I am using DTS to import text to a table. This mostly works except for the 'DateTime' datatype where I always run into either 'Arithmetic overflow' or 'Unable to convert varchar to DateTime format.' I can convert same data without incident in Access.
Has anyone run into this problem?
How to convert a SQL table into Text file? I have a table and I want to extract the values with the field names above to a text file. The query should also allow me to define the starting position of the fields in the text file.
email: vijay.prasad@in.ibm.com
Given a string it should convert it to a proper text.Example: if you passed a string 'Cat in the hat', I want 'Cat In TheHat'Curious about few things, Does sql have Instr OR Split(like VB)functionalityAnybody can help??
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a database table with 2 numeric fields. The values to be inserted into these fields come from text boxes in an ASP.NET page. So in the parameters to add into these fields I simply use 'textbox1.text' & textbox2.text'.
One of the fields accepts the data within the text box and adds it into the appropriate numeric data field in the table. However on the other text box I get an error message 'Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric.'
Does anyone know why this occurs just on the one entry and not the other?, and if anyone has any suggestions on how to get around this please let me know.
Many Thanks
I have a field that stores a date as text (121205). I need to convert this field to a date, but since it is text, I cannot figure out how to do it. Any ideas??? Thanks! :D
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View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,I have two tables. One of them has a text field, and the other has a numeric(integer) field that serves a similar purpose. I want to connect (UNIONactually) the two tables, and store the text from the first table in thesame field as the number from the other.For example:SELECT TextID AS IDFROM W1UNIONSELECT NumericID AS IDFROM W2The above query results in a type mismatch error due to trying to store anInt in a text field. I have tried the SQL CONVERT function, but the docsseem to indicate that it is just for Dates. In any case, it hasn't workedfor me.Any ideas?Thanks!
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to convert from varchar to text? I need to concatenate an varchar value into an existing text field. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi all,
My organization have a web-based application and needs it to support multilingual so we will be adapting our app to use unicode. However, one of our problems is to convert existing data from text to ntext. I couldn't find anything that document this. What is the best way to do that? I would like to be able to migrate the data from an existing text column to another ntext column in the table.
If I can't do that, what are the options? If it's possible, I would like to be able to do this in sql script.
Thanks a mil, in advance.
Eddie
When converting a text into a date format using the DateTime String transformation I get the following error.
'The number of failing rows exceeds the maximum specified.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid date format'
The dates is stored as a text like this: mmddyy and I want to convert it to a date field in the table. Any help would be great.
Hello all,
New to the forums here. I'm not a beginner with SQL, but nor am I a SQL developer - network engineer who knows some scripting and the fundamentals of DB design/administration. There's the background.
I have a database of client information where a date is keyed in and stored as text. Because this is entered by end-users, the way it's entered varies - 1/1/2001, 01/01/2001, etc. Most use "1/1/2001" (note the date is not the same for each record)
I have 4,000 records to update and I need to try to convert the text string to the correct date - changing 1/1/2005 to the same date in proper date/time format. My database uses datetime as an integer calculating the number of days from 12/30/1800. Today's date would be 75508. Time is separated into different fields.
I can do the work to update the text to a single format to make the conversion easier, but I am having trouble locating the proper way to write a convert function to do this. I've searched online (which is how I came here) and have searched the forums without luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
I have a table with over a million rows and one of the fields containsamounts of money in text format.What is the most efficient way of converting this field to a numberformat that I can sum on?Regards,Ciarán
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm using UPDATE as follows"
UPDATE Dubai
SET DB = 'D'
WHERE DB = NULL
but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
Table contains field defined as text. First 12 characters will be date format 'mm/dd/yyyy'. then the next 3 characters could be:
9A, 12P, 3P, 7A or LTL
I would like to convert '9A' to be 09:00AM, so that I can sort by that converted field.
'12P to be 12:00PMÂ Â Â and so on....
I have tried various form of case with substring and convert commands, but cant' get the solution. I can not change text field to varchar in table.
Hi ya... About to tear my hair out.
I thought i fixed this problem, as it WORKED about two days ago, but now I'm getting errors.
