I'd like to know how I can adapt this function so it will convert a scottish/irish surname (McDonald or O'Shea) when there is only the surname in the column
This is what I'd been using for multiple words (Ronald McDonald). But it won't work on just Mcdonald. I'm sure it's just a simple tweak, but it all looks Punjabi to me?
Thanks in advance!!
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[f_ProperCase](@Text as varchar(512)) RETURNS varchar(512) as
BEGIN
DECLARE @Reset bit
DECLARE @Ret varchar(512)
DECLARE @i int
DECLARE @c char(1)
SELECT @Reset = 1, @i=1, @Ret = ''
WHILE @i <= LEN(@Text)
SELECT @c= SUBSTRING(@Text,@i,1),
@Ret = @Ret + CASE WHEN @Reset=1 THEN UPPER(@c) ELSE LOWER(@c) END,
@Reset= CASE WHEN
CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(@Text,@i-4,5) like '_[a-z] [DOL]''' THEN 1
WHEN SUBSTRING(@Text,@i-4,5) like '_[a-z] [D][I]' THEN 1
WHEN SUBSTRING(@Text,@i-4,5) like '_[a-z] [M][C]' THEN 1
ELSE 0
END = 1
THEN 1
ELSE CASE WHEN @c like '[a-zA-Z]' or @c in ('''') THEN 0
ELSE 1
END
END,
@i = @i +1
RETURN @Ret
-- Test: SELECT dbo.f_ProperCase('it''s crazy! i couldn''t believe kate mcdonald, leo dicaprio, (terrence) trent d''arby (circa the 80''s), and jada pinkett-smith all showed up to [cHris o''donnell''s] party...donning l''oreal lIpstick! They''re heading to o''neil''s pub later on t''nite. the_underscore_test. the-hyphen-test.' )
END
Hello: a nice simple question (I hope). Is there a MS SQL equivilant to PROPER (string) which would return "Fred Bloggs" from "FRED BLOGGS" and equally from "FrEd bLoggs" ? I cant find such ....
How would I convert an expression like on of these to all upper case first letters with remaining letters lower case? VB has a function for that but sql doesn't seem to. I thought about having a loop go through each character to check for spaces. I've written a couple of similar pieces of code in VB when a while ago, but is there a better way? Thanks :)
Just a couple of typical examples of how the data should appear ~
First off, I know this is a presentation issue. Second, no, I can't force a change on my source systems.
Some of the systems that send my BI application data, send that data in all upper case like so "JOHN DOE". We have this horrible SQL function that goes through and makes sure that the first letter in a word is always uppercase and the rest of the letters are lower case. So my results are "John Doe".
As you can imagine this is dreadfully slow when executed a couple of hundred million times, but what are my options?
I have not used Data Quality Services yet, but the chart in BOL says a DQS SSIS cleansing task can do 1 million records in 2 hours on a given set of hardware. That is still pretty horrible.
I suppose I could cobble together a Script task in SSIS, but I am pretty sure clumsy dotNet is not going to be much faster.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udf_ProperCase](@UnCased varchar(max)) RETURNS varchar(max) as begin declare @Reset bit; declare @Ret varchar(max);
Does the column names are case sensitive for the DFT? Recently in one of table, the column names were changed to Upper Case from Lower case and the package started failing in validation. Is there any solution / work around for this?
background: The application is case sensitive and so SQL server has been set up with case-sensitive sort order.
Initially, users were using mixed case in several fields but now they are asking to have everything lower-cased. We can change the application to only allow lower-case entry for these fields from this point forward.
My question is what to do with the previously created records. Would anybody know of a way to run a case conversion routine on all the existing records in the DB?
WHEN 'DAYS' THEN DATEDIFF(dd, CHECKOUT_TS, GETDATE())
ELSE DELIVER_ID END
FROM REQUEST
If @sortcolumn has 'DATE' or 'DAYS' it runs fine....any other value, I get an exception "Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string". All columns except CHECKOUT_TS are of type varchar.
I am designing a package to export staging tables into a flat file.The names of the tables will be: TableAStaging_YYYYMM and TableBStaging_YYYYMM. As you can see the names of the tables will be changing each month.
The flat files will have similar naming: C:MyPathFlatFileTableAStaging__YYYYMM and C:MyPathFlatFileTableAStaging__YYYYMM.I want to run the package as an sql job in two steps, one for each table.I need to dynamically pass the table names and file names (together with the path) to the IS package.
As part if a recent requirement I have to export Chinese/Singaporean names in a CSV file. The data in the tables is a NVARCHAR(256).
I am using a FlatFile Connection manager where all the present columns from the table are exported as NVARCHARs. My understanding was that the Chinese/Singaporean names would blend seamlessly with NVARCHARs in place. But, they get garbled when pushed to the CSV.
