 11th column called service_name from this dynamic query: and now the report says: report error:
ORA-01403: no data found. I messed around with the Headiuns Type. It was set to Custom. I changed it to Column Names. There is no difference.
I am not sure how to fix?
declare topqry varchar2(32000);
whereqry varchar2(32000);
finalqry varchar2(32000);
var_status varchar2(100);
division_status varchar2(50);
office_status varchar2(1000);
user_status varchar2(1000);
overdue_status varchar2(1000);
begin
if :P10_FALLBACK = 'All' then
var_status:= ' and vp.status in (''FA'',''FBA'',''FBI'',''25%'',''50%'',''90%'',''Closed'') ';
elsif :P10_FALLBACK = 'Active' then
var_status:= ' and vp.status in (''FA'',''25%'',''50%'',''90%'',''FBA'') ';
elsif :P10_FALLBACK = 'FB' then
var_status:= ' and vp.status in (''FBA'',''FBI'') ';
elsif :P10_FALLBACK = 'Closed' then
var_status:= ' and vp.status in (''Closed'') ';
elsif :P10_FALLBACK = 'Inactive' then
var_status:= ' and vp.status in (''FBI'') ';
end if;
if :P10_DIVISION = 'All' then
division_status:= ' and vp.vms_division in (''News'',''Ad Services'') ';
elsif :P10_DIVISION = 'News' then
division_status:= ' and vp.vms_division in (''News'') ';
elsif :P10_DIVISION = 'Ad' then
division_status:= ' and vp.vms_division in (''Ad Services'') ';
end if;
if :P10_OFFICE = '%' then
office_status:= ' and OFFICE_ID in (select office
from VMS_OFFICE_ACCESS
where user_id = lower(:P0_user) ) ';
else
office_status:= ' and OFFICE_ID in :P10_OFFICE ';
end if;
if :P10_LIMIT_USER = '%' then
user_status := ' and SALESPERSON in (select first_name || '' '' || last_name
from VMS_PROSPECT_users u
join vms_office_access o
on u.office_id = OFFICE
where o.user_id = lower(:P0_USER) ) ';
else
user_status:= ' and SALESPERSON in (:P10_LIMIT_USER ) ';
end if;
if :P10_SHOW_OVERDUE = 'Show' then
overdue_status:= ' and target_close_date <= sysdate ';
var_status:= ' and vp.status in (''25%'',''50%'',''90%'',''FBA'') ';
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nvl(to_date(:P10_FIRST_APPT_START, ''mm/dd/yyyy''),FIRST_APPOINTMENT) and
nvl(to_date(:P10_FIRST_APPT_END,''mm/dd/yyyy''),FIRST_APPOINTMENT) ';
end if;
topqry := 'SELECT OFFICE_ID ,vp.PROSPECT_ID ,ENTRY_DATE ,ACCOUNT , NEXT_CONTACT_DATE ,ACTION_STEP ,
TARGET_CLOSE_DATE ,vp.STATUS ,SALESPERSON ,vp.SALES_TYPE ,service_name , FIRST_APPOINTMENT ,MODIFY_DATE ,EST_ANNUAL_REVENUE ,EST_INCREMENTAL_REVENUE ,
pi.NOTES , pi.SALES_TYPE ,pi.STATUS ,Contact ,Origin_Source FROM VMS_PROSPECTING_ITEMS pi right outer join VMS_PROSPECTS vp on vp.PROSPECT_ID = pi.PROSPECT_ID left outer join VMS_SERVICES vs on vs.service_ID = pi.service_ID where 1 = 1 ';
whereqry := ' and (not exists (select *
from VMS_PROSPECTING_ITEMS i3
where vp.prospect_id = i3.prospect_id)
or exists (select *
from VMS_PROSPECTING_ITEMS i2
where i2.order_id = pi.order_id
and active = ''Y'' )) and instr(upper(ACCOUNT),upper(nvl(:P10_ACCOUNT,ACCOUNT))) > 0 ';
whereqry := whereqry || var_status || division_status || office_status || user_status || overdue_status;
finalqry := topqry || whereqry;
return finalqry ;
end;

How to change the column order in the DB?

Hi all,
For example,
     there is an employee database with the field names empno(1),empname(2), empphone(3), empaddress(4), empsal(5). the values in the brackets are the column order i.e., the order in which the column names are placed.
     I have the details of the employee records in a .txt file and i have to upload the file with the same column order with some delimiter. I done it but in future if any one have the details of the employee details with some other column order i.e., empaddress(1), empsal(5), empno(3), empname(4), empphone(5)
     how i can change the column order of the database ...
Thanx in advance...
Bye,

how i can change the column order of the databaseYou don't. You specify the column order in you're insert.
PreparedStatement pstmt = conn.prepareStatement ("insert into EMP (EMPNO, ENAME) values (?, ?)");
pstmt.setInt (1, 1500);
pstmt.setString (2, "A Name");
pstmt.execute ();
Steve.

