I have a notes table in which I have 10,000 rows. Unfortunately some of the notes are compressed together as one long string. I can fix the issue if I can do a search and replace on ';' and replace with '; ' is there a way to do this?
View 3 Repliesi like to write a code that street_name field look up in table one for 'road' and replace it for 'rd'.
any approaches ?
table1
abr description
---- ------------
ln lane
rd road
ave avenue
table2
street_name
-------------
apple road
i have data in a table which is in format #12345;#22211;#12112; and so on... its a long string.
i want to replace only the numbers using nchar() function.
in above example i want to replace 12345, 22211, 12112 with nchar(12345), nchar(22211), nchar(12112).
i have managed to do this using loop and substring function. but now i have performance issue.
63K records will take many hours to update. i have to do following steps:
1. read record from table.
2. replace numbers with nchar() function.
3. update the same table with new text.
i have to do this using a stored procedure.
i am looking for some quick way to do this. any idea?
I have a question about the best method of going about doing this.
I have a records table which stores visitor information from IISlogs (dbo.records)
I have added IP tables to try and resolve where the visitors are from. They are labeled 'ip4_##' where ## is the first section of the ip.. so if my IP was 24.150.66.80 I would need to look in table ip4_24 and inside there look for 150 in column B and then 66 in column C. From that it will say which country is attached, that way I can update the countrycode in the dbo.records.
I am not sure how to do this search, so any ideas would be great.
Thanks in advance
* Table structre for the ip_## tables are
COLUMN 'b' int (represents the 2nd section of an IP)
COLUMN 'c' int (represents the third section of an IP)
COLUMN 'country' int
I'm looking for a stored procedure (or query) to search an entiredatabase for a specific string value and replace it with another. I'msure I saw an SP for this a while back by someone, but cannot find itagain. The SP took the search string and replace string as parametersand did the rest. Any ideas where I can find this ?Bear in mind, the idea is that this can be re-used and run on anydatabase, so it would have to find all tables and search through those.TaRyan
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am developing a complex database-driven application with SQL Server 2000. My database has dozens of stored procedures, and whenever I want to rename a database field, I have to go through my stored procedures, finding where that field is used. This is a laborious and error-prone process, even when I look up depenencies.
Is there an easier way to work stored procedure code – some tool to search/replace the text perhaps?
I found a search-and-replace program for SQL server that works GREAT, but I have a list of about 200 words to search for, with corresponding replacements. Rather than editing the code below for *each* word and running it 200 separate times, I'd like to iterate through the list, but my MS-SQL programming skills are...light (to say the least). Anyone have any ideas how I can create a list or hash-type variable and use the code to loop through and do the replacements all at once?
/*
*
* Search & Replace
*
* Use Ctrl+Shift+M to replace template values
*
*/
set xact_abort on
begin tran
declare @otxt varchar(1000)
set @otxt = '<string1, text, text to be replaced>'
declare @ntxt varchar(1000)
set @ntxt = '<string2, text, replacing text>'
declare @txtlen int
set @txtlen = len(@otxt)
declare @ptr binary(16)
declare @pos int
declare @id int
declare curs cursor local fast_forward
for
select
id,
textptr(<field_name, sysname, target text field>),
charindex(@otxt, <field_name, sysname, target text field>)-1
from
<table_name, sysname, target table>
where
<field_name, sysname, target text field>
like
'%' + @otxt +'%'
open curs
fetch next from curs into @id, @ptr, @pos
while @@fetch_status = 0
begin
print 'Text found in row id=' + cast(@id as varchar) + ' at pos=' + cast(@pos as varchar)
updatetext <table_name, sysname, target table> .<field_name, sysname, target text field> @ptr @pos @txtlen @ntxt
fetch next from curs into @id, @ptr, @pos
end
close curs
deallocate curs
commit tran
Hello Everyone,
Is there a way to search all the tables in a database for a value that is found in a specific column? Another problem is that although this specific column will be found in most of the tables in the database, it has a different two or three digit prefix in the column name for each table.
I think the logic will go something like this...
As the script jumps from table to table, it should first look for a column whose name ends with ***ITM. If it does not find a column with ***ITM it should move on to the next table. If it does, then search the ***ITM column for my value. If it does not find my value, then move to the next table. But if it does, change my value to a new value.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you all...
Hi All,
I am experiencing problem to select text wich has carriage return in my search functionality.
I have two tables called @searchwordTable and @DataTable.
@searchWordTable will have search criteria words(data type is varchar) and @DataTable will titles(data type is ntext) need to be searched. Some of titles have carriage return,line feed and tab characters. I am preseting here script to reproduce my problem.
DECLARE @searchwordTable TABLE
(
searchword VARCHAR(MAX)
)
INSERT INTO @searchwordTable (searchword) VALUES('carriage long description')
DECLARE @DataTable TABLE
(
title ntext
)
INSERT INTO @DataTable (title) values('carriage long description'+char(13)+char(10)+'carriagelong')
SELECT * FROM @DataTable dTable,@searchwordTable srcWrdTable
WHERE '% ' + REPLACE(CAST(dTable.title AS VARCHAR(MAX)),char(13),'') + ' %' like '% ' + srcWrdTable.searchword + ' %'
I am expecting the above select statement should select title from @DataTable but not getting .I am not understanding what is going wrong with above select.
