Hi
I'm extracting a char(2) field from a table that has a value of '1' and writing it to another table but want the output field to be padded with a zero. I have tried this below:
right('00' + isnull(Field1, ' '),2
but the output field comes out as '1 ' (that's 1 followed by a space). Does anyone have any idea how I can do this or please point out what I'm doing wrong in my 'right(' fucntion above.
Thanks,
Jeff
Hi ,Have a Visual C++ app that use odbc to access sql server database.Doing a select to get value of binary field and bind a char to thatfield as follows , field in database in binary(16)char lpResourceID[32+1];rc = SQLBindCol(hstmt, 1, SQL_C_CHAR,&lpResourceID,RESOURCE_ID_LEN_PLUS_NULL , &nLen1);and this works fine , however trying to move codebase to UNICODE antested the followingWCHAR lpResourceID[32+1];rc = SQLBindCol(hstmt, 1, SQL_W_CHAR,&lpResourceID,RESOURCE_ID_LEN_PLUS_NULL , &nLen1);but only returns 1/2 the data .Any ideas , thoughts this would work fine , nit sure why loosing dataAll ideas welcome.JOhn
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I need to convert a var char field to date field (DD/MM/YYYY)
Current convertion format:
CAST(Report_Date as DATETIME)
How can i convert to Date field with date format of DD/MM/YYYY?
Thanks.
Onn Onn
I have been asked to investigate the feasibility of converting an Invoice Number field from 6 to 7 digits, and allowing alpha characters. This means CHAR. The Invoice Number is not used outside of the application, but changes would have to be made to the database, and VB code that runs the app. Any ideas on how to proceed?
Any responses would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
ok, so we have a field in one of our db's, a do_not_synch field. this field has a datatype of char...
the following sql statement does not update the field..
update contacts
set do_not_synch = 'Y'
where id=1
and if i open up the table in sql server management studio, and cannot type in and save the value Y...yes i can update other fields in this row...so its not a permissions issue?
is there anything special i should have to do?
Cheers,
Justin
Hi,
I have a varchar field that contains values to represent the month and year in the format mmyy (eg. 0107, 0207, 0307 etc).
I want to be able to select the value that is 6 months before the current month and year, for example if I were running the query in the current month/year (April 08) I would return the value 1007 (October 07).
Is someone able to help me with this please?
Thanks
Hi,
If I want to make a field of characters to be unlimited length(or maybe 2k for example), what datatype should I use?
Char, varchar and text have a max. limit of 255...
Will appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Nishi
I need help on replace char in ntext data type
Here is the example data
<qMultipleChoice><qText>The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off
20on.</qText><qChoice>Strongly20Disagree</qChoice><qChoice>Disagree
</qChoice><qChoice>Agree</qChoice><qChoice>Strongly%20Agree</qCh
I want result look like this
First Column:The AE Understands what conditions the Account Manager is allowed to sign-off.
Second Column: Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Strongly Agree
This is what i had so far
Select (SUBSTRING(QuestionText, (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7),(PATINDEX(N'%</qText>%', QuestionText) - (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7)))) From tblQuestion
my result:
The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off%20on.
I have problem with replace '%20' and how to make the second column.
Any Help?
Thanks
Shan
I have a table with several million rows of data. There is a date field defined as a char(8) with some bad rows. i tried to locate them with below
select date_stopped from patient_medication
where isdate(convert(datetime,date_stopped)) = 1
This won't work, I get the
Server: Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value
Any way around this?
Hello,
what's best for year resp. quarter Field, char(4) resp. char(1), integer or other?
Both are part of a composite index.
Thanks
Silas
Can someone comment on why joining two tables on CHAR fields of different lengths would generate unexpected results?
I had an issue where I ran an update that used an inner join on two tables. The field I used in the join was char(50) in one table and char(13) in another table. The result gave bad matches. After changing the field types both to varchar(30), the problem was eliminate.
Any comments on this would be appreciated.
Rye Guy
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
Would it be OK to use varchar(5) instead of char(5) as the first field of acomposite clustered index?My gut tells me that varchar would be a bad idea, but I am not finding muchinformation on this topic on this when I Google it.Currently the field is Char(4), and there is a need to increase it to hold 5characters.TIA
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The code i have below extracts the date part of a timestamp column and converts it to a char field. This becomes a problem when I joing the resultant table with a SAS dataset which contains the same column but is in a date format. The join process generates an error saying the column is in different formats.
convert(char(15), process_date,112) as process_dt
Hi,
What is the difference updating a null value to char/varchar type column
versus empty string to char/varchar type column?Which is the best to do and why?
Could anyone explain about this?
Example:
Table 1 : tCountry - Name varchar(80) nullable
Table 2 :tState - Name char(2) nullable
Table 3 :tCountryDetails - countryid,state (char(2) nullable) - May the country contain state or no state
So,when the state is not present for the country ,i have two options may be - null,''
tCountryDetails.State = '' or tCountryDetails.State = null?
Hi there.
I'm trying to extract data from my SQL server & everything in the script I've got is working (extracting correct data) except for one field - which is for the most part it's off by +2 days (on a few occasions - I see it off by just +1 day or even +3, but it's usually the +2 days).
I'm told that it's due to the conversion formula - but - since SQL is not my native language, I'm at a bit of a loss.
