How To Select Data From Text Strings
Nov 10, 2007
Hi everyone,
You have helped me resolved my previous problem with the LIKE statement, and now I'm running into this TEXT STRING problem that I desperately need your help and guidance again.
The following is the set of various descriptions in a PRODUCT_DESC field. I need to be able to calculate the Squared Meter of these products. As you can see, I need to be able to extract the part in the middle (like 2x60YD, etc.) for each record and perform some sort of calculation and conversion. The problem is that I can't find a way to do this effectively. Can someone please help me? Thanks.
PG21..181 MASKING TAPE 2X60YD 7.3MIL IPG PREMIUM
CH PG21..181 MASKING TAPE 2X60YD 7.3MIL IPG PREMIUM
PG5...130 MASKING TAPE 2X60YD 6.4MIL IPG PREMIUM
PG21..179 MASKING TAPE 24MMX55 7.3MIL IPG PREMIUM
PG21..179 MASKING TAPE 24MMX55 7.3MIL IPG PREMIUM
PG21..181 MASKING TAPE 2X60YD 7.3MIL IPG PREMIUM
PG5...130 MASKING TAPE 2X60YD 6.4MIL IPG PREMIUM
PG21..179 MASKING TAPE 24MMX55 7.3MIL IPG PREMIUM
PG21..181 MASKING TAPE 2X60YD 7.3MIL IPG PREMIUM
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Feb 19, 2007
I have a whole bunch of bit fields in an SQL data base, which makes it a little messy to report on.
I thought a nice idea would be to assigne a text string/null value to each bit field and concatenate all of them into a result.
This is the basic logic goes soemthing like this:
select case new_accountant = 1 then 'acct/' end +
case new_advisor = 1 then 'adv/' end +
case new_attorney = 1 then 'atty/' end as String
from new_database
The output would be
Null, acct/, adv/, atty, acct/adv/, acct/atty/... acct/adv/atty/
So far, nothing I have tried has worked.
Any ideas?
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Dec 17, 2003
I am trying to build a simple search engine using Sql Server 2000 to scan information about approximatelly 20.000 products.
Heres what I am doing:
I created a table called keywords that contains a reference for each product.
keyword -> varchar(100)
items -> Text
keyword data example:
[keyword] [items]
car 1, 3, 5, 7
blue 3, 5
compact 1,7
I am not using clustered index.
To search basically I run the "AND" or "OR" to select the keywords I want to target.
I need to run another select that would compare the data in the items field depending of the condition selected. If "AND" clause is used I would need to compare all the items that contains the same reference, for example:
looking for car compact using "AND" clause
result = 1
looking for car compact using "OR" clause
result = 1,3,5,7
There is no table that holds references. The items are stored in a text field in the keyword table. I can compare data using script like AsP spliting the items by comma or space, but that can be too slow and use up a lot of RAM. Another solution would be to use a table to hold the references but that would affect performance dramatically because of the large number of records created and storage space used. One example, if I have 60.000 keywords and each keyword has an avereage of 200 references, I would have to generate 12 milion records.
I want to know if there is a function or routine in SQL server to compare matched references on the fly in the server between two or more fields and how should I do it.
In addition, in this scenario, how should a clustered index help?
Thanks
Rodrigo
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Jul 23, 2005
I am trying to build a query on a SQL2000 text field which contains XMLstring. The query is like "select requestnumber from history whererequestnumber is like '%re1%'". As you can see in the following samplerecords, the xml string has database structure and the requestnumber isa node of the XML. I wonder if it is possible to have SQL server parsethis field and allow me to do the query. If not, any suggestion wouldbe appreciated as to how to store XML data in SQL2000. I am not sureif I misused the SQL2000 XML feature correctly. So far I pass the rawquery result to ADO and manipulate it in XMLDOM.The table is to capture history of changes in any record in mydatabase. So I need to keep it simple so any record from any table canbe stored in here. The structure of the table is like this:sysObjectNumber(int, not null)recordKeyValues(char(30), not null)archiveTime(datetime, not null)history(text, null)A sample record would be like the following:sysObjectNumber recordKeyValues arvhiveTime History=============== =============== =========== =======1728725211 ABC 2005-03-25 8:09:56.700<history><partnumber>ABC</partnumber><type>2140461537</type><color>1</color><remain></remain><lastdatein></lastdatein><lastdateout></lastdateout><lastquantityin></lastquantityin><lastquantityout></lastquantityout><threshhold>null</threshhold><usedby>user1</usedby></history>1728725211 ABC 2005-03-28 11:01:14.407<history><partnumber>ABC</partnumber><type>2140461537</type><color>1</color><remain></remain><lastdatein></lastdatein><lastdateout></lastdateout><lastquantityin></lastquantityin><lastquantityout></lastquantityout><threshhold>4</threshhold><usedby>user2</usedby></history>1728725211 ABC 2005-03-28 11:46:12.723<history><partnumber>ABC</partnumber><type>2140461537</type><color>1</color><remain>4</remain><lastdatein></lastdatein><lastdateout></lastdateout><lastquantityin></lastquantityin><lastquantityout></lastquantityout><threshhold>4</threshhold><usedby>user1</usedby></history>1728725211 ABC 2005-03-28 11:46:35.273<history><partnumber>ABC</partnumber><type>2140461537</type><color>1</color><remain>4</remain><lastdatein></lastdatein><lastdateout></lastdateout><lastquantityin></lastquantityin><lastquantityout></lastquantityout><threshhold>4</threshhold><usedby>user4</usedby></history>
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May 11, 2007
Hello,
I have a table with the following structure for which I execute a SELECT statment against to retrieve the value of a particular NoteText field. Every time I execute the select the Notes are truncated in the returned recordset and I cannot get it to return the full value. I have tried various options, Cast/Convert, Set TEXTSIZE, etc but to no avail. Advice?
