Does ORDER BY work on character data type in SQL Server through ODBC?
I tried using the SQL Query Tool in SQL Enterprise Manager and it works but using through ODBC I can't get any results.
Query: SELECT company_id, company_name FROM lt_company ORDER BY company_name
company_id = integer
company_name = 30 characters
Hi,another problem I have is that have compounded fields in my sql table.Exampleproduct@customerI need a simple function to return "customer", so it should return the valueafter "@", unfortunate "@" will sometimes be character number 6, sometimescharacter number 7 etc.regardsJorgen
View 1 Replies View RelatedI know there has to be a way to do this, but I've gone brain dead. Thescenario..a varchar field in a table contains a date range (i.e. June 1,2004 - June 15, 2004 or September 1, 2004 - September 30, 2004 or...). Theusers have decided thats a bad way to do this (!) so they want to split thatfield into two new fields. Everything before the space/dash ( -) goes intoa 'FromDate' field, everything after the dash/space goes into the 'ToDate'field. I've played around with STRING commands, but haven't stumbled on ityet. Any help at all would be appreciated! DTS?
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I am using a stored procedure that is databound to a dropdownlist. The stored procedure works fine, aside from the fact that the ORDER BY only sorts the list of items using the first character in the cell. E.g. The numbers 1, 20, 100 and 200 would be ordered as follows:
1
100
20
200
clearly i am doing something wrong and i apologise if it is a stupid question, but could anyone please offer me some help?
Thank you,
Shep
Hi,
I'm using the following SQL script to return a list of part number and the order is not what I expect. Perhaps this is a collation problem but I have no idea where to look to modify that.
Thanks in advance, John
select part from transactions T where (T.transdate between '20070701' and '20070705') and
(T.transtype = 'ISSU' or T.transtype = 'RTRN') order by part
Here is the beginning of the Transactions table create script
CREATE TABLE [Transactions] (
[RecNo] [int] IDENTITY (1,1) NOT NULL,
[Part] [nvarchar] (30) NOT NULL ,
[TransDate] [nvarchar] (8) NOT NULL ,
[TransType] [nvarchar] (4) NOT NULL ,
[FromLoc] [nvarchar] (10) ,
The 'Part' column is an alphanumeric field. The problem I am having is that the
Order By seems to ignore the hyphen character '-' when the returned rows
are ordered by the Part (which can contain hyphens in any column).
Here is an example of what I get.
130909N9
130909N9
130909N9
1-480698-0 * These two should not be here
1-480699-0 *
15-423
164-07700
164-07700
164-07700
1683
I was expecting this ( and I get this in and older database ).
068-03000
068-03000
06A19956
074-03200
077-367-0
08DU08
1-480698-0 * These should be here eariler in the data
1-480699-0
100-364072
100-364072
i want to order by name coloumn.but if i do that ordering is (A,B,C,D,E,F......X,Y,Z,İ,Ş,Ğ,Ü). i want to order these letters at place of turkish alphebetical order.how can i do that? i'm sorry for my english.
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Can anyone tell me apart from "sp_helpsort" system stored procedure, is there any other command to find details of Character Set,Sort Order & Unicode Collation?.
thanks,
Vasu
i have 2 questions,
1. cause there is no record of my old SQL 6.5 installation leaft for me,so i try to find the character set and sort order of my old SQL 6.5 installation, and in the MSSQLlog directory the errlog.? file there are these lines:
99/06/11 12:59:24.29 spid1 SQL Server's default sort order is:
99/06/11 12:59:24.29 spid1 'nocase' (ID = 52)
99/06/11 12:59:24.29 spid1 on top of default character set:
99/06/11 12:59:24.29 spid1 'iso_1' (ID = 1)
so my old installation's character set and sort order is as above,am i right?
2. cause i am in chinese so any good idea for me to upgrade this old SQL 6.5 to use chinese character set (cp936) , is there anyway to transfer the old data?
thanks if any suggestions!
welcome to send me mail about the question.
In a SQL Server Db, what is the maximum amount of data a field can hold?
I am using right now nvarchar with a length of 4000.
Is there another setting to allow even more in a field?
