Is there a way to return a comma seperated list in a query?For example if I have this simple querySelect member_name From members It returns all the members in diff rows (lets assume we have 3)So the result will bemember_name--------------name1name2name3Instead of this I need to have the result in one row with values seperated by commas.member_name---------------name1,name2,name3I hope I am clear enough. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
I know I can do a JOIN(parameter, "some seperator") and it will build me a list/string of all the values in the multiselect parameter.
However, I want to do the same thing with all the occurances of a field in my result set (each row being an occurance).
For example say I have a form that is being printed which will pull in all the medications a patient is currently listed as having perscriptions for. I want to return all those values (say 8) and display them on a single line (or wrap onto additional lines as needed).
Something like: List of current perscriptions: Allegra, Allegra-D, Clariton, Nasalcort, Sudafed, Zantac
How can I accomplish this?
I was playing with the list box, but that only lets me repeat on a new line, I couldn't find any way to get it to repeate side by side (repeat left to right instead of top to bottom). I played with the orientation options, but that really just lets me adjust how multiple columns are displayed as best I can tell.
Could a custom function of some sort be written to take all the values and spit them out one by one into a comma seperated string?
Scenario:Table 1 (a id, b name)Table 2 (a FKid, d value)A standard join on a gives me something like:a1 b1 d1a1 b1 d2What I want is:a1 b1 d1,d2I can easily do this with a function or cursor, but is is somewhatslow, and I need to do this a lot and I don't really want to have tomaintain tons of functions or cursors.Thoughts?
What is the best way? I have a field of comma seperated article type id values in a users profile. This list is a set of values that sows the article types the person does NOT want to see. Each article has an article type id. I need to do a select joining the article table to the member table that only shows those article id's that are not in the comma seperated list. How would I do that in a sql statement?
Not sure the best way to do this. They are passing in a comma seperated string. I have a field that has comma seperated strings in it. I need to compare the 2 strings and do a select on that field that has any of the words in the string passed in. So if the pass... "car,boat,van"
and in the field 2 of the 3 records get sent back car,train,bike boat,truck,plane bike,plane,train
I would send them back the top 2 because the top one contains car and the second contains boat
Hi I have a text field called testing which shows the selection the user has made from a checked list. I want to save the contents of testing to a datadase with coloum varchar and with a comma to seperate the selections. It stores ok but sql queries do not recognise them as comma seperated values. e.g the selection from the vb code produses: Beauty, Fashion, Travel. Sql takes the lot as one. When I test a query say select from table type where Category = beauy it gives nothing. How do I store it so sql would recognise it as seperate enteries. my vb code is below Dim msg As StringDim li As ListItem msg = ""For Each li In CaregoryCheckBoxList.Items If li.Selected = True Then 'asp has a security default of no accetping html in input fields br is html code so causes error 'msg = msg & "<br>" & li.Text & " selected." msg = msg & li.Text & "," & " " End If Next Testing.Text = msg
To get rid of redundant data in a table, my cleint will be providingsomething like this:IDtokeep Ids to delete34 24,35,4912 14,178,145754 32,65,68I have to write a script for each of the above rows which looks likethis:-----------------------------------update sometableset id = 34where id in (24,35,49)delete from sometablewhere id in (24,35,49)-----------------------------------As I said I have to do this for EACH row. Can I somehow automate thisor will I need to write to same script for each row (there are about5000 rows in this audit table)Any help is highly appreciated.Here is the DDL and inserts for the audit table.IF object_id(N'dbo.dataclean','U') is not nullDROP TABLE [dbo].[dataclean]GOCREATE TABLE [dataclean] ([IdTokeep] int NULL ,[IdsTodelete] varchar (50) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL )GOINSERT INTO [dataclean] ([IdTokeep],[IdsTodelete])VALUES(34,'24,35,49')INSERT INTO [dataclean] ([IdTokeep],[IdsTodelete])VALUES(12,'14,178,1457')INSERT INTO [dataclean] ([IdTokeep],[IdsTodelete])VALUES(54,'32,65,68')GO
It is working If I am passing sigle storeId to the above SP. If I am selecting multiple StoreIDs from the report. It is not returning correct value. Can you please give me a suggestion?
