How to remove non alpha chars from a column ?
I googled the following code
Create Function [dbo].[RemoveNonAlphaCharacters](@Temp VarChar(1000))
Returns VarChar(1000)
AS
Begin
[code]....
Hello,
I need to strip out all alpha chars and spaces in a given field and return only the numbers.
I've tried =CInt(Fields!Info.Value) and get an unexplained error. If the data was formatted consitantly I could simply do a RTrim or Right, but the number strings are not the same, some have spaces as in phone numbers (1 800 555 1212) or don't have a leading 1. Most instances are correct for my purpose (8005551212).
Any help would be appreciated.
UPDATE: Using the Replace function =Replace(Fields!Info.Value, " ","") gets me almost there. Now I should be able to use a Right, 10 function to return my desired value. Is it possible to combine these two funtions together?
Is there any possibility to store more then 8000 chars in a column?
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A CR LF
ABC CR LF
DVB CR LF
The output should be:
A
ABC DVB
I am querying with a SELECT statement against an address table that has a post code column with corrupt data.
Sample record:- Northants NN4 0NB
Should be NN4 0NB
I have used the following on another column:-
LEFT(A.Addr1,CASE WHEN CHARINDEX ('(', A.Addr1) =0 THEN LEN(A.Addr1) ELSE CHARINDEX('(' ,A.Addr1) -1 END) AS 'Address 1'
but unable to correct this problem?
I have a field name call firstname and other field middleinit, now the table contains data. and i want to extract data, the firstname field sometimes contains the middle initial, for for example JOHH D.
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I have an employee table
Surname GivenName
ABC x.yz
A.BC X.*YZ
A*.BC xyz
The query needs to get me the surname and givenname which have more than 1 non alphanumeric characters. In this case the output will be
a.bc x.*yz
a*.BC xyz
I know how to find non alphanumeric chars in a string but not sure if I can how to find the strings with minimum 2 non alphanumeric chars?
Hi everyone -
I need to remove the formatting characters
from the phone field in the database.
The data entry scrubber did not perform correct,
and now, a LOT of records have the ( in the field.
Is there a quick way to remove the ( from the field in the database??
MSSQL 2000
thanks
tony
How to remove Character From Column,Just Character. I want to work with number.
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I have a little bit of a problem I cannot seem to figure it out. Is it possible to write a Select statement that contains a WHERE column_name > desired_numeric_value
The tricky part it that the column is of CHAR type and can contain numeric grades ranging from 0-100 or the letter I for Incomplete.
My SQL was working perfect when this column contained only numbers as soon as a record with I was added I get the following error:
Character to numeric conversion error
This report will be used to find students who have failing grades. Thanks for any help!
Hi,
I was trying to find numeric characters in a field of nvarchar. I looked this up in HELP.
Wildcard
Meaning
%
Any string of zero or more characters.
_
Any single character.
[ ]
Any single character within the specified range (for example, [a-f]) or set (for example, [abcdef]).
Any single character not within the specified range (for example, [^a - f]) or set (for example, [^abcdef]).
Nowhere in the examples below it in Help was it explicitly detailed that a user could do this.
In MS Access the # can be substituted for any numeric character such that I could do a WHERE clause:
WHERE
Gift_Date NOT LIKE "####*"
After looking at the above for the [ ] wildcard, it became clear that I could subsitute [0-9] for #:
WHERE
Gift_Date NOT LIKE '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%'
using single quotes and the % wildcard instead of Access' double quotes and * wildcard.
Just putting this out there for anybody else that is new to SQL, like me.
Regards,
Patrick Briggs,
Pasadena, CA
How to remove first and Last character from below select query.
SELECT LTRIM(RTRIM(REPLACE(col_1,'Year_',''))),
FROM Years
In a query Analyser, there is a provision to change the "Maximum characters per column 256 " to our size in advanced option.
It works ok.
We are using VisualInterdev for developing ASP's -- there
thro ADO - we are getting the rows from sql server 7.0 -- there data more than
256 characters are truncated.
How will i get the actual data ?.. where i can do the settings..?
help needed...
Wincy
Say I have a column called 'NAME' in a table called 'CLIENT' and the values in NAME are Surnames or company names like:
NAME
----------------------
1-FOR-ALL
A.B. SMITH (TOOLS LTD)
BROWN
THOMSON
VW CAR SALES
I want my select to return the first 3 characters, excluding special characters (only characters between 1 and z).
In example, the following would be returned for the data above:
NAME
----------------------
1FO
ABS
BRO
THO
VWC
Say I have a column called 'NAME' in a table called 'CLIENT' and the values in NAME are Surnames or company names like:
NAME
----------------------
1-FOR-ALL
A.B. SMITH (TOOLS LTD)
BROWN
THOMSON
VW CAR SALES
I want my select to return the first 3 characters, excluding special characters (only characters between 1 and z).
