Hope someone can help... I need a function to parse a string using a beginning character parameter and an ending character parameter and extract what is between them. For example.....
Here is the sample string: MFD-2fdr4.zip
CREATE FUNCTION Parse(String, '-' , '.')
.....
....
.....
END
and it shoud return 2fdr4
Hi,
I've the following query. I'm using the yellow highlighted to join 2 tables, as these tables dont have a relationship between them.
The format of the name field is 'AAAA-BBBBBB-123'
here A will be only 4 chars, followed by '-' B can be any number of chars again followed by '-' and the last is the id which I'm using to do a join. This query will fail if the id is just 1 digit as its taking the last 3 chars as the id.
I dont know how to get the id from the right using charindex. Charindex would search for the first occurence of '-' from the right and get the chars after hypen i.e 123. How can this be achieved?
SELECT id AS 'ID',
name AS 'name',
sequence AS 'num'
FROM
FirstTable A
INNER JOIN SecondTable q
ON (CONVERT(INT,RIGHT(name,3))= a.id)
INNER JOIN ThridTable t
ON(t.id = q.id)
INNER JOIN FourthTable s
ON (q.name = s.name )
WHERE A.id = @ID
AND t.name=LEFT(s.name,((CHARINDEX('-',s.name))-1))
ORDER BY 'ID','num'
One more question on this is: Is this a good way of joining tables? If I dont use this I've a very large query containing unions. Which one should be bug-free and more efficient?
Thanks,
Subha
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Eg Table1 contains code, address
Table2 contains code, financial details
table3 contains code, financial history
This view is then going to be used to update a table with only one record for each 'code'. i.e. NewTable = code, add1, add2, city, prov, postal, financialvalue, history value1, history value2
My current stumbling block is:
One of the fields in table1 is a free format address field (address).
eg. could be (street addres, city prov, postal)
or
could be (street address 1, address2, address 3, city prov, postal)
I want to be able to assign individual components of the address to corresponding fields
if # of commas = 2 then
address1 = substring(address,1, position of first comma)
cityprov = substring(address,possition of first comma, position of second comman)
postal = substring(address rest of field)
I have a UDF which returns the number of commas but I cannot figure out how to use either a nested case statement to parse the string...
ANy ideas on how best to accompish this?
( this table is needed for some leacy software which can only handle one record with all infor....
greg
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Mike@yahoo.com, Bill@aol.com, Dan@yahoo.com, Frank@gmail.com
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04102015_115030_10_013_9_8_6_99999_Test 2_1_0
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Hi!
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e.g. 'ABC-DEF'
- is located at the position of 4
I tried the charIndex, Is it same as Instr in ORACLE. Is there any INSTR function available
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example NumberOfTimes("i","mississippi") would return 4
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Thanks
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hi kristen or anybody there,
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data details:
table 1
pk_transactionid transactiondate and so on
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2 1/2/2007 *********
3 1/3/2007 *********
table 2
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1 1 record1
2 2 record2
3 3 record3
4 1 record4
5 2 record5
6 1 record6
result set should be like this
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3 1/3/2007 record 6
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RETURNS varchar(10) AS
BEGIN
'''''''''''''''''''...........................
DECLARE @vNextProjectID varchar(10)
RETURN @vNextProjectID
END
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Dim vProjectID As String
Dim cmd As New SqlClient.SqlCommand()
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cmd.Dispose()
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