Anybody out there ever take a column containing names and parse it out to salutation, first name, middle initial/name, last name, suffix using Transact-SQL? I think I know how to do it using an array in a procedural language, but using SQL I'm drawing a blank.
Any ideas or help will be appreciated!
Hi,I am running SQLServer2000 with ASP.NET. I have 3 fields:DATE_TIME (date time 8)DATEF ()TIMEF ()...when my default.aspx page is called, i need to execute a stored procedure that will parse my DATE_TIME field by the space in between, then update my DATEF and TIMEF fields with the appropriatevalues. NOw i have 2 fields to query from instead of 1. How would i write a SQL expression to do this? and what datatypes should the DATEF and TIMEF fields be?thxj
View 3 Replies View RelatedCan you parse a SQL field? Let's say, FULLNAME field got a TEXT datatype with the following data: <firstname>Norm</firstname><lastname>bercasio</lastname><Color>blue</color>then using a select statement, parse the field to find the lastname then write it to another field called LASTNAME on the same table, same rowID. Can you send a select statement how it can be done? I am using SQL 2003 or 2005. thank you so much.
I have a name field that has many variations and been fighting with it for a few days. The possible name variations are:
Smith, Mike
Smith, Mike K.
Smith, Mike K., JR.
I would like to parse each of the for pieces in a separate field.
hi..i need help for my exam, I retrived data from my sms inbok andinsert to table.The record just like this:ID1,12x100,56x12,90x90..,how to pars the table in to:ID First SecondID1 12 100ID1 56 12ID1 90 90Thank for your help...===================
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to parse a single field into many. A sample of the data in one of my fields is:
0;127.20;3;23.90;13.56;0;0;0;0
I would like to parse it into 9 fields. I am sure that this is easy, but, since I am new to SQL2005, I am having a few probs with this simple task.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Layne
Does anyone have a script already written to parse a text field in SQL?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHello,
I have a field that has the following data:
<li>Invalid email address.</li><li>Invalid zipcode.</li><li>Password is required.</li><li>
And, I'd like to parse this into rows separated by the "<li>"
Thanks!
I'm trying to parse an ntext field that in my SQL View contains an invoice comment in order to be able to group on parts of the comment. I have two problems--one, the syntax to do this, and two, the best way to deal with the parts that I want.
The comment is like: "standard text ABCDE : $99.99" but can have multiple "ABCDE"s, e.g. "standard text ABCDE FGH IJKL $999.99" and I found some that had duplicates like "standard text standard text...".
I want to be able to report in SSRS 2005 by grouping the "ABCDE", "FGH", "IJKL" items.
Any ideas? Please be specific as I'm still learning.
Hi,
My table has 2 fields as 'count' and 'codes'. The 'codes' field has 'count' # of code values in each record. Size of each code is 4. For example, if my record is 2,'abcdefgh' then there are 2 codes and the values are 'abcd' and 'efgh'.
Currently I am using 'script component' to parse the field into multiple values. Since I have to read 1 million records and on an average, each record has 10 codes, it is taking hrs to load it.
Can it be done without 'script component' using some other transformations?
Thanks.
I have just started to look at SQL and have a theory question that I could apply to a test I want to run. I have some legacy data from a previous project and the database was not designed properly (in my opinion). They have ONE field to capture City and State information. All the data is formatted City, State .
Does SQL have commands that can look at data in a field, strip out info before and info after a comma and then write that to other fields?
So, I would like to normalize this to take the data in a field called CityState and parse it, trim it and then populate two new fields 1) City and 2) State.
Thanks for your help!
Scott
I have a text field that I need to parse out into 4 fields.
