SQL Server stored procedure line number issue - sql-server-2008

I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. I met with issue which says line 9 of stored procedure foo is meeting with dead lock issue. My question is how to find exactly the 9th line of the stored procedure?
My confusion is because of coding format issue, how to locate 9th line correctly.
thanks in advance,
George

A tip I learnt from another answer ...
If you do
sp_helptext procedure_name
SQL will output its 'remembered' version of the create procedure statement, and that is what it gets it line numbers from apparently. If you have SSMS in 'grid output' mode then it will also output the line numbers (as the row numbers of the result set).
NB: in my case it was working from the CREATE PROCEDURE statement plus a bunch of comments above it, so line 1 was about 6 lines above the CREATE PROCEDURE call.

It's the 9th line from the CREATE PROCEDURE statement. A SQL statement is often multiline so "line 9" will refer to the first line of the statement (eg INSERT or UPDATE)
However, if you have comments above the CREATE PROCEDURE or blank lines before it then you can't rely on this... so run ALTER PROC with ALTER PROC as first line in the batch.

The line numbers outputted by sp_helptext are totally different than the line number you see in the error message.
For instance, in my stored procedure error it said the error occured on line number 194 but actually my stored procedure showed only 136 lines when I showed sp_helptext. BTW, I used SQL Server 2008.

Related

You have an error in your SQL syntax near '<!

Trying to relocate a Wordpress DB and are running in to this issue all the time.
Been trying all the normal stuff to get it working optimizing, repairing etc and also try to import it with several tools (Sequel pro etc ) and over ssh.
Have the issue occurring over several tables and can see that other's have had the same. Because i can't import any copy i would need some expertise advice how to solve this either in phpmyadmin or ssh.
Error message is
#mysql -u -p db < /tmp/file.sql
> ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 109088: You have an error in your SQL
> syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version
> for the right syntax to use near '<!
> <div class="error"><h1>Error</h1> <p><strong>SQL query:</strong> <a href=' at line 1
Don't really know how to approach it because i find this all over the DB
like
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Any advice?
Since "all the normal stuff" isn't working...
I'm going to take a guess, you are a running something to "copy" the contents of a database table, or you're doing some sort of "dump" or "export" that creates SQL statements.
And the SQL statements that are running against the target are throwing an error.
We can't tell (from where we're sitting and what we're seeing) what it is you are actually doing, we're just guessing.
The two most likely possibilities:
Whatever tool you are using isn't expecting that the column values being copied might contain values that need to be "escaped" if that value is incorporated in the text of a SQL statement. For example, suppose I have a column value like this:
I'd like a pony
and If I grab that value and I naively stick that into the text of a SQL statement, without regard for any characters it might contain, e.g.
INSERT INTO foo (bar) VALUES ('I'd like a pony');
If I try to execute that statement, MySQL is going to throw a syntax error. MySQL is going to see a string literal with a value of 'I' (the single quote that is part of the string is now being seen as the end of the string literal. MySQL is going to flag a syntax error on what follows d like a pony.
When we take a value and build a SQL statement from it, we have to properly escape the values. In this example, the insert statement to reproduce that string value could look like this:
INSERT INTO foo (bar) VALUES ('I''d like a pony');
^^
If this is what's happening, you can be thankful that the column values didn't include something more nefarious...
Robert'); DROP TABLE students; --
But without seeing the actual SQL statement that is being executed, this is just a guess at what is causing the issue.
Is there some kind of guide or some instructions that you are following to "relocate a Wordpress DB" which documents "all the normal stuff" that you are doing?
FOLLOWUP
Question was edited to add this information:
mysql -u -p db < /tmp/file.sql
What's important here is the contents of file.sql.
The problem is most likely in the part of "all the normal stuff" is producing that file. That part is effectively broken because it's not expecting that an extracted column value can contain a single quote character, and is not properly escaping the value before it's incorporated into the text of a SQL INSERT statement.

Unable to Run Query in MySQL syntax error unexpected

I'm running Workbench 5.2.47.
I have a long procedure I wrote with basic data checking. If a record did not exist in the database, the record would be inserted.
The procedure saved with no problems, but MySQL 5.5 throws an error when I try running it.
It is long, and has a lot of company sensitive data in it, or I would post it here.
I am trying to debug the procedure by executing small chunks of the code, but I can't seem to get Workbench to allow anything I try.
MySQL shows how to create a stored procedure in 5.1.5 Working with Stored Procedures.
Let me show you something very basic I am trying to write:
DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS my_test;
CREATE PROCEDURE my_test()
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM Employees;
END $$
DELIMITER ;
With that, Workbench gives me the error, "syntax error, unexpected CREATE, expecting $end".
I don't understand that, but I need to get something done, so I am moving on.
I make a simpler query:
SET #Count=(SELECT Count(*) FROM tbl_object_users WHERE username='jp2code');
IF (#Count < 1) THEN
INSERT INTO tbl_object_users (username, date_time) VALUES ('jp2code', NOW());
END IF;
Again, I get an error, this time on my IF statement.
Next, I go into PhpMyAdmin to try running something from there using its database:
SET #Count=Count(id) FROM `tbl_object_users` WHERE `username`='jp2code';
It, too, tells me I have an error in my SQL syntax.
I did download and install the newest Workbench 6, but it did not solve the problem - and I did not like the interface, so I uninstalled it and went back to Workbench 5.2.
What is going on? SQL isn't that hard, so what is with these hurdles?
Problem with this:
DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS my_test;
CREATE PROCEDURE my_test() ...
is that MySQL isn't seeing the semicolon at the end of the DROP PROCEDURE statement line as the end of the statement. This is because the preceding line told MySQL that the statement terminator was something other than a semicolon. You told MySQL that statements were going to be terminated with two dollar signs. So MySQL is reading the DROP PROCEDURE line, looking for the statement terminator. And the whole blob it reads is NOT a valid MySQL statement, it generates a syntax error.
The fix: either move the DROP PROCEDURE line before the DELIMITER $$ line; or terminate the DROP PROCEDURE statement with the specified delimiter rather than a semicolon.
The second problem you report is a syntax error. That's occurring because MySQL doesn't recognize IF as the beginning of a valid SQL statement.
The IF statement is valid only within the context of a MySQL stored program (for example, within a CREATE PROCEDURE statement.)
The fix: Use an IF statement only within the context of a MySQL stored program.
The third problem you report is also a syntax error. That's occurring because you don't have a valid syntax for a SET statement; MySQL syntax for SET statement to assign a value to user variable is:
SET #uservar = expr
MySQL is expecting an expression after the equals sign. MySQL is not expecting a SQL statement.
To assign a value to a user variable as the result from a SELECT statement, do the assignment within the SELECT statement, for example:
SELECT #Count := Count(id) FROM `tbl_object_users` WHERE `username`='jp2code'
Note that the assignment operator inside the SELECT statement is := (colon equals), not just =.
try this
DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS my_test$$
CREATE PROCEDURE my_test()
BEGIN
SELECT * FROM `customer_to_pay`;
END $$
DELIMITER ;

