Lets say I have a column of type varchar and need to extract an integer value from the middle of it. The string looks like this:'this part is always the same' + integer of varying length + 'this part is different but always the same length'Is there a way to trim the constant string lengths from the beginning and end?
I have a long text in 'Quote' column as below and i have to extract Trip Duration, Destination and Base Rate from this text. The ‘Base Rate’ will be repeated throughout the text if there is more than one traveler and I only need the first instance.
Begin Quote Calculation<br /> <br />....<br /> Agent Id: 001<br /> Trip Duration: 5days<br /> Relationship Type: Individual<br />....nDestination: AreaTwo<br /> <br ...../>Resolved Trip Type To: 1 with Trip Subtype: 0<br /> Resolved Relationship: Individual....... /> *Base Rates*<br /> Base Rate: 6.070000<br />.....Resolved Trip Type To: 2 with Trip Subtype: 0<br /> Resolved Relationship: Individual....... /> *Base Rates*<br /> Base Rate: 9.070000<br />.....
Result
Trip Duration: 5 days Destination: AreaTwo Base Rate: 6.070000
Is there a function that will extract part of a string when the data youwant does not occur in a specific position?Field "REF" is varchar(80) and contains an email subject line and the emailrecipients contact nameExample data:Rec_ID REF1 Here is the information you requested (oc:JohmSmith)2 Thanks for attending our seminar (oc:Peggy SueJohnson)3 Re: Our meeting yesterday (oc:Donald A. Duck)What I need to extract is the contact name that is in parenthesis after theoc:The name is always in parenthesis and occurs immediately after "oc:" - nospaces after the "oc:"Thanks.
1. I have a table with a column for region names. Region Names are in 2 formats basically - "NAME-BU*RM" OR "NAME*RM". I want to extract just "Name" from this string. The length of "Name" varies and I want to extract all characters included for "Name". Can anyone advise what the query/SQL statement would look like?
2. I wrote a VB code to generate a xls file. Users are able to run it fine but if they have another file with same name already open, then it just crashes excel. So I want to include a code that checks if file "file.xls" is open on user's machine. If file is open, then message "file "File.xls" is already open. Generating File_1.xls" Run the code but create the file with file name "file_1.xls" If file doesn't exist, then run code and create file with file name "File.xls"
Is there anyway to extract part of a string in a stored procedureusing a parameter as the starting point?For example, my string might read: x234y01zx567y07zx541y04zMy Parameter is an nvarchar and the value is: "x567y"What I want to extract is the two charachters after the parameter, inthis case "07".Can anyone shed some light on this problem?Thanks,lq
I want to extract two strings from xxxxx - yyyyyy separately as xxxxx and yyyyyy. The source always has two strings brought together with a - symbol. How to extract these two strings.
Here is a sample order # we used for one of our shipments: BL-53151-24954-1-0001-33934
I need to extract the "24954" portion of that order # while within an INNER JOIN, but not sure how.
My problem is we have 2 order tables: OrderTable1 contains a field with the full order #. OrderTable2 contains a field with only the "24954" portion. I need to JOIN on these 2 fields somehow.
SELECT ot1.Full_Order_No , ot2.Order_No FROM OrderTable1 ot1 INNER JOIN OrderTable2 ot2 ON ot2.Order_No = [do something here to truncate ot1.Full_Order_No]
How can I do this?
Few notes:
-the 1st part of the order number, "BL-53151-" will ALWAYS be the same. It's our client # which will never change for the purpose of this query. -The portion I need (24954) can be more or less than the 5 current digits. -There will always be 6 portions to the order number, split up between 5 dashes.
Yeah, it's pretty simple. Maybe it'll help someone out.
