SQL Server Text Field
Jul 20, 2005Is there a length limit on retrieving Microsoft SQL Server text fields?
Thanks
Siobhan
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Transact SQL :: Server Text Field Not Returning Full Text
Apr 21, 2015I have a column in a table that has a type TEXT,when I pull the length of a row it returns 88222 but when I select from that column it dows not show all the text in the result set.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAccess Memo Field To SQL Server Text Field
Nov 19, 2006Hi,
I'm importing an Access database to SQL Server 2000.
The issue I ran into is pretty frustrating... All Memo fields that get copied over (as Text fields) appear to be fine and visible in SQL Server Enterprise Manager... except when I display them on the web via ASP - everything is blank (no content at all).
I didn't have that problem with Access, so I ruled out the possibility that there's something wrong with the original data.
Is this some sort of an encoding problem that arose during database import?
I would appreciate any pointers.
MS Access Memo Field To SQL Server Text Field
Aug 20, 2006Hi all,
i've a reasonable amount of experience with MS Access and less
experience with SQL Server. I've just written an .NET application that
uses an SQL Server database. I need to collate lots of data from around
the company in the simplest way, that can then be loaded into the SQL
Server database.
I decided to collect the info in Excel because that's what most people
know best and is the quickest to use. The idea being i could just copy
and paste the records directly into the SQL Server database table (in
the same format) using the SQL Server Management Studio, for
example.
Trouble is, i have a problem with line feed characters. If an Excel
cell contains a chunk of text with line breaks (Chr(10) or Chr(13))
then the copy'n'paste doesn't work - only the text up to the first line
break is pasted into the SQL Server database cell. The rest is not
pasted for some reason.
I've tried with MS Access too, copying and pasting the contents of a
memo field into SQL Server database, but with exactly the same problem.
I've tried with 'text' or 'varchar' SQL Server database field formats.
Since i've no experience of using different types of databases
interacting together, can someone suggest the simplest way of
transferring the data without getting this problem with the line feeds?
I don't want to spend hours writing scripts/programs when it's just
this linefeed problem that is preventing the whole lot just being
cut'n'pasted in 5 seconds!
cheers
Dominic
Transact SQL :: Return Field When A Field Contains Text From Another Field
Aug 25, 2015I'm new to SQL and I'm trying to write a statement to satisfy the following:
If [Field1] contains text from [Field2] then return [Field3] as [Field4].
I had two tables where there were no matching keys. I did a cross apply and am now trying to parse out the description to build the key.
Updating A Text Field In SQL Server
Jul 23, 2005Hi,I have a website using a SQL Server database to store all of it's data.Retrieving data and writing basic data back is fine, however, when i goto update one table that has a text field in it the update fails ifthe amount of data being passed to the text field is too large.Is there a way around this or a particular update i should be using?Any information would be greatly appreciated.CheersBj
View 8 Replies View RelatedEfficiency Of Sql Server On Searching On Text Field
Jul 26, 2007Hi
We have a application running on Sql server 2005, which require to browse/search text field. Does anyone know if Sql server's search/browse performance on text field is better than oracle?
The table the application will search on is a customer table that has a 10000 records in it, does this size of table casue a performance problem for sql server 2005 if I index the text field?
Please advise, thanks for your help!
Li
Problem With Text Field: Text Input Too Long, Weird Characters
May 15, 2006Hi,
Im a programmer for an university webportal which uses php and msssql.
When an user creates a new entry and his text is too long the entry is cut short and weird characters appear at the end of the entry.
For example:
http://www.ttz.uni-magdeburg.de/scripts/test-messedb/php/index.php?option=show_presse&funktion=presse_show_mitteilung&id=333
How can I set the text limit to unlimited?
Could it be something else?
Is there a way of splitting an entry to several text fields automatically?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me,
Chris
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
Yyyymmdd Text Data Into A Datetime Field In SQL Server?
