Thanks for the response Simon.
I am working with field loggers where the field workers are capturing
different assets using a Trimble mobile device.
I have more than 1200 individual tables, each table holding the values
of a unique asset.
Living in South Africa where bandwidth is a myth in some areas and lots
of verifications must happen before we pump the data unnecessarily to a
central point I would like to read only those asset data tables, that
were touched and not all 1200 individual tables just to find some empty
tables. This will assist me in verifying some basic data abnormalities
which could be rectified before data is transferred and then deleted.
That is one aspect. I also want to use minimal triggers to identify
certain abnormalities and perform certain processes. This I want to keep
Central and not writing triggers for all 1200 tables. So key to a
solution I was thinking of is to store table names and field names in a
central table and then reference those tables and those fields
identified as problem areas during the capture process.
I have inherit this system and trying my best to rewrite it as it is not
a normalised system. But as usual business continue and no one is
waiting for the IT guys and there is no end in sight for enhancement
requests! Does it sound familiar?
Bertus
On 1 Nov 2011, at 10:25am, Stander, Bertus (Pretoria) wrote:
> If I create a table as illustrated below.
>
> CREATE TABLE Testing (
>
> ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
>
> Tbl_Name VARCHAR (45));
In this example you have a TABLE called 'Testing' and a COLUMN called
'Tbl_Name'.
> The value of 'Tbl_Name' is set to 'My_Table'
>
> Will it be possible to read the values in table My_Table using the
field
> 'Tbl_Name'?
>
> Select * from Testing.Tbl_Name;
>
> The tests I have performed is not working.
Good commands for your above example would be
INSERT INTO Testing (Tbl_Name) VALUES ('My_Table');
SELECT * FROM Testing;
SELECT ID,Tbl_Name FROM Testing;
SELECT ID FROM Testing WHERE Tbl_Name = 'My_Table';
However, the names you have picked are a little strange unless you are
storing information about tables. It would be more normal to see
CREATE TABLE My_Table (
ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
My_Column TEXT);
INSERT INTO My_Table (My_Column) VALUES ('example row');
SELECT * FROM My_Table;
SELECT ID, My_Column FROM My_Table;
SELECT ID FROM My_Table WHERE My_Column = 'example row';
Simon.
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