I use Blanks in ColumnNames ( I know that this isnt very good, but a
lot of code and querys had to be changed if I would remove all blanks
in all columnnames).
When I link this tables with ODBC in my ACC97 - project, some of the
tables causes an ODBC-Error.
Are there possibilities to workaround this error?
Thanks, Andreas Lauffer, easySoft. GmbH, Germany
Hiho,
I'm reading out some exelsheets to store the data in a SQL DB on a MS SQL Server.
I can connect to Excel file easily and usual querys are woriking as well.
My Probelm is, that all my Excel files have some columns with a name that has more than one word, e.g. "this is an example".
Is there any possibility to make query's to this columns? ...renaming them would leed in some trouble, i guess.
regards,
ratsche
ps: maybe this is a sql problem and not a asp.net problem.
Hi,A long time ago I set up a database with *very* descriptive and thereforelong table names. :(I did the same with the column names. :((The column names even repeat the table name. :(((This was done in a period in which I was still using a lot of dynamic sql:(((( and sql in the code of the app :(((((.The tables all have the prefix 'tbl' (yes, I know) :((((((There are even ghastly underscores in it too :(((((((As a result, I'm starting to develop a nasty case of carpal tunnel syndrom(aka RSI) :((((((((For example there are names like:dbo.tbl_SalesOrderLine.SalesOrderLine_SalesOrderI have to type them in QA a gazillion times a dayThe number of objects in the database has grown well beyond even beginningto think about renaming them all.Now my question: Is there an MS SQL client utility out there that hasautocomplete?Cheers,Bas
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have the following query
SELECT maximum.tblSalesCall.OrgKey, dbo.tblItem.ProductDescription, maximum.tblSalesCallItems.Facing, maximum.tblSalesCallItems.Price
FROM dbo.tblBrand INNER JOIN
dbo.tblItem ON dbo.tblBrand.BrandKey = dbo.tblItem.BrandKey INNER JOIN
maximum.tblSalesCallItems ON dbo.tblItem.ItemKey = maximum.tblSalesCallItems.ItemKey INNER JOIN
maximum.tblSalesCall ON maximum.tblSalesCallItems.SalesCallKey = maximum.tblSalesCall.SalesCallKey
WHERE (maximum.tblSalesCall.OrgKey = 2134 OR
maximum.tblSalesCall.OrgKey = 2135) AND (maximum.tblSalesCall.SalesCallKey = '274f68f8-6aad-426c-9a66-4267fc71c8c7') AND
(dbo.tblItem.ItemActive = 1) AND (dbo.tblBrand.BrandActive = 1) AND (dbo.tblBrand.BrandKey = 25)
that generates the following results set:
OrgKey ProductDescription Facing Price
---------------------------------------------------------------
2134 JUICE SLAMS - AWESOME APPLE 1 2.7900
2134 JUICE SLAMS - BURSTIN BERRY 1 2.7900
2134 JUICE SLAMS - STRAWBERRY BANANA TWIST 1 2.7900
2134 JUICE SLAMS - TOTALLY TROPICAL 1 2.7900
2134 SMOOTHIES - PINEAPPLE COCONUT 0 0.0000
2135 JUICE SLAMS - AWESOME APPLE 1 2.7900
2135 JUICE SLAMS - BURSTIN BERRY 1 2.7900
2135 JUICE SLAMS - STRAWBERRY BANANA TWIST 1 2.7900
2135 JUICE SLAMS - TOTALLY TROPICAL 1 2.7900
2135 SMOOTHIES - PINEAPPLE COCONUT 0 0.0000
However, the customer wants the results to look like this:
OrgKey JUICE SLAMS - AWESOME APPLE Price JUICE SLAMS - BURSTIN BERRY Price (The rest of the items follow)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2134 1 2.7900 1 2.7900
2135 1 2.7900 1 2.7900
BTW, there is a variable number of product depending on the brandkey that the customer chooses.
Any ideas on how I can do this would be greatly appreciated.
I would like to change a column name, but before doing so would like to search all SPs and Views for occurrences of that name. I would be happy with just a list of them, but even cooler would be the ability to change all the occurrences to the new name.
Thanks!
Arthur
Trying to setup a derived column to use an expression stored in a package variable. But it seems that variables are always evaluated as text...I need it to evaluate as a Columname sometimes.
Example:
On an ETL of Products I want a new derived column that uses two other columns.