Apr 19, 2006Hello,
I have an Excel spreadsheet that contains 100,000 + rows of data. Two of the columns in the spreadsheet are date fields that are sent over in the yyyymmdd format (no separators such as "-" or "/"). I tried converting these fields into dates using the Data Conversion task in SSIS. This doesn't work as it appears that SSIS cannot map a string in the format of yyyymmdd to a valid date. In lieu of this, I have added a Script Component to my transformation which can take the string and convert it to a date value using some Substring() calls on the source yyyymmdd string.
A few questions for the group ...
1. Is this there a more efficient or "better" way of performing this transformation?
2. I can also use OLE DB Command task in my transformation and make a call that might do something like this: select convert(datetime, convert(varchar(10), [@yyyymmddValue])) but how would this perform related to the Script Component task? My guess is that this would be slower since the transformation would make a database call for every record.
3. Are there any plans for the SQL team to make these types of conversions easier to implement in the future? It seems to me that this is a pretty common scenario for integrating date data.
Thanks!
Brian
SQL 2012 :: Text Qualifier Inside A Text Qualified Field
Mar 12, 2015In SQL 2005 if i was trying to insert some data with a text qualifier inside a text qualified field, it would work, for example:
"Name","ID ","Location","","Comany",""House Name" Road",
In SQL 2012, this fails with the error message, cannot find the text qualifer for field.
To get around this, we are having to import the data into a Dirty Data column of aTEMP table, ID, Dirty Data, Clean data - perform multiple updates and change the text qualifier and ensure they are only changed in the right places so we can keep the ". In this example, we changed the text qualifier to PIPES.
After these updates, we then export the data from CLEAN data back out to CSV, then reimport it into the origional destination table with a new text qualifer.
Linked Server W/ Text Field Gets Connection Broken Error
Sep 5, 2006We have a stored proc on Server B called:
my_sp_server_b it takes 1 parameter a text field as a parameter, with default set to NULL
this proc calls:
my_sp_server_a through a linked server (which happens to be the same server, different DB), it has two parameters: my_id int, my_text text w/ my_text having a default set to NULL
This second stored procedure just selects back an ID that is passed to it (to keep things simple).
If we pass any string value to my_sp_server_b we get the appropriate hardcoded ID passed to my_sp_server_a. If we pass NULL to my_sp_server_b we get the following error:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionCheckForData (CheckforData()).
Server: Msg 11, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
General network error. Check your network documentation.
Connection Broken
If we remove the linked server, and just reference my_sp_server_a via the scoped DB, we do not get an error. If we change the data type in both procs to varchar(50) we do not get an error. If we change the data type to nText we still get an error. If we put IF logic into stored procedure: my_sp_server_b to check for NULL in the input parameter and if it true then to pass NULL explicitly to my_sp_server_a we do not get an error.
It seems to be a combination of using a linked server and trying to pass a text (or nText variable) with a NULL value to stored procedure. Sometimes the error changes based on which scenario I described above - but we consistantly receive an error unless we do some of the workarounds described above.
Any ideas?
Create Date Field From Substring Of Text Field
Jul 20, 2005I am trying to populate a field in a SQL table based on the valuesreturned from using substring on a text field.Example:Field Name = RecNumField Value = 024071023The 7th and 8th character of this number is the year. I am able toget those digits by saying substring(recnum,7,2) and I get '02'. Nowwhat I need to do is determine if this is >= 50 then concatenate a'19' to the front of it or if it is less that '50' concatenate a '20'.This particular example should return '2002'. Then I want to take theresult of this and populate a field called TaxYear.Any help would be greatly apprecaietd.Mark
View 2 Replies View RelatedExport Access Memo Field To SQL Text Field
May 30, 2006Hi,
Can anyone point me any solution how to export a MEMO field from an Access database to a TEXT field from an MS SQL Server 2000. The import export tool from SQL server doesn't import these fields if they are very large - around 9000 characters.
Thanks.
How Can I Parse Text Held In MS SQL 2005 Text Field
Apr 24, 2007Hi,I been reading various web pages trying to figure out how I can extract some simple information from the XML below, but at present I cannot understand it.
I have a MS SQL 2005 database with which contains a field of type text (external database so field type cannot be changed to XML)The text field in the database is similar to the one below but I have simplified it by remove many of the unneeded tags in the <before> and <after> blocks. I also reformatted it to show the structure (original had no spaces or returns)
For each text field in the SQL table contain the XML I need to know the OldVal and the NewVal.
