Can anyone provide me with some SQL that will identify rows from a table where a varchar column named "Notes" contain Carriage Returns?
I know that with report writer SQR I can translate CR's to white space but I do not know of any Sybase function that will allow me to do the same, any ideas on this well would be appreciated.
In SSRS/RDL, How do you format a column heading to use carriage returns?
I have a couple of instance where I have a column heading that I want spread over 3 lines. For example, the column heading "= Actual Amount" I would want centered and displayed on 3 lines, as follows:
=
Actual
Amount
hello,
could any one tell how to go about keeping carriage returns and line breaks when inserting a chunk of text so that when that text is recieved it will still contain those carriage returns and line breaks?
also, what datatype would be most appropriate?
thakyou,
zaffi.
I'm using Microsoft SQL 2005.
I am attempting to store text in a column defined as varchar(2048). The text contains line feed and carriage return characters. After examining the database column the text is truncated after the first set of line feed and carriage return characters.
Is there a way to force SQL Server to store these characters?
Much Thanks, Robert
What is the best way to query for columns which contain embedded carriage returns?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a report which has multiple fields in the same column of a table. So that it formats correctly, on the stored procedure side I inserted char(10) + char(13). This allows the next field to correctly carriage return on the report. The report looks great.
But once the report is exported to MS Excel, it appears to add in extra carriage returns. This can be cleaned up by going record by record and back-spacing over the carriage returns.
Is there any other work around for this?
Just curious. Thank you for your help.
T.J.
Hi all,I have an old ASP .NET 1.1 application that I haven't had time to rebuild with .NET 2.0. No changes have been made to the application or the SQL Server the application uses. I have a web form where users can type multiple lines of text, and it is entered into an SQL database (SQL 2000 Enterprise) into a column with a datatype of "text". Recently (it seems out of nowhere), If my users enter a carriage return into the webform, it becomes a question mark in the sql database. It's really a bit funny, but also annoying, lol. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Thanks so much!
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am migrating from 2000 to 2005 and in the process of rewriting DTS to SSIS. So far so good.
I have an import of a flat file that I need to reproduce that works fine in DTS but throws SSIS.
The file contains details of products, and has a Long Description field that may contain lots of different chars - CR & LF amongst them. It's source and destination columns are Text type.
The file is tab delimited, text delimited with double quotes, with row delimiters of CRLF and column names on row 1.
The error SSIS throws is "The column delimiter for column "LongDescription" was not found"
I imagine (perhaps wrongly) that this is because of the extra CRLFs but it worked fine in DTS. It also previews fine, and lets me define the column properties OK in SSIS package designer.
Any help greatly appreciated. I am trying to avoid the obvious thing of replacing those chars in that field at this point as currently the export is shared between a live production server, and my test 2005 rig.
Thanks v much.
Chris.
Hi
I have stupid users... who doesn't?! They have entered carriage returns as a whole value in some fields, that is, the field contains nothing more than a carriage return.
I really need to treat these cases as nulls and have successfully removed whole fields of nothing but spaces by using the LTRIM(RTRIM()) construct. Unfortunately, this doesn't deal with carraige returns. Even CASTing and CONVERTing to varchar and then using LTRIM(RTRIM()) doesn't work.
Does anyone know how I can elegantly get around this problem other than my best guess below:
Best guess pseudo code:
IF count of field is greater than 1 THEN probably a full sentence so ignore ELSE SUBSTRING first character and if CHAR(10, etc) then treat as NULL.
Here's some code that reconstructs the problem:
select datalength(char(13)) CarriageReturnVisible
, datalength(ltrim(rtrim(cast(char(13) as varchar)))) [This Don't Work]
Cheers - Andy
I'm trying to import a flat file source into a SQL Server table.
The flat file is pipe-delimited and text qualified with " (double-quotes).
