SQL INSERT Changes Carriage Returns Into Question Marks???
Jan 8, 2008
Hi all,
I have an old ASP .NET 1.1 application that I haven't had time to rebuild with .NET 2.0. No changes have been made to the application or the SQL Server the application uses. I have a web form where users can type multiple lines of text, and it is entered into an SQL database (SQL 2000 Enterprise) into a column with a datatype of "text". Recently (it seems out of nowhere), If my users enter a carriage return into the webform, it becomes a question mark in the sql database. It's really a bit funny, but also annoying, lol. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Thanks so much!
could any one tell how to go about keeping carriage returns and line breaks when inserting a chunk of text so that when that text is recieved it will still contain those carriage returns and line breaks?
I am attempting to store text in a column defined as varchar(2048). The text contains line feed and carriage return characters. After examining the database column the text is truncated after the first set of line feed and carriage return characters.
Is there a way to force SQL Server to store these characters?
Can anyone provide me with some SQL that will identify rows from a table where a varchar column named "Notes" contain Carriage Returns?
I know that with report writer SQR I can translate CR's to white space but I do not know of any Sybase function that will allow me to do the same, any ideas on this well would be appreciated.
I have a report which has multiple fields in the same column of a table. So that it formats correctly, on the stored procedure side I inserted char(10) + char(13). This allows the next field to correctly carriage return on the report. The report looks great.
But once the report is exported to MS Excel, it appears to add in extra carriage returns. This can be cleaned up by going record by record and back-spacing over the carriage returns.
I am migrating from 2000 to 2005 and in the process of rewriting DTS to SSIS. So far so good.
I have an import of a flat file that I need to reproduce that works fine in DTS but throws SSIS.
The file contains details of products, and has a Long Description field that may contain lots of different chars - CR & LF amongst them. It's source and destination columns are Text type.
The file is tab delimited, text delimited with double quotes, with row delimiters of CRLF and column names on row 1.
The error SSIS throws is "The column delimiter for column "LongDescription" was not found"
I imagine (perhaps wrongly) that this is because of the extra CRLFs but it worked fine in DTS. It also previews fine, and lets me define the column properties OK in SSIS package designer.
Any help greatly appreciated. I am trying to avoid the obvious thing of replacing those chars in that field at this point as currently the export is shared between a live production server, and my test 2005 rig.
In SSRS/RDL, How do you format a column heading to use carriage returns?
I have a couple of instance where I have a column heading that I want spread over 3 lines. For example, the column heading "= Actual Amount" I would want centered and displayed on 3 lines, as follows:
I have stupid users... who doesn't?! They have entered carriage returns as a whole value in some fields, that is, the field contains nothing more than a carriage return.
I really need to treat these cases as nulls and have successfully removed whole fields of nothing but spaces by using the LTRIM(RTRIM()) construct. Unfortunately, this doesn't deal with carraige returns. Even CASTing and CONVERTing to varchar and then using LTRIM(RTRIM()) doesn't work.
Does anyone know how I can elegantly get around this problem other than my best guess below:
Best guess pseudo code: IF count of field is greater than 1 THEN probably a full sentence so ignore ELSE SUBSTRING first character and if CHAR(10, etc) then treat as NULL.
Here's some code that reconstructs the problem: select datalength(char(13)) CarriageReturnVisible , datalength(ltrim(rtrim(cast(char(13) as varchar)))) [This Don't Work]
I'm trying to import a flat file source into a SQL Server table.
The flat file is pipe-delimited and text qualified with " (double-quotes).
The import job is failing because there is a "comments" field in the flat file and there are carriage returns within some records in the "comments" field. When SSIS encounters a record with a carriage return within that field, it sees the carriage return and assumes the end of the record, even though the field is text qualified with " ".
The actual error message I see is: "
Error 0xc0202055: Data Flow Task 1: The column delimiter for column "comments" was not found. (SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Sample Record: "418186"|"94"|"Staff Only-Minimum charge out of 3 hours Plus travel & accommodation costs (if required) – at cost.
All trauma response services & associated fees/costs are required to be formally authorised by the Company prior to delivery."|""|"690"|""
I can't think of a way to get SSIS to ignore the carriage returns within the Comments field in the source flat file!
