How Do You Strip Off Stars
Feb 26, 2004I don't know how the stars are attribuated
but I don't think I should have so many
It gives a false impression to new members
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Transact SQL :: Replacing Names With Stars
Oct 30, 2015I'm struggeling a bit with this one, goal is to show the first 3 characters of the name and replace the remaining characters with *** stars. Also the number of stars needs to match the lenght of the name as in the example above.I've tried:
REPLACE([ColName],
substring([Colname],
4,
LEN([colname]
)),
'*')
Own Forum - Number Of Posts And Stars/ranges - How To Make It ???
Oct 27, 2006So I have simple forum. At main page I have gridView which display topics. When I go to topic #5 (for example) I use repeater to display posts and authors. Here is a code: SELECT aspnet_Users.UserName, forum_posts.post_id,forum_posts.post_content, forum_posts.topic_id, forum_posts.post_date FROM aspnet_Users INNER JOIN forum_posts ON aspnet_Users.uID = forum_posts.user_id WHERE (forum_posts.topic_id = @topic_id) Now I have a problem - how can I display with each user his number of posts - eventually how can I display for example if he has 25 posts - one star, 50 posts - two stars, or maybe display "Starter" range, etc. How to make this, cause I don't have any idea.
View 9 Replies View RelatedStrip Certain Characters
Jul 13, 2004Can anyone tell me how I can strip certain chahrcters from a string
I know I can use replace, but i don't think this is appropriate for what I want to do
For example I have the string
declare @text varchar (100)
select @text = 'word1, word2 & word3'
if i do a replace on the string like this
select @text = 'replace(@text, ',', '')
select @text = 'replace(@text, '&', '')
I end up with the string
select @text = 'word1 word2 word3'
i.e. 2 spaces between word2 and word3
What i want the string to look like is :
select @text = 'word1 word2 word3'
Is there a way i can check for more than one space + characters ( / , &) in one go
many thanks
Strip Those RTF Tags Away
Sep 26, 2007This algorithm can be used to strip out HTML tags too.
With reference to http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=89973
and http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=90000CREATE FUNCTIONdbo.fnParseRTF
(
@rtf VARCHAR(8000)
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE@Stage TABLE
(
Chr CHAR(1),
Pos INT
)
INSERT@Stage
(
Chr,
Pos
)
SELECTSUBSTRING(@rtf, Number, 1),
Number
FROMmaster..spt_values
WHEREType = 'p'
AND SUBSTRING(@rtf, Number, 1) IN ('{', '}')
DECLARE@Pos1 INT,
@Pos2 INT
SELECT@Pos1 = MIN(Pos),
@Pos2 = MAX(Pos)
FROM@Stage
DELETE
FROM@Stage
WHEREPos IN (@Pos1, @Pos2)
WHILE 1 = 1
BEGIN
SELECT TOP 1@Pos1 = s1.Pos,
@Pos2 = s2.Pos
FROM@Stage AS s1
INNER JOIN@Stage AS s2 ON s2.Pos > s1.Pos
WHEREs1.Chr = '{'
AND s2.Chr = '}'
ORDER BYs2.Pos - s1.Pos
IF @@ROWCOUNT = 0
BREAK
DELETE
FROM@Stage
WHEREPos IN (@Pos1, @Pos2)
UPDATE@Stage
SETPos = Pos - @Pos2 + @Pos1 - 1
WHEREPos > @Pos2
SET @rtf = STUFF(@rtf, @Pos1, @Pos2 - @Pos1 + 1, '')
END
SET@Pos1 = PATINDEX('%cf[0123456789][0123456789 ]%', @rtf)
WHILE @Pos1 > 0
SELECT@Pos2 = CHARINDEX(' ', @rtf, @Pos1 + 1),
@rtf = STUFF(@rtf, @Pos1, @Pos2 - @Pos1 + 1, ''),
@Pos1 = PATINDEX('%cf[0123456789][0123456789 ]%', @rtf)
SELECT@rtf = REPLACE(@rtf, 'pard', ''),
@rtf = REPLACE(@rtf, 'par', ''),
@rtf = LEFT(@rtf, LEN(@rtf) - 1)
SELECT@rtf = REPLACE(@rtf, '0 ', ''),
@rtf = REPLACE(@rtf, ' ', '')
SELECT@rtf = STUFF(@rtf, 1, CHARINDEX(' ', @rtf), '')
RETURN@rtf
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Strip String From Csv Column
Mar 26, 2004I have a column of 5 comma-separated-value strings:
stringA, stringB, stringC, stringD, stringE
The strings are GUID's with the hyphen stripped and made all uppercase so they are completely random. I need to be able to remove any one of the strings including the comma, in a stored procedure and I am not sure how to accomplish this.