The import job is failing because there is a "comments" field in the flat file and there are carriage returns within some records in the "comments" field. When SSIS encounters a record with a carriage return within that field, it sees the carriage return and assumes the end of the record, even though the field is text qualified with " ".
The actual error message I see is: "
Error 0xc0202055: Data Flow Task 1: The column delimiter for column "comments" was not found.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Sample Record:
"418186"|"94"|"Staff Only-Minimum charge out of 3 hours
Plus travel & accommodation costs (if required) – at cost.
All trauma response services & associated fees/costs are required to be formally authorised by the Company prior to delivery."|""|"690"|""
I can't think of a way to get SSIS to ignore the carriage returns within the Comments field in the source flat file!
I have added a new column to a table, but it is not showing up in the column mapping tab of the lookup editor.
It does show up in the preview.
Without deleting and recreating the component (with all the ensuing broken metadata fixes 'downstream' that this always entails), how can I get it to recognise the change?
In future I will do all LUs as a sql statement so at least I can control columns. This again defeats the purpose of the drag and drop environment..... If it were a harry potter character, it would be a dementor
I am using BCP and one of the tables in my SQL contains a column of type nvarchar(500) - whose data are actually email messages such as:
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:03 PM
To: Kathy Shouner
Cc: Brent Ford; William Dew
Subject: RE: Revision of presentation schedule
I support the recommended revisions.
When I open the datafile, it spans 6 separate lines - probably ending in carriage returns (not sure how to confirm this). Hence, I am having a problem importing it to my table. When I query the database, it appears as one line under that column - which is the way it should be.
My BCP command is something like this:
BCP "select email_msg, email_id from emails" QUERYOUT "c:email.txt" -c -T -S sunny.erwin.com
I experimented with -w, -n, -N already but still am failing to get the proper output.
Please help... Thanks in advance.
Hi
How do i remove Carriage return in a varchar column?
Thanks
Is it possible to store a carriage return value or VbCrLf in an NVARCHAR column ?
I need to display a textbox in Reporting Services using one row, but showing multiple lines as a result of a few carriage returns.
Hi,
I've a text column (text datatype) that contains carriage return and line feed.
Syntax-wise, how can I replace these by a space?
Thanks.
Why don't i ever get return value of 1 when the following binary column (profSignature) is null?
RETURN SELECT ISNULL(profSignature, profSignature) FROM mpProfiles WHERE ApplicantID = CAST(@CID AS INT) AND ProfileID = CAST(@PID AS INT)
Hi folks,I have an issue with a column I created in my query called Instance.SELECT Object_Id, Event_type, Audience, Subject, Provider, Academic_Year, Start_date, End_date, CONVERT(varchar, Academic_Year) + ' (' + CONVERT(varchar, Start_date, 103) + ') : ' + Event_type AS InstanceFROM EventsORDER BY Event_type Above is my query. The problem is because the start date column can be null, it also returns the Instance column as null for that row.I thought it would have just missed out the date and display the rest, but it doesn't.Is there any way I could get the Instance column to display a value, when the start date is null?ThanksEdit: Managed to sort it using ISNULL()
View 14 Replies View RelatedI want a query that returns only the column names
View 4 Replies View RelatedHow do you prevent SQL from returning a null value for a computed column?
The following formula returns blank if any of the values are blank ... pftitle allows nulls, the other two are required on Insert.
(((([pflastname]+', ')+[pffirstname])+' - ')+[pftitle])
Where can I find the documentation of computed field operators and expressions?
I am databinding a dataset formed from a stored procedure,(all done on page_load).
However, the reference to the column name is not recognised with the following error being returned.
Column with name "CalcVal" was not found.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.ArgumentException: Column with name "CalcVal" was not found.Source Error:
Line 152: chartCommand.Fill(chartDs);
Line 153: Chart1.DataSource = chartDs;
Line 154: Chart1.DataBind();
Line 155:
Line 156: }
This worked before deployment and the other controls which are bound to data using stored procedures seem to work. However, these other data sources are all sqlDatasoure controls.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
I have found issues relating the to user ID and password which seems to depend on whether the web server and data server are the same machine or whether they are remote from each other.
cheers-jim.