<ProductMergeAudit> <before> <table name="table1" description="Test Desc"> <product id="OldVal"> </table> </before> <after> <table name="table1" description="Test Desc"> <product id="NewVal"> </table> </after></ProductMergeAudit>
SQL Server 2008 :: Concatenating Multiple Text Fields Into One Field In Another Table
Oct 7, 2015SQL code for the following? (SQL Server 2008 R2 - SQL Server 2012).
I have Table1 Containing two fields with the below entries
VehicleType Name
Two Wheels Bicycle
Two Wheels Scooter
Two Wheels Motorcycle
Four Wheels Sedan
Four Wheels SUV
Four Wheels Pickup
Four Wheels Minivan
The result I'm looking for would be
Table2
Vehicle Type
Two Wheels Bicycle, Scooter, Motorcycle
Four Wheels Sedan, SUV, Pickup, Minivan
How To Insert A UTF-8 Encoding Type Character Into A Sql Server Text DataType Field ?
Dec 4, 2007I want to insert a value which has the UTF-8 encoding into a field of the database which has the "text" data Type
but it saves like this : " ?????????????? "
I would be thankful if u tell me how should I save it ?
here is the SqlComand I wrote :
string comand = " Insert into Table1 ( title , Body ) values ( ' " + textBox1.text + " ' , ' " + textBox2.text + " ' ) " ;
Table1
=============
title nvarchar(1000)
body text
Compare Date Field To Text Field
Mar 27, 2008Hi,
I am very new to using SQL. Our department usually uses Brio to query the various databases under our control. However, I have recently come against a problem that prompted me to create a custom SQL query which works well as far as it goes. My problem is looking for specific conditions in billing information I receive monthly. I would like to compare on of the date fields contained in the database with a field in the form of YYYYMM (200710, for October 2007) I have created a custom column generator that forms a date from the YYYYMM. I would like, however, do the translation on the fly and make the comparison during the query. The problem is that query without the date check returns a mass of data, only about 1 percent of which is what I want.
The beginning of the SQL query looks like this:
FROM From.T_Crs_Tran_Dtl WHERE T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Crs_Bill_Yr_Mo IN ('200710', '200711', '200712') AND ((T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Crs_Cde IN ('1G', '1V') AND (T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Dptr_Dte < LastDay(ToDate(Substr ( Crs_Bill_Yr_Mo, 5, 2 )& "/1/"&Substr ( Crs_Bill_Yr_Mo, 1, 4 )))) AND (T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Prev_Stats_Cde IN (' ', 'TK', 'TL') AND T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Cur_Stats_Cde IN ('TK', 'TL') AND T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Std_Tran_Typ_Cde='B') OR (T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Prev_Stats_Cde='UN' AND T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Cur_Stats_Cde='XX' AND€¦
It is the €ś(T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Dptr_Dte < LastDay(ToDate(Substr ( Crs_Bill_Yr_Mo, 5, 2 )& "/1/"&Substr ( Crs_Bill_Yr_Mo, 1, 4 )))) AND€? part of the query that is just plain wrong. The business part of this statement takes the YYYYMM field and turns it into a date which is the last day of YYYYMM.
I hope someone out there can help me with making this comparison.
I appreciate your help.
Bill
(Urgent) How Get A Text Field And Put The Result Into A Text Var
May 3, 2004Hi All
Iam trying to Get a text field value i wrote this code
DECLARE @ptrval varbinary(16)
DECLARE @length bigint
SELECT @ptrval = TEXTPTR(Template), @length = LEN(Template)
FROM #TEMPLATE
READTEXT Template.#TEMPLATE @ptrval 0 @length
but i need to put the result into a text var
is that possible or not and if it possible any one could help me with that
Adding Text To A TEXT Field (MS-SQL2000)
May 9, 2007Hi everyone,
I'm extremely new to SQL so be nice
I am attempting to write a script to add onto the end of a text field the words " -- Disposed " (About 60 rows worth).
