Removing Records With Spaces In Fields
Mar 26, 2008How do i eliminate records which has spaces
i tried with
select * from table
where col1 !='' or
col1 is not null
which doesn't work.. any help.
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Reporting Services :: How To Remove Blank Spaces After Removing Duplicated Records
Aug 18, 2015I wanted to remove duplicate records from SSRS report. I set the "Hide Duplicates" to True. It is now working, But i am getting the space between the two records, which i want to get rid of. How to get rid of extra spaces between two records ( Please find the details below).
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Aug 31, 2006Hi. In our database, we have a Social Security Number field. We've made application upgrades and we can no longer have the dashes ( - ) between the numbers. So, I ran this update on our database to remove all the dashes. it did remove all the dashes except it put spaces in its spot:
UPDATE DefendantCase SET SSN = REPLACE(SSN, '-','')
so, i tried this query and it does nothing.
UPDATE DefendantCase SET SSN = REPLACE(SSN, ' ','')
does anybody have any ideas? Thanks!
Reportviewer Removing Spaces
Oct 17, 2007Hi there,
I have a text box with the following expression:
="OEM Part Code" + " " + "Part Code" +" " + "Part Description"
As you can see, there is a lot of spaces in here. The reportviewer removes these spaces. so that it look like
OEM Part Code Part Code Part Description"
Instead of
OEM Part Code Part Code Part Description
Why is it doing this?
Can I stop it from doing this?
Regards
Mikey
Removing Spaces Between Words In Sql
Mar 20, 2007I guess there is no built in functions to do this but I have a function that replaces anything that is not A-Z with a space and returns @data. What I additionally need the function to do is scrunch up @data (remove all blanks betwwen each word so that 'I ran very fast' would be 'Iranveryfast').
What I need help in doing is the "Scrunch" part. Is there a way I could move the @Data to something like @DataHold and inspect each character, if it is not a blank, move that character back to @Data?
This was pretty easy for me to do in C# with a while loop, but I do not know how to get it done in SQL Server 2005.
Thanks for any help!
Removing Leading And Trainling Spaces
Dec 10, 2001I loaded data into a CHAR fields from Legacy.
How to remove those leading spaces with in SQL server...?
UPDATE - Removing Trailing Spaces
Jul 20, 2005I have three columns, RecordID, FirstName, and LastName, but somehowthrough some program glitch, there is sometimes a trailing space inthe firstname and lastname columns, for example, a persons name couldbe entered as "John " "Smith" or "Bob " "Johnson "I know there is a RTRIM function in sql, but the problem I/m having ismaking an update line go through each row, and removing trailingspaces on those two columns. Any help will be greatly appreciated.Thanks in advance.
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Jul 20, 2005Hello,This is a simple question, hopefully with a simple answer. I havean nvarchar column of length 255. In one of the rows I have thefollowing sentance - 'See the brown ball bounce'. Is it possible touse a command to remove all of the spaces in that sentance, so thatthe sentance reads 'Seethebrownballbounce'? As you can see, I am notjust interested in getting rid of the trailing and leading spaces.Thanks,Billy
View 1 Replies View RelatedRemoving Non-alpha Characters && Spaces Script...
Dec 6, 2006Hi I am trying to strip out any non-alpha characters from a field.
i.e. Field = ABC"_IT8*$ should return: ABCIT8
I am writing a loop to do this for all values of a field. The script runs, but hangs....please could somebody advise on the code below...:
I run the script but it doesn't seem to finish. Can anybody see any issues with the code:
DECLARE @Index SMALLINT,
@MATCH_Supplier_name varchar(500),
@Counter numeric,
@Max numeric
-- @sqlstring varchar(500)
SET @Counter = 1
SET @Max = (SELECT Max(DTect_Supplier_SRN) FROM SUPPLIER_TABLE_TEST)
WHILE @Counter <@Max
BEGIN
SET @MATCH_Supplier_name = (SELECT Match_Supplier_Name FROM SUPPLIER_TABLE_TEST WHERE @Counter = DTect_Supplier_SRN)
SET @Index = LEN(@MATCH_Supplier_name)
WHILE @Index > = 1
SET @MATCH_Supplier_name = CASE
WHEN SUBSTRING(@MATCH_Supplier_name, @Index, 1) LIKE '[a-zA-Z]' TH EN SUBSTRING(@MATCH_Supplier_name, @Index, 1)
WHEN SUBSTRING(@MATCH_Supplier_name, @Index, 1) LIKE '[0-9]' THEN SUBSTRING(@MATCH_Supplier_name, @Index, 1)
ELSE ''
END + @MATCH_Supplier_name
SET @Index = @Index - 1
--PRINT @MATCH_Supplier_name
SET @Counter = @Counter + 1
END
T-SQL (SS2K8) :: RTRIM Not Removing Trailing Spaces?
