Hi,
Whats wrong with the following T-SQL?
DECLARE @SQL NCHAR(4000)
SELECT @SQL = 'xxxx'
SELECT @SQL = @SQL + ' yyyy'
PRINT @SQL
I'm only seeing 'xxxx' in the debug window so it appears that its not adding the 2 strings?
Weird?!?
I have a whole bunch of bit fields in an SQL data base, which makes it a little messy to report on.
I thought a nice idea would be to assigne a text string/null value to each bit field and concatenate all of them into a result.
This is the basic logic goes soemthing like this:
select case new_accountant = 1 then 'acct/' end +
case new_advisor = 1 then 'adv/' end +
case new_attorney = 1 then 'atty/' end as String
from new_database
The output would be
Null, acct/, adv/, atty, acct/adv/, acct/atty/... acct/adv/atty/
So far, nothing I have tried has worked.
Any ideas?
I have a table within a table that contains descriptions of work done as strings. Some of these need to be edited after a report is generated so it needs to be exported to Excel.
As everyone knows Excel can't process a table within a table so I need a way to concatenate all the separate row entries in the nested table to one Field entry so the nested table is no longer necessary.
Is there a way to recursively concatenate strings from the report designer?
The number of rows that need to be concatenated is variable so it has to be flexible.
I am trying to export data from a SQLServer database into a text fileusing a stored procedure. I want to be able to read it and debug iteasily; therefore, I want all the columns to indent nicely. This meansI need to append trailing spaces to a text string (such as "Test1 ")or append leading space in front of a text string that contains anumber (such as " 12.00"). Now, the stored procedure works fine whenI run it in Query Analyzer. But it doesn't work correctly when I runit using ISQL - All the columns are not indented. I am wondering whyit doesn't work in ISQL.This is what I want, and this is also what I get when I run the storedprocedure using Query Analyzer:Test1 , 2,Test1.txt , 1.00, 1.00Test22 , 2,Test22.txt , ,Test333 , 2,Test333.txt , 30.00, 30.00This is what I get if I run the stored procedure using ISQL(isql -S myserver -E -w 556 -h-1 -n -d mydb -Q "exec MyTest"):Test1, 2,Test1.txt, 1.00, 1.00Test22, 2,Test22.txt, ,Test333, 2,Test333.txt, 30.00, 30.00You can see that the result from ISQL has the following differences:1. It puts a space in front of each row.2. It appends enough spaces at the end of each line to makethe line length to be exactly 61 characters.3. It gets rid of the trailing space from each column.4. It leaves only one blank space if the column has nothingbut a serie of spaces.The following is the stored procedure that I am testing:create procedure MyTestasset nocount oncreate table #Test(Field1 varchar(10) null,Field2 varchar( 5) null,Field3 varchar(20) null,Field4 varchar(10) null,Field5 varchar(10) null)insert into #Test values( "Test1 ", " 2","Test1.txt ", " 1.00", " 1.00" )insert into #Test values( "Test22 ", " 2","Test22.txt ", " ", " " )insert into #Test values( "Test333 ", " 2","Test333.txt ", " 30.00", " 30.00" )select Field1 + "," +Field2 + "," +Field3 + "," +Field4 + "," +Field5from #Testdrop table #TestgoStrangely, the differences #3 and #4 only show up when I use theSELECT statement on a table. They don't show up when I use SELECTstatements to show constant text strings or string variables, likethis:set nocount onselect "Test1 " + "," +" 2" + "," +"Test1.txt " + "," +" 1.00" + "," +" 1.00"select "Test22 " + "," +" 2" + "," +"Test22.txt " + "," +" " + "," +" "select "Test333 " + "," +" 2" + "," +"Test333.txt " + "," +" 30.00" + "," +" 30.00"The result is like the following if I use constant text strings orstring variables:Test1 , 2,Test1.txt , 1.00, 1.00Test22 , 2,Test22.txt , ,Test333 , 2,Test333.txt , 30.00, 30.00I need to run it from ISQL because that is how I run _all_ my otherstored procedures. I don't want to do anything differently justbecause I need to run this stored procedure.Thanks in advance for any suggestion.Jay Chan
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I am uncertain how to do this. I am thinking it could be done in a script component, but after a day of experimentation, I'm not getting any closer. I'd also like to know if there is another component I may be able to use for this.
I have data coming from an Excel Spreadsheet that looks like this:
CustNumb Invoice
1 a
1 b
2 c
3 d
3 e
3 f
I would like an output that looks like this:
CustNumb Invoice
1 a, b
2 c
3 d, e, f
I am not even sure if I should be trying to do this in the subroutine that looks at each row or the one that looks at the entire buffer.
Thanks for any help or ideas...