The DB table has the date field stored as a type: CHAR (as opposed to 'DATE')
Can anyone out there help?
Please advise. Thanks.
Best.
K7
Hi,
alter PROCEDURE [dbo].[PPUpdateIWDetails]
(
@CompanyID NVARCHAR(36),
@DivisionID NVARCHAR(36),
@DepartmentID NVARCHAR(36),
@ItemID NVARCHAR(36),
@OrderNo NVARCHAR(36),
@LineNo NVARCHAR(36),
@TAllotedQty Numeric,
@EmployeeID NVARCHAR(36),
@Trndate datetime
)
AS
BEGIN
By default iam passing 12 char itemid as parameter...
Here iam selecting the itemid from InventoryLedger -if it is 8 char than this query should be executed
IF EXISTS(SELECT ItemID FROM InventoryLedger WHERE TransDate=@Trndate AND ItemID=@ItemID AND ILLineNumber =@LineNo AND TransNumber=@OrderNo AND TransactionType='Production' AND CompanyID=@CompanyID AND DivisionID= @DivisionID AND DepartmentID=@DepartmentID)
BEGIN
DECLARE @Qty INT
select @Qty =QUANTITY from inventoryledger WHERE TransDate=@Trndate AND ItemID=@ItemID AND ILLineNumber =@LineNo AND TransNumber=@OrderNo AND TransactionType='Production' AND CompanyID=@CompanyID AND DivisionID= @DivisionID AND DepartmentID=@DepartmentID
select qtyonhand=qtyonhand+@Qty from InventoryByWareHouse where ItemID=@ItemID
END
Here iam selecting the itemid from InventoryLedger -if it is 12 char than this query should be executed(both queries are same)
IF EXISTS(SELECT ItemID FROM InventoryLedger WHERE TransDate=@Trndate AND ItemID=@ItemID AND ILLineNumber =@LineNo AND TransNumber=@OrderNo AND TransactionType='Production' AND CompanyID=@CompanyID AND DivisionID= @DivisionID AND DepartmentID=@DepartmentID)
BEGIN
DECLARE @Qty INT
select @Qty =QUANTITY from inventoryledger WHERE TransDate=@Trndate AND ItemID=@ItemID AND ILLineNumber =@LineNo AND TransNumber=@OrderNo AND TransactionType='Production' AND CompanyID=@CompanyID AND DivisionID= @DivisionID AND DepartmentID=@DepartmentID
select qtyonhand=qtyonhand+@Qty from InventoryByWareHouse where ItemID=@ItemID
END
I create two tables:
create table table1
(
col1 char(1)
)
go
create table table2
(
col2 char(2)
)
go
I add some records to two tables after createing operation completed.
Then i use dbcc page command to oversee the structures of data page in two tables.
I found some interest things:
The rows in two tabes take up same space:9 bytes
You can see the "9" on top of the data, for example:Slot 0, Offset 0x60, Length 9, DumpStyle BYTE
or calculate from the offset array
Any suggestions?
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.
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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ali
I am importing a table where I need to convert a char(1) with thevalues of 't' or 'f' into a bit field with valies of 1 or 0. Is therea built-in function that does that? I've been searching, but I can'tfind an answer.
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Does any body know of any performance implications of using 'varchar' data type against 'char'?
I have some columns that are using 'char' data type, but the data in them is not fixed length. So, to gain some disk space I am planning to change the data type to 'varchar'. But, I am concerned if there will be any performance de-gradation or any other implications of doing this.
Regards
Chakri
Hi,
Is that true that using CHAR datatype improves the performance comparing to VARCHAR
thanks
indeed.
Would the char or varchar datatype fieldname accept non-english letters like Japanees, Chinees, Russian..etc.
Or should I use nchar or nvarchar?
Thanks
Why would you want to use char when you have varchar? Is there any performance hit using a varchar and the size you make that varchar?
Debate going at work.
Phil
I have recently inherited a database where all of the tables use varchar instead of chars for fields. Very , very few of these fields are involved in keys of even indices, but performance is an issue. I thought that I had read that varchars are worse for performance than chars when page splits may occur. Is this related to updates only, or does it matter?
Any help appreciated.
In relation to the code in this thread
http://forums.databasejournal.com/showthread.php?t=42622
My customer code field is Char (8) but accept an argument of Varchar (8) to my stored procedure. Don't ask me why!?!!
The customer code could be anything from 'A' to 'ZZZZZZZZ'.
Will this have any effect especially relating to overhead and retrieving incorrect data?
Hi Everybody,
I hv executed the following query in the Query Qnalyzer
(Ofcourse I am Using SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition) and Surprisingly
I am getting the Output as follows,
query:-
select '5' + 10
Output:- 15
Can anybody please tell me, why it is happening like this? OR Did I miss any Configuration Parameter in the Server Settings?.
Tks in Advance,
Sam
I have a table which will recieve and interface file to be loaded. All the fields are there except an account_id field which is a char(12), but the data is a number 000000000001, 000000000002, etc. These numbers are to be incremented by one. I understand how to write the process using a cursor to run through all the records and to increment them before loading. My question is the best way to get the max number in the existing table which is the char(12) , and icrement the number by one, but retain the leading zeroes I will need. Anyone had the pleasure of doing this providing input greatly appreciated.
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