Anyone find any good readings on how to do a regular expression to replace text?
Basically trying to figure out how to replace text in columns (replace quotes " with the word inches. so 12" will be 12 inches)
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!
I want to write a query which does something like 'get sales data in 2006 for products with names starting with "bond" '. My problem is writing mdx which can filter products names which contain certain word in a certain format and also output the matched product name.
In MDX, is it possible to filter dimension members using regex? If regex support is not available, is there sql 'like' operator in mdx.
Thanks,
Chandra.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my regex plz:
Code:
Like "[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][A-Z][A-Z]" Or " [A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][A-Z][A-Z]"
The Or condition seems to bust the whole thing, I tried And too but no go.
This works though:
Code:
Like "[A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][A-Z][A-Z]"
hello people,
I have a table with some field named 'f1', the filed contains string like this:
1:3-12/23.2:3-23/12.78:4-12/11
and so on with the same format...
I need to write some sql query that extracts all the first one or two numbers that appears before the ':' (all the red numbers in the example above). I don't mind if I get the result as a set of rows or a string that contains all the (red) numbers.
is it possible with mssql?
thanks.
I have a field in my table that in my transformation I like to replace all characters except (letters,digits,space and hyphen) with "". Is it possible to do that in SSIS package and possibly though regex?
Thanks for your time in advance.
This is a long shot but I'm hoping someone from the SSIS team can help.
Do you happen to have a regular expression that checks validity of the value supplied to the /ConsoleLog option of dtexec?
I suspect the answer is no but I thought I'd ask anyway. I figure you guys must have had to solve this at some point when you originally wrote dtexec.
Thanls
Jamie
[Microsoft follow-up]
While working on a recent project, I needed to import a number of old mainframe generated text reports. Since they didn't work on the one-record/one-row construct, the Flat File Source won't work.
So, I created a custom component that allows you to specify a Regular Expression pattern, and it will parse a text file and return columns. Each capture in the RegEx pattern is returned as a column, and you can also specify column names in the regex with the standard (?<colname>) syntax. The code is fairly basic really, but if you are comfortable with regular expression syntax, it can handle a huge variety of unusual text file formats. It also includes a UI editor for the RegEx pattern property that will allow you to test the pattern against a sample text file; it will highlight each row in blue and each column in green (see screenshot)
Since this might have applications for other folks, I added it to SourceForge under GPL. So if you might find that functionality useful, please check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/textregexsource/ and send me some feedback. There isn't much there yet, so check out the screenshots/news/release notes for the basics.
If there is demand, I'll create a more robust install package and documentation. Also looking for feature suggestions.
Cheers...Geof
Hi,
I have the following query I am bulding, its returning the desired results I am just really bad at control statements in TSQL.
What I want to do is dynamically pass the "and landingPage like '/products%' to the SPROC. If I pass nothing this part of the query is not added.
Also, I am wondering how difficult it would be to pass some RegEx into the "landingpage like '%asdf' " part of the query ?
I have started reading some articles but it seems pretty complicated. I am running sql2005 so I am clear on that part.
Any help is much appreicated!!
Thanks again,
mike123
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[select_google_referrers_groupByQueryDate_OrderByQueryDate]
(
@numDays int,
@landingPage varchar(50) = NULL
)
AS SET NOCOUNT ON
SELECT CONVERT(varchar(10),GO.queryDate,112) as referDate,
COUNT(GO.queryID) AS TotalReferrers FROM tblgoogle_referrerDetails GO
WHERE DateDiff(dd, GO.queryDate, GetDate()) < @numDays and landingpage like '/products%'
GROUP BY CONVERT(varchar(10),GO.queryDate,112)
ORDER BY referDate DESC
GO
I have a text field that contains abstract information formated inHTML, I'd like strip the HTML and insert the data in another Textfield within a DTS package. Is this possible?any suggestions would be appreciatedMatt
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SELECT
PhoneNumber, (SUBSTRING(PhoneNumber,1,2)+REPLICATE('*',8)+
SUBSTRING(PhoneNumber,CHARINDEX('[0-9][0-9]{1,2}',PhoneNumber),LEN('-555-01')))AS[PhoneNumber]
FROM
Person.PersonPhone
[code]....
