Removing Spaces Between Words In Sql
Mar 20, 2007
I 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!
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May 30, 2008
What is the Select statement to remove white spaces between words?
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Aug 31, 2006
Hi. 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!
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Oct 17, 2007
Hi 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
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Dec 10, 2001
I loaded data into a CHAR fields from Legacy.
How to remove those leading spaces with in SQL server...?
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Mar 26, 2008
How 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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Jul 20, 2005
I 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, 2005
Hello,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
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Dec 6, 2006
Hi 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
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Jul 14, 2014
I 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?
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Sep 15, 2005
I 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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Aug 18, 2015
I 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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May 5, 2008
Hello i need to know hoy to use the LIKE operator to find results that contains 2 or more words.
================TABLE EXAMPLE======================
I HAVE A TABLE CALLED ITEMS
ITEMNAME
Good Bike
Good Mountain Bike
Klein Bike Mountain
===================================================
If i use SELECT ITEMNAME FROM ITEMS WHERE ITEMNAME LIKE '%Good Bike%' i only get:
Good Bike
What to code i need to write if i want to get that results for QUERY: "Good Bike" returns
Good Bike
Good Mountain Bike
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Apr 28, 2005
Hi I'm using the full-text indexing on a table and I'm trying to implement a search where users can search for words and use wildcards themselves. However I'm working on a method so that can enter a wildcard in the middle of a word to get records where they are unsure of the spelling etc.
For instance, a search of 'Ste*en' should return results like 'Steven' and 'Stephen' etc. So if they are searching for word 'establishment' they can search for 'estab*ment' and it should return all the records using this query:
SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE CONTAINS(myField,'"estab*ment"')
If I do a wildcard at the end e.g: SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE CONTAINS(myField,'"estab*"')
I get the results I am looking for. But the middle wildcard does not seem to work as expected even though it is the syntax used on MSDN and other SQL info sites.
Is there something I am not doing properly?
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May 25, 2005
hi i am working on sql server200.I m using "LIKE" to search the records.There is freetexttable and containstable table also.just like to know the difference between them.Could anyone provide me a good link regarding this??Thanks
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Jan 10, 2006
Hi There,
I've created a couple of search pages which look at sql server. whenever words or values like "?@~:&£^" etc, or words like for, the and so forth, the page the nasrty error page:
Execution of a full-text operation failed. A clause of the query contained only ignored words
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Execution of a full-text operation failed. A clause of the query contained only ignored words.
In short: is there a way I can stop it doing this. It looks rather horrible. I've looked at form validation but cant find anything that seems to fit. I would imagine there is a simple solution, but I haven't been able to find it so far.
Many thanks
Stuart
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Jul 23, 2004
hi
I want to know how convert number to words or words to number
for example. if i give input 100, i have to get the output "one hundred"
is there any built in function available. need solution immediately.
regards
nlakka
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Dec 21, 2005
How can you search for the occurance of a whole word in a string? but not return any results that have the word as a substring.
For instance, if I search for the term 'scene' in a column. Then it will only return rows that have the word 'scene' and not those with the word 'scenery'. I've tried the following sql, but it relies on having text either side of the word as well. If the word 'scene' is on the begining or end of the cell then it is not returned.
SELECT Name, Description
FROM tblWine
WHERE Name LIKE '%[^a-zA-Z]scene[^a-zA-Z]%'
OR Description LIKE '%[^a-zA-Z]scene[^a-zA-Z]%'
Any ideas?
Goran
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Aug 27, 2004
Sir,
is there is any method to convert numeric ecpression to words ie 110 to "one humdred ten"
Pawandeep Singh
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Dec 20, 2006
Can I define field names with more words in Access and SQL Server likefield: "Bus station" instead "BusStation" or "Bus_Station"? I have hadproblems because of this in VB6. Can I have problems in VB 2005 or C# 2005and SQL Server?
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Jul 20, 2005
Hi,I'm trying to read a varchar(50) field writed in Japanese using thissentence:is = rset.getBinaryStream(num);at that sentence the JDBC driver shows the following error:java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver forJDBC]Unsupported data conversion.Does anybody know why?Thank you,--__________________________________________Emilio PerezJoin Bytes!SINERGIA TECNOLÓGICAC/ Eusebio Sempere 1, Entreplanta A30003 AlicanteTel. 965 136 191www.sinergiatec.com__________________________________________La información incluida en el presente correo electrónico es CONFIDENCIAL,siendo para el uso exclusivo del destinatario arriba mencionado. Si ustedlee este mensaje y no es el destinatario señalado, el empleado o el agenteresponsable de entregar el mensaje al destinatario, o ha recibido estacomunicación por error, le informamos que está totalmente prohibidacualquier divulgación, distribución o reproducción de esta comunicación, yle rogamos que nos lo notifique, nos devuelva el mensaje original a ladirección arriba mencionada y borre el mensaje. Gracias.
