all the columns are separated with a "|" but the amount of columns are not fixed, so in lines 1 & 2 they are 4 columns and in line 3 there is 7 columns
I have to split a column using comma a delimiter into multiple columns. I am able to do it if i know how many column will be present in the final output. But in daily run, the columns may vary randomly.
how to split columns without hardcoding how many columns it ll come.
This is the code am using
Code: WITH Split_Names (Fil_id,Name, xmlname) AS ( SELECT Fil_ID,
Hi i want to create a table as follows :if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =object_id(N'[Indexes]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1)drop table [Indexes]GOCreate table Indexes(indexname Varchar(100), index_DescriptionVarchar(100), index_keys Varchar(100))GOINSERT INTO Indexes EXEC sp_helpindex 'SDM_Fact_Order_Detail'GOThis will give me a table (northwind)IX_Auto_SDM_Fact_FK_Shipped_Date nonclustered located onSAMIS_SDM_Index FK_Shipped_DateIX_Auto_SDM_Fact_Order_Detail_FK_Insert_Dateclustered located onSAMIS_SDM_Data1FK_Insert_Date, FK_Insert_TimeAs you see sp_helpindex will give me a comma seperated field. I wantto split the third column FK_Insert_Date, FK_Insert_Time into a extrarowLike this :IX_Auto_SDM_Fact_FK_Shipped_Date FK_Shipped_DateIX_Auto_SDM_Fact_Order_Detail_FK_Insert_Date FK_Insert_DateIX_Auto_SDM_Fact_Order_Detail_FK_Insert_Date FK_Insert_TimeCan anyone help me with this?ThanxHennie
I have a description field in a table which also stores unit of measure in the same column but with some space between them, I need to split these into two different columns.
This query was working well because I used to only be interested in one counter that was returned in the column, which was 'Free Megabytes'...I now have additional data that shows up as 'Total Disk Space'...Ideally, the query would return the total disk space next to the free megabytes on the same row for the same disk drive. Here is a couple rows of sample output:
AverageValueInstanceNameObjectNameCounterName 44549 C: LogicalDiskFree Megabytes 44548 C: LogicalDiskFree Megabytes 69452 C: LogicalDiskTotal Disk Space 69452 C: LogicalDiskTotal Disk Space
This is the ideal format, the average value column goes away:
InstanceNameObjectNameFree MegabytesTotal Disk SpaceC: LogicalDisk44549 69452
Currently I have a column with multiple postcodes in one value which are split with the “/” character along with the corresponding location data. What I need to do is split these postcode values into separate rows while keeping their corresponding location data.
For example PostCode Latitude Longitude 66000/66100 42.696595 2.899370 20251/20270 42.196471 9.404951
Would become PostCode Latitude Longitude 66000 42.696595 2.899370 66100 42.696595 2.899370 20251 42.196471 9.404951 20270 42.196471 9.404951
Currently I have a column with multiple postcodes in one value which are split with the “/” character along with the corresponding location data. What I need to do is split these postcode values into separate rows while keeping their corresponding location data.
I'm quite new to SQL. I'm able to extract the info that I need, but only into a result of one row, like:
Order header | Order details
ID | Customer name | Customer address | Product number | Product name | Quantity | Price | Product number | Product name | Quantity | Price 2 Andy Andy's way 2 24 Glue 3 35 39 Oyster 2 9
I'm creating a web-based NT RAS report site and am looking for the most efficient way to import the data from NT Event log into SQL2k. I'm using the 'dumpel' utility from rsc kit and all is fine except the 10th column - the message detail:
"The user DOMAINuserid connected on port Mdm15 on 08/23/2002 at 07:25am and disconnected on 08/23/2002 at 07:27am. The user was active for 2 minutes 23 seconds. 78809 bytes were sent and 50675 bytes were received. The port speed was 49300."
I need to parse this one long text string into 6 distinct columns: userID, port, duration, bytes_xmt, bytes_rcv and portspeed. After a quick review of the rowsets, the strings seem to hold a consistent output ... no real variances I can see.
