Optional Characters In Search String
Jun 21, 2006
I'm trying to search for commonly abbreviated company titles (ie limited, partnership, and so on). I would like to make my sql statement as short as possible (it's already quite lengthy as is). But I'm having trouble netting the abbreviated forms such as LTD and LMTD for limited (I have no control over the data I get, it comes from different counties with no standardization). I've tried using braketted strings like "L[I,IMI,M,]T[ED,D,]" and all other combinations I can think of, including using single quotes in the each string, and removing the empty placeholder and still can grab all instances.
Someone else's insight would be appreciated.
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Nov 8, 2006
MS SQL 2000. Does anyone know how to find all rows where an nvarchar column contains a specific unicode character? Is it possible without creating a user defined function? Here's the issue. I have a table Expression (ExpID, ExpText) with values like 'x < 100' and 'y ≤ 200'. where the second example contains Unicode character 8804 [that is, nchar(8804)]. Because it's unicode, I don't seem to be able to search for it with LIKE or PATINDEX. These fail:
SELECT * FROM Expression WHERE ExpText LIKE '%≤%' -- no recordsSELECT * FROM Expression WHERE PATINDEX('%≤%', ExpText) -- no records
However, SELECT PATINDEX('%≤%', 'y ≤ 200') will return 3.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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Jun 12, 2006
I need to create a stored procedure that will search some tables.
The stored procedure will be passed some parameters that may or may not have a value.
I have googled the best way to do this.
I found this post as an example: Optional Search Parameters
and also found this example : Optional Parameters in T-sQL
I am trying to figure out the best way to do this.
In the past I would build a dynamic query like the following.
SQL Code:
Original
- SQL Code
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[Search_Results]
@SUBCITY VarChar(100) = 'Any'
AS
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Declare @SUBCITYString Varchar(200)
If @SUBCITY <> 'Any'
Begin
Set @SUBCITYString = ' AND (Table1.SUBCITY LIKE ''' + @SUBCITY + '%'') '
End
Else
Begin
Set @SUBCITYString = ''
End
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Declare @SQLString As Varchar(500)
Set @SQLString = 'SELECT*
FROMTable1
WHERE Table1.ID IS NOT NULL
' + @SUBCITYString + '
ORDER BY Column ASC'
Execute (@SQLString)
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[Search_Results] @SUBCITY VarChar(100) = 'Any' AS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DECLARE @SUBCITYString Varchar(200)IF @SUBCITY <> 'Any' BEGIN SET @SUBCITYString = ' AND (Table1.SUBCITY LIKE ''' + @SUBCITY + '%'') 'ENDELSE BEGIN SET @SUBCITYString = '' END----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECLARE @SQLString AS Varchar(500)SET @SQLString = ' SELECT * FROM Table1 WHERE Table1.ID IS NOT NULL ' + @SUBCITYString + ' ORDER BY Column ASC' Execute (@SQLString) GO
However this is really cumbersome to create and is not fun debugging!
Does one of these ways have an advantage over the other? Or is there another way to do this?
Thank you!
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May 18, 2008
Hi I want to give the user the ability to search based on a number of criteria, however i do not know how to build my statement properly this is what i have so far;
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[stream_StoreFind]
-- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here
@StoreName varchar(250),@subCategoryID INT
AS
SELECT Stores.StoreName ,StoreCategories.storeIDFROM Stores INNER JOIN
StoreCategoriesON
Stores.storeID = StoreCategories.storeID INNER JOIN
SubCategories ON
StoreCategories.subCategoryID = SubCategories.subCategoryID WHERE
My problem is how will i pass the parameters into the statement, taking into fact that sometimes they may be optional. Thank you
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Sep 15, 2005
I've created a search page in my asp.net app that allows the user to enter optional parameters to narrow down the result set. It looks something like:Find all parts where: manuafacturer: <dropdownlist>ANY | manufacturer 1 |... </dropdownlist> model: <dropdownlist>ANY | model 1 |... </dropdownlist> cost: between <textbox> and <textbox> dollarsCurrently I create the SQL command on the fly building the WHERE based on what the user selects. For example if in the form above they select manufacturer = manufacturer1 model = ANY cost = between 10 and 15the WHERE string is ... WHERE manufacturer='manufacturer1' AND cost BETWEEN 10 AND 15Since the user doesn't care about model I leave it out of the WHERE. OK so here is my question. I want to move my queries to strored procedures however I'm not sure how to create the query since it changes based on what the user enters. Using the example above I'm assuming I can create one query with 4 parameters however what value would I use for ANY? parameter1 (manufacturer) = "manufacturer1" parameter2 (model) = ??? parameter3 (price low) = 10 parameter4 (proce high) = 15I see there is an ANY operator in T-SQL but it doesn't look like the right thing to use. Should I use LIKE '%'? Seems that using LIKE would result in addition overhead.ThanksSimon
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Dec 17, 2014
I have a string 'ACDIPFJZ'
In my table one of the column has data like
PFAG
ABCDEFHJMPUYZ
KML
JC
RPF
My requirement is that if the string in the column has any of the characters from 'ACDIPFJZ' , those characters have to be retained and the rest of the characters have to be removed.