Thanks in Advance.
Hey guys,
In my DB i have hundreds on queries setup for all different reporting purposes..
We have just changed they way our system handles costing and are moving from a average cost function to a standard cost function.. This in turns, means that i need to replace any reports where i use the average cost field and replace it with the standard cost field.
Is it possible, that i can do a full search and replace over all my queries, looking for a specific field name and replacing it with something else.
I am dreading the idea of opening each individual queries and checking if it exists..
If anyone knows of software or someway to write a SP to accomadate this, please let me know. I would be most grateful.
Thanks
Scotty
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to do the search and replace in multiple stored procedures using SQL 2005 Management Studio?
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
Hi SSIS Gurus,
Coild anybody halp me, how to achive search and replace in the Expressions (Transformation Editor) or in SQL Query box?
If this functionality isn't presented, what is preffered woraround to achieve it?
I have a lot of transformations (about 100) in the derived column task and its too difficult to find transformation what i need.
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!
#1 This stored procedure can be used to search and replace substring in the char, nchar, varchar and nvarchar columns in all tables in the current database. You should pass the text value to search and the text value to replace. So, to replace all char, nchar, varchar and nvarchar columns which contain the substring 'John' with the substring 'Bill', you can use the following (in comparison with the SetTbColValues stored procedure, this stored procedure replace only substring, not the entire column's value):
EXEC replace_substring @search_value = 'John', @replace_value = 'Bill'
Hi guys,
I am looking for some syntax to help me with a traditional search/replace style requirement. I am wanting to examine the contents of one column and populate another.
similar to this SQL case statement
CASE ProductLine
WHEN 'R1' THEN 'Road'
WHEN 'M1' THEN 'Mountain'
WHEN 'T1' THEN 'Touring'
WHEN 'S2' THEN 'Other sale items'
ELSE 'Not for sale'
END,
the twist is that R1, M1 etc. can appear anywhere in the ProductLine column.
thanks for any assistance you can provide.
regards,
Chris
I'm just wonder if this is a bug in MS Search or am I doing something wrong.
I have a query below
declare @search_clause varchar(255)
set @Search_Clause = ' "hepatitis b" and "hepatocellular carcinoma"'
select * from results
where contains(finding,@search_clause)
I don't get the correct result at all.
If I change my search_clause to "hepatitis" and "hepatocellular carcinoma -- without the "b"
then i get the correct result.
It seems MS Search doesn't like the phrase contain one letter or some sort or is it a know bug?
Anyone know?
Thanks
Hi - I'm short of SQL experience and hacking my way through creating a simple search feature for a personal project. I would be very grateful if anyone could help me out with writing a stored procedure. Problem: I have two tables with three columns indexed for full-text search. So far I have been able to successfully execute the following query returning matching row ids: dbo.Search_Articles @searchText varchar(150) AS SELECT ArticleID FROM articles WHERE CONTAINS(Description, @searchText) OR CONTAINS(Title, @searchText) UNION SELECT ArticleID FROM article_pages WHERE CONTAINS(Text, @searchText); RETURN This returns the ArticleID for any articles or article_pages records where there is a text match. I ultimately need the stored procedure to return all columns from the articles table for matches and not just the StoryID. Seems like maybe I should try using some kind of JOIN on the result of the UNION above and the articles table? But I have so far been unable to figure out how to do this as I can't seem to declare a name for the result table of the UNION above. Perhaps there is another more eloquent solution? Thanks! Peter
View 3 Replies View RelatedOur clients want to be able to do full text search with a single letter. (Is the name Newton, Nathan, Nick?, Is the ID N1, N2...). Doing a single character full text search on a table work 25 out of 26 times. The letter that doesn't work is 'n'. the WHERE clause CONTAINS(full_text_field, ' "n*" ') returns all rows, even rows that have no 'n' in them anywhere. Adding a second letter after the "n" works as expected.
Here is an example
create table TestFullTextSearch (
Id int not null,
AllText nvarchar(400)
)
create unique index test_tfts on TestFullTextSearch(Id);
create fulltext catalog ftcat_tfts;
[Code] ....
I have a scenario of where the standard Full-Text search identifies keywords but Semantic Search does not recognize them as keywords. I'm hoping to understand why Semantic Search might not recognize them. The context this is being used in medical terminology and the specific key words I noticed missing right off the bat were medications.
For instance, if I put the following string into a FT indexed table
'J9355 - Trastuzumab (Herceptin)'
AND
'J9355 - Trastuzumab emtansine'
The Semantic Search recognized 'Herceptin' and 'Emtansine' but not 'Trastuzumab'
Nor in
'J8999 - Everolimus (Afinitor)'
It did not recognize 'Afinitor' as a keyword.
