I need to map several columns of data from one database to another
where the data contains multiple spaces (once occurance of a variable
number or spaces) that I need to replace with a single space. What
would be the most efficient way to do this? I am using SQL2K. I was
thinking a function since I know of no single Transact-SQL command
that can accomplish this task.
I have several fields that have multiple spaces between the City State and Zip Code. I want to be able to make only one space between each. A combination of Substring and Replace is what i have been trying but not able to make it work. a do while might be what i need but not sure how to do it.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have records where there are multiple spaces between items of text. I would like to strip out all the excess spaces characters. To that end I have written to separate functions (both are listed below) neither of which I would imagine will be particularly efficient. The first uses an int table and the second a while loop. I am presently ignoring the leading and trailing space issue as this can easily be recitfied with LTRIM and RTRIM. However, I would be keen to know if there is a better way of achieving a similar result.
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.StripAdditionalSpaces (@Input varchar(1000))
RETURNS varchar(1000)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Changed int, @Output varchar(1000)
SELECT @Output = ''
DECLARE @String TABLE ([Output] varchar(1000))
INSERT INTO @String ([Output]) VALUES (@Input)
SELECT @Output = @Output + SUBSTRING([Output], i1.Position, 1)
FROM @String
LEFT JOIN dbo.Ints i1
ON SUBSTRING([Output], i1.Position, 1) <> ' '
or ISNULL(SUBSTRING([Output], i1.Position - 1, 1), '') <> ' '
RETURN @Output
END
GO
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.StripAdditionalSpaces2 (@Input varchar(1000))
RETURNS varchar(1000)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Output varchar(1000)
SELECT @Output = @Input
WHILE @Output LIKE '% %'
BEGIN
SELECT @Output = REPLACE(@Output, ' ' , ' ')
END
RETURN @Output
END
GO
Hi,
I am trying to do this:
UPDATE Users SET uniqueurl = replaceAllEmptySpacesInUniqueURL('uniqueurl')
What would be the syntax.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Hi all smart people,
Can someone please help me with how to replace null values with spaces in select statement.
I have to have a select statement which will select all the data but the field contain null value it has to replace with spaces. How can I do that ?
Thanks,
Hi !
I'm trying to put a space after . and , in varchar fields.
I've tried
UPDATE Resultados
SET RespuestaAbierta = REPLACE(RespuestaAbierta, ',', ', ')
but nothing happened
What's wrong ??
Thanks and sorry if my english isn´t so good.
Eduardo (from Argentina)
i have a field with blank spaces.
i wanna replace the spaces with just one spaces. ihave 500 fields in 500 tables.
any input will be appreacited.
i have something like this but its not working.
declare @field varchar(50)
declare @minVoter int
declare @maxVoter int
declare @tableName varchar(20)
set @tablename = '00001'
-- select ad_str1 from [00170]
select @minVoter = min(id_voter),
@maxVoter = max(id_voter) from quotename(@tablename)
while (@minVoter <= @maxVoter)
begin
select @field = ad_str1
from quotename(@tablename)
where id_voter = @MinVoter
update [00170]
set ad_str1 = replace(@field, ' ', ' ')
select @minVoter = min(id_voter)
from quotename(@tablename)
where id_voter > @minvoter
end
Hello,
I have a simple question. Is it at all possible to replace columns which has nulls with blank spaces for a float data type column.
The columns has null values( written)) in it in some rows and has numbers in other rows . I want to remove nulls before copying it to another file.
Thanks
I have data with double space.
Sample:
John Johnson
Marry Kitty
Loppes Ginna
How can I replace only 1 space?I tried as below:
select case when Name like '% %' then replace(name,'','') end?
lname fname mname suffix
-------------------------------------------------
POWERSJAMESJAMES DIII
update names
set nm_mid = replace(nm_mid, nm_mid, '')
where nm_first = substring(nm_mid, 1, charindex(' ', nm_mid))
i want to replace james with '' on the mname when fname and when the first word on mname are the same. But seems like my code is not working.
i need to find and all special characters and replace with space.
Following query works well for me to finding all rows having special char.
SELECT DESC FROM TBL_DESC
WHERE DESC LIKE '%[^A-Z0-9 ]%'
replacing special char with space . i need to remove special chars only.
How do we suppress multiple spaces to a single space in T-SQL
E.G.
Field: FullName
e.g.
WOMENS HEALTH RIVER VALLEY
JOHN FAMILY MED GROUP
HERSH STWEART P.
PARK HEIGHTS MEDICAL CENTER
KOPP WHITEFIELD E
The o/p wanted is
HERSH STWEART P.
Thank you.
I want to replace special characters and space except '-' Tried with Pathindex and function but not getting expected results.
