Handling NULL Values.
Oct 19, 2007
Hi,
I would like to know the solution for the below problem.
Actually I have a single Hibernate xml file which has the query on it. And I am accessing the xml file for SQL server 2005 and Oracle 10G. But the query is working in Oracle and not working in SQl Server.
I noticed from the query that handling 'NULL' is the problem.
Findings:
1. The following query is the same in both Oracle and SQL Server, which is causing the Issue.
SELECT *
FROM CLIENT_SKU AS o
WHERE o.OU_ID = 20000000
AND ((o.CLIENT_SKU_START_CODE <= 'wwwww' AND o.CLIENT_SKU_END_CODE >= 'wwwww')
OR (o.CLIENT_SKU_START_CODE <= '' AND o.CLIENT_SKU_END_CODE >= '')
OR (o.CLIENT_SKU_START_CODE >= 'wwwww' AND o.CLIENT_SKU_END_CODE < '')
OR (o.CLIENT_SKU_START_CODE = 'wwwww' AND o.CLIENT_SKU_END_CODE is null))
CAUSE:
Oracle treats NULL and the empty string almost the same making the latter almost an alias for NULL
The following two statements produce identical results:
1. update employee set lastname = ''
2. update employee set lastname = NULL
In our case, the CLIENT_SKU_END_CODE is an empty string which is being checked with an empty string returns False in Oracle where as returns True in Sql Server causing the issue.
It would be great if any one who can give some possible solution to resolve the same.
Thnx
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Jun 30, 2000
I would like some suggestions on how to keep from displaying the value "1/1/1900" on my asp pages when my recordset field returns a Sql date value that is null
Thanks for any tips
Jim
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I want to select records where AnswerDate is within 30 days of today, and include records that have a NULL AnswerDate.
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Hi All
I am facing this problem while loading data from text file into Table.
Scenario is -
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when i m trying to rum my SSIS package this is getting failed.
How can i avoid this problem? i want null values to be inserted if ther is spaces for that field in text file.
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Nov 28, 2006
I using Visual Web Designer Express (with Visual Basic), with a SQL Server 2000 database. I have a prototype application running satisfactorily using code that builds queries, but I'm now trying to rebuild the application "properly" using three-tier architecture. I have been following the principles of Scott Mitchell's tutorials. I have created an database .xsd with a table adaptor, and replaced the rather grotty query-building code in the business layer with better code referencing the table adaptor. Thus where the first version had code: -
Dim queryString As String = "SELECT * FROM NZGDB_User WHERE USRid = '" & Userid & "'" Dim message As String = "" Dim Found As Boolean = False Try Using connection As New SqlConnection(GDB_AppSettings.Connection) Dim command As New SqlCommand(queryString, connection) connection.Open()
Dim reader As SqlDataReader = command.ExecuteReader()
If reader.Read() Then Found = True _USRid = reader("USRid") _USRPassword = reader("USRPassword") _USREmail = reader("USREmail") _USRTitle = reader("USRTitle") _USRName = reader("USRName") _USRRole = reader("USRRole") If IsDBNull(reader("USRAgreedConditions")) = False Then _USRAgreedConditions = reader("USRAgreedConditions") End If End If reader.Close() End Using Catch ex As Exception If Left(Err.Description, 68) = "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server." Then Return "Cannot open database to logon" Else Return Err.Description End If End Try
the new version is much more elegant: -
Dim taUser As New NZGDBTableAdapters.NZGDB_UserTableAdapter()
Dim tbUser As NZGDB.NZGDB_UserDataTable = taUser.GetUserByUserid(userid) If tbUser.Count <> 1 Then ' Anything other than 0 or 1 should be impossible Return "User not found" End If
Dim trUser As NZGDB.NZGDB_UserRow = tbUser(0) _USRid = userid _USRPassword = password _USREmail = trUser.USREmail _USRTitle = trUser.USRTitle _USRName = trUser.USRName _USRRole = trUser.USRRole _USRAgreedConditions = trUser.USRAgreedConditions
However, there is a problem. The database field USRAgreedConditions is a Datetime field that can be null. The new version works perfectly when it is NOT null, but throws an exception: -
System.Data.StrongTypingException was unhandled by user code Message="The value for column 'USRAgreedConditions' in table 'NZGDB_User' is DBNull." Source="App_Code.wt2vzoc1" ....
