SQL Server 2008 :: Left Function And CHARINDEX
Mar 30, 2015SELECT LEFT(InstanceName,CHARINDEX(' ',InstanceName)-1)
FROM ServerDB
Returns the following error.
Invalid length parameter passed to the SUBSTRING function.
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SQL Server 2008 :: Using Left And Charindex To Parse String / Getting Rid Of Rest Of Data
Jun 16, 2015I am trying to erase some erroneous bad data in my table. The description column has a lot of </div>oqwiroiweuru</a> weird data attached to it, i want to keep the data to the left of where the </div> erroneous data begins
update MyTable
set Description = LEFT(Description(CHARINDEX('<',Description)-1)) where myid = 1
that totally works.
update MyTable
set Description = LEFT(Description(CHARINDEX('<',Description)-1)) where myid >= 2
gives me a Invalid length parameter passed to the LEFT or SUBSTRING function. The statement has been terminated error.
CharIndex, Left T-SQL Question
Feb 15, 2008Hello,I was hoping someone could help me with this SQL statement.The column 'options.optionDescrip' is a varchar field.Some values of the 'options.optionDescrip' contain commas, some donot.We are trying to evaluate against any data in the'options.optionDescrip' column located to the left of a comma (if acomma does exist, which it may not). If no comma exists, then we tryand evaluate against the entire field, not just the part to the leftof the comma.SELECT options_optionsGroups.idProduct FROM options_optionsGroupsJOIN Options ON options_optionsGroups.idOption=options.idOptionJOIN products ON options_optionsGroups.idProduct=products.idProduct WHERE (CASE WHEN CharIndex(',',options.optionDescrip) = 0 THENoptions.optionDescrip LIKE '" & gauge & "%' ELSELeft(options.optionDescrip,CharIndex(',',options.o ptionDescrip)) LIKE'" & gauge & "%' END)Thanks for any input you can provide, I appreciate it.
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Jun 22, 2015Select
left(
[Description],(charindex(';',[Description],1)-1))
from xxxx
Example of Description contains
Ankle Supports; Color=Black; Size=S
So I want the left side up to and NOT including the semi colon.
Alternative For LEFT() And CHARINDEX() That Works With Text Data Type
Jun 26, 2007I have a stored procedure that receives a list of ids, to get the emails of each of those ids. The problem that I'm having is that I'm using a char data type that is max length is 8000, but the contact lists are getting bigger and soon they might reach the variable max length. The contact list that I receive will look something like this "1234,67523,67875,789687,", I'm using "," as a separator. Right now what I do is this
@array_value = LEFT(@ContactList, @separator_position - 1)
The LEFT function doesn't work with data types text and ntext. But I'm in need of a string data type with a max length bigger than 8000. So I will apreciate if anyone knows of another function that does the same or similar and works with text data type, or any other ideas will be welcome.
Thanks,
Erick
SQL Server 2008 :: Partitioning - Left Or Right?
Jul 1, 2015Normally it is recommended to leave an empty partition on both the front and back ends of a table to avoid data movement when merging/splitting. But I have some questions based on my scenario, which is a table partitioned by a load date, so all records in a partition contain the same date, not a range of dates.
If I use range left, once I switch out the first partition it would become empty, so would there be data movement when I merge it into the next partition? The real issue though is that we will not just be removing the first partition, but "random" partitions throughout the table. Will this work?
If I use range right, when I split the last partition to create a new one it doesn't seem there would be any data movement there either. Am I missing something?
Basically I'm wondering if I should use range left or right. Most recommend using right, but then the boundary value is not the value in the partition. This could potentially result in someone deleting the wrong data if they are not careful. So is there any reason not to use left in my scenario?
I did a test of removing a partition in the middle and it worked just fine; this was using range right. I have about 6 million rows per partition. I also tested splitting at the end and it worked fine. I'll rebuild it with range left and test.
The Following Prints Out 0 - SQL Procedure And Use Of The Charindex Function.
