What is the best way to parse large amounts of formatted text data
into a table so that it can be retrieved with as much formatting
retained as possible - particularly paragraphs? Will each
paragraph need to be inserted into its own row to be retrieved as a
paragraph?
Is it possible to retain text or paragraph formatting in a SqlServer 2005 Express edition table? If so, how?
I am particularly interested in keeping a linebreak between paragraphs and the only way I can think to do that is to put each paragraph in its own row. But I want some input before I undertake that substantial task.
Thanks for any help provided.
I am loading data using SSIS 2008 from a table in SQL Server 2008 DB to excel 97 sheet pre-defined with column headers. All the columns in excel is has 'Text' format property and the columns in the SQL Server table are defined as nVarchar. One of the columns has trailing spaces in few rows in DB but after exporting to excel 97, the spaces are gone. We need to retain the whitespaces in the column values. How can we do that.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to output data from SQL Server to an email body message with a little formatting (just to make it legible)
Using this SQL statement:
select top 1 'Name', app_first_name+' '+app_last_name [name] ,'Submission Date', submission_date ,'Address', app_address+', '+app_city+', '+app_state+' '+app_zip from vw_bpa_export where app_email = dave@email.com order by submission_date desc
the resulting output displays this in the email body
"Name","Brian Vogler","Submission Date","2008-01-30 07:45:00","Address","6285 Harrow Trace, Norcross, GA 30092 "
but what I want is the text to look more like this:
Name Brian VoglerSubmission Date 2008-01-30 07:45:00Address 6285 Harrow Trace, Norcross, GA 30092
Is there a way to do this in the SQL statement (without HTML tags)?
Does anyone know if there is a way SQLMail can always send a message using a fixed font like Courrier? I use SQLMail to send out an invoice and even though I format the spacing, the email looks unformatted on some systems.
I am using Exchange 5.5, SQL server 6.5 sp4 and the recipients of the emails could have any email client.
thanks,
-Darin.
Is it possible to format one word in a text box to the color blue and another word in the SAME textbox to the color red?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am designing a report using SQL server Reporting Services. I need to format my report and it requires for the text in my textbox to appear inclined ( as we have it in Excel). Is anyone aware of such an option in SSRS where we can set the direction of the text to be inclined ? Any help is appreciated !!
Thanks,
Deepti
The value expression for one of the column in my report is
="Notes: " + Fields!Notes.Value. I want to make this Notes caption to bold. I can't move "Notes: ", Fields!Notes.Value to the 2 different columns. So I want to know, Is there a way to do it?
hey all,
does anyone know of a way to format part of a text box in sql reporting services 2005? i am creating a form letter and need to concatenate static text with a column and need just the column value to be bold. like this:
"This letter is confirmation that Acme Agency has been chosen..."
my expression to build this is:
="This letter is confirmation that " + Fields!agency_name.Value + " has been chosen..."
Is there a way to apply formatting just to Fields!agency_name.Value ?
thanks!
jen
Hi,
I am saving a couple of paragraphs of text into a varchar(max) field in a SQL database table. But when I try to use display the information again, then all the linefeed and return characters seem to be removed. How do I keep this text formating in the database field?
I am sure that I am missing something simple here, but I can not figure out what. Can someone please help with some advise?
Thanks
RegardsJan
Hi All,This may seem like a stupid question but is there a way to keep textformatting when you add it to a database? Such as Paragraphs and linebreaks?Any help greatly appreciated.Blaine
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a field where the data is stored with RTF. I know SQL Reporting Services cannot display it properly. Is there way to remove the RTF formatting codes through a function to just pull out the text and displya it in the text box?
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Hello,
I am having a problem trying to do some conditional formatting on the text color.
This textbox is in the Group Footer so i essentially want change the color to red if the SUM of one field in the group is less than the SUM of another field in the same group.
I am doing this:
=Iif(Sum(Fields!YTDChargeHours)< Sum(Fields!YTDForecast), "Red", "Black")
but i am getting this error:
[rsRuntimeErrorInExpression] The Color expression for the textbox €˜YTDChargeHours€™ contains an error: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.
Thanks in advance!
Trying to use this tool to create a form letter. I have a text box that has a paragraph of data within that paragraph I'd like to bold a word or underline a word. Is this just a gross misuse of this tool or is there a way to format text within the text box?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi I am storing a customer code in my db that will always be 9 digits long. Sometimes the first digit is zero which gets knocked off when added in.
e.g code 050101111 is stored as 50101111
Can anyone suggest a way of formatting it so it will always be 9 digits long. A similar thing can be done in Excel, anyone have any ideas?
much appreciated
Tom
I have a table that looks like this...