Hilary
Need help. How to concat into 1 row from the example below:
Table Address
Block Flr Road
2 1 Green
3 - Maine
4 3 Bell
5 2 Prade
Result :
Block 2 Flr 1 Green Road
Block 3 Maine Road
Block 4 Flr 3 Bell Road
Block 5 Flr 2 Prade Road
Cheers!
is it possible to concatenate 2 recordsets ? i have 2 select, and i need then to be displayed one after other.using union all the results are gathered, ordered like only one select.thanks for all
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to use a variable (@sqlfields1) for building a select statement.
Can someone please help me because the variable isn't set correctly when I'm trying to concatenate it with itself (the "@sqlfields1"-variable is declared as "char(50)":
If @showo1 = 1
select @sqlfields1 = 'o1,'
If @showo5 = 1
select @sqlfields1 = @sqlfields1 + 'o5'
I want @sqlfields1 to be = 'o1, o5'.
Regards,
Abrazame
Please help me with this if you can.
I have one table with CustomerID and some other data.
In other table i have CustomerID(the link with the first table) and Agent
The relation of the first with the second one is ONE TO MANY.
I want something like this:
Customer,'Agent1,Agent2,Agent3'
Is it possible.
Please help :)
Hey all
Just like the title asks...Is it possible...I have a table that stores memos but breaks the memo text field up and assigns a key to associate it all as one big text field in the application. What I am needing to do is to create a custom table for a customization to have the memo txt in one row per customer, per memo number. So, is there any way to concatenate memotext into one row per memo?
Thanks
tibor
is it possible to concatenate 2 recordsets ?
i have 2 selects and i want to display all results from the first
select and then the results from the second select query
with paging.
if i use union, all the results will be mixed.
thanks for the help!
Is there a way to concatenate the values of a particular field together into one field for all the records in each group of a GROUP BY without using XML?
Ideally, I want to accomplish this in a stored procedure. Normally, I would handle this in the front end, but my front end is Crystal ...
For example, if my data was:
1 "A"
1 "B"
1 "C"
2 "D"
2 "E"
I want to group by the first value and concatenate the second value:
1 "A,B,C"
2 "D,E"
Very easy using code - I simply add a function to the query in Access (not very efficient, but effective), or using recordsets in the app (which is actually very efficient) except my front end is Crystal in this case .
I have a table like so
code remarks
1234 abcd
4567 efgh
I need to concatenate the values in the remarks column into one row like below
abcd, efgh....how is it possible
I have a table like below.
certid name
1 xxx
1 yyy
1 cvb
now I want to output as xxx,yyy,cvb when i pass input certid=1
I want to get it using a single query statement
I hope this is the correct place to ask this...
I would like to concatenate a String value to an Int value using an SQL statement. At the moment it reads like this:
SELECT 'website.com/shop/product.cfm?ProductID=' + Products.ProductID AS Product_URL
But unfortunately I am getting the error:
"Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'website.com/shop/product.cfm?ProductID=' to data type int."
Any idea how to get around this at all just using an SQL query statement?
-- Prepare sample data
DECLARE@Sample TABLE (ID INT, Code VARCHAR(3))
INSERT@Sample
SELECT290780, 'LT' UNION ALL
SELECT290780, 'AY' UNION ALL
SELECT290781, 'ILS' UNION ALL
SELECT290780, 'AY'
-- Show the expected output
SELECT DISTINCTs1.ID,
STUFF((SELECT DISTINCT TOP 100 PERCENT ',' + s2.CODE FROM @Sample AS s2 WHERE s2.ID = s1.ID ORDER BY ',' + s2.CODE FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') AS CODES
FROM@Sample AS s1
ORDER BYs1.ID
SELECT DISTINCTs1.ID,
STUFF((SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT ',' + s2.CODE FROM @Sample AS s2 WHERE s2.ID = s1.ID ORDER BY ',' + s2.CODE FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') AS CODES
FROM@Sample AS s1
ORDER BYs1.ID
SELECT DISTINCTs1.ID,
STUFF((SELECT ',' + s2.CODE FROM @Sample AS s2 WHERE s2.ID = s1.ID FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') AS CODES
FROM@Sample AS s1
ORDER BYs1.ID
Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden
I am beggining to learn stored procedures and I am trying toconcatenate the where clause below but I keep getting an error:declare @sqlwhere varchar(15)set @sqlwhere = 'parentid=2'select * from categories where @sqlwhereThis is the error I am gettingServer: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 3Line 3: Incorrect syntax near '@sqlwhere'.What am I doing wrong?ThanksRod
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View 2 Replies View RelatedHi there,
We are storing dates in a SQL table as dayPublished, monthPublished, yearPublished because sometimes not all the values are available.
