USE TESTTABLE
GO
CREATE TABLE Example (
Description varchar(500))
GO
INSERT INTO [TESTTABLE].[dbo].[Example] ([Description])
VALUES ('hello This is a test query.
[Code] ....
I want to extract three things from the above data stored ina single field
1. LAST NAME (All characters before COMMA till a special character is met)
2. FIRST NAME (All characters AFTER COMMA till a special character is met)
2. ID (All numbers after the word ID. Ignore all special characters before and after the numbers)
The Output will be :
FIRST NAME LAST NAME ID
John Doe 123456
John Doe 123456
John Doe 123456
How can I use substrings to extract this data in SQL 2005
Please let me know if you come across any name strings this function cannot parse. CREATE function FormatName(@NameString varchar(100), @NameFormat varchar(20)) returns varchar(100) as begin --blindman, 11/04 --FormatName parses a NameString into its component parts and returns it in a requested format. -- --@NameString is the raw value to be parsed. --@NameFormat is a string that defines the output format. Each letter in the string represents --a component of the name in the order that it is to be returned. --[H] = Full honorific --[h] = Abbreviated honorific --[F] = First name --[f] = First initial --[M] = Middle name --[m] = Middle initial --[L] = Last name --[l] = Last initial --[S] = Full suffix --[s] = Abbreviated suffix --[.] = Period --[,] = Comma --[ ] = Space
--Example: select dbo.Formatname('Reverend Gregory Robert Von Finzer Junior', 'L, h. F m. s.') --Result: 'Von Finzer, Rev. Gregory R. Jr.'
--Test variables -- declare@NameString varchar(50) -- declare@NameFormat varchar(20) -- set@NameFormat = 'L, h. F m. s.' -- set@NameString = 'Reverend Gregory Robert Von Finzer Junior'
--Prepare the string --Make sure each period is followed by a space character. set@NameString = rtrim(ltrim(replace(@NameString, '.', '. '))) --Eliminate double-spaces. while charindex(' ', @NameString) > 0 set @NameString = replace(@NameString, ' ', ' ') --Eliminate periods while charindex('.', @NameString) > 0 set @NameString = replace(@NameString, '.', '')
--If the lastname is listed first, strip it off. set@TempString = rtrim(left(@NameString, charindex(' ', @NameString))) if@TempString in ('VAN', 'VON', 'MC', 'Mac', 'DE') set @TempString = rtrim(left(@NameString, charindex(' ', @NameString, len(@TempString)+2))) ifright(@TempString, 1) = ',' set @LastName = left(@TempString, len(@TempString)-1) iflen(@LastName) > 0 set@NameString = ltrim(right(@NameString, len(@NameString) - len(@TempString)))
--Get rid of any remaining commas while charindex(',', @NameString) > 0 set @NameString = replace(@NameString, ',', '')
--Get Honorific and strip it out of the string set@TempString = rtrim(left(@NameString, charindex(' ', @NameString + ' '))) if@TempString in ('MR', 'MRS', 'MS', 'DR', 'Doctor', 'REV', 'Reverend', 'SIR', 'HON', 'Honorable', 'CPL', 'Corporal', 'SGT', 'Sergeant', 'GEN', 'General', 'CMD', 'Commander', 'CPT', 'CAPT', 'Captain', 'MAJ', 'Major', 'PVT', 'Private', 'LT', 'Lieutenant', 'FATHER', 'SISTER') set @Honorific = @TempString iflen(@Honorific) > 0 set@NameString = ltrim(right(@NameString, len(@NameString) - len(@TempString)))
--Get Suffix and strip it out of the string set@TempString = ltrim(right(@NameString, charindex(' ', Reverse(@NameString) + ' '))) if@TempString in ('Jr', 'Sr', 'II', 'III', 'Esq', 'Junior', 'Senior') set @Suffix = @TempString iflen(@Suffix) > 0 set @NameString = rtrim(left(@NameString, len(@NameString) - len(@TempString)))