I've dablled with views but am facing a small performance issue that could get bigger: The sql server not only has to run the text file import package, but also the view to format the text dump into a workable dataset, then my report code bangs over 30 queries against the final dataset. It already takes our SQL2k server over 3 minutes to parse about 20,000 rows and the server's a beast (dual 1.8 p4 cpu, 3gb ram, raid, etc).
What I think would work best is to abandon the view (performance will only get worse as the row count increases) and instead INSERT the rows into one table.
Any ideas anyone? any good scripts out there that can help me to parse the long text string quicker that using substring and replace functions?
So we have new servers that are going to be installed with SQL 2012 and I'm debating the wisdom of splitting tempdb with multiple files.
I know it's a myth that performance automatically improves if you split it into a number of files based on processors, but I'm debating the wisdom of putting a file on each of my data / log file drives.
For instance, I have a server with a C: drive (OS), D: drive (Data for system DBs and install of programs - 458 GB), an F: drive for user DB data files (767 GB), and a J: drive for log files (255 GB).
Obviously no files are going on C:. I'm debating on whether or not we should even leave system DBs on the D: drive given in our current 2k8 servers, we end up with Memory.dmp files over flowing the D: drives as well as .cabs and other install / update files that tend to collect on that drive over the years.
But if we leave the system DBs on D:, I'm wondering if adding a second tempdb file to F: and a third to J: will improve query performance or not.
Hi Everyone,I've been given the painstaking project of splitting a single column into multiple columns and rows. I have a solution set up in which I will be posting further down the post but I want to see if there is a much more efficient solution to this.sample data:create table tbl_list(pk_int_itmid int(5) Primary Key,vchar_desk vchar(300));create table tbl_test1(fk_int_itmid int(5) references tbl_list(pk_int_itmid),vchar_itm varchar(60));insert into tbl_list values(1, 'this item');insert into tbl_list values(2, 'that item');insert into tbl_list values(3, 'those items');insert into tbl_test1 values(1, 'A, B - C, D, E - F, G, H - I');insert into tbl_test1 values(2, 'J, K - L, M, N - O');insert into tbl_test1 values(3, 'P, Q - R');into this table:create table tbl_output(fk_int_itmid int(5) references tbl_list(pk_int_itmid),vchar_itmA varchar(60),vchar_itmB varchar(60),vchar_itmC varchar(60));Output in comma delimited form:'1', 'A', 'B', 'C''1', 'D', 'E', 'F''1', 'G', 'H', 'I''2', 'J', 'K', 'L''2', 'M', 'N', 'O''3', 'P', 'Q', 'R'my current solution:create view vw_itm_a as select fk_int_itmid, substring(vchar_itm, 0, charindex('-',vchar_itm)) as vchar_itmA,substring(vchar_itm, charindex('-',vchar_itm)+1 , charindex(',',vchar_itm)-charindex('-',vchar_itm)) as vchar_itmB,substring(vchar_itm, charindex(',',vchar_itm)+1) as vchar_itmCfrom tbl_test1where charindex(',',vchar_itm) >1Gocreate view vw_itm_b as select fk_int_itmid, substring(vchar_itm, 0, charindex('-',vchar_itm)) as vchar_itmA,substring(vchar_itm, charindex('-',vchar_itm)+1 , charindex(',',vchar_itm)-charindex('-',vchar_itm)) as vchar_itmB,substring(vchar_itm, charindex(',',vchar_itm)+1) as vchar_itmCfrom vw_itm_awhere charindex(',',vchar_itmC) >1;Gocreate view vw_itm_c as select fk_int_itmid, substring(vchar_itmC, 0, charindex('-',vchar_itmC)) as vchar_itmA,substring(vchar_itmC, charindex('-',vchar_itmC)+1 , charindex(',',vchar_itmC)-charindex('-',vchar_itmC)) as vchar_itmB,substring(vchar_itmC, charindex(',',vchar_itmC)+1) as vchar_itmCfrom vw_itm_bwhere charindex(',',vchar_itmC) >1;Go;create view vw_itm_d asselect fk_int_itmid, vchar_itmA, vchar_itmB,substring(substring(vchar_itm, charindex(',',vchar_itm)+1), 