Interactive report column order not working properly

Hi All,
Can anyone help me with this situation:
Example:
1)
First of all I created a interactive report with this simple query
Select 1 col_A, 2 Col_D from dual
2)Later I modified the query like this
Select 1 col_A, 1 col_C, 2 Col_D from dual
But when I run the report the new column added appear in the end?
I already tryed to reorganize the column order in the navigator menu, but the issue remains.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Hi,
Login to APEX builder. Run your page.
Select columns from report action menu and save default layout.
Regards,
Jari

Datagrid Column Ordering from Recordset?

I often populate my datagrids with a recordset, an array of record objects, by passing the recordset in the dataprovider constructor. However, this results in unpredictable column ordering i.e. it doesn't correspond to the order of the fields in the record object. I know you can define the columns and then use add item to add the records to resolve this, but I'm curious why the datagrid doesn't order the columns according to the record object field order in the first place and why the order can actually change between renderings of the datagrid?

Thanks for the response. I understand the method to order the columns, I'm more curious why doing something like this:
var arr:Array = new Array();
arr.push({label:"item 1b", qty: 1});
arr.push({label:"item 2b", qty: 2});
var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider(arr);
results in the columns being randomly ordered. It be nice if the data grid always produced columns in the order of
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Column Order in Popup

Is there a way to change the order of the columns in the pop-up? They are in alphabetical order, and i would prefer they are in the order that they are in the table. All of the tools I have ever used with this feature are ordered by column_id. When I visualize a table, I also think of it by column_id with the PKEY being first, not in an alphabetical format. If there is not a way to change this, how would I go about getting a request to make it this way, or add the option?
Edited by: deep_tech_diver on Jan 15, 2010 9:38 AM

I assume that it is the "completion insight" that I am talking about. We currently use PL/SQL Developer and have used other tools in the past that put it in the column order. I like the ability to see the order of the columns, especially with the PKEY being first without having to first describe the table. This allows me to do a quick adhoc query for someone without knowing what the actual spelling of the PKEY name, especially in legacy stuff that didn't follow standard naming conventions, or dealing with third party apps that have cryptic naming conventions where all the columns begin with the same two letters.

Column order in the template

I need to migrate the existing reports from SQL Server Reporting Services to Crystal Report 2008, and the column order in the report is very important to the clients since clients have existing code to ingest these reports into their database. Now I want to use a single template with a lot of parameters for all reports, my question is how I might use one template to create multiple reports with different column orders in the reports?
For example, client A has the following column order in their report: firstName, LastName, DateBirth, SSN. Client B has the following column order in their report: SSN, DateBirth, LastName, FirstName. Can I use one template to create these multiple reports?
Thank you!

Sorry, the code was messed up in previous post:
Template:
<tr align="center" valign="top">
<td align="center"class="instructiontext">
#MGR_NAME#
 
#WORK_ROLE# 
Directs: #DIRECTS# Total: #REPORTS#</td></tr>

Column Order in a pivot table

Hi,
I have a question about the column order in a Pivot Table in a WebI (xi r3.1) report
At the moment I have the following Pivot Table
                   |1                                                 | 2
                   | Produced Water | Produced Oil | Produced Water | Produced Oil
Platform 1   | 2                         | 3                    | 4                         | 5
Platform 2   | 3                         | 4                    | 5                         | 6
I want to have the following pivot table instead
                    | Produced Water                         | Produced Oil
                    | 1                         | 2                    | 1                         | 2
Platform 1    | 2                         | 4                    | 3                         | 5
Platform 2    | 3                         | 5                    | 4                         | 6
Is it possible to setup the above pivot table in a WebI report?
Many Thanks for any help,
Dirk Jan

Dirk Jan,
That's a question regurlarly asked to me by users and the solution (as long as nobody is comming up with a better one) is to create variables for the measures for each month (using the WHERE operator).
So you need to define 12 variables (for each month) for Product Oil and Product Water (PO month1, PO month 2, ...., PW month 1, PW month 2 ....) using the formula (eg. PO month1):
=[Product Oil] Where ([month] = 1)
Then instead of a crosstab you build a table where you can put the variables in any order you want.
Regards,
Harry

How can i give a parameter to user to select the column order in runtime

Select * from emp ;
in parameter form for i need to create a parameter so the user can select whatever the column order he required.
where is should write the order by clause

Hi,
In Reports Use Lexical Parameter instead of Bind Parameter and write order by in After Param Form...
Here you find more details...
https://forums.oracle.com/thread/669325
Hope this will solve your issue..
Regards,
Soofi

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