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SOOrderNote_T] (
[SOOrderNote_TSK] [int] NOT NULL ,
[SOOrder_TSK] [int] NOT NULL ,
[PXNoteTypeSK] [int] NOT NULL ,
[NoteText] [text] COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]
--My Select which returns truncated notes
Select NoteText From SOOrderNote_T where SOOrder_TSK = XYZ
Thanks in advance!
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Jan 9, 2001
This seems so simple but I can't find any examples to do it..
I have the following in a text file "Lastname, Firstname MI" and I want to select each part separetly.. What would be the SELECT statement to get the Lastname up to the comma, then the Firstname after the comma, then the MI after the last space..
Thanks for the help, and any reference to learn more.
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Apr 1, 2008
I have a small problem that I can't figure out. Here's my table:
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Members
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ID | Name | Image
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When a user signs up to become a member, they can upload an image, which will be stored under Image. It will also be stored in a folder. For example, if the user with the ID of 14 uploads an image, it will be stored in 'livefiles/Members/14/image.jpg'. If the user does not upload an image, NULL is stored under Image, and the user has a default image, which is stored under 'livefiles/MembersDefault/1/image.jpg'.
What I want to do is return the path of where the image is in the folders. Basically...
If Image is not null
SELECT 'livefiles/Members/' + ID + '/' + Image AS ImagePath
If Image is null
SELECT 'livefiles/MembersDefault/1/image.jpg'
I'd rather not do this with an IF statement, I'm doing a lot of other SELECTS, and I don't want to have to copy all that code. Here's what I tried...
COALESCE (NULLIF('livefiles/Members/' + CONVERT(varchar(20), ID) + '/' + Image, 'livefiles/Members/' + ID + '/'), 'livefiles/MembersDefault/1/image.jpg') AS ImagePath
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Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'livefiles/Members/' to data type int.
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My idea is to create a text file as part of my Package that lists Logins to be Excluded From the Transfer - I think I then need to create a New File Connection to the Text File as a Connection Manager, then somehow get that data into a Variable, and then use an Expression to populate the 'LoginsList' Collection from syslogins where loginame not equal to logins in my textfilevariable?
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Hi,
I just wanna ask:
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I tried using proper(), trim() and ucase() like in MSAccess but no success.
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Has anyone noticed any changes in which post-SP1 SQL Server 2005 processes strings? Does it automatically trim spaces or convert NULLs etc?
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Hi Guys,
I'm wondering if an idea I'm playing with is feasible and if so, how you would recommend implementing it.
Let's say I have a Dictionary table, 2 columns:
Word | Definition
And I have a string - "The cat sat on the dog"
If there's a definition for "cat" in the dictionary table, I want to alter the string so it becomes "The >>cat<< sat on the dog"
At the same time, if there's also a definition for "dog" then my string now becomes "The >>Cat<< sat on the >>Dog<<"
The idea being that when I manipulate the data in my ASP I can replace() the >><< with specific HTML code. (I'm trying to recreate the "in text" advertising thing that lots of people seem to be using - but not doing adverts, just information for our users - Someone hovers over a highlighted word, and with a little bit of Ajax, I can pull the definition out...
I'm not sure (but I'm suspecting) that it would make more sense to do this as I'm storing the string in a table, rather than as I'm pulling it out ready for use (don't want to be slowing my end users down )
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Jun 23, 2006
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Now, I need to get new records that are added to the AS400 side of things on a daily basis. For that, I was trying to use the OLEDB AS400 connector. However, I found that the OLEDB connector wouldn't work when I was trying to specify an SQL Statement for what to get; i.e., a simple query like Select * from TWLDAT.STKT where BYSDAT >= '2005-01-27' would simply not work. Found articles here explaining that it is probably a problem on the AS400 side of things and where people recommended using an ADO ODBC data reader source for this type of thing. So, I'm trying to implement that. However, I have a huge problem with it.
The original tables that got created were mapped to use NVARCHAR fields for character data. When the ADO ODBC data reader source accesses the AS400 data, it insists on interpreting the string type fields as being unicode strings and giving it a data type of DT_WSTR when what I need it to have is a plain old DT_STR data type. When the strings are interpreted as unicode strings, they cannot be converted in a way that allows the NVARCHAR fields to be filled with the data. The exact error message I get for all the fields that should wind up being nvarchar fields is as follows:
Column "BYStOK" cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types.
Okay, so I try to change the data types in the ADO ODBC data reader to be plain DT_STR data types and I cannot do so.
Does anyone have any idea why the ADO ODBC data reader source insists on interpreting the string data coming from the AS 400 as unicode string data or why it refuses to allow that to be changed to DT_STR data type?
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So I'm having to do derived column transforms, for each and every column that it coughs up on.
Using expressions like (DT_STR,30,1252)receivedby to convert the "recievedby" column to a DT_STR,
Some of these tables have 100 string columns.. so I'm getting a bit sick of the drudgery of adding all these derivations...
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name salary age address
dev 23 klddldldlk
sdfg 24 34 kdlddlkd
when the same is given as input the row
dev 23 klddldldlk
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Jan 10, 2006
Hi -
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I've looked at various help files and tried to search for a solution elsewhere, but I'm not coming up with anything. I guess I just don't know where to look. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
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Apr 25, 2006
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Jun 7, 2007
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I have two quick questions:
Why does this happen? Is it a limitation in the MDX language, in SSAS, or SSRS? Are there any planned fixes?
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Code Snippet
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Thanks very much in advance for your help.
Regards,
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Hello all,
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