Any way to parse out a text value (not varChar, using text data type) that is > than 8000 characters long? I'm looping through 1 big string passed to the DB that is pipe delimited, but I find myself needing the substring function to keep track of which segment I'm acting on (after an update, I then need to take that segment and remove it from the string)...but the subString function won't take anything larger than 8000 chars.
Say I have this string that is text data type...
'aaa|bbb|ccc|ddd|....'
..and so on, surpassing 8000 char length, how could you parse it out using the pipes as the delimter, then do an Update using that segment? Afterward, return to that string and find the next segment, then use it, and so on (in a loop). I tried using an update to set the string = replace(string, segmentJustUsed, '') to "erase" it, but replace can't take text as the datatype. Any help? Hope this isn't to confusing.
I have a business need to create a report by query data from a MS SQL 2008 database and display the result to the users on a web page. The report initially has 6 columns of data and 2 out of 6 have JSON data so the users request to have those 2 JSON columns parse into 15 additional columns (first JSON column has 8 key/value pairs and the second JSON column has 7 key/value pairs). Here what I have done so far:
I found a table value function (fnSplitJson2) from this link [URL]. Using this function I can parse a column of JSON data into a table. So when I use the function above against the first column (with JSON data) in my query (with CROSS APPLY) I got the right data back the but I got 8 additional rows of each of the row in my table. The reason for this side effect is because the function returned a table of 8 row (8 key/value pairs) for each json string data that it parsed.
1. First question: How do I modify my current query (see below) so that for each row in my table i got back one row with 19 columns.
SELECT A.ITEM1,A.ITEM2,A.ITEM3,A.ITEM4, B.* FROM PRODUCT A CROSS APPLY fnSplitJson2(A.ITEM5,NULL) B
If updated my query (see below) and call the function twice within the CROSS APPLY clause I got this error: "The multi-part identifier "A.ITEM6" could be be bound.
2. My second question: How to i get around this error?
SELECT A.ITEM1,A.ITEM2,A.ITEM3,A.ITEM4, B.*, C.* FROM PRODUCT A CROSS APPLY fnSplitJson2(A.ITEM5,NULL) B, fnSplitJson2(A.ITEM6,NULL) C
I am using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 version. Windows 7 desktop.
Hope someone can help... I need a function to parse a string using a beginning character parameter and an ending character parameter and extract what is between them. For example.....
Here is the sample string: MFD-2fdr4.zip
CREATE FUNCTION Parse(String, '-' , '.') ..... .... ..... END
I've the following query. I'm using the yellow highlighted to join 2 tables, as these tables dont have a relationship between them. The format of the name field is 'AAAA-BBBBBB-123' here A will be only 4 chars, followed by '-' B can be any number of chars again followed by '-' and the last is the id which I'm using to do a join. This query will fail if the id is just 1 digit as its taking the last 3 chars as the id. I dont know how to get the id from the right using charindex. Charindex would search for the first occurence of '-' from the right and get the chars after hypen i.e 123. How can this be achieved?
SELECT id AS 'ID', name AS 'name', sequence AS 'num' FROM FirstTable A INNER JOIN SecondTable q ON (CONVERT(INT,RIGHT(name,3))= a.id) INNER JOIN ThridTable t ON(t.id = q.id) INNER JOIN FourthTable s ON (q.name = s.name ) WHERE A.id = @ID AND t.name=LEFT(s.name,((CHARINDEX('-',s.name))-1)) ORDER BY 'ID','num'
One more question on this is: Is this a good way of joining tables? If I dont use this I've a very large query containing unions. Which one should be bug-free and more efficient?
This view is then going to be used to update a table with only one record for each 'code'. i.e. NewTable = code, add1, add2, city, prov, postal, financialvalue, history value1, history value2
My current stumbling block is:
One of the fields in table1 is a free format address field (address). eg. could be (street addres, city prov, postal) or could be (street address 1, address2, address 3, city prov, postal)
I want to be able to assign individual components of the address to corresponding fields
if # of commas = 2 then address1 = substring(address,1, position of first comma) cityprov = substring(address,possition of first comma, position of second comman) postal = substring(address rest of field)
I have a UDF which returns the number of commas but I cannot figure out how to use either a nested case statement to parse the string...
ANy ideas on how best to accompish this? ( this table is needed for some leacy software which can only handle one record with all infor....