Jul 14, 2014I am loading a dimension using a distinct query.There are duplicates coming through and the only differnce is a trailing space on one of the columns.
RTRIM is not removing the space.
how i can fix it?
Removing White Spaces In A Varchar Column
Sep 15, 2005I have a table . It has a nullable column called AccountNumber, whichis of varchar type. The AccountNumber is alpha-numeric. I want to takedata from this table and process it for my application. Before doingthat I would like to filter out duplicate AccountNumbers. I get most ofthe duplicates filtered out by using this query:select * from customerswhere AccountNumber NOT IN (select AccountNumber from customers whereAccountNumber <> '' group by AccountNumber having count(AccountNumber)[color=blue]> 1)[/color]But there are few duplicate entries where the actual AccountNumber issame, but there is a trailing space in first one, and hence thisduplicate records are not getting filtered out. e.g"abc123<white-space>" and "abc123" are considered two different entriesby above query.I ran a query like :update customers set AccountNumber = LTRIM(RTRIM(AccountNumber)But even after this query, the trailing space remains, and I am notable to filter out those entries.Am I missing anything here? Can somebody help me in making sure Ifilter out all duplicate entries ?Thanks,Rad
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Jan 31, 2006Hi,
Whenever I insert a record into my table it adds trailing white spaces up to the amount of char's that the field is set to allow. Obviously I don't want it to do this.
Among other problems then when I get the data back out it has a ton of white spaces, which normally wouldn't be a problem. i could just use the .Trim() function, but for some reason when I bind the data to a drop down list and use the .Trim() function it doesn't trim the white spaces.
Anyways any ideas on how to make it so the white spaces don't get put in in the first place?? Or any other thoughts on this?? Thanks!
Trailing Spaces Added To All Fields
Mar 15, 2006For some reason, there are extra trailing spaces being added to all my
data as it is placed in the db. I am collecting information from,
processing a TRIM-like function in javascript, and then again in the
ASP.net code before it is being placed in the db.
The extra spaces are causing problems with my application.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
SQL 2012 :: Query To Make Single Records From Multiple Records Based On Different Fields Of Different Records?
Mar 20, 2014writing the query for the following, I need to collapse the continuity. If the termdate for an ID is one day less than the effdate of the next id (for the same ID) i need to collapse the records. See below example .....how should i write the query which will give me the desired output. i.e., get min(effdate) and max(termdate) if termdate is one day less than the effdate of next record.
ID effdate termdate
556868 1999-01-01 1999-06-30
556868 1999-07-01 1999-10-31
556869 2002-10-01 2004-01-31
556872 1999-02-01 2000-08-31
556872 2000-11-01 2004-01-31
556872 2004-02-01 2004-02-29
output should be ......
ID effdate termdate
556868 1999-01-01 1999-10-31
556869 2002-10-01 2004-01-31
556872 1999-02-01 2000-08-31
556872 2000-11-01 2004-02-29
Create Output File In A Specific Layout - Extra Spaces Between Fields
Mar 17, 2014I'm trying to create an output file in a specific layout. For some reason my output file is adding an extra 10 spaces between the Account Number and the Check Number in the statement below. The rest of the output file looks fine. Where the extra 10 spaces are coming from? I need 1 Filler Space between these fields.
SELECT DISTINCT
CASE p.PaymentMethodID WHEN 10 THEN 'I' WHEN 60 THEN 'V' WHEN 50 THEN 'S' ELSE 'I' END
+ CONVERT(CHAR(1), '')
+ (REPLICATE('0', 20 - LEN(ba.AccountNumber))+ CONVERT(CHAR(20), ba.AccountNumber))
+ CONVERT(CHAR(1), '')
+ (REPLICATE('0', 18 - LEN(p.CheckNumber)) + CONVERT(VARCHAR(18), p.CheckNumber))
[Code] .....