I can hardcode an expression of ProductID + " - " + ProductName and that results in dynamic output. But now I want to use that as an expression stored in a variable so I can change it when needed.
So I make that expression = @[User::Variable]
and stuff into @variable ( a string param) : ProductID + " - " + ProductName
My output is the literal "ProductID + " - " + ProductName", and not the actual ID's and Names
I've tried with/without brackets, quotes and braces but no change.
Any way I can get the pieces in that variable expression to evaluate as column names?
Hi Everybody,
On localhost this application works fine but when I put on remote server. I am getting following errors. For both localhost and server, I am using same remote sql 2000. I will appreciate any help.
Thanks,
Arif
Server Error in '/' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR [42000] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ')'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcException: ERROR [42000] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ')'.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[OdbcException: ERROR [42000] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ')'.]
Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection.HandleError(IntPtr hHandle, SQL_HANDLE hType, RETCODE retcode) +27
Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand.ExecuteReaderObject(CommandBehavior behavior, String method) +838
Microsoft.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() +80
Calgary.venues.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:inetpubwwwrootCalgarySitevenuesvenues.aspx.vb:32
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731
The following (VB.Net) code causes exceptions at seemingly random times.
Any suggestions?
Not sure if the problem is in .Net's ODBC support or in Sql Native Client.
If MARS is off, usually after less than 100 loops:
Code Snippet
System.Data.Odbc.OdbcException was unhandled
ErrorCode=-2146232009
Message="ERROR [HY000] [Microsoft][SQL Native Client]Connection is busy with results for another command"
Source="SQLNCLI.DLL"
Turning MARS is on bypasses that error, so it will sometimes survive a thousand or so runs before hitting:
Code Snippet
System.Data.Odbc.OdbcException was unhandled
ErrorCode=-2146232009
Message="ERROR [23000] [Microsoft][SQL Native Client][SQL Server]Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Number', table 'tempdb.dbo.#TempTable___..(shortened to fit).. _________000000002F3F'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.
Source="SQLNCLI.DLL"
Code here:
(Console Application, empty database,
Visual Studio 2005, .Net 2.0, Windows XP,SQL Server 2005 or SQL Express 2005, Local or Remote)
Code Snippet
Module Module1
Sub Main()
'Dim connection As New SqlClient.SqlConnection("database=TestDB;server=.sqlexpress;Integrated Security=SSPI;") 'Doesn't crash
'Dim connection As New OleDb.OleDbConnection("Provider=SQLNCLI;database=TestDB;Server=.sqlexpress;Trusted_Connection=yes;") 'Doesn't crash
'Dim connection As New Odbc.OdbcConnection("Driver={SQL Native Client};Database=TestDB;Server=.sqlexpress;Trusted_Connection=yes;") 'Crashes
Dim connection As New Odbc.OdbcConnection("Driver={SQL Native Client};Database=TestDB;Server=.sqlexpress;Trusted_Connection=yes;MARS_Connection=yes") 'Crashes
VBMath.Randomize()
Dim run_count As Integer = 1
connection.Open()
Console.WriteLine("Connected!!")
While True
'connection.Open()
Dim testcmd As New Odbc.OdbcCommand("CREATE TABLE [#TempTable] (Number int PRIMARY KEY)", connection)
testcmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
testcmd.Dispose()
testcmd = Nothing
Dim dtTemp As New DataTable
Dim daTemp As New Odbc.OdbcDataAdapter("SELECT * FROM [#TempTable]", connection)
daTemp.MissingSchemaAction = MissingSchemaAction.AddWithKey
daTemp.Fill(dtTemp)
Dim cbTemp As New Odbc.OdbcCommandBuilder(daTemp)
Dim viewTemp As New DataView(dtTemp, Nothing, "Number", DataViewRowState.CurrentRows)
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To 1000
Dim test_number As Integer = CInt(Rnd() * 2000)
If viewTemp.Find(test_number) = -1 Then 'Keep it unique
Dim new_temp_row As DataRowView = viewTemp.AddNew()
new_temp_row("Number") = test_number
new_temp_row.EndEdit()
End If
Next
daTemp.Update(dtTemp)
'daTemp.Dispose()
'daTemp = Nothing
'cbTemp.Dispose()
'cbTemp = Nothing
'dtTemp.Dispose()
'dtTemp = Nothing
'viewTemp.Dispose()
'viewTemp = Nothing
Dim testcmd2 As New Odbc.OdbcCommand("DROP TABLE [#TempTable]", connection)
testcmd2.ExecuteNonQuery()
testcmd2.Dispose()
testcmd2 = Nothing
'connection.Close()
'GC.Collect()
'Console.Write(".")
run_count += 1
End While
End Sub
End Module
Usually the ".Update" triggers the exception, but sometimes the other sql commands do it.
