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SQL is a standard language for storing, manipulating and retrieving data in relational databases.

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Question Mauricio Sthandier · Apr 12

hi 😊,

i'm able to LOAD DATA in IRIS from a rather complex, say Oracle's, query. It works pretty well but requires a target table created aforehand:

LOAD DATA FROM JDBC CONNECTION SOME_OTHER_SERVER QUERY 'complex query here' INTO TargetTable

is there a way to base such target table on the same query ? 
CREATE FOREIGN TABLE seems to require a column definition which I would prefer to be taken from the query
CREATE TABLE AS SELECT seems to be for local queries and other methods, like Linked Table Wizard or %SYSTEM.SQL.Schema.

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Question Scott Roth · Mar 12

We are trying to track down significant growth within our Namespaces, one big culprit is Ens.AppData (EnsLib.SQL.Snapshot). 

Within many of our BPL's we use EnsLib.SQL.Snapshot to return Results from External SQL Stored Procedures or Query's. The same EnsLib.SQL.Snapshot context variable is used for many of these calls within a BPL. 

Is there something we should be doing at the end of the BPL to ensure that EnsLib.SQL.Snapshot gets cleaned up and purged from Ens.AppData?

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Question Scott Roth · Mar 2

I am stuck at a crossroad and was wondering if I could get a second pair of eyes to help with a query that I am sending from a Task to a Service to process some data.

I have a Linked Table (view) that points back to a MS SQL View that I am trying to query. However, my execution keeps either failing or not returning any rows. When I take the SQL Query and execute it within the Management Portal I get results, however Cache is not seeing it when trying to execute this code.

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Question Scott Roth · Feb 27

I am trying to create a task that has a variable property that a user can specify DaysBack but it keeps coming up blank when I ask the system to get the date as of DaysBack from the CURRENT_DATE. Can someone tell me why I am not getting a value back in my tDate variable?

Class OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask Extends %SYS.Task.Definition
{

Parameter TaskName As STRING = "OSU - Workday Termination Update";

Property DaysBack As %Integer [ InitialExpression = 1 ];

Method OnTask() As %Status
{
	Set tSC=$$$OK
	#Dim tException as %Exception.
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Question Dmitrii Baranov · Jan 20

Why do these clauses affect SQL performance?

select ID from some_table where row_status in ('I','U') order by ID limit 5 - makes the query infinite select top 10 ID from some_table where row_status in ('I','U') order by ID - the same select ID from some_table where row_status in ('I','U') order by ID - is fast

Actually there are no rows in the table having row_status 'I' or 'U'.

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Question Victor Paredes · Jan 7

Hello,

We are accessing an InterSystems Cacha database from Microsoft SQL Server using a linked server over ODBC (ODBC35). Queries are executed using OPENQUERY.

On the SQL Server side, there is a linked server property called Query Timeout. By default it is set to 0 (no timeout). We are considering setting it to 15 seconds and would like to understand how Cache behaves in this scenario.

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Question Arber Limaj · Nov 19, 2025

Hi everyone,
I'm getting prepared to take the following certification exam: "InterSystems IRIS Development Professional".

Can you give some advice on how to prepare (aside from the official course page: https://www.intersystems.com/certifications/intersystems-iris-development-professional/)?
Do you have examples of quiz questions that simulate the real exam or any material that helped you getting prepared?

Thanks you in advance,

Arber

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Question Gopal Mani · Oct 7, 2025

Hi Community,
I’m trying to execute a directory query in InterSystems IRIS using %SQL.Statement, but encountering an unexpected error.

Details:
The following command confirms that the directory exists:

Set dirPath="\\MYNETWORK_DRIVE\DFS-Shared_Product\GXM"
Write ##class(%File).DirectoryExists(dirPath)

It returns 1, meaning the path is valid and accessible.

However, when I try to execute this SQL query:

Set File=##Class(%SQL.Statement).%New()
Set Status=File.%PrepareClassQuery("%File","FileSet")
Set Result=File.%Execute(dirPath)
If Result.%SQLCODE {
    Write Result.
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Question Mark OReilly · Jul 15, 2025

As foreign tables are behind a paywall (booo); we have a external cache system using the intersystems ODBC driver or usually a .jar CacheDB.jar. 

