SQL Server 2012 Three Tables Joining

I have Three Tables in sqlserver2012
Master Table
OrderID     PackageID      CustomerName
1                          1               Abc
2          2                Bcd
3                          1                xyz
Child1 Table
OrderID         ControlName
1       Row1COlumn1            (It Means Pant in Red Color is selected by user(relation with Child2 Table))
1       Row3Column1            (It Means Gown in Blue Color is selected by user(relation with Child2 Table))
1       Row4Column3            (It Means T Shirt in White Color is selected by user(relation with Child2 Table))
2                    Row1Column2           (It Means Tie in Green Color is selected by user(relation with Child2 Table))
2                   Row3Column1           (It Means Bow in Red Color is selected by user(relation with Child2 Table))
Child2 Table
PackageID      Product      Color1     Color2   Color3
1       Pant        Red          Green   Blue
(Row1 of Package 1)
1                       Shirt        Blue     Pink   Purple
(Row2 of Package 1)
1         Gown       Blue        Black   Yellow
(Row3 of Package 1)
1       T Shirt      Red          Green   White
(Row4 of Package 1)
2                       Tie           Red            Green
White
(Row1 of Package 2)
2       Socks       Red          Green   White
(Row2 of Package 2)
2       Bow         Red          Green   White
(Row3 of Package 2)
I want to have result like
OrderID    PackageID      CustomerName   Pant   Gown     T Shirt    Tie     Bow
1                     1                      ABC
     Red   Blue    White   x            x
2        2                  Bcd
x   x       x             Green      Red
Waiting for solution.
Thanks and Best Regards Umair

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Please kindly help, advise and respond again.
Many Thanks,
Scott Chang

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<Products>
<Product>
<SKU>1</SKU>
<Desc>Book</Desc>
</Product>
<Product>
<SKU>2</SKU>
<Desc>DVD</Desc>
</Product>
<Product>
<SKU>3</SKU>
<Desc>Video</Desc>
</Product>
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You can use following script to drop if your
Products table is already existing.
if exists(select 1 from sys.tables where name ='Products')
drop table Products
CREATE TABLE Products(
sku INT Primary KEY,
product_desc VARCHAR(30));
INSERT INTO Products (sku, product_desc)
SELECT X.product.query('SKU').value('.', 'INT'),
X.product.query('Desc').value('.', 'VARCHAR(30)')
FROM (
SELECT CAST(x AS XML)
FROM OPENROWSET(
BULK 'H:\ZenProducts.xml',
SINGLE_BLOB) AS T(x)
) AS T(x)
CROSS APPLY x.nodes('Products/Product') AS X(product);
SELECT sku, product_desc
FROM Products;
Let us know if you face any other problem.
Thanks
Manish
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987575 wrote:
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Imelda.You should use Heterogeneous Services
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[avenger_name] [char] (30) NULL)
INSERT INTO marvel
(avenger_name)
VALUES
('Hulk', 1),
('Iron Man', 2),
('Black Widow', 3),
('Thor', 4),
('Captain America', 5),
('Hawkeye', 6),
('Winter Soldier', 7),
('Iron Patriot', 8)
I got the following error Message:
Msg 110, Level 15, State 1, Line 5
There are fewer columns in the INSERT statement than values specified in the VALUES clause. The number of values in the VALUES clause must match the number of columns specified in the INSERT statement.
How can I correct this problem?
Please kindly help and advise.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Chang
P. S.
The reason I tried to create the Database, dbo Table, and then to insert the VALUES is to learn the following thing:
You can query the entire node tree with the following xquery statement because it looks for the occurrence of any node with the /* search string:
DECLARE @x xml;
SET @x = N'<marvel>
<avenger_name>Captain America</avenger_name>
</marvel>';
SELECT @x.query('/*');
You can query the avenger_name elements from the marvel_xml table with the following syntax:
SELECT xml_table.query('/marvel/avenger_name')
FROM marvel_xml;
It returns the following set of avenger_name elements:
<avenger_name>Hulk</avenger_name>
<avenger_name>Iron Man</avenger_name>
<avenger_name>Black Widow</avenger_name>
<avenger_name>Thor</avenger_name>
<avenger_name>Captain America</avenger_name>
<avenger_name>Hawkeye</avenger_name>
<avenger_name>Winter Soldier</avenger_name>
<avenger_name>Iron Patriot</avenger_name>
You can query the fourth avenger_name element from the marvel_xml table with the following xquery statement:
SELECT xml_table.query('/marvel[4]/avenger_name')
FROM marvel_xml;
It returns the following avenger_name element:
<avenger_name>Thor</avenger_name>

