Concatenating Numbers/Converting Dates To Integers
Feb 24, 2004
My ERP software stores all dates as integers. So originally, I wrote a T-SQL function to convert these integer dates to normal people dates in the query I use as the recordset for my report. Well...that worked fine on 1,000 rows, but NOT for 100,000. So I've figured out that if I convert my normal person date parameter to an integer date, then SQL only has to convert my 1 parameter instead of having to convert 100,000 fields, (actually, 300,000 because I have 3 date columns).
So my question is, what is the best way to do this? This is what I have so far:
SET @Macola = Cast(Datepart(yy,@MacolaDate) as varchar) + Cast(Datepart(mm,@MacolaDate) as varchar) + Cast(Datepart(dd,@MacolaDate) as varchar)
However, I want the leading zeros for the month and day. For example if I enter '1/1/2004' into this function, it returns 200411, but I need it to return 20040101.
Any suggestions would be greatly apprectiated. Thank you.
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Jun 12, 2007
It seems I am facing again an unsurmountable problem It should be so simple but one has to spend hours researching how to handle it. The MSDN help on this subject is increadibly obscure.
I have input parameters @months int, @days int, @years int in a stored procedure.
All I want to do is to get a DateTime variable out of them.
DECLARE @dated DateTime.
Thus I want @dated to be set to a DateTime value with month = @months, day = @days and year = @years. The MSDN help says that no CAST should be used since the conversion from int to DateTime should be implicit!!
No examples are given. They seem to show how to CAST or CONVERT varchar to DateTime. Shall I first convert my int to varchar?
It is rudiculous. I've tried dozens of variants. Please help.
Thanks.
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Feb 23, 2007
I am trying use the decimal data type for a field in SQL Server. When I input the values below, they round off.
73.827 Rounds to 74
1925.1 Rounds to 1925
119.79 Rounds to 120
What am I missing? Access never gave me this issue. Do you see any reason this would happen? I am entering the values into the table directly!
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Nov 1, 2013
I've converted a date field to a number. I'd then like to concatenate this with another number field.
(CONVERT(bigint,convert(datetime,[Date of Incident])) + ' ' + cast([Incident Number]as nvarchar(4))) as 'lookup'
Using the code above only returns the converted date to number field.
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Sep 20, 2007
Hello,
I apologise if this question has been asked before but I have searched forums and the web and have not found a solution. I am current creating a script that has a cursor that builds a sql statement to be executed e.g.
--code within cursor
SELECT '
DECLARE @Result INT
EXEC @Result = DELETE_DOCUMENT
@DocumentID = ' + STR(DocumentID) + ',
@TimeStamp =' + CAST([Timestamp] as varchar) + ',
-- CHECK RESULT AND STATUS
-- IF OK LOG IN META_BATCH ELSE LOG ERROR' AS SQL
FROM Document
The problem I am having is trying to join the timestamp column into the sql string. I have tried to cast the time stamp to a varchar but I end up with the following output for the timestamp column values
T
T€‘
T
xnĂž
T!
T"
T#
T$
T%
T&
T'
T(
T)
T*
T+
T,
instead of
0x0000000013540F1C
0x0000000013540F1E
0x0000000013540F1F
0x0000000013786EDE
0x0000000013540F21
0x0000000013540F22
0x0000000013540F23
0x0000000013540F24
0x0000000013540F25
0x0000000013540F26
0x0000000013540F27
0x0000000013540F28
0x0000000013540F29
0x0000000013540F2A
0x0000000013540F2B
0x0000000013540F2C
which would not allow my delete script to work correctly. So I would really appreciate some advice to a pointer to where I might find out how to convert the timestamp.
Thanks
Sam
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Jul 12, 2007
if
(datalength
(cast_varchar
([Costpoint].[Profit_Calc_Consolidation].[PD])
) = 1)
then
(0 ||
cast_varchar
([Costpoint].[Profit_Calc_Consolidation].[PD]))
else
(cast_varchar
([Costpoint].[Profit_Calc_Consolidation].[PD]))
Goal:
To be able to tell the Period number ([PD]) to change from an integer to a var_char so that it can be concatenated with the Fiscal Year. I.e. Fiscal Year || Period number to produce the following results.