The requirement is :

"Create a copy of the external table once a day to perform comparisons to detect changes"

We could go full code and this is what we will do but trying the following should ideally work 

CREATE TABLE Sample.YoungPeopletwo AS
SELECT *
FROM Pennine_TIE_Clinicom_Link.
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Question steven Henry · Jul 10, 2025

Hello my friends,

I have a problem with logi report, 

in my store procedure,  I create code like this?

$ListToString(%DLIST(DISTINCT (ARCIM_Desc)),'<br/>') as "ARCIM_Desc", -> this is the problem

$ListToString(%DLIST(DISTINCT (MRDIA_ICDCode_DR)),'<br/>') as "MRDIA_ICDCode_DR", -> it's works fine

as you see there's a <br/> in the display of the report

I have no idea about this, maybe someone can help me fix this problem ?

Thank You

Best Regards,

Steven Henry

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Question Yone Moreno Jiménez · Jun 23, 2025

Hello, good morning, thank you so much for reading this question. ☺️🙂👍

We are developing a code to get information about our Production's items: services, processes and operations.

We know we can get various configurations of a given item: Category, Port, Enabled...

But we wonder how we could get the date time of the last mesage (most recent) received in an item.

To give a code snippet a small section of the code we have developed (and tested), it looks like:

[...]

For i=1:1:tProduction.Items.Count() {
    #dim item as Ens.Config.Item
    set item = tProduction.
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Question Andrew Sklyarov · Mar 26, 2025

Here is my code:

Method getStocks(pRequest As Stock.Message.Req, Output pResponse As Ens.StreamContainer) As %Status
{
     s tSC = pRequest.NewResponse(.pResponse)
     q:$$$ISERR(tSC) tSC

     #dim pRS As EnsLib.SQL.GatewayResultSet

     s tSC = ..Adapter.ExecuteQuery(.pRS, "select jsonb_agg(s) #>> '{}' FROM prod.stocks s where s.""Warehouse"" = ?", pRequest.Warehouse)
     q:$$$ISERR(tSC) tSC

     s pResponse = ##class(Ens.StreamContainer).%New()
     s pResponse.Stream = ##class(%GlobalCharacterStream).%New()

     i pRS.Next() {
          d pResponse.Stream.CopyFrom(pRS

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Question Steven Henry Suhendra · Jan 13, 2025

Hy Friends,

I have a little problem, I need to diplay the data based on input status (first time and after)

this is the data:

and this what I need to display

the notes become new because it is the first time that the data has been inputed, and it will become old if we have the data before (2nd data, 3rd data  the notes will become old).

I've try to use SubQuery (with LAG Script also) but it doesn't works, because it will give a notes Old even it's a New Data

Does anyone could help me ?

Thank You

Best Regards,

Steven Henry

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Question Ashok Kumar T · Jan 8, 2025

I tried executing the SQL JSON_TABLE query with large JSON string(more than 200000 characters) and I got the below error. I'm curious about this under the hood workflow and how does it reach reaches MAXSTRING.

ERROR #5002: ObjectScript error: <MAXSTRING>CompileRtns+295^%occRoutine > ERROR #5030: An error occurred while compiling class '%sqlcq.LEARNING.cls247'

 Thanks!

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Question Oleksandr Kyrylov · Jan 8, 2025

Hello, community.

I have a problem with running a SQL query on a linked MySQL table.

The connection works fine, but the following query throws an error:

SELECT   TOP 10 * FROM   linkedinternal_test.persons

 [SQLCODE: <-400>:<Fatal error occurred>]

  [%msg: <Remote JDBC error: 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 '10 T1.PersonID AS C1,T1.LastName AS C2,T1.FirstName AS C3,T1.Address AS C4,T1.Ci' at line 1. >]

Linked table class:

/// Generated by the Link Table wizard on 2025-01-08 16:09:03.
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Question Nimisha Joseph · Dec 2, 2024

Hi everyone,

I’m using EnsLib.SQL.OutboundAdapter in my InterSystems Ensemble operation to execute an insert statement in Sql Server Management Studio 20. While inline queries (e.g., constructing the query string with _ concatenation) work fine, I'm facing issues when trying to use parameterized queries.

Serialized JSON: {"CHI":"2894","Forename":"Janis"}

Include Ensemble

Class TNHS.Operation.RDS.PatientOperation Extends Ens.BusinessOperation{

Parameter ADAPTER = "EnsLib.SQL.OutboundAdapter";
Property Adapter As EnsLib.SQL.OutboundAdapter;
Method OnMessage(pRequest As TNHS.Data.RDS.
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Question Patrik Spisak · Nov 28, 2024

I have issue with one of my queries. That query work fine for ages, but suddenly stop works and giving me SQLCODE 100 in the routine. 