I want to pull out some information for documenting my user accounts.I want to be able to show all of the users and what companies those users have access to.
The table which stores the company information lists it in multiple rows, so there will be many results for each user user -- companyid johnd -- 2 johnd -- 5 johnd -- 1
I want to select this into one record so it will show up like this user -- companies johnd -- 2,5,1
The only way I know how to do this would be with a sub-query that uses a cursor to loop through & dump it into one string value, and then output the string value to the field. This seems extremely inefficient for such a seemingly simple task.
My SQL knowledge is limited so if I get stuff wrong then correct me... but I can imagine this task will be quite testing...
I am working on a system that logs ([Audit] table) the changes to fields on some tables using a Trigger on UPDATE. I need to produce a 'quick' report that returns the date when the tables overallStatus field was set to 1.
In the [Audit] table I can find all the field changes for the record in question using this SQL...
select * from audit where rowid = 1309606 order by auditID asc
My problem is filtering this data. The fields I need are formatted as below, see records returned, in ASC order...
So need to find when 1309606's overallStatus was changed to 1. Manually looking at the data, I can see overallStatus was modified in 3 of the above 5 [Audit] records. It started life as 0, then went to 1 and then to 3. I'm aware that I need to look at the previous Audits date for when it was changed to the value I'm looking for... So it was changed to 1 on 2008-04-25 10:51:47.930.
What is the best way to approach this problem? I'm hoping to use T-SQL only and not have to use an external scripting language, unless I can embed vbscript or jscript inside a T-SQL function and then use arrays, etc?
Somehow I need to convert the ASCII(127) seperated list of fieldname into an array or list, find the index of the fieldname 'overallStatus' and then lookup that value in the datafield.
Hope that makes sense and any help would be great!
Hi, I need a sql that returns the query result as comma seperated list of values, instead of several rows. Below is the scenario... Table Name - Customer Columns - CustomerID, Join DateSay below is the data of Customer table ...CustomerID JoinDate1 04/01/20052 01/03/20033 06/02/20044 01/05/20025 09/07/2005Now i want to retrieve all the customerid's who have joined this year. Below is the query that i use for this case.Select CustomerID from Customer where JoinDate between '01/01/2005' and GetDate()This gives the below result as two rows.CustomerID15But i need to get the result as '1,5' (comma seperated list of resulting values).Any help is highly appreciatedThanks in AdvanceRamesh
I want to insert things to SQL-server from an ascii file but I also want to add logics with IF - Then _ Else statements. I guess the only way is to make a stored Procedure.
How do you do when you want to read from a text file using the data into variables and then write it into the database ?
Hi i want to create a table as follows :if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id =object_id(N'[Indexes]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsUserTable') = 1)drop table [Indexes]GOCreate table Indexes(indexname Varchar(100), index_DescriptionVarchar(100), index_keys Varchar(100))GOINSERT INTO Indexes EXEC sp_helpindex 'SDM_Fact_Order_Detail'GOThis will give me a table (northwind)IX_Auto_SDM_Fact_FK_Shipped_Date nonclustered located onSAMIS_SDM_Index FK_Shipped_DateIX_Auto_SDM_Fact_Order_Detail_FK_Insert_Dateclustered located onSAMIS_SDM_Data1FK_Insert_Date, FK_Insert_TimeAs you see sp_helpindex will give me a comma seperated field. I wantto split the third column FK_Insert_Date, FK_Insert_Time into a extrarowLike this :IX_Auto_SDM_Fact_FK_Shipped_Date FK_Shipped_DateIX_Auto_SDM_Fact_Order_Detail_FK_Insert_Date FK_Insert_DateIX_Auto_SDM_Fact_Order_Detail_FK_Insert_Date FK_Insert_TimeCan anyone help me with this?ThanxHennie
I have a table that has product name and submissionID and some other columns. I am really concerned about these two columns. My task is to get all the submissionIDs for a particular product name and display SubmissionIDs seperated by commas against each product name . The tables below might give a better idea current scenario: Product Name SubmissionID columnC Column D AAA 123 AAA 456 BBB 111 ccc 121 AAA 789 Expected result: Product Name SubmissionID columnC Column D AAA 123,456,789 BBB 111 CCC 121 Any suggestions/pointers would be highly appreciated.