Hi Scott,
The master database records all the system-level information for a SQL Server system, so best practise would be not to create any user-defined
object within it.
To change your default database(master by default) of your login to another, follow the next steps so that next time when connected you don't have to use "USE dbname" to switch database.
Open SQL Server Management Studio
--> Go to Object explorer(the left panel by default layout)
--> Extend "Security"
--> Extend "Logins"
--> Right click on your login, click "propertites"
--> Choose the "Default database" at the bottom of the pop-up window.
--or simply by T-SQL
Exec sp_defaultdb @loginame='yourLogin', @defdb='youDB'
Regarding your question, you can reference the below.
SELECT * FROM master.sys.all_objects where name ='Marvel'
--OR
SELECT OBJECT_ID('master.dbo.Marvel') --if non empty result returns, the object exists
--usually the OBJECT_ID is used if a if statement as below
IF OBJECT_ID('master.dbo.Marvel') IS NOT NULL
PRINT ('TABLE EXISTS') --Or some other logic
What is the sys.all_objects? See
here.
If you have any question, feel free to let me know.
Eric Zhang
TechNet Community Support

Ssis - import data from flat file to table (sql server 2012)

i have create a ssis for importing data from flat file to table in sql server 2012.
but i got the below error for some column in data flow task.
error: cannot processed because than one code page (950 and 1252)
anyone helps~

Hi,
The issue occurs because the source flat file uses ANSI/OEM – Tranditional Chinese Big5 encoding. When processing the source file, the flat file connection manager uses code page 950 for the columns. Because SQL Server uses code page to perform conversions
between non-Unicode data and Unicode data, the data in the code page 950 based input columns cannot be loaded to code page 1252 based destination columns. To resolve the issue, you need to load the data into a SQL Server destination table that includes Unicode
columns (nchar or nvarchar), and convert the input columns to Unicode columns via Data Conversion or the Advanced Editor for the Flat File Source at the same time.
Another option that may not be that practical is to create a new database based on the Chinese_Taiwan_Stroke_BIN collation, and load the data to non-Unicode columns directly.
Reference:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/f939e3ba-a47e-43b9-88c3-c94bdfb7da58/forum-faq-how-to-fix-the-error-the-column-xx-cannot-be-processed-because-more-than-one-code-page?forum=sqlintegrationservices
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Hello everyone.
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I don't particullarily like MySQL because it's interface isn't familiar to me. Instead, I use s way more professional Database Management software, SQL Server 2012. I know that when I try to connect Dreamweaver CS6 to a database, I only have the option to link it to MySQL and I'd like to change it, or at least, to add the SQL Server to the options list. Is there a way to configure that or a kind of Dreamweaver plug-in or extension?
Please answear.
Best regards,
Vlad Drelciuc
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Since you refer to MySQL as the default database, I presume that you're talking about using PHP.
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Hi,
We are in the process of storing PDF files in SQL Server 2012 with Full-Text search capability.
I followed the steps as below and it works fine with word document but not for PDF files. I tried with PDF ifiler 11 & 9 and both are unsuccessful.
Server/DB Level Settings:
1)
Enable FileStream
2)
Install Full-Text
then restart
3)
Use [specific db]
alter
database [db name]
add
filegroup Files
contains filestream;
alter
database [db name]
add
file (
name = N'Files',
filename =
N'D:\SQL\DATA') to
filegroup [Files];
3)
Database level
Settings:
FileStream:
FileStream
Directory name:
[Set the name]
FileStream
non-transacted
Access: [set Appropriate]
3a)
Add a
datafile to DB
with filestreamdata
filetype.
4)
Share D:\SQL\DATA
directory and
add specific accounts
with read/write
access
5)
Give bulkadmin
access to those
specific accounts
at server
level
6)
From the
page (link)
download and
install the *.pdf
IFilter for
FTS. Link:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5542
7)
To the
PATH global system
variable add
path to the
catalog,
where you installed
the plugin.
Default for
this version is:
C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Adobe
PDF iFilter 9
for 64-bit
platforms\bin
8)
From the
page (link)
download a
FilterPackx64.exe
and install
it. Link:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=20109
9)
Now from
SSMS execute the following
procedures:
-sp_fulltext_service
'load_os_resources',1
-sp_fulltext_service
'verify_signature', 0
EXEC
sp_fulltext_service
'update_languages';
-- update language list
EXEC
sp_fulltext_service
'restart_all_fdhosts';
-- restart daemon
reconfigure
with override;
10)
Restart the
server
11)
select document_type,
path from
sys.fulltext_document_types
where document_type
= '.pdf'
-select
document_type,
path from sys.fulltext_document_types
where document_type
= '.docx'
12) Results are OK.
Following is my Table /Index/ catalog script:
CREATE
TABLE dbo.DocumentFilesTest
DocumentId INT
IDENTITY(1,1)
NOT NULL
PRIMARY KEY,
AddDate datetime
NOT NULL,
Name nvarchar(50)
NOT NULL,
Extension nvarchar(10)
NOT NULL,
Description nvarchar(1000)
NULL,
FileStream_Id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER
ROWGUIDCOL NOT
NULL UNIQUE DEFAULT
NEWSEQUENTIALID(),
FileSource varbinary(MAX)
FILESTREAM DEFAULT(0x)
go
--Add default add date for document
ALTER
TABLE dbo.DocumentFilesTest
ADD CONSTRAINT
DF_DocumentFilesTest_AddDate
DEFAULT sysdatetime()
FOR AddDate
EXEC
sp_fulltext_database
'enable'
GO
IF
NOT EXISTS
(SELECT
TOP 1 1 FROM sys.fulltext_catalogs
WHERE name
= 'Ducuments_Catalog_test')
BEGIN
EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog
'Ducuments_Catalog_test',
'create',
'D:\SQL\PDFBlob';
END
--EXEC sp_fulltext_catalog 'Ducuments_Catalog_test', 'drop'
DECLARE
@indexName nvarchar(255)
= (SELECT
Top 1 i.Name
from sys.indexes
i
Join sys.tables
t on
i.object_id
= t.object_id
WHERE t.Name
= 'DocumentFilesTest'
AND i.type_desc
= 'CLUSTERED')
PRINT @indexName
EXEC
sp_fulltext_table
'DocumentFilesTest',
'create',
'Ducuments_Catalog_test',
@indexName
EXEC
sp_fulltext_column
'DocumentFilesTest',
'FileSource',
'add', 0,
'Extension'
EXEC
sp_fulltext_table
'DocumentFilesTest',
'activate'
EXEC
sp_fulltext_catalog
'Ducuments_Catalog_test',
'start_full'
ALTER
FULLTEXT INDEX
ON [dbo].[DocumentFilesTest]
ENABLE
ALTER
FULLTEXT INDEX
ON [dbo].[DocumentFilesTest]
SET CHANGE_TRACKING
= AUTO
ALTER
FULLTEXT CATALOG
Ducuments_Catalog_test REBUILD
WITH ACCENT_SENSITIVITY=OFF;
INSERT
INTO DocumentFilesTest(Extension,
Name,
FileSource)
SELECT
'pdf'
'BOL12006553.pdf'
* FROM
OPENROWSET(BULK
'd:\SQL\PDFBlob\BOL12006553.pdf',
SINGLE_BLOB)
AS BLOB;
GO
INSERT
INTO DocumentFilesTest(Extension,
Name,
FileSource)
SELECT
'docx'
'test.docx'
* FROM
OPENROWSET(BULK
'd:\SQL\PDFBlob\test.docx',
SINGLE_BLOB)
AS Document;
GO
SELECT
d.*
FROM dbo.DocumentFilesTest
d WHERE
Contains(d.FileSource,
'BILL')
Returns nothing. it should come from PDF file
SELECT
d.*
FROM dbo.DocumentFilesTest
d WHERE
Contains(d.FileSource,
'TEST')
Returns from word document as follows:
2           2014-06-04 10:11:41.393            test.docx docx
NULL   [BINARY Value] [Binary Value]
Any help is appreciated. Its been a long wait.
Thanks,
Vel
Vel Thavasi