In all cases the Base of Full-Text did find those keywords and were identifiable using the dmvsys.dm_fts_index_keywords_by_document.It does show the index as having completed.
why certain words might not be picked up while others would be? Could it be a language/dictionary issue? I am using English and accent insensitive settings?
would you use sql server "full text search" feature as your site index? from some reason i can't make index server my site search catalog, and i wonder if the full text is the solution. i think that i wll have to you create new table called some thing like "site text" and i will need to write every text twice- one the the table (let's say "articles table") and one to the text. other wise- there is problems finding the right urlof the text, searching different tables with different columns name and so on...
so i thought create site search table, with the columns:
id, text, url
and to write every thing to this table.
but some how ot look the wrong way, that every forum post, every article, album picture or joke will insert twice to the sqr server...
what do you think?
I have installed the Adobe iFilter 11 64 bit and set the path to the bin folder. I still cannot find any text from the pdf files. I suspect I am missing something trivial because I don't find much when I Bing for this so it must not be a common problem.Here is the code.
--Adobe iFilter 11 64 bit is installed
--The Path variable is set to the bin folder for the Adobe iFilter.
--SQL Developer version 64 bit on both Windows 7 and Windows 8.
USE master;
GO
DROP DATABASE FileTableStudy;
GO
CREATE DATABASE FileTableStudy
ON PRIMARY
[code]....
How can I search throught DOCX (MS Word 2007) documents by SQL Server 2005 Full Text Search engine?
Should I something download?
Please help me to create an SQL Server 2000 Stored Procedure for using prefix and suffix terms.
Example:
Say I want to find "Terminator" (1984).
I want to be able to use "Term" or "ator" as search results and still return the proper record.
Here is my Stored Procedure creation sql:
CREATE PROCEDURE sps_searchTitles(@searchTerm varchar(255)) AS
SELECT * FROM Video
WHERE FREETEXT (Video.*, '"*@searchTerm*"')
GO
--- The above does not appear to properly check both prefix ("Term---") and suffix ("---ator") terms.
I am trying to accomplish what is similarly done with LIKE '%term%'.
thanks, YM
I have a table that contains words that will be used to search another table where FullText index has been created on searchable columns. I'm basically trying to run something like this:
SELECT t1.col1, t2.col3
FROM tbl1 t1, tbl2 t2
WHERE CONTAINS (t1.col1, t2.col1)
I know this won't work but is there a way to join these two tables so the words (t2.col1) can be passed as search conditions? There is no common key on both tables so normal join won't work. I'm trying to find a way to pass the search words from one table to another.
I have Sql server 2005 SP2.
I enabled it for Full Text search. Substring search where i enter *word* doesn't return any row.
I have a table testtable where description has word Extinguisher.
If i run a query with *ting* it doesn't return any row.
select * from testtable where contains(description,'"*xting*"') ;
But it works if i do
select * from testtable where contains(description,'"Exting*"') ;
The Full text search document says it supports substring search.
Is it an issue with sql server 2005?Please help.
I am using Sql Server 2014 Express edition.I have a table with a varchar(max) column. I have created a full text search that use the stoplist "system". column has this struct: xxx.yyy.zzz.... where xxx, yyy, zzz... are numbers, like 123.345.123123.366456...I can have rows like that:
123.345
123.345
123.345.444
123.345.555
123.345.666
123.345.444.777
123.345.444.888
123.345.555.999
I am trying this query:
select * from Mytable where
contains(MyColumn, '123.345.')
I gues the contains would return all the rows with column contains 123.345, but this does not return all the expected rows, only one row.I have tried to replace "." with "-" but the result is the same.I have also tried with '123.345.*. In this case I have got more results, but no all the exptected rows.If I use this query:
select * from MyTable where
MyCOlumn like '123.345.%';
Can anyone tell me how to search an SQL database for a given key word in a textbox? I basically have a database that has a qualifications column and this column needs to be searched for the data given in the textbox. Which is the best method to search for the data? Is it a simple SQL query or an XML based search engine type? Can anyone give any suggestions regarding this? If XML is efficient then how do I use it to query my database, as I'm pretty new in XML based searching.Thanks
View 5 Replies View Relatedhi there,
i am doing a school project and i need to have this search engine that will search the data that i have stored inside the database and display the results out
can anyone help?
thanks
for example:
SELECT * from [table1] WHERE CONTAINS([msgcomment], '"fast" NEAR "performance"')
would always slower than
SELECT * from [table1] WHERE [msgcomment] = '%fast%performance%'
Why? and how can it be solved? can you help me?
:)
My site uses a text box to allow visitors to search products. I'm trying to design the SQL Statement to allow search's on full words, part words, and words/phrases regardless of the order the words are in.
E.g.
megger
meg
mft megger (proper order in the database is megger mft)
mft1710 (using 1710 should find the product)
This is my select statement (classic ASP)
Code:
<%
Dim RSResults__param5
RSResults__param5 = "xxx"
If (Request("searchme") <> "") Then
RSResults__param5 = Request("searchme")
End If
[Code] ....
I'm experiencing an anomaly with my Full text index.
Setup : SQL Server 2005
Indexed Table:
Assets
ID - int (PK, auto increment)
Ref - varchar(50)
[code]....
I have re-built the full-text index, no change.