I have a series of text files, some are delimited, some are fixed width. I previously was able to import these files thru a dts package by creating the table in a stored procedure. Exple:
CREATE TABLE [Pol_Dump073104]
(
[Product_Type] varchar (12) NULL,
[Benefit] float NULL,
[Base_Premium] varchar (12) NULL,
[Rider_Premium] float NULL,
[Contract_Value] float NULL,
)
I then import the text file into the table and then cast the float datatypes as money in a select into statement to do aggregate functions on the money fields. this worked previously, but now I'm receiving this: 'Error converting datatype char to money.' I tried to convert to float and received the same error, only with float where the word money was.
Please help! :mad:
Thanks
I have trouble converting a text field into decimals in a select statement.
The select statement is as follows:
select cast(ltrim(rtrim(units)) as decimal) as units
and I get an error message:
Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 23
Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric.
and the 'units' column contains ' 324,32 '
I have a table that contains the following two columns:BITS (image(16))BIT_LENGTH (int(4))When I look at the table, I see "OLE Object" in the BITS column. Whatsyntax should I use in a SELECT statement to convert the binary imageinfo contained in "BITS" into simple text that I can read? What roledoes the BIT_LENGTH field play?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIÂ have a csv file and I would like to load this file by SSIS in SQL Server.
One column of this file contains xml infos (it is about 60000 charachter), and I would like to have an xml column in Table in SQL Server.
From here the only ssis types, which able to contain so much character are DT_NTEXT and DT_TEXT.
If I want to have xml type in the target table in sql server, these both DT_NTEXT and DT_TEXT should be converted to DT_WSTR.
The Problem is:Â DT_WSTRÂ can only contains 4000 charcters. In my situation with this infos, I can't have an xml column in target table in sql server.
Does anyone know where I can find a freeware Rich Text to HTML ActiveX Control?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a column that I'm trying to call into a calculated measure to determine an expected contract amount (Terms in Month). The problem is that some of the terms are defined as text strings (MTM, Coterminous, One-time) while others are numbers (12, 36, etc). The entire column is recognized as text. I have a numeric value that management has agreed would be an acceptable substitution (MTM=1, Coterminous=6) and so on. I can't however, figure out how to convert those texts to a number since they are different data types. I've tried a nested IF statement, as well as a LOOKUPVALUE..I'm doing this in Power Pivot, so am limited to DAX formulas
View 4 Replies View RelatedHi,
We are in process of converting all of the data type of the fields from CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT into NCHAR/NVARCHAR/NTEXT (DBCS). Having more than 900 store procedure its look like real pain to make modification in all of the SPs.
After failed to find any help from GOOGLE, I am posting this request. I am basically looking for any automated tool which are convert data type in SP based on the field of the table used in the SP. Or at least which can provide me some sort of list which can helpful for doing manual reactoring.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Thanks,
Firoz Ansari
Hi,
How can i convert single quote i.e. ' using replace method. Is there any methods we have to replace or to convert single quotation . Please let me know.
Thanks in advance
Dilip
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}}),
  #"Filtered Rows1" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each ([SalesMode] = 0) and ([SalesType] = 0) and ([Location] = Location_Value))
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?
Hello Everyone,
I have a dataset that I created from an external database using an ODBC connection. I would like to take that dataset and create a new table in an SQL 2005 database. Can anyone point me in the right direction. The problem that I am having right now is getting the object types etc.
Thank you!!
Hi everybody,
I have this situation here:
I have a table structure something like :
id name keywords
100
60 tabs
Action Labs
100
60 tabs
Actionlabs
100
60 tabs
Actions Labs
100
60 tabs
Super Glucosamine
100
60 tabs
Super Glucosamine And Chondroitin
100
60 tabs
Super Glucosamine Plus Chondroitin
100
60 tabs
Super Glucosamine Plus Chondroitin Sulfate
101
60 caps
Action Labs
101
60 caps
Actionlabs
101
60 caps
Actions Labs
101
60 caps
Super Glucosamine
101
60 caps
Super Glucosamine And Chondroitin
101
60 caps
Super Glucosamine Plus Chondroitin
101
60 caps
Super Glucosamine Plus Chondroitin Sulfate
How can I bring all the values under 'keywords' as comma seperated under one column identified by their ids?
eg:
id name keywords
100 60 tabs Action Labs,Actionlabs,Actions Labs,Super Glucosamine,Super Glucosamine And Chondroitin etc.
