Hi,
I have a varchar field that contains values to represent the month and year in the format mmyy (eg. 0107, 0207, 0307 etc).
I want to be able to select the value that is 6 months before the current month and year, for example if I were running the query in the current month/year (April 08) I would return the value 1007 (October 07).
Is someone able to help me with this please?
Thanks
Hi ,Have a Visual C++ app that use odbc to access sql server database.Doing a select to get value of binary field and bind a char to thatfield as follows , field in database in binary(16)char lpResourceID[32+1];rc = SQLBindCol(hstmt, 1, SQL_C_CHAR,&lpResourceID,RESOURCE_ID_LEN_PLUS_NULL , &nLen1);and this works fine , however trying to move codebase to UNICODE antested the followingWCHAR lpResourceID[32+1];rc = SQLBindCol(hstmt, 1, SQL_W_CHAR,&lpResourceID,RESOURCE_ID_LEN_PLUS_NULL , &nLen1);but only returns 1/2 the data .Any ideas , thoughts this would work fine , nit sure why loosing dataAll ideas welcome.JOhn
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I need to convert a var char field to date field (DD/MM/YYYY)
Current convertion format:
CAST(Report_Date as DATETIME)
How can i convert to Date field with date format of DD/MM/YYYY?
Thanks.
Onn Onn
Hi
I'm extracting a char(2) field from a table that has a value of '1' and writing it to another table but want the output field to be padded with a zero. I have tried this below:
right('00' + isnull(Field1, ' '),2
but the output field comes out as '1 ' (that's 1 followed by a space). Does anyone have any idea how I can do this or please point out what I'm doing wrong in my 'right(' fucntion above.
Thanks,
Jeff
I have been asked to investigate the feasibility of converting an Invoice Number field from 6 to 7 digits, and allowing alpha characters. This means CHAR. The Invoice Number is not used outside of the application, but changes would have to be made to the database, and VB code that runs the app. Any ideas on how to proceed?
Any responses would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
ok, so we have a field in one of our db's, a do_not_synch field. this field has a datatype of char...
the following sql statement does not update the field..
update contacts
set do_not_synch = 'Y'
where id=1
and if i open up the table in sql server management studio, and cannot type in and save the value Y...yes i can update other fields in this row...so its not a permissions issue?
is there anything special i should have to do?
Cheers,
Justin
Hi,
If I want to make a field of characters to be unlimited length(or maybe 2k for example), what datatype should I use?
Char, varchar and text have a max. limit of 255...
Will appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Nishi
I need help on replace char in ntext data type
Here is the example data
<qMultipleChoice><qText>The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off
20on.</qText><qChoice>Strongly20Disagree</qChoice><qChoice>Disagree
</qChoice><qChoice>Agree</qChoice><qChoice>Strongly%20Agree</qCh
I want result look like this
First Column:The AE Understands what conditions the Account Manager is allowed to sign-off.
Second Column: Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Strongly Agree
This is what i had so far
Select (SUBSTRING(QuestionText, (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7),(PATINDEX(N'%</qText>%', QuestionText) - (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7)))) From tblQuestion
my result:
The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off%20on.
I have problem with replace '%20' and how to make the second column.
Any Help?
Thanks
Shan
I have a table with several million rows of data. There is a date field defined as a char(8) with some bad rows. i tried to locate them with below
select date_stopped from patient_medication
where isdate(convert(datetime,date_stopped)) = 1
This won't work, I get the
Server: Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value
Any way around this?
Hello,
what's best for year resp. quarter Field, char(4) resp. char(1), integer or other?
Both are part of a composite index.
Thanks
Silas
Can someone comment on why joining two tables on CHAR fields of different lengths would generate unexpected results?
I had an issue where I ran an update that used an inner join on two tables. The field I used in the join was char(50) in one table and char(13) in another table. The result gave bad matches. After changing the field types both to varchar(30), the problem was eliminate.
Any comments on this would be appreciated.
Rye Guy
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
Would it be OK to use varchar(5) instead of char(5) as the first field of acomposite clustered index?My gut tells me that varchar would be a bad idea, but I am not finding muchinformation on this topic on this when I Google it.Currently the field is Char(4), and there is a need to increase it to hold 5characters.TIA
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The code i have below extracts the date part of a timestamp column and converts it to a char field. This becomes a problem when I joing the resultant table with a SAS dataset which contains the same column but is in a date format. The join process generates an error saying the column is in different formats.
convert(char(15), process_date,112) as process_dt
Hi,
What is the difference updating a null value to char/varchar type column
versus empty string to char/varchar type column?Which is the best to do and why?
Could anyone explain about this?
