In SSRS/RDL, How do you format a column heading to use carriage returns?
I have a couple of instance where I have a column heading that I want spread over 3 lines. For example, the column heading "= Actual Amount" I would want centered and displayed on 3 lines, as follows:
=
Actual
Amount
Can anyone provide me with some SQL that will identify rows from a table where a varchar column named "Notes" contain Carriage Returns?
I know that with report writer SQR I can translate CR's to white space but I do not know of any Sybase function that will allow me to do the same, any ideas on this well would be appreciated.
hello,
could any one tell how to go about keeping carriage returns and line breaks when inserting a chunk of text so that when that text is recieved it will still contain those carriage returns and line breaks?
also, what datatype would be most appropriate?
thakyou,
zaffi.
I'm using Microsoft SQL 2005.
I am attempting to store text in a column defined as varchar(2048). The text contains line feed and carriage return characters. After examining the database column the text is truncated after the first set of line feed and carriage return characters.
Is there a way to force SQL Server to store these characters?
Much Thanks, Robert
What is the best way to query for columns which contain embedded carriage returns?
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But once the report is exported to MS Excel, it appears to add in extra carriage returns. This can be cleaned up by going record by record and back-spacing over the carriage returns.
Is there any other work around for this?
Just curious. Thank you for your help.
T.J.
Hi all,I have an old ASP .NET 1.1 application that I haven't had time to rebuild with .NET 2.0. No changes have been made to the application or the SQL Server the application uses. I have a web form where users can type multiple lines of text, and it is entered into an SQL database (SQL 2000 Enterprise) into a column with a datatype of "text". Recently (it seems out of nowhere), If my users enter a carriage return into the webform, it becomes a question mark in the sql database. It's really a bit funny, but also annoying, lol. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Thanks so much!
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am migrating from 2000 to 2005 and in the process of rewriting DTS to SSIS. So far so good.
I have an import of a flat file that I need to reproduce that works fine in DTS but throws SSIS.
The file contains details of products, and has a Long Description field that may contain lots of different chars - CR & LF amongst them. It's source and destination columns are Text type.
The file is tab delimited, text delimited with double quotes, with row delimiters of CRLF and column names on row 1.
The error SSIS throws is "The column delimiter for column "LongDescription" was not found"
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Hi
I have stupid users... who doesn't?! They have entered carriage returns as a whole value in some fields, that is, the field contains nothing more than a carriage return.
I really need to treat these cases as nulls and have successfully removed whole fields of nothing but spaces by using the LTRIM(RTRIM()) construct. Unfortunately, this doesn't deal with carraige returns. Even CASTing and CONVERTing to varchar and then using LTRIM(RTRIM()) doesn't work.
Does anyone know how I can elegantly get around this problem other than my best guess below:
Best guess pseudo code:
IF count of field is greater than 1 THEN probably a full sentence so ignore ELSE SUBSTRING first character and if CHAR(10, etc) then treat as NULL.
Here's some code that reconstructs the problem:
select datalength(char(13)) CarriageReturnVisible
, datalength(ltrim(rtrim(cast(char(13) as varchar)))) [This Don't Work]
Cheers - Andy
I'm trying to import a flat file source into a SQL Server table.
The flat file is pipe-delimited and text qualified with " (double-quotes).
The import job is failing because there is a "comments" field in the flat file and there are carriage returns within some records in the "comments" field. When SSIS encounters a record with a carriage return within that field, it sees the carriage return and assumes the end of the record, even though the field is text qualified with " ".
The actual error message I see is: "
Error 0xc0202055: Data Flow Task 1: The column delimiter for column "comments" was not found.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Sample Record:
"418186"|"94"|"Staff Only-Minimum charge out of 3 hours
Plus travel & accommodation costs (if required) – at cost.
All trauma response services & associated fees/costs are required to be formally authorised by the Company prior to delivery."|""|"690"|""
I can't think of a way to get SSIS to ignore the carriage returns within the Comments field in the source flat file!
I am using Column Groups:
And I am getting:
Note how Today is being repeated three times. What I want is Today appearing once and centered (merged cell). Is this possible?
Hi there,
I am a new member of this site and I am not very much aware of T-sql's working.
My question is what if I need to get one column's data to be the heading of another column.