SELECT tickets
FROM users
WHERE CONTAINS (tickets, @ticket)
IF @@rowcount > 0
REMOVE STUFF HERE
SET @valid = 1
ELSE
SET @valid = 0
So if stringB gets passed in as @ticket then the new value in the column would be :
stringA, stringC, stringD, stringE
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
dave
Strip Off Part Of A String
Dec 4, 2000I am trying to strip off 'XYZ' from column1 in table1 whenever it occurs
Any help appreciated
saad
Strip Text From A String
Feb 17, 2004I'm trying to find a way to strip text from a string. In the past (pre SQL Server) I would've used
LName: Left(NCBH!Name,InStr(1,NCBH!NAME,",",1)-1)
To strip the last name from a string like
Franks,George J
Apparently InStr is not a recognized function in SQL Server 2000. Or is it available but not in a view?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Strip Characters Out Of String
Jan 11, 2002I have a phone number string (416) 555-5555 in a table. I'd like to perform a search on the string so that the user is able to pass any number, and the query returns all phone numbers like it. What I'd like to do is to strip out the brackets and dashes and perform a like search.
View 4 Replies View RelatedExport To PDF Strip Out Space
Dec 14, 2007Hi,
I use RS 2005 SP2.
I add a text item value " smth..."
No problem in preview, but export to pdf strip out whitespace characters and then my report in pdf like:
"smth..."
Is there a solution
How To Strip A List Of Characters From A Field
Nov 8, 2001hey,
what the best way of stripping out a list of characters from a specified field in a table. e.g If first name consists of ABCD'E-FSA, we wnat to strip the ' and the -. There is about 15-20 characters like that.
what's the best way of doing it other encapsulating in the replace function that many times.
thanks
zoey
Need To Strip Non-numerics From Phone Field
Jul 22, 2004I tried searching forums for the last hour and could not find much.
Rather then doing...
REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(RE PLACE(ISNULL(PHONE, ''), ' ', ''), '(', ''), ')', ''), '-', ''), '.', ''), ':', ''), '+', '')
I was hoping there was an equally efficient alternative that utilizes PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', PHONE)
to some capacity (i.e. uses regular expressions to strip all non-numeric characters from the phone field)
I am certain this has been addressed before, just not sure if the "REPLACE to the nth degree" is the only solution.
THANKS!
Strip Time Out Of A Date Field - Sql
Dec 3, 2004Hi all,
I have a table that I've imported into SQL - there is a field in there for date that must have used now(); as its default value (access).
So the values are something like:
01/11/2004 12:16:42
I need a way to change the data so that the time element removed is the field just holds the date. Failing that a way to insert this from the existing field into a new field stripping the date off en route would be a great help.
Many thanks
Phil
Strip Off Hour, Minute, Second From A Datetime?
Jan 18, 2005I would like something I can do inline eg:
select convert(blahdatatype,a.datefield) as smallerdatefield
from
a
where a.datefield is a datetime. If a contains rows like:
datefield
---------------------
01/20/2005 22:17:23
08/23/2001 03:04:15
...
Then the SQL above returns:
smallerdatefield
---------------------
01/20/2005 00:00:00
08/23/2001 00:00:00
...
Is there any non-obnoxious way (eg: without have to result to using datepart a million times) to do this? For instance, Oracle provides a function called Trunc which does it, but I cannot find an SQL Server equivalent. Anyone? TIA!!!
