Need Help With String Manipulation - Splitting 1 String Into Multiple Columns
Sep 11, 2006
Hello All,
I'm a non-programmer and an SQL newbie. I'm trying to create a printer usage report using LogParser and SQL database. I managed to export data from the print server's event log into a table in an SQL2005 database.
There are 3 main columns in the table (PrintJob) - Server (the print server name), TimeWritten (timestamp of each print job), String (eventlog message containing all the info I need). My problem is I need to split the String column which is a varchar(255) delimited by | (pipe). Example:
2|Microsoft Word - ราย�ารรับ.doc|Sukanlaya|HMb1_SD_LJ2420|IP_192.10.1.53|82720|1
The first value is the job number, which I don't need. The second value is the printed document name. The third value is the owner of the printed document. The fourth value is the printer name. The fifth value is the printer port, which I don't need. The sixth value is the size in bytes of the printed document, which I don't need. The seventh value is the number of page(s) printed.
How I can copy data in this table (PrintJob) into another table (PrinterUsage) and split the String column into 4 columns (Document, Owner, Printer, Pages) along with the Server and TimeWritten columns in the destination table?
In Excel, I would use combination of FIND(text_to_be_found, within_text, start_num) and MID(text, start_num, num_char). But CHARINDEX() in T-SQL only starts from the beginning of the string, right? I've been looking at some of the user-defind-function's and I can't find anything like Excel's FIND().
Or if anyone can think of a better "native" way to do this in T-SQL, I've be very grateful for the help or suggestion.
Thanks a bunch in advance,
Chutikorn
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Dec 19, 2002
I'm creating a web-based NT RAS report site and am looking for the most efficient way to import the data from NT Event log into SQL2k. I'm using the 'dumpel' utility from rsc kit and all is fine except the 10th column - the message detail:
"The user DOMAINuserid connected on port Mdm15 on 08/23/2002 at 07:25am and disconnected on 08/23/2002 at 07:27am. The user was active for 2 minutes 23 seconds. 78809 bytes were sent and 50675 bytes were received. The port speed was 49300."
I need to parse this one long text string into 6 distinct columns: userID, port, duration, bytes_xmt, bytes_rcv and portspeed. After a quick review of the rowsets, the strings seem to hold a consistent output ... no real variances I can see.
I've dablled with views but am facing a small performance issue that could get bigger: The sql server not only has to run the text file import package, but also the view to format the text dump into a workable dataset, then my report code bangs over 30 queries against the final dataset. It already takes our SQL2k server over 3 minutes to parse about 20,000 rows and the server's a beast (dual 1.8 p4 cpu, 3gb ram, raid, etc).
What I think would work best is to abandon the view (performance will only get worse as the row count increases) and instead INSERT the rows into one table.
Any ideas anyone? any good scripts out there that can help me to parse the long text string quicker that using substring and replace functions?
TIA:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Aug 14, 2003
I'm trying to split a hyphen-delimited string into three columns in a view. I've been using substring and len to split up the string, but it is getting very complicated (and isn't working in all cases). I've used a SPLIT function in vbscript - does t-sql have anything similar? I've attached a spreadsheet that shows what I am looking for. Maybe someone can guide me in the right direction?
Thanks.
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Sep 25, 2014
I have a table name tbl_testme with columns (id,mac,keys,outputmk)
mac column have 12 character and keys have 16 character
mac keys
6545da7n9hg8 hsi457s5sd77jk87
What i want is i need to split the column into 4 characters of both column E.G.
(6545 da7n 9hg8) and (hsi4 57s5 sd77 jk87)
after splitting i need to take last 4 character of key(jk87) and last 4 character of mac(9hg8)and join them and insert that into ouputmk column.
E.G.
(jk87-9hg8-sd77-da7n-57s5-6545-hsi4)
I need this to insert in outputmk column ....