There is no point in writing: - If Not IsDBNull(trUser.USRAgreedConditions) Then _USRAgreedConditions = trUser.USRAgreedConditions End Ifbecause the exception occurs within the automatically-created code in the data access layer. I tried changing the Nullvalue property of the field USRAgreedConditions in the table adaptor, but the only valid option is (Throw Exception) unless the field is a String. Of course USRAgreedConditions is a Datetime field, so I can't change the property.
It seems that my only options are: -1. To stick with the old query-building code. But this doesn't give me the advantages of a proper 3-tier architecture2. To change the generated code in wt2vzoc. This MUST be a bad idea - surely I should leave this code untouched. Besides, what if the table adaptor has to be regenerated when I change the table design?3. Code a Try block within the business layer: - Try _USRAgreedConditions = trUser.USRAgreedConditions Catch ex As Exception _USRAgreedConditions = Nothing End Try
This seems to work OK, but seems less elegant than the original code in the old version: - If IsDBNull(reader("USRAgreedConditions")) = False Then _USRAgreedConditions = reader("USRAgreedConditions") End IfIs there a better way?
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I am writing a stored procedure that needs a access individual entries in a column with multiple entries delimited by a comma(yeah i know, not 1st NF) . Like this:
Key
NotANormalizedCol
1
1324, 5124, 5435,5467
2
423, 23, 5345
3
52334, 53443, 1224
4
12, 4, 1243,66
is there a function that returns a substring given a delimiter character? the only substring returning function that i found are the LEFT and RIGHT that returns fixed length substring.
I am pretty new to this, so I apologize if this is a trivial questions
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Hi all,
I’m returning two values from a stored procedure, one is a basic string confirming that an email has been sent and the other is the normal value returned from running an INSERT statement. So in my code I’m using the ExecuteNonQuery() method. I’m not sure how to handle both returned values in my code in my data layer. This is what I have:
ExecuteNonQuery(cmd);
return Convert.ToString(cmd.Parameters["@ReturnedValue"].Value).ToLower();
Obviously I’d need to return the value returned by the ExecuteNonQuery method as well, normally I’d simply convert the value to an int and precede this with the return keyword like so:
return (int)ExecuteNonQuery(cmd);
Obviously I can’t do this as I need to return two values, the normal value returned by the ExecuteNonQuery() method and my own output parameter value. Any ideas how I can do both? My current method containing the code further above returns a string but clearly this doesn’t help. I’m guessing that maybe I should return an object array so I can return both values? I haven’t encountered this problem before so I’m just guessing. Please help.
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I am using Textboxes to display this data.
So my report will look something like
-----
Field label 1 Field value 1
Field label 2 Field value 2
Field label 3
<white space>
<page break>
Field value 3 ---> this is a big block of text
Field label 4 Field value 4
etc
------
It appears as though the report attempts to keep the contents of each textbox together even if that means breaking onto an entirely new page to do this. I would prefer for the data to flow more natrually instead where the page breaks in the middle of the data being displayed should it be too large to fit on the page it started on.
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Field label 2 Field value 2
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etc
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CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Import_CustomerSales](
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Hi
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Leaving out the ELSE clause generates following error: Error: Year, Month, and Day parameters describe an un-representable DateTime.
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Else
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End If
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c#com.Parameters.Add("@returnValue", SqlDbType.Int).Direction = ParameterDirection.Output;con.Open();com.ExecuteNonQuery();
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Hi,
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e.g.
Rank Blah Blah
1 - -
2 - -
3 - -
NULL - -
NULL - -
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Thanks
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Hi,
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The background being that while using a "Derived Column" to change a Column from a (DT_DATE) to a (DT_DBTIMESTAMP) everytime I get a null value it see's it as a error.
And the column in particular has ~ 37 K blank / null fields so Im getting a lot of errors
So far I have tried to use something like
ISNULL([Column 34])
Or
SELECT ISNULL(ID, '00/00/0000') FROM [Column 34]
Or
SELECT ISNULL(au_id, '00/00/0000 00:00') AS ssn
FROM [Column 34
but none seems to work [Column 34] being the offending column.
