I have a customer who wants to SELECT records based on a partial match in a
text field. For example, in a list of telephone numbers they want to search
for all records that contain the digits '777' in any part of the string. How
do I formulate such a query?
Many thanks.
I have a varchar column which containd comma delimited values like
Rec# Fruits
1 Apple, Peach, Strawberry
2 Orange, Mango
3 Banana, Grape
...........
Now i have to add search facility so that a user could search for more than 1 fruit at a time. I have a Stored Procedure which returns records from this table. that SP has a Parameter @SearchFruit Varchar(500) and the user could pass in values like 'Apple, Mango' to this parameter.
Now how should i write the SQL so that i get back the records Rec# 1 & 2 since apple is there in 1st record and mango is there in the 2nd ??
I know if a put the comma delimited values as individual records in a temporary table and also do the same for the parameter values then i can get the desired results. But i want to avoid doing that. Any other way ?
Thanks
Sumit.
Right this has to be a Micro$oft mess-up surely...?I'm running SQL 2k standard with SP3. I have a table which I'm tryingto query using a LIKE operator on a varchar field as follows....WHERE dbo.tbl_pm_projects.SeniorManagerID LIKE '%'....In actual fact the % is passed in by the application when the userselects "All managers" from the drop down list used to select theManager to filter by. If they select a manager's name from the listit becomes LIKE 'ajames' or whatever.BUT - the table currently contains 2972 records. If I take out theWHERE clause the SELECT returns all records - fine - but if I put thewhere clause in it returns only 1682!! I thought the % was meant tomatch, and I quote the SQL server Books Online files here; "Any stringof zero or more characters." Anyone explain to me whats going onhere?TIANiall
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I am doing a search on a column of type varchar, the columns all contain dates in the future. When i perform a query
SELECT [CIFPan]
,[CIFMemNum]
,[CIFLName]
,[CIFFName]
,[CIFExpDate]
FROM [FutureSoft].[dbo].[zCIFRecord]
WHERE CAST([CIFExpDate] AS smalldatetime) between '12/01/2000' and '01/30/2015'
I get error:
Msg 295, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting character string to smalldatetime data type.
I can use this same query on an exactly same other field that contains dates in the past. Is there some kind of limitation on the dates as far as them being in the future or past?
Hi All,I need to link two tables using partial word match.How can I write a SQL statement to do so? (I am using MS-Access.)Table One: [Table Name: tblStreet] [Field Name: Street]123 ABC Street124 ABC Street125 ABC Street1 XYZ AVE2 XYZ AVE3 XYZ AVE10 CBS Street11 CBS Street12 CBS Street100 Apple Road101 Apple Road102 Apple RoadTable Two: [Table Name: tblWord] [Field Name: Word]ABCCBSThe output should be:123 ABC Street124 ABC Street125 ABC Street10 CBS Street11 CBS Street12 CBS StreetCould this be done?Thank you in advanced.- Grasshopper -
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi Alex (Kuznetsov) and All,This is to follow up with my last post, "Link two tables using partialword match".How can I UPDATE table using partial word match?How can I write a SQL statement to do so? (I am using MS-Access.)The two tables and the expected result are listed below:Thank you in advance!- Grasshopper -================================================== =====TABLE: tblStreet_Value (Table to be undated)StreetValue2---------------------123 ABC Street124 ABC Street125 ABC Street1 XYZ AVE2 XYZ AVE3 XYZ AVE10 CBS Street11 CBS Street12 CBS Street100 Apple Road101 Apple Road102 Apple RoadTABLE: TblWord_NumberWordNumberValue---------------ABC123NYABC125CACBS11MACBS12TXResultStreet Value2---------------------123 ABC Street NY124 ABC Street125 ABC Street CA1 XYZ AVE2 XYZ AVE3 XYZ AVE10 CBS Street11 CBS Street MA12 CBS Street TX100 Apple Road101 Apple Road102 Apple Road
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhy terms are not being corrected on a partial match? I thought this was the point of term based relation rules.
I am testing in an email address (nvarchar) field?
E.g. trying to correct @@ to @ and .con to .com (just to test)
And everything passes.
If I test with an entire value, the field is corrected.
E.g. 605688878@@qq.com corrects to 605688878@qq.com if I enter those exact values as term based relations.
I was just wondering if anyone could tell me how to do a search for a partial data match. Say one data field is 123, 234, 345, 456 and another is 111, 222, 333, 444 and another is 555, 666, 777, 888 and I want to search for the unique number 234 but not the whole number 123, 234, 345, 456 ... is there any way to do that or does every search have to be exactly like the data in the field?
Thanks for any help.
Dennis
How can I "Order By" the second + third characters of a 7 char field ?
Sample data looks like:
LCA - L
LCB - L
LCF - M
LCE - M
LCE - A
LCA - A
LCB - A
If I order by the whole field I get:
LCA - A
LCA - L
LCB - A
LCB - L
LCE - A
LCE - M
LCF - L
LCF - M
What I want is:
LCA - L
LCB - L
LCF - L
LCA - A
LCB - A
LCE - A
LCE - M
LCF - M
I'm still at the stage in this project were I can 'split' the field (if I have to) into first 3 and last 1. But the sort order of the last 1 is not alphabetic (I want 'L', 'A', "M").