Ex: Input kjkdjfdf-234#kei$ ewiw
output:Â kjkdjfdf-234keiewiw
I have following query which return me SP/Views and Functions script using:
select DEFINITION FROM .SYS.SQL_MODULESNow, the result looks like
Create proc
create procedure
create proc
create view
create function
I need its result as:
Alter Procedure
Alter Procedure
Alter Procedure
Alter View
Alter Function
I used following
select replace(replace(replace(DEFINITION,'CREATE PROCEDURE','Alter Procedure'), 'create proc','Alter Procedure'),'create view','Alter View') FROM .SYS.SQL_MODULESto but it is checking fixed space like create<space>proc, how can i check if there are two or more spaces in between create view or create proc or create function, it should replace as i want?
I am writing dynamic sql to create a work table. I would like to format my create script such that the data types are all lined up, rather than one space behind the column name. I tried something like this:
SELECT @SQL2 = COALESCE(@SQL2,'')
+ ' ,' + p.Attribute + (60 - LEN(P.Attribute)) * CHAR(32)+ 'NUMERIC(12,3)' + CHAR(10)
That is, I was trying to put the data type 60 spaces to the right, no matter how long the column name is (as long as it's less than 60 characters). I kept getting an error telling me it couldn't concatenate a character to an int.
Guys ... got a puzzle kinda problem am stuck up with so asking for your help (after all .. you are the gurus)... What i need to do is append Src. to any column name that comes in the expression. Here we go ... and the last query is part of what I was coming up with ... not exactly working :) Create Table ColumnNames(ColumnName varchar(256))goInsert into ColumnNamesSelect 'name'UNIONSelect 'dbid'UNIONSelect 'sid'UNIONSelect 'mode'UNIONSelect 'status'UNIONSelect 'status2'UNIONSelect 'crdate'UNIONSelect 'reserved'UNIONSelect 'category'UNIONSelect 'cmptlevel'UNIONSelect 'filename'UNIONSelect 'version'goDeclare @Expression varchar(256)Select @Expression = 'dbid = 1 AND cmptlevel = 100' Select replace(@Expression,ColumnName,'Src.'+ColumnName) from ColumnNames Where charindex('Src.',replace(@Expression,ColumnName,'S rc.'+ColumnName)) <> 0
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a query below that performs horribly:@KeywordOne char(6),@KeywordTwo char(6),@KeywordThree char(6),@KeywordFour char(6),@KeywordFive char(6)SELECTc.SomethingFROMdbo.tblStuff cWHEREc.SomeColumnName = 0AND (c.Keyword LIKE '%' + @KeywordOne + '%' OR @KeywordOne is Null)AND (c.Keyword LIKE '%' + @KeywordTwo + '%' OR @KeywordTwo is Null)AND (c.Keyword LIKE '%' + @KeywordThree + '%' OR @KeywordThree isNull)AND (c.Keyword LIKE '%' + @KeywordFour + '%' OR @KeywordFour = isNull)AND (c.Keyword LIKE '%' + @KeywordFive + '%' OR @KeywordFive = isNull)The contents of column c.Keyword looks like this:Row1: 123456,321654,987987,345987Row2:Row3: 123456,987987etc.What can I do to get this to perform reasonably? I cannot use full-textsearch.Any help is appreciated.lq
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have several fileds in a sql table which holds some text and a hell of a lot of white spaces (char(32)) which is causing some problems when I show the data on the front-end
What I want to do is use sql replace function to replace the char(32). However, because there is text I can't do a simple replace as the text will become just one word !
Can anyone tell me how to loop through the field to find the char(32), where the char(32) is greater than say 5 sapces and then replace this with just one single space
E.g. a field in a table contains the following :
"my text field and loads of spaces then some more text with loads of spaces "
I want to replace the char(32) with just one space so it looks like this :
"my text filed and loads of spaces then some more text with loads of spaces"
Thanks for your help
Hey guys,
In my DB i have hundreds on queries setup for all different reporting purposes..
We have just changed they way our system handles costing and are moving from a average cost function to a standard cost function.. This in turns, means that i need to replace any reports where i use the average cost field and replace it with the standard cost field.
Is it possible, that i can do a full search and replace over all my queries, looking for a specific field name and replacing it with something else.
I am dreading the idea of opening each individual queries and checking if it exists..
If anyone knows of software or someway to write a SP to accomadate this, please let me know. I would be most grateful.
Thanks
Scotty
I need to pass 3 column values and one Formula string into 4 replace statements and output the result in one column.
Nesting them in the usual way doesn't seem to work as that only allows for one column.