Hi all i have a question regarding sql, i want to replace some characters...
any knows simply how to do this?
I want to replace "999-25000-69" by "9992500069"
grtz
i got a 100k rows column contain first name + last name. but half of them are got comma between first and last name. how can i update and remove all the comma. can anyone provide a statment please thanks so much
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when i execute ...
select * from Members where address = '6257 Rockwell's'
ERROR :
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
Server: Msg 105, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Unclosed quotation mark before the character string '
'.
Kindly help me how to solve '
i just wanna replace the last word 'roa' to 'road'
what is wrong with my code. I dont relaly see any problem. But it's replaceing all the 'roa' to 'road'.
declare @table table(ad_str1 varchar(20))
insert @table
select 'street road roa' union all
select 'street street'
select ltrim(right(ad_str1, charindex(' ', reverse(ad_str1)))) from @table
update @table
set ad_str1 = replace(ad_str1, ltrim(right(ad_str1, charindex(' ', reverse(ad_str1)))), 'road')
where ltrim(right(ad_str1, charindex(' ', reverse(ad_str1)))) = 'roa'
select * from @table
I have a colunm in a table that has a list of email address.
I want to remove a certain email address from that colunm, but it is in 54 different rows. What is the best way to do this ?
Dear all,
here is one query,
IF EXISTS (SELECT SUM(DEBIT_AMOUNT) FROM @Ledger
HAVING SUM(DEBIT_AMOUNT)<>SUM(CREDIT_AMOUNT))
i'm trying to tuning myprocedures. i think having is not good enough to use.
how can we replace having in this case.....
thank you very much
Vinod
Even you learn 1%, Learn it with 100% confidence.
Hi everyone,
I have wriiten a query that works great in sql server but MS Access does not support EXCEPT. I have to rewrite this query using 'IN' or 'NOT IN' but can not figure it out because it must be compared on all fields. I'm sure this will require multiple subqueries because 'IN' must return only one field but I can not rap my brain around it. Could someone please help with this? Here is the 'EXCEPT' query I know works.
Code Snippet
SELECT DISTINCT sh.Member_Nbr, sh.Account_Nbr, st.Share_Desc,
sh.Balance, sh.Available_Bal FROM
(((SHARE sh INNER JOIN AccountIndividual ac ON ac.Member_Nbr =
sh.Member_Nbr AND ac.Account_Nbr = sh.Account_Nbr)
INNER JOIN SHARETYPE st ON sh.Share_Type = st.Share_Type_ID) INNER JOIN
Participation_Type ON ac.Participation_Id = Participation_Type.ID)
WHERE ac.INDIVIDUAL_ID = 5249
Except
SELECT DISTINCT sh.Member_Nbr, sh.Account_Nbr, st.Share_Desc,
sh.Balance, sh.Available_Bal FROM
(((SHARE sh INNER JOIN AccountIndividual ac ON ac.Member_Nbr =
sh.Member_Nbr AND ac.Account_Nbr = sh.Account_Nbr)
INNER JOIN SHARETYPE st ON sh.Share_Type = st.Share_Type_ID) INNER JOIN
Participation_Type ON ac.Participation_Id = Participation_Type.ID)
WHERE ((ac.participation_id <> 101) AND (sh.share_type > 49 )) AND (ac.Individual_Id = 5249); This code gets me close using 'IN'.
Code Snippet
SELECT DISTINCT sh.Member_Nbr, sh.Account_Nbr, st.Share_Desc,
sh.Balance, sh.Available_Bal FROM
(((SHARE sh INNER JOIN AccountIndividual ac ON ac.Member_Nbr =
sh.Member_Nbr AND ac.Account_Nbr = sh.Account_Nbr)
INNER JOIN SHARETYPE st ON sh.Share_Type = st.Share_Type_ID) INNER JOIN
Participation_Type ON ac.Participation_Id = Participation_Type.ID)
WHERE (ac.INDIVIDUAL_ID = 5249) AND sh.member_nbr not in
(SELECT sh.member_nbr from Share sh inner join accountindividual ac on sh.member_nbr = ac.member_nbr AND sh.account_nbr = ac.account_nbr
WHERE ac.participation_id <> 101 AND sh.share_type > 49) AND sh.account_nbr not in
(SELECT sh.account_nbr from share sh inner join accountindividual ac on sh.member_nbr = ac.member_nbr AND sh.account_nbr = ac.account_nbr
WHERE ac.participation_id <> 101 AND sh.share_type > 49)
To ensure I don't leave orphans floating around in tables when records get deleted (values from one record might link to values in another) how do I find and possibly replace values in tables?For example, if I have a unit of measure table and want to delete the value "inches", how do I look in other tables to find this value and give the user the option to cancel or clear it out. If I don't it will cause controls bound to that value like the dropdownlist to throw an error.