Hello All,I'm trying to parse for a numeric string from a column in a table. WhatI'm looking for is a numeric string of a fixed length of 8.The column is a comments field and can contain the numeric string inany positionHere's an example of the values in the column1) Fri KX 3-21-98 5:48 P.M. arrival Cxled ATRI #27068935 3-17-982) wed.kx10/26 Netrez 95860536Now I need to parse through these lines and return only the 8 digitnumbers in itThe result set should be2706893595860536This is what I've done so farDeclare @tmp table(Comments_Txt varchar(255))Insert into @tmpselect Comments_Txt from Reservationselect * FROM @tmp where Comments_Txtlike ('%[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0**9]%')But it returns the entire comments field in the result set. What I needis a way to return just those 8 digits.Any Ideas??Thanks in advance!!!
I have a table where different types of values are stored in one field, but I need to seperate them into different fields based on a value in another field.
For (hypothetical) example:
There is an existing table with following info in three columns: userid record recordtag 1 joe 1 1 j 2 1 jr 3 2 bob 1 2 a 2 2 sr 3 where recordtag indicates (1 for first name, 2 for middle initial, 3 for suffix)
I need to query these records for a report so it the output is:
userID firstname middleinitial suffix 1 joe j jr 2 bob a sr
What's the most efficient approach to create a query that will give me desired results? I have managed to create a very complex query that derives tables for each column I want to create and queries off of that derived table for the 'record' value based on the 'recordtag' values for a given 'userid'. The query is extremely slow, so I know there's some better way out there to get the results I want. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I have two tables:tb_news---story_id-productlisttb_lookup---story_id-productwhen an insert command is run on tb_news, productlist field ispopulated with a value such as 'abc, def, de'when this happens, i need tb_lookup to be populated with seperaterecords for each product in productlist and the story_id from tb_news.Example:INSERT INTO tb_news (story_id, product_list)VALUES (12345, 'abc, def, de')Results:tb_news--12345, 'abc, def, de'tb_lookup--12345, 'abc'12345, 'def'12345, 'de'Ideally, I would like this to use recursion and give me tha ability tochange the delimiter at any time (might not always be a comma). someproducts may have a period in them. number of products is unknown andmight be 0 (field may be empty or NULL).
Hi,I would like to parse out each value that is seperatedby a comma in a field and use that value to join to another table.What would be the easiest way to do so without having towrite a function or routine ?EX.Table AAACOL1 COL21 11, 124, 1562 11, 505, 600, 700, ...Table BBBCOL1 COL211 Desc11124 Desc124156 Desc 156
I'm trying to write a stored procedure that will parse XML attributes and populate columns within a DB with the stripped data. I'm a complete novice who prior to this week knew nothing about SQL commands, My understanding at least is that I need to perform a bulk insert.
Example XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE Asset_Collection SYSTEM "Asset_Collection.dtd"> <Asset_Collection> <Collection_Metadata Name="Asset Collection" Description="Random XML Feed Test"
[Code] ....
Table/Columns which need to be inserting into: Table: TABLE_A
I'm working on a sales commission report that will show commissions for up to 5 sales reps for each invoice. The invoice detail table contains separate columns for the commission rates payable to each rep, but for some reason the sale srep IDs are combined into one column. The salesrep column may contain null, a single sales rep id, or up to five slaes rep IDs separated by the '~' character.
So I'd like to parse the rep IDs from a single column (salesreplist) in my invoice detail table (below) to multiple columns (RepID1, RepID2, RepID3, RepID4,RepID5) in a temp table so I can more easily calculate the commission amounts for each invoice and sales rep.
Here is my table:
CREATE TABLE invcdtl( invoicenum int, salesreplist [text] NULL, reprate1 int NULL, reprate2 int NULL, reprate3 int NULL, reprate4 int NULL, reprate5 int NULL, )
As you can see, some records have trailing delimiters but some don't. This may be a result of the application's behavior when multiple reps are entered then removed from an invoice. One thing for sure is that when there are multiple reps, the IDs are always separated by '~'
SP to parse a delimited string and insert the result in a table. I am using SQL Server 2008 R2. I have 2 tables - RawData & WIP. I have Robots on a manufacturing line capable of moving data to a DB. I move the raw data to RawData. On insert [RawData], I want to parse the string and move the contents to WIP as indicated below. I will run reports against the WIP Table.