I have created the following trigger:CREATE TRIGGER [CreateFile] ON OutputTableFOR INSERTASDeclare @filename nvarchar(35)Declare @filecontents nvarchar(2000)Declare @strcmdshell varchar(150)SELECT @filecontents = OutputText FROM INSERTEDSELECT @filename = 'c:' + OutputFileName FROM INSERTEDSELECT @strcmdshell = 'echo '+ @filecontents+ ' >'+ @filenameexec master..xp_cmdshell @strcmdshellIt works fine as long as the column OutputText has no carriagereturns.I have used my Access2K front end to dump about ten lines of text intoOutputText, each line broken by vbcrlf so that OutputText looks like:line1testline2textline3textetc.The trigger won't fire with this text.Is there something I can do to remedy this?lq
I'm fairly new to SQL, so this might be simple question:
I am adding records to an SQL7 database by using the INSERT statement. The table has an IDENTITY field which is auto-incremented, so a value is not needed for the field in the query.
Is there any parameters for INSERT that returns to me the value of the IDENTITY field for the record I just created?...
I have trying to do an insert with a subroutine that calls a stored procedure, but it doesn’ t run. The page loads properly but nothing is inserted in the table of the database, no errors appears after submit the form. <asp:Button id="SubmitButton" OnClick="Send_data" Text="Submit" runat="server"/>
Here is the code:
Sub Send_data(Sender As Object, E As EventArgs)
Dim CmdInsert As New SqlCommand("new_user1", strConnection) CmdInsert.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
Dim InsertForm As New SqlDataAdapter() InsertForm.InsertCommand = CmdInsert
I have code that has worked just fine for some time, and now all of the sudden I am having an issue. I have a simple INSERT statement built and then make the following call:
RecordID = cmd.ExecuteScalar
I have never had a problem with this before. The RecordID of the newly inserted record is returned into the RecordID Integer varibale. All of the sudden, the varibale has a value of 0 (null I assume is being returned), but yet the INSERT worked just fine. I can check the table in SQL and it is populated with no issues.
No exception is thrown of any type or anything. Does anybody know what may be happening?
I have a block of xml that I wish to update in my sql database. The problem I have is the the data has double and single quotation marks in it and all my attempts to send this to my sql database gives me errors reguarding the quotation marks. Is there a way I can send the xml to the database without these problems. I am using the xml in the sql database to make it easy to read and right the xml as xmldatasource does not allow reading and writing easily. this section shows the problem, i am loading xml from a file and trying to insert this into the sql database XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(Server.MapPath("xml/wt.xml"));reader.WhitespaceHandling = WhitespaceHandling.None;XmlDocument xmlDocF = new XmlDocument();xmlDocF.Load(reader);this.SqlDataSource1.UpdateCommand = "update [data] set [linkXML] '" + xmlDocF.InnerXml+ "' where [index] = 1" ;this.SqlDataSource1.Update();reader.Close(); pls help
I'd like some ideas on how to help out my VB staff when it comes to the tick ( ' ) mark being used in front end applications. When users enter data into the front end, and they include tick marks (eg: Sam's Auto Store), this causes trouble in how the app uses that data in a WHERE clause and other places. Does anyone have any slick ideas or experience in handling this. We have experimented with search & replace, double tick marks ( '' ), etc...
I have an ASP.Net page that allows people to type in strings and store them into a SQL Server DB; which in turn gets displayed on a website. The project has an admin side that can add/delete/edit announcements, which get displayed on an intranet site. These announcements can be clicked on to display further detail. When announcements are clicked on a javascript popup window is generated that displays the strings. All data is stored in a SQL Server DB.What I need to know is: how do I check to see if a string has a quotation mark or apostrophe in it so that I can replace it with the appropriate HTML code? (Though it seems I can't display an apostrophe, even when using the HTML code ''')If I store the string as was entered by the administrator (with quotation marks instead of '"'), the popup window will not display.
I am working on a project to import information from one database table to another. This info includes names, addresses, etc. I am running into a challenge whenever one of the names, such as O'Brien, causes problems in the sql statement. Is there a way for me to tell it to ignore the ' in O'Brien?
Hi I have an asp.net 2.0, web app with a sql 2000 db. I am having a problem when users cut and past content from Word and Excel and past it into a textbox apostrophes are replaced as question marks when saved to db. I have set the following line in my web.config which did not resolve the problem<globalization requestEncoding="iso-8859-1" responseEncoding="iso-8859-1" fileEncoding="iso-8859-1" culture="en-GB" uiCulture="en-GB"/> I have also read many posts, but have not found a resolutionhttp://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=124609I cant do a find and replace of the character before insertion into DB, as this would involve visiting over 90 pages and changing every insert statement. Is there a way I a can force my sql server to only allow characters in a certain format, eg iso-8859-1 to resolve this problem Please help somebody must have a resolutionMany thanks in advance
Please can anyone help me - I am trying to establish whether there are any reserved symbols in SQL passwords
eg % £ " $ ( / < * etc
The SQL BOL has a list of reserved words but I cannot find a list of reserved symbols.