-- USAGE: fn_extract_chars(string_to_search, 'letters' -or- 'numbers') CREATE FUNCTION fn_extract_chars (@x varchar(128), @y char(7)) RETURNS varchar(128) AS BEGIN DECLARE @chars varchar(128) DECLARE @pos int DECLARE @action varchar(32) SET @pos = 0 SET @chars = ''
IF @y = 'numbers' SET @action = '[0-9]' ELSE IF @y = 'letters' SET @action = '[a-zA-Z]'
WHILE @pos < (DATALENGTH(@x) + 1) BEGIN IF PATINDEX(@action,SUBSTRING(@x, @pos, 1)) > 0 BEGIN SET @chars = @chars + (SELECT SUBSTRING(@x, @pos, 1)) END SET @pos = @pos + 1 END RETURN(@chars) END
I am trying to write a query in sql query analyzer that will extract a date that appears after the first comma in the string. An example of the data is below:
I have a column that contains the follwoing string I need to compare.
ek/df/cv/ ek/df/cv/f
All fields bfore the third / are not fixed but behind the third/ is eiter nothing or one letter I need a function to extract all the fields before the third / to compare if they are equal.
I can't do it by using the combination of Substring() and charindex() and Len()
Consider the following: I have a table, say ORDERS, with these entries -
CustID ProductID 1 CAN 2 2 3 1,2 4 4 5 1,2,3,4,5,CAN 6 10 7 CAN 8 1,CAN
I'd like to write a script to return only those rows WHERE ProductID = CAN along with other values in the same column. In this example, I'd like to return rows 5 & 8. How can I write this in T-SQL? So, say, check if ProductID has a comma ',' value plus the 'CAN' string. If yes, then return that row. If I use the LIKE operator, it'll return rows 1,5,7, and 8.
I have to extract a specific part of a string from a column in a sql server table. Following are the details and I have given the sample table and the sample strings.
I have 2 columns in my table [dbo].[StringExtract] (Id, MyString)
The row sample looks like the following
I have to extract the Id and a part of the column from mystring.
Id MyString 1 ABC|^~&|BNAME|CLIENT1||CLIENT1|20110609233558||BIC^A27|5014589635|K|8.1| ABC1|^~&|BNAME1|CLIENT1||CLIENT1|20110609233558||CTP^A27|5014589635|I|7.1| DEF||5148956598||||Apprised|Bfunction1||15|LMP|^^^201106101330| alloys3^ally^crimson^L||||alloys3^ally^crimson^L||||alloys3^ally^crimson^L|||||Apprised|
[Code] ....
The part I want to extract is in the line "ZZZ" and the string part that i want to extract is between the 5th and 6th pipes (|). So my output looks like the following
Id DesiredString 1 Extracts^This^String1 2 Extracts^This^String2 3 Extracts^This^String3
Is there a way to extract this either using TSQL or SSIS.
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[StringExtract]') AND type in (N'U')) DROP TABLE [dbo].[StringExtract] GO IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[StringExtract]') AND type in (N'U')) BEGIN CREATE TABLE [dbo].[StringExtract]( [Id] [int] NULL,
I am required to send an XML file of our clients to head office in Belgium for comparison against a database of known undesirables. The data is in a legacy system with a custom database so I have created an SSIS package that extracts the tables I need into SQL Server and have developed a program that reads from a text source and creates the XML then Secure FTPs it to Hong Kong who will handle it from there.
My problem lies in actually extracting enough data to avoid too many false positives. The scanning will check name, identity (passport number, etc.), town/city and country. We don't hold an identity number and the town/city and country are buried in free format fields. A quick analysis of the 419,000 records shows that the spelling is terribly unreliable, too. In most cases country has not been entered because the clients are local and even when they are overseas, sometimes only the city has been entered. That is often misspelt, too e.g. Kuala Lumpar or Melboure.
The addresses are held in 3 equal length fields called Address_1, Address_2 and Address_3. There's no guarantee that I will find the town/city or country in any particular one of these fields. In some cases, the street number and name are in Address_3 because the first two hold a company name and a C/O line.
So I'm not going to fret over the ones where the address information is nonsense or missing but I would like to try and extract valid country names and town/city names, where present and this is where I get stuck. I'm from a COBOL programming background and although I'm loving getting used to the power of SQL, I'm still a bit stumped when I come across a problem like this probably because I keep thinking of the solution in procedural terms.