My output should be:
PFAG -- PFA (G Eliminated)
ABCDEFHJMPUYZ -- ACDPFJZ (B,E,H,M,U,Y Eliminated)
KML -- No data
JC -- JC
RPF -- PF (R Eliminated)
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Apr 20, 2001
Hello,
a database field of type varchar contains among others % and _ characters.
When we do a SELECT how can be search on % characters in the LIKE operator.
Ricardo
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Mar 6, 2001
Hi !
I have an DB in SQL Server 7, and in Portuguese we have special characters like "á","õ",etc. And I want to let the visitor to a site to do a search (written in ASP), and not to need to write the correct way (without the accents). But either he writes or not in the correct way, the results are the same, not necessarly in the same order. Is there a SQL Server mechanism that permits this functionality, without doing a very complicated SELECT (takes a lot of time) or replicating a field in the DB (takes a lot of extra space)...
Thanks !
Filipe Lopes, Lisbon, Portugal.
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May 5, 2008
Hi All
Is there a function to search for characters in the string simlilar to the IndexOf function is C#.net?
I need answers urgently.
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Mar 10, 2015
I have a scenario where in I need to use a comma delimited string as input. And search the tables with each and every string in the comma delimited string.
Example:
DECLARE @StrInput NVARCHAR(2000) = '.NET,Java, Python'
SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE titleName = '.NET' AND titleName='java' AND titleName = 'Python'
As shown in the example above I need to take the comma delimited string as input and search each individual string like in the select statement.
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Dec 14, 2011
In our schools we have a number of East-European, Turkish, Scandinavian, ... students. Their names contain "special" characters, like Ö, Ü, Ø, ... Our users want to be able to search for student names without having to enter those special characters. Most often they don't know the exact spelling of the names and they get "no match found" messages as a result.
They want to have persons with the name Ösgür, Osgueld, ... in the result set after entering "osgu" in the search field.
What is the best way to do this? I was thinking about using another collation near the LIKE, but I don't know if that would work and how it should be done. The Database collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS.
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Sep 8, 2006
In my database, I have records stored as "Scooter, gears, hard hat" When the user enters in the textbox "Scooter gears hat" it does not return any records. How can I tell the DB to ignore the characters in the column and search for the full text only and return all values?
Thanks
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Sep 1, 2015
Is there way to search for the particular string and return the string after that searched string
SalesID
Rejection reason
21812
[code]....
The timeout period elapsed hence disqualified
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Jun 20, 2015
I am creating a key-wording module where I want to search data using the comma separated words.And the search is categorized into comma ',' and minus '-'. Take a look on the example what I exactly want to do is
I have a main table name `tbl_main` in SQL
AS_ID KWD
1 Man,Businessman,Business,Office,confidence,arms crossed
2 Man,Businessman,Business,Office,laptop,corridor,waiting
3 man,business,mobile phone,mobile,phone
4 Welcome,Greeting,beautiful,bride,celebration,wedding,woman,happiness
5 beautiful,bride,wedding,woman,happiness,mobile phone,talking
6 woman,girl,Digital Tablet,working,sitting,online
7 woman,girl,Digital Tablet,working,smiling,happiness,hand on chin
If serch text is = Man,Businessman then result AS_ID is =1,2
If serch text is = Man,-Businessman then result AS_ID is =3
If serch text is = woman,girl,-Working then result AS_ID is =4,5
What is the best why to do this?
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Feb 9, 2007
I think this may have been asked for million times... but for some strange reason, i couldn't find anything related about that in this forum......
So, just wondering if there is any way to handle special characters like "&" in full text search ?
like "AT&T" ?
cause when I do a simple select * contains AT&T, it won't return any result ...
thank you in advance.
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Jun 20, 2008
Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to get sql server NOT to ignore the colon when performing a full text search (CONTAINS) for a string "sometext:". At this moment the query works, only the results are not narrowed to the ones containing the specified colon. I've read about this and I saw that these kind of characters (word breakers and stemmers) are ignored and want to know if there's a way to work around this (obviously performing well - so LIKE fails the test). Thanks
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Apr 22, 2008
Hi, i have a query that goes like this
select *
from Users
where UserName Like =@Username;
the values for 'UserName' go like this
Adrián
Jesús
Fernández
Güero
all of them have spanish accents. is there a way to make the "like" value to ignore the spanish characters? (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, etc)
That is because the user will not always write "Jesús" they will write "Jesus" or they will not write "Adrián" they will write "Adrian"
so is there any way to tell the SQL Server engine to ignore those characters?
thanks!!!
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Jul 14, 2014
I am using SQL Server 2008. In one of my table, one column has values like
"MFY RLHH CSQÉ"
"Aamj Gxmolwn Slf Yytrzgan Hiwd Fnlmyw"
So to fetch the data having only special characters in it, I used below query
Select * From Table Where Column Like '%[^0-9a-zA-Z]%' Escape ' '. Its returning both the records. Here I would like to fetch records for those Unicode characters only which are not within 00201 - 0070E [URL].
