The 'LIKE' function looks for words that start with whatever is in the like condition. Is there an sql function similar but will look and compare at any part of the search string.
For example I am using a webservice in dot net to populate a dropdown list using this sql
SELECT compound_name FROM dbo.compound_name WHERE compound_name like @prefixText
In this table there is a compound called SILCAP310 and I would like the search function to pick up 310 if I put this into the @prefix parameter. (but I would still like the search to perform like the 'LIKE' does also.
SELECT compound_name FROM dbo.compound_name WHERE compound_name like @prefixText or compound_name SearchPartString @prefixText
Hi All!!! I was tasked to come up with a search function and the content of the database given to me is in Chinese Characters. This would be my first time dealing with Chinese characters in the database and I need help with the following problem: The company wants to conduct the search in such a way that, instead of having the system read the entire sentence/phrase which the user keyed in as a SINGLE string, they want the Chinese Characters to be accessed individually, so that as long as any information in the database contains any one of the characters which the user have entered, they will be retrieved and returned. So how do I go about doing this? Does it have anything to do with Unicode? By the way, everything abt the search tool is working fine, I am just left with this dilemma of having the system recognise the entire sentence as ONE STRING, instead of conducting a search word by word or character by character. Anyway, the following is the SQL statement of my SQL Data Source which is bound to a Gridview displaying the returned results after a search is done...1 SELECT Name, Trans, Address1, Address1T, Address2, Address2T, City, CityT, CRPLID 2 FROM CRPL 3 WHERE (Trans LIKE '%' + @Trans + '%') OR 4 (Name LIKE '%' + @Name + '%') OR 5 (Address1 LIKE '%' + @Address1 + '%') OR 6 (Address1T LIKE '%' + @Address1T + '%') OR 7 (Address2 LIKE '%' + @Address2 + '%') OR 8 (Address2T LIKE '%' + @Address2T + '%') OR 9 (City LIKE '%' + @City + '%') OR 10 (CityT LIKE '%' + @CityT + '%')
Hi Everyone- i woder if someone know Built in function to search the occurence of char in string in T-SQL
and iam not talking about the Index of the first occurence (e.g CHARINDEX ) but it is more generic
i want to send to the function to ask about the index the second or the third or N occurence of the char. and i wonder if it is built in for performance reasons
example getseachIndex("M|d|d","|",2)==> the result is 4
I have a scenario where in I need to use a comma delimited string as input. And search the tables with each and every string in the comma delimited string.
I am trying to write a used car search function I want the user to be able to select a MAKE from the 1st drop down list and a MODEL from the second drop down list and click a button and for the data to be shown in a gridview, the code below is what I have so far and works i.e when user selects a make it shows all cars for that make, but now how do I take it further and add the model on there so that when the user selects i.e BMW as make and Z3 for model it only shows all BMW Z3'S
Here is the code behind the page Protected Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles button1.Click SqlDataSource1.SelectCommand = "select * from [used] where make like '%" & ddmake.Text & "%'" SqlDataSource1.DataBind() End Sub
We are in the process of developing an onlinestore like www.componentsource.com.We need to search for a product within our website.We already created pages using html.I have to take the 1st para of the product description and display. I don't want to save the description in the table how to do it?
Hi all I have a search function in one of my database's that when you click on the command button it window comes up that ask you for the last name. What I would like to do is alter it so that users can type in SM and get all the names that start with SM or Ma?? Like a Starts with. How can I do that = N'[@Enter_LastName].[dbo.Revocatiions] ALike [ta%]'
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Revocations (@Enter_LastName nvarchar(50)) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN ( SELECT [SSN], [TM#], FirstName, LastName, ReasonofRevocation, Notes, [I/R #], Date FROM dbo.Revocations_Tbl WHERE (LastName = @Enter_LastName))
I create titles and submit them for approval. Once approved I can edit them again and either save them or submit them for approval again.
My problem is: When I am creating a title and saving it in the drafts and searching for the title, I am able to find it in the result page. This is before approval. When I submit the same title for approval and it's approved and then I change the title and save it as draft and then search the new title I cant find it. But when I search with the old title it shows me the result but with the new title name.
When I check the db and search for the new title no records found. When I check the db and search for the old title the system returns me the record with the same old name.
So when I search the old title in the db it returns the old title. So when I search the application for the new title it returns the old title.
I have a table search the record. The user can search by name, id, status, address and other information.I want to make the search function more robust. For example, when the database has a record with name = "Michael Jackson", either typing any subset of the name will show this record.I would like to know if there is any easy way to implement this with VS2005 and SQL2005 Express.Thank you
Hi all,I'm very new to ASP.NET stuffs, I'm trying to write a Search function for my website... I have two text boxes, one if called "SongTitle" and the other is "Artist"... Now I need to populate the GridView to display the result, based on the input of the textbox... So if only the "SongTitle" have input, it will search for the Song Titles on the database... if the Artist is searched, then it will return the artist... If both text boxes have value in them, then it need to check for both fields in the database and return the correct item... For the "Artist", I have 2 columns in the Database (originalArtist and performer), so for the Artist select statement, it need to check both columns on the table, if any of them match then it will return the item. Any help would be greatly appreciated,Thank you all,Kenny.