The field is a TEXT field, so unlike a varchar field I can't just use Update as shown below.
Code:
Update AR_Primary_asset
Set AR_Primary_asset.description = AR_Primary_asset.description + ' -- Disposed'
Where AR_Primary_Asset.ASSET_REF in ('1','2','4')
I found on the Mircosoft pages about UPDATETEXT, but this only seem to work to update one row (In the case below Asset_ref = 3, was the only row effected) .
Code:
DECLARE @Dispose binary(16)
SELECT @Dispose = TEXTPTR(DESCRIPTION)
FROM AR_PRIMARY_ASSET
WHERE AR_Primary_Asset.ASSET_REF in ('1','2','3')
UPDATETEXT AR_PRIMARY_ASSET.DESCRIPTION @ptrval null null ' -- Disposed'
So i wrapped it into a cursor, this worked on my test SQL server which runs SQL2005.
Code:
DECLARE @Dispose varbinary(16)
DECLARE cursor1 CURSOR FOR
SELECT TEXTPTR(DESCRIPTION)
FROM AR_Primary_Asset
Where AR_Primary_Asset.ASSET_REF in('1','2','3')
OPEN cursor1
FETCH NEXT FROM cursor1
INTO @Dispose
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
UPDATETEXT AR_Primary_Asset.DESCRIPTION @Dispose NULL NULL ' -- Disposed'
FETCH NEXT FROM cursor1
INTO @Dispose
END
CLOSE cursor1
DEALLOCATE cursor1
But when it was run on our SQL2000 server it gave the following error message
Quote: Msg 403, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Invalid operator for data type. Operator equals add, type equals text.
I've never used vars, cursors, updatetext or even text fields before. So maybe I am going about it totally the wrong way.
Is anyone able to tell me a better way to write this? or how to make it compatible to SQL2000?
T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Insert Text In A Text Field
Jul 12, 2014CREATE TABLE [dbo].[instructions](
[site_no] [int] NOT NULL,
[instructions] [text] NULL
)
Select top 3 * from instructions
Output
Site_noInstructions
20Request PIN then proceed
21Request PIN if wrong request name
22Request PIN allowed to use only numbers
All text instructions start with “Request PIN” but after that the text are different for every site_no
I need insert in all site_no rows and after the “Request PIN” the text “and codeword” keeping the current rest of text
Desired output
Site_noInstructions
20Request PIN and codeword then proceed
21Request PIN and codeword if wrong request name
22Request PIN and codeword allowed to use only numbers
SQL Server 2008 :: Long Text Field - Failed To Locate Ending Boundary Of A Sentence
Apr 23, 2015I have an very long ntext field, made up of many sentences that I append a full stop to every one, I also strip out any line breaks within the text. However I get this error, when I look it up it comes up with "Failed to locate the ending boundary of a sentence."
View 0 Replies View RelatedShould I Use Text Field Or Binary Field ?
Jun 1, 2008Application is ocr'ing tiff image files and then storing the resultant text data in a text field in SQL 2005 database. This field is then used with the full text catalog.
All works fine,
However, am I using the correct field type to store the text files for efficiency and space saving?
If I use a binary field, does this reduce the size of the database by compressing the text data in the binary field? Also, is there a limit as to the size of text file that I could store in a binary field?
It would be good to get feedback on this before I go too far down the wrong road.
So, text field to store the text data or binary field to store the actual text file?
Searching Text In A Db Field
Sep 10, 2006Im building up a query in my code behind. When I execute this query it returns a list of users who match the criteria.BUT, I want to add something extra. In my DB in the tblUserData there's a field "interests" datatype nvarchar(30) which contains the numbers (comma-delimited) of the interestsID in my tblInterests. For example, my interestsfield may contain something like: 1,4,8Now if someone wants to find someone who has number 4 and 8 as interests, how can I search in this textfield?!?I wrote this in a SP, but I'd really like it to be possible from code-behind and build the query myself...declare @s varchar(20)set @s='4,8'EXEC('SELECT * FROM tblUserData WHERE Interests in ('+@s+')')
View 1 Replies View RelatedLong Text Field
Jun 6, 2008 Hi
I
have a textbox field that take 2000 characters from user..Then I used a store
procedure to save that user input into database through an insert statement, but
for some reason it just never store the whole string of 2000 characters but only
store some of it (like 100 or something) .. Seems like a data type problem…(I am using SQL server 2000)
This
is what I have defined:
---------------------------------------
In
storeprocedure:
@iidea2
varchar(2000)
Problem With Text Field
Jul 3, 2004Hi,
I am haveing a field called as description in a table called info in the database. Now when I give the following query:
select * from info where description = 'test'
it gives me error:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (0x80040E14)
The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be compared or sorted, except when using IS NULL or LIKE operator.
