I am trying to get this code to work: (left(religion,1))+ lower(right(religion,len(religion)-1))As Religion
I am getting this error:
Invalid length parameter passed to the RIGHT function.
I know you are able to display data all uppercase or all lowercase, but how do you display it First letter capital rest lower. Like a First or Last name?
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Top
Cust1
Cust5
Cust2
Rest
Cust3
Cust4
I was thinking potentially the top/rest could be a shell dimension and then scope on these members to show the top and rest, however I haven't been able to achieve this.
I have a table that I would like to only keep the top 10 rows for each username. How can I kep the top 10 and delete the rest?
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View 9 Replies View RelatedHello, I am new here and to sql so please bare with me.
I am trying to create 2 select statements from the same field. The field is a job_description field that sometimes contains PO#'s. One select statement needs to extract the PO# if it has been written in the field and the other needs to extract all data that is not the PO#
Here is some example of the data:
New shirts for 2007
Magazine cover for may edition
Way to go postcards PO# 45687
PO#879
For the first select statement I need to capture just the PO#. the result for the above examples would be:
NULL
NULL
45687
879
For the second select statement I need everything but the PO#. The result would be:
New shirts for 2007
Magazine cover for may edition
Way to go postcards
NULL
So far I have put together a basic idea for the PO# part:
(SELECT SUBSTRING (job_description , (SELECT patindex('%PO#%', job_description)+3),10)WHERE job_description LIKE '%po#%')
If i could figure out a way to only return numeric data from the above i think it will work.
As for the second select statement i am at a loss on how to select everything but the PO#.
Any help at all is very much appreciated.
Thanks
Hi I know i can use a LOWER or UPPER function to change the
case of letters, but say i want to change all but the 1st letter
ie i want MARK SMITH to be Mark Smith ... MARK and SMITH
are 2 seperate columns so im assuming something like
select UPPER(first_name,1) ...
Hi, I am wrote the following code in one store procedure called p_bcp_all.
and then scheduled it to run over night. what if the first two bcp were successful but the third one failed. Is the whole procedure going to fail? also what if the first one failed, is the rest of the code going to be executed have the bcp process going for the second and the third table?
thanks for your adivce
regards Ali
create procedure p_bcp_all as
Exec master..xp_cmdshell "bcp servername..tblone in d:blone.txt /fd:formatfileblone.fmt /servername /Usa /password/b250000 /a8000"
Exec master..xp_cmdshell "bcp servername..tbltwo in d:bltwo.txt /fd:formatfilebltwo.fmt /servername /Usa /password/b250000 /a8000"
Exec master..xp_cmdshell "bcp servername..tblthree in d:blone.txt /fd:formatfileblthree .fmt /servername /Usa /password/b250000 /a8000"
GO
I have a third party application that creates several databases on my sql server. This party uses the same user for accessing all this databases. However after moving to a new server this databases the user is no longer able to query them whith the exception of the "sa" user. Could anyone explain me how to add permissions to this databases manually so the user can query them again.
Thanks in advance
brgds
Miguel
hi
I have a column in my database i would like to convert to lowercase
is their a t-sql statement or something i can use so i dont have to do it manually ??
cheers!!!
--drop table #temp
create table #temp (id int, idvalue int)
insert into #temp(id,idvalue)
select 1095,75
[code]...
I need to take the id value from maximum's id, and compare the rest id value from the table. i need to check the diffrence , if diffrence is more than 18, then i need to raise the flag as failure otherwise the whole test is success. i need to take 63 and compare rest 69,65,61,75.check the diffrence less than 18 or not.
Hi All,
I am writing a SP where I need to pass an value to maintain records of last n days. In this SP I am deleting a couple of tables based on the value passed to this SP. For e.g. If the SP is passed the value 10, then only TOP 10 records is maintained, the rest are deleted.
I have formed the following logic, which I feel can be improved vastly.
I create a temp table and
CREATE TABLE #TempAuditTbl (Rownum int PRIMARY KEY, Orderid uniqueidentifier)
INSERT INTO #TempAuditTbl
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY orderdate desc) AS rownum, Orderid FROM Orders
DELETE Orders FROM Orders INNER JOIN #TempAuditTbl adt ON adt.Orderid = Orders.Orderid AND rownum > @TopnRows
DROP TABLE #TempAuditTbl
OR
DELETE FROM Orders WHERE orderid NOT IN ( SELECT TOP @TopnRows OrderID FROM Orders ORDER BY OrderDate desc)
This way I am able to keep the top n records.
Which of these two solutions is more efficient? Is there a more efficient way to achieve the same.
Please help.
Thanks & regards
Sunil
Hello,
I have been having a hard time with this issue. I am attempting to join a table onto itself to get the closest date onto a single row.
What i mean is:
I have the following data
id date
1 10/07/08
2 10/06/07
3 10/06/03
4 10/06/03
the new table should have the current id and the one closes to it as so.