Create TRIGGER Remove White Spaces From A Fields In Table-scan And Fix
Apr 21, 2008hi
i have table i use it for update insert
and the users use this table from a grid on the web
and i need to prevent from white space in the fields in table
so how to
create TRIGGER remove white space from a fields in table scan and fix it ?
Code Snippet
SELECT TRIM(fieldname)
, LTRIM(fieldname)
, RTRIM(fieldname)
, LTRIM(RTRIM(fieldname))
FROM tablename
Code Snippet
WHERE (LTRIM(RTRIM(fieldname)) = 'Approve')
Code Snippet
replace(@text,' ','')
create TRIGGER on update insert and not to damage the text in the all fields
TNX
Removing 0 And Copying Fields To Other Tables
May 19, 2008Hi guys,
please help.
I use to copy one column from one database to another database. What query should I use?
moreover,
How can I convert this
code
000001
the result would be
code
1
thanks!
How To Remove Blank Spaces In Records??
Jun 23, 2005We imported approximately 2.9 million records from our mainframe server
into our SQL Server but have run into a problem. The data in a
few of the fields contains both leading and trailing spaces. An
example of the data would be like this, using periods to represent
spaces:
What we have:
..1A02938.....
What we need:
1A02938 (no spaces)
Is there some sort of algorithm I can run on the data to remove
those spaces? The problem is coming up when trying to perform a
SELECT query. We try something like:
SELECT * FROM PCPIPT0 WHERE PANO20 = "1A02938" but we get zero
results because of the spaces in the database. The datatype of
the filed is char(20) because we need some flexibility on the size of
the data stored.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Removing Duplicated Records
Dec 2, 2005Hi,
Need to remove the duplicated rows from a table which has text/ntext/image type columns. The table does not have any PK/Unique column. (I accept its a bad data model). But currently changing the data model is not possible. Hence doing changes in application.
I couldn't do 'SELECT DISTINCT * from table', since the table has text columns. Though there is no PK constraint, If I know that col1 and col2 are join PKs in the table, Is that possible to select the distinct rows from such a table.
Please advise,
Thanks,
MiraJ
Removing Duplicate Records
Dec 5, 2007Dear All
This is query i have written is giving following output.
FormCodeRefCodeSerialnoDateTime
R1-196H1-68A12232138/6/2007 19:38:11
R1-196H1-68A12232138/6/2007 19:38:14
R1-205H1-67XS23124148/6/2007 19:36:08
R1-205H1-67XS23124148/6/2007 19:36:10
R1-220H1-66F433365348/6/2007 19:30:27
R1-220H1-66F433365348/6/2007 19:30:29
R1-400H1-64ER53436648/6/2007 19:24:23
R1-400H1-64ER53436648/6/2007 19:24:26
R1-408H1-65TE4626268/6/2007 19:24:23
R1-408H1-65TE4626268/6/2007 19:25:00
I want the output like this,it should take only Min Datecreated
FormCodeRefCodeSerialnoDateTime
R1-196H1-68A12232138/6/2007 19:38:14
R1-205H1-67XS23124148/6/2007 19:36:08
R1-220H1-66F433365348/6/2007 19:30:27
R1-400H1-64ER53436648/6/2007 19:24:23
R1-408H1-65TE4626268/6/2007 19:24:23
Removing Duplicate Records
Jul 11, 2006I have a table that holds the following
1 7530568 87143 OESCHD 1/5/2006 6:31:58 AM
1 7530568 87143 OESCHD 1/5/2006 7:02:36 AM
for each 7530568 ordernumber there should only be one OESCHD status.
This is the query I'm using to insert the data sent to me.
INSERT INTO ORDER_EVENTS
SELECT d.division as division,
dt.orderNum as orderNum,
dt.poNum as poNum,
dt.statusCode as statusCode,
dt.statusChangeDate as statusChangeDate
FROM dt_Order_Events dt INNER JOIN
division d ON dt.division = d.divisionShort INNER JOIN
status s ON s.division = d.division AND s.statCode = dt.statusCode
WHERE directive <> 'C' AND
dt.orderNum IN (SELECT orderNum FROM ORDER_HEADER)
This works fine when used with in the hourly transactional update. But When I ran it for the Bulk UpDate (so we'd have historical data) it allowed orders to have statuses to many times.