Jul 20, 2005My code prints out 0 for the value of charindex ( 'Hello.', '.' ).Did I miss something? I think it should print out 6!
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Aug 25, 2015The charindex can run this
LEFT([Description], CHARINDEX('(', [Description]) + 1) as NewDesc,
But I can't run
LEFT([Description], CHARINDEX('(', [Description]) - 1) as NewDesc,
SQL Server 2008 :: Move Row Values To The Left
Oct 20, 2015I have imported a txtfile to access and have some problem making the data appear in my wanted way. I want to shift the cells in the first row one step to the left, i.e to overwrite the zeros with the left value. Then I want to assign the first row values as field names.
Current data
Field1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Field5
0 Name Major Sector Hi
karl
per
anna
Wanted outcome
Name Major Sector Hi
karl
per
anna
Help: About Charindex Function Doesn't Work With Variable
May 23, 2007Hello to all,
I hope that somebody can help me.
I have written a sql query to search Partner. I have a wtcomValidRelationships Table. There are two Fields (IDMember(type: Int) and RelationshipIDs(type: varchar(1000)) in this table.
Example: 3418 has 3422 RelationshipID and 3422 has 4088 RelationshipID, if i want to check if there is a relationship between 3418 and 4088.
declare @IDM int;
declare @IDO char(100);
set @IDM = 3418;
set @IDO = '4088';
select B.IDMember
from wtcomValidRelationships as A, wtcomValidRelationships as B
where A.IDMember = @IDM and charindex(cast(B.IDMember as char(100)),A.RelationshipIDS) > 0
and charindex(@IDO,B.RelationshipIDs) > 0
Using this query i get nothing.
I try to use constant in charindex and i get result.
declare @IDM int;
declare @IDO char(100);
set @IDM = 3418;
set @IDO = '4088';
select B.IDMember
from wtcomValidRelationships as A, wtcomValidRelationships as B
where A.IDMember = @IDM and charindex('3422',A.RelationshipIDS) > 0
and charindex('4088',B.RelationshipIDs) > 0
So i think that charindex doesn't work with variable. But I must use variable. Can someone help me? What should i do ?
Thanks
Best Regards
Pinsha
LEFT Function On Text-field (SQL Server Datatype)
Dec 6, 2004Hello!
I am trying to run a query on an SQL-server database:
SELECT (Left(Comments, 20)) As shortComment FROM myTable
The Field Comments is a Text field (datatype is text), and I can't get the LEFT function to work with this datatype...
How can I bypass this problem? Can I convert the commentfield to varchar in the QUERY?
noccy
SQL Server 2008 :: Left Joins And Query Plan Compile Times
Mar 8, 2015We have a view with many left joins. The original creators of this view might have been lazy or sloppy, I don't know. I have rewritten the query to proper inner joins where required and also nested left joins.
So rather then the following exemplary fragment
select <many items>
from A
left join B on B.id_A = A.id
left join C on C.id_B = B.idthis now looks like
select <many items>
from A
left join (B
join C on C.id_B = B.id
) on B.id_A = A.id
Compilation time of the original view was 18s, of the new rewritten view 4s. The performance of execution is also better (not counting the compile of course). The results of the query are identical. There are about 30 left joins in the original view.
I can imagine that the optimizer has difficulty with all these left joins. But 14s is quite a big difference. I haven't looked into detail in the execution plans yet. I noticed that in both cases the Reason for Early Termination of Statement Optimization was Time Out.
SQL Server 2008 :: Graphical (Include Execution Plan) Left On By Default?
Jun 25, 2015Is there a way to leave the graphical 'Include Execution Plan' on by default in SSMS? I don't know how many times I run a long-running query, say to myself, "wow, that took a while; I wonder what the execution plan looks like?" only to realize that I left it turned off. Now I have to turn it on, and wait for the query to run again. I'm guessing there's a setting in the options somewhere to always leave it on, but I'm not sure where
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Aug 5, 2013SQL Query. What i need is to be able to extract specific characters from data.