2006 01
2006 02
2006 03
Etc……
Status of Problem:
The issue is that I can only get it done to the point to where the Fiscal Year || Period number yields the following results:
20061
200610
200611
200612
20062
Etc….
This is as issue since I am trying to get all the information from the past to a certain year and period. Using a filter that says
Fiscal Year + Period Number <= ?Prompt_Fiscal_Year? + ?Prompt_Period_Number?
So if I enter Year: 2007 Period 3
I should get:
2006 01
2006 02
2006 03
Etc…….
2006 11
2006 12
2007 01
2007 02
2007 03
Can you please let me know if my thinking is off or if my SQL is wrong, Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
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Jul 20, 2005
I want to generate a resultset that is just a series of numbers inascending order or perhaps a series of dates.. What I mean is, isthere a way to generate a temporary table of dates given an input of astart date and an end date.. This table would then contain an entryfor each date in ascending order from the start date to and includingthe end date..Or perhaps with numbers, given a start of 5 and and end of 7the resulting table would be567Would appreciate any help with this one.. ThanksChris
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Jun 16, 2015
I am trying to index dates to numbers with a large data set.
The first colums is index, the next is FactorsS, the next is value and the next is Date and the last is Lag.
Would it be difficult to write code that would determine the lag values. The lag value is based on the date value.
Index FactorS Value Date Lag
1 XYZ 2.3 12/31/2014 1
2 XYZ 1.4 12/30/2014 2
3 XYZ 3.3 12/29/2014 3
4 ABC 1.8 12/31/2014 1
5 ABC 2.2 12/30/2014 2
6 CBA 1.7 12/31/2014 1
7 CBA 1.8 12/30/2014 2
8 CBA 1.9 12/29/2014 3
9 CBA 2.1 12/28/2014 4
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Nov 20, 2006
Kudos to y'all!!! I have this task of fixing a database table which contains dates but in a VARCHAR type column. Now I wanted to convert them to 103 format. But the problem is, some values were inserted into the database in either "dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM" or "mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM" formats since the column is VARCHAR. Is there an easy way of doing such task?
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Jan 24, 2007
Robert writes "Hi,
I am really new at SQL an am basically self taught (apart from SQL for Dummies). When I am trying to create a SQL statement using various tables, my date format comes out as a 5 digit number format, i.e 34567. I need to convert the date to DD/MM/YY. The table that i am using is called Projects and the fields that I am using are called Pr_start and Pr_end. Because I have joins, they are called Projects.Pr_Start and Projects.Pr_end.
Please could you show me how I would write the script to convert this date to the DD/MM/YY format.
Kind regards
Robert Fish"
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Jul 1, 2004
Can anyone help me convert UTC dates in a dts package? I have a db I need to transform, but all the dates are in utc format. Is there a function I can use in an ActiveX transformation script to convert, say, 38166, to a valid datetime value? There seems to be almost no documentation in using utc in SQL.
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May 20, 2015
I have a SSIS package which is reading from an Excel file.Â
The Excel is created from a report from another system and sometimes the date of birth formats as a Date and sometimes as string.
I've added a data viewer so I can see how the columns are read as soon as SSIS reads the file.Â
When the cell in Excel is set as text its read correctly - I can then convert to a date as necessary
When the cell in Excel is set as date its read in US format! i.e. if it was 01/13/2014 in excel its read as 13/01/2014
How can I get round this? Its not an option to manually force the column to be text once exported from the system as my package picks this up automatically.
I have triedÂ
-Regedit set typeguessrows = 0
-IMEX = 1 in connection string
-Set LocaleID = UK in the data flow task to read from Excel
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Sep 11, 2007
Hi all,
I need to migrate from a DB with a column containing dates as varchar to a new DB which will have a column with the same content as the source DB but in datetime format.
