order by

select constant ,description from action order by description
--Here description is a varchar datatype. And collation for database is
SQL_LAtin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.
My question is what order the sorting happens.It's not ASCII value because
numbers come before _ in ASCII.
Thanks
constant description
-- --
6 *uuu
7 :ooo
2 _addd
3 0111
4 3000
8 AAA
1 add
5 T000Abraham,
Perhaps this helps:
If you do not specify a binary collation, SQL Server uses the dictionary
ordering of the collation you have chosen. Dictionary order means characters
are not sorted or compared based only on their bit patterns. The collation
follows the conventions of the associated language regarding the proper
sequence for characters. For example, case-insensitive sort orders must use
dictionary rules to determine which lowercase and uppercase bit patterns are
equal.
Russell Fields
"Abraham" <binu_ca@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eRLcMFO7DHA.4060@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> select constant ,description from action order by description
> --Here description is a varchar datatype. And collation for database is
> SQL_LAtin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.
> My question is what order the sorting happens.It's not ASCII value because
> numbers come before _ in ASCII.
> Thanks
> constant description
> -- --
> 6 *uuu
> 7 :ooo
> 2 _addd
> 3 0111
> 4 3000
> 8 AAA
> 1 add
> 5 T000
>sql

order by

select constant ,description from action order by description
--Here description is a varchar datatype. And collation for database is
SQL_LAtin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.
My question is what order the sorting happens.It's not ASCII value because
numbers come before _ in ASCII.
Thanks
constant description
-- --
6 *uuu
7 :ooo
2 _addd
3 0111
4 3000
8 AAA
1 add
5 T000Abraham,
Perhaps this helps:
If you do not specify a binary collation, SQL Server uses the dictionary
ordering of the collation you have chosen. Dictionary order means characters
are not sorted or compared based only on their bit patterns. The collation
follows the conventions of the associated language regarding the proper
sequence for characters. For example, case-insensitive sort orders must use
dictionary rules to determine which lowercase and uppercase bit patterns are
equal.
Russell Fields
"Abraham" <binu_ca@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eRLcMFO7DHA.4060@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> select constant ,description from action order by description
> --Here description is a varchar datatype. And collation for database is
> SQL_LAtin1_General_CP1_CI_AS.
> My question is what order the sorting happens.It's not ASCII value because
> numbers come before _ in ASCII.
> Thanks
> constant description
> -- --
> 6 *uuu
> 7 :ooo
> 2 _addd
> 3 0111
> 4 3000
> 8 AAA
> 1 add
> 5 T000
>

Order a character field numercially

I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a CHAR
(10) with values like:
1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it i
s a character field:
1
101
15
DC1
I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account the
numeric order of the code, as follows:
1
15
101
DC1
The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter 001,
015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are hundreds of
codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to find the corre
ct code. Is there a way to
sort a character field in this manner? ThanksORDER BY CASE ISNUMERIC(column) WHEN 1 THEN CONVERT(INT, column) ELSE column
END
( Except note that there are some isNumeric exceptions...
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2390 )
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>|||you could try:
ORDER BY
CASE PATINDEX('[a-z]', LEFT(YourColumn, 1))
WHEN 0 THEN RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 10) + RTRIM(YourColumn), 10)
ELSE YourColumn
END
This assumes that all codes with alphas begin with an alpha. If that's not
true, change it to:
ORDER BY
CASE PATINDEX('%[a-z]%', YourColumn)
WHEN 0 THEN RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 10) + RTRIM(YourColumn), 10)
ELSE YourColumn
END
You also may have to compensate for a case-sensitive collation setting, and
possibly other issues... But this is a start, at least.
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>|||Don
CREATE TABLE TEST
(
COL VARCHAR(4)
)
GO
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('1')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('101')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('15')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('DC1')
GO
SELECT * FROM TEST ORDER BY RIGHT('0000'+COL,4)
GO
DROP TABLE TEST
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>|||Yet another solution:
ORDER BY LEN(YourColumn), YourColumn
Hope this helps,
Gert-jan
Don Jones wrote:
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a CH
AR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account t
he numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter 001, 015, 1
01, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are hundreds of codes, which
makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to find the correct code. Is there a w
ay
to sort a character field in this manner? Thanks
(Please reply only to the newsgroup)

Order a character field numercially

I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a CHAR(10) with values like:
1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it is a character field:
1
101
15
DC1
I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account the numeric order of the code, as follows:
1
15
101
DC1
The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter 001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to find the correct code. Is there a way to
sort a character field in this manner? Thanks
ORDER BY CASE ISNUMERIC(column) WHEN 1 THEN CONVERT(INT, column) ELSE column
END
( Except note that there are some isNumeric exceptions...
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2390 )
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>
|||you could try:
ORDER BY
CASE PATINDEX('[a-z]', LEFT(YourColumn, 1))
WHEN 0 THEN RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 10) + RTRIM(YourColumn), 10)
ELSE YourColumn
END
This assumes that all codes with alphas begin with an alpha. If that's not
true, change it to:
ORDER BY
CASE PATINDEX('%[a-z]%', YourColumn)
WHEN 0 THEN RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 10) + RTRIM(YourColumn), 10)
ELSE YourColumn
END
You also may have to compensate for a case-sensitive collation setting, and
possibly other issues... But this is a start, at least.
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>
|||Don
CREATE TABLE TEST
(
COL VARCHAR(4)
)
GO
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('1')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('101')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('15')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('DC1')
GO
SELECT * FROM TEST ORDER BY RIGHT('0000'+COL,4)
GO
DROP TABLE TEST
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>
|||Yet another solution:
ORDER BY LEN(YourColumn), YourColumn
Hope this helps,
Gert-jan
Don Jones wrote:
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter 001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to find the correct code. Is there a way
to sort a character field in this manner? Thanks
(Please reply only to the newsgroup)

