Issues With Spaces In A Field
Jan 9, 2007
The name field in our database stores the name in the below format:
Shields~Joseph A
Simmons~Russell G
Resig~Benjamin R
Lindsey Jr.~Harold H
Jordan~Adante D
Kerr~Luke D
Adkins~Guillermo B
Conrad~Brian P
I am trying to separate the last name and first name into 2 fields. I do not want the middle initial or Jr. in the field. I am using the statement below but i am running into an issue with names that have Jr. on them because there is an extra space in the name.
SELECT SubString([Name],CHARINDEX('~',[Name])+1, (CHARINDEX(' ',[Name])-1) - (CHARINDEX('~', [Name])-1)) as FirstName,
Left(Name,CHARINDEX('~',Name)-1) as LastName
FROM Employee
WHERE StrtDate >'7/1/06' and StrtDate < '8/31/06' and Status = 'A' and BirthDate < GetDate() - 7665
Any help would be appreciated.
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Jun 30, 2005
I am trying to load a field in my DB and it is defined as varchar(11) but when I populate it, it still adds spaces at the end. When I try to use it in an If statement, it doesn't match and executes the else instead. The wierd part is it seems to make it 10 characters long and not 11 or the the actual length. I think I had originally set it up for char(10) then changed it afterward but I even deleted the field and reentered it as varchar(11).Thanks,Eric
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Aug 20, 2007
Hi i hv a doubt in Sql server reporting..I do generate some reports based on some criteria.In the results screen i hv empty fields based on the search i hv generated.I need to set "0" instead of blank spaces in the fields..Can any one help me?
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Aug 30, 2007
I have a database setup and the fields setup as nchar(200).
Now, when I update a row using the code below it inserts the text but then seems to fill the rest of the field with spaces. i.e. if the text is only 10 characters, mssql seems to put 190 characters on the end of it to make 200.
Is there any reason how I can stop this/1 // Create new command
2 comm = new SqlCommand(
3 "UPDATE Pages SET PageBody=@PageBody, " +
4 "PageMetaTitle=@PageMetaTitle, PageMetaDesc=@PageMetaDesc, PageMetaKeywords=@PageMetaKeywords " +
5 "WHERE PageID=@PageID", conn);
6
7 // Add command parameters
8 comm.Parameters.Add("@PageID", System.Data.SqlDbType.Int);
9 comm.Parameters["@PageID"].Value = idTextBox.Text;
10 comm.Parameters.Add("@PageBody", System.Data.SqlDbType.NVarChar);
11 comm.Parameters["@PageBody"].Value = contentTextBox.Text;
12 comm.Parameters.Add("@PageMetaTitle", System.Data.SqlDbType.NVarChar);
13 comm.Parameters["@PageMetaTitle"].Value = titleTextBox.Text;
14 comm.Parameters.Add("@PageMetaDesc", System.Data.SqlDbType.NVarChar);
15 comm.Parameters["@PageMetaDesc"].Value = descriptionTextBox.Text;
16 comm.Parameters.Add("@PageMetaKeywords", System.Data.SqlDbType.NVarChar);
17 comm.Parameters["@PageMetaKeywords"].Value = keywordsTextBox.Text;
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Apr 5, 2007
Hello,
I need to strip out all alpha chars and spaces in a given field and return only the numbers.
I've tried =CInt(Fields!Info.Value) and get an unexplained error. If the data was formatted consitantly I could simply do a RTrim or Right, but the number strings are not the same, some have spaces as in phone numbers (1 800 555 1212) or don't have a leading 1. Most instances are correct for my purpose (8005551212).
Any help would be appreciated.
UPDATE: Using the Replace function =Replace(Fields!Info.Value, " ","") gets me almost there. Now I should be able to use a Right, 10 function to return my desired value. Is it possible to combine these two funtions together?
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Dec 8, 2014
Because of a limitation on a piece of software I'm using I need to take a large varchar field and force a carriage return/linebreak in the returned sql. Allowing for a line size of approximately 50 characters, I thought the approach would be to first find the 'spaces' in the data, so as to not split the line on a real word. achieve.
