Ridiculously Stupid SELECT Statement Question
Jan 9, 2008
This is very embarrasing, but I can't find this anywhere (An online search turned up a ridiculous number of results, and thus far [as of page 6], I haven't found anything that answers my question.
I would like to write a SELECT statement, WHERE a given field does NOT equal "". I know that in C# it would be !=, but this doesn't appear to work. I tried a couple of other things, but did not have any luck.
This is a very silly question, but could someone please tell me what I use in a SELECT statement to signify "Does NOT Equal"?
Thank you very much. I really appreciate everyones help.
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Feb 16, 2007
in SQL query analyzer i have this skeleton test query:
DECLARE @nLen int
DECLARE @strData varchar(200)
DECLARE @strDelim varchar(50)
DECLARE @nPos int
SELECT
OwnersName1
= (IF len(OwnersName) > 0 OwnersName
-- IF dbo.InString(OwnersName,'&',1) > 0 'yes'
--if dbo.InString(OwnersName,' AND ',1) > 0 'yes'
--if dbo.InString(OwnersName,', ',2) > 0 'yes'
--ELSE OwnersName
)
,
OwnersName2 = OwnersName
--@strDelim as Delim
FROM dbo.TateWake
WHERE OwnersName>'9'
i get this error:
Server: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 8
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'IF'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 8
Line 8: Incorrect syntax near 'OwnersName'.
if i replace
IF len(OwnersName) > 0 OwnersName
with: len(OwnersName)
there is no error.
what the heck is going on?
thanks...
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Feb 16, 2007
this is my 3rd attempt at posting this. other attempts did not post for some reason. now i'm home from work and so i can't cut and paste. this is from memory.
in query analyzer, i made a ridiculously simple query which returns a syntax error that i can't resolve:
SELECT name1 =
(
IF len(name) > 0 len(name)
),
name2 = name
FROM ownertable
this gives an error something like:
syntax error near IF on line 3
when i remove the IF len(name) > 0
the expression is evaluated as expected with no error. what is going on?
I must apologize for the simplification, but my posts kept going to the ether for some reason. I have had other dba's look at it and no one knows why this is happening in my office. nor can i understand why my posts don't stick. i even got a message from the forum app that i posted a duplicate message!
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Hi guys,
I have the query below (running okay):
Code Block
SELECT DISTINCT Field01 AS 'Field01', Field02 AS 'Field02'
FROM myTables
WHERE Conditions are true
ORDER BY Field01
The results are just as I need:
Field01 Field02
------------- ----------------------
192473 8461760
192474 22810
Because other reasons. I need to modify that query to:
Code Block
SELECT DISTINCT Field01 AS 'Field01', Field02 AS 'Field02'
INTO AuxiliaryTable
FROM myTables
WHERE Conditions are true
ORDER BY Field01
SELECT DISTINCT [Field02] FROM AuxTable
The the results are:
Field02
----------------------
22810
8461760
And what I need is (without showing any other field):
Field02
----------------------
8461760
22810
Is there any good suggestion?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Aldo.
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