How to adapt or map data to sql?
How to adapt or map data to sql?
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Does anyone have any ideas on how I would go about setting up a sql program or any other type of program that could take a tab delimited ASCII file and be able to add the information to a table based on mapping constraints. For example, the ASCII file would look like this:
Code1 Code2 Breed DogID Description
B1 C2 Collie 43 brown with spots
The program would need to understand that a dog from (B1, C2) would belong in my category# 198 so my table would look like this.
Code Breed DogID Description
198 Collie 43 brown with spots
Please let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas where I could find information.
Code1 Code2 Breed DogID Description
B1 C2 Collie 43 brown with spots
The program would need to understand that a dog from (B1, C2) would belong in my category# 198 so my table would look like this.
Code Breed DogID Description
198 Collie 43 brown with spots
Please let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas where I could find information.
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RE: How to adapt or map data to sql?
RE: How to adapt or map data to sql?
Thank you for your response, I need to read up a bit on triggers. Does you or anyone know if there is a way to do something like this?
insert into NEWTABLE (Code) values (198) AND select breed, dogid, description from OLDTABLE where (Code1=B1) AND (Code2=C2);
I'm trying to add a when clause to an insert statement. So, for this example, I wanted to use 198 in the new table with all the same other information from the old table except the codes. Let me know what you think?
RE: How to adapt or map data to sql?
(select 198, breed, dogid, description
from OLDTABLE
where code1='B1' and code2='C2');
Should work (I think). If 198, 'B1' and 'C2' are
not constants then you'll need to wrap the whole
lot up in into a procedure and pass these in as
parameters.
What database server are you using ?
RE: How to adapt or map data to sql?
CREATE VIEW myFinalDogShowView as (Select Code, Breed, DogID, Description FROM oldtable INNER JOIN maptable ON oldtable.code1 = maptable.code1 and oldtable.code2 = maptable.code2)
This presumably gives you a permanently updatable dog categorization library as new ASCII files roll in.