Can I substitute a custom SortOrder some way ? (I've done that with mainframe Cobol).
All suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
Roger
Is it possible to format just part of a field? I've got a report that return a collection of users based on some search criteria. Bascially, you enter a string and the report returns all users with a user name or display name simialr to your search string. I wanted to highlight the part of the name that matches the search string.
For instance, if you search for 'nny'
You might see a result of 'Johnny User'
Thanks.
J
How would I accomplish update just a part of a field? I have 500+ records in a table that got written as \share 01234.jpg, \share 01235.jpg...\share 01734.jpg but the records should have ended with .tif instead. Now the application cannot find the correct image because the extension is incorrect. How can I use the Update statement to just change the extension on these records?
Thanks.
I have a DB named zCIFRecord with a column named CIFUpdateDate which is of datatype varchar. The data is a date MM/DD/YYYY 01/30/2008, this is al that is in this column. I can search this colum for individual dates and for a range of dates. My problem is with a range of dates that is not within the same year, such as;
SELECT [CIFPan]
,[CIFMemNum]
,[CIFLName]
,[CIFFName]
FROM [FutureSoft].[dbo].[zCIFRecord]
WHERE [CIFUpdateDate] between '12/01/2007' and '01/30/2008'
will return nothing because it seems to only search on the 12 then the 01 then the 2008. this search can be performed properly on dates within the same year such as;
SELECT [CIFPan]
,[CIFMemNum]
,[CIFLName]
,[CIFFName]
FROM [FutureSoft].[dbo].[zCIFRecord]
WHERE [CIFUpdateDate] between '01/01/2008' and '01/30/2008'
will return the proper values because now all the numbers are in correct order. How can i create a search that lets me perform the first query as well as the second query. I tried to convert to a float but you cant convert a varchar to a float.
How can I make my search button have the "Any part of field" match as a default? with a simple query...
I have a field in MS access with hundreds of words (cv)... I want to be able to find a word in "Any part of field"
my try:
WHERE ((([cv].[detail cv])=[detail]));
detail is nowhere to find... i am prompt to give a value. fine.but it
equals whole field; detail must be the sole value of the field detail cv...
help!
mchel
hi..i'm new in sql progaming,i try to make make a query that in table field "match" return to "1"if no member record in another table and return to "0" if there is anyrecord member :extable member:member idA 12B 14Table Incoming.member note matchC bla..bla 1A bla..bla 0D bla..bla 1...... ....... .....can anyone help me please?D
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi all,
I have a very big database with me. This database has large number of tables and each table has n number of fields.
My trouble now is that I desire to search for a field name called 'empname'. Is there any query possible for me to search all tables and return me the table names which contain fields which match with 'empname'. Adding essence to the porridge I would like to know if I specify something like '%pnam%' it should match any field name which contains 'pnam' as a portion of its name. Is all these possible ??
Thanx for any help in advance,
Regards,
tvks
i want to import/copy a varchar field numeric data in to number field pls suggest the solution
one thing more can i convert field type of a table how?
jto it
Hello,
I have a table with a column that is currently a varchar(50), but I want to convert it into an int. When I try to just change the type in design mode I get an error that conversion cannot proceed. When I look at the field it appears some of the entries have special characters appended at the end, I see a box after the value.
How can I remove all speical characters and then convert that field to an int?
Also I tried the following query which did not work as well, same error about conversion.
UPDATE myTable SET field = CAST(field AS int)
I need some store procedure script , from two table i want to pickup matching field and insert into main table ,give some sample store procedure coding...
If 1st table as cheque no and 2nd table as cheque no - matching then data would be inserted in to main table using two table...
Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help. I have installed the adventureWorksDW and when I run this query
select * from sys.all_columns where object_id = 85575343 and column_id = 2
The max_length filed value is 50 but if I view the column in explorer view the max_length is 25 I.e. ProductAlternateKey(nvarchar(25) ,null)
I don;'t know if I am looking at the correct table value?
Im 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 RelatedI'm using the .NET Framework 1.1 together with SQL Server 2005 Beta.
I have a search page where you can search a db using a number of fields or combination thereof. Three are text fields (patient id, surname, forename) and I can do any search using one criteria or any combination without any problem.
However, I'd also like to search on a dob (datetime field in SQL Server) and I'm having real problems in making this work. The dates are stored in the following way in SQL Server: '1938-05-31 00:00:00.000', whilst they are displayed as 'dd/mm/yyyy' on a web page, which I guess corresponds to my regional settings.
My code is shown below. I 've tried any number of combinations for the dob string with no success. I do not get any error, just no records are returned.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong and how to correct it before this drives me crazy?!
TIA for any help.
P.S. chxPatID, chxSurname etc are all checkboxes.