Example:
Table 1 : tCountry - Name varchar(80) nullable
Table 2 :tState - Name char(2) nullable
Table 3 :tCountryDetails - countryid,state (char(2) nullable) - May the country contain state or no state
So,when the state is not present for the country ,i have two options may be - null,''
tCountryDetails.State = '' or tCountryDetails.State = null?
Hi there.
I'm trying to extract data from my SQL server & everything in the script I've got is working (extracting correct data) except for one field - which is for the most part it's off by +2 days (on a few occasions - I see it off by just +1 day or even +3, but it's usually the +2 days).
I'm told that it's due to the conversion formula - but - since SQL is not my native language, I'm at a bit of a loss.
The DB table has the date field stored as a type: CHAR (as opposed to 'DATE')
Can anyone out there help?
Please advise. Thanks.
Best.
K7
Hi,
alter PROCEDURE [dbo].[PPUpdateIWDetails]
(
@CompanyID NVARCHAR(36),
@DivisionID NVARCHAR(36),
@DepartmentID NVARCHAR(36),
@ItemID NVARCHAR(36),
@OrderNo NVARCHAR(36),
@LineNo NVARCHAR(36),
@TAllotedQty Numeric,
@EmployeeID NVARCHAR(36),
@Trndate datetime
)
AS
BEGIN
By default iam passing 12 char itemid as parameter...
Here iam selecting the itemid from InventoryLedger -if it is 8 char than this query should be executed
IF EXISTS(SELECT ItemID FROM InventoryLedger WHERE TransDate=@Trndate AND ItemID=@ItemID AND ILLineNumber =@LineNo AND TransNumber=@OrderNo AND TransactionType='Production' AND CompanyID=@CompanyID AND DivisionID= @DivisionID AND DepartmentID=@DepartmentID)
BEGIN
DECLARE @Qty INT
select @Qty =QUANTITY from inventoryledger WHERE TransDate=@Trndate AND ItemID=@ItemID AND ILLineNumber =@LineNo AND TransNumber=@OrderNo AND TransactionType='Production' AND CompanyID=@CompanyID AND DivisionID= @DivisionID AND DepartmentID=@DepartmentID
select qtyonhand=qtyonhand+@Qty from InventoryByWareHouse where ItemID=@ItemID
END
Here iam selecting the itemid from InventoryLedger -if it is 12 char than this query should be executed(both queries are same)
IF EXISTS(SELECT ItemID FROM InventoryLedger WHERE TransDate=@Trndate AND ItemID=@ItemID AND ILLineNumber =@LineNo AND TransNumber=@OrderNo AND TransactionType='Production' AND CompanyID=@CompanyID AND DivisionID= @DivisionID AND DepartmentID=@DepartmentID)
BEGIN
DECLARE @Qty INT
select @Qty =QUANTITY from inventoryledger WHERE TransDate=@Trndate AND ItemID=@ItemID AND ILLineNumber =@LineNo AND TransNumber=@OrderNo AND TransactionType='Production' AND CompanyID=@CompanyID AND DivisionID= @DivisionID AND DepartmentID=@DepartmentID
select qtyonhand=qtyonhand+@Qty from InventoryByWareHouse where ItemID=@ItemID
END
I create two tables:
create table table1
(
col1 char(1)
)
go
create table table2
(
col2 char(2)
)
go
I add some records to two tables after createing operation completed.
Then i use dbcc page command to oversee the structures of data page in two tables.
I found some interest things:
The rows in two tabes take up same space:9 bytes
You can see the "9" on top of the data, for example:Slot 0, Offset 0x60, Length 9, DumpStyle BYTE
or calculate from the offset array
Any suggestions?
Just want to double check this.To add 30 days to the current date in a stored procedure using SQL Server should be this: DATEADD(day, 30, GETDATE())Right?Thanks,Zath
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Hope someone can help.
I've got to produce a report that filters information dependent on the purchase date based on various parameters.
The parameters are:
@yearend (Datetime)
@months(int)
the script that I wrote in SQL is
select assetno from assets where purch_date < = dateadd(mm,-@months, @yearend)
but when I try to use this in the dataset it comes up with the following error:
"Application usess a value of the wrong type for the current operation"
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Hi guys I am trying to convert this to date add because MS SqL and Jet SQL dont exactly speak the same language
=DateSerial(Year([FINALSUIT])4,Month([FINALSUIT]),Day([FINALSUIT]))
I am trying to calcuate the finalsuit date for every 2 years becasue that when employees have to get their gaming license renewed, so I'm trying to add the renewal year by 2 because they have to get it done every two years
If I am running a scheduled job at the first of the month and I want to run an update sequence for the previous month, i was essentially using this sql:
@startdate = dateadd(mm, -1, getdate())
@enddate = dateadd(dd, -1, getdate())
So, will the @enddate represent the last day in the previous month or will that not work?