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Nov 7, 2015
The recipe preparation instructions are stored in a table by RecipeID. Â The prep instructions are in a single VARCHAR(MAX) column and look something like this: Â
1. Â Boil WaterÂ
2. Add noodlesÂ
3. Add cheese sauceÂ
4. Stir well
Now they want this single VARCHAR(Max) column broken into 2 columns - Step and Prep Instruction like this: Boil WaterAdd noodlesAdd cheese sauceStir well.I figure I can use the appearance of a number followed by a period and a space to determine the existence of a new row. Â How would I accomplish this in T-SQL?
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Oct 22, 2007
Hi,
I have a function which takes a string and a delimter. It then splits the string by the delimter and returns a table of resultant strings:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[vs_SplitTags] (@sep char(1), @s varchar(512))
RETURNS table
AS
RETURN (
WITH Pieces(pn, start, stop) AS
(
SELECT 1, 1, CHARINDEX(@sep, @s)
UNION ALL
SELECT pn + 1, stop + 1, CHARINDEX(@sep, @s, stop + 1)
FROM Pieces
WHERE stop > 0
)
SELECT pn,
SUBSTRING(@s, start, CASE WHEN stop > 0 THEN stop-start ELSE 512 END) AS s
FROM Pieces
)
This works very well, other than instances of the delimter are, themselves, considered to be results. For example:
SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', 'foo bar') AS result
returns:
pn s
1 foo
2 bar
which is exactly the result I would want.
However,
SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', ' foo bar ') AS result -- There are spaces before 'foo' and after 'bar'
returns
pn s
1
2 foo
3 bar
4
And
SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', 'foo bar') AS result -- There are two spaces between 'foo' and 'bar'
returns
pn s
1 foo
2
3
4 bar
I want the function to ignore whitespace altogether, be it a single space or multiple spaces. Other than to delimit the boundries between words, of course.
In other words, all three examples above should produce the same result:
pn s
1 foo
2 bar
How can I do this? Any thoughts much appreciated...
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Jan 7, 2008
Here is want I did.
SELECT dong2 + ' ' + dong3 + ' ' + dong4 + bunji AS 'Address'
FROM zipcode.dbo.zipcode2
I want to combine all of the columns to 1 column, but some columns are empty and some are NULL. The ones that are NULL return as NULL instead of an address.
How do I put this together into 1 string?
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Apr 2, 2001
I am totaly confused please help
I am trying to change a tring of 7 characters of the format "XXYZZZZ" to be
"XX0YZZZZ" I wonder if any body has any idea
Also how can get an out of a dattime field in the format of DDMMYYYY and converted into text.
You help is highly appreciated
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May 15, 2001
Hi!
I am using the follwing query for extracting the country name and city in a COLUMN [Destination Name] in Destinations table. The Data in the table looks like:
CANADA - Toronto
United States- ARIZONA
France
Argentina
United States (USA)- ARIZONA
........
........
The folowing query is producing the required results upto soem extent but without using -1 in subtracting the one value of CHARINDEX. The error is:
Server: Msg 536, Level 16, State 4, Line 1
Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function.
The statement has been terminated.
QUERY
-----
select
Left(
Destinations.[Destination Name],
charindex("-", Destinations.[Destination Name])-1
)
as test
into temp2
from destinations
CAN ANYBODY HELP me in extracting the city an dcoutry name. I also want to delete the name in () like (USA).
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Nov 30, 2004
I was given a script that was supposed to take a name field that was separated by commas and normalize it into last, first and middle name. My data looks like below in one fieldname called longname
crab,mike,Allen
Lota Weilly,Eric,M
My script to do this looks like
update ailoca
set last_name = substring (longname, 1, patindex( '%,%' , longname) -1 ),
first_name = substring (longname, patindex( '%,%' , longname) + 1, patindex( '% %', longname)-patindex( '%,%' , longname)),
middle_name = substring (longname, patindex( '% %', longname) + 1, len(longname)-patindex( '%,%' , longname))
My problem is that some people actually have 2 last names, not hyphenated, but 2. Whenever I have 2 names I get the following error
Server: Msg 536, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function.
The statement has been terminated.
It seems to be related to the first name, I can comment out that update and it works
Thanks
Thanks
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Jul 24, 2007
Hi All,
I am trying to break the string that looks like this
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server Copyright (C) 1988-2002 Microsoft Corporation.
