Is it required to update all procedures when table gets updated? - sql-server-2008

Hi I'm working with sql server 2008 and I've a table with following columns
eid,empname,sal etc.. and I've 1000 stored procedures based on this table.
Now what I want to do is, I want to rename eid to empid in table. So do I need to update all 1000 stored procedures dependent on this column? Ofcourse yes, is there any shortcut method to do this? instead of open all 1000 procedures and rename it manually?
Thanks in advance

Anything that actually uses or explicitly selects the field you are changing the name of will need to be changed. There is no real shortcut around this. Why is changing the name of the field so important if it is going to cause you this much trouble?

There are tools like SQL Prompt which will auto-generate the changes for you too ("Smart rename")
Otherwise, to avoid changing all procs in one go you could create eid as a computed column but you'd need to change the write procs.

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Access query runs on table that does not exist in database

I would like to recreate a few existing Access queries in a new database so that I can tweak them a bit. The problem I am running into is that some of the tables being queried do not seem to exist in the current database. These tables all end with a 1.
For example, INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS is an imported table in the database, but
INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS_1 is being queried even though it does not show up in the tables panel on the left.
Is this some type of duplication functionality that I am not aware of? The query runs without any errors.
No, the query runs on an aliased table. It's actually just querying INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS
Using SQL, you can create an alias for a table. This is especially useful when querying the same table twice in one query, but also commonly used to shorten queries.
Your query will probably look something like this:
SELECT something
FROM INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS AS INV_MTL_ITEM_LOCATIONS_1
Access automatically creates these aliases when using the query builder and if you add the same table more than once. When removing the non-aliased table, the other one stays aliased.
This is entirely normal, and as far as I know, never a problem.
Erik's answer explains it perfectly.
But to be exhaustive, you CAN actually create a query on a table that is NOT in the current database (nor a linked table).
Here is an example:
SELECT *
FROM History IN 'c:\test\mySecretBackend.accdb'
You can also create that in design view, just by
setting the query's Source Database property to c:\test\mySecretBackend.accdb
click on Show table

Migrating from MySQL to DB2 iSeries

So I don't want this thread to be marked as spam, as a previous thread was on this topic was, so I will explain what I have done so far and my issue is and ask if there are any solutions.
I have a MySQL database on my laptop that I need to migrate to DB2 on iSeries. I'm using a tool, I won't say which one because of the spam issue, which allows me to "copy" a table in my MySQL database and "paste" it into my DB2 database.
The issue that I'm having is because the table names and column names contain spaces in the MySQL db, the tool is failing on the paste. I confirmed this by altering one table by replacing the spaces with underscores and the copy worked perfectly. I have over a hundred tables I need to copy over and don't want to have to manually edit every table and column name.
Is there a way to globally replace spaces with underscores in MySQL table names and columns?
Any other ideas? I'm also researching a way to force the query the tool creates to enclose the object names in quotes, but have had no luck so far.
Thanks for any help and suggestions you can provide.
Since Stack Overflow is about helping to solve programming problems, I'm going to ignore the issue of deficiencies in the chosen tool and propose a programming solution to the larger problem - DB2 does not allow spaces in table and column names. You did ask for any suggestions...
Write code that reads the MySQL catalog tables. In DB2 they'd be SYSTABLES, SYSVIEWS, SYSINDEXES, SYSCOLUMNS, etc. Read SYSTABLES and use that as the 'primary' source for the rest of the code. Check the table name; if it has an embedded space, replace it with an underscore. Use SYSCOLUMNS to generate a CREATE TABLE statement that will create the new table (in a new MySQL database?) - also performing space to underscore replacement. After issuing the CREATE TABLE, generate an SQL statement that will INSERT INTO the new table the columns from the old table; again doing the space to underscore substitutions. Once the new table is populated, generate SQL statements to CREATE VIEW, CREATE PROCEDURE, CREATE FUNCTION, etc.
The general idea is that you will completely re-create your MySQL database with table, view and column names that are immediately compatible with DB2 for i so that your tool can do it's thing.
Of course, if you go to that much trouble it'll probably be just as easy to directly CREATE TABLE, etc on the IBM i side rather than go through an intermediate tool that isn't quite what you need.

insert into remote server table without ssis and dts

My requirement is to create a stored procedure that joins two tables and inserts it into a remote server table.
How can I solve this without using ssis and any import/export data?
please
use the search before asking your question
Be more specific, stackoverflow is not here to write your whole program, people assist you
Use punctations marks and have a look at your format
Your question
Have a look at this, it shows you how to do that. You can first add a linked server(thats the destionation in your case) and then use it for your insert statement.

How to version control data stored in mysql

I'm trying to use a simple mysql database but tweak it so that every field is backed up up to an indefinite number of versions. The best way I can illustrate this is by replacing each and every field of every table with a stack of all the values this field has ever had (each of these values should be timestamped). I guess it's kind of like having customized version control for all my data..
Any ideas on how to do this?
The usual method for "tracking any changes" to a table is to add insert/update/delete trigger procedures on the table and have those records saved in a history table.
For example, if your main data table is "ItemInfo" then you would also have an ItemInfo_History table that got a copy of the new record every time anything changed (via the triggers).
This keeps the performance of your primary table consistent, yet gives you access to the history of any changes if you need it.
Here are some examples, they are for SQL Server but they demonstrate the logic:
My Repository table
My Repository History table
My Repository Insert trigger procedure
My Repository Update trigger procedure
Hmm, what you're talking about sounds similar to Slowly Changing Dimension.
Be aware that version control on arbitrary database structures is officially a rather Hard Problem. :-)
A simple solution would be to add a version/revision field to the tables, and whenever a record is updated, instead of updating it in place, insert a copy with the changes applied and the version number incremented. Then when selecting, always choose the record with the latest version. That's roughly how most such schemes are implemented (e.g. Wikimedia does it pretty much this exact way).
Maybe a tool can help you to do that for you. Have a look at nextep designer :
https://github.com/christophefondacci/nextep-designer
With this IDE you will be able to take snapshots of your database structure and data and put it under version control. After this you can compute the differences between any 2 versions and generate the appropriate SQL that can insert / update / delete your data.
Maybe this is an alternative way to achieve what you wanted.

Is it possible to use Linq to ALTER a database table?

I am trying to programmatically drop a column in a table inside of an access database and found myself unable to do so! Is it at all possible? it makes me think that i don't have any clear idea of things linq to sql can't do.
Any ideas?
There's nothing in LINQ to SQL that allows you to do that without writing T-SQL, no.
Similarly, you can't do straight updates or deletes without selecting the data you want to alter first and manipulating the objects. You'd have to write stored procedures for those things and add them to your model to be called. See this MSDN page for an overview.
Using DataContext.ExecuteQuery should also work if you don't mind T-SQL in your source code.
You can do it.
Here's an example:
ALTER TABLE Import
Alter column [Tot_Val] DECIMAL(10,2) ;
GO