Hi People,
I am having a table which has some 10 cols, only one column had all Nulls. DB-SQL2K5
I am now writing a query like
Update Test1
set Id =
(Select t2.Id from
Test2 t2, Test1 t1
where
t2.Name = t1.Name)
as likely this query is faling as the sub query is retuning more than a row. What is the best method to achive my requirement?
Thanks
I have a Column called SaleID in some tables in a Database.The SaleID column has the int datatype. I need a stored procedure that returns the next value in sequence for the SaleID column.
For Example,
If the last value inserted into the SaleID column was 1022 the stored procedure should return 1023
If the last value inserted into the SaleID column was 1023 the stored procedure should return 1024.
If the last value inserted into the SaleID column was 1024 the stored procedure should return 1025.
Also an exclusive lock should be maintained while the the stored procedure is running.
I am using SQL Server 2005.
Dear all hi,
I would like to create a function that will return to me the width of the column of the table without giving as a parameter the table name. I need it, as I want to exceed my data in this column to the column length. I want to fill the column data with trailing blanks until I reach the column width. The function len returns the length of the data in the column.
I know that If I have the table name I can find the column width through the system tables. I don€™t want this.
Sincerely,
Hellen
Hello!
Is there a function that gets the name of a column and a string as arguments and returns the position of this string in the column given?
Thank you in advance.
Is there a way to check for System.BDNull when I use the column name instead of column index? The column Photographer (in the excample below) sometimes contains the value null, and then it throws an error. Or do I have to go back to counting columns (column index of the returned data) again? try { connection.Open(); using (SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader()) { if (reader.Read()) { albumItem = new Album((int)reader["Id"]); if (reader["Photographer"] != null) albumItem.Photographer = (string)reader["Photographer"]; albumItem.Public = (bool)reader["IsPublic"]; } } } Regards, Sigurd
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a stored procedure like "select * from ThisTable"
I'm doing a dataread like:
Dim val as String = dateRead("column_from_ThisTable")
If the value in the column is not null everything works great, but if the value is null, instead of getting a value of "" which I expect, I get the column name??? In this case "column_from_ThisTable"
How do I make sure I get "" returned when the value in the column is db.null?
Does anyone know a select statement that would return the column namesand keys and indexes of a table?Thanks,TGru*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
View 3 Replies View RelatedSTDEV() gives incorrect values with reasonable input.
I have a table filled with GPS readings. I've got a column LATITUDE (FLOAT) with about 20,000 records between 35.6369018 and 35.639890. (Same value to the first 5 digits of precision---what can i say, it's a good gps.)
Here's what happens when I ask SQL Server ("9.00.1399.06 (IntelX86)") to compute the standard deviation of the latitude:
// Transact-SQL StdDev function:
SELECT STDEV(LATITUDE) FROM GPSHISTORY
WHERE STATTIME BETWEEN '2007-10-23 11:21:00.859' AND '2007-10-23 17:00:00.062' AND GPSDEVICEID = 0x004A08BC04050000;
0
// Zero. ZERO??!?!!
//Let's re-implement Std Dev from the definition using other aggregate functions:
DECLARE @AVERAGE FLOAT;
SELECT @AVERAGE = AVG(LATITUDE) FROM GPSHISTORY
WHERE GPSDATE BETWEEN '2007-10-23 11:21:00.859' AND '2007-10-23 17:00:00.062' AND GPSDEVICEID = 0x004A08BC04050000;
SELECT SQRT(SUM(SQUARE((LATITUDE - @AVERAGE)))/COUNT(LATITUDE)) FROM GPSHISTORY
WHERE GPSDATE BETWEEN '2007-10-23 11:21:00.859' AND '2007-10-23 17:00:00.062' AND GPSDEVICEID = 0x004A08BC04050000;
6.03401924005392E-06
// That's better. Maybe STDEV is using fixed point arithmetic?!?