I am not a SQL guru, I have no idea how to write a sql statement or stored proc that will remove the duplicate records. or how to change what I have to prevent further ones.
Any help would be apreciated.
Removing Old Records While Retaining Recent Ones
Apr 12, 2006Hey guys, I have a table full of data that has duplicate records except for two date columns (date1 and date2). What I would like to do is remove the duplicates while retaining the most recent record, how can I do this?
So record 1 looks like this:
Code:
John | Smith | 08/08/2000 | 10/10/2000
Record 2 looks like this:
Code:
John | Smith | 08/10/2005 | 10/10/2005
I'd like to remove the first instance and keep the second (most recent one).
Ideas?
Thanks!
Removing Certain Records Of A SQL Server Table
May 10, 2004Hello all,
A little question regarding SQL Server DB's.
I have a two tables containing customers invoices, one for the invoices header (ie: customer #, invoice date,... KEY: invoice # + invoice date) and another for the details of the invoices (ie: each invoice line details KEY: invoice # + line #). I need to periodically remove invoices older than a certain timeframe (ex: all invoices older than 48 months).
How can I proceed?
I am fairly new with SQL server.... Please help!
Thanks,
Eric
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Removing Duplicate Records With Criteria
Mar 9, 2015I have regular work that requires me to extract a bunch of customer records from our database, and then remove duplicate address destinations (so we dont mail the same address more than once).
I can currently achieve this using a combination of my poor SQL skills and Excel, but it's really not working out for me, so looking for SQL wizardry necessary to do it just in SQL.
Relevant fields:
Member.AddressBarcode (This is a unique barcode (Text representation of a base-3 number) based on the customer address. So if there's more than one record in the pulled records with the same barcode, we then look at Member.MemberTypeID to determine whether to include this record in the results or discard it as a duplicate. Note that AddressBarcode may be blank if the mailing address couldn't be validated, if it is blank we don't discard it since there is no easy way to detect duplicate addresses without the barcode)
Member.MemberTypeID (This is the type of member account. We have 3 types - Single, Joint Primary, Joint Secondary, represented in this field by the numbers 1/2/3. This is also the order of preference of who to mail. So if there is a Joint Primary and Joint Secondary with the same mailing barcode, we want to discard the Joint Secondary from the results, so that the Joint Primary is the record we include in the results of who to mail.)
Member.ID (Unique numeric ID for each customer. Kind of irrelevant here, but it's a key)
So some pseudo code for what I'm trying to achieve is:
(Member.MemberTypeID = 1)
OR (Member.MemberTypeID = 2 AND Member.AddressBarcode not in results of Member.MemberTypeID = 1)
OR (Member.MemberTypeID = 3 AND Member.AddressBarcode not in results of Member.MemberTypeID = 2 AND Member.AddressBarcode not in results of Member.MemberTypeID = 1)
I suspect it requires some sort of join...
Removing Non-useful Records And Duplicate DB Objects. ( Purging)
Oct 9, 2007
hi All,
I have to remove non-useful and duplicate records containing NULL , Blanks and extra spaces (either on left or right side of the column values) etc from all the tables in my server's DB XYZ weekly thru a a scheduled job with the help of a Stored Proc, that s i guess called Purging og DB. Plz help how i can do it with T-SQL.
Also i have to find out and remove all the duplicate DB objects(tables) from the DB .e.g. a table existing with name TABLE_TEST or TABLE_DEBUG etc for an original table TABLE , making sure no any of the base table is dropped.
Plz help me reagrding these two problems.
Thanks in advance for the quick replies.
Mohit
Removing Duplicates Records From A Column Populate Randomly?
Jan 26, 2015I ran this query to populate a field with random numbers but it keeps populating with some duplicate records. how I can remove the duplicates?