We have a problem where by for example if the main part of the password is "test" and my user wants to add a punctuation mark into this we get "You are attempting to use an invalid character message"
Specifically
"test$" is accepted "$test" is not accepted None of "te+st" "+test" "test+" are accepted.
Has anyone else come across this and found a list of the logic that produces these results so I can point my users in the right direction?
Hi, My first post. I am trying to run a select query to a linked server (Cache database on VMS OS) from Microsoft SQL 2000 Query Analyzer. Here is my problem query: SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('MSDASQL', 'DSN=SHADOW', 'SELECT * FROM Member_Acct WHERE close_dt > {d'2007-07-01'}'
I am getting this error: Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 4 Line 4: Incorrect syntax near '2007'.
I have tried using double quotes and everythingelse I could. Database expect me to send date in this format {d'YYYY-MM-DD'}.
I'm having a little trouble with a large query I have written to be sent as an email.
I want to send it as a csv so I've added commas in between each value in the query.
This is causing an error though, I think the ' that surround the commas are closing the query early. Is there any way around this? like encapsulating the query?
I have this table of Marks as shown below. All I need is to find the average Marks at various intervals of S.no. That is I need averages at every 3rd S.No. as shown.
S.No. Marks 1 ------ 5 2 ------ 5 3 ------ 6 1st Average Value here (16/3) 4 ------ 5 5 ------ 6 6 ------ 7 2nd Average Value here (18/3) 7 ------ 7 8 ------ 7 9 ------ 8 3rd Average Value here (22/3) 10 ----- 8 11 ----- 9 12 ----- 8 4th Average Value here (26/3)
So basically I need a new table which will have 4 average values for the table above. Of-course the table can be much bigger and the average values can be at any nth value of S.No.
Is it possible to remove the tick marks that I have circled in red?The chart has data Week by week over a year, and the T1, T2 etc are equivalent to Quarter1, Quarter 2 etcI've got a 3 level grouping, with the top level being Year, then Quarter, then Week. The label for the "Week" grouping is set to blank, and that's why you don't see it here.Removing the Tick marks would make the chart legend more readable in my opinion.
While retrieving user input from an input control, eg: multi-line textbox, and inserting it into the database, the carriage return or the 'Enter' key is not getting inserting into the database.. instead it inserts a quad ( square ) in the database.. also the text typed after the 'Enter' key is not getting inserted into the database.. please help.
hello everyone, I have a a texarea box and user type in the comments, and then I insert it into sql database, i retrieve it and write to a text file, but the text file shows multiple lines bc user hit "Enter Key" or "Tab key" now i want to remove all the Carriage Return character or tab key, and i want the text file shows countinous lines. any suggestions are greatly appreciated thanks
I have a string with multiple carriage returns in it. I need to removethe second carriage return but leave all the rest. Anyone know of afunction that will do this?I've come up with this:/***********************************************/DECLARE @MyString varchar(100)SET @MyString='Line one.Line two.Line three.Line four.'SELECT @MyStringSELECT @MyString = LEFT(@MyString, CHARINDEX(CHAR(13), @MyString,CHARINDEX(CHAR(13), @MyString, 0)+1)-1)+ RIGHT(@MyString, LEN(@MyString)-(CHARINDEX(CHAR(13), @MyString,CHARINDEX(CHAR(13), @MyString, 0)+1)+1))SELECT @MyString/***********************************************/However, if there is a less convoluted way of doing this, I'd love toknow.
Hi All, I am experiencing problem to select text wich has carriage return in my search functionality.
I have two tables called @searchwordTable and @DataTable.
@searchWordTable will have search criteria words(data type is varchar) and @DataTable will titles(data type is ntext) need to be searched. Some of titles have carriage return,line feed and tab characters. I am preseting here script to reproduce my problem.
DECLARE @searchwordTable TABLE
(
searchword VARCHAR(MAX)
)
INSERT INTO @searchwordTable (searchword) VALUES('carriage long description')
DECLARE @DataTable TABLE
(
title ntext
)
INSERT INTO @DataTable (title) values('carriage long description'+char(13)+char(10)+'carriagelong')
SELECT * FROM @DataTable dTable,@searchwordTable srcWrdTable
WHERE '% ' + REPLACE(CAST(dTable.title AS VARCHAR(MAX)),char(13),'') + ' %' like '% ' + srcWrdTable.searchword + ' %'
I am expecting the above select statement should select title from @DataTable but not getting .I am not understanding what is going wrong with above select.