Also, after the string is parsed, I'd like to change the Archive column, the _0 at the end of the raw string to 1 in the WIP table to indicate a successful parse.
Date Time Plant Program Line Zone Station BadgeID Message Alarm Archive ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04102015 114830 10 13 9 8 6 99999 Test 1 1 1 04102015 115030 10 13 9 8 6 99999 Test 2 1 1
I am trying to erase some erroneous bad data in my table. The description column has a lot of </div>oqwiroiweuru</a> weird data attached to it, i want to keep the data to the left of where the </div> erroneous data begins
update MyTable set Description = LEFT(Description(CHARINDEX('<',Description)-1)) where myid = 1
that totally works.
update MyTable set Description = LEFT(Description(CHARINDEX('<',Description)-1)) where myid >= 2
gives me a Invalid length parameter passed to the LEFT or SUBSTRING function. The statement has been terminated error.
My SQL statement: SQL Server seems to think my SQL Statement is too long........ I'm not sure why. "INSERT INTO tblChangeControls (Initiator,BPM,AddRemMod,ChangeType,SpecificChange,ChangeDescription,TechnicalDescriptionOfChange,DateInitiated) select 'Benjamin Short' ,'6' ,'2' ,'Printer' ,'40' ,'' ,'';" Error message: The identifier that starts with 'INSERT INTO tblChangeControls (Initiator,BPM,AddRemMod,ChangeType,SpecificChange,ChangeDescription,TechnicalDescriptionOfChange,' is too long. Maximum length is 128.
USE [Analytical] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[DailyTickMinMaxAnalysis] Script Date: 08/07/2007 15:44:29 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DailyTickMinMaxAnalysis]( [symbol] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, [cDate] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, [part] [varchar](50) NOT NULL, [collection] [varchar](max) NULL, CONSTRAINT [remPat_Trades] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [symbol] ASC, [cDate] ASC, [part] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY] ) ON [PRIMARY] GO SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
Stored procedure is:
USE [Analytical] GO /****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[InsertDailyTickMinMaxAnalysis] Script Date: 08/07/2007 15:45:49 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[InsertDailyTickMinMaxAnalysis] @symbol varchar(50), @cDate varchar(50), @part varchar(50), @collection varchar(50) = NULL AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON; INSERT INTO dbo.DailyTickMinMaxAnalysis ( symbol, cDate, part, [collection]) Values ( @symbol, @cDate, @part, @collection) END
C# procedure: public void saveHistTickMinMaxAnalysis ( int tableIndex ) { if ( tableIndex != -1 ) { using ( SqlConnection conn_Analytical = new SqlConnection ( "server=ddmnvt61\sqlexpress;" + "database=Analytical;Trusted_Connection=Yes" ) ) { SqlCommand cmdm = new SqlCommand ( ); conn_Analytical.Open ( ); cmdm.Connection = conn_Analytical; cmdm.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; cmdm.CommandText = "InsertDailyTickMinMaxAnalysis"; cmdm.Parameters.Clear ( ); cmdm.Parameters.Add ( "@symbol", SqlDbType.VarChar, 50, "symbol" ); cmdm.Parameters.Add ( "@cDate", SqlDbType.VarChar, 50, "cDate" ); cmdm.Parameters.Add ( "@part", SqlDbType.VarChar, 50, "part" ); // 2 cmdm.Parameters.Add ( "@collection", SqlDbType.VarChar, 500, "collection" ); // 3 foreach ( DataRow row in Globals.dtSets.Tables[tableIndex].Rows ) { cmdm.Parameters[0].Value = ( string )row[0]; cmdm.Parameters[1].Value = ( string )row[1]; cmdm.Parameters[2].Value = ( string )row[2]; cmdm.Parameters[3].Value = ( string )row[3]; Console.WriteLine ( "Saving {0}", ( string )row[3] ); // <= where the print out occurs to confirm that the right string is being passed try { cmdm.ExecuteNonQuery ( ); } catch { } } } } } // saveHistTickMinMaxAnalysis
Table is defined with the last columns[3].Length = 500;
hi all, i'm retreiving user input using textboxes and saving to a gridview. i'm getting this error and i dont know whats causing it. <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" InsertCommand="INSERT INTO test101(Surname,Names,Regno)VALUES (@Surname, @Names, @Regno)"ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:engineeringConnectionString %>" ProviderName=System.Data.SqlClient ConflictDetection="CompareAllValues" >
Hello Everybody,I have a problem that I have an exception from a SQLDataSource when a user types in more characters to a TextBox then is allowed.First of all - is there ant built in ASP.NET way to handle that problem?Second - if not then I have to handle the Exception from the SQLDataSource myself. I can write a handler for that which will look like:1 protected void DetailsViewDS_OnUpdated(object sender, SqlDataSourceStatusEventArgs e) 2 { 3 if (e.Exception != null) 4 { 5 // do some stuff 6 } 7 } The problem is that I would like to show the user an error message which says how many characters he can insert. So the other question is: is there any way to get automatically from the SQL DB what is a maximum length of a varchar? If I use LEN/LENGTH it gives me the current length of given entry (which actually is the current length of the varchar). But I want to get the maximum length of this concrete varchar (NOT the varchar(max) - this shows maximum length of a varchar in general - like ~20000 ).I hope I did not make it too complex ;)All the best,Joseph A. Habdank
Hi there, I'm having a problem when I insert a string (from C#) which is 167 characters long. The field in SQL Server Express is a varchar(250), but the string gets cut of somehow at 150 characters.