My table consits of four columns...PF (numeric), Hours (numeric), TotalNumber INT, and Formula (nvatchar)
My function needs to search and replace the Formula column for instances of all the three number columns and output the formula as a mathmatical formula rather than a string.
Here is what I have so far which works fine if all three columns have a value, but if only one is null then it will retrun NULL and not the other two values.
FUNCTION GetFormula
(@numPF NUMERIC(10,2), @numHours NUMERIC(10,2), @intTotalNumber INT, @strFormula nvarChar(200)) RETURNS nvarchar(200)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @strExpression nvarchar(200)
SELECT @strExpression=REPLACE(@strFormula, 'TotalNumber',@intTotalNumber)
SELECT @strExpression=REPLACE(@strExpression, 'PF',@numPF )
SELECT @strExpression=REPLACE(@strExpression, 'Hours',@numHours )
RETURN @strExpression
END
Many Thanks
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to do the search and replace in multiple stored procedures using SQL 2005 Management Studio?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!
I need one query:
create table #task(TaskId bigint unique, Name varchar(2000))
insert into #task values(1, 'Text Text Text Text Text Text Text <<Name>> Â Text Text Text <<Salary>>')
insert into #task values(2, 'Text Text Text <<Name>> Text Text Text Text <<Company>> Â Text Text Text <<Salary>> Â Text Text Text')
[Code] ....
Now I need to create an inline function who resolve the task name with appropriate values and return me the resolved task name
select * from fn_TaskResolver(1, 'Text Text Text Text Text Text Text <<Name>> Â Text Text Text <<Salary>>')
I try this function but its return multiple rows as i just want to return one row. as I have big data set so i don't want to use scaler or Multi Line function.
create function fn_TaskResolver(@TaskId bigint, @name varchar(2000)
Return table
as
return
[Code] ....
I'm would like to replace all occurrences of "99999" and "-99999" with "" in a column using SSIS. I can use the REPLACE function in a Derived Column to replace one of those strings, for example: REPLACE(mycolumn,"99999",""). Or to replace both I could use REPLACE(REPLACE(mycolumn,"-99999",""),"99999",""). This seems kind of cumbersome and would get very complicated if I were replacing more strings with "". I'm guessing there is a better way. Can anyone help me out?
Thanks,
Ridium
I need one query...
create table #task(TaskId bigint unique, Name varchar(2000))
insert into #task values(1, 'Text Text Text Text Text Text Text <<Name>> Text Text Text <<Salary>>')
insert into #task values(2, 'Text Text Text <<Name>> Text Text Text Text <<Company>> Text Text Text <<Salary>> Text Text Text')
-- select * from #task
[Code] ....
Now I need to create an inline function who resolve the task name with appropriate values and return me the resolved task name
select * from fn_TaskResolver(1, 'Text Text Text Text Text Text Text <<Name>> Text Text Text <<Salary>>')
I try this function but its return multiple rows as i just want to return one row. as I have big data set so i don't want to use scaler or Multi Line function.
create function fn_TaskResolver(@TaskId bigint, @name varchar(2000)
Return table
as
return
(
with data as
[Code] ....
Running into a problem with trying to pull multiple values in a stored procedure.
Ran Profiler for trace on what variable is coming back as when running in Reporting Services.
Profiler shows this:
exec apGetCompanysByRep @Product = N'Absorbent Pads,Airedale Terrier'
Trying to run Replace function but not quite getting the syntaxt correct. The stored procedure will work but when running report will often get unclosed quotation marks.
What I have:
Set @Product=
Replace(@Product, '''' + ',' + @product + '''', (@Product + '''' + ',' + ' ' + '''' + @product + ''''))
This is probably a little too much coding but I've tried several ways.
In the SP the code is as follows:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[apGetCompanysByRep]
@Magazine varchar(6) = null
, @DirectsMagazine varchar(6) = null
, @Category varchar(50) = null
, @SubCategory varchar(50) = null
--, @FirstName varchar(30)
, @LastName varchar(30)= null
, @Product varchar(1100)
AS
declare @SQL varchar(2000)
Set @Product=Replace(@Product, '''' + ',' + @product + '''', (@Product + '''' + ',' + ' ' + '''' + @product + ''''))
set @SQL = '
Thanks for any assistance anyone can give.
I am trying to replace all special characters in a column with one special character.
Example:
Table: dbo.Employee
Column: Name
Name
-------
edwardneuman!"<]
mikemoreno)'>$:
JeffJensen"?>"
I am trying to get the namepart to the left of ANY special character. To achieve this, I am thinking of replacing all the special characters with a single special character so that I can find the first occurrence of that special character and grab left of the special character (SUBSTRING/CHARINDEX). This way I don't need to loop through all the special characters.