<code starts>
If chxPatID.Checked Then
strSQL = strSQL & " patid= '" & txtPatID.Text & "' "
strAND = " AND "
End If
If chxSurname.Checked Then
strSQL = strSQL & strAND & " surname ='" & txtSurname.Text & "' "
strAND = " AND "
End If
If chxForename.Checked Then
strSQL = strSQL & strAND & " forename='" & txtForename.Text & "' "
strAND = " AND "
End If
If chxDoB.Checked Then
strSQL = strSQL & strAND & " dob= " & CDate(Year(txtDoB.Text) & "-" & Month(txtDoB.Text) & "-" & Day(txtDoB.Text)) & ""
End If
</code ends>
I need to find a better way to find all parts from a particular category. Each part can appear in multiple categories.
Currently, I use the id of a catagory and search the txtCatagory field in the position of the id.
I have included the query string for you to see.
SELECT * FROM tblParts
WHERE SUBSTRING(txtCategory,@CatId, 1) = '1'
ORDER BY PartNum ASC
txtCategory is Data Type Text
This currently does work, however is causing some performance problems with my ISP.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi,
I am building a website in ASP.net C# for a university project, and would like to search a table (Member) for a field (UserName) using a session variable Session["sUserName"]. If that field is null, then I would like to insert that session variable into the field to start to create a new user. However, I am getting errors saying that I am using invalid expression terms. My code is;
//Create the Command, passing in the SQL statement and the ConnectionString queryString = "SELECT UserName FROM Member WHERE (UserName = @myUsername); ";
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(queryString, sqlConn);cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@myUsername", Convert.ToString(Session["sUserName"])));
//If UserName is null, display confirmation, else display errorif (UserName == null) ;
{UserNameCheckLabel.Text = "Username okay";
String queryString = "INSERT INTO Member (UserName) VALUES(@myUsername); ";SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(queryString, sqlConn); cmd.Parameters.Add(new SqlParameter("@myUsername", Convert.ToString(Session["sUserName"])));
}else;
{UserNameCheckLabel.Text = "That username is in use";
}
I have a feeling I should be checking the database for the UserName, but I'm not sure whether to put this in the SELECT statement part or as a method... I would be most grateful for any advice!
Many thanks,
Chima
Hi everybody,
is it possible using SQL Server search for a word on each
table on each field?
Thanks
Fabio
I have the time of an event stored on each record as a datetime field.Itincludes the year,month,day, etc. Suppose my user wants to search the tablefor all events over the lunch hour, say between11am and 1pm. How do Iconstruct the SELECT query to peek into each datetime field and return onlythose records that satify the specified time range?Many thanks.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIf I have a column named "Login" in a SQL Table (I am sharing with another application) that I am using a stored procedure to acquire the information from, how can I trranspose its name to match code already written in a Web App to get the data.
There is a web app already created that has the followig code to get the data from the database
Dim strSQL ast string = "UsersSelectCommand"
intLoginID = objDataReader("LoginID")
My stored procedure is the following:
CREATE PROCEDURE UsersSelectCommand/* ( @parameter1 datatype = default value, @parameter2 datatype OUTPUT )*/AS Select Lastname, FirstName, Login from Users Order by LastName
GO
The stored procedure will return "Login" instead of "LoginID" that I am wanting. How can I modify the Stored Procedure to change the LoginID to Login.
Hi
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
I am trying to run a like statement that has a datetime column and for some reason it does not return any values. I looked in the SQL help files and in states in there that when trying to select using a datetime that the preferred way of doing it is using a like statment. Does anybody know a better way of doing this? Here is my example: (I have dates in this column ie 2006-02-13 11:30:54.220)
SELECT * FROM workorderhistory WHERE wheninstalled LIKE '%2006-02%'
Could anyone help of how to match the exact characters in a data field in SQL 2005 Developer.
For example, if one has a password "GooD", then when he or she enters "GOOD", "good", etc, the database will not match the password. And he or she must enter the exact characters, which is "GooD".
Thanks.
Could anyone help of how to match the exact characters in a data field in SQL 2005 Developer.
For example, if one has a password "GooD", then when he or she enters "GOOD", "good", etc, the database will not match the password. And he or she must enter the exact characters, which is "GooD".
Thanks.
Hi guys
I need immediate help with a query that I am trying to write. I want to sum the values in a query but the field has a type of varchar and it has decimal numbers too. So if I do the query something like that, that converts the field to int, I get the error message.
I tried converting it into real or float but I get error message on that too. I need help with adding the calculatedValues and getting there sum. I would appreciate any help with that.
Thanks
-Sarah
Select SUM(Convert(int, calculatedValue))
from monitor.dbo.monHistory
where LocalTimeWithoutDst > '8/26/06' and LocalTimeWithoutDst < '8/28/06'
This is the error message I recieve:
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '274.2' to data type int.
After reading Dan Guzman's blog entry (http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/dang/archive/2008/02/21/Dont-Bloat-Proc-Cache-with-Parameters.aspx) I started modifying some of my code to try it out and ran into a stumbling block. What size would you specific for a varchar(MAX) field?
Since a varchar max field can hold up to 2 billion chracters I really don't think I need to specify 2 billion as the size. Anyone have any ideas?
What is the max field length in SQL Server 7.0 that a varchar field can be?
I think 8000. Please advise
Thanks