In example, the following would be returned for the data above:
NAME
----------------------
1FO
ABS
BRO
THO
VWC
Hi All
I have loaded some data to the application using flat files
which has non english chars.
all the columns in the database are NVARCHAR type.
but in db and in application UI, the non english chars are being diplayed as junk chars. ???121
The application supports UTF-8 format
is there any setting at db level to be modified to display the non english char set as is.
Thanks
I am looking for a function or way to return only results which does not include appended characters to order numbers.
For instance, below is a list of order numbers. I only want the order number that is SO-123456
OrderNumbers
SO-123456
SO-123456-01
SO-123456-2
SO-123457
SO-123457-1
SO-123457-02
SO-123458
I would like my query to only show the below results
SO-123456
SO-123457
SO-123458
What functions or query methods could achieve this?
I was hoping for something similar to RTRIM but that is only specific to white space.
I am having problems building a CTE. I have a table:
declare @tbl table ( ID int, S time(0), E time(0) )
with the following data:
insert@tbl ( ID, S, E )
values ( 1, '03:00', '05:00' ),
( 1, '04:00', '06:30' ),
( 1, '22:00', '23:00' ),
( 1, '23:00', '23:40' ),
( 1, '23:30', '23:45' )
I need to build a CTE that will eliminate overlaps and produce the following result:
ID S E
-- --------- ---------
1 03:00:00 06:30:00
1 22:00:00 23:45:00
I am creating a report query that returns all unreconciled P/O lines. I am near completion but I am unable to find a way to remove the reconciled records.
I have included a script to produce some sample table, data & query.
The recordset dispalys 6 rows. All reconciled Supplier Invoices are duplicated and have transaction codes 40, 50 and reconcile code of 9 (5024, 921689471).
All unreconciled only appear once and have transaction codes 40 and reconcile code of 0 (4835 & 921978016). These are the only records that I want to show.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Purch_Ledger](
[EPDIVI] [nvarchar](3) NULL,
[EPSUNO] [nvarchar](10) NULL,
[EPSINO] [nvarchar](24) NULL,
[EPDUDT] [numeric](8, 0) NULL,
[EPTRCD] [numeric](2, 0) NULL,
[code].....
Whatever I try I cant find a way to get rid of the unwanted records.
I am having DTS problem exporting from a table to a text file (my 600
character table column is truncated to 255 characters in the output text
file). I don't why this is happining nor how to get the DTS not truncate to
255 characters. Is this a bug? A limitation? How do I get around this
problem?
.......I am running SQL Server 7 SP1 and database is in 6.5 compatability
mode.
I have a SQL 2012 database that has 10 tables. One of the tables is populated by manual import from CSV file. Each time a user calls custom ASP.NET code., records get inserted into a table called forecast_data with incremental increase in FileID. So first import has FileID of 1, second import has FileID of 2 etc.
Structure:
TABLE [dbo].[forecast_data](
[recID] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[FileID] [int] NULL,
[Project_Name] [nvarchar](255) NULL,
[Stoplight_Status] [nvarchar](255) NULL,
[Country] [nvarchar](255) NULL,
[Region] [nvarchar](255) NULL,
[code]....
What I am trying to do is only keep the data that has the highest FileID (MAX(FileID). I would like to write a store procedure that removes all older data once a new import is written into the table.
Having below data. SHCOMP (Customer ID), CBLNAM ( Customer name), SHDESC (service description), SHAMT (service charge), SHTYPE (F-> From T-> To)
CREATE TABLE #Temp(
[SHCOMP] [numeric](7, 0) NOT NULL,
[SHDESC] [char](35) NOT NULL,
[SHTYPE] [char](1) NOT NULL,
[SHAMT] [numeric](9, 2) NOT NULL,
[Code] ....
I need to remove records that have the same ID, Name, Description and Amount summary = 0, For example
SHCOMP CBLNAM SHDESC SHAMT SHTYPE
123 cust1 desc1 45 F remove
123 cust1 desc1 -45 T remove
123 cust1 desc1 45 F remove
123 cust1 desc1 -45 T remove
123 cust1 desc1 45 F
[Code] ....
Results
SHCOMP CBLNAM SHDESC SHAMT SHTYPE
123 cust1 desc1 45 F
123 cust1 desc1 -35 T
234 cust3 desc2 30 F
here is what I did but didn't work because sum is <> from 0 so is leaving all records
select SHCUST, SHDESC, ABS(SHAMT) SHAMT
into #t1
FROM #Temp
group by SHCUST, SHDESC, ABS(SHAMT)
having SUM(SHAMT)=0
order by SHCUST
delete S from #Temp S
join #t1 T on T.SHCUST = S.SHCUST and T.SHDESC = S.SHDESC
In QA we have a two-node cluster with four instances of sql. In trying to add a fifth, I was given an IP address already in use so the install hung.