The Yak Village Idiot
What is the correct format for getting the last three months of data. in sql its DATEADD(mm-3,getdate()) but for some reason the report doesnt want to take this? what am i doing wrong?
Code Snippet
=IIF(Sum(iif(Fields!Database_Size_Datetime.Value >= DATEADD(mm, - 3, GETDATE()), Cdbl(Fields!MonthlyDBTotal.Value), 0.0))/ 3)
By the way, im trying to get the average over the last three months by doing this.
I am using Derived Column Transformation Task to format my data as I am converting my DTS to SSIS. One of the columns requires to use DATEADD where I add 1 month and substruct one day from the date that I get in the flat file.(note that I always hardcode the day to "01" regardless of what I get in my flat file)
The current script looks like this:
DTSDestination("PeriodEndDate") =
dateadd("d",-1,dateadd("m",1,cdate(mid(cstr(DTSSource("Col004")),1,4) & "-" & mid(cstr(DTSSource("Col004")),5,2) & "-" & "01")))
Does any one know how to convert it so it works in my derived column?
Thanks...
Maria
when I execute the following:
select dateadd(dd,92710,1/1/1753)
I get 2153-10-31 00:00:00.000
in managed code I get the right answer 11/1/2006. Between 1753 and 2007, there should have been 2007 - 1753 = 254 yrs x approx 365 = 92,710 days. Where is the year 2153 coming from?
Hi, I have a problem with working out some dates. I have a query that has a start date field and a number of days field. I know i can create another field that could provide the return date (DATEADD function) by adding the number of days to the start date. However the problem I have is that i need to discount the weekends from the return date. For example if the start date was a wednesday and the number of days was 3 the datadd sum would give a return date of saturday when in reality it should be monday. I am not sure if i am making sense but if anyone out there has any ideas it would be more than welcome. Andrew
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i have a Pictures table: PictureID, Name, Description, DateAdded (GETDATE() when insert), IsActive...
i need to make some stored procedures to show me the pictures added in last 24hours, in last 3 days, last 2 weeks and so on
the pictures added in database are active (available to be seen by users) only 1yaer after the date added
I tryied to make a stored procedure (in fact i maked a lots of them, for 1day 3 days 1 week 1 month), but i have a problem with that DateDiff and DateAdd
Here is what i tryied CREATE PROCEDURE LastAdded_2monthsAgo
AS
SELECT Pictures.ProductID, Pictures.Name, Pictures.Description, Pictures.DateAdded
FROM Pictures
WHERE (DATEDIFF(month, Pictures.DateAdded, GETDATE()) >= 0) AND (DATEDIFF(month, Pictures.DateAdded, GETDATE()) <= 2)
ORDER BY DateAdded DescI have a feeling that is wrong, please make your own version and show me what i should write...I don't know what should be first the today date or the DateAdded...i need to select the last added products from a specific interval of time...Should i do something with that "1 year available" like WHERE (DATEDIFF(month, GETDATE(), DATEADD(year, 1, Products.DateAdded)) >= 0) AND (DATEDIFF(month, GETDATE(), DATEADD(year, 1, Products.DateAdded)) <= 2) I am sure is a stupid thig up there...if you can, make your own version how you would do it and show me..please help me
Hi ALL!anyone can help me resolve this problem.I create SQL sentence and using DATEADD to Update DATETIME FIELDand i need Increase 1 Year and Month is 04 and day is 01.example: origin datetime field : 2007/06/26result after update is : 2008/04/01so by DATEADD(yy,1, datefield)?Have any expression for datefield to set month and day like what i need?Thanks .
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Can someone please tell me why the following won't work:
Code:
SELECT * FROM Validation where CourseDate > DateAdd(wk, -3, GetDate())
I want to select all records where the coursedate is more than 3 weeks old.
Thanks.
:eek: Hi,
I'm getting problem while using DATEADD Function.
When I use DATEADD(MONTH, 1 '01/31/2005'), it returns 02/28/2005 and when I use DATEADD(MONTH, 1 '02/28/2005'), it returns 03/28/2005 but I want the result as 03/31/2005 ie last day of the month.
hi,
can something tell me what function do i need if i want to know what happen the last three hours?
for example: dateadd (hh, -3, getdate())
it seems not working?!!
Hi
I'm trying to break down some code to work out how it's working. I've encountered DateDiff and DateAdd and I think this adds a new date of midnight today after reading up on the syntax (still dont fully understand how it works to be honest)
SELECT DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE()), 0)
However, this is slightly different because where there is a 0 above there is a 13 in this one so I'm wondering what the 13 is actually doing.
SELECT DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd, 13, GETDATE()), 0)
In this one there's a 21
SELECT DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd, 21, GETDATE()), 0)
Can someone guide me please?
Thanks
Daniel