To be very exact I have a school's database. The table I am talking about is of the results of students. The table contains Student ID, Subject ID, Total marks of the subject, Marks obtained in the subject. Now I want to print a report by generating data from this table. Right now the data is something like this
StuID - - - SubID - - - -Tot - - -Obt
1 - - - - - - -1 - - - - - - -50 - - - 38
1 - - - - - - -2 - - - - - - -50 - - - 41
1 - - - - - - -3 - - - - - - -50 - - - 42
1 - - - - - - -4 - - - - - - -50 - - - 40
2 - - - - - - -1 - - - - - - -50 - - - 35
2 - - - - - - -2 - - - - - - -50 - - - 40
2 - - - - - - -3 - - - - - - -50 - - - 42
2 - - - - - - -4 - - - - - - -50 - - - 41
StudentID and SubjectID fields are related to other tables so I can get the names from there but when I need the report I need the data in the form of
StuID - Sub 1 - - - Sub 2 - - - Sub 3 - - - -Sub4
1 - - - - 38 - - - - - - 41 - - - - - - 42 - - - - - - 40
2 - - - - 35 - - - - - - 40 - - - - - - 42 - - - - - - 41
The Subjects can be different for different students so the query should be dynamic instead of hard coding the names of the subjects. I hope I am clear with my question. The subjectIDs or their names will become the headings and they will contain the obtained marks for that subjects in their columns just for the reports. I have also checked the PIVOT function but was not able to do what I wanted.
Thanks.
we have a table called evaluation_questions, the table has following fields
queId,Question, level, parentId
the queId is primary key(auto number),where as the field "question" will have question, heading or the subheading,
the level describes the hierarchy of the field "Question", 0 means its a heading, 1 means a subheading and 2 means a question.
where as the parentId means describes the immediate parentId, like if it is 1, then the parent will be English heading....
queIdQuestionlevelparentId
1English00
2Reading11
3Writing11
4recognizing words12
5Fluency22
so English is a heading as level is 0 and has no parent as parentId is also 0.
Reading is a subheading as level is 1 and has a prent English as its parentId=1 which is the queId oof English
same is the case with writing
where as recognizing words and fluency both are questions as the level is 2 and their parentId is 2 which means they come under reading.
Output:
Now What i want is to retrieve the all the questions and headings under a specified heading.like if i pass parentID as a parameter to stored
procedure i should get all the headings and questions under a specified parentID.i need to fill the dataset with it.
I have a table like this
EMPnoSERISSTATUS jOB POINTS
1AAPOC12
1BAQCS5
2CPREP4
2AASOS1
5AATDS4
1APVSS320
and i need a query or Stored prodedure to get data in the below format
EMPNOABC
133250
2104
5400
Note: A, B,C ... are field name in table (SERIS) and i would like that data as the column heading.
I dont want to use below query , as we dont know the value is dyanamic
SELECT empno,
SUM(CASE seris WHEN <B>'A'</B> THEN POINTS END ) AS <B> 'A' </B>
SUM(CASE seris WHEN <B> 'B' </B> THEN POINTS END ) AS <B>'B'</B>
FROM TABLE1
GROUP BY EMPNO
I am trying to change the row and column heading to make it more meaningful in MDX.
For example instead of showing the_actual_cost, i want to show cost. This is done easily in SQL like
SELECT the_actual_cost AS cost......
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mahesh
Hello,
I have a simple question, can someone provide syntax to wrap a column heading?
Example: Select sum(netprice) as 'Current YTD Invoice Amount'
I would like to see the output's column heading as:
Current YTD
Invoice Amount
----------------------
####.##
Thank you in advance,
Maria
I would like to make the column heading to be the current year for the Sales I'm adding below.
SELECT dbo.QIVSalesMTDYTDCustSalesPerson.slspsn_no,dbo.arslmfil_SQL.slspsn_name,
SUM(CASE WHEN year(getdate()) = qivsalesmtdytdcustsalesperson.year THEN Sales END) AS convert(varchar(4),year(getdate()))
FROM dbo.QIVSalesMTDYTDCustSalesPerson INNER JOIN
dbo.arslmfil_SQL ON dbo.QIVSalesMTDYTDCustSalesPerson.slspsn_no = dbo.arslmfil_SQL.humres_id
GROUP BY dbo.QIVSalesMTDYTDCustSalesPerson.slspsn_no, dbo.arslmfil_SQL.slspsn_name
What I have now gives me incorrect syntax near keyword convert.