&SQL(
	  SELECT * FROM (
		SELECT event FROM dhr_log_lasers.production WHERE createDateUTC >= DATEADD(dd, -5, CURRENT_DATE) AND kiosk = :%var("kioskID") GROUP BY machine
		HAVING ID = MAX(ID)
	  ) WHERE event != 2
	 )

If I copy this same query to the management portal and replace variable with real ID I will get back 6 or more rows.

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Question David.Satorres6134 · Nov 13, 2024

Hello all,

We have our system with AutoParallel enabled:

USER>w ##class(%SYSTEM.SQL.Util).GetOption("AutoParallel")
1

But whenever I try to run any sql the autoparallel does not work. For example, this simple query:

When I force it with %PARALLEL we can see it will effectively run in parallel:

The total records is bigger than the threshold. So, what can go wrong? Anyone in the same situation?

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Question Richard Prouvot · Nov 13, 2024

I HAVE A NEW SQL CLASS THAT DISPLAYS ENTRIES BASED ON THE FIRST 2 NODES OF A GLOBAL. I FOUND OUT THAT THE CLASS ALLOWS FOR AN ADDITIONAL NODE(s) TO BE INSERTED IN THE "User Specification Node:" along the delimiter and the Piece in the NewStorage Map1 for "ModifyDDDD" shown below. it is not working.

^GBL("AA","SSSSSS")="1:1:1:1:"

^GBL("AA,"MD",1,1)="1:"

^GBL("AA,"MD","A",1)="0:"

I HAVE USED THIS:

<Data name="ModifyDDDD">
<Delimiter>":"</Delimiter>
<Node>"3,4"</Node>
<Piece>1</Piece>
</Data>

WHILE IT COMPILES IT DISPLAY NOTHING. MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE RIGHT SYNTAX AND PUNTUATION FOR THIS, PLEASE?

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Question Kaveh Kaviani · Oct 30, 2024

i am trying to embed a dynamic SQL into Objectscript code , but the %NEXT() will return 0 , however when i copy the same query and run it in the SQL bit it will give me the result i want 
the code :

set myquery = "SELECT"
set myquery = myquery_" $PIECE(Substring(M.Rawcontent,Charindex('PD1|',M.Rawcontent),1000),'|',4),"
set myquery = myquery_" H1.TargetConfigName,"
set myquery = myquery_" H.Timecreated,"
set myquery = myquery_" H.MessageBodyId"
set myquery = myquery_" FROM"
set myquery = myquery_" Ens.MessageHeader H"
set myquery = myquery_" left outer join Enslib_HL7.Message M ON (H.MessageBodyId=M.

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Question Kurro Lopez · Oct 18, 2024

Hi all,

We have an restriction in a SQL database with a unique index.

We want to catch that exception when it tries to insert or update a value that violates the unique index condition.

// run the query
Set tSC = ..Adapter.ExecuteUpdateParmArray(.nrows,SQL,.param)

// Check if there is any error
If $$$ISERR(tSC)
{
	Set msgError = $System.Status.GetErrorText(tSC) 
	// Check here if the native error code is 2601 (Cannot insert duplicate key row into object 'MYPATIENTS' with unique index 'UQ_UNIQUE_INDEX')
	??????
}

I've tried to get the .

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Question Don Martin · Jul 22, 2024

I'm trying to use the EnsLib.SQL.Operation.GenericOperation component in a production to read a column from a Redshift table that is set up as VARCHAR(65535) and am getting the following error.  

An error was received : ERROR #5023: Remote Gateway Error: JDBC Gateway getClob(0,1) errorRemote JDBC error: Cannot convert the column of type VARCHAR to requested type long..

The query I'm using is a simple 'SELECT column_name FROM table_name'.

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Question Ashok Kumar T · Jul 20, 2024

Hello Community,

As per the Build index documentation "If you use BUILD INDEX on a live system, the index is temporarily labeled as not selectable, meaning that queries cannot use the index while it is being built. Note that this will impact the performance of queries that use the index." Is this  hiding/not selectable is only applicable for BUILD INDEX or it supports class level %BuildIndices as well. as far as my analysis both syntax setting this setting  SetMapSelectability

Thanks!

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