30.125x23.625-18.875x25.375
6.1875X19.375-2.4375x15.625
0X0-0x0
26.875X11.375-11.125x22.875
0X0-0x0
0X0-0x0
6.1875X26.875-2.4375x23.125
6.1875X26.875-2.4375x23.125
6.1875X26.875-2.4375x23.125
26.625X14.875-11.125x22.875
26.625X14.875-11.125x22.875
I need to 26.625X14.875-11.125x22.875 should be 26.625 then 14.875 then 11.125 then 22.875
I am trying to process an XML document that contains the attribute 'from_x'. However an openxml query can't seem to find any column with a '_x' suffix. For example if I were to execute the following fragment:
declare @hDoc int, @Message varchar(200)
select @Message = '<BACK_FM from_x="12"></BACK_FM>'
exec sp_xml_preparedocument @hDoc OUTPUT, @Message
select from_x from openxml(@hDoc, 'BACK_FM',1) with (from_x int)
I get back a null value from the openxml query. Attribute names 'fromx' and 'from_y' work ok but nothing I have tried with a trailing '_x' will work.
Does anyone know if this is a known SQL Server bug? Is it a bug at all or something about XML that I don't know about?
Thanks,
Wayne King
I need to figure out how to parse a comma separated value.
Lets say I have a variable equal to a comma separated list.
SET @Variable = '045, 032, 025, 653'
I need to create a dynamic sql string to look like:
SET @Variable = ''' + '045' + ''' + ',' + ''' + '032' + ''' + ',' etc...
Can someone teach me a optimized query to do this?
Thanks
Greg
What is parsing?? can someone give me an example please?? this what I got from BOL
Returns the specified part of an object name. Parts of an object that can be retrieved are the object name, owner name, database name, and server name.
Hi -
I am new to SQL server and was wondering if someone can help me with this one. Thanks
My table holds 2 columns (SECTOR and TERM) with following example values
SECTOR TERM
Hybrid 6/18
Hybrid 9/19
Hybrid 10/17
Hybrid 3/13
I would like to find out the rows where my values from SECTOR before '/' does not equal TERM
i.e.
Row 1 where 6<>8
and row 3 where 10<>7
Thanks.
Hi All,
I'm using a SQL selection to fill a DataGrid. One of the fields I have is called diagnosis. This field in the database can contain multiple diagnosis. But I use a set of characters to divide each diagnosis.
Example : Sick!@#$%Hurt!@#$%Ill!@#$%
My problem is this is how it looks in my Data Grid. Can someone tell me how to parse out each diagnosis.
Thanks
How to remove same repeated string in a column per row from a table? Looked at
replace, stuff string functions, but none take a column name as a parameter.
Help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Do anyone know of any functions I can use to parse the following data eg.
M 3480-7 should be 3480
M 3477-19 should be 3477
M 28-10 should be 28
Thanks in advance,
Vic
I have a varchar field that contains answers to questions separated by commas. Say there are 4 questions for each user. Here is an example of what the table would look like:
User Answer
1 Good,Fair,Good,Bad
2 Bad,Good,Good,Good
3 Fair,Good,Bad,Fair
I need to write a stored procedure to report off of that separates the Answer field into 4 different columns. How can this be achieved? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I have a SQL Server table that holds XML documents. Is there a known SQL Server XML parser ?....how can I export XML data into a readable format ?
thanks
Does anyone know any good URL's for examples on parcing data using SQL?
As an example, i've got First/Middle/Last name of a person inside a single field, I want to turn that into 3 fields.
Thanks!
Caden
Hi guys!
Can anyone tell how I can parse the WHERE clause of an SQL statement to check for special characters such as ''' (single quotes) in fields of type varchar?
thanks
nelo
Hello everyone
Heres what it looks like:
I have a large file of over 40k email records. The emails are all mixed up and come in various formats but i noticed that most of them are in this format:
firstname.lastname@email.com
firstname.middlename.lastname@email.com
For all those emails with the period (.) in between, the (.) actually separates an individuals first and last name.
My task is this, to separate all the emails that are in this format into first and last name fields. I'm stimped folks and I'll really appreciate any pointers or ideas on how to go about solving this task.
Thanks
Parsing Address
This is not really a reply, but I saw the problem and the replies look very promissing.
I'm using ss2k, I have a table with an address column.
here is some example of the records under ADDRESS :
WILLOW CREEK PL
RED BARN DR
RED BARN DR
CARRINGTON DR
RENNER RD
EDMONTON CT
SPRINGBRANCH DR
HILLROSE DR
CEDAR RIDGE DR
LARTAN TRL
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH HWY
What I want to do is to write script that runs daily and parse the street names (RED BARN) and street types (Dr, PL , etc.. ) to 2 colums. As u can see there is no fixed length or fixed number of words ...etc ...