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I made a migration operation and when I am looking inside database I can see the <BR> tags.
The question is how to write a query that replace all of this occurances of <BR> inside the colum table, with CLRF which is a new line code.
Thanks in advance.
I have the following:----------------- WHILE PATINDEX('%,%',@Columns)<> 0 BEGINSELECT @Separator_position = PATINDEX('%,%',@Columns)SELECT @array_Value = LEFT(@Columns, @separator_position - 1)SET @FieldTypeID = (SELECT FieldTypeID FROM [Form].[Fields] WHERE FieldID = (CAST(@array_Value AS INT)))SET @FieldName = (SELECT [Name] FROM [Form].[Fields] WHERE FieldID = @array_Value)print 'arry value' + CONVERT(VarChar(500), @array_value)print 'FieldTypeID: ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(500), @FieldTypeID)PRINT 'FieldName: ' + @FieldNameBEGINIF @FieldTypeID = 1 OR @FieldTypeID = 2 OR @FieldTypeID = 3 OR @FieldTypeID = 9 OR @FieldTypeID = 10 OR @FieldTypeID = 7BEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT ISNULL(CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX),[Value]),'''') FROM [Item].[ItemDetailFieldRecords] IDFR WHERE IDFR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND IDFR.FieldID = ' + @array_Value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT ISNULL(CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX),[Value]),'''') FROM [Item].[TaskFieldRecords] TFR WHERE TFR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND TFR.FieldID = ' + @array_Value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FieldTypeID = 4 OR @FieldTypeID = 8 --DropDownList/RadioButtonlistBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT [Value] FROM [Form].[FieldListValues] FFLV INNER JOIN [Item].[ItemDetailFieldListRecords] IDFLR ON FFLV.FieldListValueID = IDFLR.FieldListValueID WHERE IDFLR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND FFLV.FIeldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT [Value] FROM [Form].[FieldListValues] FFLV INNER JOIN [Item].[TaskFieldListRecords] TFLR ON FFLV.FieldListValueID = TFLR.FieldListValueID WHERE TFLR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND FFLV.FIeldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FieldTypeiD = 5 --CascadingBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT [FCV].[Value] FROM [Form].[FieldCascadingValues] FCV INNER JOIN [Form].[FieldCascadingLookUpTables] LT ON FCV.FIeldCascadingLookupTableID = LT.FieldCascadingLookupTableID INNER JOIN [Item].[ItemDetailFieldCascadingRecords] IDFCR ON IDFCR.FieldCascadingValueID = FCV.FieldCascadingValueID WHERE IDFCR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND LT.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT [FCV].[Value] FROM [Form].[FieldCascadingValues] FCV INNER JOIN [Form].[FieldCascadingLookUpTables] LT ON FCV.FIeldCascadingLookupTableID = LT.FieldCascadingLookupTableID INNER JOIN [Item].[TaskFieldCascadingRecords] TFCR ON TFCR.FieldCascadingValueID = FCV.FieldCascadingValueID WHERE TFCR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND LT.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FieldTypeiD = 6 --ListBoxBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT i.[CSV] FROM @ItemDetailLV i WHERE i.ID = ID.ItemDetailID AND i.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT it.[CSV] FROM @TaskLV it WHERE it.ID = T.TaskID AND it.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FieldTypeID = 11 --UsersBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT SU.[UserID] FROM [Security].[Users] SU INNER JOIN [Item].[ItemDetailUserRecords] IDUR ON SU.UserID = IDUR.UserID WHERE IDUR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND IDUR.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT SU.[UserID] FROM [Security].[Users] SU INNER JOIN [Item].[TaskUserRecords] TUR ON SU.UserID = TUR.UserID WHERE TUR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND TUR.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FIelDTypeID = 12 --GroupBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT SG.[GroupID] FROM [Security].[Groups] SG INNER JOIN [Item].