SELECT STDEV(10 * LATITUDE)/10 FROM GPSHISTORY
WHERE GPSDATE BETWEEN '2007-10-23 11:21:00.859' AND '2007-10-23 17:00:00.062' AND GPSDEVICEID = 0x004A08BC04050000;
4.77267753808509E-06
SELECT STDEV(100 * LATITUDE)/100 FROM GPSHISTORY
WHERE GPSDATE BETWEEN '2007-10-23 11:21:00.859' AND '2007-10-23 17:00:00.062' AND GPSDEVICEID = 0x004A08BC04050000;
1.66904329068838E-05
SELECT STDEV(1000 * LATITUDE)/1000 FROM GPSHISTORY
WHERE GPSDATE BETWEEN '2007-10-23 11:21:00.859' AND '2007-10-23 17:00:00.062' AND GPSDEVICEID = 0x004A08BC04050000;
8.11904280806654E-06
// The standard deviation should, of course, be linear, e.g.
DECLARE @AVERAGE FLOAT;
SELECT @AVERAGE = AVG(LATITUDE) FROM GPSHISTORY
WHERE GPSDATE BETWEEN '2007-10-23 11:21:00.859' AND '2007-10-23 17:00:00.062' AND GPSDEVICEID = 0x004A08BC04050000;
SELECT SQRT(SUM(SQUARE(100*(LATITUDE - @AVERAGE)))/COUNT(LATITUDE))/100 FROM GPSHISTORY
WHERE GPSDATE BETWEEN '2007-10-23 11:21:00.859' AND '2007-10-23 17:00:00.062' AND GPSDEVICEID = 0x004A08BC04050000;
6.03401924005389E-06
// Std Dev is a numerically stable computation, although it does require traversing the dataset twice.
//
// This calculation is not being done correctly.
//
// Incidently, SQRT(VAR(Latitude....)) gives 4.80354E-4, which is also way off.
I will redefine STDEV to use a stored procedure similar to the above, but the algorithm used to compute VAR, STDEV etc should be reviewed and fixed.
-Rob Calhoun
I have quite a few tables which allow NULL values. I have to struggle a lot with DBnull Exceptions :|example: col1,col2,... are all columns of type Integer and possibly NULL. var query = from person in table select new { person.col1, test = (int?) person.col2, person.col3, person.col4, ...}; As soon as my result encounters a DBNull value.. the whole query fails. This is really bad.How would I return the valid values.. and set the keys where there is no value to a null type? (e.g. int -> 0)I tried using "(int?)" but I'm not *really* sure what it does :-) Anyway.. it has no effect :-)
View 1 Replies View RelatedI wonder if anyone can help with this. I have searched around and not found much on the topic which can resolve my problem.
History on the reason for using VBA and not C# or VB or VB.net etc. Whn I arrived at this company, there were no development tools so had to resort to Access and VBA. Of course, the routines I wrote are now set in production and I haven't had much time to convert them to c# and ASP.NET (which I have learnt over the past couple of years).
Anyway the problem is that I found on the SQLDTS.com site that I could in fact create and execute DTS packages within VB and followed the examples and got this working in VBA. Of course I created the DTS first and then saved it as VB, then used the resulting code with the VBA project etc etc. This worked well and we were happy.
The DTS packages I create and execute are to export data from SQL2000 tables to tabs in Excel spreadsheets.
Now I find that on my machine, when the objPkg.execute command runs, the Excel file is created but only the query column headings are populated into the excel file. No data is returned.
