Does anyone know how to parse an input variable to a stored proc? For example, if I have an input variable that is: 'ford,chevy,pontiac' how do I parse through this variable and handle each value independently?
Since I do not know how many values may exists I can't do it based on a set amount of input variables.
I am running SQLServer 2000 to parse and store records in the EDIX12
format. This consists of variable length delimited records which
I am passing to the "transforms" tab to process with VBScript.
The problem is though each segment has a defined number of fields, N,
the standard states that if the final M fieds are empty/blank they are
not to be sent. Thus, a segment defined to have 20 fields may
have 6 the first time I see it, 13 the next time, etc. To access
the columns in VBScript I use DTSSource("Col001"). This works as
long as the columns are there, but gives an error when they are
not. Is there a parameter telling me how many columns are
defined? Or is there something akin to IFEXISTS("Colxxx") or
exceptions?
How can I handle this situation? One suggestion has been to pass
the entire segment to the Transforms section and break it up there.
Finally, what resources can yuo point me to for reference? I'd
like to get good at using DTS since my client wants their project
written for it.
Thanks for yuor help,
--greg
Hey Guys,
Heres my issue. please help
I have xml files and xslt files are in seperate folders. and each xml file has its own xslt. I've got the for loop riunning which loops thro the metadata table. This table has the file and folder localtions of xml and its corresponding xslt.
I'm using the transform xml task in control fllow. i dont see an option to set input xml name and folder from Variable in transform xml component properties? It seems to expect fully qualified path. is there an alternative? or what am i doing wrong?
I am trying to Execute a Stored Procedure using Call OSQL from a .bat file, and passing a DOS variable to the Stored Procedure.
The DOS variable is established in the DOS command...
set SERVERJOB=JOBNAME
I have tried...
EXEC sp_procedure %SERVERJOB%
With this, I get an error...
sg 170, Level 15, State 1, Server ABCDEFGH, Line 20
Line 20: Incorrect syntax near '%'.
If I put the variable name in quotes on the EXEC statement above, the value used is the variable name, %SERVERJOB% itself rather than the value the variable was set to, which would be JOBNAME in the above example.
Any ideas??? Thanks!
We are trying to use the Import/export wizard to load a text file to a SQL Server 2005 database. The input file has a variable number of columns per row. For example, the first row has 3 columns, the second has 7, the third has 3, etc. The number of columns varies from 2 to 9 in the input file. The columns are separated by an uptick (`) and the rows are terminated by {CR}{LF}. We are using code page 1252. On processing, the wizard reads the first row (with 3 columns) ok, but then assumes all the other rows have 3 columns and parses the rows accordingly, ignoring the field and row terminators.
The process worked fine with SQL Server 2000. Is there some setting that we are missing, or some configuration on the database that we should be checking?
Thank You
In my data flow task, I use a data reader source to get data from our 400. Currently, I have a simple sql command that is pulling data from a file qualifying by date, which is hard-coded. I would like to pass in a parameter which has the date in it. How can I do this? Thanks!
Is there any way to use table variable as input to a function or stored procedure?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHello,
I need to create a view which will include an additional table every week of our financial year.
Example: Every week we create a table called Sales_YYYY_WW where YYYY is the Year and WW is the Week, so after the first week we have the table Sales_2007_01 and after the second week we have Sales_2007_01 and Sales_2007_02 etc.. These tables are created evey week and don't exist at the start of the financial year.
I'd like to create a view at the beginning of each year to encompass each table evey week as it is created. If all of the tables were there at the start of the year it would be simple:
CREATE VIEW VIEW_SALES_2007
AS
SELECT * from Sales_2007_01
UNION ALL
SELECT * from Sales_2007_02
etc.
But I don't know how to achieve this when the tables don't already exist. I don't want to have to edit the view each week to add in the new table.
Can anyone out there help me?
Hi,
I have an Execute Process Task that calls a batch file.
I need to pass in a date value to the batch file.
If I enter the value 20071018 in the "Arguments" section, it works fine.
However, I use the "Standard Input Variable", User::MyDate (which gets assigned in a previous Execute SQL Task), it bombs. The query I am using returns the date back in the format yyyymmdd. It gets assigned to a string variable, called MyDate.
e.g.)
SELECT TOP 1 CONVERT(VARCHAR, MyDate, 112) AS MyDate
FROM myTable
which result is mapped to User::MyDate
Is there any obvious reason why this doesn't work?
Thanks
Hi Everyone:
I have a quick but imp SSIS question. I have a For Each Loop Container, and inside that I wish to add a Execute SQL Task item, so I can call a sp to do some inserts/updates. The ForEachLoop container is looping thru a ADO Object source variable(which is the user variable defined by me, as a FullResultSet). In my Execute SQL Task, I would like to utilize one of the columns from the result set as an input parameter to my Stored procedure. Can someone please advise on how to do this? Please let me know if you have any more questions. I am waiting for a response... Thanks in advance.
