[AccessD] [SPAM] Re: The iPad is soooo cool (uhhh ok.)

If I didn't have time for iHumor I would go iCrazy.

I am currently working on a system to build a data dictionary table and populate it for a given 
database.  Then I need to select which columns (fields) to count the data items in - a groupby / 
count query on all selected fields.

The databases I use tend to have a ton of columns (277 fields in the one I am working on now), each 
column tends to have a 1/0, T/F or a limited range of codes 1-9 and a-z.  Unfortunately other 
columns have names, zips, address fields etc so I can't do a groupby on those fields or I will get 
tens of millions of counts - not the intention.

So I build a data dictionary table which reads out the standard stuff -

	[SchemaName]
       ,[TableName]
       ,[ColumnId]
       ,[ColumnName]
       ,[DataType]
       ,[CharacterMaximumLength]
       ,[ColumnDescription]
       ,[ColumnDefault]
       ,[IsNullable]

plus a couple of extra fields of my own [PerformCount] and (denormalized) [CountInfo].

I then populate that table, unselect the fields with things like names / addresses, then run a 
groupby/count on the remaining fields, updating the [CountInfo] with the resulting data.  Push it 
out to a spreadsheet and send to the customer.

Keeps me busy.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 10/30/2012 9:34 AM, jack drawbridge wrote:
> iLike it John, but when do you get time... you always seem up to your
> iBalls in real work.
> jack
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:45 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:
>
>> From:
>>
>> http://www.techradar.com/us/**news/phone-and-communications/**
>> mobile-phones/apple-samsung-**smartphone-profits-add-up-to-**
>> 106-percent-1108455<http://www.techradar.com/us/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/apple-samsung-smartphone-profits-add-up-to-106-percent-1108455>
>>
>>> Apple's sales may only be hampered by the fact that its 7.9-inch iPad
>> mini could be in short supply, as it has already sold out of its initial
>> launch stock.  Customers who pre-order the WiFi model of an iPad mini
>> online Monday face a two-week shipping wait time.
>>
>> Uhhh yep, they are soooo cool that Apple can't build enough for all the
>> iFolks standing in those long iLines.
>>
>> My biggest concern is all of the poor iFolks standing in iLines in the
>> northeast as the hurricane sweeps overhead.  You know they won't evacuate
>> and lose their iPlace in iLine.  There are already reports of entire iLines
>> of iDiots being washed out to sea.
>>
>> The upside is that the US average IQ is inching upwards.
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> BTW, before I even pressed send I was served with an iCease and iDesist
>> for using the iCopyrighted phrase iFolks, iPlace and iLine.  For some
>> reason iDiot wasn't included in the iCease and iDesist. iStrange!
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> OK, iBack to iWork.
>>
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>> Colby Consulting
>>
>> Reality is what refuses to go away
>> when you do not believe in it
>>
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