How Do I Handle REPLACE A Particuler Matched String Within An NTEXT Column In SQL Server?
Mar 27, 2008
Hi!
I recently was confronted with a problem where a piece of text that was included in many NTEXT column values in a table needed to be replaced with another piece of text. You can't issue normal REPLACE statements against NTEXT columns, so this seemed to be a bit of a challenge €” issuing a REPLACE() against a TEXT or NTEXT column in SQL Server yields error
I tried following
UPDATE CaseTypeDefs SET definition = replace(LTRIM(RTRIM(definition)), '<![CDATA[sp_YOTAssetAdditionalOffences 0, ArgParamHearingsId, ArgParamLanguage, ArgParamReferralId]]>', '<![CDATA[sp_YOTAssetAdditionalOffences 0, ArgParamHearingsId, ArgParamLanguage]]>')
But this is producing following error
Server: Msg 8116, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Argument data type ntext is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.
For Example: I want to replace string <![CDATA[sp_YOTAssetAdditionalOffences 0, ArgParamHearingsId, ArgParamLanguage]]> with <![CDATA[sp_YOTAssetAdditionalOffences 0, ArgParamHearingsId, ArgParamLanguage, ArgParamReferralId]]> in NTEXT column values in a table.
Need help, how to do it?.
Thanks In Advance
Devloper
Anil Kumar Dwivedi
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Oct 15, 2006
I found it rather hard to replace a string in an NTEXT field in sql server 2000. Would it be easier in SSIS 2005? Please advise. Thanks.
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Hi,
I am trying to replace a string column with 'Y' or 'N' in my SSRS report. I tried the following expressions, but no one works for me.
=IIf(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value Is Null, 'Y', 'N')
=IIf(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value = '', 'Y', 'N')
=IIf(IsDBNull(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value), 'Y', 'N')
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Thanks alot.
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Trying to replace a string in a table and it is not working the path can be like OM-WD08-1 reportData.raw
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DECLARE @OldPath varchar(30), @NewPath varchar(30)
-- Initialize the variable
SET @OldPath ='OM-WD08-1';
SET @NewPath ='AA-PC';
UPDATE AnatomyConfigs
SET Path = REPLACE(Path,@OldPath,@NewPath) WHERE Path IS NOT NULL
AND Path LIKE @OldPath
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Most of the columns are as simple as SUBSTRING(RecordData,1,10) for example to get the first column. This all works for string data. I then have a column that is a date field. The problem occurs that the code SUBSTRING(RecordData,20,10) returns either a date or empty set of data if no date was in the original file. When this gets sent to the OLEDB connection (SQL Server 2005) into the date field it fails. If the record has a date it works, but if it is empty it fails the insert.
I tried to replace empty strings with NULLs with this code. REPLACE(TRIM(SUBSTRING(RecordData,20,10)),"",NULL(DT_WSTR,10)). This does not work. So my question is how do I bring a date field from a fixed flat file into a SQL datetime field using a derived column? More specifically is how do I set it to NULL if its empty data? When I use the above code it inserts all the rows from the file, but it sets all rows to NULL not just the empty ones.
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Alter View
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I used following
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I need help on replace char in ntext data type
Here is the example data
<qMultipleChoice><qText>The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off
20on.</qText><qChoice>Strongly20Disagree</qChoice><qChoice>Disagree
</qChoice><qChoice>Agree</qChoice><qChoice>Strongly%20Agree</qCh
I want result look like this
First Column:The AE Understands what conditions the Account Manager is allowed to sign-off.
Second Column: Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Strongly Agree
This is what i had so far
Select (SUBSTRING(QuestionText, (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7),(PATINDEX(N'%</qText>%', QuestionText) - (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7)))) From tblQuestion
my result:
The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off%20on.
I have problem with replace '%20' and how to make the second column.
Any Help?
Thanks
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Hello guys,
I would like to execute a t-sql query and replace a string by another in all records.
I did this :
UPDATE myTable
SET myColumn = replace(myColumn,'old string','new string')
The error I get is :
Argument data type ntext is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.
Thank you very much for any help!
Regards,
Fabian
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This is with SQLCe NET 3.5.0.0 running on Windows Server 2003 or Server 2008, not on a Windows mobile operating system.
The following code fails with ntext entries above 4000 characters:
Dim cn As New SqlCeConnection(ConnectString())
If cn.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then
cn.Open()
End If
Dim info as string
info = "This is lengthy text".PadLeft(4200)
Dim cmd As SqlCeCommand
strSQL = "create table testTable ("
strSQL &= "docType nvarchar (50) NULL, "
strSQL &= "docFlag nvarchar(10) NULL, "
strSQL &= "docData ntext NULL, "
strSQL &= " )"
cmd = New SqlCeCommand(strSQL, cn)
Try
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
Catch sqlexception As SqlCeException
MessageBox.Show(sqlexception.Message & vbNewLine & strSQL, "Table Error 7", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Table Error 8", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Finally
cn.Close()
End Try
If cn.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then
cn.Open()
End If
'---- insert a row into the testTable
strSQL = "INSERT INTO testTable ("
strSQL &= "docType, "
strSQL &= "docFlag, "
strSQL &= "docData, "
strSQL &= ") "
strSQL &= "VALUES ("
strSQL &= "@docType, "
strSQL &= "@docFlag, "
strSQL &= "@docData, "
strSQL &= ")"
Try
cmd = New SqlCeCommand(strSQL, cn)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docType", "a type")
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docFlag", "a flag")
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docData", info)
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
Catch sqlexception As SqlCeException
MessageBox.Show(sqlexception.Message, "Table Error 9", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Table Error 10", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Finally
cn.Close()
End Try
End If
Changing the cmd.Parameters as follows works:
Dim paramdocData As SqlCeParameter
Try
cmd = New SqlCeCommand(strSQL, cn)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docType", "a type")
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docFlag", "a flag")
paramdocData = cmd.Parameters.Add("docData", SqlDbType.NText)
paramdocData.Value = info
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
Catch sqlexception As SqlCeException
MessageBox.Show(sqlexception.Message, "Table Error 9", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Table Error 10", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Finally
cn.Close()
End Try
Thanks to the following Microsoft ReadMe for the above suggestion. See:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/7/2/f72ebbf8-4df1-4800-b4db-c2405c10d937/ReadmeSSC35.htm
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ACT_CODE1,
ACT_DESC1
ACT_CODE2,
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ACT_CODE5,
ACT_DESC5,
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