I thought something like
select dbo.Resources.monthPublished + '/' + dbo.Resources.dayPublished + '/' + dbo.Resources.yearPublished as fullDate
but it doesn't like my slashes, and if I leave them out it simply adds the three fields together. Boo!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Megan
Hi,
I have a big problem, as I commented in other thread in this forum I Have a DataReader with an MDX query which right now runs out of memory, but I figured that if I made the query by range I could get what I need without running out of memory. However, to achieve that I need to concatenate at the end of a file with a Flat File destination, the result of every query, but I don't know how to do it, It always writes over the data.
Hi
I have a table similar to the following:
Date ID Name Job Number JobType
12/12/2007 123456 Fred Smith 111111 Full Day
12/12/2007 654321 Bob Blue 222222 Half Day AM
12/12/2007 654321 Bob Blue 333333 Half Day PM
I need the following output:
Date ID Name Job Number JobType
12/12/2007 123456 Fred Smith 111111 Full Day
12/12/2007 654321 Bob Blue 222222 Half Day AM
12/12/2007 654321 Bob Blue 333333 Half Day PM
Now before you say the output is the same . It isn't! There are only 2 records in the output. The italic lines are one record, with a carriage return linefeed between each piece of data. So for job number the field is equal to 111111 + CHAR(10) + CHAR(13) + 222222
Could someone please point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Hi All,
I have a very simple question which I can't seem to find an easy way of doing in SSIS. (Alternatively I may be having a "Can't see the wood for the trees" moment )
I have a folder where files are deposited on a regular basis . (Every few seconds)
I want to take those files and concatenate them into a single file in another directory ready for processing.
The equivelent command prompt line would be copy c: estfiles*.* c: estfilescatteddata.dat
How would I be best doing this in SSIS? Also I could do with working out the best way to quiesce the folder so I don't get any locked files errors.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Nick
Is there any way of concatenating 2 fields and a seperator, an id (integer) then "|||" then a nvarchar field, it would make my life much easier if I could come up with SQL that works in ms access as well as sql server.. Thanks
View 7 Replies View RelatedHi all I need some help in concatenatng a string in T-SQL. Having used the Command Microsoft Access inside the 'SQL View' window and typed the following it worked perfectly.
Code Snippet
UPDATE tblValidUsers SET blocked_users = blocked_users + 'name_123@hotmail.com;' WHERE userid='Onam'
However attempting the same command in T-SQL I get the following error:
Msg 403, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Invalid operator for data type. Operator equals add, type equals text.
Reason for having this command is I want to be able to add something to the end of the field "blocked_users" without actually overwriting the fields contents.
So for instance if I had the items: "Item1, Item2, Item3" in blocked_users and I updated it with "Item4" then the value "Item4" would be added to the end thus the use of "+" is used to concatenate. Is there a way of doing this in T-SQL?
Thanks for the help, Onam
I have the below problem:
DECLARE @t TABLE
(
ID int,
Name nvarchar(255)
)
INSERT INTO @t
SELECT 1, 'Raven'
[Code] ....
Returns the below:
ID Name
1 Raven
4 Raven
43 Jack
Any names which are appearing twice I would like to have only one row so concatenate the IDs into one row for each Name, like below:
ID Name
1, 4 Raven
43 Jack
Is this possible?
Hi everyone,
I'm writing a stored procedure where I need to concatenate two XML strings.
I would normally write XMLx = XMLy + XMLz
However because the variables are in XML SQL2005 doesn't like this and if I convert them to strings the XML structure gets lost.
Anyone any ideas ?
Thanks
D.
i have a table
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declare
@rand_id intset @rand_id=(SELECT ABS(CAST(CAST(NEWID() AS VARBINARY) AS INT)))
print @rand_id
now I want to add "-07" to the end of the random number generated.
if 12345 is the random number, i want it to be 1245-07.
Any idea how to concatenate the "07" to this random number?
I would like to concatenate text datatypes. Is this possible??
I'm using field1 + " " + field2
I cannot convert to varchar since the size is larger than 8000.
Thanks, Vic
Hey Folks,
I have a View that I'm using to power a Crystal Report. I want to include an extra column that will be a string containing all the values from a single column of another table, seperated by comma.
So for example:
Project | Staff
----------------------
TestProject1 | "Jonathan, Greg, Joe"
Is this possible? Where do I do it? From the SQL Server end or in the report?
I am trying to concatenate three columns and when one column might be NULL, the result set is NULL. I have set "concat null yields null" to false and the result is the same. Here is my code:
Code:
SELECT lname + ',' + space(1) + fname + SPACE(1) + mname as FullName
TIA
Mike
Hi,
I am trying to concatenate single quotation mark (ie- ' ) in the select query but not succeed.
If I concatenate word India's, how should I have to write the select query..?
Its just query I have not concern with any specific database.