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server All rights reserved.
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server Server Process ID is 292.
into three separate strings to look like this
col1 col2 col3
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server Copyright (C) 1988-2002 Microsoft Corporation.
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server All rights reserved.
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server Server Process ID is 292.
I was able to separate the above string into two columns, but can't figure out how to put the rest of the string into the third column.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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Nov 13, 2005
Field1 = Dominguez Public Transport Division 03 9320 4326
how do i remove these strings in T-SQL
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Jul 24, 2007
Hi All,
I am trying to break the string that looks like this
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server Copyright (C) 1988-2002 Microsoft Corporation.
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server All rights reserved.
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server Server Process ID is 292.
into three separate strings to look like this
col1 col2 col3
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server Copyright (C) 1988-2002 Microsoft Corporation.
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server All rights reserved.
2007-05-06 07:36:21.28 server Server Process ID is 292.
I was able to separate the above string into two columns, but can't figure out how to put the rest of the string into the third column.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
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May 3, 2008
Sir
How i m Manipulate String , I have
(ABC,XYZ,EFG) this string
know i want to break this string 1 by 1 and modify and then rearrange in same form ang Get
like (ABCWE,XYZRT,EF)
pls help me out
Yaman
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May 29, 2008
Hi
I have a field which is a file path
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now the filename is always the same length,
so i can use RIGHT to get the filename,
but i prefer a method that from the right detects the
1st occurance of and everything after is the filename,
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Hi If i have a string like :
AX4030303022
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what can i use for the 2nd ?
and how can i deal with NULLS ?
if its NULL i want a blank space..
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Hi all,
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Waiting for full budget approval 173 906
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Sep 15, 2015
I have the following data in a table;
Create Table #Table (Column1 Varchar(1000))
INSERT INTO #Table
Select 'Execute Procedure @param1 = 100, @param2 = 1000, @param3 = ''longtext'' '
UNION ALL
Select 'Execute Procedure @param1 = 10, @param2 = 1000, @param3 = ''longtext'' '
UNION ALL
Select 'Execute Procedure @param1 = 100000, @param2 = 1000, @param3 = ''longtext'' '
Select * from #Table
I want to get rid of @Param1 in every row of the table so my final results look like this.
Create Table #FinalTable (Column1 Varchar(1000))
INSERT INTO #FinalTable
Select 'Execute Procedure @param2 = 1000, @param3 = ''longtext'' '
UNION ALL
Select 'Execute Procedure @param2 = 1000, @param3 = ''longtext'' '
UNION ALL
Select 'Execute Procedure @param2 = 1000, @param3 = ''longtext'' '
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Greetings all,
What's the neatest way to get the whole string but the last word?
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select left(@test, len(@test)-charindex(' ', reverse(@test)))
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I have a table with a string value, where all values are seperated by a space/blank. I now want to use SQL to split all the values and insert them into a different table, which then later will result in deleting the old table, as soon as I got all values out from it.
Old Table:
Code:
ID, StringValue
New Table:
Code:
ID, Value1, Value2
Do note: Value1 is INT, Value2 is of nvarchar, hence Value2 can contain spaces... I just need to split on the FIRST space, then convert index[0] to int, and store index[1] as it is.
I can split on all spaces and just Select them all and add them like so: SELECT t.val1 + ' ' + t.val2... If I cant find the first space that is... I mean, first 2-10 characters in the string can be integer, but does not have to be.Shall probably do it in code instead of SQL?Now I want to run a query that selects the StringValue from OldTable, splits the string by ' ' (a blank) and then inserts them into New Table.
Code:
SELECT CASE CHARINDEX(' ', OldTable.stringvalue, 1)
WHEN 0 THEN OldTable.stringvalue
ELSE SUBSTRING(OldTable.stringvalue, 1, CHARINDEX(' ', OldTable.stringvalue, 1) - 1)
END
AS FirstWord
FROM OldTable
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Code:
@declare firstDigit int
IF ISNUMERIC(SUBSTRING(@postal,2,1) AS int) = 1
set @firstDigit = CAST(SUBSTRING(@postal,2,1) AS int)
ELSE
set @firstDigit = -1
[code]....