Strip Out The From Alphabetized Search Results?
Jan 16, 2006I am not aware of this if it exists in MS SQL server. But I need to return results in alphabetic order ignoring "The" if it's the first word of a title...
so for example title "The Cliffhanger" would be returned along with other titles that start with letter C, but "The" also must be returned as part of the title, but just ignored while alphabetizing.
I'm sure that I'm not the first one to ever need this and don't want to re-invent the wheel, so if you have any ideas as to the best way to accomplish this, help me out.
Thanks in advance.
Strip Data From One Column And Create Another
Mar 5, 2006Hi All.
I have a coulmn that contains data in the following format.
COUNTRY/SATE/UNAME
What I would like to do is create another column in the table stripping out the COUNTRY/ and /UNAME
Example
Existing column value
US/NY/BLAH
New Column value
NY
Strip Time From Date String
Apr 23, 2008 stupid question - how do I strip the time portion from a date returned from now() or
Globals!ExecutionTime.
I MS either used consistent date functions across all platforms or include help in BOL for their VB functions in SSRS.....
How Do I Strip The Time Portion From The Getdate() Value?
Sep 1, 2006the ssis expression language getdate() function returns the current date with the current time. i only need to get the current date, without the current time. for example: 9/1/2006
how would i construct the proper expression to return this value?
thanks in advance.
Strip HTML Encoding Out Of A String In Sql Clr
Apr 3, 2008I am trying to do string scrubbing in a sql clr function, including removing certain HTML formatting. I would like to use HtmlDecode method, but it's my understanding that System.Web is not available for Sql Clr (without marking code unsafe - not an option for me as this is for an application we sell externally, and unsafe calls woudl not go over well with customers). Is there any class that IS supported for Sql Clr that exposes this functionality? Thanks.
View 10 Replies View RelatedElegant Way To Strip Off Date From Datetime?
Dec 24, 2007if all I want is 12am of the date provided in a datetime column, is there a more elegant way of doing this than something like...
convert (datetime,
convert(varchar(2), month([time])) + '/' +
convert(varchar(2), day([time])) + '/' +
convert(varchar(4), year([time]))
)
How Can I Strip Off The Time Portion Without Changing The Datatype
Oct 16, 2007Is there a way to strip off the time portion of a datetime datatype without changing the datatype?
I know I can convert it using CONVERT (NVARCHAR(10), dbo.tblPayments.PaymentDate, 101) but I need to keep it as a datetime datatype?
Script To Strip Data From First Non-numeric Character
Jul 5, 2002I need a script to find the position of the first non-numeric in a telno field and delete from that point onwards.
Example: 01208 12345 (Work) would become 01208 12345
Has anybody come across this before ?
TIA
Neil.
Data Export - How To Strip Out The Special Characters
Nov 10, 2005Hey everyone!
I'm doing an export from SQL into excel spreadsheet and then am going to clean out certain parts of the data with global search/replace. The problem is that the SQL data is full of special characters such as |'s and the little box looking characters.
How do I export without these characters?
I know its possible, I did it about 2 years ago and remember I did some crazy file conversion (make wk3 or something) but I no longer remember
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Geoff
PS, attached is a screenshot of the data to give you an idea of what I'd like to strip!
Email Address Domain Strip Of Query
Oct 1, 2007Could this query be made more efficient?
It takes ages to run it. It strips of everything from an email address and keeps only the domain.
SUBSTRING(Mailaddress, CHARINDEX('@', Mailaddress) + 1, CHARINDEX('.', SUBSTRING(Mailaddress, CHARINDEX('@', Mailaddress) + 1, 100)) - 1) AS mail_domain
SQL Server 2008 :: Strip HTML Tags
Oct 28, 2011I have a table with a column that has html text. The column with html text is pretty big datatye varchar(max)... I wanted to check if any of you have any function that I can use to Strip out the HTML tags... I saw couple of version online, but it was running too slow..
This is the one I used: [URL] .....