Hello,
Did you check the fulltext log files for more details about the errors. If the filter isn’t working, there should be errors in the error log file.
The following thread is about similar issue, please refer to:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/sqlserver/en-US/69535dbc-c7ef-402d-a347-d3d3e4860d72/sql-server-2008-64bit-fulltext-indexing-pdf-not-working-cant-find-ifilter
Regards,
Fanny Liu
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SQL Server 2012 Deploy Database to SQL Azure...

I have spent many days trying to copy a simple test database from my PC to SQL Azure but with little success. Then I installed SQL Server 2012 and see a new task:
Deploy Database to SQL Azure... It looks like an automated extraction to DAC and then creating the Azure database all in one step.
I was elated, but got hit with the following three types of errors.
One or more unsupported elements were found in the schema used as part of a data package.
Error SQL71564: The element Extended Property: [dbo].[Accounts].[Address].[MS_Description] is not supported when used as part of a data package (bacpac).
Error SQL71564: Table Table: [dbo].[Activities] does not have a clustered index. Clustered indexes are required for inserting data in this version of SQL Server.
Error SQL71564: Element User: [NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE] has an unsupported property AuthenticationType set and is not supported when used as part of a data package.
(Microsoft.SqlServer.Dac)
May I know what I can do on the on-premise database to rid of the first and third error?
Thanks.

Hello,
1) Remove the Extended Property from the (?) column Address in table Accounts.
BTW, for small databases it's sometimes easiere to generate a script for the database (and modify it slightly) instead of using the Wizard
Olaf Helper
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Xing
What is Extended Property? What is this .MS_Description? I can't see it in the table designer or the Column Properties. (I don't know whether this was corruption caused by Data Sync I used earlier.) How do I remove it.
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