1 10/07/08 2 10/06/07
2 10/06/07 3 10/06/03
3 10/06/03 null null
4 10/06/03 null null
but i am getting duplicates do to the 10/06/03.
1 10/07/08 2 10/06/07
2 10/06/07 3 10/06/03
2 10/06/07 4 10/06/03
3 10/06/03 null null
4 10/06/03 null null
i want so that if there is a duplicate i can take the id thats higher. I cant figure it out.
This is my current sql:
SELECT PB.ID,PB.StartDate, PB2.ID, PB2.Startdate
from table PB
left outer join table PB2 on PB.keyID = PB2.keyID
and PB2.StartDate < PB.StartDate
and PB.StartDate = (select top(1) StartDate from table PB3 where PB.keyID = PB3.keyID
and PB2.StartDate < PB3.StartDate order by PB3.StartDate asc)
Thanks for the help.
I have following problem:table includes times for startup and end of operation as datetime fieldrelated to daily shift operations:dateid date starttime endtime458 2006-12-29 22:00 23:15458 2006-12-29 00:15 01:30459 2006-12-30 20:00 21:10459 2006-12-30 22:15 23:35459 2006-12-30 23:30 00:40459 2006-12-30 01:50 02:30records are inserted for a date related to begining of the shift, althoughsome operations are performed also past the midnight (actualy next day, ex:2006-12-31), but belongs to same shift (group)Now I need to build a function that corrects (updates) the date of everyoperation recorded after midnight to a date+1 value, so all records relatedto same groups (458, 459, etc) that starts after midnight has correct date.The procedure has to update already exiting table.Any solution?Grey
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I have a big problem with the design and the queries of a couple of tables. I have to calculate the weighted average of the number of days between an invoice and the sum of its payments (rateal payments), weighting this number with the invoice's amount, and only when the sum of the invoice's payments equal invoice amount.
I have designed two FactTables to accomplish this:
Example:
data in the fist table (FactInvoice) looks like this:
CustomerId, InvoiceDate, InvoiceNumber, InvoiceAmount
1234567 2008-03-10 123 1000.00
1234567 2008-04-10 150 2000.00
and data in the second one (FactPayments) looks as below:
CustomerId, PaymentDate, InvoiceNumber, PaymentsAmount
1234567 2008-03-10 123 500
1234567 2008-03-15 123 500
1234567 2008-04-20 150 800
1234567 2008-04-23 150 1200
Let's suppose that I'm querying the cube for the customer 1234567, at the date 2008-05-01. I need to sum the payments for the first invoice multiplicating it for the count of days elapsed, then divide the number by the InvoiceAmount (or PaymentsAmount, is the same) : (0 days * 500‚¬ + 5 days * 500‚¬ + 10 days * 800‚¬ + 13 days * 1200)/3000‚¬ = 8,7 days of weighted average to cash an invoice.
How can I do this with Analisys Services ? Is it too complicated ? Here, in the southern Italy, the problem of customer's debit is heavily felt, and total like this are really important!
Any help or suggestion will be really appreciated.
Marco
I have a column that contains extra info that needs to be moved to another column or deleted alltogether. is there a way to select these items and move them to another column, leaving the rest of the data in the original column?
EXAMPLE
MYTABLE >COLUMN1
May have Data Like: ABCDE123 SER1 or XYZ12DEFSer1:1
WHAT I NEED TO DO IS
Move anything after the SER1 to a new column and retain the rest of the data in the original column. making it look something like this:
COL1 COL2
ABCDE123 SER1
XYZ12DEF Ser1:1
Another question is if there is a way to delete extra spaces? Like make all data that has two or more extra spaces, just single spaces and any additional spacing after a row of data, delete all additional spaces after the last letter/character/number.
One more question - What would be a great resource to learn MS SQL in more depth?
I am trying to learn ASP/VBScript/JavaScript/ and now MS SQL all at once b/c this is what my business depends on. Trying to be 5,000 hats at once can get confusing and overwhelming, so I am looking for any "Crash course" I can to learn as much, as fast as possible. Any direction or ideas?
Thank you.
I have to modify the table structure where the table have a lot of data already. The log is getting full due to uncommitted transactions, there is a lot of data being updated in large bulks, not all of the transactions are committed, the update task cannot be completed.
However, there is no more spare disk space for it to commit the transaction. Anyone can help?
I just started playing with sqlagent and am finding that viewing a specific message from an ssis step is cumbersome when other entries are also in the log. Exporting seems only able to export all history entries. Viewing right in the log viewer leads to a series of boundary expansions and right scrolls that dont seem convenient for quick identification of a problem in a medium sized ssis message. Right clicking on the message in the viewer seems like it is preparing the message for possible copy but it seems to end there. I'm already familiar with the different levels of verbosity available in the command line. Dont see anything useful on the web.