What a normally use is just a simple "(DT_DBTIMESTAMP)[Column 34]"
in the expression column, which seems to work well, but here I get alot of errors
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If it is what do you enter in place of the null value,
which will lead to more code, right?
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select * from table where value1='something' value2=<null> value3='something' value4=<null>
I would like to ignore the null values so that in effect the statement would just do the following.
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Below is a partial version of my code. Can anyone show me how I can do a "Like" Search even if some of the fields in the row contain null values?
Thanks
1 CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.Addresses_Like( @SendTo VarChar(50) = Null
2 , @AddressLine1 VarChar(50) = Null
3 , @AddressLine2 VarChar(50) = Null
4 , @City VarChar(50) = Null
5 , @StateCode VarChar(2) = Null
6 , @ZipCode VarChar(10) = Null
7 , @CountryCode VarChar(2) = Null)
8
9
10 Declare @SearchSendTo VarChar(50)
11 Declare @SearchAddressLine1 VarChar(50)
12 Declare @SearchAddressLine2 VarChar(50)
13 Declare @SearchCity VarChar(50)
14 Declare @SearchStateCode VarChar(2)
15 Declare @SearchZipCode VarChar(10)
16 Declare @SearchCountryCode VarChar(2)
17
18 If (@SendTo Is Null)
19 Set @SearchSendTo = ""
20 Else
21 Set @SearchSendTo = @SendTo
22
23 If (@AddressLine1 Is Null)
24 Set @SearchAddressLine1 = ""
25 Else
26 Set @SearchAddressLine1 = @AddressLine1
27
28 If (@AddressLine2 Is Null)
29 Set @SearchAddressLine2 = ""
30 Else
31 Set @SearchAddressLine2 = @AddressLine2
32
33 If (@City Is Null)
34 Set @SearchCity = ""
35 Else
36 Set @SearchCity = @City
37
38 If (@StateCode Is Null)
39 Set @SearchStateCode = ""
40 Else
41 Set @SearchStateCode = @StateCode
42
43 If (@ZipCode Is Null)
44 Set @SearchZipCode = ""
45 Else
46 Set @SearchZipCode = @ZipCode
47
48 If (@CountryCode Is Null)
49 Set @SearchCountryCode = ""
50 Else
51 Set @SearchCountryCode = @CountryCode
52
53
54 Select AddressID
55 , SendTo
56 , AddressLine1
57 , AddressLine2
58 , City
59 , StateCode
60 , ZipCode
61 , CountryCode
62 , RowVersion
63 , LastChangedDateTime
64 , OperID
65 From Addresses
66 Where SendTo Like RTrim(LTrim(@SearchSendTo)) + "%"
67 And AddressLine1 Like RTrim(LTrim(@SearchAddressLine1)) + "%"
68 And AddressLine2 Like RTrim(LTrim(@SearchAddressLine2)) + "%"
69 And City Like RTrim(LTrim(@SearchCity)) + "%"
70 And StateCode Like RTrim(LTrim(@SearchStateCode)) + "%"
71 And ZipCode Like RTrim(LTrim(@SearchZipCode)) + "%"
72 And CountryCode Like RTrim(LTrim(@SearchCountryCode)) + "%"
73 Order By CountryCode, City, AddressLine1, AddressLine2, SendTo
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Apr 10, 2007
I want to write a query to bring out any records in a table
where any of its fields contain a null value. I could do it in this way:
select *
from
customers
where name is
null
or role
is null
or email
is null
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);
D(["ce"]);
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However I want to perform a similar function for a
number of tables and the method above would mean more sql and maintenance. I was hoping there was a simple way to
do the same thing ie find any rows with a blank
field?
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If I only did WHERE column <> 1.0, i only get the 0.0 results and none of the NULL results, but if I have no WHERE statement I get all the results including the NULL values.
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Hi I have a table in my database and one of the columns is called 'Month'. Here only one month is inserted according to what the user selects from a dro down list.
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da.Fill(dt);
myConn.Open();
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myConn.Close();
lblHole2.Text = info;
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thanks
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When I have values for the text string, everything runs smoothly. However, when the database originally had a <NULL> or when I want to delete the currently existing value and replace it with a <NULL>, I get an error message stating... "Input string was not in a correct format".
Back in the old days, when I was using Random Access databases, you just inserted a Char(0). But that doesn't work any more.
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