0, charindex(',',vchar_itm)) as vchar_itmCfrom vw_itm_a ia union vw_itm_b ib on ia.fk_int_itmid = ib.fk_int_itmidGo;create view vw_itm_e asselect fk_int_itmid, vchar_itmA, vchar_itmB,substring(substring(vchar_itm, charindex(',',vchar_itm)+1), 0, charindex(',',vchar_itm)) as vchar_itmCfrom vw_itm_c ia union vw_itm_b ib on ia.fk_int_itmid = ib.fk_int_itmidGo;create view vw_itm asselect fk_int_itmid, vchar_itmA, vchar_itmC, vchar_itmC from vw_itm_awhere fk_int_itmid not in (select fk_int_itmid from vw_itm_b)unionselect fk_int_itmid, vchar_itmA, vchar_itmC, vchar_itmC from vw_itm_dunionselect fk_int_itmid, vchar_itmA, vchar_itmC, vchar_itmC from vw_itm_bwhere fk_int_itmid not in (select fk_int_itmid from vw_itm_c)unionselect fk_int_itmid, vchar_itmA, vchar_itmC, vchar_itmC from vw_itm_eunionselect fk_int_itmid, vchar_itmA, vchar_itmC, vchar_itmC from vw_itm_cGo;select fk_int_itmid, vchar_itmA, vchar_itmC, vchar_itmC into tbl_outputfrom vw_itmIs there a much more efficient manner of handling this column splitting?ThanksDC
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This works very well, other than instances of the delimter are, themselves, considered to be results. For example:
SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', 'foo bar') AS result returns: pn s 1 foo 2 bar
which is exactly the result I would want.
However, SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', ' foo bar ') AS result -- There are spaces before 'foo' and after 'bar' returns pn s 1 2 foo 3 bar 4
And SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', 'foo bar') AS result -- There are two spaces between 'foo' and 'bar' returns pn s 1 foo 2 3 4 bar
I want the function to ignore whitespace altogether, be it a single space or multiple spaces. Other than to delimit the boundries between words, of course.
In other words, all three examples above should produce the same result: pn s 1 foo 2 bar
How can I do this? Any thoughts much appreciated...
I have a table with millions of rows, 1 particular attribute "FromPerson" contains a string of email addresses, names, etc... for example (formatting done by this window... not exists in database...completely cleaned to semi-colon delimited)
tomh@gmail.com; Snyder, John N.; jsnyder@yahoo.com; Miller, Jim; millerj@gmail.com; Tenbrow, Jack; Katie Winslow (can be x number of names, emails...)
as you can see... some of the delimited values match up with an email address, others have just names, or emails... I have successfully split this into 1 row per value per say, but how do i get them to match up the values that do. I think the splitting is really not helping the cause... what i want is this...
tomg@hotmail.com tomg@hotmail.com Snyder, John N. jsnyder@yahoo.com Miller, Jim millerj@gmail.com Tenbrow, Jack Tenbrow, Jack Katie Winslow Katie Winslow
there could/can be other attributes, like datetime stamp, domain(if any)... etc... but I think I can add that later...
Looking for returning multiple entries from a time span. I have a date, start-time, end-time and duration. I need the start-times separated in a list. It's fine if temp tables are needed - I have that clearance.
I have a table that has multiple postal codes in one of the columns. Those have to be split up one per line and stored in another table. The zip codes are comma seperated. Is there a function that can do this...?
Example data in ZipCodeTable. (Name and ZipCode are 2 columns in a table)
I am trying to return as a dataset of this that shows the ID as column 1 then each value in the 2nd column as individual columns if I use SELECT LEFT('2ndColumn,PATINDEX(',',2ndColum)-1) I can return the first value as a column but then can't return any further values individually after the first column, I am just learning the new functionality in SSIS so not sure whether this would be my answer as apposed to T-SQL, if anyone has any advice on this it would be greatly appreciated?
