Recursively Concatenate Strings?
Nov 10, 2006
I have a table within a table that contains descriptions of work done as strings. Some of these need to be edited after a report is generated so it needs to be exported to Excel.
As everyone knows Excel can't process a table within a table so I need a way to concatenate all the separate row entries in the nested table to one Field entry so the nested table is no longer necessary.
Is there a way to recursively concatenate strings from the report designer?
The number of rows that need to be concatenated is variable so it has to be flexible.
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Feb 19, 2007
I have a whole bunch of bit fields in an SQL data base, which makes it a little messy to report on.
I thought a nice idea would be to assigne a text string/null value to each bit field and concatenate all of them into a result.
This is the basic logic goes soemthing like this:
select case new_accountant = 1 then 'acct/' end +
case new_advisor = 1 then 'adv/' end +
case new_attorney = 1 then 'atty/' end as String
from new_database
The output would be
Null, acct/, adv/, atty, acct/adv/, acct/atty/... acct/adv/atty/
So far, nothing I have tried has worked.
Any ideas?
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May 2, 2008
Hi,
Whats wrong with the following T-SQL?
DECLARE @SQL NCHAR(4000)
SELECT @SQL = 'xxxx'
SELECT @SQL = @SQL + ' yyyy'
PRINT @SQL
I'm only seeing 'xxxx' in the debug window so it appears that its not adding the 2 strings?
Weird?!?
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Jul 20, 2005
I am trying to export data from a SQLServer database into a text fileusing a stored procedure. I want to be able to read it and debug iteasily; therefore, I want all the columns to indent nicely. This meansI need to append trailing spaces to a text string (such as "Test1 ")or append leading space in front of a text string that contains anumber (such as " 12.00"). Now, the stored procedure works fine whenI run it in Query Analyzer. But it doesn't work correctly when I runit using ISQL - All the columns are not indented. I am wondering whyit doesn't work in ISQL.This is what I want, and this is also what I get when I run the storedprocedure using Query Analyzer:Test1 , 2,Test1.txt , 1.00, 1.00Test22 , 2,Test22.txt , ,Test333 , 2,Test333.txt , 30.00, 30.00This is what I get if I run the stored procedure using ISQL(isql -S myserver -E -w 556 -h-1 -n -d mydb -Q "exec MyTest"):Test1, 2,Test1.txt, 1.00, 1.00Test22, 2,Test22.txt, ,Test333, 2,Test333.txt, 30.00, 30.00You can see that the result from ISQL has the following differences:1. It puts a space in front of each row.2. It appends enough spaces at the end of each line to makethe line length to be exactly 61 characters.3. It gets rid of the trailing space from each column.4. It leaves only one blank space if the column has nothingbut a serie of spaces.The following is the stored procedure that I am testing:create procedure MyTestasset nocount oncreate table #Test(Field1 varchar(10) null,Field2 varchar( 5) null,Field3 varchar(20) null,Field4 varchar(10) null,Field5 varchar(10) null)insert into #Test values( "Test1 ", " 2","Test1.txt ", " 1.00", " 1.00" )insert into #Test values( "Test22 ", " 2","Test22.txt ", " ", " " )insert into #Test values( "Test333 ", " 2","Test333.txt ", " 30.00", " 30.00" )select Field1 + "," +Field2 + "," +Field3 + "," +Field4 + "," +Field5from #Testdrop table #TestgoStrangely, the differences #3 and #4 only show up when I use theSELECT statement on a table. They don't show up when I use SELECTstatements to show constant text strings or string variables, likethis:set nocount onselect "Test1 " + "," +" 2" + "," +"Test1.txt " + "," +" 1.00" + "," +" 1.00"select "Test22 " + "," +" 2" + "," +"Test22.txt " + "," +" " + "," +" "select "Test333 " + "," +" 2" + "," +"Test333.txt " + "," +" 30.00" + "," +" 30.00"The result is like the following if I use constant text strings orstring variables:Test1 , 2,Test1.txt , 1.00, 1.00Test22 , 2,Test22.txt , ,Test333 , 2,Test333.txt , 30.00, 30.00I need to run it from ISQL because that is how I run _all_ my otherstored procedures. I don't want to do anything differently justbecause I need to run this stored procedure.Thanks in advance for any suggestion.Jay Chan
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Sep 12, 2007
Hi--
I am uncertain how to do this. I am thinking it could be done in a script component, but after a day of experimentation, I'm not getting any closer. I'd also like to know if there is another component I may be able to use for this.