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Oct 24, 2007
Hi,
Is it possible with SQL Server 2005 to include ignored words in a full-text search? For example, searching for "in force as of"? This gives the same results as searching for "force" only. I've tried to empty the ignored words list (noiseENG.txt), but this does not seem to have any effect.
Also we want to be able to search for strings such as "205/1305-2". Searching with punctuation characters in a query seems to be a problem.
What are the possibillities in SQL Server 2005 with regard to these problems?
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Aug 28, 2007
Can someone point me in the right direction to write a select query to return the first 10 whole words from a table?
For example, table "testtable" contains a field named "description" with value "here is some test data in order to select the first full ten words from."
The SELECT statement would return the value "here is some test data in order to select the".
Thanks in advance!
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Oct 21, 2005
I need to build a search function for my site. So there is a single text box for the users to type in their search string. I have been asked that I need to break the user's search string into separate words. So if the user enters: "This is my search query", I need to break it into: "This" "is" "my" "search" "query" and then search for all these words.- Can I break a string into separet words using SQL?- How do I remove funny / dangerous characters from the search string?- If I have to break the search string using a programming language, I would have to run the search query for each word. If I run the search query for each word, How do I combine the search result for the user. For instance, if I search for "my" and find some result, then search for "search" and find some results, how do I display a SINGLE search result to the user.thanks
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Feb 8, 2006
I am try to build a query which only matches whole words and so far I've got this.
Code:
SELECT *
FROM tblSearchWords
WHERE CorrectSpelling LIKE '%[^a-zA-Z0-9]blah[^a-zA-Z0-9]%'
This will return rows which contain the string 'blah' without any numeric or alphanumeric characters beside it. However it doesn't return the rows where 'blah' is either at the start or end of the string as it expects any character except a-zA-Z0-0.
Is there any way to accept string when there is nothing on either side as well?
Thanks,
Goran
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Nov 29, 2004
Hello,
i need a select statement that will retrieve only the 1st 15 words of a text field.
is it possible?
Thanks.
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Sep 22, 2004
Hello all. I've been pulling my hair out for the last few weeks trying to come up with a statement that will do what I want. I'm hoping someone can lend some help.
Basically I have a table of articles with titles. I want to go thru the titles and find out what words show up the most. For example, if I had these two article titles in two records:
Microsoft develops new software for NASA
NASA blames software problem on Microsoft
I would get the following results - the word and the number of times it appears:
Microsoft 2
NASA 2
Software 2
The statement should ignore those words that only appear once. It would be nice to skip static words like the, and, a, etc.. (Or words 3 characters or less)
I have fulltext query enabled on the table which works great for searching, but not for what I want it to do.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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Mar 3, 2005
Hi!
I have a client who wants to have a function to have a system create a validation system for users who register for a system. It would email them a registration code, which they want to be two or three random words strewn together.
So, I'm looking for a big table of words - random, glossary terms, etc. Does anyone have anything like this? (A flat file that I can import would be fine.)
Thanks!
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Mar 1, 2006
hi could u help me in suggesting how to convert number given in Rs or in $ to words as normal we spell.. ther's is no limit it can be billions or millions.. thanks in advance..
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chakri
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Sep 13, 2006
Hi,
for some reason, i had to write a function to count the number of words in a particular column in a table. (pl find the attachment). i would like to know whether there is any other mechanism with which we can count the number of words in a particular column.
for example, if the column data is,'This Is A Test', the function, will return 4.
pl suggest any other efficient strategies to accomplish this
thanks
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Nov 6, 2007
This works when @searchString is used in containstable (provided searchString has value)...
set @searchStringNoneOfWords = 'not(Airplane)'
SET @searchString = @searchString + ' AND ' + @searchStringNoneOfWords
This does NOT work when @searchString is used in containstable...
set @searchStringNoneOfWords = 'not(Airplane)'
SET @searchString = @searchStringNoneOfWords
I understand it is because the syntax is AND NOT, but what if I have a list of words that I do not want included? How do I start out with a NOT using containstable? It is kind of like Google's advanced search except that if you enter a word in the "without words" section with the other fields blank it would return everything under the sun except for things found with those words.
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Feb 23, 2008
hi ,
I want to create a function in sql server 2000 which can display the given input currency into words but in indian format eg , '12345678.50' should display as One crore twenty lacs fourty five thousand six hundred and seventy eight rs fifty paise only . Can anybody help pls
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Apr 15, 2004
Hi,
I'm doing an online invoice system with ASP and MS SQL.
So you got the price and total amount.
And let say the amount is $4000.00 , there is also a portion where the invoice needs to mention it in words, "Fourty Thousand"
Can it be "cast" ? "conver" ? or anything?
Or is there any workaround????
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