Have tried various experiments with disposing of objects immediately when finished, but no effect.
Opening and closing the connection each loop seems to delay the errors, but it still happens eventually.
I have an application that connects to SQL 2000 thru ODBC.
When our administrators login on the workstation the application
works well. But when ordinary users login they get the following error.
SQLState: 28000
SQL Server Error: 18452
Login failed for user ". The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.
I have restarted SQL Server and IIS to no avail. We are using SQL and Windows auth mode.
Any ideas? This just started this morning.
We have an application that connects to SQL 2005 thru ODBC with the following string:
driver=SQL Server;server=server1;database=db2005;uid=serveruser;pwd=pwd1;
When our administrators login on the workstation the application works well. But when ordinary users login they get the following error. (We only have 1 domain)
SQLState: 28000
SQL Server Error: 18452
Login failed for user ". The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.
Then the standard SQL Server Login window pops up asking for the Login ID and Password. On the window the 'Use Trusted Connection' is checked and the name of the user on the workstation appears on the LoginID. What we do is uncheck the 'Use Trusted Connection' then login using the credentials above.
Need help on this one please. Thanks.
Nevil Mascarenhas writes "Hi SQL team,
I am just a beginer in SQL
Here is sample output of a SQL query
Alarm No Site Name Startdate Starttime
7767 ABC 20-08-05 00:00
7765 XYZ 20-08-05 00:00
7762 ASD
5453 QWE 22-08-05 01:00
In this above example, I would like to replace blank fields in Startdate and Starttime coloumn with XXX
Output required is
Alarm No Site Name Startdate Starttime
7767 ABC 20-08-05 00:00
7765 XYZ 20-08-05 00:00
7762 ASD XXX XXX
5453 QWE 22-08-05 01:00
Can you please guide me."
I wrote a simple data flow with an OLE DB source and destination. I do a direct mapping of the columns ( colA - > colA) with no transformations needed. I found that colA on the destinatin does not allow NULLS (required by the program that accesses that database) while colA on the source supports and has NULLs, Is there any accomodaiton for handling NULLS (like mapping them to blanks) in the direct copy approach or do I need to read each row and test colA_ISNull?
TIA,
barkingdog
Quick Question I hope.
Does having a lot of blanks in a column cause errors ?
In 2 or 3 packages where I get 95% of the data in the Error Colomn I can find nothing wrong with the data at all ? it all either seems perfect or there is no data in the column in question usually I would have maybe 800 rows where data would have been inserted but in the other 40, 000 rows the column is blank
Using the "Retain null values from the source as null values in the destination" doesnt seem to make a differance.
This is the error description
The data value cannot be converted for reasons other than sign mismatch or data overflow.
Anyone know of a solution / reason why this keeps happening
Thanks
I keep getting this error:
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: You do not have permission to run 'SP_TRACE_CREATE'.; 42000
I do not want to add the login account to sysadmin role on my production server and giving the logon account db_reader rights to my database is not working. Is there another way around it.
I posted this scenario earlier and ndinakar said my code worked on (I guess) his own machine but has not worked on mine! Does that not sound funny? I need to ge through with this simple but frustrating stuff in time. I've implemented more complex snippets before this but I just can't figure the problem out.
Can anyone out there tell me what I could be doing wrongly? I wrote a simple stored procedure called 'proc_insert_webuser' in a database that has been moved to a remote server called LAGOS-NTS3. I executed it from SQL Query Analyser and it worked. When, however, I executed the same stored procedure from ASP.Net it gives an impression that a new record has been inserted and even displays the newly generated ID column to me. On checking the base table I found only blank columns with only the ID column having the generated IDs!
I'm perplexed. I checked the code and can't possibly spot the error. Can anyone help. Found below are snippets used.
