How Do You Select Just The First 50 Characters Of A Column
May 14, 2008I've looked on line, but can't figure out how to select the first fifty characters of a varchar field in sql. (this seems so easy).. argh..
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Apr 26, 2006I am trying to write a stored procedure that will return all records that don't start with an alphabetic character.
This is what I have so far but I can't figure out how to make it so
that it will select if the first letter in a column is not a letter.
SELECT strArticleID, strTitle
FROM dbo.tblArticles
WHERE LEFT(strTitle,1) LIKE ? AND bitState = 1
ORDER BY strTitle
I thought about making a temp table and putting all the records in it
if the starting character is not a letter by using a bunch of if
statements but I am hoping there is a cleaner way.
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Truncation On Select Statements At 255 Characters
May 28, 1999I beleive we need a new patch with our SQL 7 but I'm not sure. My ODBC INSERT works fine because the Db has the entire text entry. When I try the select it returns only 255 characters.
Any insights?
Thanks.
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Query/select The First 10 Characters In A Field
Jul 25, 2007I'm comparing two tables and need to compare the first 8 characters of one field in table A to the first 8 characters in another field in table B.
So instead of where 'John Smith' = 'John Smith' it would compare where 'John Smi' = 'John Smi'
I know I've done this before but can't find a good reference.
It's something like this when calling a query within a WHILE loop:
SELECT * FROM blah WHERE FID = '".$row['FID']."' AND LEFT('TRACK', 8) = LEFT('".$row['TRACK']."',8)
Am I close? Any help would be appreciated.
SQL 2012 :: How To Select Last Characters From A String
Jun 19, 2014I have the following string and am trying to select only the characters before the last "</>". How can I do this?
declare @String varchar(500)
set @String = '<p>Assessed By: Michael Jordan Yagnesh</p>
<p>Reviewed By: Fred Smith</p>
<p>Home Address</p>'
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[Code] ...
Maximum Characters Per Column
Mar 11, 2002Is there a way to alter the default 256 value to some other value in a transac SQL script?
The value can be changed manually in the advanced tab of the current connection options. I need to be able to set and reset this value in a script and/or stored procedure.
Kind of urgent for an answer to this problem.
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Removing Characters From Column
Apr 19, 2001I have a table called exchange and field called address. The rows(1400+) in the field look like:
MS:VA/Celcmv/VHACLEADAM%SMTP:Doe.Jane@med.va.gov%X200:c=US;a= ;p=av;o=Celcmv;s=Doe;g=Jane;
How do I remove everything to the left of doe.jane@med.va.gov and everything to the right of doe.jane@med.va.gov using query analyzer? Thank you in advance...
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Sep 19, 2001Can someone please suggest a function to remove the last 3 characters from a column? I was thinking of the LEN function, but I am unsure of the syntax.
Thanks!
Lisa
Truncate Characters In A Column
Jan 26, 2006I recieve data where I am comparing zip codes from raw data, to a zip code table. The columns I am matching are in integers.
The issue is that in the raw data, sometimes the zip code is extended to more than the 5 characters in the zip code table so I am getting null value returns
A sample of this is in the raw data is:
Zipcode
54303
54304786
78641
Is there a way I can have it compare only the first 5 digits of the zip codes in the raw data zip code column to the zip code table? Or would I have to convert the data type? Or alter or truncate the characters somehow? If so, please include how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
SQL Select Command.. Allow X Amount Of Characters From A String
Jan 17, 2008Ok so we gotSELECT this, that, others FROM some.database WHERE this=@this So in the database the others field is a string that can have up to 200 characters, but on this particular data pull I only want to pull the first 50 characters of the others field. How can I do that? Thanks.
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Mar 12, 1999Hey Swynkers,
I've got a tricky one. I'm trying to do a SELECT statement to return all of our email fields that include the Newline character, or Char(13). I've tried all of the following with no result:
WHERE Email like "%Char(13)%"
WHERE charindex(Char(13), @Email) > 0
WHERE patindex(@NewLine, @Email) > 0
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Fenderson
SELECT Query Involving Non-English Characters
Apr 8, 2008
Hello friends,
I am inserting non-english strings into my database table from my java program.
Code Snippet
sql = "insert into static_string1 values (?)";
PreparedStatement statement=connection.prepareStatement(sql);
statement.setString(1,statString);
where, statString is a string variable containing Hebrew characters.
Till here, my code works fine. i.e, Hebrew characters are properly inserted to the database.
The problem is when I try to retrieve the String_Id based upon the statString I inserted to the table static_string1.
Code Snippet
String sql = "select String_Id from Static_String1 where String like ('" + statString +"')";
Statement statement=connection.createStatement();
ResultSet rs=statement.executeQuery(sql);
rs.next();
int stringId=rs.getInt("String_Id");
I tried hardcoding the string in the query and to execute it from the SQL Server Management Studio as below
Code Snippetselect String_Id from Static_String1 where String like( ' ×”×–×—' );
But even this is returning null rows, even though the entry is present in the table Please help me out asap.
Please pardon me if this is not the right section to post my doubt. I didnt find any other relevant section here.
8126 Characters Per Column Only On Export?
May 2, 2007I've got an issue - I've got a needed query that executes fine, etc..etc...
the issue is , 1 or more columns (depending) are of TEXT data type - and by virtue of potentially poor front end data entry design - they have large strings stored in each record - much of these strings are made even larger ( in char size ) because of html being stored in the db -- from a design point of view - I blame who ever designed the CMS system that allows this --- thats neither here nor there
The issue is I need these fields and their respective "description" data. BUT I also need to export it to something usable my a marketing department.