City State Server Type
Chicago IL Svr1 Data
Chicago IL Svr2 Data
Chicago IL Svr3 Backup
Chicago IL Svr4 Backup
Atlanta GA Svr1 Data
Atlanta GA Svr2 Data
I already have a function to convert the server rows into a comma delimited string...
ALTER function dbo.fnGetServers (@City varchar(25), @State varchar(25), @Type varchar(25), @Tree varchar(25))
returns varchar(1000)
as
begin
declare @NewSvrCol varchar(1000)
select @NewSvrCol = ''
select @NewSvrCol = @NewSvrCol + Server + ', ' from serverops.dbo.v_userviews where city = @City and State = @State and Type = @Type and Tree = @Tree
select @NewSvrCol = left(@NewSvrCol, len(@NewSvrCol)-1)
return(@NewSvrCol)
end
Any suggestions on how to display the table in the following format?
City State DataSvrs BackupSvrs
Chicago IL Svr1,Svr2 Svr3,Svr4
Atlanta GA Svr1,Svr2 NULL
I have a table as below,
Code:
ClientId Balance '10/1/2012' '10/2/2012' '10/3/2012' '10/4/2012' '10/5/2012'
1 1000 1000 null null null null
2 2000 null 2000 null null null
3 3000 null null 3000 null null
4 4000 null null null 4000 null
5 4000 null null null 4000 null
How can I change above table into below format?
Code:
ClientId Balance '10/1/2012' '10/2/2012' '10/3/2012' '10/4/2012' '10/5/2012
1 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
2 2000 null 2000 2000 2000 2000
3 3000 null null 3000 3000 3000
4 4000 null null null 4000 4000
5 4000 null null null 4000 4000
I have date and float in attribute in a dimension table. If deploy my cube and I try to create a report with RS, I can't format this data. The value seems to be a String so I have to do a CDate or a CDbl before formating it.
I have no problem when I try to format my measures.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Here's a scenario that i'm trying to figure out.
In the table details, i return order number, item, manufacturer, and total cost of the order.
This is what it originally looked like:
Order Number Item Manufacturer Total Order Cost
1 portable DVD Company A $100
1 portable DVD Company B $100
1 portable DVD Company C $100
2 portable DVD Company B $100
2 portable DVD Company D $100
2 portable DVD Company F $100
Grand Total $600
I can get the table to look like this after hiding duplicates:
Order Number Item Manufacturer Total Order Cost
1 portable DVD Company A $100
1 portable DVD Company B $100
1 portable DVD Company C $100
2 portable DVD Company B $100
2 portable DVD Company D $100
2 portable DVD Company F $100
Grand Total $600
The problem is the grand total. It should be $200 but it takes in the all total costs in the row because I have:
=FormatCurrency(Sum(Fields!TotalCost.Value)) in the footer and it'll sum up all.
I'm stumped here. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to read.
I have a 2005 SQL SERVER db. I'm trying to export it to a 2000 db. I delete all the tables in the 2000 db then try to run an export from Management Studio 2005 and the tables go over fine, but no PK field is defined, no already-defined identity seed, etc...
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I have an SSIS routine which uses a simple SQL select statement from a SQL Server 2005 database and then goes to a Flat File destination. The field (dischstatuscode) is a nvarchar(50) and it may contain data with leading zeros.
Code Snippet
Select DischStatusCode
from dbo.pm
...which returns:
01
23
37
05
04
41
When I open up the csv file produced by the SSIS routine, I see the following:
1
23
37
5
4
41
How can I have it retain leading zeros?
Simple scenario. I have a DB table with a money column. SSIS package with a data flow task which has an OLE DB source and flat file destination. I want the single money column from the database into the flat file.
If a (monetary) value in the table is 123.50, the I want 123.50 to appear in the file, not 123.5. Any ideas how I do this? I've tried all available data types, set the scale to 2 where available but nothing has an effect.
Any thoughts?
Greg.
I am trying to get my SQL create table to work for my phone number formatting and it is not. When I create the below code, the default is set to 3 numbers only.
CREATE SET TABLE dl_qpt_cqe.contacts, NO FALLBACK ,NO BEFORE JOURNAL,NO AFTER JOURNAL
(contact_id integer not null ,contact varchar(50) , jobtitle varchar(50), dept varchar(50), phone integer format '999-999-9999', phone_ext varchar(10), email varchar(50), constraint pk primary key (contact_id));
Is there some other way I need to format the phone portion so the default is 999-999-9999?
I searched the forums for 'Retain leading 0 in datetime field' and received 0 hits.
I have a client who needs me to export SQL data as a txt file. All of the varchar fields are working well. I am having a problem with the datetime field. In my SQL table, I have a datetime field named 'Date_Acquired'. I enter the date as 04/28/2008 but it shows up in the table as 4/28/2008 and exports to text as 4/28/2008. Is there an easy way within my export Stored Procedure to reformat the datetime field to retain the leading zero? I have explored the CAST and CONVERT statements but have been unsuccessful so far.
