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I'm setting my sql server express for LAN. I see that there are so many things to setup. Isn't there an easy way to do this? Maybe from the installation?

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Yulianto. wrote:
sql server express for LAN

Didn't know there was an edtion specific for LAN.

Yulianto. wrote:
Isn't there an easy way to do this?

Yes, run the setup.

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And your point is?

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2 C things from others point of view.

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Again, your point is?

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Depends , whats your security level and what you are going to install..

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Hi. I came to software development primarily through physics. I have a fair amount of experience, but not much of it has to do with databases. I'm building an exercise database for a web site, and I need some suggestions about schema.

The idea is to relate exercises to muscles. This, however, is overly simplistic. Any exercise can belong to a group of exercises, and there can be multiple variations of an exercise. For example, front squats and back squats are fundamentally different exercises, even though both are squats. Likewise, when doing a back squat, someone can go down until thighs are parallel, or go down until his rear is almost touching the ground. These are both back squats, but have quite different effects.

My initial thought was to have a table for exercise groups, exercises, and exercise variations. Along the same lines I would have a table for a muscle group, and another for muscles. All would have mutually exclusive unique id's. This way, in a single relational table (many to many relationship), a given row could have one field containing a muscle or a muscle group, and another field can contain an exercise group, and exercise, or an exercise variation.

Although this would be well normalised, I'm thinking that once I carry this on to a few other things (like heads, joints, etc) this could result in a lot of small tables. It is also somewhat limiting. What if I want a variation of a variation, for example?

My second idea was that muscles and muscle groups would be in one table. There would be a field called 'group'. 'vastus lateralis' would be related to 'quadriceps'. For 'quadriceps', this field would be blank. Likewise, in the exercise table, I would include exercises, exercise groups, and exercise variations. Then under the 'variation of' field, 'parallel squat' would be related to 'back squat', 'back squat' would be related to 'squat', and for 'squat' the field would be empty. This seems to me to be a more flexible approach, and would probably be easier to maintain, but like I said, I do not have the benefit of experience on this. Can anyone give me advice on this?

Thanks
Matt Brown

Hy,
I have something like this:

SELECT Code, SUM(QualityData.NrOfDefects) AS Defects
FROM QualityData
GROUP BY Code
ORDER BY SUM(QualityData.NrOfDefects);

The dilema is that

ORDER BY Defects

does not work

and

ORDER BY SUM(QualityData.NrOfDefects);//causes a second SUM??

Is there a better way?
Thanks

SELECT Code, Defects from
(SELECT Code, SUM(QualityData.NrOfDefects) AS Defects
FROM QualityData
GROUP BY Code)
ORDER BY Defects;

thanks

OK. I did not have access to much resources when I answered your question. I assumed that you had problems with your original queries. However, here I have access to my environment, and I tested your query

SELECT Code, SUM(QualityData.NrOfDefects) AS Defects
FROM QualityData
GROUP BY Code
ORDER BY SUM(QualityData.NrOfDefects);

It works with no problem. It works with no problem if I use

ORDER BY Defects

So just ignore my "solution". There must be something else in your problem.
My test environment is MySQL version 5.

It's all fixed now.

I now know for a fact(tested) that even the

ORDER BY SUM(QualityData.NrOfDefects);

does not cause a recalculation.

Your initial query is fine; it will not require a second set of calculations for the sort. To verify this, run the query in Management Studio and look at the Actual Execution Plan.

Hello guys.....title says it all. How can we make a database of music and access it using vb.net or C#.net?? Confused | :confused:

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This is not what I was talking about. Lets suppose that i wanna make my own media player. In this case, I will need to access the music from my own hard disk and make a playlist.....

Muzammil Saeed wrote:
This is not what I was talking about.

Your title says "Music Database", and your first entry states "Hello guys.....title says it all.", so which is it to be? If you have no interest in creating a music database then try and make your question clearer.

To make a playlist you need to scan all your music files, extracting the title, composer, orchestra etc information and building some sort of database which your media player can access. If you think a database is too much work you can use any alternative file type that you feel comfortable with.

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You did not talk about anything - you were hoping that someone would give you their work without you lifting a finger.

This is an easily found site that will do half of the work for you, if you can find the library you need to work from:

Database Models[^]

Edit you can also follow the instructions here: MSDN[^]

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modified on Saturday, February 13, 2010 3:53 PM

It's an Useful site Andy. Thank you. Rose | [Rose]

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Thanx for sharing info about MSDN link....but i dont know why poeple over-react. I did not meant that someone will give his knowledge to me,without my finger raised ....and stuff like that you wrote. If person A asks person B...it already means that person B might have more knowledge than person A, and showing respect to person B. Can I do anything to your knowledge except asking you? The only option remains is not to ask from you but from someone else.

It is good form to show what you have tried, or even describe the solution that you "think" may be along the right lines. Unfortunately, you did neither. Therefore it is difficult for anyone to answer your question - we are not mind readers. (My first reply to you was to useless information because that is what I had to go on.)

If you had said in the op that you had looked at various sites and MSDN then the response would have been warmer.

It did appear however that you did neither.

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Which database are you speaking of?

I can think of two options:

1. Saving the path of the music files in the database and then loading the files in the player from that path.
2. Saving the file as a Blob in the database and reading and playing them through your app.

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suppose i have few fileds in table and one filed is xml type. how to search this.

the xml which is stored in my xml filed like

<OpenShipments xmlns="x-schema:C:\UPSLabel\OpenShipments.xdr">
<OpenShipment ShipmentOption="RS" ProcessStatus="">
<ShipTo>
<CompanyOrName>CRESCENT AUTO SERVICES LTD</CompanyOrName>
<Attention>ZULFI</Attention>
<Address1>16-18 THE CRESCENT</Address1>
<Address2 />
<Address3>SOUTHALL</Address3>
<CountryTerritory>GB</CountryTerritory>
<PostalCode>UB1 1BE</PostalCode>
<CityOrTown>SOUTHALL</CityOrTown>
<StateProvinceCounty>SOUTHALL</StateProvinceCounty>
<Telephone>02085719998/02085742845</Telephone>
</ShipTo>
<ShipmentInformation>
<ServiceType>UPS Standard</ServiceType>
<PackageType />
<NumberOfPackages>1</NumberOfPackages>
<ShipmentActualWeight>5</ShipmentActualWeight>
<DescriptionOfGoods>Car Parts</DescriptionOfGoods>
<BillingOption>PP</BillingOption>
<ReturnService>
<Options>PRL</Options>
<MerchandiseDescOfPackage>OLD CORE RETURN</MerchandiseDescOfPackage>
</ReturnService>
</ShipmentInformation>
</OpenShipment>
</OpenShipments>

we can query sql server data very easily but i dont know how to query the xml data which stored in xml filed.
how to query address field in my xml or how to query Options field,how query CompanyOrName.

please help me to construct the sql. guide me in detail with few sample for querying xml datatype.
thanks in advance

tbhattacharjee

Try this

http://www.15seconds.com/Issue/050803.htm[^]