--===== Simulate a passed parameter
DECLARE @Parameter VARCHAR(8000)
SET @Parameter = (select a_notes
from dbo.notestuff as notes
where a_id = '1')
[Code] .....
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Jan 2, 2008
I am storing formatted data (including spaces and line breaks) in a single field in a table.
When I run a report on that field, the preview of the report is automatically removing all the extra spaces and line breaks, making the report unreadable.
When exporting the report to PDF or printing it, it shows the line breaks and spaces as expected.
Does anyone know how to make the report preview show the spaces and line breaks?
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Sep 24, 2001
Please how can remove spaces on a date field and a text field. THanks.
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Nov 19, 2007
i collected the users information without using any trim fucntion(i have implemented now)
but the data which has been already posted into my server has text with some white spaces at the beginning of data
now how to remove this white spaces in this column in online server data.
the data is something like this
mycolumn
data
data
data
data
so how to remove white spaces in the above column
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Apr 22, 2008
Hi
i have 1 query please guide me,
SELECT P.ProjectName, REPLACE(SPACE(TU.TaskOutlineLevel), ' ', '__') AS dash,TU.TASKISSUMMARY AS TASKSUMMARY,
here i want to add BLANKS but not working so i have to show add spaces using __ here any idea i can add SPACES or ' ' here.
please let me know if any. basically i want to align the data in my GRIDVIEW
Thanks in advance
Parth
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Apr 12, 2006
How can you remove spaces in the middle of a string, RTRIM and LTRIM does not work
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Jan 8, 2002
Creating a text file using DTS, is there a function/way to take out white
spaces from columns. Example:
'1234 ','567 ' would come in text as
'1234','567'
Thanks in advance.
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Jan 7, 2003
Hi,
I am building my insert statements dynamically and am finding that there are spaces after certain integer fields.
example Insert Table A (col1, col2, col3)
values (1 ,'2',3 )
If col1 and col3 are integer fields, is there any affect to either how the value is stored or how it will be retrieved when the table is used in a join. By inspecting the values in the table, it seems fine. Do I need to worry?
Thanks,
Jim
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Apr 28, 2003
If I run SELECT Len(' ') it returns 0, if SELECT Len('a ') it returns 1
I need this to return the correct length including the space that on the end. I thought it was an ansi_padding problem but even turning padding on results in a 0 length. Any ideas? Thanks!
Todd
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Apr 28, 2004
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I am tring to join two tables. There is one problem of course. There is one column I would be able to join the two tables by. This column would be Loc_Code. The only problem is that both columns are not exactly the same. They look like this:
Table 1 Table 2
Loc_Code Loc_Code
A 12345 A12345
A 12346 A12346
A 12347 A12347
A 12348 A12348
I need to erase the spaces that exists in the Loc_Code column in table 1 so that I can join with table 2.
All help would be appreciated.
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Mar 9, 2006
I need to trim what looks like two spaces from a field.
Example:
" 601274" needs to be "601274". Does anyone know the syntax?+
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Jan 25, 2007
is there a way to do remove spaces from a string if its they are in deifferent places on each row
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Jan 31, 2008
I'm writing a store procedure to accept search strings from user on my site. Currently, this is what I have.
Code Snippet
@schoolID int = NULL,
@scholarship varchar(250) = NULL,
@major varchar(250) = NULL,
@requirement varchar(250) = NULL
--@debug bit = 0
AS
BEGIN
-- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
-- interfering with SELECT statements.
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT * FROM [scholarship]
WHERE ([sectionID] = @schoolID OR @schoolID IS NULL)
AND ([schlrPrefix] LIKE '%' + @scholarship + '%' OR [schlrName] LIKE '%' + @scholarship + '%' OR [schlrSufix] LIKE '%' + @scholarship + '%' OR @scholarship IS NULL )
AND ([Specification] LIKE '%' + @major + '%' OR @major IS NULL )
AND ([reqr1] LIKE '%' + @requirement + '%' OR [reqr2] LIKE '%' + @requirement + '%' OR [reqr3] LIKE '%' + @requirement + '%' OR [reqr4] LIKE '%' + @requirement + '%' OR [reqr5] LIKE '%' + @requirement + '%' OR @requirement IS NULL )
The problem is, somtimes the search doesn't work if there is a space behind or infront of the search string. I wonder if there is away to ignore any spaces and go right into whatever character comes next or after. If so, how do I implement that?