Here is the connection manager setup
There are a lot of suggestions of fixing this by copying/pasting to a notepad file and changing the formatting... But I cant do that since the file is generated using a schedules SSIS package. How can I tweak the process to fix the issue?
I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how we could find the table names and column names of the tables in our Sql server database at runtime/dynamically given our connection string? Please let me know.
I'm going to be setting up DB mirroring between two SQL Server 2005 boxes. Since these are on two different servers, can the instance names be the same? Is there any reason NOT to do so if the mirror server is going to be used exclusively for DB mirroring?
For example: if the my primary DB is located on SERVER1INSTANCE1, can the mirror be SERVER2INSTANCE1 or do the instance names have to be different even though they're on different boxes.
Hi all - I have posted inquiries on this rather vexing issue before, so I apologize in advance for revisting this. I am trying to create the code to add the parameters for two CheckBoxLists together. One CheckBoxList allows users to choose a group of Customers by Area Code, the other "CBL" allows users to select Customers by a type of Category that these Customers are grouped into. When a user selects Customers via one or the other CBL, I have no problems. If, however, the user wants to get all the Customers from one or more Area Codes who ALSO may or may not be members of one or more Categories; I have had trouble trying to create the proper SQL. What I have so far:Protected Sub btn_CustomerSearchCombined_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btn_CustomerSearchCombined.Click Dim CSC_SqlString As String = "SELECT Customers.CustomerID, Customers.CustomerName, Customers.CategoryID, Customers.EstHours, Customers.Locality, Category.Category FROM Customers INNER JOIN Category ON Customers.CategoryID = Category.CategoryID WHERE " Dim ACItem As ListItem Dim CATItem As ListItem For Each ACItem In cbl_CustomersearchAREA.Items If ACItem.Selected Then CSC_SqlString &= "Customers.AreaCodeID = '" & ACItem.Value & "' OR " End If Next CSC_SqlString &= "' AND " <-- this is the heart of my problem, I believe For Each CATItem In cbl_CustomersearchCAT.Items If CATItem.Selected Then CSC_SqlString &= "Customers.CategoryID = '" & CATItem.Value & "' OR " End If Next CSC_SqlString = Left(CSC_SqlString, Len(CSC_SqlString) - 4) CSC_SqlString &= "ORDER By Categories.Category" sql_CustomersearchGrid.SelectCommand = CSC_SqlString End SubAny help on this is much appreciated, many thanks --
I have a tsql where I need to do a patindex on a variable and check if a record exists to meet the where clause for a IF statement below. What am I doing wrong
declare @l_orderid int set @l_orderid = 18 declare @l_SIGShort varchar(20) set @l_SIGShort = '~KOP~' -- KOP Orders print patindex ( '%~KOP~%', @l_SIGShort) if patindex ( '%~KOP~%', @l_SIGShort) <> 0 and (if exists (select * from orderoptions where orderid = @l_orderid and ordertype = 'KOP'))
Hello there. I'm trying to populate a drop down box with a list of all available instances of SQL server (express or not) available on a network. To list all instances I'm using EnumAvailableServers() in SmoApplication.
The issue is that the Instance column in the returned data table is always empty, and both the Name and the Server columns contain the same string -- the name of the computer the SQL server is installed. Locally I have SSE installed, the instance name is <computer_name>SQLEXPRESS, however, using Smo I can't seem to get to the either full instance name or just the instance name. I can't assume SQLEXPRESS, since there may be more than one installed.
Alternately I used EnumRegisteredServers() in SmoApplication.SqlServerRegistrations and that, while returning instance information (can be retrieved from the RegisteredServer in the returned collection), doesn't always return the remote SQL servers in the list.
Any idea how can this be done? Maybe I'm going at it the wrong way, maybe there's another class / method I need to use to retrieve all instances?
Greetings, I seem to be getting a problem during installing SQL 7.0 over the SQL 7.0 beta. It tells me that there are ODBC components need to be upgraded and they are read only ... I can find no way of changing this.
Alternatively if I remove the beta and then install the proper version, will all the old db created under the beta still be recognised ?
Kris Klasen
Act. Manager, Data Warehouse Project Information Management Branch Department of Education
I have been told that simply stopping the SQL server service and backing up the data directory is all I have to do to do a backup of my data. Is this accurate?
I am no stranger to Databases, I worked a lot with MySQL but never really cared about proper DB design as long as it worked. Now I am playing with SQL in a ASP.NET project and want to get things done the right way.Let's say I have a Movies database. My movies can have multiple genres so I set my tables up like this:
[Movies] MovieID MovieName MovieRelease
[code]....
Is this the proper way of doing things? The problem with this is when I want to enter a record manually I have to know the ID of the movie and the ID of the Genres of the movie. And what about naming conventions? By default the identifier is always Id, from my MySQL experience I liked naming it like the table, same goes with other columns. This is my T-SQL code for above tables in VS-2013.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Movies] ( [MovieID] INT IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL, [MovieName] VARCHAR (50) NOT NULL, [MovieRelease] NUMERIC (18) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_Movies] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([MovieID] ASC)
I read some questions where questioners ask "Sometimes client gives data where dates are expressed as float or integer values. How do I find maximum date?".