I have a very interesting problem in T-SQL coding for which I can't figure out the solution. Actually there is a Line_1_Address column in our data warehouse address table which is being populated from various sources. Some sources have already concatenated house number + street address fields in the Line_1_Address column whereas one source has separated columns for both data fields.
Now I'm trying to extract data from this data warehouse table and I need to split the house number from street address and load it into separate columns in my destination table. In case there is no data for house number then I should load it as NULL.
The issue is that data in this Line_1_Address column is very inconsistent so I don't know which functions to use. Here is some sample data for your consideration:
Line_1_Address 101 E Commerce ST 120 E Commerce ST 2 Po Box 301 W. Bel Air Ave West Main Street, PO Box 1388
I have a table that has values as follows:PersonID Degree55 MD55 Phd55 RN60 MD60 PhdI need a create a query that will give me output like this:PersonID Degree55 MD, Phd, RN60 MD, PhdAny ideas
All, i am looking for a query which fetches data from column 'managerid' which spread across 20 tables,
Managerid colums is spread across 20 tables and i need only managerid data from all the tables available, data for managerid column will be different in each table.
Hi, I have a scenario, where I have a string column from database with value as "FTW*Christopher,Lawson|FTW*Bradley,James". In my report, I need to split this column at each " | " symbol and place each substring one below the other in one row of a report as shown below .
Hello and thanks in advance to any and all help on this post!
I am trying to create a report that uses a simple select against one table in the database:
select a,b,c from MyTable where d = 1 order by a
For ease of explanation, this returns 75 records. This report is to be used as a one page Flyer. Now I can create a single table and format it but I end up with three pages instead of one. My thought was to split the data returned between two side by side tables on this report. I cannot seem to find a way to do this through the properties of each table or an example of any expression that could help with this outside of RowCount (which simply does a page break), nested SELECTs to emulate LIMIT as in MySQL, or SELECT TOP n ORDER BY ASC / DESC to get a TOP N or BOTTOM N from a SQL Query.
I know I can't be the only one to have ever thought of this as a solution, I hope not at least , so I was hoping someone here may be able to help out. Thanks again in advance!
One table is like this CREATE TABLE p1 (SNo VARCHAR(30)) And Data in the Table p1 is:
Sno
1,0
12,0
1,20
100,21
1001,21
There is One more Table p2 CREATE TABLE p2 (TravelerID INT, GDId INT)
Now my Requirement is Left side part of SNo(Before comma) Whatever the data is there like 1,12,1,100,1001 will be pushed into p2 table of TravelerID Column.And Right side part (Data like 0,0,0,21,21) will be pushed into p2 table of GDId Column.Ultimately Table should look like below format.
1 ,AU-Australia 1,MM-Myanmar 1,NZ-New Zealand 1,PG-Paua New Guinea 1,PH-Phlippines
Note: we are getting source data from sqlserver tables.
I googled and found below way but did't get the output as required
SELECT A.id, a.country, Split.a.value('.', 'VARCHAR(500)') AS String FROM (SELECT id, country , CAST ('<M>' + REPLACE(country, ' ', '</M><M>') + '</M>' AS XML) AS String FROM #t3) AS A CROSS APPLY String.nodes ('/M') AS Split(a);
I'm working on a sales commission report that will show commissions for up to 5 sales reps for each invoice. The invoice detail table contains separate columns for the commission rates payable to each rep, but for some reason the sale srep IDs are combined into one column. The salesrep column may contain null, a single sales rep id, or up to five slaes rep IDs separated by the '~' character.
So I'd like to parse the rep IDs from a single column (salesreplist) in my invoice detail table (below) to multiple columns (RepID1, RepID2, RepID3, RepID4,RepID5) in a temp table so I can more easily calculate the commission amounts for each invoice and sales rep.
Here is my table:
CREATE TABLE invcdtl( invoicenum int, salesreplist [text] NULL, reprate1 int NULL, reprate2 int NULL, reprate3 int NULL, reprate4 int NULL, reprate5 int NULL, )
As you can see, some records have trailing delimiters but some don't. This may be a result of the application's behavior when multiple reps are entered then removed from an invoice. One thing for sure is that when there are multiple reps, the IDs are always separated by '~'