Can I add an autonumber to a view?

Hi, I wish to build a datagrid, in an ASP.NET web page, in which I can display a row from a table and when I press a button it will move forward one row. The table is not currently sorted and I need it to be alpahbetical by surname so I thought if I created a view I could sort the table alphabetically on the 'Surname' column. I know that ADO.NET when used in disconnected mode doesn't have a cursor which remembers the last row it was on so I thought if I could create an autonumber on the view then I could use this in the 'where' clause to tell SQLserver which line I wished to select by taking the previous number and adding one. Is this the best way to do this and if so could some one give advice on how to write the line of the query that will add in an autonumber column

thanks
Johnwhy don't you just use the standard paging method with a pagesize of one?

(no views, don't have autonumbering unless you feel like generating one from a cursor)|||The table has over 100,000 rows in it so I don't wish to pull all these into a dataset as I thought this would be far too big if lots of users were going to use the website at once. I thought using paging it stepped through a dataset not the actual SQL table. I just want a way that I can find the next row each time.

I will look at the paging method. thanks

John

can anyone show me how to combine these two SQL queries into one

Hello-

i have a fairly big SQL query that is used to display data into a datagrid. Each query grabs data from two seperate databases. Is there anyway to combine these queries into one so all the data appears in 1 datagrid and not 2.

here is the 1st query:

SQL = "SELECT sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 1 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Jan ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 2 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Feb ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 3 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Mar ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 4 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Apr ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 5 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as May ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 6 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Jun ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 7 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Jul ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 8 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Aug ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 9 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Sept ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 10 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Oct ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 11 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Nov ,sum(case when month(pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time) = 12 then pb_report_shippers_lots.quantity else 0 end) as Dec FROM pb_customers INNER JOIN pb_jobs ON pb_customers.customer_id = pb_jobs.customer_id INNER JOIN pb_recipes_sub_recipes ON pb_jobs.recipe_id = pb_recipes_sub_recipes.recipe_id INNER JOIN pb_jobs_lots ON pb_jobs.job_id = pb_jobs_lots.job_id INNER JOIN pb_sub_recipes ON pb_recipes_sub_recipes.sub_recipe_id = pb_sub_recipes.sub_recipe_id INNER JOIN pb_report_shippers_lots ON pb_jobs_lots.intrack_lot_id = pb_report_shippers_lots.intrack_lot_id INNER JOIN pb_report_shippers ON pb_report_shippers_lots.job_id = pb_report_shippers.job_id AND pb_report_shippers_lots.shipper_id = pb_report_shippers.shipper_id WHERE pb_customers.customer_deleted <> 1 AND pb_jobs.job_deleted <> 1 AND pb_jobs_lots.lot_deleted <> 1 AND pb_report_shippers.shipper_date_time between cast('01/01/2003 00:01AM' as datetime) and cast('12/31/2003 23:59PM' as datetime)"

Here is the 2nd query:

SQL = "SELECT ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 1 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Jan , ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 2 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Feb ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 3 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Mar ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 4 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Apr , ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 5 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as May ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 6 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Jun ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 7 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Jul ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 8 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Aug ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 9 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Sept ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 10 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Oct ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 11 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Nov ,ISNULL(sum(case when month(nonconformance.nc_date) = 12 then nonconformance.nc_wafer_qty else 0 end),0) as Dec FROM nonconformance INNER JOIN nc_department on nonconformance.department_id = nc_department.department_id INNER JOIN nc_major_category ON nonconformance.major_category_id = nc_major_category.major_category_id AND nonconformance.status_id <> '5' WHERE nc_department.scrap_category = '1' AND nonconformance.nc_date between cast('01/01/2004 00:01AM' as datetime) and cast('12/31/2004 23:59PM' as datetime)"

I know there has to be someway to combine these into 1. The issue I have is they are in different databases.

ANY HELP would be appreciated.Hi, Andrew,

You may use union query to merge the two sql statements. Make sure they return the same number of columns. If not, add some dummy columns to make them equal(dummy column could be 0 or empty string '')

the issue of diffeent database can be resolved using sytax like
db_name..table_name.
Kind like fully qualified name:)

Take you first query as example: replace 'pb_customers' with 'DatabaseName..pb_customers'.

The query is too big. I am sorry I can't prototype it in my computer. You have to try youself. Let me know if got error message.

Good Luck

-David J.|||thanks figured it out.

Can a datagrid display more than one table?

See this picture. I only see table '2' can add more table? how?
conn.Open()
Dim sql(3) As String

sql(0) = "select * from products;"
sql(1) = "select * from orders;"
sql(2) = "select * from orders;"
sql(3) = "select * from orders;"

Dim da As System.Data.OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter
Dim ds As DataSet
Dim dt As DataTable
Dim i As Integer

For i = 0 To sql.GetUpperBound(0)
Try
da = New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(sql(i), conn)
Catch e As Exception
MessageBox.Show(e.Message)
End Try
Try
ds = New DataSet("dsTable")
dt = New DataTable(i.ToString)
da.Fill(dt)
'ds.Tables.Add(dt)
ds.Tables.Add(dt)
ds.Merge(dt)
'grd.SetDataBinding(ds, i.ToString)
'MessageBox.Show(ds.Tables(i).TableName)
grd.DataSource = ds
Catch eds As Exception
MessageBox.Show(eds.Message)
End Try
MessageBox.Show(i)
Next
conn.Close()
conn = Nothinglet me answer it myself.

for i = 0 to n
da.Fill(dt)
ds.Merge(dt)
next
datagrid.datasource = ds