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Sep 17, 2007
Recently to help improve search times across one of our catalogs we implemented a full text index. So far this has worked wonders and improved our speeds 20 fold!
However recently we hit a snag with certian searches. Our catalog contains parts with descriptions such as 3'x2'. We have taken out single characters and numbers from our noise files, but they don't seem to contain special characters (ie . , " ' / ). So it seems that each one of these characters acts as a work breaker. Is there a way we can structure our search to include these characters, or is there another file to modify to allow these characters?
Currenty our call, simplified, looks like this:
select * from catalog where freetext(description,'3''x2''')
Thanks for the help!
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Jun 15, 2015
I am developing for a customer and they want a search facility that uses boolean logic and special characters. So they want to be able to add "AND" "OR" "NOT" "*" and "?". And for this to effect the search in the predicted way and ranked. I was wondering if there is any examples of this type of search implemented?Â
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Jul 7, 2006
Hi
I am using nvarchar(MAX) string variable. But its length is maximum upto 8,000 charaters. But I want to assign 10,000 characters. So how can I get this.
Thanks
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Jan 24, 2005
Is there a way to make a string field that has an unlimited amount of characters?
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Jan 17, 2006
Hello Everyone,
I am trying to select the last 3 characters from a string. I am running into problems because the sting that I am selecting from are not the same amout of characters.
For example:
Item
abc145264
efg1254
wqx21456
How would I be able to select the last three characters from a list that could have more than 50 variations on the number of characters.
I tryed right(item, 3) but that does not work because all the lenghts are different. Any ideas?
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Jun 20, 2008
There are unwanted characters(''','/','&'.. etc) in column.
I need to remove these characters
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Jan 11, 2002
I have a phone number string (416) 555-5555 in a table. I'd like to perform a search on the string so that the user is able to pass any number, and the query returns all phone numbers like it. What I'd like to do is to strip out the brackets and dashes and perform a like search.
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Jul 23, 2005
HelloI want to write a stored procedure (using Enterprise Manager) that can grabthe digits that are inbetween the two dashes (-) in strings like:123-150-401-123-832-4215-61The digits to the left, right and inbetween the dashes could be any length,so a static "get the 5th, 6th and 7th digit" stored procedure won't work.Many thanks,--Chris Michaelwww.INTOmobiles.comDownload 100s of ringtones, wallpapers & logos every month for only £1.50per week
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Dec 30, 2003
How do I count the number of specific characters in a string ?
Example:
declare @var as varchar(50)
set @var="1abc1efg1"
If I wanted to count the "1"...I'll get "3" for answer.
This could maybe done by using a while loop, but is there any T-SQL command for this?????
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Jun 19, 2014
I have the following string and am trying to select only the characters before the last "</>". How can I do this?
declare @String varchar(500)
set @String = '<p>Assessed By: Michael Jordan Yagnesh</p>
<p>Reviewed By: Fred Smith</p>
<p>Home Address</p>'
select REVERSE(substring(REVERSE(@String),5,charindex(':',REVERSE(@String))-5))Here is what I tried so far:
[Code] ...
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Mar 19, 2015
I am trying to figure out how to pull only a certain character string.
orig string varies in length (Varchar 50)
ex: MID - Proposed - Prime
ex: MID - NotProposed - NotPrime
I want to keep the first 6 characters 'MID - '
as well as up to the 3rd SPACE (not including the space)
so
ex: MID - Proposed
ex: MID - NotProposed
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Jan 17, 2008
Ok so we gotSELECT this, that, others FROM some.database WHERE this=@this So in the database the others field is a string that can have up to 200 characters, but on this particular data pull I only want to pull the first 50 characters of the others field. How can I do that? Thanks.
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Jul 11, 2001
Hi,
I was wondering what would be the best way to remove special characters like, '-', '&' '(',')','#','*', etc... from a number string. To be specific a phone Number string where the string is >= 10.
Thanks, Mark
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Jul 9, 2002
Hi,
As part of a data search project I need to be able to strip all non numeric characters from a text field. The field contains various forms of phone number in various formats. In order to search on it I am going to remove all non numeric characters from the input criteria and from the data being searched.
In order to do this I decided on using a SQL Server custom function: Pass in field. Loop through all chars, test against asci values for number range. return only numernic data concatenated into a string.
Are there any other more efficient ways of going about this?
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Nov 11, 2005
Hi
First interaction to the forum.
My Query is :
I had a User Management module in my application where I created a user with name
`~!@#$@%^&*()[_]+|}{":?><-=[[]];',./
Now I have a functionality to search for the user existing. For that give the search string or a single character and it finds out all the records containing the character.
How do I go about it as the SP i created for it gives correct results except the following
1. Search for % - Gives all record
2. Search for _ - Gives all records
3. Search for [ - Gives NO record
4. Search for the whole string - Gives NO Record
I handeled a few issues
1. replaced [ by [[]
2. replaced _ by [_]
So issues 2 & 3 are resolved.
Tried replacing % by [%] but did not work
Could someone plz help
Thanks in advance
Ashutosh
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