CREATE PROCEDURE proc_insert_webuser
(
@applicantidnumeric(18) output,
@firstnamevarchar(18),
@midname varchar(18),
@lastname varchar(50),
@secretcodevarchar(18),
@my_errnumeric(18) output
)
AS
IF (SELECT COUNT(ApplicantID) FROM tbl_webuser WHERE Firstname = @firstname AND Midname = @midname AND Lastname = @lastname) = 0
BEGIN
begin transaction
INSERT INTO tbl_webuser (Firstname, Midname, Lastname, SecretCode)
VALUES (@Firstname, @Midname, @Lastname, @SecretCode)
commit transaction
SET @applicantid = @@IDENTITY
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RAISERROR('Error! Execution aborted. A matching user profile exist.', 16, 1)
SELECT @my_err = @@ERROR
END
RETURN
Then the ASP.Net stuff:
Sub PostData()
'connection string production
Dim cstring As String = "User ID = sa; Password = ; database = E-Recruitment; Server = LAGOS-NTS3; Connect Timeout = 60"
'connection instantiation
Dim cnx As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(cstring)
Try
'open connection
cnx.Open()
'instantiates and execute a command object
Dim cmd As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand
With cmd
.Connection = cnx
.CommandText = "proc_insert_webuser"
.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
Dim param1 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@applicantid", 0)
param1.DbType = DbType.Single
param1.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output
.Parameters.Add(param1)
Dim param2 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@firstname", txtFirstNM.Text)
param2.DbType = DbType.String
param2.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input
.Parameters.Add(param2)
Dim param3 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@midname", txtMidNM.Text)
param3.DbType = DbType.String
param3.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input
.Parameters.Add(param3)
Dim param4 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@lastname", txtLastNM.Text)
param4.DbType = DbType.String
param4.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input
.Parameters.Add(param4)
Dim param5 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@secretcode", txtPWD.Text)
param5.DbType = DbType.String
param5.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input
.Parameters.Add(param5)
Dim param6 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@my_err", 0)
param6.DbType = DbType.Single
param6.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output
.Parameters.Add(param6)
.ExecuteNonQuery()
'pick the auto-number
Dim strAppID = .Parameters("@applicantid").Value
'notifies the user of record success
lblMessage.Text = "Profile created. Your ApplicantID is : " & strAppID & " Kindly take note of your UserID. You'll need it for future logins."
End With
Catch ex As Exception
'notifies the user of any error(s)
lblMessage.Text = Err.Description & " originating from " & Err.Source
Finally
cnx.Close()
End Try
End Sub
==================
I'm calling this procedure from the click event of a command button. What could be happening to the code? I have done similar things and got positive results! Any hint from anyone out there?
A table was created in version 6.5 that has 2 blank spaces and a slash '/' in it's name (i.e. Item Type w/Groups). This was done in error and now the table cannot be dropped or renamed and dropped.
Does anyone know how I can delete this table? Please let me know.
Hi,
I'm trying to create a view from a table in which I want to concatenate to columns to a new column. The concatenation part works fine when data "supports" calculations, i.e. no nulls. The data however is "infected" in two ways I have Null-values and I have blanks alongside with some real information. I concatenate via a CASE statement but I can't figure out how to take the 3 situations into account (nulls, blanks and data) and create one meaningfull column in my view.
The result should be
column1 + "-" if column2 is null or blank
column1 + "-" + column2 if column2 has meaningfull data
Both the involved columns are text (varchar).
If anyone has been in this situation before could you please provide som code that handles the situation.
Regards
Kim Hansen
Hello,
In my .NET.ASP application I generate a random five digit password, like so:
string password = Membership.GeneratePassword(5, 1);
The result could be a password like "0l$IE" and I the save this password to an SQL server. The problem is however that with the generated password five blanks are also added. Instead of "0l$IE" I get "0l$IE ". I hope you understand what I mean? Is there an easy way to correct this?
I appreciate any help!
I have an Excel spreadsheet with a field that may contain blanks (empty). When I filter on that field to show only the blanks, I get 4000 records returned. But if I import the spreadsheet into SQL Server, the test in there for blanks ('') returns nothing. However, if I test for Nulls in that field, I get 5000 records returned. I don't know which one (Excel or SQL Server) is giving me the right answer. Can anyone help me understand what's going on?
Thanks!
When I enter a data in a table, SQL Server automatically completes the data with blanks up to length of column.
this happens in a web form also in Management Studiıo,
Whan am I doing wrong ?
does Collation have anything with it ?
SQL Server 2005 / Developer Edition
I am try to see if there are any blanks in a node of a table that has xml data in one of the columns. The query I use is returning zero results.