Thanks all,
Zath
Hello,I wonder how I can insert a string which contains #, as # is a specialcharacters in sqlThanks
View 1 Replies View RelatedHiI have a character field (char ot varchar) that I want to force only tocontain numeric characters.Can that be done by way of defining a constraint on the field ?or by any other way in the field/table definition ?What id the syntax ?Anyone have examples ?ThanksDavid Greenberg
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was wondering what everyone felt about the fomats in characterfields where the front end application accepts anything.I wouldn't want a customer table where the customer name was lowercase on one, upper on another and who knows on the third.If character fields are not consistent, then formatting will have tohappen every time someone access the data for reporting - as anexample ...Thanks,Craig
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here is my business/data object for some reason I only get the first character back, say value is Charlie, I only get C public string GetUserName(long UserId)
{
try
{
string userName;
DiscussionDB data = new DiscussionDB();
List paramlist = new List();
paramlist.Add(data.CreateParameter("@UserId", UserId));
paramlist.Add(data.CreateParameter("@UserName", "", ParameterDirection.Output, DbType.String, 20));
data.ExecuteNonQuery("dbo.Discussion_User_Name", ref paramlist);
userName = paramlist[1].Value.ToString();
return userName;
}
catch
{
throw;
}
}
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Discussion_User_Name]
@UserId bigint,
@UserName varchar(20) output
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
SET @UserName = (Select [Name] from Discussion_Member WHERE UserID = @UserID)
if (@UserName is null or @UserName = '')
BEGIN
SET @UserName = (Select UserName from Membership_User WHERE UserID = @UserID)
END
I have a 6 char field which has to be converted to a datetime. I thought I had it solved when I did this
convert(datetime,(left(dob,2)+'-'+substring(dob,3,2)+'-'+right(dob,2)))
Problem is with a date value of 081649
I get 08/16/2049 instead of 1949, where did I goof
Hi,
I am getting a date string that is contained in a character field (char(20)).
An example of the data is as follows:
2005-09-20121315001
it is in the format YYYY-MM-DDHHMMSSMMM.
I want to insert this value into a datetime field. I have used convert, but can only insert it when I split out the time portion and separate them with a colon
i.e. to get it to insert into a datetime field the data has to be in the following format
2005-09-20 13:15:18.001
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.MMM
Is there a style parameter in the convert function that will allow me to insert this value without having to separate the hours/minutes/seconds with a colon? I have tried BOL but it seems that all the examples have colons in them where there is a time portion to the date,
Thanks in advance
Here's a question for the SQL gurus out there:
I have a varchar(20) field DIAGNOSISCODE in a table that can either be null, or contain up to 3 comma-separated codes, each of which relates to a description in another table. For example, some sample rows might be
8060
8060,4450
8060,4123,3245
Now I need to structure a query to return these values from this single field as three fields CODE1, CODE2, CODE3, with NULL as appropriate for example
CODE1=8060, CODE2=4450, CODE3=NULL.
I have been using CASE along with CHARINDEX and PATINDEX but it it becoming extremely messy. Can anyone think of a "neater" way to return three fields from this one field?
Any help very greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Simon.
I have one table and this field is character field with save data in below.
Bonus_table->bonus_amt_field. Char(20)
======================================
Record information
0
Null
Blank
3
4
Null
Blank
if i want to convert this character field => change to numeric field to display ,how to handle "Blank" and "null" record?
The result expect:
0
0
0
3
4
0
0
I try this query but wrong message :
select cast(convert(numeric,3)bonus_amt) as bonus_amt
from test
Hi, I need to replace a character from a column of a txt file. I have defined the column and the values (datetime type for sql server) that I receive are like this: 2008-02-15-20.07.19
So, I need to replace the "." with a ":" beacuse those are minutes and sql server uses ":" for minutes
How can I do this? Any help?
Thanks
I need to update the string in a longtext field. NewString = "This is a 'test'"
I can't figure out how to use an escape character to identify the string with " ' " and then also include the " ' " character inside the string.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks,
Alex
How to modify values in a SQL Database. In the table PRDDEmpmaster there is a field called email_address, and for those fields that have a value I need to change that value to add { } opening/closing "curly braces" to that field.
For example,
RPARSONS@YAHOO.COM becomes
{RPARSONS@YAHOO.COM} . Nulls/empty fields remain as is.
Hello:
I have a field hold varchar. I would like to calculate how many character in the field when user enter the data and save in the database.
Is there any way to do?
Thanks,
Snow
I am attempting to import a flat file and have come accross and issue that I do not know how to fix in SSIS. The issue is that some of the text fields use quoted identifiers. This is not an issue in itself. The problem is they also use quotes as escape character if quotes are on the field.
So I see instances of "" because inside the quoted field is a quote. How do i specify an escape character?
