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

Question Aditi Goswami · Jun 14, 2017

Hello,

I have a question related to running an SQL query for range of data.

I am running a query like:

Select A,B from table_name where A>=12345 AND A<=12390

 - Where A and B are my two of the properties under the mentioned table/class definition

- A is an integer property

 Question: The result of the above query does not return me all the values between the mentioned range of integer though I do have all the values in that range. I see that some of the values are missing in result.

Any reason why this query won't work?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Aditi

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Article Eduard Lebedyuk · Jan 9, 2017 3m read

In addition to its general security, Caché offers SQL security with a granularity of a single row. This is called row-level security. With row-level security, each row holds a list of authorized viewers, which can be either users or roles. By default access is determined at object modification Some time ago I became interested in determining row-level security at runtime. Here's how to implement it.

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Question Glenn van Bavel · Jun 15, 2017

Whenever I try to run a simple query on a production database table, I get a timeout 504 error. I'm using the SQL interface in Ensemble. One of the queries is a simple SELECT TOP 10. Even SELECT COUNT(*) gives a timeout. 

I have tried to run the SQL Runtime Statistics, but this gives me a timeout as well. 

Does anyone have an idea where I might look to find what is causing this? 

Thanks in advance, 

Best regards

Glenn van Bavel, 

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Question Arockia Raj B · Jun 8, 2017

How to simply going to get the value of the system language from ^%z?  Because  I got a problem, U2 context isn't setup while connecting the SQL Connect.

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Announcement Stefan Wittmann · Aug 25, 2016

As Bill has mentioned earlier in his post, we have carefully reviewed the JSON capabilities and made some adjustments to ensure they deliver the best benefit to you. In this post, I am going to describe the modifications in more detail and provide guidance for you to understand the implication for your code base.

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Question Confused Developer · May 27, 2017

I am inserting rows in a table. This table is appearing in all namespace as I did global mapping. 

So once I run insert command from a method, it insert the rows. When I run the same insert command from other namespace, it replace the existing data in table. 

Insert command is same in all namespace but the data I m inserting is different. 

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Article Michelle Stolwyk · May 25, 2017 2m read

The Data Platforms department here at InterSystems is gearing up for this year's crop of interns, and I for one am very excited to meet them all next week!

We've got folks from top technical colleges with diverse specialties from hard core engineers to pure computer scientists to mathematicians to business professionals. They come from countries around the world like Vietnam, China, and Finland and they all come with impressive backgrounds. We're sure they will do very well this summer.

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Article Brendan Bannon · Sep 1, 2016 9m read

The Art of Mapping Globals to Classes  (2 of 3)

If you are looking to breathe new life into an old MUMPS application follow these steps to map your globals to classes and expose all that beautiful data to Objects and SQL.

This example is going to cram in 4 or 5 different things beyond what was covered in Part 1 

All that is left after this is the Parent Child mapping example and then you will be on your way.

Same disclaimer:  If you can’t make heads or tails of your globals after reviewing these articles please contact the WRC and we will try to help you out:  Support@InterSystems.com

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Question Jean Millette · Apr 20, 2017

Atelier Users:

Has anyone found an Eclipse plug-in that provides the capability to connect to a Caché server and give the user a way to write SQL queries using the tables from that server? I'm picturing something like a "WinSQL"-client built as an Eclipse plugin.

I've found and tried the following, but I couldn't get it to connect to my local Caché instance.

http://eclipsesql.sourceforge.net/

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Question Roger Beeman · Apr 20, 2017

Hi All -

I was wondering if the below query could be enhanced to automatically look back 24 hours from the current datetime the query is run. As is now I, of course, have to update the date range in the WHERE clause manually.

The query is just getting all MessageBodyClassNames, counting them and then doing an AVG on TimeCreated and TimeProcessed. Nothing too complex.

SELECT MessageBodyClassName, count(ID) as Count_Of_Messages, avg(datediff(ss, TimeCreated, TimeProcessed)) as avg_processing_time_in_seconds

FROM %PARALLEL Ens.MessageHeader

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Question Константин Ерёмин · Apr 20, 2017

Hi All,

I use SQL function JSON_OBJECT to get data as a JSON object.

However, sometimes I get error with function JSON_OBJECT when values contain [, ], { or }.

Error:

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

Unexpected error occurred in JSON_OBJECT() function execution of <JSON_OBJECT>.%FromJSON().Parsing error

For example,

Query: SELECT JSON_OBJECT('idSQL':id, 'content':content) FROM DocBook.block

For demonstration, I used Management Portal, System Explorer – SQL, Execute Query

This text was in Content:

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Article Kyle Baxter · Apr 12, 2017 1m read

 It's almost time to get your customers upgraded to new versions - are you worried about showing off your SQL Performance after upgrades?  If you want to upgrade without worrying, then I have just the program for you!!!  Check out this video from Global Summit 2016 featuring yours truly explaining how to upgrade a system without worrying about pesky SQL queries showing on your waistline!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfFPYfIoR_g

Unfortunately the video started after the Frozen Musical Sing-a-long, but it's 30 minutes of the most fun you'll have while learning tools and tips for Caché SQL!

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Question Massimo Sebastiani · Mar 30, 2017

Hello, we have a few hundreds of triggers to port from Oracle to Cachè for a migration project, and many of them have to change (for example, normalize a value, null it, etc) the value which is being inserted.

