rownumbering w tsql lost to ADO loop -

Hello
Thanks to all who have been helping me to fight a battel
with tsql for rownumbering of my tables. I humbly admit
defeat for today. I had to throw the towel in and whipped
up an ADO loop to number some rows in a table. That took
me all of 3 minutes, if that. I wrestled with tsql all
day long. Well, here is one more shot at tsql.
create table t (rownum int, area char(1), yearnum int,
monthnum int, areaNum int, productNum int)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('A', 2003, 1, 1, 1)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('A', 2003, 1, 1, 2)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('A', 2003, 1, 1, 3)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('B', 2003, 1, 2, 1)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('B', 2003, 1, 2, 2)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('B', 2003, 1, 2, 3)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('C', 2003, 1, 3, 1)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('C', 2003, 1, 3, 2)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('C', 2003, 1, 3, 3)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('A', 2003, 2, 1, 1)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('A', 2003, 2, 1, 2)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('A', 2003, 2, 1, 3)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('B', 2003, 2, 2, 1)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('B', 2003, 2, 2, 2)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('B', 2003, 2, 2, 3)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('C', 2003, 2, 3, 1)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('C', 2003, 2, 3, 2)
insert into t(area, yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum) values('C', 2003, 2, 3, 3)
this yields
rownum area yearnum monum areanum prodnum
NULL A 2003 1 1 1
NULL A 2003 1 1 2
NULL A 2003 1 1 3
NULL B 2003 1 2 1
NULL B 2003 1 2 2
NULL B 2003 1 2 3
NULL C 2003 1 3 1
NULL C 2003 1 3 2
NULL C 2003 1 3 3
NULL A 2003 2 1 1
NULL A 2003 2 1 2
NULL A 2003 2 1 3
NULL B 2003 2 2 1
NULL B 2003 2 2 2
NULL B 2003 2 2 3
NULL C 2003 2 3 1
NULL C 2003 2 3 2
NULL C 2003 2 3 3
I need to number these rows in the order of
yearNum, MonthNum, areaNum, productNum
select * from t order by yearnum, monthnum, areanum,
productnum
how can I number the rownum column starting at 1 using
tsql?
Thanks in advance,
RonDo:
UPDATE t
SET rownum = ( SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM t t1
WHERE CAST( t1.yearnum AS VARCHAR) +
RIGHT( '0' + CAST( t1.monthnum AS VARCHAR), 2 ) +
CAST( t1.areaNum AS VARCHAR) +
CAST( t1.productNum AS VARCHAR) <=
CAST( t.yearnum AS VARCHAR) +
RIGHT( '0' + CAST( t.monthnum AS VARCHAR), 2 ) +
CAST( t.areaNum AS VARCHAR) +
CAST( t.productNum AS VARCHAR) )
WHERE rownum IS NULL ;
Btw, do you really need a reason to have such a column in the table.
Generally, it is a good idea to do such derivations while extracting the
data from the table or to use a view with the ranking expression.
Anith|||thanks for your reply. This worked perfectly.
And to answer your question if I really need this
column? Truthfully, no. I don't really need it. Well,
for my purposes, this column facilitates reporting and ad-
hoc queries for data analysts in my dept at the
workplace. My real problem was that I did not know how
to achieve this with t-sql. I was aware of using the
self join, but I did not know that you had to cast int
values as varchars to accomplish this numerating.
I believe that my exercise for today will be very
valuable in the future.
Thanks for your help,
Ron

>--Original Message--
>Do:
>UPDATE t
> SET rownum = ( SELECT COUNT(*)
> FROM t t1
> WHERE CAST( t1.yearnum AS VARCHAR) +
> RIGHT( '0' + CAST( t1.monthnum
AS VARCHAR), 2 ) +
> CAST( t1.areaNum AS VARCHAR) +
> CAST( t1.productNum AS VARCHAR)
<=
> CAST( t.yearnum AS VARCHAR) +
> RIGHT( '0' + CAST( t.monthnum
AS VARCHAR), 2 ) +
> CAST( t.areaNum AS VARCHAR) +
> CAST( t.productNum AS VARCHAR) )
> WHERE rownum IS NULL ;
>Btw, do you really need a reason to have such a column
in the table.
>Generally, it is a good idea to do such derivations
while extracting the
>data from the table or to use a view with the ranking
expression.
>--
>Anith
>
>.
>|||One more question if I may. I hope this isn't too
ignorant sounding, but...
I noticed a semi colon at the end of your code. Does
Enterprise Manager have a wizard that can generate the t-
sql for something like this? Man, I sure hope so. It
would sure save me a lot of heartache.

>AS VARCHAR), 2 ) +
VARCHAR)
><=
>AS VARCHAR), 2 ) +
VARCHAR) )
>in the table.
>while extracting the
>expression.
>.
>|||>> Does Enterprise Manager have a wizard that can generate the t-sql for
No, they are optional. You need not worry about it.
Btw, for the problem you posted, instead of concatenating the columns you
could do a series of OR-ed correlations like:
WHERE t1.yearnum <= t.yearnum
OR ( t1.yearnum = t.yearnum
AND t1.t1.monthnum <= t.t1.monthnum )
OR ( t1.yearnum = t.yearnum
AND t1.monthnum = t.t1.monthnum
AND t1.areaNum <= t.areaNum )
OR ( t1.yearnum = t.yearnum
AND t1.monthnum = t.t1.monthnum
AND t1.areaNum = t.areaNum
AND t1.productNum <= t.productNum )
Anith|||Thanks again for this explanation. I guess I will just
have to keep experimenting. This other method did work.

>--Original Message--
generate the t-sql for
>No, they are optional. You need not worry about it.
>Btw, for the problem you posted, instead of
concatenating the columns you
>could do a series of OR-ed correlations like:
>WHERE t1.yearnum <= t.yearnum
> OR ( t1.yearnum = t.yearnum
> AND t1.t1.monthnum <= t.t1.monthnum )
> OR ( t1.yearnum = t.yearnum
> AND t1.monthnum = t.t1.monthnum
> AND t1.areaNum <= t.areaNum )
> OR ( t1.yearnum = t.yearnum
> AND t1.monthnum = t.t1.monthnum
> AND t1.areaNum = t.areaNum
> AND t1.productNum <= t.productNum )
>--
>Anith
>
>.
>