I have a text field with about 17,500 rows I need to edit from for example: '1.90X .90' to '1.90X 0.90'? The numbers are various but follow the basic format albiet they may vary to say '22.78X .40'
View 8 RepliesIs there possibility to edit easily data type "text" field using standard tools such as SQL server 2005 Management Studio or Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2005 Professional. I want multiline editing akin to multiline textbox in Windows Form. I understand that something may be written/generated in Windows Forms , but I want this possibility for any table.
My pressing "Enter" to create another line for in-place editing just leaves a text cell for the tools mentioned above.
I have followed many tutorials on selecting and replacing text in text fields, varchar fields and char fields, but I have yet to find a single script that will to all 3 based on field type. Let's assume for a moment that I don't know where all in my database a certain value that I need changed resides ... i.e., the data's tablename and fieldname. How would I go about doing the following ... or more importantly, is this even possible in a SQL only procedure?1) Loop over entire database and get all user tables2) Loop over all user tables and get all fields3) Loop over all fields and determine the field type4) switch between field types and change a string of text from 'a' to 'b'Please be gentle, I'm a procedure newb.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a SQL table which has field data like below
field a field b
123 KB 246 kb
How can I strip out just the numbers(there will always be a space between the number and KB?
Thanks
How do I trim my result without replace anything in the current DB?here is my query
SELECT
tt.bestdatum as 'Year',
FROM
[myDB].dbo.myTable as tt INNER JOIN
WHERE (DATEPART(year, tt.bestdatum) = '2015')
I have a table with a keyword field. In this keyword field some of the entries have a space before the word and some don't.
How can I remove all of the spaces from the fields that have them and not trim from the ones that don't.
Hello:I have an Access 2K form I built from a SQL Server 7.0 view. I want tolock certain fields in the database from users so they can see them onthe views and forms, but NOT be able to edit them.I've looked in BOL, MS SQL Server web page and SQL Server 7.0 books andcould not find how to do this.Any advise will be greatly appreciated.Thanks,Richard
View 4 Replies View RelatedI need to trim (removing white spaces) the data or text in a column which is of type IMAGE.
I would like to achieve this through a PL/SQL procedure or function.
using below script to read two column from a text file and trying to trim the spaces for file_name.but trimming is not happening
bulk insert #O_P
from 'C:UsersTKTPA.txt'
with (fieldterminator = ',',rowterminator = '')
END
INSERT INTO O_P (file_name,location)
SELECT LTRIM(RTRIM(file_name)), location From #O_P
Hi!
Need help with this one:
I have a column with a string composed by several data. After using REPLACE several times, I get something like the data below, which has (in most of cases) a value and a date.
378 9/05
388 9/05
4/05
1/06 606
1/06 646
76 5/05
100 1/05
118 8/05
129 8/05
9/05 342
05/3 123
1/07
4/06 164
The problem is that I need to get each value alone (to separate columns), in example:
Value Date
378 09/2005
388 09/2005
0 04/2005
...
606 01/2006
and so on...
In addittion you can see that sometimes the Value come first or alone, and sometimes the Date come first or alone.
I will appreciate any good ideas,
Thanks in advance,
Aldo.
I am importing an excel spreadsheet into a MS SQL database table. When the spreadsheet is finished importing, I am noticing that some values that were brought in resemble something like this 1.41666666666667. Other values may be shorter or only have 1 digit. The problem is another web application that pulls this data for use in online forms only allows up to 2 digits. How can I round all of the numbers like the above to 2 decimals and replace the existing values?
I know there is the rounding function that could be used like so:
SELECT ROUND ([Hrs Total 2],2)
FROM AnnualClassifiedPAFs
How do I then take that rounded value and insert it back into the records?
Hi!
I have an SQL Server where only a group of sysadmins have access to install DTSX packages. Those DTSX packages are developed by another team that does not have access to the production SQL Server. They use their own SQL Server.
In order to make it as simple as possible to install these packages by the sysadmins, I suggested the use of configuration files. The files are associated with the job that executes the package and all that has to be done to install the package is copy it to the file system or import it into the SQL Server. Developers use their configuration file, sysadmins user theirs. Nothing new here.
The problem is that some of the packages have to access some old systems and we cannot use integrated authentication. We have to use SQL authentication and therefore specify a user account and password in the connection string. If this is stored in the configuration file, it is available in clear text! If I store the configuration in the package itself using ProtectSensitiveWithPassword protection level, the sysadmins will have to edit every DTSX package to reset the connections to the production environment (the developers always send them with their development configurations) and I don't want that. If I store it in a SQL Server database, it seems the sysadmins also have to edit the package to point the package configuration to the correct database and set the configuration filter.
Another solution is to store the credentials in clear text in the configuration file but set the file system permissions on that file so only the account that executes the package can read them (this is what I'm implementing if nothing better comes up...)
Is there any other way to do this? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance.
I currently have a LoginStatus and LoginName control on my asp.net 2.0 master page. When successfully logged in a message displays "You are logged in as" LoginName. Since I am using the user's e-mail address as the UserName the message will display as "You are logged in as johndoe@foo.com".