I have tried to use the cast function but i always get a message saying that the conversion result in an out of range error.
Someone can help me? PLEASE
Thanks
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Mar 17, 2015
I am importing a couple SAS datasets to SQL Server 2008 for a project. The dates are in a float format, they show up as DT_R8 in SSIS. How can I convert these values to SQL server datetime? I have tried dozens of methods I found on-line with no success, I keep getting 'Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type datetime.' errors.
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Sep 17, 2015
i have the following table I need to select dates grouping them by weeks, my week start is Saturday to Friday
CREATE TABLE weekdays
(
datevalue datetime NOT NULL
, numericvalue INT NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO weekdays (datevalue, numericvalue) VALUES
[code]....
The output should look like this
weeknototalvalue
362015-09-01 00:00:00.000
362015-09-02 00:00:00.000
372015-09-07 00:00:00.000
372015-09-08 00:00:00.000
382015-09-12 00:00:00.000
382015-09-13 00:00:00.000
382015-09-14 00:00:00.000
392015-09-19 00:00:00.000
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Slow loading issue with an if statement. In the raw data the field [Location] is a text field e.g. 0010. I have a parameterised query that get a Location_Value from Excel and passes it to the PQ query using:
#"Filtered Rows1" = Table.SelectRows(#"Removed Other Columns", each ([SalesMode] = 0) and ([SalesType] = 0) and ([Location] = Location_Value))
This works fine if you chose a single location. Â However I wanted to be able to select all locations and text is horrible to work with so in PQ I used the change type function to change the location column into whole numbers. I changed excel to also pass a number as Location_Value. Â I was therefore surprised when the same query took 2.5 times longer to refresh????
My PQ now looks like this
 #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Removed Other Columns",{{"Location", Int64.Type}}),
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I'm wondering if I need to do something to the ([Location] = Location_Value) bit as maybe it still thinks [Loation] is text and it is trying to compare it to a number. I st assumed the step above meant that [Location] was now a number, but maybe you still have wrap it with some kind of VALUES or TEXT function?
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Feb 1, 2007
I have a report with a column which contains either a string such as "N/A" or a number such as 12. A user exports the report to Excel. In Excel the numbers are formatted as text.
I already tried to set the value as CDbl which returns error for the cells containing a string.
The requirement is to export the column to Excel with the numbers formatted as numbers and the strings such as "N/A' in the same column as string.
Any suggestions?
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Jul 20, 2005
Why does M$ Query Analyzer display all numbers as positive, no matterwhether they are truly positive or negative ?I am having to cast each column to varchar to find out if there areany negative numbers being hidden from me :(I tried checking Tools/Options/Connections/Use Regional Settings bothon and off, stopping and restarting M$ Query Analyer in betwixt, butno improvement.Am I missing some other option somewhere ?
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Mar 11, 2008
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Thanks for any help
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Dec 10, 2001
I'm writing a stored procedure where one of the arguments (WHERE area) really only needs to be used in some circumstances. I.e., when the procedure is passed a USER_ID it needs to check that against the database, but in some instances I'll send 0 instead of a real USER_ID, and in those cases it should return all records regardless of the ID.
Here's what I've got:
...
and b.user_ID = CASE @user_ID WHEN 0 THEN '%'
ELSE @user_ID
...
...the problem being the '%' part. That won't work on an integer column.
Does anyone have any ideas here?
Thanks,
Al
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Feb 15, 2007
The code below has this line
SET @SOGallons = @ODTGallons
I need it to add the Current value of @SOGallons to the newly selected value of @ODTGallons and set that as the new value of @SOGallons.