The documentation says "You cannot set {fieldname*N} in trigger code." , so we're unlucky.

Is there a good workaround for this ?

SqlComputeOnChange doesn't seem the best way, but I'm not totally sure: for example normalization and validation could have a better place somewhere else than a trigger.

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Question sansa stark · Mar 22, 2017

Hi All, In Cache Table i have stored the data value as horlog format ,by query how to retrive the data when i give the data field as date format.

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Question Stella Ticker · Mar 18, 2017

I am trying to return the maximum of the value of 2 fields: LastViewed and LastDownloaded  AS a local variable -LastAccessed for each row, using a SQL query . These values are stored as $ H format.  Is there an existing SQL command that compares two column values ? I could not find one, so I tried using a $Select statement . I got an error that said A term expected beginning with either of: identifier, constant, aggregate, $$,(,:,+....)

Here is the SQL Query I am trying to run:-

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Article Michael Braam · Feb 20, 2017 14m read

Overview

Encryption of sensitive data becomes more and more important for applications. For example patient names, SSN, address-data or credit card-numbers etc..

Cache supports different flavors of encryption. Block-level database encryption and data-element encryption. The block-level database encryption protects an entire database.  The decryption/encryption is done when a block is written/read to or from the database and has very little impact on the performance.

With data-element encryption only certain data-fields are encrypted.  Fields that contain sensitive data like patient data or credit-card numbers. Data-element encryption is also useful if a re-encryption is required periodically. With data-element encryption it is the responsibility of the application to encrypt/decrypt the data.

Both encryption methods leverage the managed key encryption infrastructure of Caché.

The following article describes a sample use-case where data-element encryption is used to encrypt person data.  

But what if you have hundreds of thousands of records with an encrypted datafield and you have the need to search that field? Decryption of the field-values prior to the search is not an option. What about indices?

This article describes a possible solution and develops step-by-step a small example how you can use SQL and indices to search encrypted fields. 

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Question Stephen Wilson · Oct 18, 2016

I have been following the online Zen Quickstart Tutorial using the lastest release documentation. In addition to playing around with the styling and making a few minor functionality tweaks, I wanted to add an additional column that shows a count of the number of phone numbers for that Contact (as shown in the image below).

The idea here is that you can see what contacts have phone numbers without having to click on the "view phones" link. All I have done here is add a blank additional column to the %ZEN.Component.tablePane object

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Question Stephen Wilson · Mar 14, 2017

I have a tablePane ZEN Component and I am trying to get a filter running on the Specimen Id / Lab Number. The SQL is fairly complex with 3 UNION ALL statements joining 4 tables and a couple of lookup tables.

How would I get the filter on SpecId to work for my tablePane? It's not automatically applying the filter for me so I think I need code something.

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Question Scott Beeson · Feb 7, 2017

I use the HS_IHE_ATNA_Repository.Aggregation table a lot.  Someone just referred me to the HS_IHE_ATNA_Repository.Document table, which has an AggregationId column.  

I assume that column references the ID column in the .Aggregation table.  If so, does this mean that if the same document was requested 1,000 times that there will be 1,000 entries for it in the .Document table?  This seems inefficient to me.  Why not have one record in the document table and have a DocumentId column in the Aggregation table?

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Question Laura Cavanaugh · Feb 15, 2017

I have a property, Emails, that needs to contain a list of comma-delimited values, or "". Is there a benefit to making this property a list of %String, a Collection[list] (or however you do it), an array, or anything other than a simple %String type?

I just  need to store some values, and return these values in SQL -- so it needs to be SQL compatible.  I don't need to index the values or use individual values in the SQL statement (e.g. Select * from table where emails [ "email@co.com"  -- I don't need to do this, although maybe this would work anyway if it's of type %String).

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Question Scott Beeson · Feb 6, 2017

I have the following query which tells me how many documents were retrieved for each customer, but it only works for the "on-demand" customers:

SELECT PatientFacility, LEFT(LocalDateTime,7) as Mnth, Count(*)
FROM HS_IHE_ATNA_Repository.Aggregation
WHERE EventType IN ('RecordRequest','RecordRequestBreakGlass')
AND LocalDateTime >= '2016-01-01'
AND LocalDateTime < '2017-01-01'
GROUP BY PatientFacility, LEFT(LocalDateTime,7)
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Article Kyle Baxter · Jan 12, 2017 3m read

So I know it's been a while, and I hate to let my adoring fans down... just not enough to actually start writing again.  But the wait is over and I'm back!  Now bask in my beautiful ginger words!

For this series, I am going to look at some common problems we see in the WRC and discuss some common solutions.  Of course, even if you find a solution here, you are always welcome to call in and expression you gratitude, or just hear my voice!

This week's common problem: "My query returns no data."

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Question Rich Taylor · Jan 9, 2017

When working with a large query executed though an ODBC connection what is the best way to allow the paging of the results at the client side.  I have tried some methods using %VID and similar methods, but these really don't seem to work as the value returned is related to the ID of the data and not the position in the results set.  What would be ideal is if the value seen in the management portal when you check of "Row Number" was available to external queries through ODBC.  I have not seen a way to return this however.   This would be similar to SQL server Last n and Skip n capabilities.

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