I have a feeling that the solution will be to create two separate reference tables, one of towns/cities and the other of countries. I would then somehow search the 3 fields looking for those keywords and if found, entering them in the appropriate part of the output text file to represent town/city and/or country. I did also think about destringing to find the separate words but that doesn't help where the name consists of two words such as NEW ZEALAND.
I would love to hear from anyone who has dealt with a similar problem and has a neat solution to this using SQL.
I have a report which is redirecting to a subreport. The main report is having multi value parameter. I need to pass these multi values to sub report. Passing parameters from MDX report to T-sql report. So, I'm using the below exp.
=SPLIT(REPLACE(TRIM(Join(Parameters!Grade.Label,",")),", ",","),",") The value will look like this 01-Manger 02-Senior Mange 21-Associate 25-Associate Trainee
This is working for me in all the cases except one. In all other cases, the parameter's Label and Value field has same data in the sub report. But, in a specific parameter I'm getting Label and Value data are different. I'm getting an alpha numeric string value from MDX report , but I need to pass only the numeric values to the sub report since its value field contains only numeric value. The numeric value is coming at the starting of the string data. So I have used Mid()
I have a parameter value as shown below and this is dynamic and can grow
Example : 101-NY, 102-CA, 165-GA 116-NY, 258-NJ, 254-PA, 245-DC, 298-AL How do I get the values in the below format NY,CA,GA --- each state to be followed with comma and the next state NY,NJ,PA,DC,AL --- each state to be followed with comma and the next state
correct query that will fetch only state names and not the numbers.
I have a table that has the first name and last name together in one field (stupid I know). I want to extract the first name from the field and copy it into another field names, well, firstname. I figure it might be possible since there is a comma after the last name. But how can I do this?
So for:
STRNAME ------------- adams, john ------------- washington, michael -------------
I want it to be like this
STRNAME | STRFIRSTNAME --------------------------- adams | john --------------------------- washington | michael
So I guess there would be two parts to the statement:
1. First I need to select or trim the strname field to the comma. BUT I don't want to just trim it- I want to copy it.
2. The next thing I need to do is to copy the lastname (the part that I trimmed) into a new field which I created called lastname.
I posted this a while ago with no luck and I'm going to try it again:
I have a column called strlastname with contains the firstname and last name of a client. I want to separate out the first name and last name into into two separate fields. I figured maybe I can do it easier if I copied the column into the table. So now I have a column called strfirstname that contains the first name and the last name and a colmn called strlastname that contains the first name and last name. The lastname is seperated from the first name with a comma like this:
I need to find rows from the above table which has the first occurence of the corresponding ID. This the output will contain the rows that will have first occurence of the following ids.
1067381, 1087668, 109754, 1103377.
How does one handle this. I have not been able to come up with the sql yet.
I have a package which establishes connection with DB2 server.I dont have any db2 application where i can format query for db2.This is my query in access/sql. can someone help me converting it into a db2 query.i tryed to google and use the functions but i failed and even the error that ssis gives don't help asthey are same for any type of error. Thanks in ADV
SELECT table1.YYYY & table1.MM as MO_YR, table2.CNTRYCD AS CNTRY_CD, Sum(table1.AMT) AS [VALUE] FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON (table1.MM = table2.MM) AND (table1.YYYY = table2.YYYY) WHERE (table1.YYYY BETWEEN YEAR(DATE()) AND YEAR(DATEADD("m",-3,DATE()))) AND (table1.MM BETWEEN MONTH(DATE()) AND MONTH(DATEADD("m",-3,DATE()))) GROUP BY table2.CNTRYCD, table1.YYYY, table1.MM
I need to get some data from an enormous, creaky old SQL 6.5 database.I know nothing about either the data schema (though I believe some sortof documentation exists), nor 6.5 for that matter, having come to SQLServer at 7.0.My clients need the data in comma delimited format.Please, can anyone suggest any possibilities? One thing that occurredto me might be to create an Access application, use an ODBC link to theSQL DB, and then leverage Access' not inconsiderable functionality toget the data out.Does anyone foresee any problems with this, or any better ways?Forever in your debt.Edward--The reading group's reading group:http://www.bookgroup.org.uk