Please help me!!!
Thanks in advance,
Tanya
Hi all,
My organization have a web-based application and needs it to support multilingual so we will be adapting our app to use unicode. However, one of our problems is to convert existing data from text to ntext. I couldn't find anything that document this. What is the best way to do that? I would like to be able to migrate the data from an existing text column to another ntext column in the table.
I brief you about my system, I used List manager system to store the messages and distribute to all members. Right now,by design the Lyris system keep the message in the text field which mean it 's not support multilanguage directly because of unicode field. We needs to create new Db which has the data structure as same as Lyris but just one difference is keep the message in unicode format (ntext) which we need the sql script to automatically update the new record get from Lyris to new DB.
If I can't do that, what are the options? If it's possible, I would like to be able to do this in sql script.
Thanks a mil, in advance.
Eddie
I have a pivot table that connects to our data warehouse via a PowerPivot connection. Â The data contains a bunch of comment fields that are each between 250 and 500 characters. Â I've set the columns in this pivot table to have the 'Wrap Text' set to true so that the user experience is better, and they can view these comment fields more clearly.
However, whenever I refresh the data, the text wrapping un-sets itself. Â Interestingly, the 'Wrap Text' setting is still enabled, but I have to go and click it, then click it again to actually wrap the text. Â This is very burdensome on the user, and degrading the experience.
Any way to make this text wrapping stick so that I don't have to re-set it every time I refresh the data?
Hi There, I'm new to the .Net environment, and I am currently trying to convert an xml document and its appropriate schema, to a dataset then with this Dataset I would like to load it into the database. This XML file is generated from the Access 2000 format. Then sent over the internet where it is received by an HttpFileCollection object, then the schema and xml file are loaded into a dataset. I have created a new SQL database in which I imported the table required from Access, so in theory the table that the xml is generated from should be the same as the table that the xml is destined for. I am getting the data loaded into the dataset however, when I try to execute the data adapter update command
oda.Update(myDS, "MSGLOBAL") it is throwing an Exception, in this exception the message is telling me that there is a problem near the key word 'on'. Now I have added a watch window to monitor the sql statements, now the oda has an insert statement generated from a query builder, however this same query builder will not create either an update or delete command. I hope this is a good enough explanation to get a few answers, or a possible example, it seems to be a topic that is quite difficult to research. Thank you, and if you require more info please indicate this. Damon Http://www.ezywiz.biz
I have a datetime field in my table. I call that field with a different software & it comes out in an unexpected format.
My db table stores it in unix format: 2013-08-12 09:29:00.000
But the software pulls it as: 8/12/2013 9:29:00 AM
I know it's possible, but I don't know how. How do I explicitly call it (in SQL) as a unix timestamp. Or how do I convert to a unix timestamp from the available data above?
I use Microsoft SQL 2008
Hi I have a table that contains duplicates. Custid, order #s
custid,order#
1, 2525
1, 2323
1, 2222
2, 6969
2, 7474
3, 8888
Here what I am trying to do. I want to create a table that contains rows from the above table in this format.
custid, order#,order#,order#
1 ,2525 ,2323, 2222
basically, I want to convert the duplicate rows into fields in a new table.
I have a very large database running in a production environment. The backup files are getting to be very difficult to manage. They are at 70gb as of now and growing at a rate of 10gb per month. This is due to document images being stored in the database in one table. I have read a little about a new feature in SQL Server 2012 called Filetable. Can we migrate to SQL Server 2012 and convert to the filetable structure, will this decrease the size of the backups? Would backup of the document images be taken care of by our nightly file system backups now?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a stored procedure in which we are deriving some flags. So, we used series of CASE statements.
For examples
CASE
    WHEN LEFT(CommissionerCode, 3) IN ('ABC','DEF',...) THEN 1
    WHEN PracticeCode IN (.......) THEN 1
    WHEN (CommissionerCode IN (.....) OR PracticeCode NOT IN (.....) OR .....) THEN 1
     ELSE 0
END
I need to put these conditions in config table and generate dynamic sql. What is the best way to do this? especially, 3rd condition with OR logic with multiple columns involved.Â
i have  table scripts , i want to create all the tables by passing database name as variable using stored procedure in sql.
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