Ex March 02, 2006 can be expressed as 02032006.0 020306 2032006 20306 020306.0000 2032006 Assuming the values are expressed in dmy format
The possible way is convert that value into proper date so that all types of date related calculations can be done Create function proper_date (@date_val varchar(25)) returns datetime as Begin Select @date_val= case when @date_val like '%.0%' then substring(@date_val,1,charindex('.',@date_val)-1) else @date_val end return cast( case when @date_val like '%[a-zA-Z-/]%' then case when ISDATE(@date_val)=1 then @date_val else NULL end when len(@date_val)=8 then right(@date_val,4)+'-'+substring(@date_val,3,2)+'-'+left(@date_val,2) when len(@date_val)=7 then right(@date_val,4)+'-'+substring(@date_val,2,2)+'-0'+left(@date_val,1) when len(@date_val)=6 then case when right(@date_val,2)<50 then '20' else '19' end +right(@date_val,2)+'-'+substring(@date_val,3,2)+'-'+left(@date_val,2) when len(@date_val)=5 then case when right(@date_val,2)<50 then '20' else '19' end +right(@date_val,2)+'-'+substring(@date_val,2,2)+'-0'+left(@date_val,1) else case when ISDATE(@date_val)=1 then @date_val else NULL end end as datetime ) End
This function will convert them into proper date select dbo.proper_date('02032006.0') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('020306.000') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('02032006') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('020306') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('20306') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('020306') as proper_date
Apart from converting integer or float values to date, it will also convert date strings to date Select dbo.proper_date('March 2, 2006') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('2 Mar, 2006') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('2006 Mar 2') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('2-Mar-2006') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('3/02/2006') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('02-03-2006') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('2006/03/02') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('March 2006') as proper_date, dbo.proper_date('2 Mar 2006') as proper_date
What is the proper way to return the identity of a newly inserted row from a stored procedure? Using a return value or a select statement? (I guess as an output parameter should also be considered...) As in
RETURN SCOPE_IDENTITY()
or
SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()
What are the pros/cons of using one approach over the other?
I have two xml queries that take long: the 1st query takes about 5 minutes (returns 700 rows) and the 2nd query takes about 10 minutes (returns 4 rows). The total rows in the table is about 2 million. There are three secondary indexes: Property, Value and Path in addition to the clustered index on CardID and Primary XML index. Here is the table definition:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Cards] ( [CardId] [int] NOT NULL, [Card] [xml] NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_dbo_Cards_CardId] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([CardId] ASC)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
[code]...
Looking at the execution plan, the query uses the Primary XML Index even if I add any of the secondary xml indexes. My question is why does not the optimizer use the Property 2ndary index instead of the Primary XML Index? Microsoft recommends that creating a Property index for Value() method of the xml datatype would work to provide a performance benefit. What would be another alternative to make the query run faster?
Hello, I have one package that seems to have continuous problems with memory. As of right now it loads a little over 1 million records. I tried leveraging the property, BufferTempStoragePath, but I don't seem to have the right path name. What sort of path do you put there? File? Folder? If it is a file, what sort of file should it be... text, dat, xml? If someone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
PS: Below are the error messages I am getting: [DTS.Pipeline] Information: The buffer manager detected that the system was low on virtual memory, but was unable to swap out any buffers. 4 buffers were considered and 4 were locked. Either not enough memory is available to the pipeline because not enough is installed, other processes are using it, or too many buffers are locked.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: The buffer manager cannot create a temporary storage file on any path in the BufferTempStoragePath property. There is an incorrect file name or no permission.
I'm developing an app that uses Service Broker queues to allow a customer to create "events" that fire using a timer or a query notification. When these events fire, a message is sent to a Service Broker queue for processing. Because there is much managed code involved in processing these messages, I decided to use the External Activator application and an Event Notification to process these messages. My question is "what is the difference between using the External Activator application to launch another application (which simply RECEIVEs a message from the target queue and processes it) and creating a windows service that simply monitors the target queue (with a WAITFOR = -1 clause) and processes it?"
I guess I'm not sure how using the QUEUE_ACTIVATION Event Notification is really helping me.
I have a .csv file that lists date like this: "20070522", no hyphens or spaces. In the file connection manager I have the column defined as string. The database column is a datetime.
When I attempt to load the file to the table, I get this error:
[OLE DB Destination [9]] Error: There was an error with input column "effective date" (155) on input "OLE DB Destination Input" (22). The column status returned was: "The value could not be converted because of a potential loss of data.".
My question is, what do I need to do to this column so that I can load it into the database?