Eg name
1.2-KPIA1-App-00001 this is a name i require, but i also require the '1.2' and the 'KPIA1' to be displayed in new columns in the results
i.e. 1.2-KPIA1-App-00001 1.2 KPIA1
*I need this in part of a script as there is thousands of rows of data.
Left Function
Apr 7, 2008i have a query
select message from ticket
but i want to only get the first 100 characters
select left(message,100) from ticket
is giving me an error - please advise?
SQL Server 2008 :: Get Date Function
Oct 19, 2015I am trying to use get date function, I want dates of my column in between, first of this month and first of the previous month, at this moment the expected result would be: (09/01/2015 and 10/01/2015)..
Seems like it would involve datediff and dateadd both...
Left() And Right() Function In MS SQL Vs MS ACCESS
Jun 29, 2006I normally use MS ACCESS vs MS SQL,, which has a left() and right()function. I need to use MS SQL for this project but I am not familiarwith it. I have read a few books, but can not figure out how to dothis. Please help.If I need to compare the first 4 letters of a field, with the firstfour letters of another field, how can I do this?Select field1, field2 FROM table1 Where left(field1,4)=left(field2,4)(MS SQL does not have left() and right() functions)Please help.In addition, I have a CSV file with data like 10.20, which I importinrto a numberic field. Unforunately the value gets changed to 10.It's seems to get rounded. How can I fix this.The import SQL I use is....BULK INSERT dbo.tableFROM 'c:MYDATA.CSVWITH(FIRSTROW = 1,FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',ROWTERMINATOR = '')Thank you in advance!!!
View 9 Replies View RelatedLEFT And String Function
Nov 3, 2006select left('Hello World /Ok',charindex('/','Hello World /Ok')-1)Hello WorldThat works fine.However I got an error message:select left('Hello World Ok',charindex('/','Hello World Ok')-1)Instead of:'Hello World Ok'I get:Server: Msg 536, Level 16, State 3, Line 1Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function.Microsoft Doc incorrectly says:"LEFT ( character_expression , integer_expression )integer_expressionIs a positive whole number. If integer_expression is negative, a nullstring is returned."Is there an easier solutoin using left or any other string functioninstead of using a case statement?Also, charindex('/','Hello World Ok') should return NULL instead 0 sothat we can use isnull function.Thanks.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCombining A Right And Left Function
Dec 6, 2007How do you combine a left and a right function. I have tried different variation and none seemed to work. What I want to accomplish is 6 spaces to the right and 2 spaces to the left.
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Jul 21, 2015Recently I have come across a requirement where i need to design a table.
There are some columns in table like below with DECIMAL Datatype:
BldgLength
BldgHeight
BldgWeight
Based on my knowledge, i know that values before Floating-Point will not be more than 4 digits.
Now as per MSDN,
Precision => 1 - 9
Storage bytes => 5
so i can create column as:
BldgLengthDECIMAL(6,2) DEFAULT 0
OR
BldgLengthDECIMAL(9,2) DEFAULT 0
Now while reading some articles, i came to know that when we do some kind of operation like SUM Or Avg, on above column then result might be larger than current data type.
So some folks suggested me that i should keep some extra space/digits considering above MATH functions, to avoid an Arithmetic Over Flow error.
So my question is what should be value of DataType for above column ?
SQL Server 2008 :: How To Remove ENCRYPTED From A FUNCTION
Aug 27, 2015I have a Table-valued Function already defined in my DB. When I look at it's Properties, it lists Encrypted TRUE.
How can I set Encrypted to FALSE? Is there a t-sql command to ALTER the Function to set Encrypted False?
(fyi, I am syadmin and local admin on this SQL 2008 R2 box)
No Left Function In Expression Builder?
Dec 22, 2006Anyone know the reaon the Left function was left out of the list of string functions in the Expression Builder?
Danno
Can't Get Left() Function To Work With A Variable.