MA
Microsoft says it is possible but I just do not see how. Here is the
link to the help file where it said that variables could be pass as
input to web methods...I do not see the check box they mention on my
IDE.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Catherine
I'm getting a type mismatch error (currently string, when I think I need Int32 ?) with the code below. I'm having difficultly setting my session variable to type Int32 and having it take up the value of RawCoDeptRowID. When I "Watch" it, it's value remains as "snCoDeptRowID". Also, not sure if my Update command and it's snCoDeptRowID input parameter is well formed? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Web Page 1:
Session["snCoDeptRowID"] = Convert.ToInt32 (RawCoDeptRowID);
Web Page2:<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource3" runat="server"
ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString %>"
UpdateCommand="UPDATE [CompanyDepartment] SET [User_Name] = @User_Name, [FirstName] = @FirstName, [LastName] = @LastName, [Company_Name] = @Company_Name, [Department_Name] = @Department_Name WHERE [User_ID] = @snCoDeptRowID ">
<updateparameters>
<asp:parameter Name="User_Name" Type="String" />
<asp:parameter Name="FirstName" Type="String" />
<asp:parameter Name="LastName" Type="String" />
<asp:Controlparameter Name="Company_Name" Type="String" ControlID ="ListBox1" PropertyName ="SelectedValue" />
<asp:Controlparameter Name="Department_Name" Type="String" ControlID ="ListBox2" PropertyName ="SelectedValue" />
<asp:QueryStringParameter Name="User_ID" Type="Int32" QueryStringField ="@snCoDeptRowID" DefaultValue ="@snCoDeptRowID" />
</updateparameters>
</asp:SqlDataSource>
Is it possible to have an entire sql select statement as the input variable to a stored procedure? I want the stored procedure to execute the select statement.
ie.
exec sp_SomeFunc 'select * from table1 where id=1'
It may sound weird, but I have my reason for wanting to do it this way. Is this possible? if so, how do I implement this inside the stored procedure?
I am building an SSIS package that loops through a table in SQL Server and dynamically builds a select statement that i would like to use as an ole db source. I have been having a difficult time with this as the select statement that i am generating is over 200,000 characters long so using an sql variable is out of the question.
I ended up placing the select statement into a table where each row of the table represents a piece of the select. I then use an execute_sql task that selects the entire rowset from this table into a variable object. I then use a for each loop to shred the variable and concatenate it into on big string variable called user:: sql_statement that is my select.
After setting up the loop and testing to see if the user:: sql_statement variable populates correctly i then added a data flow transfer with an ole db source and destination. I then go into the advanced editor for the source and set it to accept an sql statement from a variable and use my user:: sql_statement variable. I was forced to set validate external metadata option to false to avoid an error since there is no way to validate the columns until the for each loop runs during run time.
Now thats all fine and good but what is causing my problem is that during run time, when the package gets to the data flow task, the select statement doesn't seem to be populating the input columns of the data source. I have been searching to no avail on a way to tell the data source to update the input columns but every time it gets there, the package bombs out telling me the ole db source has no available output columns.
Specifically the error i get is :
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: "output "OLE DB Source Output" (6616)" contains no output columns. An asynchronous output must contain output columns.
Any help with this would be much appreciated.
I've encountered a new problem with an SSIS Pkg where I have a seq. of Execute SQL tasks. My question are:
1) In the First Execute SQL Task, I want to store a single row result of @@identity type into a User Variable User::LoadID of What type. ( I tried using DBNull Type or Object type which works, not with any other type, it but I can't proceed to step 2 )
2) Now I want to use this User::LoadID as input parameter of What type for the next task (I tried using Numeric, Long, DB_Numeric, Decimal, Double none of there work).
Please give me solutions for the above two..
Im trying to determine the best way to store data gathered from a form that a user will fill out online. The form is dynamic and is customized at run time based on group-specific criteria. The end result is a form that might have 3 extra text boxes, 2 extra sets of radio buttons and a freeform textbox, whereas for another group, there might be a slightly different set of input fields. Now comes the issue of storing this data. Since the fields can be somewhat dynamic, it could get tricky to define table columns for each possible input field. So Im considering storing the data as xml. Has anyone else had to build custom forms and ended up storing the data as xml ?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm seeing where previous developers have used a single stored procedure for multiple reports, where each report required different columns to be returned. They are structured like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.GetSomeData (@rptType INT, @customerID INT)
AS
BEGIN
IF @rptType = 1
BEGIN
SELECT LastName, FirstName, MiddleInitial
[Code] ....
As you can see, the output depends on the given report type. I've personally never done this, but that's more because it's the way I learned as opposed to any hard facts to support it.
So what I'm looking for is basically 2-fold.
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.
Can 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.
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
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!
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
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.
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