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Mar 7, 2008
I have a single column value like this. I want to get the charindex value whereever it is a single space.
'6 REP5426 15936 022708 107/0000 33003301985 BAILEY AMY NICOL 11454 PP 25.00 000-00 00110080 A O '
Thanks.
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Aug 25, 2015
I'm new to SQL and I'm trying to write a statement to satisfy the following:
If [Field1] contains text from [Field2] then return [Field3] as [Field4].
I had two tables where there were no matching keys. I did a cross apply and am now trying to parse out the description to build the key.
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May 4, 2006
Good morning...
I begin with SQL, I would like to add a field that will be date like 21/01/2000.
Actually i find just "datetime" format but give me the format 21/01/2000 01:01:20.
How to do for having date and time in two different field.
Sorry for my english....
Cordially
A newbie
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Dec 31, 2006
Hi All... I'm using a SQL Server 2005 database. I've noticed that columns that are declared as "char" and that have a fixed size tend to put trailing spaces at the end of the data when I pull it out. I guess I can understand why... But it's a pain dealing with it. As I'm bringing my application up, I can see spaces all over the place - I just havent gotten around to doing anything about it yet. What's the easiest/best way to get rid of those spaces. Geez, it'd be real cool if I could put something in the SELECT statement. Any thoughts? Thanks much!! -- Curt
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Aug 23, 2001
What is the best way to check for leading spaces in your table, using ltrim?
Such as TableA(name, city)
the data in TableA Smith Dallas
John New York
Greg Richmond
David Chicago
Return only David.
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Mar 7, 2000
Hey all,
Hope I can get some help here.
Have a view that has to reference a table in another database on the same server. This isn't the problem. I am just using Databasename..tablename in the from statement. Get the results required in testing.
The problem is that in production the table name has a space character. i.e. 'accounting info' would be the table name. I have not been able to figure out the proper syntax to capture this properly to reference in the from statement.
I have tried enclosing the name in ' ', " ", [], (), {} and just about every combination I can come up with.
Any help in this would be great, and changing the databse name isn't an option at this time.
Thanx,
Chris
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Sep 4, 2003
Hi all smart people,
Can someone please help me with how to replace null values with spaces in select statement.
I have to have a select statement which will select all the data but the field contain null value it has to replace with spaces. How can I do that ?
Thanks,
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Jul 10, 2006
I have some fields in my database that are char(50)
I use an insert to put some text into the fields (using perl)
when I look at the fields I find that spaces are used to "pad out" the text to the field size.
This didn't happen with MySQL and PHP, is there any way to disable this?
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Jun 2, 2004
Hi !
I'm trying to put a space after . and , in varchar fields.
I've tried
UPDATE Resultados
SET RespuestaAbierta = REPLACE(RespuestaAbierta, ',', ', ')
but nothing happened
What's wrong ??
Thanks and sorry if my english isnīt so good.
Eduardo (from Argentina)
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Aug 9, 2004
HI all,
I have a database that allocated:
Data: 7300 MB
Log: 2000 MB
But only used
Data: 5500MB
Log: 50MB
How can I free the unused space in the transaction log because
the database is getting too big.
Thank you for your suggestion.
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Jan 31, 2005
i'm going nuts with this, i suppose i will crack it eventually, but i thought i'd ask around here, seems like all the smart SQL Server guys hang out here
(i'm an SQL guy, not an SQL Server guy)
how does one place 5 spaces into a CHAR(5) column?
create table testzeros
( id smallint not null primary key identity
, myfield char(5)
)
insert into testzeros (myfield) values (' 1')
insert into testzeros (myfield) values (' 11')
insert into testzeros (myfield) values (' 111')
insert into testzeros (myfield) values (' 1111')
insert into testzeros (myfield) values ('11111')
insert into testzeros (myfield) values (' ')
select id
, myfield
, len(myfield) as L
from testzerosno matter what i do, id=6 shows up with L=0, just like an empty string
i've even tried inserting 4 spaces and a non-blank character, which enters just fine, just as you would expect, but when i update the value and replace the non-blank character with a blank, all 5 spaces collapse back to an empty string
is there some kind of server setting like SET ALL_SPACE_EQUALS_EMPTY_YOU_IDIOT to OFF or something?