Jan 14, 2008I have not been able to find the answer as to why the LEFT() function doesn't see the variable as being a variable.
I originally thought it did not accept a variable as the first parameter, however the definition says it can be a variable.
Anyone knows why this isn't working?
This is how I have the code:
SELECT LEFT(@tpatdata, CHARINDEX('^', Alert1) -1)
the variable @tpatdata is the column name (tablename.Alert1), iif I rewrite it like this:
SELECT LEFT(tablename.Alert1, CHARINDEX('^', Alert1) -1) it works.
SQL Server 2008 :: ODBC Function Sequence Error
Apr 13, 2015We are trying to upgrade a SQL server 2000 to a SQL 2008 R2 (SP1) server. After migrating, the developer test code, and got an error: ERROR [HY010] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Function sequence error...But this is a release for 2008, ours is already 2008 R2 SP1, so that hot fix should already be included since it is always cumulative.
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May 27, 2015I have to figure out the items that Legal Name implies individual but Legal Entity Structure indicates a incorporation type. In this sample, you can see Alexander, Justin N. is my target. But my problem is how should I use a query to figure out which one is a individual's name? How should I write a function to check the name format (Last, First Middle)?
Legal Name ////////////////////////////////////// Legal_Entity_Struct
S & H Farm Supply, Ltd.////////////////////////////Company
F.M.Abbott Power Equipment,Co.///////////////Company
Ray's Dixie Chopper, Inc.////////////////////////// Company
Alexander, Justin N. ///////////////////////////////// Company
Alameda Power Equipment, Inc.//////////////// Company
[Code] .....
SQL Server 2008 :: Function That Replaces Multiple Values
Jul 16, 2015I have created the below function and apply it on a column in a table to replace the below identified values with Blank. It works fine but i have so many different varieties of values i need to add to ths list. Is there any way i insert these values in a table and call the values from that table instead of writing separate SET Statements.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[sv_ReplaceChar] (@badString varchar(8000))
RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)
AS
BEGIN
[code]...
SQL Server 2008 :: Cross Apply With Parameterized Function?
Sep 9, 2015I'm unable to reproduce the error. when they upgrade their OS and SQL EXPRESS to a more recent version the error disappears.
The error is: Incorrect syntax near '.'
the query in question resembles this:
Select column1, column2
from Table1 T
cross apply function(t.column4,t.column5) F
where column3 = 'XXXX'
I made sure that the compatibility level is greater than 90 this error is happening on SQL2005 SP2 as well as SQL2008 with SP2 (but not all clients are suffering from the same problem)
Can it be the .net framework? Although the machines had .net framework 3.52.
Can the OS be an issue? The OS' seem to be old, Windows Server 2008 SP2
I've tried to reproduce the error by setting up virtual machines with same OS and SQL but, again, can't reproduce.
Stuff Function Not Working With Left Or Right Join
Jan 1, 2015I found something very strange...stufff function working with self join but not working with left or right join,. I have a table
**Id name**
1 samar
1 Harry
2 jack
I want the output as
**Id name**
1 samar Harry
2 jack
The below query works fine with self join
Select b.id, stuff ((select ` ` + a.name from #test a where a.id = b.id
for xml path (``)),1,1,``)
From #test b
Group by id
But when i do right join i get error _ invalid object name `b`. ....
Select b.id, stuff ((select ` ` + a.name from #test a
right join b on b.id = a.id for xml path (``),1,1,``)
From #test b
Group by id
Performance Issue Using Left Or Substring Function
Oct 18, 2007Hi,
I've tried the following query in SQL SERVER 2005, SQL Express and MACCESS.
select * from Table1 where drid in (SELECT DrID FROM Table2 WHERE (substring(PostalCode,1,3) IN ('B0E','B1P','B2H','B2Y','B3A','B3M','B4A','B4H','E1A','E1C','E1N','G0A', …)) and (substring(Telephone,1,3) IN ('204','250','306','403','416','418','450','506','514','519','604','613','705','780','807','819','902','905')))
The query is using two table. The first one Table1 is a table with user info. The second table Table2 has the info concerning a survey.