I am expecting the following results:
Name
-------
edwardneuman<<<<
mikemoreno<<<<<
JeffJensen<<<<
I have a query with huge number of case statements. Basically I need to short this query with getting rid of these hundreds of CASE statements.
Because of the nature of the application I am not allowed to use a function, and just wondering if there is a possible way to rewrite this with COALESCE().
SELECT
CASE WHEN A.[COL_1] LIKE '%cricket%' THEN 'ck' + ',' ELSE '' END +
CASE WHEN A.[COL_1] LIKE '%soccer%' THEN 'sc' + ',' ELSE '' END +
....
CASE WHEN A.[RESIUTIL_DESC] LIKE '%base%ball' THEN 'BB' + ',' ELSE '' END
FROM TableName A
There is a table [Formula_Calc] with formula calculations that need to be replaced with relevant values based on another table [Totals]
[Totals]
RowNo|Total
F1|240
F2|160
F3|180
F11|1000
F12|1500
F13|2000
For example we've got a row from [Formula_Calc] table 'F1+F3' as a string that needs to be transformed as 240+160=400
The below code works for the above example but if I pick 'F11+F3' instead , returns 2561 which comes from 2401+16.
Probably replaces F1 value instead of F11 and adds 1st digit (1) if I got it right ...
DECLARE @formula NVARCHAR(100);
DECLARE @Total NVARCHAR(100);
SET @formula = 'F11+F3';
SELECT @formula = REPLACE(@formula,RowNo,Total)
FROM [Totals]
SET @Total='select '+@formula
EXECUTE sp_executesql @Total;
PRINT @Total;
I'm trying to replace a table name in 250 stored procedures. I found this script below which does a good job but it also finds tables with similar names. How can I limit the replacement to the exact table name? If my original table name is MyTable001, I do not want to find MyTable001_ID.
-- set "Result to Text" mode by pressing Ctrl+T
SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @sqlToRun VARCHAR(1000), @searchFor VARCHAR(100), @replaceWith VARCHAR(100)
-- text to search for
SET @searchFor = 'MyTable001'
-- text to replace with
SET @replaceWith = '[MyTable002]'
[code].....
how we can replace the multiple values in a single select statement? I have to build the output based on values stored in a table. Please see below the sample input and expected output.
DECLARE @V1 NVARCHAR(100)
SELECT @V1 = 'FirstName: @FN, LastName: @LN, Add1: @A1, Add2: @A2 '
DECLARE @T1 TABLE
(FN VARCHAR(100), LN VARCHAR(100), A1 VARCHAR(100), A2 VARCHAR(100))
[code]....
Have a nvarchar column in ms sql that, based on user input, may or may not have a carriage return and a line break together (CHR(13)&CHR(10)), just a carriage return (CHR(13)), just a line break (CHR(10)). In using that column in ssrs, I need to find if any of the above exist and replace them with the string "x0Dx0A", "x0D", or "x0A" respectively.
I'm getting lost in this expression:
=SWITCH
( (InStr(Fields!Info.Value, CHR(13)&CHR(10) > 0, REPLACE(Fields!Info.Value, CHR(13)&CHR(10)), "x0Dx0A")), (InStr(Fields!Info.Value, CHR(13) > 0, REPLACE(Fields!Info.Value, CHR(13)), "x0D")), (InStr(Fields!Info.Value, CHR(10)
> 0, REPLACE(Fields!Info.Value, CHR(10)), "x0A")) )
Error is:
System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The Value expression for the textrun ‘Info.Paragraphs[0].TextRuns[0]’ contains an error: [BC30455] Argument not specified for parameter 'Replacement' of 'Public Function Replace(Expression As String, Find As String,
[Code] .....
I have the following scenario, The contents of main file are like :
ServerCentral|||||forum|||||||||||||||is||||||the||best
so||||||be|||||on||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||it
And I need the output in the following form:
ServerCentral=forum=is=the=best
so=be=on=it
The logic being that multiple and consecutive occurrences of the special character, here - pipe , should be replaced by a single special character.
I am generating a Report from Sql Data Source in Sql Server 2005 and viewing the Report in Report viewer control of Visual Studio 2005.
The data in the Data Source contains string with multiple spaces (for example €œ Test String €œ) but when they get rendered in Report viewer control, multiple spaces gets converted to single space €? Test String €œ.
I tried following solutions
1) Replacing spaces with €œ €?
2) Inserting <pre> tag before the string and </pre> tag after the string (Also tried <Pre> instead of <pre>)
But in all the cases result is same. The Report Viewer control is showing €œ €? instead of space and €œ<Pre>€? tag instead of preserving spaces.
Please provide me a solution so that spaces can be preserved in Report Viewer.