Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-07 Thread Man-wai Chang
You talking about Information Schema? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186778.aspx On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:37 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Gang, this SQL Server I was talking about the last few days appears to have 1025 tables! My question, is there a way to query the

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-07 Thread Man-wai Chang
See if the column names of all tables could be used to link them up into a entity-relationship diagram... If not, you would have to read the source codes to find out. You might also try creating new records in each part of the systems using special descriptions, then find them in the tables. On

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-07 Thread Stephen Russell
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Man-wai, actually I am going to use VFP to scan the tables and see which ones of them have data in them. Out of 1025 tables, very few are used. This is the most bizarre database structure I have ever seen. Nothing is stored

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-07 Thread Jeff Johnson
Man-wai, actually I am going to use VFP to scan the tables and see which ones of them have data in them. Out of 1025 tables, very few are used. This is the most bizarre database structure I have ever seen. Nothing is stored in the primary table except foreign keys to tables. There is a name

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-07 Thread AndyHC
On 07/04/2015 19:57, Stephen Russell wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Man-wai, actually I am going to use VFP to scan the tables and see which ones of them have data in them. Out of 1025 tables, very few are used. This is the most bizarre database

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-06 Thread Stephen Russell
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: Matt's answer works. Or you can use the VFP call SQLTables() to get a list of tables, then loop through there, executing SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {tablename} to get the record counts. This was

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
Trouble will connection string for 2014. Here is what I am using and I am not connecting: '{Sql Server Native Client 11.0}, Server=192.168.1.115, Database=ABEL_PROD, Trusted Connection=Yes' I think this may be for 2012 and doesn't work for 2014. What is the connection string for 2014. It

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
In Services it shows MSSQLSERVER in parenthesis. Is this the instance? Where do I put the IP\SQLEXPRESS? In the (localdb)? On 4/6/2015 7:31 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Trouble will connection string for 2014. Here is

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-06 Thread jeff
Thanks Stephen. Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device Original message From: Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com Date:04/06/2015 08:06 (GMT-07:00) To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] SQL Server Question On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-06 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: In Services it shows MSSQLSERVER in parenthesis. Is this the instance? Where do I put the IP\SQLEXPRESS? In the (localdb)? - The connection string is a compound using a ; as a separator for each entity.

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-06 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Trouble will connection string for 2014. Here is what I am using and I am not connecting: '{Sql Server Native Client 11.0}, Server=192.168.1.115, Database=ABEL_PROD, Trusted Connection=Yes' ---

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-05 Thread Stephen Russell
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Gang, this SQL Server I was talking about the last few days appears to have 1025 tables! My question, is there a way to query the database to see how many records a table has? For example, out of 1025 tables there are only

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-05 Thread Ted Roche
Matt's answer works. Or you can use the VFP call SQLTables() to get a list of tables, then loop through there, executing SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {tablename} to get the record counts. On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Gang, this SQL Server I was talking about the

[NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-05 Thread Jeff Johnson
Gang, this SQL Server I was talking about the last few days appears to have 1025 tables! My question, is there a way to query the database to see how many records a table has? For example, out of 1025 tables there are only about 75 - 100 that have pertinent data in them. Can I do a query to

Re: [NF] SQL Server Question

2015-04-05 Thread M Jarvis
For example, out of 1025 tables there are only about 75 - 100 that have pertinent data in them. Can I do a query to tell me which ones have data? Found these links that should help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9954775/script-that-provides-the-row-counts-and-table-names