Why does this happen?
The table and stored proc I use are defined like this:
USE [Test] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[tblImage] Script Date: 05/18/2006 10:42:27 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblImage]( [imgID] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [persID] [bigint] NOT NULL, [imgPad] [varchar](250) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY]
I have a sample view with some dates. How would you find the numbers of items open per month. Say between OpenDate and CloseDate I want to find how many were open for January, February,?
i have worked three days on a query to display all my results in a beautiful report. The query is fine because when i execute it in Query Analyzer i have all results i want to see in my statistics-table in my report...
One thing: it's contains about 100 unioned statements, which results in a super-long query. Performance is OK because it are all 100 very easy statements that are union-ed together.
But, when I copy-paste it in my query-string window/textbox of the report designer, I see that there's a maximum on that textbox lenght, which results in the fact that my long query suddenly stops.
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.
I have the following problem. My SQL Query that i wrote works but the result that is displayed in Query analyzer cuts most of my long text that I want in my result. The long text string is approx about 400 characters and the type is varchar of the field. Any ideas??
SELECT '510', PRODCLASSID , '1', COMPONENTID,'ENG'+SPACE(2),'#'+SPACE(254),'#'+SPAC E(254),'#'+SPACE(254),'#'+SPACE(99),externalid, 'Desc1' = CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,1,2) = 'MF' THEN 'Full machine warranty : parts, labour, mileage and others covered at warranty rates applicable at the time of repair. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,1,2) = 'MP' THEN 'Full machine warranty, parts only : parts covered at warranty rates applicable at the time of repair. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,1,2) = 'PF' THEN 'Power line warranty : parts, labour, mileage and others covered at warranty rates applicable at the time of repair. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,1,2) = 'PP' THEN 'Power line warranty, parts only : parts are covered at warranty rates applicable at the time of repair. ' END + CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)- 3,4) = '2018' THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 18 month or 2000 HRS, whichever comes first. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '3024' THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 24 month or 3000 HRS, whichever comes first. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '4030' THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 30 month or 4000 HRS, whichever comes first. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '5036' THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 36 month or 5000 HRS, whichever comes first. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '6042' THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 42 month or 6000 HRS, whichever comes first. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '8054' THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 54 month or 8000 HRS, whichever comes first. ' WHEN SUBSTRING(externalid,LEN(externalid)-3,4) = '1074' THEN 'Flexible warranty starts after the standard warranty period has expired and is covered up to 74 month or 10000 HRS, whichever comes first. ' END + 'Flexible warranty is handled according to the procedures described in ESPPM 3-10.' + CASE
WHEN prodclassid IN ('P1','P11','P8','P9') THEN ' (mileage limited to 300 km)' WHEN prodclassid IN ('P7') THEN ' (mileage limited to 200 km)' ELSE NULL END + SPACE(5000 - LEN('Desc1')) .......
I sent a long string of ID from front end to my stored procedure...till now I was using varchar(8000)...but if the string crossess that limit it is breaking.
If I try to use text datatype..It doesn't support rtrim, stuff functions etc...
So could any one suggest me a best way to save a long string without any restriction of size...
My front end is C#.Net and Back End is SQL SERVER 2000
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?