UPDATE APRFIL
SET ALTATH = CONVERT(int, RAND(CHECKSUM(NEWID())) * 10000);
Below are sample output that I need the dupes not show. The table already exist and its sql 2008
155957
155957
155968
155974
155976
15599
155990
155997
155997
156005
156008
Records Fields With More Than One Line
Jan 2, 2008i have a table with some data imported from another database. In one table shows some records 'manchester customer [][] phoneline [][] january' when I select these data it display in multilines. that mean 2 squares represent enter key.
I need to remove these from the records and replace space. so that i can select field value as a single line
how can i do this ??????
pat
Duplicate Records - Two Fields
Feb 13, 2014I have a table that contains some duplicate records. The entire record is not duplicated, but there are two fields which if both are duplicated, result in what I call a duplicate record. I can see that I have these duplicates by doing the following:
SELECT DISTINCT ReferenceNumber, ShipToCompanyID
FROM tabMedia
WHERE (MediaTypeID = '1') AND (FinishDate > '2011-01-01')
GROUP BY ReferenceNumber, ShipToCompanyID
HAVING (COUNT(ReferenceNumber) > 1) AND (COUNT(ShipToCompanyID) > 1)
ORDER BY ReferenceNumber
but of course, this only returns two fields. I need the entire record returned where the duplicate exists...
Combine Records On Two Fields
Nov 5, 2007Hello everyone -
This is my first post to the forum and I'm very new to SQL. I apologize if this is addressed elsewhere.
Here is an example of the results I am getting from my query
AdmissionID, sNurseInit, sSWInit
100, {NULL}, SAE
100, REG , {Null}
Is there a way to combine (merge, join? I don't know the right word) these records so that a single record for the admission is returned?
AdmissionID, sNurseInit, sSWInit
100, REG, SAE
Thanks in advance!
Amy
Question About Summing Up Different Fields In Different Records
Jul 28, 2006Hi everyone, I have some trouble writing a SQL stored procedure thatcan do the following:We have data in one table in numeric form, but we want to sum the datain this table based on the values of two different alpha fields. Toillustrate, let me write the following example:Table with these records:A B 1.1 2.2 Blah1 Blah1A B 2.3 5.6 Blah2 Blah2B C 7.8 9.1 Blah3 Blah3B C 4.5 1.0 Blah4 Blah4R F 1.1 4.3 Blah5 Blah5B A 3.1 2.7 Blah6 Blah6I need to write a query that will return the following result set fromthe above table:A B 3.4 7.8 Blah1 Blah1B C 12.3 10.1 Blah3 Blah3R F 1.1 4.3 Blah5 Blah5B A 3.1 2.7 Blah6 Blah6If the alphanumberic keys are the same, the sum the numeric columns upwhilst displaying one one of the records, the blah fields don't matterif one only one is displayed. Can anyone recommend the best way to dothis? I'm running MS SQL 2005.Thanks,Herman
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Jan 18, 2008
Here is a very basic question that I have.
I have two tables, A and B. Both have a customernumber and a batchid. This combination is unique in both tables.
How can I pull back the records from table A that do not have a corresponding combination in B?
I know I could find the ones that do match and then exclude them using an inner join and subquery, but is there a simpler way?
THANKS!
Trying To Return Whole Records With Distinct Fields
Oct 17, 2006Hi
I am trying to write a query that will return a full record with a particular distinct field (the rest of the record being the first such record that includes the distinct field).
For example, for the following:
Fruit Like? Colour
Apple Y Green
Orange N Orange
Banana Y Yellow
Grape Y Green
Grapefruit N Yellow
I would want to return (assuming Colour was the distinct field):
Fruit Like? Colour
Apple Y Green
Orange N Orange
Banana Y Yellow
How do I do this? I've tried using a join (of all different kinds) with a subquery that uses SELECT DISTINCT but this doesn't seem to work. I've tried GROUP BY but none of the aggregate functions seem to just take the first found field.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Converting Rows Records Into Table Fields
Feb 21, 2002Hi I have a table that contains duplicates. Custid, order #s
custid,order#
1, 2525
1, 2323
1, 2222
2, 6969
2, 7474
3, 8888
Here what I am trying to do. I want to create a table that contains rows from the above table in this format.
custid, order#,order#,order#
1 ,2525 ,2323, 2222
basically, I want to convert the duplicate rows into fields in a new table.