Hi, I am using the following sql for search function: Select * From TableABC Where condition LIKE '%xyz%' However, it does not provide good results, some results is not accurate, I would like to ask, is it any better mechanism for searching? Please advise. Thanks~ James
Anyone have the code that would allow me to see if any of my sprocs contain references to a function? I imagine it would someting like select name from sysobjecst where charindex(whatevertextis, 'ufnName') > 0
Hi, I have an old db with streets names and another one with employees. I have to use both tables to check if an employee adress is ok, but I have the following problem: Employee adress : 47th street nº12 2nd door b street in db 47th street
The question is how to say to sql that searchs for the employee street in the streets db cause the employee addres is bigger than any streets in db and I have no results with street like '%47th street nº12 2nd door b%' or something like that.
I have a parameter that is a varchar(50) and I want to know if there are any percent(%) signs in the string, what function can I use for this? I am looking for the T-SQL equivalent of InStr() Thanks,
Hi everybodyI have this query which need to extract names where I use the wildcard character % before and after the string to indicate that the string should not contain these characters but it is not working right .. Is there any way I could do that..SELECT name, famnameFROM inftable WHERE NAME NOT IN ('%socius%', '%rector%', '%superior%')In other words my result should not include those names that contains socius, rector, superior, this characters could begin with or in a middle of the field...thanks
Was wondering how you do the equivalent of an Oracle "Instr" function in TSQL, which returns the position of a string pattern in a specified string? I've looked through all the functions and can't find the equivalent.
Is there a T-SQL equivalent of the Oracle "Instr" function, whereby I can retrieve the position of a one specified charactier string within another? I have looked through the list of string functions and can't find an equivalent, which suprises me!
I want to search all the people in a database that names mary
I now that the sintax is something that looks like this.
SELECT Id, name FROM Socios WHERE (name LIKE '%string%') But how i input this in the vs2008 query builder for it creates an automatic searchbox toolstrip?
Hello I have a Database which contains like 1000 Tables. I am not the designer of that DB.So I need to in which table and which column that string exists. IS there a DBWIDE String search possible? Thanks and Regards
I need to search a string starting at the end to find the last space in the string, so I can determine the position of the last word in the string. Any ideas on how to do this are greatly appreciated. Kellie
I am not very familiar with MS SQL, and I need to know how to search a table for a string. I know the column that it is in, but I don't know which record. I am looking for a small piece of text in a much larger text field (we are talkinga maybe a 10k char field and I am only looking for about a 15 char string).
I have access to a database's web front end and a limited amount of access to the server.
I am trying to find out what column a certain string is in.
I can see some text on the front end via the web that a user enters and then submits. This information must go to the back end of the database but I dont know where it goes...
I am able to provide a unique Sequence number that it would be linked with and obviously I have the string that im looking for its column name but other then that I dont know what I can do.
I don't have write access to the database so I am unable to make procedures. I am also not really aware how the front end works or if I would be able to find the script that deals with the text after the user hits "save"...
I have at table that I want to update using another table which contains other values than those in the text column. table1 id: text: 1 1111, 2222, 3333 2 1234, 2222 3 0123
I want to replace the text in table1 with the new values so that it looks like below: table1 id: text: 1 aaaa, bbbb, cccc 2 qqqq, bbbb 3 oooo
My first idea was to split the text column in table1 and insert every new text with its id in a temporary table and then concaternate a new string and update the column. But how do I manage this?
I am having a colume as image datatype, in which candidates resume is stored in binary format. I have to search for particular words for eg. "ASP.Net, 2 Years" into that column I have converted that column as varchar and then searching above two words(after spliting them by comma) into that string using CHARINDEX
DECLARE @i int, @j int SET @i = select MIN(ResumeId) from table_name SET @j = select MAX(ResumeId) from table_name
WHILE (@i <= @j) BEGIN DECLARE @Resume varchar(max) SET @Resume = CAST((select Resume from table_name where ResumeId=100) as varbinary(max))
--code to search the particular word from @Resume
END
It is working fine, but it is very slow, taking 2+ minutes to scan 15000 records How can I make it faster or is there any other way to search?
Hi all, I have a search function in my website, which is fully functionable. But currently, this is the issue that I am having problem with. For example: I have only the name 'John' in my database. When the user search for 'John Tan', no results is shown as there was no such name in the database But if this happens, I want 'John' to be always returned and shown, no matter what 'John' the user search - E.g "john tan", John Loh", john wee" So, how do I go about doing this? I have done some research on how to go about doing it, what I found useful was the .Replace() function. However, I can never predict in advance what user is going to key in. Any help is welcome as this is a rather pressing problem of mine. Thanks for all the help in advance!!!
Hi, I have a SQL server 2005 database with a series of multiple fields. One of the fields has a array of strings seperated by semi-colons like so: Red;Green;Blue My question is, how can i run a query on all of the fields that have the value of say Green in it. Note that these values vary in different order and numbers. Thanks
I am pretty new to SQL server 2005 and have the following issue: I get the date from the asp applciation in format dd/mm/yyyy and then try to do a search for all records that might match that date in sql server 2005. The date is storred in ther database in datetime format. I am having trouble composing the stored procedure to do that. Any help would be apreciated. Sincerely d