Can anyone help?
We have a hardware problem and will be getting a new RAID HDD system.
I've asked the tech onsite to backup and detach the MSDB and then reattach.
Can this be done, I expect to have him detach the new MSDB when MSSQL is re-installed. Then replace that file with the previously detached version and run reattach from QA(?)
Will this work.
TIA
JeffP...
Hi,SQL Server 2005 Standard (X64) edition.Have a database which has its log backed up every hour during thenormal business day and each evening a full backup is performed.After two days we would like the the log backups to be automaticallyoverwritten in the backup device [WebAdmin], is this possible?This is the command being used.BACKUP LOG [WebAdmin] TO [WebAdmin]WITH RETAINDAYS = 2,NOFORMAT,NOINIT,NAME = N'WebAdmin',SKIP,NOREWIND,NOUNLOADCurrently the backup device has log backups going back to 18/02/2007which is position number 1 in the device. Basically nothing is beingoverwritten.Thanks in advance.Dave
View 2 Replies View RelatedHello,Access XP, SQL Server 2000Is it possible to hide a SP under Queries in Access, yet still be ableto Execute it from Access?We hooked up a custom form to accept the input parameters (MS FeatureRequest!) for the Stored Procedure. We had two problems with MS's'Input Parameter' dialog: 1) We could not customize, 2) We continuallyreceived a message from Access stating, "The stored procedure executedsuccessfully but did not return records" ('SET NOCOUNT ON' gave nojoy).Below is the sample code we are using.TestInsert is the SPtxtName is a text box on the form@name is char(80)Private Sub cmdAdd_Enter()Dim cmd As New ADODB.CommandDim par As ParameterSet cmd.ActiveConnection = CurrentProject.Connectioncmd.CommandText = "TestInsert"cmd.CommandType = adCmdStoredProcSet par = cmd.CreateParameter("@name", adVarChar, _adParamInput, Len(txtName), txtName)cmd.Parameters.Append parcmd.ExecuteSet cmd = NothingEnd SubAny help would be appreciated. We successfully hid our Tables, andallowed access through Views. But we can't seem to find a good workaround here.ThanksJeffJeffrey Waltonnoloader
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am considering the use of ALTER DATABASE ... SET NEW_BROKER within an existing Service Broker instance. The reason is that I have about 23 million old endpoints in Service Broker that I am unable to clean up using the standard END CONVERSATION loops that have been discussed on these forums previously. It's a busy database, and it just cannot do the job within a reasonable timeframe.
There are no critical conversations to be lost, becuse the majority of the old endpoints deal with ASP.NET SQL caching, so they are disposable.
I have read that using the ALTER DATABASE command will delete all past endpoints, but I haven't seen much in the way of the retention of the existing message framework.
If I execute ALTER DATABASE ... SET NEW_BROKER, will it retain everything I have setup, including security, message types, contracts, services, queues, etc.? Is there anything, other than the old conversations and endpoints, that is deleted?
Thanks very much!
Is there by chance a cunning way to make the input columns automatically populate the output of an asynchronous script transformation?
My transformation writes several rows for each input row read. I'm creating some new columns along the way but I'd like all of the input columns to get output each time also. However I can't see any obvious way to achieve this, short of manually defining each column to the output and populating it in the script.
Is there any way in which i can carry or retain the tooltip value which is shown on my report into Excel sheet ....
i mean when i export the report into Excel sheet, tooltip value is gone?? how can i retain the tooltip value when i export into excel ??
is it possible if so ...any hints??? thanks a lot in advance
What is the difference between CleanExpiredCache and FlushReportFromCache Do we need to run both the SPs to clear all the SSRS reporting cache? Is it possible to clean all the Cache information and retain the logs? If yes how we can do so. Is it by deleting the REportServerTempDB.dbo.ExecutionCache table work in achieving this?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a query in a SSRSreport that returns a value that looks like '012345'. The value looks fine on the report preview screen.
When the report is exported to excel, that value is displayed in a cell as '012345'. When I click out of the field, excel is dropping the leading zero and converting the value in the field to 12345.
Why is this happening and i have converted the value as string as well using expression.
This seems to get the job done...
SELECTRIGHT('00000000'+CONVERT(VARCHAR,REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR,GETDATE(),101),'/','')),8)
However, when I try to create it and CONVERT it to a DECIMAL, it then loses the "0"
SELECTCONVERT(DECIMAL(8,0),RIGHT('00000000'+CONVERT(VARCHAR,REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR,GETDATE(),101),'/','')),8))
Is it impossible to convert it to a decimal and retain the leading "0" on the month?
My vendor's spec states..."Business Date Numeric For 8 positions MMDDYYYY"