Any help would be really appreciated.
thnks
I found an article about string parsing but its done using db2
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/0303stolze/0303stolze1.html
can anybody translate to Transact SQL specifically the example of create function elemIdx i didnt understand how he used recursion may b cuz the language is odd to me i didnt get it
Thanks much
I have a string that is coming from a legacy system
###T1937###U1875###U1960###U3287###U5926###U6388###U4408###T1909###U2620###U5025###U6354###U7072###U7074###U6715###U6714###U4085###U6441###U7067###U7073###U2392###U6348###U7758###U6717###U7755###U7069###U7756###U6350###U6760###U7070###D0002###D0001###U6238###U6349###U6353###U6355###F0005###U7750###U6351###U7757###
How can I convert above string to comma separted values
like one below so that it can be used for IN Clause for my SQL
'T1937','U1875','U1960','U3287','U5926','U6388','U4408','T1909','U2620','U5025','U6354','U7072','U7074','U6715','U6714','U4085','U6441','U7067','U7073','U2392','U6348','U7758','U6717','U7755','U7069','U7756','U6350','U6760','U7070','D0002','D0001','U6238','U6349','U6353','U6355','F0005','U7750','U6351','U7757'
Thanks in advance
hi, im running into a bit of a problem. i will like to string parse the street name into what you see below using DTS. How can i get around this?
12 north plaza boulevard apt.16
12|N|plaza blvd| apt16
Hello everyone, I have this SP and can't get it to work on my SQL2000 server. I just can't seem to figure out what syntax error I am making.
(This works on my test SQL2005 server)
Truncate Table [SecurityEvents_Temp]
Insert Into SecurityEvents_Temp (
[BankNumber],
[UserName],
[DomainName],
[EventLog],
[RecordNumber],
[TimeGenerated],
[TimeWritten],
[EventID],
[EventType],
[EventTypeName],
[EventCategory],
[EventCategoryName],
[SourceName],
[Strings],
[ComputerName],
[SID],
[Message],
[Data]
)
Select
[BankNumber] = '001',
[UserName] = (Select [Value] From [dbo].[fn_Split]([Strings],'|') where idx = 3)
[DomainName] = (Select [Value] From [dbo].[fn_Split]([Strings],'|') where idx = 4),
[SecurityEvents].*
FROM [SecurityEvents]
JOIN [EventsToLog] on [SecurityEvents].[EventID] = [EventsToLog].[EventID]
WHERE [SID] NOT LIKE 'S-%'
Query Output:
quote:
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 28
Line 28: Incorrect syntax near 'Strings'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 30
Line 30: Incorrect syntax near 'Strings'.
Thank You,
John Fuhrman
http://www.titangs.com
Hi,
I have a name field that has fullname in it and i need to parse it to firstname, lastname, middle initial and suffix.
I used the below query to parse the Last Name and first name.
SELECT
SUBSTRING([FullName], 1, CHARINDEX(' ',[FullName]) - 1)AS LastName,
SUBSTRING([FullName], CHARINDEX(' ',[FullName]) + 1, LEN(FullName)) AS FirstName
FROM CustomerTbl
There are middel initials and suffix present in the full name. How do i parse the middle initial and suffix.
The Sample Name that appear in the table:
JONAS VICKY ==> Format without Middle Initial or suffix
MAYES MARY T ==> Format with middle initial
MCGEE, III CLIFTON ==> Format with suffix
Pls advise
Thanks
Table1 includes a column for email address. I'd like to parse everything up to 8 chars before the '@' symbol in this column. My script doesn't appear to be working, and I'd appreciate any assistance in troubleshooting it!
select substring(UPPER(substring(email,1,charindex('@',email)-1)),1,8)
from table1
The error produced is;
Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function.
What am I doing wrong? The logic in the script looks good to me...