What I want to do is have the message display as "You are logged in as " FirstName LastName. FirstName and LastName are two new fields that I added to the table, aspnet_Users.
What I have done is to use the FormView control to display FirstName and LastName; however this always displays the first record in the aspnetdb database.
Is there a cleaner way (than the FormView control) to display the requested data, using the currently logged in user? I have access to Microsoft Expression Web and Visual Studio 2005, but I prefer Expression Web.
Thank you in advance
Using SSMS 2012, we are experiencing extremely slow response times when opening SQL job steps to edit and also deploying SSIS Pkg's. Sysadmins have no problem. Users in the ssis_admin role have no problem. It's the rest of the users who have issues.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi, i'm trying to do a full text search on my site to add a weighting score to my results. I have the following database structure:
Documents: - DocumentID (int, PK) - Title (varchar) - Content (text) - CategoryID (int, FK)
Categories: - CategoryID (int, PK) - CategoryName (varchar)
I need to create a full text index which searches the Title, Content and CategoryName fields. I figured since i needed to search the CategoryName field i would create an indexed view. I tried to execute the following query:
CREATE VIEW vw_DocumentsWITH SCHEMABINDING ASSELECT dbo.Documents.DocumentID, dbo.Documents.Title, dbo.Documents.[Content], dbo.Documents.CategoryID, dbo.Categories.CategoryNameFROM dbo.Categories INNER JOIN dbo.Documents ON dbo.Categories.CategoryID = dbo.Documents.CategoryID
GOCREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX vw_DocumentsIndexON vw_Documents(DocumentID)
But this gave me the error:
Cannot create index on view 'dbname.dbo.vw_Documents'. It contains text, ntext, image or xml columns.
I tried converting the Content to a varchar(max) within my view but it still didn't like.
Appreciate if someone can tell me how this can be done as surely what i'm trying to do is not ground breaking.
I am building a bunch of packages on our new server and all was going well until I edited the project using the client tools on my PC. I now receive the below error if I try to execute any of the packages on the server (all is still fine on the client). I have scoured the net but I don't seem to be able to come up with a solution. I have tried altering the folder & object permissions for my login (that created the project on the server and edited using the client) but I still get the error.
ERROR:
TITLE: Microsoft Visual Studio
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Failed to start project
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Exception deserializing the package "Access to the path 'G:VisualStudioTestTestbinDevelopmentTest.ispac' is denied.". (Microsoft.DataTransformationServices.VsIntegration)
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Access to the path 'G:VisualStudioTestTestbinDevelopmentTest.ispac' is denied. (mscorlib)
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BUTTONS:
OK
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I have a data table in my project that has a "text" (not varchar) field in it. I am trying to load this field with little paragraphs of text for showing on my pages. How do I get the free text loaded into the table? The database explorer and all the data grid controls cut the text off at one line. There doesn't seem to be any way to get multiline text into this table.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHello Guys.
Here is my issue i have email addresses in a column of a table in sql server. Are addreses has changed since and i need to do a mass update of these email addreses i need to replace a few char to reflect this change like ex:
AAAAA@BBB.CCC.Com i need to replace the BBB. part with nothing so that it looks like this AAAAA@CCC.Com.
Please help.
sunil writes "hi,
i have a problem when i updating record in the database. i am trying to insert value ('Company's Director') in the field but i receive an error Incorrect syntax near 's' what do i do for this error.i want to value like as ('Company''s Director').
please solve my problem"
I have a text field that contains multiple words. Is there a way with SQL to relace a single word with another?
for example:
FIELD : CompanyName
DATA : Microsoft Corp.
DATA : IBM Corp.
etc...
DATA : Canon Corp. of America
How can I run a routine to just REPLACE "Corp." with "Corporation" ?
Thanks for your help!
Scott
ok Im sure this is simple. what is the command to execute a replace in a select statement
SELECT CUSTOMER.customer_id, CUSTOMER.full_name, CUSTOMER.main_address_1, CUSTOMER.main_address_2
FROM CUSTOMER
WHERE (((CUSTOMER.main_address_1) Like '%road%'))
???Replace all instences of road with RD???
can some one help on this one or even a refrence for research (besides BOL or Technet)
thanks for the help
matt
I’ve created a script which will do the following.
Update fields in a database which contain instances of an order number. An order number is defined as a 10 digit numeric sting which beings with 998. The first 3 digits of the order number need to change from 998 to 999. There are two types of fields to update: document number fields which may contain 1 instance of the order number and free text fields which may contain multiple instances of an order number.
I created a function which accepts the text to be updated, the text to find and the text to replace it with. The function then loops through the sting for instances of 998. For each instance it finds it checks to ensure that it is at the start of a 10 digit string which contains only numeric numbers – if this is the case then it will update the 998 to be 999.
If the field is free text then it will continue to loop through the string (it will skip forward 10 digits for every order number found) until the end. If the field is not free text then it will exit the script after the first instance found which matches the above criteria, if any.