I have data coming from an Excel Spreadsheet that looks like this:
CustNumb Invoice
1 a
1 b
2 c
3 d
3 e
3 f
I would like an output that looks like this:
CustNumb Invoice
1 a, b
2 c
3 d, e, f
I am not even sure if I should be trying to do this in the subroutine that looks at each row or the one that looks at the entire buffer.
Thanks for any help or ideas...
Hilary
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Feb 12, 2001
Hi !
I have an EMPLOYEE table as below.
Table - EMPLOYEE
Id (Int) (P)
EmployeeName Varchar(30)
Parent_Id (Int) (Reference to EMPLOYEE.Id)
I want to retrieve all the Employees of any given Manager.
For eg: Given a CEO, I want to retrieve all the Managers and Sub Managers and Sub Sub Managers ... under it.
This is a typical example of a Self join Table. How can I do that.
Can anyone help ??
Regards.
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Jun 28, 2007
Hi,
I'm building an application where items are part of hierarchical "chain" consisting of chain segments.
Here are the relevant tables.
Chains:
Id (int)
UserId (Guid)
ChainSegments:
Id (int)
ChainId (int - foreign key to Chains table)
ParentId (int - foreign key to Id column in same table)
UserId (Guid)
There are more columns in ChainSegments but they are not relevant in this context.
You can see here that ChainSegments belong to Chains and ChainSegments can have other ChainSegments as children.
I'm trying to write a recursive Sql query that finds a ChainSegment for a given ChainId and recursively selects its "child" ChainSegments for a given number of iterations. Hope this is making sense so far :-)
Here's what I've got:
GO
WITH ChainSegmentTree (Id, ParentId, Level)
AS
(
-- Anchor member definition
SELECT a.Id, a.ParentId,
0 AS Level
FROM ChainSegments AS a
INNER JOIN ChainSegments AS b
ON a.Id = b.ParentId
WHERE a.ParentId IS NULL
UNION ALL
-- Recursive member definition
SELECT a.Id, a.ParentId,
Level + 1
FROM ChainSegments AS a
INNER JOIN ChainSegments AS b
ON a.Id = b.ParentId
INNER JOIN ChainSegmentTree AS c
ON a.Id = c.ParentId
)
-- Statement that executes the CTE
SELECT e.Id, e.ParentId, Level
FROM ChainSegmentTree AS e
INNER JOIN ChainSegments AS f
ON e.Id = f.Id
WHERE Level = 0;
GO
I've based this on an example I found here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186243.aspx
Unfortunately this only returns one row, the "root" ChainSegment (ParentId = null) and nothing else.
I'm admittedly rubbish at Sql and would really appreciate any help that could be offered here.
Many thanks,
Ed
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May 19, 2006
I have a Table that contains Items of the Type "Step". The primary keyis "StepID". Each step can have have a target step, wich represents asubsequent step. So I have a Foreign key relationship within the sametable:Primary Key: StepID --> Foreign Key: TargetStepIDNow if I want to insert a group of new Steps into the table, I can onlyinsert steps whose target step is already insterted to the table. Howwould I solve this problem ? Do I need to write my own client side (Iam using ADO.NET / C#) that loops through the targetsteps and insertsthe targetsteps first ? Or is there a more celver way to do this ?