The issue lies in that MSSQL Studio - which in grid reports the columns, values, etc..etc.. fine - upon .CVS export - INSTEAD OF TRUNCATING @ THE MAX CHAR LENGTH PER COLUMN (8126 or something) IT PUSHES THE REMAINING TEXT TO THE NEXT COLUMN.
big problem --- to be honest, I dont really need all the data - even just like 500 characters would be more then enough
my question : Is there a way to limit column return lenght @ the query level ? (NOT a truncation of table)
Thanks!
EDIT:
HRMMM - Why not covert to varchar(XXX) size?
trying that
SQL 2012 :: Identity For Characters Column
Mar 9, 2014We have identity functionality for integer , Similarly i want for characters .i.e.
EX:
ID Name Sal
CD101 A 1000
CD102 B 2000
CD103 C 3000
CD104 D 4000
CD105 E 5000
I want output like above, I wont provide Value for ID column. It it should take automatically while inserting data into table.(like identity column)? Is it possible in SQL Server?
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Jul 23, 2005I need a query to simply return rows where a column has less than 10characters (nvar).thanks.rjl
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Nov 24, 2007I was wondering does anybody have advice for storing Russian in a column in either 2000 or 2005.
Example:
create table Russian
(
Word varchar(100),
Meaning varchar(500),
Russian varchar(500) COLLATE Cyrillic_General_CI_AS_KS not null,
English varchar(1000)
)
insert into Russian
(
Word,
Meaning,
Russian,
English
)
values
(
'Thank You',
'Thank you',
'Ñ?паÑ?бо',
'spice e ba'
)
What I get is
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How can I store 'Ñ?паÑ?бо' and get this value to display, and not ??????
Inserting Arabic Characters Into A Column
Feb 19, 2007Hi,
I am trying to insert some arabic characters into one of the tables but after I insert it, it get stored as ?????. What should I do? I have SQL Sever Managment Studio Express running on Windows XP. I appreciate any suggestions!!
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Retrieve 'x' Number Of Characters From A Database Column
Jan 10, 2008Is there any way to retrieve partial contents of a database column? For example, say a column holds 5,000 characters, but I only wish to retrieve the first 50.
Thanks
Urgent-Replacing A List Of Characters From A Column
Nov 13, 2001Hi,
this is my second attempt to get an answer to this question.
We want to strip our firstName column and lastname column of any punctuation that might be present.
What's the best of doing that?
Is my only choice to write a nested REPLACE for each character we want replaced (which will end up being very very long) or is there another way.
thanks
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INSERT To Text Column Losing Characters
Jun 21, 2007I'm adding data to a text column, and whenever I have a backslash at the end of a line it disappears. Here's an example:
Code:
INSERT INTO MyTable (TextCol) VALUES ('some text
some more text
yet more text')
The on the first line is fine- the on the 2nd line just disappears. If I add a 2nd backslash on the end of the line, one is inserted. If I add a space to the end of the line, everything works as normal. I can fix this client-side, but before I do I'd really like to know what's going on?
Removing Junk Characters From One Column Of Table
Mar 12, 2012I have a table and one of the column have junk characters in it, how can I remove the junk characters?.
Eg : Employee
Eid Ename
1 a�
2 �ddd
how can i remove Junk characters and get only Enames from above table.
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Jul 30, 2007Hello,
I have a select statement that looks like this:
SELECT TOP 10 [Id], [Abstract] FROM NewsArticles
Abstract is a TEXT Column. I'd like to limit it to 50 characters... how would I do that.
Thanks,
-- shawn
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Dec 28, 2010How to import data into SQL table from Excel column which has more than 255 characters?
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Jun 21, 2006Hi,
I'm having dificulties in loading data into a table coming from an excel file because one of the columns is a text based with an average of 1024 characters... How can i import that column? The excel source always shows me the column as a DT_WSTR of 255 characters...
Best Regards,
Luis Simões
Return Only Numeric Characters From A String Column
Dec 4, 2007I have written this query to return only numeric characters from a string.
select *
from TableA
where isNumeric(Column_A) = 1
But I have discovered that the following
SELECT IsNumeric('-')
SELECT IsNumeric('£')
SELECT IsNumeric('$')
SELECT IsNumeric('+')
all return a value of 1. I do not want these in my result set.
If I use Column_A NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%' and Column_A <> '' I get characters such as "", ----- etc in my result set.
I would like a simple way of only returning numbers in my resultset.
Thanks for looking at this.
T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Search Special Characters In Column Of Table
Jul 14, 2014I am using SQL Server 2008. In one of my table, one column has values like
"MFY RLHH CSQÉ"
"Aamj Gxmolwn Slf Yytrzgan Hiwd Fnlmyw"
So to fetch the data having only special characters in it, I used below query
Select * From Table Where Column Like '%[^0-9a-zA-Z]%' Escape ' '. Its returning both the records. Here I would like to fetch records for those Unicode characters only which are not within 00201 - 0070E [URL].
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May 16, 2015I want to remove special characters from a string in sql like <?> in a column value in a table.
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Jun 21, 2012I am trying to replace all special characters in a column with one special character.
Example:
Table: dbo.Employee
Column: Name
Name
-------
edwardneuman!"<]
mikemoreno)'>$:
JeffJensen"?>"
I am trying to get the namepart to the left of ANY special character. To achieve this, I am thinking of replacing all the special characters with a single special character so that I can find the first occurrence of that special character and grab left of the special character (SUBSTRING/CHARINDEX). This way I don't need to loop through all the special characters.
I am expecting the following results:
Name
-------
edwardneuman<<<<
mikemoreno<<<<<
JeffJensen<<<<
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Oct 21, 2013I have to select rows from a table
if the first 2 characters of a 12 char column are
'GB'
Select BFKEYC from table where
I have a hokey way of doing it but it looks embarrassing:
BFKEYC GT 'GA9999999999'
AND BFKEYC LT 'GC'
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