Need achieving this via set processing and not having to loop through every line. I’ve included the function below and some test data.
--Create the function we will call in order to do the replace
if object_id(N'OrderReplace',N'FN') is not null
drop function dbo.OrderReplace;
go
create function dbo.OrderReplace (
@Textnvarchar(4000),
[code]....
I am working with a database named €œDocuments€? that contains 4 categories of text documents, each having its own number designation in an integer datatype column named SectionTypeId:
1 = Text
2 = Report
3 = Background
4 = Index
I would like to create a new column named €œDocType€? in which the integer data type for each document is replaced with a varchar data type letter (1 = T, 2 = R, 3 = B, 4 = I). I was able to easily create the new column and cast the data type from integer to varchar:
--CREATE NEW COLUMN €œDocType€? WITH VARCHAR DATATYPE
ALTER TABLE FullDocuments ADD DocType VARCHAR(1) NULL
Go
--UPDATE NEW COLUMN WITH CAST STRING
UPDATE FullDocuments SET DocType = CAST(SectionTypeID AS VARCHAR(1))
Go
But I have problems with the REPLACE method for replacing the numbers with letters. First I tried this based on the examples in MSDN Library:
--REPLACE NUMBERS WITH LETTERS
UPDATE Fulldocuments REPLACE (DocType,"1","T")
Which produced an error message: €œIncorrect syntax near 'REPLACE'.€?
Thinking that the datatype may be the problem, I tried this to convert to DT_WSTR data type prior to replace:
UPDATE Fulldocuments REPLACE ((DT_WSTR,1)DocType,"1","T")
Which produced the same error message: €œIncorrect syntax near 'REPLACE'.€?
I have never done a REPLACE before, so any suggestions for accomplishing this would be appreciated.
need help with spacebar
i have table with names i need to replace the spacebar with "-"
only where val=2
my table
before
fname val
-------------------------------------------
aaaa bbbbbb 1
xx oihjhjhjh 2
sspppp pppll 2
ooooooo ne 1
xxoihjhjh jhkkhhk 2
after only where val=2
fname val
-------------------------------------------
aaaa bbbbbb 1
xx-oihjhjhjh 2
sspppp-pppll 2
ooooooo ne 1
xxoihjhjh-jhkkhhk 2
TNX
Hi
I'm trying to create a stored procedure using the northwind db which will do the following:
SELECT ProductID, ProductName, QuantityPerUnit, UnitPrice, UnitsInStock
FROM Products
However, where UnitsInStocks = 0 I would like the words "Sorry, out of stock" to appear. I will then call this from an ASP page.
Can anyone help please?
Cheers
Woolly
I have a table that has a Text datatype column that has gotten somegarbagecharacters in it somehow, probably from key entry. I need to removethe garbage, multiple occurances of char(15). The replace functiondoes not work on Text datatype. Any suggestions?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a SQL Server 2005 database that has a table with a TEXT column. This TEXT column has XML data in it. The length of the XML data in each record in the table is about 700,000 characters. What is the quickest most efficient method to replace a nodes text with another value? I.E., <LogoLarge>aasdfasdfaasadfasdfsdfasdfadsf</LogoLarge> with <LogoLarge>a</LogoLarge>. This table has about 2 million records. Thanks in advance for your help.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThere are plenty of scripts to do this on a per-DB level, but any that will allow me to generate a script for all DB's at once? Mine are split across dozens and it would be much easier to do a loop (using MS_ForeachDB ? )
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a string column in a DB where it's values contain the following midway through the string ([DOCUMENTGUID] is a uniqueidentifier that is different for each row):
<a href="../downloadDoc.aspx?dg=[DOCUMENTGUID]" target="_blank">
I would like to replace this part of the string with a different piece of text.
I know that I should be using PATINDEX and REPLACE functions but I don't know how to utilise.
I've got an nvarchar(max) column that I need to transform with some simple text processing: insert some markup at the very beginning, and insert some markup just before a particular regular expression is matched (or at the end, if no match is found).
Since the SSIS expression language doesn't support anything like this, is a Script Component the only way to go? Does Visual Basic .NET provide regular expression matching?
Thanks!
Hi,
I've a text column (text datatype) that contains carriage return and line feed.
Syntax-wise, how can I replace these by a space?
Thanks.
We have a legacy database that have hundreds of stored procedures.
The previous programmar uses a string like servername.databasename.dbo.tablename in the stored procedures.
We now have migrated the database to a new server. The old server is either needed to be replaced by the new server name, or remove it.
I don't know why he used servername as part of the fully qualified name, we don't use linked servers. So I think better removing the servername in all the stored procedures.
I know I can do a generate script, and replace the text and then use alter procedure to recreate all the stored procedures. But since hundreds of them, is there a programmatically way to replace them?
I am having trouble using the replace statement on IP Addresses. I want to replace the ending with ".0" - not matter what the IP Address starts with.
175.139.45.127
175.139.45.12
175.139.45.1
10.10.10.100
10.10.10.10
10.10.10.1