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi all.If my table looks like the followingEMPLID NAME BU SAL ELIG_CONFIG11001 Tom 10 500001002 Sarah 10 490001003 John 20 450001005 Jane 10 67000Now I would like to populate ELIOG_CONFIG with the value that is inBU. How is this done recursively so that Tom's ELIG-CONFIG1 = 10 andJohn's ELIG_CONFIG1 = 20 etc.EMPLID NAME BU SAL ELIG_CONFIG11001 Tom 10 50000 101002 Sarah 10 49000 101003 John 20 45000 201005 Jane 10 67000 10update PS_JOB set ELIG_CONFIG1 = (select BU from PS_JOB where.........)How is this done recursively thorugh the whole table?Does this make sense. Assume for example that EMPLID is KEY.John
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Oct 18, 2005
I have found the Common Table Expressions described in SQL 2005 and Iam not sure if it applies to this situation.Here are the tables<PRE><B>ManagedServer Table</B>--IdManagedServer (PK, int, not Null)--Name (nvarchar(256), not null)<B>ManagedServerToManagedServer Table</B>--IdParentManagedServer (PK, int, not null)--IdChildManagedServer (PK, int, not null)</PRE>The following will give you the parent-- Get Managed Server Group NamesLEFT OUTER JOIN ManagedServerToManagedServer mstms ONms.IdManagedServer = mstms.IdChildManagedServerLEFT OUTER JOIN ManagedServer msg ON mstms.IdParentManagedServer =msg.IdManagedServerHow would you go about getting all of the "parents" in the tree?Can this be done with CTEs? Unfortuately all of the examples found arejoining on itself.
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Aug 16, 2015
I want to recursively select all records within a hierarchy, using the main parentid and a textvalue on level 1 OR level 2 of the subcategories.
My data:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[articlegroups](
[id] [int] NOT NULL,
[parentid] [int] NOT NULL,
[catlevel] [tinyint] NOT NULL,
[slug_en] [nvarchar](50) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_globos_articlegroups] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[Code] ...
When selecting rows I always have the main parentId (so catlevel 0) and the slug_en value.
In my example case I have id 129 and slug_en='cradles'.
I want my query to then return:
idparentidcatlevel
12900
1301291
1361302If I have id 129 and slug_en='pillows'.
I want my query to then return:
idparentidcatlevel
12900
1391291
How can I do this? I'm new to SQL Server. I was reading here [URL] .... on recursive SQL, but how to implement this as I just have one table and I also have 2 selection criteria (main category id and a text value on either level 1 or 2).
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Feb 1, 2007
Need help. How to concat into 1 row from the example below:
Table Address
Block Flr Road
2 1 Green
3 - Maine
4 3 Bell
5 2 Prade
Result :
Block 2 Flr 1 Green Road
Block 3 Maine Road
Block 4 Flr 3 Bell Road
Block 5 Flr 2 Prade Road
Cheers!
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Aug 31, 2007
is it possible to concatenate 2 recordsets ? i have 2 select, and i need then to be displayed one after other.using union all the results are gathered, ordered like only one select.thanks for all
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Oct 1, 2007
Hi, I am trying to write some simple SQL to join two fields within a table, the primary key is an int and the other field is a varchar. But i am receiving the error:'Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ',' to data type int.The SQL I am trying to use is:select game_no + ',' + team_name as matchfrom result Thanks
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Feb 23, 2001
I'm trying to use a variable (@sqlfields1) for building a select statement.
Can someone please help me because the variable isn't set correctly when I'm trying to concatenate it with itself (the "@sqlfields1"-variable is declared as "char(50)":
If @showo1 = 1
select @sqlfields1 = 'o1,'
If @showo5 = 1
select @sqlfields1 = @sqlfields1 + 'o5'
I want @sqlfields1 to be = 'o1, o5'.
Regards,
Abrazame
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Oct 25, 2004
Please help me with this if you can.
I have one table with CustomerID and some other data.
In other table i have CustomerID(the link with the first table) and Agent
The relation of the first with the second one is ONE TO MANY.