Select COUNT(*)from ENTITY
Where CONVERT(XML, Ent_root_xml, 0 ).value('(//UD_PQ_FLAG/node())[1]', 'VARCHAR(50)')= ''
I have a comma delimited data file TestData.txt of the form:
123,asss,aweqrrr ,ssdsff , ,2wwwrwrr
434,sff,dgfdgd ,sffsfsfete ,sd ,dff
I want to load this data into SQL Server tables so that the data will be imported without the trailing spaces(blanks) after each data element .
Thus I will like to trim the data of the extra spaces (blanks) before import.
Desired data to be loaded :
123,asss,aweqrrr,ssdsff,,2wwwrwrr
434,sff,dgfdgd,sffsfsfete,sd,dff
Any help will be most welcomed
Aim- the following columns “Cancel_Date”, “First_Post_Date”,“Last_Post_Date” can either be populated with figures or have a null value.
I want all Null values to be removed and be replaced with a blank
Final table is
Select *
from #test
left join #SF_AccountBuild on #test.FDMSAccountNo = #SF_AccountBuild.[External FDMSaccountno]
Results
[FDMSAccountNo],
External_ID ,
Parentsfid,
[DBA Name],
[Legal Name],
Street,
[MM3-DBA-ADDR2],
[Code] .....
I am looking for a query which will populate one of my columns that contains some blanks with a defined value based on a value in another column
For example in the below table I would like the blanks in serial number to be populated with "SN09"
Product_NameSerial_Number
PRODUCT1
PRODUCT1
PRODUCT2SN10
PRODUCT3SN11
PRODUCT3SN11
PRODUCT1
So the query I am looking for would basically add some values to the results where they meet the right criteria.
I am running the query through a view so I dont actually want to add the values to the physical tables only to the view of the results if you understand what I mean?
Hi,
I've an int field and when this field has a null, I want to show empty/blanks instead of 0. How can this be achieved?
I've tried the below:
declare @a as int
set @a= null
select isnull(@a,'')
o/p: 0
select cast(isnull(@a,'') as varchar)
o/p: 0
select case convert(varchar,@a)
when null then ''
else @a
end
o/p: null
Thanks for your help!
Subha
Hi,
I am having a curious problem with parameter passing between
reports. I have 2 reports the first report gives employee name, Department and
in the second report I have employee details. If the user clicks on the
Employee name in the First report it should go to the second report and display
the details. My problem comes if suppose the employee name is Don King? when the parameter gets passed it does not recognize
the space between the name and throws
an error saying King not recognized.
Would appreciate if anybody could suggest as to how I can
pass the name with spaces in the report parameters.
Thanks and regards
PMNJ
Hi,
With DTS, the default behavior is to import blanks ("") in a data file as nulls in the table.
However, in SSIS, the default behavior is to import blanks as blanks.
I need to ensure that the packages I'm migrating import the data in the exact same way. I am wondering what is the easiest way to convert blanks to nulls?
Right now I'm using a script to convert the blanks to nulls before they are written to the table, but just wondering if there's an easier way.
Thanks
I have a report that has DateTime parameters e.g. StartDate and EndDate. When I create these report parameters the "Allow Blank" option is disabled but checked. When I run the report and do not enter anything in these fields it pops a message asking me to enter the Date. How do I use the "Allow Blank" option for date parameters on my report?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I run some code through an odbc driver onto a SQL server 6.5 database, from vb an error is being returned along the lines of
22005 Syntax error converting 'string' to INT4
if I copy this code, either from vb or from sql trace, and run it in isql the code runs without any errors.
The only thing I have found is about NULLs so I have removed these from the code that is passed through?
Any more suggestions?
I have been searching high and low for days and I am perplexed and appalled at the lack of information regarding what can not be an isolated incident.
We are trying to get an Analysis Services 2005 to process on a x64 server. We have both versions of the Oracle client installed and .ora file in both places. I have seen a couple of posts regarding this issue, but they are 2 years old and MS was supposed to have resolved the 'parentheses' issue long ago.
The test connection succeeds, and I can explore the data in the datasource view, but I cannot process the cube. All I get is the "OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Class not registered"
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2
Enterprise x64 Editon
Service Pack 2
Installed Oracle Client 10g and ODAC home
I tried a few things that were suggested in posts, but nothing has worked. I tried the cmd line starting SSMS from progra~2 instead of (x86). I tried renaming the directory with no parentheses. This is the second time we've tried to get it to work in 2 years. We'll probably give up again and stay with x86, um, because it works without all these silly mickey-mouse tricks. Most of our relational DBs are ORACLE so this is a showstopper for us as far as trying to go x64.
