Using a Count field in a formula

Post Author: sjjustina
CA Forum: Formula
I'm trying to get an average. I have a Count summary and a formula that totals the lengths. How do I make a formula that divides the formula by the Count field?
Thanks in advance,Sarah

Post Author: V361
CA Forum: Formula
Do have a sample we can look at. When you say Count Summary, do you mean a running total that is counting your fields ? {@total_Length} / {#Count} of course this would also depend on where you are trying to generate this average. Is it at a group level, a detail level, a page level, report level ????

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 // Ordered by:
 // methods that obtain individual field(s),
 // methods that obtain a complete record, and
 // methods that obtain multiple records
 // Methods to access one or more individual fields
 // get a stock description from the Stocks Table
 public String getStockDesc(String stockSymbol)
 throws SQLException, IOException, ClassNotFoundException
 Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
 String stockDesc = null;
 ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT IDNumber, name FROM Student "
 +"WHERE IDNumber = '"+stockSymbol+"'");
 if(rs.next())
 stockDesc = rs.getString("IDNumber");
 rs.close();
 stmt.close();
 return stockDesc;
 // Methods to access a complete record
 // get User data from the Users Table
 public User getUser(String UserID) throws SQLException, IOException,
 ClassNotFoundException
 Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
 String dbUserID;
 String dbLastName;
 String dbFirstName;
 Password dbPswd;
 String dbemail;
 boolean isAdmin;
 byte[] buf = null;
 User user = null;
 ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM Users WHERE userID = '"
 +UserID+"'");
 if(rs.next())
 dbUserID = rs.getString("userID");
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 dbLastName = rs.getString("LastName");
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 isAdmin = rs.getBoolean("admin");
 user = new User(dbUserID,dbFirstName,dbLastName,dbPswd,isAdmin);
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 return user; // User object created for userID
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 public ArrayList listUsers() throws SQLException,IOException,
 ClassNotFoundException
 ArrayList aList = new ArrayList();
 Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
 ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT userID, FirstName, LastName, admin "
 +"FROM Users ORDER BY userID");
 while(rs.next())
 aList.add(rs.getString("userID"));
 aList.add(rs.getString("FirstName"));
 aList.add(rs.getString("LastName"));
 aList.add(new Boolean(rs.getBoolean("admin")));
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saaddani wrote:
No information popped up in the console window before, during, or after the error was given. The program compiled and ran and therefore no error information was provided in the complier window either.
If I am missing what you are asking then please provide instructions as to how to find this error information. You are posting the error message for the exception but not printing the stack trace.
Far as I can tell you are printing more information with each exception (for example "Exception creating Users table") but you did not post what that was, that info would localize the problem.
As a guess the problem is when you extract the fields via the query. You are using named values rather than indexes and you use "select *" rather than specifically naming the columns. Some databases (for example Oracle), require that using names must be in exactly the same order as the query returns them. You have no idea what that order is because you use "select *"
Finally it would be a LOT easier if you wrote classes that did nothing but the database operations. NO GUI CODE. You then test that code to make sure it works. Once that code works then you write gui code which uses those classes. Besides making it easier to understand you are also more likely to get assistance since there is less code to look at.

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Hi all,
I am experiencing with "Count Field incorrect" error. What's wrong with it? How can I resolve it?
This error is occured at UPDATE function of SQL. My JSP page is to update the old record.
Sometimes, "Update statement error" message appear. These two problems I always confusing.
What are the possible point of these error in my Java file and JSP page? I use package import to JSP Page.
Pls help me.
With thanks,