Transact SQL :: Strip Non-numeric Characters From String
Jul 27, 2015If I have a string with the following values, I’d like to replace the non-numeric characters with a space.
Input
01234-987
012345678
01234 ext 65656
Tel 0123456
012345 898989
Output
01234 987
012345678
01234 65656
0123456
012345 898989
Strip DTD Out; Help With Some XSLT Inside Of SSIS XML Task
Sep 4, 2007I'm reading over this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1884062&SiteID=1
and I'm kinda lost as to what to do to strip out the dtd from an XML file I am downloading. I do NOT know XSLT and for that reason, I can't follow his logic.
My SSIS package downloads my XML file just fine, now I need to do a strip of the DTD line in my XML Task.
The person who provided the solution in the above post said to do this...
Code Snippet
Operation Type: XSLT
Source Type: Variable
Source: Variable's name containing the xml text
Save Operation Result: True
DestinationType: Variable
OverwriteDestination: True
Destination: Variable's name which is to contain the original xml minus the DTD.
SecondOperandType: Variable
That stuff I understood. I'll replace variables with my files because they are stored that way, but from what I can tell, that's not my problem.
The stuff he says below this comment is going over my head like a ton of bricks. I can't figure out how to do it.
This is the kind of line of my XML that I want to strip out.
https://www.myaddy.com/pbdr.dtd"[]>
and then he said this...
Code Snippet
Since XSL doesn't know about DTDs, telling it to copy everything strips out DTDs. Then use the Variable specified in the Xml task's SecondOperand as the Source data for the xml source.
Code Snippet
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</< FONT>xsl:template>
</< FONT>xsl:stylesheet>
A note on how to paste a multi-line xml document into a Integration Services String variable:
Integration Services String variables textboxes are not multi-line, in the Windows sense of a line (CR+LF),
So, in order to paste multi-line text (which xml docs almost always are), save a temporary copy with a unix line ending.
That is, create an xml file in visual studio, and paste your sample original xml in there. Go to File/Advanced Save options, and save the xml with the the settings of Encoding: Unicode (utf-8 without signature) - CodePage 65001, and most importantly, set the Line endings dropdown to "Unix (LF)".
After selecting "OK", copy and paste the text from Visual Studio's xml file editor into the IS variable, and you'll note all the xml data appears.
So can anyone walk me through a dummies version of what he is suggesting to do?
Thanks,
Keith
SQL Server 2012 :: Strip Non-numeric Characters From A String
Jul 15, 2015I am looking for the fastest way to strip non-numeric characters from a string.
I have a user database that has a column (USER_TELNO) in which the user can drop a telephone number (for example '+31 (0)12-123 456'). An extra computed column (FORMATTED_TELNO) should contain the formatted telephone number (31012123456 in the example)
Note: the column FORMATTED_TELNO must be indexed, so the UDF in the computed column has WITH SCHEMABINDING.... I think this implicates that a CLR call won't work....
Reporting Services :: Interlaced Strip Lines In SSRS Sparkline Report
Aug 26, 2015Is there any option to have interlaced strip lines in SSRS Sparklines as shown in the image? The image shown in created in SSRS 2005 using Dundas Charts. I would like to create this microchart in SSRS 2012.
View 13 Replies View RelatedReporting Services :: Strip Unwanted Characters From Parameters For SSRS Report
May 22, 2015I have a third party app that passes parameters (main dataset query) from the app to SSRS. Unfortunately, when the parameters are passed from the app they will contain equal signs ("=") in front of each parameter. For example, the parameters that may be passed to the main dataset query should be:
"HYDRO, OKO, ONEPL, TECHNI"
However, the parameters that are passed from the app, get to SSRS as:
"=HYDRO, =OKO, =ONEPL, =TECHNI"
Again, this is for the main dataset query and there may be one parameter or there may be any number of them.
Basically, I need to strip the "=" signs from the parameters. whether there is one parameter or ten.
I believe that I will need a custom function to strip the equal signs?