I am currently working on an application that requires, insertion of the results of a SQL Query in to the field of another table, in the form of a comma separated values.
For example, to explain things in detail:
create table dbo.phone_details
(country varchar(20), state varchar(30), list_of_toll_free_numbers text)
insert into dbo,phone_details values ( 'USA', 'CA', 'select Phone from phone_table where substring(phone, 1, 3) in ('800', '866', '877', '888')' )
The final output I desire is:
country state list_of_toll_free_numbers
---------- ------- ----------------------------------------- USA CA 8009877654, 8665764398, 8776543219
So at the moment, I don't have a function by the name CONCATENATE. What I like to do is to list all those different values that go with a single CASE_ID to appear as a a comma separate list. You might have a better way of doing without even writing a function
PROCEDURE ListFilteredEvents @FilterList varchar(200) -- contains β3,5β AS SELECT EventID FROM Events WHERE (any value in Categories) IN @FilterList
Result:
EventID ---------- 2
How can I select all records where any value in the Categories column matches a value in @FilterList. In this example, record 2 would be selected since it belongs to category 3, which is also in @FilterList.
Iβve looked at the table of numbers approach, which works when selecting records where a column value is in the parameter list, but I canβt see how to make this work when the column itself also contains a comma delimited list.
Hello. I need to write a UDF that would split a comma separated list and return 4 values. I need to return the first 4 values and ignore the commas after that. If there are no commas in the string that's passed then just return the table with empty strings. The UDF should accept 2 inputs. The ntext and a position and return a value based on the position.For example: 1,2,3,textshould createPosition | Value-------------------------1|12|23|34|textand return a value based on the position. If there are more than 3 commas for example1,2,3,This string, though short, contains a commashould createPosition | Value-------------------------1|12|23|34|This string, though short, contains a commaand return a value based on the position. And if there are are less than 3 commas in the string passedFor example: 1,2 or NULL or 2:3.5 or This is a string with no commasshould createPosition | Value ------------------------- 1| (empty string) 2| (empty string) 3| (empty string) 4| (empty string)and return a value based on the position.This is what I wrote so far. CREATE function GetValueFromPosition (@Input nvarchar(4000), @position int)Returns nvarchar(4000)AsBegin -- Declare the return Variable Declare @ReturnValue nvarchar(4000) Select @ReturnValue = LTRIM(RTRIM(member_id)) From dbo.SplitString(@Input, ',') Where position = @position Return @ReturnValueEnd CREATE Function SplitString(@text varchar(8000), @delimiter varchar(1) = ',')-- This function splits a string of CSV values and creates a table variable with the values.-- Returns the table variable that it createsRETURNS @Strings TABLE( position int IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY, member_id varchar(8000))ASBEGIN Declare @index int Set @index = -1 WHILE (LEN(@text) > 0) BEGIN SET @index = CHARINDEX(@delimiter , @text) IF (@index = 0) AND (LEN(@text) > 0) BEGIN INSERT INTO @Strings VALUES (@text) BREAK END IF (@index > 1) BEGIN INSERT INTO @Strings VALUES (LEFT(@text, @index - 1)) SET @text = RIGHT(@text, (LEN(@text) - @index)) END ELSE SET @text = RIGHT(@text, (LEN(@text) - @index)) END RETURNEND I am trying to modify these according to what I need but its not working. Please help. Thank you.