Thanks,
Your URLs help me exectly. But after I have changed my code, the error is changed to "Too Few Parameters : Expected 35". What's wrong with it? The following is my code.
try {
String DRIVER = ("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
String URL = "jdbc:odbc:Industrial_One_DSN";
String sql = "UPDATE BusinessRegistration " +
"SET [Date] = ?, ISIC = ?, BizName = ?, BizAddress = ?, " +
"OwnerName = ?, OwnerNRC = ?, Investment = ?, EstablishedYear = ?, " +
"L_Male = ?, L_Female = ?, F_Male = ?, F_Female = ?, " +
"OwnershipType = ?, Remarks = ?, IndustialZoneName = ?, Unit = ?, " +
"Fuel = ?, FactoryType = ?, FactoryName = ?, Township = ? " +
"MainProductName = ?, MainProductCountType = ?, " +
"MainProductQuantity = ?, MainProductValue = ?, RMName = ?, " +
"RMCountType = ?, RMQuantity = ?, RMValue = ?, EnergyName = ?, " +
"MachinePower = ?, AmountGallon = ?, StateDiv = ?, BizSize = ? " +
"WHERE RegistrationID = ?";
Class.forName(DRIVER);
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(URL);
PreparedStatement pstmt = con.prepareStatement(sql);
int ilmale = Integer.parseInt(lmale);
int ilfemale = Integer.parseInt(lfemale);
int ifmale = Integer.parseInt(fmale);
int iffemale = Integer.parseInt(ffemale);
int impq = Integer.parseInt(mpq);
int impv = Integer.parseInt(mpv);
int irmq = Integer.parseInt(rmq);
int irmv = Integer.parseInt(rmv);
int iamountgallon = Integer.parseInt(amountgallon);
pstmt.setString(1, date);
pstmt.setString(2, isic);
pstmt.setString(3, bizname);
pstmt.setString(4, bizaddress);
pstmt.setString(5, ownername);
pstmt.setString(6, ownernrc);
pstmt.setString(7, investment);
pstmt.setString(8, eyear);
pstmt.setInt(9, ilmale);
pstmt.setInt(10, ilfemale);
pstmt.setInt(11, ifmale);
pstmt.setInt(12, iffemale);
pstmt.setString(13, ownershiptype);
pstmt.setString(14, remark);
pstmt.setString(15, izn);
pstmt.setString(16, unit);
pstmt.setString(17, fuel);
pstmt.setString(18, ft);
pstmt.setString(19, fname);
pstmt.setString(20, township);
pstmt.setString(21, mpn);
pstmt.setString(22, mpct);
pstmt.setInt(23, impq);
pstmt.setInt(24, impv);
pstmt.setString(25, rmname);
pstmt.setString(26, rmct);
pstmt.setInt(27, irmq);
pstmt.setInt(28, irmv);
pstmt.setString(29, ename);
pstmt.setString(30, mpower);
pstmt.setInt(31, iamountgallon);
pstmt.setString(32, statediv);
pstmt.setString(33, bizsize);
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pls keep on helping me.
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Hi , i am trying to execute siple SP using JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver
Here my code :
String dsn="Tritek1";
String user="sa";
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CallableStatement cstmt = null;
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver").newInstance();
con1=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:"+dsn,user,password);
Statement st=con1.createStatement();
st.execute("use dm0102d");
st.execute("setuser 'dm01012'");
cstmt = conObject.connection(" ?=Call dms_ex_get_folder_info(?,?,?)");
cstmt.setString(1,folderType);
cstmt.registerOutParameter(2,java.sql.Types.VARCHAR);
cstmt.registerOutParameter(3,java.sql.Types.VARCHAR); bFlag=cstmt.execute();
Here my SP :
 Procedure Name : dms_ex_get_folder_info
 Input Parameter(s) : a. folder_type char(20)
 Return Parameter(s) : a. Recordset consist edit_mask and folder_type_code from folder_reference table / error
 Procedure Type : select
 Programmer : Prashanth Kumar M.
 Creation Date : 12/20/2005 (20th Dec, 2005)
 Tables Accessed : folder_reference
 Revised :
 Programmer: Date: Description:
 Prashanth Kumar M. 12/21/2005 Modified the script as per the approved program specifications.
 Test Query:
 Declare @edit_mask char(15)
 Declare @folder_type_code char(2)
 execute dms_ex_get_folder_info 'Policy Folder',@edit_mask output,@folder_type_code output
 Print 'Edit Mask : ' + @edit_mask
 Print 'Folder Type Code : ' + @folder_type_code
CREATE PROCEDURE dms_ex_get_folder_info
 @folder_type char(20),
 @edit_mask char(15) output,
 @folder_type_code char(2) output
AS
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 BEGIN
 -- return the record from folder_reference
 SELECT
 @edit_mask= IsNull(edit_mask,''),
 @folder_type_code = IsNull(folder_type_code,'')
 FROM folder_reference
 WHERE
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 IF @@error <> 0
 BEGIN
 RAISERROR 100016 'Error in gettting the record from folder_reference table'
 RETURN (@@error)
 END
 IF @edit_mask = '' AND @folder_type_code = ''
 BEGIN
 RAISERROR 100017 'No matching details in the folder_reference table'
 RETURN (@@error)
 END
 END
 END
GO
Here My Exception:
java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]COUNT field incorrect or syntax error
 at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.createSQLException(Unknown Source)
 at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.standardError(Unknown Source)
 at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLExecute(Unknown Source)
 at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcPreparedStatement.execute(Unknown Source)
 at com.nyl.dms.bl.Folder.createFolder(Folder.java:121)
 at com.nyl.dms.bl.Folder.main(Folder.java:223)
Any one can help me to overcome this problem . Thanks in advance.
venkat