Sorry for the attitude, but I'm really frustrated!
If anyone can tell me a way to resolve this (or that it can't be resolved), I'd really appreciate it!
I'm working on a new project using SSIS in SQL Server 2005 and have an issue that I need resolved.
I'm loading an XML file into SSIS using the XML Source Adapter. This maps to an OLE DB destination which reads the data into a SQL table (please see below for the table structure). In between this stage is a data conversion to convert the Unicode characters from XML into non-Unicode characters.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[XMLTest](
[Forename] [varchar](50) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NULL,
[Surname] [varchar](50) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NULL,
[PostCode] [varchar](50) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL
)
The problem I have is with blank strings in xml are being inserted into the SQL table as NULL values and not blanks (see the xml below).
<Root>
<People>
<Forename>Duncan3</Forename>
<Surname></Surname>
<PostCode>ME16 0WH</PostCode>
</People>
</Root>
Correct me if I'm wrong but a null value in xml means the node does not exist (See the xml below)?
<Root>
<People>
<Forename>Duncan3</Forename>
<PostCode>ME16 0WH</PostCode>
</People>
</Root>
Please also find the schema attached for reference.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xschema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="Root">
<xs:complexType>
<xsequence>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" name="People">
<xs:complexType>
<xsequence>
<xs:element minOccurs="1" name="Forename" type="xstring" />
<xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Surname" type="xstring" />
<xs:element minOccurs="1" name="PostCode" type="xstring" />
</xsequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xsequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xschema>
Hi,
This might sound obvious, or a newbie question, but how are trailing blanks treated by SQL2005 on varchar columns?
I have a column where two rows only differ by a trailing blank. If write a select and a where clause on the column, anly trailing blanks seem to be trimmed. I tried the ansi padding setting but it doesn't change anything. Is it a question of collation? I have default collation on the server set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS...
The problem also seems to arise when I try to create a unique index on the column, where both values are considered equivalent...
I give here a sample based on the BOL for set ansi_padding. I was expecting each of the select statements below to retrun only one row...
Cany somebody please explain why they all return two rows?
PRINT 'Testing with ANSI_PADDING ON'
SET ANSI_PADDING ON;
GO
CREATE TABLE t1 (
charcol CHAR(16) NULL,
varcharcol VARCHAR(16) NULL,
varbinarycol VARBINARY(8)
);
GO
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('No blanks', 'No blanks', 0x00ee);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('Trailing blank ', 'Trailing blank ', 0x00ee00);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES ('Trailing blank ', 'Trailing blank', 0x00ee00);
SELECT 'CHAR' = '>' + charcol + '<', 'VARCHAR'='>' + varcharcol + '<',
varbinarycol
FROM t1
where varcharcol='Trailing blank';
GO
SELECT 'CHAR' = '>' + charcol + '<', 'VARCHAR'='>' + varcharcol + '<',
varbinarycol
FROM t1
where varcharcol='Trailing blank ';
GO
PRINT 'Testing with ANSI_PADDING OFF';
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF;
GO
CREATE TABLE t2 (
charcol CHAR(16) NULL,
varcharcol VARCHAR(16) NULL,
varbinarycol VARBINARY(8)
);
GO
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES ('No blanks', 'No blanks', 0x00ee);
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES ('Trailing blank ', 'Trailing blank ', 0x00ee00);
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES ('Trailing blank ', 'Trailing blank', 0x00ee00);
SELECT 'CHAR' = '>' + charcol + '<', 'VARCHAR'='>' + varcharcol + '<',
varbinarycol
FROM t2
where varcharcol='Trailing blank';
GO
SELECT 'CHAR' = '>' + charcol + '<', 'VARCHAR'='>' + varcharcol + '<',
varbinarycol
FROM t2
where varcharcol='Trailing blank ';
GO
DROP TABLE t1
DROP TABLE t2
I have a small question here is below how my data look
K_ID ColA ColB
ColC ColD
1 X12134 ABCD
' ' 1/1/2015
2 X12134 ABCD
' ' 2/1/2015
3 X12134 ABCD
DE02635 3/1/2015
I want the output like this
K_ID ColA ColB
ColC ColD
1 X12134 ABCD
DE02635 1/1/2015
2 X12134 ABCD
DE02635 2/1/2015
3 X12134 ABCD
DE02635 3/1/2015
I tried using Over by, Lag functions.. But some where i am missing the logic in achieving the Output...