I removed it from the cluster but it is still there in the registry etc on the node I was working on.
I read about using the maintenance tab of the sql server install to "remove a node" but the terminology is confusing. To me a node is a physical server and an instance is an instance of sql server -- not the same at all but they are often referred to as the same thing.
I definitely don't want to remove one of the servers from the cluster.
I have a stored procedure that does the following
BEGIN TRANSACTION OUTERTXN
BEGIN TRANSACTION
Copy records from live to archive
END TRANSACTION with commit or rollback
execute sproc to write audit log with success or fail
IF transaction was committed
BEGIN TRANSACTION
Delete records from live the archive
END TRANSACTION with commit or rollback
execute sproc to write audit log with success or fail
End IF
END TRANSACTION OUTERTXN with commit if both inner transactions were successful or rollback if either failed
If either inner transaction rolled back execute sproc to write audit log saying whole process is rolling back End IfMy problem is that if the outer transaction rolls back then I am losing the two audit records because they are part of the transaction scope. I want these executes to commit even if the master transaction fails.
Hi;I am trying to write a rountine ( below ) that will go into a colum oftext data type ( fae.pmcommnt ) locate the word "to" and replace it.I have the routine below. I get no error messages, but it also seemsto do nothing :).Any clues would be greatly appreciated.ThanksSteve================================================== =============declare @ptrP intSELECT @ptrP = PATINDEX('%to%', pmcommnt)from fae where projid ='00013'declare @ptrPC binary(16)select @ptrPC = TEXTPTR(pmcommnt)from faeif( TEXTVALID ('fae.pmcommnt', @ptrPC ) > 0 )print 'works'print @ptrPUPDATETEXT fae.pmcommnt @ptrPC @ptrP 2 'JJ'select projid, pmcommnt from fae
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I am very new to using SSIS.
Trying to import data from MS Access 2000.
I receive the error "
[OLE DB Destination [1907]] Warning: Truncation may occur due to inserting data from data flow column "GENDER" with a length of 255 to database column "GENDER" with a length of 2. " on the source flow.
I have done some googling and came up with this post: http://torontosql.dotnetnuke-portal.com/Default.aspx?tabid=32233 which I thought may help, but it does not.
The query against the access datasource features the column: iif([sex]=1, 'm', 'f'). I tried using left(..., 2) as well, but SSIS is determind to treat the field as 255 characters for some reason.
I don't even particualrly care that the field is 255 chars and the sources is only two, I just want the data in! I have other fields coming up with similar error.
Can someone please advise?
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I have an Address column that I need to Substring. I want to remove part of the string after either, or both of the following characters i.e ',' OR '*'
Example Record 1. Elland **REQUIRES BOOKING IN***
Example Record 2. Theale, Nr Reading, Berkshire
Example Record 3. Stockport
How do I achieve this in a CASE Statement?
The following two case statements return the correct results, but I some how need to combine them into a single Statement?
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THEN LEN(Address )
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THEN LEN(Address)
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Hello,
We want to port our Nt application to Alpha system with Fx!32. Is it possible to have SQl Server on this system.
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ThanX
__Vijay VM
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A column of a table has values in the format - 35106;#Grandbouche-Cropp, Amy.
I need to format the column data in such a way that only the text after # (Grandbouche-Cropp, Amy) remain in the column.
The text before ;# (35106) should be inserted in to another column of the same table.
Below is the table structure:
create table [HR_DEV_DM].[CFQ_TEST].sp_CFQ_Commercial_Referrals
(
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QuoteNumber nvarchar(100),
CreatedBy nvarchar(100),
Created datetime,
ModifiedBy nvarchar(100),
Modified datetime,
CreatedBy_SalesRepSharePointID int,
ModifiedBy_ModBySharePointID int
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I have uninstalled the CTP version of the SQL Server express so that I can install the released version but CTP version is still listed in the add/remove program list but without the change/remove button. I have been to different sites to find information on cleaning this up and I have ran all the uninstall tool I can find but the problem still prevails. I cannot install the released version without completely getting rid of the CTP version. Please help anyone.
Thanks
deebeez1
Hi,
We are using VB 6.0 as frontend and SQL server 7.0 as backend. We want to store some special charcters like Alpha, Gamma, etc in the database. We tried different ways but could not find the solution.
Could you please help on this.
Thanks,
Arun.