Here's from one of those 10s of books.
Quoted from JDBC 3.0 by Bernard Van Haecke:
Stored procedures can return multiple result types because they can be composed of SQL statements that return diverse result types: resultsets and update counts (this includes special error codes).
Now this doesn't sound very satisfactory. So I use Sybase since I don't have any other database at the moment, and write a simple stored procedure.
CREATE proc testproc AS
BEGIN
-- My return code
return 7
END
goThen a sample patchy buggy code to play around:
import java.sql.*;
public class ProcTesting {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 String connUrl = "jdbc:sybase:Tds:myserver:5150/dbinst";
 String userName = "username";
 String password = "password";
 Connection con = null;
 CallableStatement stmt = null;
 ResultSet rs = null;
 String sql = "{? = call testproc}";
 try {
 Class.forName("com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybDriver").newInstance();
 con = DriverManager.getConnection(connUrl, userName, password);
 stmt = con.prepareCall(sql);
 stmt.registerOutParameter(1, Types.INTEGER);
 stmt.execute();
 System.out.println(stmt.getInt(1));
 } catch(Exception e) {
 e.printStackTrace();
 } finally {
 closeAll(con, stmt);
 public static void closeAll(Connection con, Statement stmt) {
 try {
 con.close();
 } catch(Exception e) { }
 try {
 stmt.close();
 } catch(Exception e) { }
}Followed by:
javac ProcTesting.java
java -cp "%CLASSPATH%;C:\jarutils\jconn2.jar" ProcTesting
Output:
7
Didn't you know this could be done?
Happy new year, grandpa!

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please help me out!!!!!! am trying to retrive data (ID) which was updated before in this program. now am getting error:COUNT field incorrect. and can it be displayed by using JOptionPane?
pst=con.prepareStatement("select ID from db1 where NAME=?,EMAIL=?");
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pawankarra wrote:
thnx for ur replay.........This should read:
Thanks for your reply.Notice the corrected spelling of three of the four words in the sentence (you could have misspelled all of them by using "4" instead of "for") and the use of only one period/fullstop at the end of the sentence.
In reply to your original question, the column numbers in JDBC start at 1, not at 0. So this line of code is the problem:
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hi,
PreparedStatement stmt = con.prepareStatement("Insert into uQuestions values(?,?)");
stmt.setInt(1,2);
//stmt.setString(2,s.trim());
Reader rd=new StringReader(s.trim());
stmt.setCharacterStream(2, rd );
System.out.println( stmt.executeUpdate() );
stmt.close();Result
java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]COUNT field incorrect or syntax error
In place of setCharacterStream If I use stmt.setString(2,s.trim()) then it works fine.
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I am using Java 6 already.That's what I said in my last post.
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I am trying to install Boxi3. The cms and audit dbs are all in sql database. The dbs and accounts are setup properly. However while installing, after I selected the CMS and Audit DBs, I am getting
"Database access error. Reason [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]COUNT field incorrect or syntax error."
At the details the error is as below.
Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     trace message: loading libary succeeded
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     trace message: AuditDatabaseSubsystem::Init()
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     trace message: initializing subsystem succeeded
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     trace message: AuditDatabaseSubsystem::Connect()
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\DBConnectionManager.cpp:802): trace message: DBConnectionManager - Setting total target number of connections for pool 0 to 1.
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:186): trace message: ExecDirect: SQL: SELECT * FROM APPLICATION_TYPE WHERE 0 = 1
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:186): trace message: ExecDirect: SQL: SELECT * FROM AUDIT_EVENT WHERE 0 = 1
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:186): trace message: ExecDirect: SQL: SELECT * FROM EVENT_TYPE WHERE 0 = 1
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:186): trace message: ExecDirect: SQL: SELECT * FROM SERVER_PROCESS WHERE 0 = 1
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:186): trace message: ExecDirect: SQL: SELECT * FROM AUDIT_DETAIL WHERE 0 = 1
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:186): trace message: ExecDirect: SQL: SELECT * FROM DETAIL_TYPE WHERE 0 = 1
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     trace message: AuditDatabaseSubsystem::CheckDBCredentials()
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\AuditDatabaseSubsystem_impl.cpp:1197): trace message: AuditDatabaseSubsystem::CheckDBCredentialsOnTable(AUDIT_EVENT)
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\SQLServerDatabase.cpp:515). (0 : Unexpected database column type for Duration type is decimal).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\SQLServerDatabase.cpp:515). (0 : Unexpected database column type for Event_Type_ID type is decimal).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\SQLServerDatabase.cpp:515). (0 : Unexpected database column type for Error_Code type is decimal).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:162): trace message: Prepare: SQL: INSERT INTO AUDIT_EVENT (Duration, Error_Code, Event_ID, Event_Type_ID, Object_CUID, Server_CUID, Start_Timestamp, User_Name) VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:699). (0 : Unsupported SQL Server data type for binding.).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:699). (0 : Unsupported SQL Server data type for binding.).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:699). (0 : Unsupported SQL Server data type for binding.).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\AuditDatabaseSubsystem_impl.cpp:1344). (0 : no message).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\AuditDatabaseSubsystem_impl.cpp:1344). (0 : no message).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     assert failure: (.\AuditDatabaseSubsystem_impl.cpp:1344). (0 : no message).
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerStatement.cpp:171): trace message: Prepared statement Execute
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\SQLServerDatabase.cpp:119): trace message: SQLServer error found: ErrorMessage([Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]COUNT field incorrect or syntax error), ErrorCode(0)
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\AuditDatabaseSubsystem_impl.cpp:92): trace message: DBConnectionHolder - (AuditDB) - Caught retryable error with Code 0, Msg: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]COUNT field incorrect or syntax error Number of retryable errors on this connection is 1
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     (.\dbutils.cpp:922): trace message: Caught DatabaseSubystem Error: Database access error. Reason [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]COUNT field incorrect or syntax error.
[Wed Jul 30 03:46:53 2008]     5220     192     trace message: AuditDatabaseSubsystem::Shutdown()
This only happens for audit db and not for cms db. May I know what is the reason for this and how to resolve it?
Thanks