[ItemDetailGroupRecords] IDGR ON SG.GroupID = IDGR.GroupID WHERE IDGR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND IDGR.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT SG.[GroupID] FROM [Security].[Groups] SG INNER JOIN [Item].[TaskGroupRecords] TGR ON SG.GroupID = TGR.GroupID WHERE TGR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND TGR.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDENDPRINT 'Inner Item Select:' + @InnerItemSelectPRINT 'Inner Task Select:' + @InnerTaskSelectSET @IDSelect = @IDSelect + @InnerItemSelect + ', 'SET @TSelect = @TSelect + @InnerTaskSelect + ', 'SELECT @Columns = STUFF(@Columns, 1, @separator_position, '')END --------------- That is only part of a large query that writs a SQL Query to a column in a Database. That Query (in the column) is just ran normally so I don't need to compile it each time I want to run it.THe problem I have is @FieldName might be: ryan's field. That apostrophe is killing me because the SQL keeps it as ryan's field, not ryan''s field(note the 2 apostrophes). I cannot do: REPLACE(@FieldName, ''', '''') because it's not closing the apostrophes. Is there an escape character that I can use to say only one: ' ?Would the only solution be to put: ryan''s field into the Database, and just format it properly on the output? Thanks.
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I am having a situation where I need to update a column in my SQL table that contains a link to an image file. Basically ...
I have this stored in a column IMAGESRC
Project/aa11be5d-dd9e-48c8-9d8c-6a972e996b28/ProjectImages/702d_2.jpg I need to change it to this
Project/NEWUSERID/ProjectImages/702d_2.jpg
How can I accomplish this in SQL???
thanks in Advance
Dollarjunkie
Hi,
I have a table with a field called productname, and it has about 5000 rows, and within that about 1000 have a productname that has 'NIB' in the name, ie "My Product NIB DVD" and I have been asked to replace 'NIB' with 'New' ie "My Product New DVD" Can I do this in SQL using an Update statement? Or do I have build something in maybe asp.net to use a replace function to change the name.
Thanks
I'm not sure how to use REPLACE here. The Query following REPLACE returns a string whose format is A B C D and I'm trying to convert it to 'A','B','C','D' I'm doing something wrong because query analyzer doesn't like something about the way I've written this.
WHERE (a_Name_Symbol.Symbol IN REPLACE(SELECT Portfolio_Symbols FROM a_Users_Portfolios WHERE (UserID = @UserID) AND (Portfolio_Name = @Portfolio_Name),'''','''''')
Entire SPROC
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CREATE PROCEDURE _premium_BSH (@Portfolio_Name NVarChar (50), @UserID int, @Symbol VarChar (1500)) AS
SELECT a_Name_Symbol.Name, a_Name_Symbol.Symbol, a_Industry.Industry, a_Sector.Sector, a_Quarter_Index.Period, a_Technical_Signals.Signal,
a_Technical_Signals.[Date], a_Financials.Revenue, a_Financials.Income, a_Financials.EPS, a_Financials.Margin_Net AS [Net Margin],
a_Financials.PE, a_Hyperlinks.Yahoo_Main AS Yahoo, a_Hyperlinks.MSN_10Qs AS Financials, a_Hyperlinks.MSN_events AS Events,
a_Hyperlinks.StockCharts AS Technicals
FROM a_Financials INNER JOIN
a_Hyperlinks ON a_Financials.Yahoo_Main = a_Hyperlinks.Yahoo_Main INNER JOIN
a_Industry ON a_Financials.Industry = a_Industry.Industry INNER JOIN
a_Sector ON a_Financials.Sector = a_Sector.Sector INNER JOIN
a_Name_Symbol ON a_Financials.Symbol = a_Name_Symbol.Symbol INNER JOIN
a_Technical_Signals ON a_Name_Symbol.Symbol = a_Technical_Signals.Symbol INNER JOIN
a_Quarter_Index ON a_Financials.Period = a_Quarter_Index.Period
WHERE (a_Name_Symbol.Symbol IN REPLACE(SELECT Portfolio_Symbols FROM a_Users_Portfolios WHERE (UserID = @UserID) AND (Portfolio_Name = @Portfolio_Name),'''','''''') AND (NOT (a_Technical_Signals.Signal IS NULL)) AND (a_Quarter_Index.Period = '2003 Q3')
ORDER BY a_Name_Symbol.Name, a_Technical_Signals.Signal
GO
Does anybody know how to search through all stored procedures (in SQL Server 2000) and find and replace text without having to open each one individually in Query Analyzer and doing so one at a time?