Hi,I have three tables in the following structure (simplified):Table 1: Containing the customers-------------------------------------------------create table Customers([cusID] int identity(1, 1) not null,[cusName] varchar(25) not null)Table 2: Containing the customer data fields---------------------------------------------------------------create table Data([datID] int identity(1, 1) not null,[datName] varchar(25) not null,[datFormula] varchar(1500))Table 3: Containing the customer data values-----------------------------------------------------------------create table Values([cusID] int not null,[datID] int not null,[valValue] sql_variant)In this structure the user can add as many data fields to a customer ashe wants (e.g. Country, City, Email, Phone, ...). I have added triggerswhich create a view similar to a pivot (I am working in SQL 2000) andadd triggers to the view so it is insertable, deletable and updateable.What I would like to do, is allow the user to create new fields wherethe values are based upon a calculation. This calculation would be donethrough a formula similar to what he would do e.g. in excel (thisformula is stored in the dimFormula field then).An example might help. Let's assume the user created a field 'Sales'(containing last year's sales) and 'Invoices' (containing the number ofinvoices that were created for him last year). Now, he wants to createa field 'AvgSales' with the formula '[Sales]/[Invoices]'.(Note that through adding these data fields, the above view was created(let's assume it is called vw_Customers and contains the columns [ID],[Name], [Sales], [Invoices], [AvgSales]).What I am looking for is a function which can parse this formula into at_sql query which runs the calculation. So, the formula'[Sales]/[Invoices]' would be translated into (let's assume there areno records with NULL or zero invoices):update vw_Customersset [AvgSales] = [Sales]/[Invoices]from vw_CustomersI am able to do the above with simple calculations (where you can evenuse sql functions e.g. year, len, ...). Now I would like to take thisone step forward into the possibility of using functions with morevariables.For example. Let's assume, the user wants to add a rating (field called'Rating') to his customers based upon the result of 'AvgSales. Heenters the formula 'if([AvgSales] > 2500, 'A', 'B')'.If anyone could help me on this, I would be very grateful. Thanks.M
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi:
I need to parse an regularly outputted rtf file and was wondering if it is possible in SSIS. I am trying to use the flat file connection manager to do this.
Now, I can't treat tab stops in an rtf like tab stops in a csv, since when you treat an rtf as a text file, you see the format code of the rtf. If I open the rtf in a text editor, the entire file is one line, with lines breaking with:
par}
Columns are tab delimited in the rtf, and they look like this when you treat the rtf as a text file.
plain abfs16f4cf0cb1
(or something like that, the word "tab" is the important part.)
So I use the "plain ab" part to delimit in SSIS, since that is consistent (planning to parse out all the garbage later on). The problem is, sometimes lines don't have a "city" and "state", so it "tabs" right over to the next field. So like this (looking in MS Word):
Phone <tab> City <tab> State <tab> Date <tab> Other fields.....
847-111-2222 <tab> Omaha <tab> NB <tab> 9/14/2007 <tab>
222-222-3333 <tab> 9/14/2007 <tab>
555-121-1212 <tab> Houston <tab> TX <tab> 9/14/2007 <tab>
Now, if you treat an RTF as a text file, it has only one "plain abfs16f4cf0cb1" after the phone number, so even for the missing line there is only one tab, not 3. This is because in the beginning of the row tabs for each row are defined like this:
tql x90 ql x840 ql....etc...
with "tql" and "tx" tags basically saying where all the tab stops are for that row. So for the row above with missing info, it lists fewer tab stops. So the "date" (and associated garbage) ends up under "City" for this row. All of the "Houston" row's data starts appearing in the sql server output table's 2nd last field, as you might expect.
Any suggestions how to pull this in in SSIS during the transformation? I could deal with it after I pull it in, I still have all the data. I'm thinking the logic to do this could be complicated though. I take the data out of the last two fields of the missing row into some other table, use UPDATES to shift the values 2 fields to the right, and then figure out a way to take the data I just put in a temp table back in, but it all sounds a bit complicated.
Let me know if this makes sense--I've almost got it going, I just need to sort this last bit out.
Thanks,
Kayda