if @LastName is null begin --Get LastName and strip it out of the string set@LastName = ltrim(right(@NameString, charindex(' ', Reverse(@NameString) + ' '))) set@NameString = rtrim(left(@NameString, len(@NameString) - len(@LastName))) --Check to see if the last name has two parts set@TempString = ltrim(right(@NameString, charindex(' ', Reverse(@NameString) + ' '))) if@TempString in ('VAN', 'VON', 'MC', 'Mac', 'DE') begin set @LastName = @TempString + ' ' + @LastName set @NameString = rtrim(left(@NameString, len(@NameString) - len(@TempString))) end end
--Get FirstName and strip it out of the string set@FirstName = rtrim(left(@NameString, charindex(' ', @NameString + ' '))) set@NameString = ltrim(right(@NameString, len(@NameString) - len(@FirstName)))
--Anything remaining is MiddleName set@MiddleName = @NameString
--Create the output string set@TempString = '' while len(@NameFormat) > 0 begin if @IgnorePeriod = 'F' or left(@NameFormat, 1) <> '.' begin set @IgnorePeriod = 'F' set @TempString = @TempString + case ascii(left(@NameFormat, 1)) when '72' then case @Honorific when 'Dr' then 'Doctor' when 'Rev' then 'Reverend' when 'Hon' then 'Honorable' when 'Maj' then 'Major' when 'Pvt' then 'Private' when 'Lt' then 'Lieutenant' when 'Capt' then 'Captain' when 'Cpt' then 'Captain' when 'Cmd' then 'Commander' when 'Gen' then 'General' when 'Sgt' then 'Sergeant' when 'Cpl' then 'Corporal' else isnull(@Honorific, '') end when '70' then isnull(@FirstName, '') when '77' then isnull(@MiddleName, '') when '76' then isnull(@LastName, '') when '83' then case @Suffix when 'Jr' then 'Junior' when 'Sr' then 'Senior' when 'Esq' then 'Esquire' else isnull(@Suffix, '') end when '104' then case @Honorific when 'Doctor' then 'Dr' when 'Reverend' then 'Rev' when 'Honorable' then 'Hon' when 'Major' then 'Maj' when 'Private' then 'Pvt' when 'Lieutenant' then 'Lt' when 'Captain' then 'Capt' when 'Cpt' then 'Capt' when 'Commander' then 'Cmd' when 'General' then 'Gen' when 'Sergeant' then 'Sgt' when 'Corporal' then 'Cpl' else isnull(@Honorific, '') end when '102' then isnull(left(@FirstName, 1), '') when '109' then isnull(left(@MiddleName, 1), '') when '108' then isnull(left(@LastName, 1), '') when '115' then case @Suffix when 'Junior' then 'Jr' when 'Senior' then 'Sr' when 'Esquire' then 'Esq' else isnull(@Suffix, '') end when '46' then case right(@TempString, 1) when ' ' then '' else '.' end when '44' then case right(@TempString, 1) when ' ' then '' else ',' end when '32' then case right(@TempString, 1) when ' ' then '' else ' ' end else '' end if ((ascii(left(@NameFormat, 1)) = 72 and @Honorific in ('FATHER', 'SISTER')) or (ascii(left(@NameFormat, 1)) = 115 and @Suffix in ('II', 'III'))) set @IgnorePeriod = 'T' end set @NameFormat = right(@NameFormat, len(@NameFormat) - 1) end
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The 2012 DB is set as 2008 Compatibility Mode?Am I not able to Publish from 2012 to 2008?.I was using SSMS 2008 to connect to my 2012 Instance, thats why it didn't work...
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I am wondering what would be the best method of doing this, or if anyone has an example.
I have a table, tblstudents that has the fields strfirstname and strlastname. The table was imported from MS Acess where they were storing the first name and the lastname in the same field. Sucks doesn't it? Anyway, I need to write a script to extract the first name from the lastname and insert it into the first name field which is blank. So far I figure I can use select into, but need to find a way to tell sql server to take the fart of the field after the comma (the first name) and to delete the comma becuase I won't need it anymore.
Help!
Select '%,' into tblclients as strfirstname from tblclients
I know this won't work, but I want to show you all I'm at least trying!
