How To Handle Invisible Characters On An Account Number
Dec 6, 2007
I am joining on table A AND Table B ON the accountnumber field. The accountnumber on the tblB has some invisble characters at the end, ie "12344 ". The Table A does not have these invisble chars and is "12344".
Due to the extra spaces at the end, the join fails and does not find a match for that acctno. I have used ltrim(rtrim) hoping that will elimante the extra spaces and find a match.
Heres my qry:
select * from Tbla a
inner join tblb B
on ltrim(rtrim(ACCTNO))=ltrim(rtrim(ACCT))
How do I do this, so that it finds a match and returns the acctno.
Background: Customer sale records are kept in table (userHistory) that records: bookID, userID, and salesDate.
Objective: To find all the customers that have purchased the same books as any given customer, say customer1. For example, customer1 bought books bookA, bookB, and bookC; the goal is to find all of the other customers who also bought these books.
My First Attempt:
SELECT DISTINCT UH1.userID FROM userHistory as UH1, userHistory as UH2, userHistory as UH3 WHERE UH1.userid = UH2.userID ANDUH2.userid = UH3.userID ANDUH1.bookID = ‘bookA’ ANDUH2.bookID = ‘bookB’ ANDUH3.bookID = ‘bookC’ AND UH1.userID <> ‘customer1’
The problem here is that it cannot handle any more/less than 3 books. The above should work well for 3 books, but what if there are 2 books or 12 books? Does anybody have any suggested queries to handle a variable amount of books (eg joins)?
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The scenario is as follows:
Server: SQL 7.0 with SP2 login name: DBA, standard SQL login, member of sysadmins DB Name: TEST
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Publisher: SQL Server 2000 SP4 Subscriber: SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition
Sometimes, after a failed merge replication(due to communication error) some rows on the subscriber became invisible for the publisher.
I've reproduced a case:
[START Short Version] All rows inserted between a comm failed sync and a fine sync became invisible. This seems to be caused because the subscriber keeps generating rows with the same generation number and the publisher doesn't look for this generation anymore. [END Short Version]
STEP 4: After THIRD SYNC (with comm error) Error: [NativeError:28037][HRESULT:-2147012889]->[A request to send data to the computer running IIS has failed. For more information, see HRESULT.] When: Error happens provoked after sending from Subscriber to Publisher but before ending syn process. Publisher
Orders Table
OrderId
000001
000002
000003
Subscriber
Orders Table
OrderId __sysIG __sysCG __sysMC
000001 4 4 80
000002 4 4 80
000003 6 6 81 Note: Publisher has the row but subscriber keeps the state in 81.
STEP 5: INSERT ANOTHER ORDER (BEFORE A GOOD SYNC)
Subscriber
Orders Table
OrderId __sysIG __sysCG __sysMC
000001 4 4 80
000002 4 4 80
000003 6 6 81
000004 6 6 81 Note: Orders 000003 and 000004 have the same system info
STEP 6: After FOURTH SYNC Publisher
Orders Table
OrderId
000001
000002
000003
Subscriber
Orders Table
OrderId __sysIG __sysCG __sysMC
000001 4 4 80
000002 4 4 80
000003 6 6 81
000004 6 6 81
Note: Even with a fine merge process Publisher didn't get the 000004 row and the Subscriber didn't update the __sysMC
STEP 7: INSERT ANOTHER ORDER
Subscriber
Orders Table
OrderId __sysIG __sysCG __sysMC
000001 4 4 80
000002 4 4 80
000003 6 6 81
000004 6 6 81
000005 8 8 81
STEP 8: After FIFTH SYNC
Publisher
Orders Table
OrderId
000001
000002
000003 000005
Subscriber
Orders Table
OrderId __sysIG __sysCG __sysMC
000001 4 4 80
000002 4 4 80
000003 6 6 81
000004 6 6 81
000002 8 8 80
Note: Data from generation 8 merge correctly, but data from generation 6 keeps invisible to publisher.
STEP 9: DUMMY UPDATE ON GEN 6 ROWS
Action: I made a non relevant update to force the Subscriber update the generation. Subscriber
Orders Table
OrderId __sysIG __sysCG __sysMC
000001 4 4 80
000002 4 4 80
000003 6 10 81
000004 6 10 81
000005 8 8 80
Note: sysCG get its value updated correctly.
STEP 10: After SIXTH SYNC
Publisher
Orders Table
OrderId
000001
000002
000003 000004
000005
Subscriber
Orders Table
OrderId __sysIG __sysCG __sysMC
000001 4 4 80
000002 4 4 80
000003 6 6 80
000004 6 6 80
000002 8 8 80
Note: Data merges correctly.
[END Detailed case]
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