Order a character field numercially

I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a CHAR(10) with values like
1, 101, 15, DC1, etc
This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it is a character field
10
1
DC
I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account the numeric order of the code, as follows
1
10
DC
The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter 001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this manner? ThankORDER BY CASE ISNUMERIC(column) WHEN 1 THEN CONVERT(INT, column) ELSE column
END
( Except note that there are some isNumeric exceptions...
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2390 )
--
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>|||you could try:
ORDER BY
CASE PATINDEX('[a-z]', LEFT(YourColumn, 1))
WHEN 0 THEN RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 10) + RTRIM(YourColumn), 10)
ELSE YourColumn
END
This assumes that all codes with alphas begin with an alpha. If that's not
true, change it to:
ORDER BY
CASE PATINDEX('%[a-z]%', YourColumn)
WHEN 0 THEN RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 10) + RTRIM(YourColumn), 10)
ELSE YourColumn
END
You also may have to compensate for a case-sensitive collation setting, and
possibly other issues... But this is a start, at least.
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>|||Don
CREATE TABLE TEST
(
COL VARCHAR(4)
)
GO
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('1')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('101')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('15')
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('DC1')
GO
SELECT * FROM TEST ORDER BY RIGHT('0000'+COL,4)
GO
DROP TABLE TEST
"Don Jones" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC13D832-F8E6-4519-AB33-E67034971D27@.microsoft.com...
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a
CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it
is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account
the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter
001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are
hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to
find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this
manner? Thanks
>|||Yet another solution:
ORDER BY LEN(YourColumn), YourColumn
Hope this helps,
Gert-jan
Don Jones wrote:
> I have a table with code and description columns. The code column is a CHAR(10) with values like:
> 1, 101, 15, DC1, etc.
> This code is displayed in a drop down list and sorts as follows because it is a character field:
> 1
> 101
> 15
> DC1
> I need to have this drop down sorted in a manner that takes into account the numeric order of the code, as follows:
> 1
> 15
> 101
> DC1
> The codes are industry standard codes, so I cannot tell users to enter 001, 015, 101, etc. The codes are alphanumeric in nature. There are hundreds of codes, which makes it difficult for a user to scroll down to find the correct code. Is there a way to sort a character field in this manner? Thanks
--
(Please reply only to the newsgroup)

Oracle Sources on x64 opteron w/64 bit OS & 64 bit SSAS

Hello all..

here is a brief description of my problem.

HP DL585 64 bit Server 2003 R2
x64 (opteron)

Most of our data is housed in Oracle.

When i have a project that sources data from oracle (.net/OracleClient Data Provider) I cannot process the cube.

I found this Document that outlined how to workaround the basic oracle connectivity problem, however it has not fully addressed what I've seen. I worked out how to get the connection to work from within BIDS (by starting from the batch file outlined in the linked page), however I cannot process the cube. I receive the following Error:

Errors in the high-level relational engine. The following exception occurred while the managed IDbConnection interface was being used: Attempt to load Oracle client libraries threw BadImageFormatException. This problem will occur when running in 64 bit mode with the 32 bit Oracle client components installed..

This looks to me as if the 64 bit SSAS service is trying to use the 32bit oracle client installed on the system, however cannot, since service is 64 bit. That makes sense to me. however both the 64 bit and 32 bit clients are installed. So the questions is:

How to i get BIDS to use the 32 bit client, and get the MSAS service (64bit) to use the 64bit oracle client?

Is this approach totally invalid?

Someone please help.

I haven't ever tried building a cube off an Oracle DB, but I have built SSIS packages off Oracle DBs on x64. The following article helped tremendously:

http://stevemchugh.blogspot.com/2007/02/adventures-of-ssis-and-oracle-in-64bit.html

I won't even try to answer your question other than mentioning that article as something to checkout. Not sure if it will be helpful or not.

|||Thanks for the article reference... I learned a little bit about it.

The article deals with SSIS predominantly, and the issues with SSAS seems related but different. The article also describes using the Oracle OLEDB driver, and in my instance i'm using the .net provider, since the microsoft and oracle oledb driver both don't handle numerics with no defined precision, something which, while explicitly state by oracle is not a best practice, seems to occur quite frequently in our environment.

I tried using the oracle oledb driver just to check and no joy . when i use that, i get the following message when i process the cube on the server. again, everything seems to work (locally) from BIDS, just not when processing.

OLE DB or ODBC error: Class not registered.

So I'll have to wait and see if anyone chimes in who has worked through this problem.

-Eric