I want something like this:
Customer,'Agent1,Agent2,Agent3'
Is it possible.
Please help :)
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Jul 27, 2007
Hey all
Just like the title asks...Is it possible...I have a table that stores memos but breaks the memo text field up and assigns a key to associate it all as one big text field in the application. What I am needing to do is to create a custom table for a customization to have the memo txt in one row per customer, per memo number. So, is there any way to concatenate memotext into one row per memo?
Thanks
tibor
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Aug 31, 2007
is it possible to concatenate 2 recordsets ?
i have 2 selects and i want to display all results from the first
select and then the results from the second select query
with paging.
if i use union, all the results will be mixed.
thanks for the help!
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Sep 29, 2012
Is there a way to concatenate the values of a particular field together into one field for all the records in each group of a GROUP BY without using XML?
Ideally, I want to accomplish this in a stored procedure. Normally, I would handle this in the front end, but my front end is Crystal ...
For example, if my data was:
1 "A"
1 "B"
1 "C"
2 "D"
2 "E"
I want to group by the first value and concatenate the second value:
1 "A,B,C"
2 "D,E"
Very easy using code - I simply add a function to the query in Access (not very efficient, but effective), or using recordsets in the app (which is actually very efficient) except my front end is Crystal in this case .
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Mar 30, 2014
I have a table like so
code remarks
1234 abcd
4567 efgh
I need to concatenate the values in the remarks column into one row like below
abcd, efgh....how is it possible
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Jan 25, 2007
I have a table like below.
certid name
1 xxx
1 yyy
1 cvb
now I want to output as xxx,yyy,cvb when i pass input certid=1
I want to get it using a single query statement
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Mar 5, 2007
I hope this is the correct place to ask this...
I would like to concatenate a String value to an Int value using an SQL statement. At the moment it reads like this:
SELECT 'website.com/shop/product.cfm?ProductID=' + Products.ProductID AS Product_URL
But unfortunately I am getting the error:
"Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'website.com/shop/product.cfm?ProductID=' to data type int."
Any idea how to get around this at all just using an SQL query statement?
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Mar 27, 2007
-- Prepare sample data
DECLARE@Sample TABLE (ID INT, Code VARCHAR(3))
INSERT@Sample
SELECT290780, 'LT' UNION ALL
SELECT290780, 'AY' UNION ALL
SELECT290781, 'ILS' UNION ALL
SELECT290780, 'AY'
-- Show the expected output
SELECT DISTINCTs1.ID,
STUFF((SELECT DISTINCT TOP 100 PERCENT ',' + s2.CODE FROM @Sample AS s2 WHERE s2.ID = s1.ID ORDER BY ',' + s2.CODE FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') AS CODES
FROM@Sample AS s1
ORDER BYs1.ID
SELECT DISTINCTs1.ID,
STUFF((SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT ',' + s2.CODE FROM @Sample AS s2 WHERE s2.ID = s1.ID ORDER BY ',' + s2.CODE FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') AS CODES
FROM@Sample AS s1
ORDER BYs1.ID
SELECT DISTINCTs1.ID,
STUFF((SELECT ',' + s2.CODE FROM @Sample AS s2 WHERE s2.ID = s1.ID FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') AS CODES
FROM@Sample AS s1
ORDER BYs1.ID
Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden
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Jul 23, 2005
I am beggining to learn stored procedures and I am trying toconcatenate the where clause below but I keep getting an error:declare @sqlwhere varchar(15)set @sqlwhere = 'parentid=2'select * from categories where @sqlwhereThis is the error I am gettingServer: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 3Line 3: Incorrect syntax near '@sqlwhere'.What am I doing wrong?ThanksRod
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Jul 20, 2005
hi.Trying to concatenate two columns:select uname+' '+uaddress as NameAdr from tblUserI only get the first field, name!!??The datatype is both nvarchar. 100 and 50 chars long.If I run this query:select uname, uaddress from tblUsertheres no problem.Any suggestions?ThanksSWN
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Oct 9, 2007
Hi there,
We are storing dates in a SQL table as dayPublished, monthPublished, yearPublished because sometimes not all the values are available.