Run complex SQL scripts from memo (multi lines)

I'm executing sql scripts while using ADO and MSSQL server .
Under Here you will find an first example of a multi lines sql statement like :
use master;
go;
EXEC sp_detach_db
#dbname=N'DATABASENAME';
go;
I copy these lines from a Tmemo to my TADOQuery.sql.text but fail as already the go statement is not recognized and I get a keyword error by the mssql server.
Can I run the whole sript as one TQquery or do I have th split my query into several pieces, separated by the semicolon and iterate through the whole text ?
At first your code is not valid (no ; after GO) and has to be like this
USE master;
GO
EXEC sp_detach_db
#dbname=N'DATABASENAME';
GO
In fact GO is a delimiter used by MSSMS to separate the SQL-Statements.
If you want to use the same scripts as MSSMS do, you have to work on that like MSSMS.
Split the script into single parts by delimiter GO
Send every part to the Database
You have to split every statement whithout sending go.
SQL-Server is not interpreting GO, this is done by MSSMS.

If conditional in SQL Script for Mysql

In a sql script that does sequential execution, is there a way one can introduce an IF THEN ELSE conditional to control the flow of query execution?
I happened to run into this http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1340-MySQL-Does-Not-Support-IF-ELSE-Statements-In-General-SQL-Work-Flow.htm
which says that the IF THEN ELSE will not work in a sql script.
Is there another way around?
Basically, I want to run a particular "select colName from table" command and check if colName corresponds to a particular value. If it does, proceed with the rest of the script. Else, halt execution.
Please advise.
I just wrap my SQL script in a procedure, where conditional code is allowed. If you'd rather not leave the statements lying around, you can drop the procedure when you're done. Here's an example:
delimiter //
create procedure insert_games()
begin
set #platform_id := (select id from platform where name = 'Nintendo DS');
-- Only insert rows if the platform was found
if #platform_id is not null then
insert into game(name, platform_id) values('New Super Mario Bros', #platform_id);
insert into game(name, platform_id) values('Mario Kart DS', #platform_id);
end if;
end;
//
delimiter ;
-- Execute the procedure
call insert_games();
-- Drop the procedure
drop procedure insert_games;
If you haven't used procedures, the "delimiter" keyword might need some explanation. The first line switches the delimiter to "//" so that we can include semi-colons in our procedure definition without MySQL attempting to interpret them yet. Once the procedure has been created, we switch the delimiter back to ";" so we can execute statements as usual.
After doing some research I think I may have found a way to work around this. I was looking for a way to verify if a script had already executed against a target database. This will be primarily for version control of my databases. I have a table created to keep track of the scripts that have been executed and wanted some flow inside my scripts to check that table first before execution. While I have not completely solved the problem yet I have created a simple script that basically does what I need, I just need to wrap the DDL into the selects based on the value of the variables.
step 1 - Setup a bit variable to hold the result
step 2 - do your select and set the variable if the result is found
step 3 - Do what you need to do on false result
step 4 - Do what you need to do on true result
Here is the example script
set #schemachangeid = 0;
select #schemachangeid := 1 from SchemaChangeLog where scriptname = '1_create_tables.sql';
select 'scriptalreadyran' from dual where #schemachangeid = 1;
select 'scriptnotran' from dual where #schemachangeid = 0;
I also recognize this is an old thread but maybe this will help someone out there trying to do this kind of thing outside of a stored procedure like me.

MySQL Workbench error messages

I'm trying to apply a routine to a database using MYSQL workbench but I'm having a few problems.
In the first image below, you see the mysql I'm using. This mysql has worked for someone else (i.e. the author of the book I'm following), but when I enter it, there's three error warnings (the Xs in the red boxes).
The other two images below show what happens after I hit apply the first time(showing me the SQL to be applied on the database), and then the second time (producing the error message)
Can anyone see how to fix this problem?
Note, the code that's being entered is a formula to calculate distance between two points, but, as said, it's worked for the author of the book I'm using (Larry Ullman's PHP 5)
I think it's to do with your DELIMITER declaration missing.
You need to add:-
DELIMITER $$ on line 1 before your function.
Then remove the space from END $$ so it becomes END$$