Susan Harkins
harkins at iglou.com
Thu Feb 6 11:06:41 CST 2003
Playing with it a bit -- apparently you can't use a Bit data type in a Sum aggregate? I didn't know that. Susan H. ...Hmmmm...very daring solution...but I don't believe it will fly :) ______________________________________________________ Robert Djabarov Certified MS SQL Server DBA Certified MS SQL Server Programmer Certified MS VB Programmer ? (210) 913-3148 - phone ? (210) 753-3148 - pager -----Original Message----- From: fernando.pires at gustavsberg.com [mailto:fernando.pires at gustavsberg.com] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:58 AM To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Ang: Re: [dba-SQLServer]RE: Simple SQL question? select iif(sum(active) > 0, true,false) from table where active = true Fernando Pires IT dep. Tel. + 46 857039367 Mob. + 46 702795858 "Susan Harkins" <harkins at iglou.com> Till: <dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com> Sänt av: Kopia: dba-sqlserver-admin at databasea Ärende: Re: [dba-SQLServer]RE: Simple SQL question? dvisors.com 2003-02-06 16:53 Sänd svar till dba-sqlserver Which returns true -- the subquery -- you want the subquery to return just one true? I don't think you're going to get what you need with a simple SELECT or subquery. Susan H. > Hi Suzan: > > There may be a number of records, all may be inactive, some may be active, > all may be active but if a minimum of one record is active it needs to > return a TRUE otherwise FALSE... I am obviously missing something. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-sqlserver-admin at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-sqlserver-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Susan > Harkins > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:59 AM > To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com > Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer]RE: Simple SQL question? > > > Well, off the top of my head, can't you just return the records Boolean > field instead of the employee number and last name field? > > Susan H. > > > Hi All: > > > > My mind has just gone blank. > > > > I want to check a table for all records for a specific 'EmployeeNumber'. > > There might be one record and there might be a many as 10 records, in this > > table. > > All the records have a boolean flag that marks them as either being Acive > or > > Inactive. > > > > I would like to return ONE value of TRUE if any records are active or > > FALSE... > > and this process would be a subquery of another query. > > > > Example: > > > > select distinct e.EmployeeNumber as [Employee Number], e.Surname as > > [Lastname], > > Status = (select count(e2.active)as [Status Count] from > EmployeeTransaction > > as e2 where Active = TRUE and e2.EmployeeNumber = e.EmployeeNumber) > > from EmployeeTransaction as e > > > > The above example doesn't work of course, because a number is returned but > > if the imbedded subquery would return ONE result of TRUE or FALSE, it > would. > > (In the example above a value of greater than one would be TRUE result and > > zero would be FALSE result.) I am sure it is simple but at four in the > > morning, here, it is not. > > > > TIA > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-SQLServer mailing list > > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com