Problem With Updatetext In SQL 2000 Trying To Concatenate Multiple Text Fields
Jan 2, 2007
Hi all, I am creating a search table where the keywords field is made
up of several text fields and this is causing me some problems. I can
concatentate the text ok but i can't seem to concatenate matching
records here is the cursor loop. I'm not a fan of cursors but also
didn't see another way of achieving this.
declare @ptr1 varbinary(16)
declare @Ptr2 varbinary(16)
declare @profileid int
declare @x int
set @profileid = 0
while @profileid is not null
begin
select
@profileid = min([id]),
@ptr1 = MIN(textptr(text1))
from #holding
where [id] @profileid
declare c2 cursor fast_forward for
select textptr(searchterms), datalength(searchterms)
from search
where search.[id] = @profileid
open c2
fetch c2 into @ptr2, @x
while @@fetch_status = 0
begin
updatetext search.searchterms @ptr2 null 0 #holding.text1 @ptr1
fetch c2 into @ptr2, @x
end
close c2
deallocate c2
end
The #holding table contains the fields that i want to concatenate and
the search table is the resulting table. This example would loop
through search and find id 1 in search and then append another field
matching id 1 in holding then move onto the next field in turn going
through the whole table.
i.e.
search holding result after each loop
id text id text
1 abc 1 def abcdef
2 ghi 2 jkl ghijkl
When I run this, some of the records concatenate properly but most dont
with the same text being appended to the end of searchterms. i.e loads
of results will end up with jkl tagged onto the end. I can't figure out
when my loop is falliing over!!! Can anyone help?
Dan
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Mar 29, 2006
New to using MS SQL server!
I have a requirements DB. Before I came on board, the DB was seeded with requirements text and a requirements ID in separate columns. I've been asked to append the ID in front of the text:
Text - The user shall be able....
ID - 1.01.01.
Combined - 1.01.01.The user shall be able....
I've created the following query that displays the columns:
CREATE VIEW dbo.ReqID
AS
SELECT RQREQUIREMENTS.ID, RQREQUIREMENTS.REQUIREMENTNAME,
RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.FIELDVALUE
FROM RQREQUIREMENTS LEFT OUTER JOIN
RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES ON
RQREQUIREMENTS.ID =
RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.REQUIREMENTID
WHERE (RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.FIELDID = 171)
The Text field is REQUIREMENTNAME
The ReqId is FIELDVALUE
Should I create an UPDATE query based on this SELECT, updating the REQUIREMENTNAME column with FIELDVALUE + REQUIREMENTNAME?
Please advise - thanks!
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For example
Code:
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I also tried
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Categories: - CategoryID (int, PK) - CategoryName (varchar)
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Cannot create index on view 'dbname.dbo.vw_Documents'. It contains text, ntext, image or xml columns.
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Code:
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[Code] ....
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@var3, + iif(COALESCE( @var3,@var4) IS NULL,'',', '),
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TABLE
ColumnAColumnB
1.......A
2.......B
3.......C
4.......A
5.......A
6.......B
7.......C
8.......D
9.......C
10......E
EXPECTED OUTPUT
ColumnA ColumnB
1.......4,5
2.......6
3.......7
4.......1,5
5.......1, 4
6.......2
7.......3
8.......
9.......3,7
10......
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TableChild (ASSIGNNUM (FK), EMPLOYEENUM)
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TableParent
1....First Assignment....05/01/2008
2....Second Assignment...05/03/2008
3....Third Assignment....05/07/2008
TableChild
1....55342
2....33456
2....52343
3....35225
3....45121
3....11553
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1....First Assignment....05/01/2008....55342
2....Second Assignment...05/03/2008....33456,52343
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go
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Quote:
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It executes, but I still have the HTML encoding for the ampersand sign.
USE WI
GO
EXEC sp_dboption 'WI', 'select into/bulkcopy', 'true'
GO
DECLARE @ptrval binary(16)
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FROM Testtbl
WHERE Task like '%amp;%'
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GO
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This is the basic logic goes soemthing like this:
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