This script parses the @@VERSION global variable into individual columns.
I developed it because I wanted to be able gather standard info on all versions.
I know there are functions for a lot of this, but only starting with SQL 2000.
It seems to work with all versions of SQL Server from 7.0 through 2005.
I haven't tested with 6.5 and before or 2008, because I don't have either available.
Please report any problems you see.
Edit: 2007-7-31 1. Changed SQL_SERVER_MAJOR_VERSION to varchar(20) 2. Added code to create a view named V_SQL_SERVER_VERSION 3. Added four new columns to the view: SERVER_NAME, value from @@servername SQL_SERVER_MAJOR_VERSION_NUMBER, Example: 9 SQL_SERVER_VERSION_NUMBER, Example: 8.0020390000 WINDOWS_VERSION_NAME, Example: 'Windows 2000'
Edit: 2007-8-2 Changed SQL_SERVER_MAJOR_VERSION to varchar(40)
from ( select zz = stuff(yy,charindex(Char(10),yy),1,'#3#') from (
select yy = stuff(xx,charindex(Char(10),xx),1,'#2#') from ( select xx =stuff(VERSION ,charindex(Char(10),VERSION),1,'#1#') from ( select VERSION = @@VERSION ) a ) a1 ) a2 ) a3 ) a4 ) a4
Results:
SQL_SERVER_MAJOR_VERSION SQL_SERVER_VERSION SQL_SERVER_PLATFORM SQL_SERVER_EDITION WINDOWS_VERSION WINDOWS_BUILD WINDOWS_SERVICE_PACK ------------------------ -------------------- -------------------- ------------------------------ -------------------- -------------------- ------------------------------ 2000 8.00.2039 Intel X86 Standard Edition Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4
(1 row(s) affected)
drop view [dbo].[V_SQL_SERVER_VERSION] go create view [dbo].[V_SQL_SERVER_VERSION] as select SERVER_NAME = @@servername, SQL_SERVER_MAJOR_VERSION, SQL_SERVER_VERSION, SQL_SERVER_MAJOR_VERSION_NUMBER = convert(int,floor(convert(numeric(20,10),substring(SQL_SERVER_VERSION,1,4)))), SQL_SERVER_VERSION_NUMBER= convert(numeric(20,10),( convert(numeric(20,10),substring(SQL_SERVER_VERSION,1,4))*1000000+ convert(numeric(20,10),substring(SQL_SERVER_VERSION,6,30)))/1000000), SQL_SERVER_PLATFORM, SQL_SERVER_EDITION, WINDOWS_VERSION_NAME = convert(varchar(20), case when WINDOWS_VERSION = 'Windows NT 5.0' then 'Windows 2000' when WINDOWS_VERSION = 'Windows NT 5.1' then 'Windows XP' when WINDOWS_VERSION = 'Windows NT 5.2' then 'Windows 2003' else WINDOWS_VERSION end), WINDOWS_VERSION, WINDOWS_BUILD, WINDOWS_SERVICE_PACK from ( select SQL_SERVER_MAJOR_VERSION = convert(varchar(40),substring(L1,1,L1_BREAK_1-1)), SQL_SERVER_VERSION = convert(varchar(20),substring(L1,L1_BREAK_1+3,L1_BREAK_2-(L1_BREAK_1+3))), SQL_SERVER_PLATFORM = convert(varchar(20),substring(L1,L1_BREAK_2+2,L1_BREAK_3-(L1_BREAK_2+2))), SQL_SERVER_EDITION = convert(varchar(30),substring(L4,1,L4_BREAK_1-1)), WINDOWS_VERSION = convert(varchar(20),substring(L4,L4_BREAK_1+4,L4_BREAK_2-(L4_BREAK_1+4))), WINDOWS_BUILD = convert(varchar(20),substring(L4,L4_BREAK_2+2,L4_BREAK_3-(L4_BREAK_2+2))), WINDOWS_SERVICE_PACK = convert(varchar(30),substring(L4,L4_BREAK_3+2,L4_BREAK_4-(L4_BREAK_3+2))), VERSION = VERSION from ( select VERSION, L1_BREAK_1 = charindex(' - ',L1), L1_BREAK_2 = charindex(' (',L1), L1_BREAK_3 = charindex(')',L1), L4_BREAK_1 = charindex(' on Windows',L4), L4_BREAK_2 = charindex(' (',L4), L4_BREAK_3 = charindex(': ',L4), L4_BREAK_4 = charindex(')',L4), L1, L4 from ( select VERSION, L1 = convert(varchar(100), rtrim(ltrim(replace(substring(zz,1,charindex('#1#',zz)-1),'Microsoft SQL Server',''))) ) , L4 = rtrim(ltrim(substring(zz,charindex('#3#',zz)+4,100)))