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bbbb
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dddd
ffff
gggg
llll
kkkk
nnnnn
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If I have a string of
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Hi Guys,
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I've got rid of the first one with...
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Feb 24, 2006
I'm trying to look up customer records by e-mail domain by using a text box on a Web form. So if I want to look for all my customers that have an aol e-mail domain, I would type aol.com in the text box and the sub routine would know to count 7 characters from the right and through those characters into maybe a parameter query. I'm having problems passing this in. I can count the characters properly by using:
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..............
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Hi,
I am building a string (basically XML) on the fly in stored procedure (SQL 7.0). I am using one local variable @str_xml varchar(8000) to build this string.
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I am thinking to use 2 or 3 local varchar variables and then return them separately to front end and will do contatination at the front end. But I think it would be ugly way to do as I have to check every time in stored procedure the length of string.
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Thanks
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Mar 5, 2007
I'm hoping someone can help! Im using sql2000, and I am attempting to capitalize every 1st letter of a word in a column.
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What Id like to get as my results:
"Golf is fun, Bowling is great"
Trying to figure out the syntax to get the character after the comma to have a space then capital "B" Thought I could use a charindex but just cant seem to get it.
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Nov 2, 2006
I am somewhat new to the world of programming with SQL Server and was wondering if this could be done. Well I know it can be done but was wondering how it might be done.
I have a DTS package created to import a table from and AS400 server. What I need to do is take one field and parse that field into 5 different values for 5 new fields.
Here is what I know needs to be done but not sure how to put into the procedure.
CREATE proc ChangeHIS
as
--Declare Variables
Declare @LastName varchar,
@FirstName varchar,
@MI varchar,
@ID varchar,
@Dept varchar,
@intCount int,
@UserName varchar,
@strTemp varchar
--Create Temporary Table
CREATE TABLE [EmployeeAudit].[dbo].[tmpTable] (
[UPUPRF] varchar (10),
[UPTEXT] varchar (50)
)
select [UPUPRF], [UPTEXT] from tblHIS into tmpTable
GO
And something dealing with the below code as well.
@tmpString = RTRIM(LTRIM(@tmpString))
If charindex(@tmpString, ",") > 0
--'Manuel, Michael J - 78672 - SR MIS SUPPORT SPEC'
@LastName = Left(@tmpString, charindex(@tmpString, ","))
@tmpString = RTRIM(LTRIM(Right(@tmpString, Len(@tmpString) - charindex(@tmpString, ",") + 1)))
--'Michael J - 78672 - SR MIS SUPPORT SPEC'
@FirstName = Left(@tmpString, charindex(@tmpString, " "))
@tmpString = RTRIM(LTRIM(Right(@tmpString, Len(@tmpString) - charindex(@tmpString, " ") + 1)))
If charindex(@tmpString, "-") > 1
--'J - 78672 - SR MIS SUPPORT SPEC'
@MI = Left(@tmpString, 1)
@tmpSting = RTRIM(LTRIM(Right(@tmpString, Len(@tmpString) - 2)
End
--'- 78672 - SR MIS SUPPORT SPEC'
@ID = Left(@tmpString, charindex(@tmpString, " - "))
@tmpString = RTRIM(LTRIM(Right(@tmpString, Len(@tmpString) - charindex(@tmpString, " - ") + 3)))
--'SR MIS SUPPORT SPEC'
@Dept = @tmpString
End
Hope someone can point me in the right direction
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Mar 14, 2008
Please help me with the sql script to manipulate the string data:
I need to add <Text> at the beginning and end of the string.
I also need to add <option> before the first and after last occurence of the <Option> string. The original string
<StockNumber>502</StockNumber>
<OptionKey>113</OptionKey>
<OptionKey>151</OptionKey>
<Warranty>1</Warranty>
should look like
<Text>
<StockNumber>502</StockNumber>
<Option>
<OptionKey>113</OptionKey>
<OptionKey>151</OptionKey>
<Option>
<Warranty>1</Warranty>
<Text>
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