I am using Java 6 already.That's what I said in my last post.
setClob() and setCharacterStream() are used for
NVARCHAR and NTEXT tyesLike I said, the API talks about using setCharacterStream for LONGVARCHAR types, are NVARCHAR and NTEXT LONGVARCHAR types?

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Omar

There are a few things to decide before implementing such a counter. It is mainly the scope and uniqueness of the numbers.
Scope means whether the counter should be valid for the file, for the computer, or for the world. Also, does the counter need to be consecutive, or just unique.
Scope for the world is easy to decide about what has to be done. If the counter must be valid for the world, it has the be centrally managed, which means you will need a server support, and you will also need a front end which calls for the unique number, which is then either pre-filled on the server, or sent to the form and filled in client-side.
If the scope has to be for the file, it is also easy. In this case, you will have the counter field, and every time you open the file, you read out the value of the counter field, and increment it. All you have to do is then to not forget to save the file…
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Dear All,
What is the significance of OUNTER Field in CATSDB Table?
Regards,
Satya.

Yeah ...
Absolutely correct.
Please go through my requirement.
I need to Update CATSDB table manually.
Say If an Employee enters the leave data like CL, SL etc., through Portal, that is coming into R/3 and my IT2001 is getting updated.
But when the Same employee logs in using his Cats Id into CATS for time sheet entries, then those booked as well as approved days are not getting reflected and allowing the user to enter the data. After that it is throwing the error.
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Regards,
Satya

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Hi
I am using a calculated field and show it in the “view”. I can’t change it without removing all the calculated fields shown in the “view”, only removing them all I can do it and afterwards I have to put them all back
This is problem?
Alexandre

When you go to Report | Group Sort Expert | then choose Bottom N for the sort you only have four "based on" to choose from and they are ALL simple SUMs (summary fields).
No running totals are available for TopN or BottomN due to the evaluation time of running totals. Your formula (@OEE %) isn't available as it utilizes the {Total QTY %} formula and it utilizes group sums.
Basically, as I said before, one may ONLY do TOP or Bottom N's on simple sums (summaries) of values that exist in the detail section or are calculated WITHIN the detail section. So for example, if you have a ITEM COST field and a ITEM TRANSPORTATION COST field and are grouping on customer and you want your top ten customers for total cost you can do a formula (IN THE DETAIL SECTION) that adds the ITEM COST and the ITEM TRANSPORTATION COST then you can insert a summary on that formula for the Customer group footer....then you can do a TopN or BottomN on that summary value.
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