from ( select VERSION, zz = stuff(yy,charindex(Char(10),yy),1,'#3#') from (
select VERSION, yy = stuff(xx,charindex(Char(10),xx),1,'#2#') from ( select VERSION, xx =stuff(VERSION ,charindex(Char(10),VERSION),1,'#1#') from ( select VERSION = @@version ) a ) a1 ) a2 ) a3 ) a4 ) a4 ) a5 go grant select on [dbo].[V_SQL_SERVER_VERSION] to public go
Hi there,I am re-organizing the database. We used to have field 'names' in ourtable for our first name and last name. However, I want to have thosenames in different field.FYI, I have two different tables in different databases. The Adatabase contains A table with 'names" field. The B database containsB table with 'fname' and 'lname' I want to copy data A table to Btable.How can I parse names field into first name and last name fields?Here are some examples which are in the database.(id names01 John Doe02 John & Jane Doe03 Mr & Mrs Doe) something like this. It might contain '&' and two names. If thereare two names, then use first name.Thanks guys,
In my stored procedure, I want to parse @ArrayOfDays into @d1 through@d5.@ArrayOfDays is a varchar input parameter containing,for example, "1.7.21.25.60." - five elements.Most active vars:@i - loop counter@char - current char in string@tempVal - contains the current element as it is being built@tempValExecString - contains SELECT stmt for EXEC()I'm using EXEC() to execute a dynamically built SELECT.The error I get when calling from vb.net is:Must declare the variable '@tempVal'.Two manual traces indicate the logic is ok.I suspect my assignment statement for @tempValExecString.Any help would be appreciated. - BobC----------------------------------------------------------DECLARE@d1 varchar(3),@d2 varchar(3),@d3 varchar(3),@d4 varchar(3),@d5 varchar(3),@i int,@char char(1),@tempVal varchar(3),@tempValExecString varchar(30)SELECT @tempVal = ''SELECT @i = 1WHILE @i < LEN(@ArrayOfDays)BEGINSELECT @char = SUBSTRING(@ArrayOfDays, @i, 1)WHILE @char <'.'BEGINSELECT @tempVal = @tempVal + @charSELECT @char = SUBSTRING(@ArrayOfDays, @i+1, 1)IF @char = '.'BEGIN/* the following should produce "SELECT @d1 = 1" when it reads thefirst period(.) */SELECT @tempValExecString = 'SELECT @d' + LTRIM(RTRIM(STR(@i))) + '= @tempVal'EXEC(@tempValExecString)SELECT @tempVal = ''SELECT @i = @i + 1ENDSELECT @i = @i + 1ENDEND----------------------------------------------------------
Is there a way to parse a string to int? this is my example code. quote_id is a string i want to be treated as an int here.
Code Snippet ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetNextQuoteID] AS BEGIN -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON; -- Insert statements for procedure here SELECT MAX(quote_id)+1 as id From Quote END
Does anyone come across this error message whenever u try to parse ANY SQL statements in Management Studio 2005 (even parsing SELECT GETDATE() fails)...
>>>
.Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 0, Level 11, State 0, Line 0 A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded. >>>
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However; if I use it this way ------------------------------------ EXEC sp_Test ? ------------------------------------ it works.
Now here is the odd thing. If I put in a DECLARE statement and a global parameter "?" I get the syntax error.
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