The Table1 containt approx. 6000 row and Table2 containt only 210 rows
The table structure from the different environment(MACCESS, SQL SERVER 2005, Sql Server Express 2005) are the same. The Table1 containt the field "PostalCode" and "Telephone".
When I execute this query on MACCESS and in SQL Server 2005 the result are approximately the same(Less than half second). But there a performance issue in Sql Express 2005. The query take an execution time between 7 and 9 secondes.
When I add a condition using a field from tblResponsePQ2Part1 ex: QA=1
like in the following query :
select * from Table1 where drid in (SELECT DrID FROM Table2
WHERE (QA = 1 substring(PostalCode,1,3) IN ('B0E','B1P','B2H','B2Y','B3A','B3M','B4A','B4H','E1A','E1C','E1N','G0A', …)) and (substring(Telephone,1,3) IN ('204','250','306','403','416','418','450','506','514','519','604','613','705','780','807','819','902','905')))
the query take an execution time of ~15 secondes!!!!
This issue only happen in Sql Server Express, on the others cases(mean MSAccess, Sql Server) the execution time is less than half second.
It’s weird because, Sql Express 2005 is supposed to be more performant
than MACCESS, and have the same performance than Sql Server Professional Edition. Please Help Me!!!!
Anyone have an idea why?
Mathieu Desbiens
SQL Server 2008 :: Pivot Function - Additional Final Column
Mar 11, 2015I've managed to use the pivot function using the code below which gives me the following output:
Location_Code Gt 0-1 Gt 1-2 Gt 2-3 Gt 3-4
North 10 0 3 5
West 6 3 2 0
South 4 2 8 2
This is exactly what I want but I would like an additional final column that will total the columns by location_code and weekband.
[Location_Code] AS 'Location Code'
,[Gt 0-1], [Gt 1-2], [Gt 2-3], [Gt 3-4]
from (select [WeekBand]
,[Location_Code]
, count(*) as CountOf
[Code] ....
SQL Server 2008 :: Aggregate Function Or GROUP BY Clause Error
Apr 13, 2015While running the below query, getting the error: Am I missing any of the columns to include in the SELECT column_list?
Msg 8120, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Column 'sys.master_files.database_id' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.
<code>
select a.[Database Name],a.[Type],a.[Size in MB],b.LastUserUpdate
from
(
SELECT database_id,[Database Name]= DB_NAME(database_id),
[Type]= CASE WHEN Type_Desc = 'ROWS' THEN 'Data File(s)'
WHEN Type_Desc = 'LOG' THEN 'Log File(s)'
ELSE Type_Desc END ,
[code]...
SQL Server 2008 :: Rank Function Taking Care Of Gap Between Days
May 24, 2015Working on sqlserver 2008 R2
CREATE TABLE OrderRanking
(
OrderID INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
CustomerID INT,
OrderDate date
)
INSERT OrderRanking (CustomerID, OrderDate)
[Code] ...
Looks fine but what I need is DRP with this:
CustomerID OrderDate 'DRP taking care of the gap in the days'
1 '01-01-2015' 1
1 '01-01-2015' 1
2 '02-01-2015' 1
2 '02-01-2015' 1
2 '05-01-2015' 4
2 '05-01-2015' 4
SQL Server 2008 :: Recursive CTE On Inline Table Valued Function
Jun 22, 2015I have a recursive CTE on an inline table valued function. I need to set the MAXRECURSION option on the CTE, but SQL Server is complaining with "Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'OPTION'".
It works fine on non-inline function. I couldn't find any documentation indicating this wasn't possible.
I can use the MAXRECURSION option in call to the function
SELECT * FROM MyFunction ()
OPTION ( MAXRECURSION 0 )
but that means that the user needs to know the "MyFunction" uses recursive CTE, which defeats the purpose of the abstraction.