If I run this on a different machine it works (although having said that, the other machine is now starting to display similar behaviour on some routines).
we created a version of the Access 2000 MDB in Access 2003 some time ago and the Access 2000 still behaves correctly. The strange thing is that my machine has only started doing this incorrectly a little while ago (not sure how long now but could be as little as a couple of months). The routines are monthly processes so it's only going to show up as a problem once a month so the fact that it used to work on my machine and has only failed the last couple of times means that something must have changed on my setup. I am runningXP-Pro SP2 - fully patched, Office Pro 2003 and talking to SQL 2000 SP3a
is it possible that some windows updates or office updates are clobbering something which used to work?
If I allow the VBA to create the DTS but not execute it, I can execute the created DTS manually from SQLEM and it outputs data correctly.
No security access to the SQL databases/table has changed, nor have there been any changes to security on the file system where the files are written.
It's weird.
Any help would be gratefully accepted.
Annabel
I'm really lost and not sure whether I should look at driver versions, ODBC versions blah blah
We run std 2008 r2. I haven't looked at my friend's function closely yet bur he showed me that when he selects from the function with one column and the same where clause he uses on same func with select *, he gets no data under the column he requested.Â
But when he selects * he gets a single row.
I took a peek and see a bunch of left joins followed by a bunch of outer applies in his func. I suppose (thinking out load) if anything random like the order of rows returned or sql decisions on how query runs can affect his function, that might explain it. Â
I'm running SQL Server 2008 Feb08 CTP and I've got a tablix with column groupings and row groupings which works nicely, I'm a becomming a big fan of the tablix.
However sometimes the filter I have on a column group returns no records and the whole column group disappears.
Is there any way to make this column appear with but with empty cells as I have another tablix down the page with the same columns and I want the columns to all line up on the multiple tablix.
In Version 2005 I used to achieve the equivalent of a column group within a table by adding a list with filter to the cell, this meant the column always was shown, the tablix allows does this much more elegantly but I'll have to go back to the old method if I can't make the column remain.
Am I just missing a simple option?
Nathan
I created very simple table with 3 columns and one is varchar(max) datatype
When i insert records thru VC++ ADO code i am getting this error
Exception Description Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check e
ach OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done. and Error Number:: -2147217887
ODBC Driver: SQL Native Client
SQL server 2005
Table
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[RAVI_TEMP](
[ID] [int] NULL,
[Name] [varchar](max) NULL,
[CITY] [varchar](50) NULL
)
VC++ code
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <string>
#include <strstream>
#include <iomanip>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
try
{
HRESULT hr = CoInitialize(NULL);
_RecordsetPtr pExtRst = NULL;
_bstr_t bstrtDSN, bstrtSQL;
bstrtDSN = L"DSN=espinfo;UID=opsuser;PWD=opsuser;";
bstrtSQL = L"SELECT * FROM RAVI_TEMP";
_variant_t vartValueID,vartValueNAME,vartValueCITY;
_bstr_t bstrtValueID,bstrtValueNAME,bstrtValueCITY;
pExtRst.CreateInstance(__uuidof(Recordset));
hr = pExtRst->Open(bstrtSQL, bstrtDSN, adOpenDynamic, adLockOptimistic, adCmdText);
hr = pExtRst->AddNew();
bstrtValueID = L"1";
vartValueID = bstrtValueID.copy();
bstrtValueNAME = L"RAVIBABUBANDARU";
vartValueNAME = bstrtValueNAME.copy();
bstrtValueCITY = L"Santa Clara";
vartValueCITY = bstrtValueCITY.copy();
pExtRst->GetFields()->GetItem(L"ID")->Value = vartValueID;
pExtRst->GetFields()->GetItem(L"NAME")->Value = vartValueNAME;
pExtRst->GetFields()->GetItem(L"CITY")->Value = vartValueCITY;
pExtRst->Update();
pExtRst->Close();
}
catch(_com_error e)
{
printf("Exception Description %s and Error Number:: %d",(LPTSTR)e.Description(),e.Error());
return e.Error();
}
return 0;
CoUninitialize();
}
if i use regular SQL ODBC driver, no error but its truncating the data
Adv Thanks for your help