I am getting a data loaded in a DB table to a character field padded from the right with hexadecimal zeros 0x00. How to get rid of it?
Thank you.
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] .....
I want to insert a value which has the UTF-8 encoding into a field of the database which has the "text" data Type
but it saves like this : " ?????????????? "
I would be thankful if u tell me how should I save it ?
here is the SqlComand I wrote :
string comand = " Insert into Table1 ( title , Body ) values ( ' " + textBox1.text + " ' , ' " + textBox2.text + " ' ) " ;
Table1
=============
title nvarchar(1000)
body text
In my SQL 2005 database table Records, I have 3 fields, field1, field2, and field3 which are all nvarchar(50) fields. The value of field2 is something like this, MDB006-MD002-0004-3-2007. I would like to order this field but only use the 0004-3-2007 part of the field to order it. Is it possible to put the last 11 charachters (0004-3-2007) in another field and then order it using this new field?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedHow can I "Order By" the second + third characters of a 7 char field ?
Sample data looks like:
LCA - L
LCB - L
LCF - M
LCE - M
LCE - A
LCA - A
LCB - A
If I order by the whole field I get:
LCA - A
LCA - L
LCB - A
LCB - L
LCE - A
LCE - M
LCF - L
LCF - M
What I want is:
LCA - L
LCB - L
LCF - L
LCA - A
LCB - A
LCE - A
LCE - M
LCF - M
I'm still at the stage in this project were I can 'split' the field (if I have to) into first 3 and last 1. But the sort order of the last 1 is not alphabetic (I want 'L', 'A', "M").
Can I substitute a custom SortOrder some way ? (I've done that with mainframe Cobol).
All suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
Roger
Hi group,
I've got a table with two columns named [Year] and [Month]. They are both defined as VarChar.
Question:
Is it possible to ORDER THEM as if they where of type DateTime?
EG
select [year], [month]
from tbl_WeightedAverageGenerated
where [Year] = 2006
ORDER BY [Month]
Returns:
2006, 10
2006, 11
2006, 12
2006, 5
2006, 6
etc...
I need it to return:
2006 5
2006 6
2006 7
2006 8
2006 9
2006 10
2006 11
2006 12
Is this possible....and how??
TIA
Regards,
SDerix
Hi,
I have small question regarding ORDER BY clause.
I wanted some value of the fields should come first before other values….Something like:
+----------+----------------------------------------+
| code | name |
+----------+----------------------------------------+
| UK | United Kingdom |
| US | United States |
| AF | Afghanistan |
| AL | Albania |
| DZ | Algeria |
| AS | American Samoa |
I want to display country UK and US code first and then rest of the countries using SQL statement. I know in MySQL, I can use ORDER BY code IN (...)
--SQL
SELECT * FROM countries ORDER by code IN ('UK', 'US') desc
But not sure how can I do same thing in SQL Server. Is there any equivalent of ORDER BY [field] IN (…) clause in SQL Server???
Though I can create a new field something like sequence and use it to display these countries but I can not do that…
Please advice.
Thanks,
Firoz Ansari
Hi, I've created a website usiing asp.net and all the data are stored in sql front. All the item are sorted in ascending order except one record. The correct order should be MP61, MP100, MP200, but this record is retrieved as MP100, MP200, MP61. If the coding is wrong, all the order displayed is not in ascending order. We have hundreds of items, but why it happens to this particular record? Can anyone help? Thanks in advance
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How can I rearrange the fields in a table in SQL 7? If it is possible, will the existing data be lost?
Thank you for any help.
Newbie question. Can someone show me an SQL statement that sorts the results of a query by a field in a different table?
CREATE TABLE `Table1`
(
`table1_id` INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`table1_name` VARCHAR(255),
PRIMARY KEY (`table1_id`)
)
CREATE TABLE `Table2`
(
`table2_id` INTEGER AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`table2_name` VARCHAR(255),
`table2_table1` INTEGER,
PRIMARY KEY (`table2_id`)
)
ALTER TABLE `Table2` ADD FOREIGN KEY (`table2_table1`) REFERENCES `Table1`(`table1_id`);
What I'd like is something like:
SELECT * FROM Table2 ORDER BY "Table1(table2_table1).tabel1_name",table2_name
It's the section in double quotes that I can't figure out how to compose.
As an example, if Table 1 has
1, A
2, B
3, C
and Table 2 has
1, a, 2
2, b, 1
3, c, 2
then I'd like the sort to return
2, b, 1
1, a, 2
3, c, 2
TIA,
Stephen