I thought something like
select dbo.Resources.monthPublished + '/' + dbo.Resources.dayPublished + '/' + dbo.Resources.yearPublished as fullDate
but it doesn't like my slashes, and if I leave them out it simply adds the three fields together. Boo!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Megan
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Jan 16, 2008
Hi,
I have a big problem, as I commented in other thread in this forum I Have a DataReader with an MDX query which right now runs out of memory, but I figured that if I made the query by range I could get what I need without running out of memory. However, to achieve that I need to concatenate at the end of a file with a Flat File destination, the result of every query, but I don't know how to do it, It always writes over the data.
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Sep 20, 2007
Hi
I have a table similar to the following:
Date ID Name Job Number JobType
12/12/2007 123456 Fred Smith 111111 Full Day
12/12/2007 654321 Bob Blue 222222 Half Day AM
12/12/2007 654321 Bob Blue 333333 Half Day PM
I need the following output:
Date ID Name Job Number JobType
12/12/2007 123456 Fred Smith 111111 Full Day
12/12/2007 654321 Bob Blue 222222 Half Day AM
12/12/2007 654321 Bob Blue 333333 Half Day PM
Now before you say the output is the same . It isn't! There are only 2 records in the output. The italic lines are one record, with a carriage return linefeed between each piece of data. So for job number the field is equal to 111111 + CHAR(10) + CHAR(13) + 222222
Could someone please point me in the right direction?
Cheers
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Mar 4, 2008
Hi All,
I have a very simple question which I can't seem to find an easy way of doing in SSIS. (Alternatively I may be having a "Can't see the wood for the trees" moment )
I have a folder where files are deposited on a regular basis . (Every few seconds)
I want to take those files and concatenate them into a single file in another directory ready for processing.
The equivelent command prompt line would be copy c: estfiles*.* c: estfilescatteddata.dat
How would I be best doing this in SSIS? Also I could do with working out the best way to quiesce the folder so I don't get any locked files errors.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Nick
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Feb 13, 2008
Is there any way of concatenating 2 fields and a seperator, an id (integer) then "|||" then a nvarchar field, it would make my life much easier if I could come up with SQL that works in ms access as well as sql server.. Thanks
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Feb 20, 2008
Hi all I need some help in concatenatng a string in T-SQL. Having used the Command Microsoft Access inside the 'SQL View' window and typed the following it worked perfectly.
Code Snippet
UPDATE tblValidUsers SET blocked_users = blocked_users + 'name_123@hotmail.com;' WHERE userid='Onam'
However attempting the same command in T-SQL I get the following error:
Msg 403, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Invalid operator for data type. Operator equals add, type equals text.
Reason for having this command is I want to be able to add something to the end of the field "blocked_users" without actually overwriting the fields contents.
So for instance if I had the items: "Item1, Item2, Item3" in blocked_users and I updated it with "Item4" then the value "Item4" would be added to the end thus the use of "+" is used to concatenate. Is there a way of doing this in T-SQL?
Thanks for the help, Onam
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May 13, 2015
I have the below problem:
DECLARE @t TABLE
(
ID int,
Name nvarchar(255)
)
INSERT INTO @t
SELECT 1, 'Raven'
[Code] ....
Returns the below:
ID Name
1 Raven
4 Raven
43 Jack
Any names which are appearing twice I would like to have only one row so concatenate the IDs into one row for each Name, like below:
ID Name
1, 4 Raven
43 Jack
Is this possible?
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Oct 28, 2007
Hi everyone,
I'm writing a stored procedure where I need to concatenate two XML strings.
I would normally write XMLx = XMLy + XMLz
However because the variables are in XML SQL2005 doesn't like this and if I convert them to strings the XML structure gets lost.
Anyone any ideas ?
Thanks
D.
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