I've tried
SET @SOGallons = @SOGallons + @ODTGallons
SET @SOGalTemp = @SOGallons
SET @SOGallons= @SOGalTemp + @ODTGallons
Neither Worked
<CODE>
FROM [CSITSS].[dbo].[Orderdt] as ODT LEFT OUTER JOIN [CSITSS].[dbo].[Orddtcom] as OCOM
ON ODT.[Companydiv] = OCOM.[Companydiv] AND ODT.[OrderNumber] = OCOM.[OrderNumber] AND
ODT.[Sequence] = OCOM.[Sequence] WHERE ODT.[Companydiv]= 'GLPC-TRANS' AND ODT.[OrderNumber] = @OrdNum AND
([LineType] = 'IP' OR [LineType] = 'SO' OR [LineType] = 'DL' OR [LineType] = 'PU')
OPEN TC1
FETCH NEXT FROM TC1 INTO @LT, @ODTGallons, @ODTComm
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
IF @LT = 'SO'
BEGIN
SET @SplitTest = 1
SET @SOGallons = @ODTGallons
IF @SOGallons > 0
BEGIN
SET @SOGalTest = 1
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SET @SOGalTest = 0
END
IF @SplitTest <> @SOGalTest
BEGIN
SET @SOGalTest = 0
END
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SET @SOGalTest = 1
END
FETCH NEXT FROM TC1 INTO @LT, @ODTGallons, @ODTComm
END
CLOSE TC1
DEALLOCATE TC1</CODE>
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Aug 29, 2013
I have a table which measures the changes in a feedback rating, measured by an integer. Most of my records are the same. Only the primary key & the timestamp change.
How do I query just the changes?
Example dataset:
idrating
15
25
35
45
56
66
[code]....
There are 20 rows & 5 changes. The query I want will result in just those that are different from the ones before them:
idrating
45
56
97
118
189
I use Microsoft SQL 2008
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Feb 23, 2007
1
2
3
* (unscheduled visit) (should be 3.01)
* (unscheduled visit) (should be 3.02)
Basically when there is an unscheduled visit, it should take the previous visit number and add .01
I am not sure how to count using non integers
Thanks
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Mar 10, 2004
Here is what I am trying to do...
I want to goup "members" togethers in a "group."
A table for members and a table for groups.
each containing coluns...
but inside Groups I would like a column that contains ID numbers for the members that be long to that group.
Being that members can belong to multiple groups - I can not use a GroupID in Members - if so I also need a way of it modular.
Obvisiously I am not a very good DB programmer - but I want the least amount of empty/unused space in my tables.
Hope this makes sense
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Apr 14, 2006
I'm wondering if there is a function in SQL that works like SUBSTRING function but for integers. Like for example if I have a number like 20010112 and I want to cut it to the first for digits so that it reads 2001?
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Oct 20, 2006
I am having difficulty trying to figure out how to compare two integers stored in a table to return a third. I have two integer fields in one table and two in another like this:
Table1.SomeNumber1 = 1
Table1.SomeNumber2 = 2
Table2.SomeNumber1 = 2
Table2.SomeNumber2 = 1
I need to be able to compare the first number from the first table to the first number in the second table. If the values are different I need to set a variable or field to 0. If the numbers are the same I need to set my variable or field to 1.
I need to follow the same procedure comparing the second number in the first table to the second number in the second table. In addition, I need to be able to do it in a single select statement.
Does anyone have any ideas on how this could be done? Thank you for any help you may be able to provide.
Gmz
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Aug 27, 2003
I'm embarassed I haven't figured this out already but here goes.
Lets say you need a percentage from dividing two integers for example
"select 2000/4000"
This will produce a zero and I'm assuming that is because of the datatypes involved (the values are coming from columns where the datatype is int)
I've tried converting the values to decimal types but I keep getting overflow erros unless I use very small values.
As always, thanks VERY MUCH for the kind advice.