I have a complex query where each row in the final dataset is a product. However each product has a number of authors associated with it. What I would like to do is have a query/subroutine join the authors to the product, as a string:
ProductID Title Authors 1 The Sacred and the Profane John Rieggle, George Alexi 2 Dancing in the Dark Dan Brown, Peter Kay, Paul Dwebinski
Hello any MS SQL experts out there! please help if you can. i'm trying to run a subquery within a query to keep myself from having to loop over the original query on display and then run additional queries to get the further info. here's the setup. i have two tables:
persons table column: name (varchar) column: vehicleids (varchar)
vehicles table column: id (int pk) column: vehiclename (varchar)
- The persons table is a list of peoples' names and what kind of vehicle/s they own. - The persons.vehicleids field is a comma-delimited list of one or more integers which correspond to the vehicles.id field. - The vehicles table contains a list of vehicles like car, bicycle, motorcycle, etc, distinguished by the vehicles.id field.
The result i want returned by the query is:
NAME - VEHICLES Joe Somebody - car,bicycle Sheila Johnson - van,pogostick,motorcycle John Nobody - skateboard,car
The query i'm trying to run to get this result is:
Code Snippet
SELECT pe.name, ( SELECT ve.vehiclename FROM vehicles ve WHERE CAST(ve.id AS VARCHAR) IN (pe.vehicleids) ) AS vehicles FROM persons pe ORDER BY pe.name
It returns the persons names in the first column, but only returns vehicle names in the second column when there's a single id in the persons.vehicleids field. if there's more than one integer in the field, it returns an empty string.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I do have the option of table restructuring if its necessary, but I'm not looking for a stored procedure solution or a temp table solution. Any takers? I would be in the kharmic debt of anyone providing a workable avenue.
user_id -> unique value list -> comma-delimited list of user_ids notes -> random varchar data
Second one is MyProfile
user_id -> unique value name address email phone
I need a stored proc to return rows from MyProfile that match the comma-delimited contents in the "list" column of MyList, based on the user_id matched in MyList. The stored proc should receive as input a @user_id for MyList then return all this data.
The format of the comma-delimited data is as such (all values are 10-digit alphanumerics):
d25ef46bp3,s46ji25tn9,p53fy76nc9
The data returned should be all the columns of MyProfile, and the columns of MyList (which will obviously be duplicated for each row returned).
Hi,I'n in an environment where I cannot make stored procedures. Now I needto make a query with a subquery in the SELECT part which gives a commaseparated list of results:SELECTp.id,listFunction(SELECT name FROM names WHERE name_parent=p.id) AS'nameList'FROM projects AS pThis query should return something like:1, "john,mike,petra"2, "bob,carl,sandra,peter,etclistFunction is (of course) not (yet) defined. Is this possible withoutthe use of stored procedures?Mike
I am trying to pass a comma delimited llist of names to a stored procedure. I am getting a syntax error and I can't seem to figure out why. When i plug the names by hand into my select statement in query analyzer it all works fine. Just a little background so i don't have to put all the code in... the list of name is built dynamically. Below are all the code snippets. Thanks for your help in advance. The is the list of names and the call to the stored procedure:
SELECT ww.ORACLE_USER_NAME, ww.LAST_NAME + ', ' + ww.FIRST_NAME as employeeName, ww1.DIVISION + ' - ' + ww1.COST_CENTER + ' - ' + ww1.COST_CENTER_DESC as department FROM WHOS_WHO.dbo.HR_PEOPLE_V ww LEFT JOIN WHOS_WHO.dbo.HR_DEPARTMENTS_V ww1 ON ww.DEPARTMENT_ID = ww1.ORG_ID WHERE ww.SEARCHABLE = 1 AND ww.ORACLE_USER_NAME IS NOT NULL AND ww.PERSON_TYPE = 'Employee' AND (ww.ORACLE_USER_NAME IN (@EMPLOYEE_LIST) OR ww.DEPARTMENT_ID IN (SELECT ud.department_id FROM USER_DEPARTMENT ud WHERE ud.nt_id = @CURRENT_USER)) ORDER BY ww.LAST_NAME, ww.FIRST_NAME