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Aug 31, 2006
Hi. In our database, we have a Social Security Number field. We've made application upgrades and we can no longer have the dashes ( - ) between the numbers. So, I ran this update on our database to remove all the dashes. it did remove all the dashes except it put spaces in its spot:
UPDATE DefendantCase SET SSN = REPLACE(SSN, '-','')
so, i tried this query and it does nothing.
UPDATE DefendantCase SET SSN = REPLACE(SSN, ' ','')
does anybody have any ideas? Thanks!
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Sep 26, 2006
I know this is probably a DOS question but does anyone know how the following would work without taking out the spaces in the folder "Audit Tax Planning" (works fine in paths without spaces)?
Declare @ren varchar(255)
Declare @path varchar(100)
Set @path = '\mainWGDATAAccountingAudit Tax Planning'--G:AccountingAudit Tax Planning 5BE
IF EXISTS(SELECT id FROM tempdb..sysobjects WHERE id = object_ID('tempdb..#Tax_File'))
DROP TABLE #Tax_File
CREATE TABLE [#Tax_File](
[File_Name] varchar(50),
)
Set @ren = 'dir /B ' + @path + 'test.txt'
Insert into #Tax_File ([File_Name])
EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @ren
If not exists(select [File_Name]
from #Tax_File
where right([File_Name],4) = '.txt')
begin
RAISERROR ('File does not exist.', 16, 1)
Return
end
select * from #Tax_File
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Jun 17, 2008
Hello,
I am fairly new to SQL I have started to administer a system which handles carrier information for a mail order system. The logic behind the system is quite simple there are 5 or so columns in a table the first column is the first part of the postcode i.e EX15, the other columns contain which delivery services and depot numbers are associated with that postcode. It works fine at the moment.
However now the main carrier has decided that they are now going to split these postcodes so for example EX15 1* goes to a different depot than EX15 2*
I cant seem to insert EX15 1 into the first column, I get the following error:
Attempt to store duplicate value in unique column. (-155)
Is this because of the space in 'EX15 1'? Because 'EX15' already exists in that column? In which case do I need to somehow tell SQL that there is a space there?
I hope this makes sense
Below is a snap of the table with the existing EX15 postcode data
postcode|carrier_code|available|depot_code|hub_code|county_code
----------------------------------------------------------------
EX15.....|NF/S93......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15.....|NF/SAT......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15.....|NF/930......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15.....|NF/AM.......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15.....|NF/ON.......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15.....|NF/48.......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15.....|NF/3D.......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
Here is a snap of how I would like to set up another entry:
postcode|carrier_code|available|depot_code|hub_code|county_code
----------------------------------------------------------------
EX15 1...|NF/S93......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15 1...|NF/SAT......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15 1...|NF/930......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15 1...|NF/AM.......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15 1...|NF/ON.......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15 1...|NF/48.......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
EX15 1...|NF/3D.......|........1|34........|C.......|DEVO
Thanks
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Jun 22, 2008
All- I'm using the SQL SP below to drive an asp.net gridview. Note how, after "else", I attempt to send to the browser the HTML code that should create a hard space. However, the characters are simply rendered verbatim by the browser. I've tried putting actual spaces in the quotes, and also the SPACE(x) argument. SP test executes appear to show the spaces in the results, but aps.net isn't rendering the spaces at all. Any thoughts.
(Its really more of an asp.net question, but I thought I'd post this here too for your thoughts. Thx in advance.)
SELECT person_id, male, female, last, CASE WHEN fam_adult = 1 then first else ' ' + first end as first, fam_adult, is_adult, is_kid, is_y_parent_or_kid, is_guest, is_person_type_5, grade, school, is_person_type_6, fam_dad
FROM person
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