Hi All,
I have never used PIVOT before but looks exactly what I want for this scenario:
I have rows of dates associated with ID of Hotels and Room avalability for each Hotel/Date..... I want to show the sum of the rooms per date as columns I am using something like this:SELECT dbHotelID ,[09/20/2007]as [Today],[09/21/2007]as [Today+1],[09/22/2007]as [Today+2] FROM vwRoomAvailable PIVOT (SUM(dbRoomNumber) FOR AvailableDate IN ([09/20/2007], [09/21/2007], [09/22/2007])) AS pAs you can see I know how may days I want in advance so know how many columsn so its not dynamic.. I just dont know what the dates are:I would like to do something like:
DECLARE @todayDate varchar(255),
DECLARE @todayPlusOne varchar(255),
DECLARE @todayPlusTwo varchar(255) SET @todayDate = CONVERT(CHAR, GETDATE(),101)SET @todayPlusOne = CONVERT(CHAR, DATEADD(d, 1, GETDATE(),101)SET @todayPlusTwo = CONVERT(CHAR, DATEADD(d, 2, GETDATE(),101) SELECT dbHotelID,@todayDate as Today,@todayPlusOne as [Today+1],@todayPlusTwo as [Today+2] FROM vwRoomAvailable PIVOT (SUM(dbHotelRoomAvailabilityNumber) FOR AvailableDate IN ([@todayDate], [@todayPlusOne], [@todayPlusTwo])) AS pBut I can’t seem to put the variable in the PIVOT value list or GETDATE() Anyone got any ideas or do I just try and do this another way and forgot PIVOT. I am using sql server 2005 express.
Thanks in advance.
Lee
We run 2014 enterprise. I tried this with both table and matrix controls to no avail.
In the table scenario, I drag the table control over, instruct ssrs that a group name will go into column 1 and a sales figure in column2. Then I highlight the sales figure cell, add a column group on month number and generate my report off some june and july data.
ssrs understands that the months now expand horizontally but the rows alternate one with june filled in (blanks in july) and the next with july filled in for the same group name. I believe I got all my sort by conditions set but am not sure.Â
I tried all sorts of combos in the tablix and group properties before giving up.
I am using BCP and one of the tables in my SQL contains a column of type nvarchar(500) - whose data are actually email messages such as:
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:03 PM
To: Kathy Shouner
Cc: Brent Ford; William Dew
Subject: RE: Revision of presentation schedule
I support the recommended revisions.
When I open the datafile, it spans 6 separate lines - probably ending in carriage returns (not sure how to confirm this). Hence, I am having a problem importing it to my table. When I query the database, it appears as one line under that column - which is the way it should be.
My BCP command is something like this:
BCP "select email_msg, email_id from emails" QUERYOUT "c:email.txt" -c -T -S sunny.erwin.com
I experimented with -w, -n, -N already but still am failing to get the proper output.
Please help... Thanks in advance.
Hi
How do i remove Carriage return in a varchar column?
Thanks
Is it possible to store a carriage return value or VbCrLf in an NVARCHAR column ?
I need to display a textbox in Reporting Services using one row, but showing multiple lines as a result of a few carriage returns.
Hi,
I've a text column (text datatype) that contains carriage return and line feed.
Syntax-wise, how can I replace these by a space?
Thanks.
i just clicked on Advanced mode in Column Group, and then in Row Group Side i set Fixed Data=true for first top static. I'm using local report not server report and i'm displaying that local report in Reportviewer. Now also its not working....
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Line 153: Chart1.DataSource = chartDs;
Line 154: Chart1.DataBind();
Line 155:
Line 156: }
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I am having a table which has some 10 cols, only one column had all Nulls. DB-SQL2K5
I am now writing a query like
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t2.Name = t1.Name)
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I have a Column called SaleID in some tables in a Database.The SaleID column has the int datatype. I need a stored procedure that returns the next value in sequence for the SaleID column.
For Example,
If the last value inserted into the SaleID column was 1022 the stored procedure should return 1023
If the last value inserted into the SaleID column was 1023 the stored procedure should return 1024.
If the last value inserted into the SaleID column was 1024 the stored procedure should return 1025.
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Dear all hi,
I would like to create a function that will return to me the width of the column of the table without giving as a parameter the table name. I need it, as I want to exceed my data in this column to the column length. I want to fill the column data with trailing blanks until I reach the column width. The function len returns the length of the data in the column.
I know that If I have the table name I can find the column width through the system tables. I don€™t want this.
Sincerely,
Hellen
Hello!
Is there a function that gets the name of a column and a string as arguments and returns the position of this string in the column given?
Thank you in advance.