A Relational Technique To Strip The HTML Tags Out Of A Ntext Datatype Field
Nov 27, 2007I had a problem with the ntext datatype. I need to strip the HTML tags out of a ntext datatype column. I have sample query for that, which works fine for STRING, as stuff is the string function, what to do for ntext field.
=======The Process follows like this =========
--**************************************
--
-- Name: A relational technique to strip
-- the HTML tags out of a string
-- Description:A relational technique to
-- strip the HTML tags out of a string. Th
-- is solution demonstrates how to use simp
-- le tables & search functions effectively
-- in SQL Server to solve procedural / ite
-- rative problems.
-- This table contains the tags to be re
-- placed. The % in <head%>
-- will take care of any extra informati
-- on in the tag that you needn't worry
-- about as a whole. In any case, this t
-- able contains all the tags that needs
-- to be search & replaced.
CREATE TABLE #html ( tag varchar(30) )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<html>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<head%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<title%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<link%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</title>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</head>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '<body%>' )
INSERT #html VALUES ( '</html>' )
go
-- A simple table with the HTML strings
CREATE TABLE #t ( id tinyint IDENTITY , string varchar(255) )
INSERT #t VALUES (
'<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Some Name</TITLE>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/style.css" TYPE="text/css" ></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" VLINK="#444444">
SOME HTML text after the body</HTML>'
)
INSERT #t VALUES (
'<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Another Name</TITLE>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="/style.css"></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF" VLINK="#444444">Another HTML text after the body</HTML>'
)
go
-- This is the code to strip the tags out.
-- It finds the starting location of eac
-- h tag in the HTML string ,
-- finds the length of the tag with the
-- extra properties if any. This is
-- done by locating the end of the tag n
-- amely '>'. The same is done
-- in a loop till all tags are replaced.
BEGIN TRAN
WHILE exists(select * FROM #t JOIN #html on patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) > 0 )
UPDATE #t
SET string = stuff( string , patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) ,
charindex( '>' , string , patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) )
- patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) + 1 , '' )
FROM #t JOIN #html
ON patindex('%' + tag + '%' , string ) > 0
SELECT * FROM #t
rollback
Trim - Cannot Change Source Of Data To Strip Out Special Chars / White Space?
Feb 12, 2015I have some sql below..
SELECT
t.Doctor, t.LedgerAmount, t.TransactionDate,
ISNULL(lg.LedgerGrpDesc, 'No Sales Group') AS LedgerGroup
FROM
Transactions t
LEFT OUTER JOIN LedgerGroups lg ON t.LedgerDescription = lg.dbLedgerDesc
[Code] .....
My problem is that the data in t.LedgerDescription sometimes now has either leading/trailing white space or more likely special chars so the join against lg.dbLedgerDesc doesn't always work.
I can't change the source of the data to strip out special chars/white space so am stuck on how to deal with it.
I tried using LTRIM & RTRIM in the where clause but this doesn't seem to have had any effect...
LEFT OUTER JOIN LedgerGroups lg ON LTRIM(RTRIM(t.LedgerDescription)) = lg.dbLedgerDesc
Using SSIS 2005 To Strip Out Bad Rows In Excel And Then Insert Detailed Rows Into OLE DB Data Source
Apr 6, 2006Environment:
Running this code on my PC via VS 2005
.Net version 2.0.50727 on the server (shown in IIS)
Code is in ASP.NET 2.0 and is a VB.NET Console application
SSIS 2005
Problem & Info:
I am bringing in an Excel file. I need to first strip out any non-detail rows such as the breaks you see with totals and what not. I should in the end have only detail rows left before I start moving them into my SQL Table. I'm not sure how to first strip this information out in SSIS specfically how down to the right component and how to actually code the component to do this based on my Excel file here: http://www.webfound.net/excelfile.xls
Then, I assume I just use a Flat File Source coponent or something to actually take the columns in the Excel and split into an OLE DB Datasource to shove each column into a corresponding column in my SQL Server Table. I have used a Flat File Source in the past to do so with a comma delimited txt file but never tried with an Excel.
Desired Help:
How to perform
1) stripping out all undesired rows
2) importing each column into sql table