Is there a user friendly way to copy the contents of a specific message for perhaps pasting to notepad , so that problem identification is facilitated? Is there a not so user friendly way available, one taht doest involve 1st exporting the entire log?
Hi there ;
I've a photo viewer which shows the image based on a datetime QueryString. I've a couple of buttons like next, prev, last, .... .
in the "prev" for instance, i want to select the image with a datetime that is lower than the current image datetime, and is the biggest one of course.but i'm stuck in it!
By the way i use .net 2.0 & Sql 05 Express
thanks in advance
For example,
select fieldA form tableA where fieldA = 'aaa'
I got following output
fieldA
---------
aaa
aAa
AAA
AAa
...
if I want select only the lower case 'aaa', how can I do that?
My SQL Server database is not case sensetive.
How can I compare like cluase with search for capital and small letter?
For example
SELECT add1 from xcty_all where add1 like '%AL'%'
I need only
...................
10 ltncewwod way AL
456 Ruio St. AL
NOT
Duci Ral Rd Mexico
Albi Road Hawai CA
I want to ingore this bold letter on search
Sanjeev Shrestha
12/17/1971
I need to split a string in two if there are lowercase characters atthe end of it.For example:'AAPLpr' becomes 'AAPL' and 'pr''Ta' becomes 'T' and 'a''MSFT' becomes 'MSFT' and '''TAPA' becomes 'TAPA' and ''I am using SQL 2000. I read about "collate Latin1_General_CS_AS" butnot sure if I can use that outside of a select statement.Thank you in advance for any help.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedHi,
My database is case insensitive. However, the application is case sensitive for the data in the table.
I need to find out the data from the table where the data is stored in lower case.
Here is the sample data:
Table: inv_manager
column: sku varchar(5)
Data: 1134X
1135x
1123a
b145Y
I just need query to return row 2, 3, 4.
Here is my query:
select sku from inv_manager where sku like lower('%[a-z]%')
The problem is it returns all the rows from the table including first one.
How can I return just the data with lower case ?
Thanks
Currently i have 2 type of data
A and a
But when i try to:
select * from tableA where col = 'a'
then all record with A and a will be selected, any way to avoid it and select only record with col ='a'?
In the database, most of our cities are stored in all upper case. For reporting purposes, I need to have them returned as upper/lower.  I used the below function, which works great for one word cities.  However I can’t figure out how to get it to capitalize the 1st letter of each word, for addresses containing multiple names such as Rancho Santa Margarita.Â
Upper(left(CR_MEMBER_ALLMEMBERDETAILS.ADDRESSCITY,1))+lower(substring(CR_MEMBER_ALLMEMBERDETAILS.ADDRESSCITY, 2, LEN(CR_MEMBER_ALLMEMBERDETAILS.ADDRESSCITY)))As ADDRESSCITY
This returns back: ‘Rancho santa margarita’; I need it to return ‘Rancho Santa Margarita’. Is this possible to do at the query level?
Hi
I can't create unique index like that:
1 - create table abc ( colZ varchar(10) )
2 - insert into abc values ( "test")
3 - insert into abc values ("Test")
4 - create unique index idx_abc on abc ( colZ ) -- This doesnt work
.... duplicate key was found for object name abc......
Is not there difference between "Test" and "test"?
Can I work around this?
cheers,
I am trying to erase some erroneous bad data in my table. The description column has a lot of </div>oqwiroiweuru</a> weird data attached to it, i want to keep the data to the left of where the </div> erroneous data begins
update MyTable
set Description = LEFT(Description(CHARINDEX('<',Description)-1)) where myid = 1
that totally works.
update MyTable
set Description = LEFT(Description(CHARINDEX('<',Description)-1)) where myid >= 2
gives me a Invalid length parameter passed to the LEFT or SUBSTRING function. The statement has been terminated error.
I have a table of definitions:
---------------------------
Glossary
---------------------------
Term | Definition
---------------------------
What I need to do is find all the letters that are at the beginning of the terms.
So if I have "apple" as a term, A is returned.
Also, if I have "forest", "fruit", and "flower", F is returned, but only once.
And if I have no terms that start with Q, Q is not returned.
Lastly, if I have a term like " 'Walking' Pneumonia", it should recognize that the term starts with a W.
I'm still haven't resolved the issue with displaying information from a SQL database. The text I'm displaying is in ALL CAPS in the SQL database, and I'm trying to convert it so that when I display it in gridview, The First Letter Of Each Word Is Capitalized, as apposed to ALL CAPS. I've tried the text-transform feature of CSS, but I noticed in a SQL book there are LOWER() & UPPER() string functions. The ideal thing to do then, would be to do some select statement that converts all the incoming text to lowercase, then use the CSS text-transform: capitalize , to convert the first letter of each word to caps. Basically, I need a select statement or something that converts my sql material to lowercase. Thanks.
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