How can I do the above.
Thanks in advance,
Uday.
Cant Sort A Text Field!
Mar 27, 2006Hiive got a table and contains a surname text field. Why cant i do a select statement ORDER BY surname. I get an error saying i cant sort a text field! how do i go around it!thanks
View 2 Replies View RelatedInsert Text Field
Apr 3, 2001Hellow, Everyone,
I am having a problem in Inserting a text field into another Text field on another table. each record in the field might be more than 255 charactors.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Splitting A Text Field
Feb 1, 2001hi,
I am trying to split a text field .
what I want to do is -
split a text field and insert chars 1 to 8 in one field and then from 9 to 20 in another and so on.
Can someone help me in solving this.
TIA.
PD
Updating A Text Field
Apr 27, 2000I try to update a field of text datatype using WRITETEXT statement. The information that I try to change has both the single(') and double (") quotes in it.
How can I get it done ?
Thanks
Pete
How To Update Text Field
Sep 8, 2004Hi all,
I have a table with millions of records, table has three fields: case_id,line_no and notedata field, notedata field is 60 chars long, datatype varchar.for each case_id there could be as many as 2000 line_no meaning 2000 notes. I need to compress these notes into one note by case_no, For example case_no 1 could have 2000 lines of notes but my comressed table shoul have only one line containing all 2000 notes in line_no sequence.
my compressed table contains two fields case_no and notetext, notetext is a text field.
here is the script I am trying to use to accomplish the task but it does not append more than 8000 chars in one case, so my notes are chopping of, how should I do this, please let me know of any suggestions..
Thanks.
truncate table eldoecinotescompressed
insert into eldoecinotescompressed (app_code, case_no)
select distinct app_code, substring(system_key, 6,8)
from eldoecinotes
DECLARE @case VARCHAR(20);
DECLARE @note VARCHAR(80);
DECLARE @lineno VARCHAR(5);
DECLARE notes_cursor CURSOR FOR
select substring(system_key, 6,8) case_no, line_no, rtrim(notedata) notedata FROM EldoECINotes
where substring(system_key, 6,8)<>''
order by 1,2;
OPEN notes_cursor;
FETCH NEXT FROM notes_cursor into @case, @lineno, @note;
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
BEGIN
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
update eldoecinotescompressed
set notetext =
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) >= 0 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 1, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 8000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 8001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 16000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 16001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 24000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 24001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 32000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 32001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 40000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 40001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 48000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 48001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 56000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 56001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 64000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 64001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 72000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 72001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 80000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 80001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 88000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 88001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 96000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 96001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 104000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 104001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 112000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 112001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 120000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 120001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 128000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 128001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 136000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 136001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 144000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 144001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 152000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 152001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 0 then
char(13) + char(10)
else '' end) +
isnull(@note,'')
where case_no=@case;
commit;
FETCH NEXT FROM notes_cursor into @case, @lineno, @note;
END
CLOSE notes_cursor;
DEALLOCATE notes_cursor;
Replication - TEXT Field
Dec 30, 1998I have a table that has a TEXT field and I want to replicate it. It already has a primary key field in it. I read that in SQL Server 6.5, you can do transactional replication on a table that has a TEXT field in it. I'm wondering if I need to do any other special configuration to replicate this table, i.e. enable the truncate on checkpoint option or anything else? Thanks, Hoang
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Oct 11, 2001Does anyone have a script already written to parse a text field in SQL?
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