That would be so time consuming. I want to be able to change my table names, but I have so many stored procedures allready using the old names. To go and find each name and replacing them is a task I don't want to even try and do.
Thank you to whomever can help.
Alec
I am using MSDE. In this I have a field that contains a desciption. Prior to saving to the db, I replace all vbcrlf's to <br />'s. That works fine when displaying in HTML, but when I display it in a datagrid, I want to replace the <br />'s with vbcrlf's.
I thought I might be able to do it with a replace function in my SQL query, something like "Select ID, replace(Description, '<br />', vbcrlf) as Description". This produces an error that vbcrlf is not a fieldname. So I tried "select replace(Description, '<br />', 'xxx') as Description", and while this did not create an error, neither was the text replaced.
Am I not using the replace function correctly? Is there another way in which I might accomplish the task?
Dim ConnectionString As String = "server='(local)'; trusted_connection=true; database=dbname"
Dim CommandText As String
'Command text is greatly abreviated for this discussion.
CommandText = "Select ID, replace(Description, '<br />', vbcrlf) as Description"
Dim myConnection As New SqlConnection(ConnectionString)
Dim myCommand As New SqlDataAdapter(CommandText, myConnection)
Dim ds As New DataSet()
Dim dv as new dataview()
myCommand.Fill(ds)
DataGrid1.DataSource = ds
DataGrid1.DataBind()
...
...
...
Hi,
I need to write a single replace sql as folows:
I have a string consisting of numbers seperated by a space. Some of the numbers are suffixed with a star like this: '1 12* 5 7*'
I need to remove those numbers that are suffixed with a star. In other words, I need an output as follows: '1 5'
any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Hello
Can anyone tell me how to replace a single apostrophe in a record with a double apostrophe (in Query Analyzer, SQL7)? I've tried "select replace("d'","d'","d''")FROM RESORT" but it doesn't UPDATE the table.
Suggestions gratefully received!
Mark
Hi,
I need to write a single replace sql as folows:
I have a string consisting of numbers seperated by a space. Some of the numbers are suffixed with a star like this: '1 12* 5 7*'
I need to remove those numbers that are suffixed with a star. In other words, I need an output as follows: '1 5'
any help would be appreciated
Thanks
I have a need to evaluate a parameter to use like keywords. (Not my server, so indexing is not available.) I can get the first scenario to work, but wanted to see about getting the syntax so I wouldn't have to exec the statement. If I run the first execute statement, I get three rows (accurate). If I run the second statement, I get no rows. Anybody help me out with the syntax? I've tried so many variations, I'm lost. Many thanks.
declare @key as varChar(50), @sql as varchar(1000)
set @key='flow afow'
set @sql='select myID from myTable where [title] like ''%' + replace(rtrim(ltrim(@key)),' ','%'' or [title] like ''%') + '%'''
exec(@sql)
select myID from myTable where [title] like '%' + replace(@key,' ', '%''' or [title] like '''%') + '%'
I'm trying to replace some text in a field. It looks something like this:
63.73 Avail %= 36.27 Used space MB = 2609.34375 Free space MB = 1485.34765625
I only want the 63.73 number at the beginning. How do I put a wildcard to replace everything after it, starting with 'Avail...'?
Hi,
I need to write a replace sql in TSQL as folows:
I have a string consisting of numbers seperated by a space. Some of the numbers are suffixed with a star like this: '1 12* 5 7*'
I need to remove those numbers that are suffixed with a star. In other words, I need an output as follows: '1 5'
any help would be appreciated
Thanks