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Oct 4, 2012
I have a table with below data. Requirement is to replace all integers with continuous 6 or more occurrences with 'x'. Less than 6 occurrences should not be replaced.
create table t1(name varchar (100))
GO
INsert into t1
select '1234ABC123456XYZ1234567890ADS'
GO
INsert into t1
select 'cbv736456XYZ543534534545XLS'
GO
EXPECTED RESULT:
1234ABCxxxxxxXYZxxxxxxxxxxADS
cbvxxxxxxXYZxxxxxxxxxxxxXLS
drop table t1
-----Table Proc Index Performance TSQL &&%$#@*(#@$%.......------------
Deep Into SQL Jungle
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Jun 7, 2007
I'm having trouble adding a 4-byte integer with an 8-byte integer. Here's what I'm doing:
Column Name: BIG_ID
Derived Column: < add as new column >
Expression: (DT_I8)[ID] + 840230000538058
Data Type: eight-byte signed integer {DT_I8]
The error I get:
The literal 840230000538058 is too large to fit into type DT_I4. The magnitude of the literal overflows the type.
Then I try the expression:
(DT_I8)[ID] + (DT_I8)840230000538058
and
[ID] + 840230000538058
and get the same error.
What am I doing wrong? Is it possible to add 2 8-byte integers in regular expression? Why does it still think the literal is DT_I4?
Thanks,
Michael
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Jul 5, 2007
Hello, all.
Why is it that, despite what is said in the sketchy SQL Help content, it appears to be impossible to cast a string to an integer in the Expression Builder to generate a value for a variable? More specifically, why does the following expression cause an error?
(DT_UI4) (SUBSTRING(@[User::FullDataPath], LEN(@[User:ataPath]) + 1, 2))
I'm iterating over files and using the name of a given file as an ID for an operation. I simply want to grab a file name using the Foreach Loop Container and process that file, while at the same time use the name in another operation. The file name will be something like "2.txt" (full path something like "c:somethingsomething2.txt"). I can use string functions to return the file name, which is a number as a string, and it should be no problem to cast that number as a string to a number (an Int32). SQL Server 2005 help has a chart that indicates such a cast is legal.
Maybe it's a crazy thing to be doing. Maybe I have to go about this a completely different way, but casting from "2" to 2 should be possible in the Expression Builder.
Thanks for any help.
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Jun 15, 2006
I was told that, when possible, use integer fields for the equality comparison in INNER JOINS. Today someone suggested that using character fields that are indexed should be just as efficient. What do you think?
TIA,
barkingdog
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Jun 14, 2006
I am working with a database named €śDocuments€? that contains 4 categories of text documents, each having its own number designation in an integer datatype column named SectionTypeId:
1 = Text
2 = Report
3 = Background
4 = Index
I would like to create a new column named €śDocType€? in which the integer data type for each document is replaced with a varchar data type letter (1 = T, 2 = R, 3 = B, 4 = I). I was able to easily create the new column and cast the data type from integer to varchar:
--CREATE NEW COLUMN €śDocType€? WITH VARCHAR DATATYPE
ALTER TABLE FullDocuments ADD DocType VARCHAR(1) NULL
Go
--UPDATE NEW COLUMN WITH CAST STRING
UPDATE FullDocuments SET DocType = CAST(SectionTypeID AS VARCHAR(1))
Go
But I have problems with the REPLACE method for replacing the numbers with letters. First I tried this based on the examples in MSDN Library:
--REPLACE NUMBERS WITH LETTERS
UPDATE Fulldocuments REPLACE (DocType,"1","T")
Which produced an error message: €śIncorrect syntax near 'REPLACE'.€?
Thinking that the datatype may be the problem, I tried this to convert to DT_WSTR data type prior to replace:
UPDATE Fulldocuments REPLACE ((DT_WSTR,1)DocType,"1","T")
Which produced the same error message: €śIncorrect syntax near 'REPLACE'.€?
I have never done a REPLACE before, so any suggestions for accomplishing this would be appreciated.
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Feb 15, 2008
I have a table where each entry represents a range:
id, num_ini, num_fim
1, 1, 19
2, 20, 39
3, 40, 59
etc
Is there any way to select a recordset on this table with the following format?
id, num
1, 1
1, 2
1, 3
etc
2, 20
2, 21
2, 22
etc
I'm using MSSQL 2005
tks
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