Separating One Field Into Two Fields Based On A Character In The Field
Jul 20, 2005
I know there has to be a way to do this, but I've gone brain dead. The
scenario..a varchar field in a table contains a date range (i.e. June 1,
2004 - June 15, 2004 or September 1, 2004 - September 30, 2004 or...). The
users have decided thats a bad way to do this (!) so they want to split that
field into two new fields. Everything before the space/dash ( -) goes into
a 'FromDate' field, everything after the dash/space goes into the 'ToDate'
field. I've played around with STRING commands, but haven't stumbled on it
yet. Any help at all would be appreciated! DTS?
Here's a question for the SQL gurus out there: I have a varchar(20) field DIAGNOSISCODE in a table that can either be null, or contain up to 3 comma-separated codes, each of which relates to a description in another table. For example, some sample rows might be 8060 8060,4450 8060,4123,3245 Now I need to structure a query to return these values from this single field as three fields CODE1, CODE2, CODE3, with NULL as appropriate for example CODE1=8060, CODE2=4450, CODE3=NULL. I have been using CASE along with CHARINDEX and PATINDEX but it it becoming extremely messy. Can anyone think of a "neater" way to return three fields from this one field? Any help very greatly appreciated. Thanks, Simon.
I have a table with eight (8) fields, including the primary key (rfpid). Three of the fields are foreign keys, which take their values form lookup tables. They are int fields (pmid, sectorid, officeid). One of the fields in this table is based on putting together the descriptive field in the lookup table for sector (tblsector). The two other fields to be part of this string are the rfpname and rfpid. This creates the following string:
The words rfp, proposals are words that have to be part of string;
the slashes are to also appear.
current_year would be defaulting to datepart = year (2008)
The part that has the last two digits of the current year then the underscore and then the rfpid should be connected by an underscore to the rfpname. I am at a loss and would greatly appreciate any help.
I have a table with two sets of fields, one for PRIMARY Mail Address and the other for ALTERNATE Mail Address. Both sets are five fields long. I will call them PRIMARY & ALTERNATE for this discussion. I want to select the PRIMARY fields if ALTERNATE is either null or zero, and the ALTERNATE fields if data is present.
I have used this syntax but it gives a table with both the PRIMARY & SECONDARY records.
SELECT TXPRCL, TXALTR, TXANAM FROM dbo.PCWEBF21 WHERE (TXALTR > 0) UNION SELECT TXPRCL, TXTAXP, TXTNAM FROM dbo.PCWEBF21 WHERE TXALTR = 0
Would a Select Case work? something like
Select PRIMARY when ALTERNATE = 0, and ALTERNATE when ALTERNATE > 0 or is not null.
Because of a limitation on a piece of software I'm using I need to take a large varchar field and force a carriage return/linebreak in the returned sql. Allowing for a line size of approximately 50 characters, I thought the approach would be to first find the 'spaces' in the data, so as to not split the line on a real word. achieve.
--===== Simulate a passed parameter DECLARE @Parameter VARCHAR(8000) SET @Parameter = (select a_notes from dbo.notestuff as notes where a_id = '1')
Hi,another problem I have is that have compounded fields in my sql table.Exampleproduct@customerI need a simple function to return "customer", so it should return the valueafter "@", unfortunate "@" will sometimes be character number 6, sometimescharacter number 7 etc.regardsJorgen
I am working with a vendor application called Cisco Unified Attendant Console - it operates on a Windows server with a SQL express database. The CUPs function of the application needs to reference a "contact" field with only the user portion of the contact's email address - generally, the contact's User ID will match the user portion of their email address, however, for this customer it does not (they use the employee number as the User ID and firstname.lastname as user portion of the email address.
Writing a script to accomplish the following:
The dbo.Contact_Properties table of the ATTCFG database has the following fields that we can work with:
- First_Name - Last_Name - Email - User_Field_2 - Contact_Unique_Ref (appears to be the field that ties all other contact tables together ?)
Is it possible to create a script that could run daily to either, combine the First_Name and Last_Name fields (with a period between) and populate the User_Field_2 field for each user, or populate the User_Field_2 field with everything before the @ symbol in the Email field for each user?
Also, by default the servers that this application is installed on does not have SQL Server Management Studio installed - is it possible to accomplish with PowerShell script triggered from the Windows Scheduler?
I have a table called BidItem which has another table calledBidAddendum related to it by foreign key. I have another table calledBidFolder which is related to both BidItem and BidAddendum, based on acolumn called RefId and one called Type, i.e. type 1 is a relationshipto BidItem and type 2 is a relationship to BidAddendum.Is there any way to specify a foreign key that will allow for thedifferent types indicating which table the relationship should existon? Or do I have to have two separate tables with identical columns(and remove the type column) ?? I would prefer not to have multipleidentical tables.
Does ORDER BY work on character data type in SQL Server through ODBC? I tried using the SQL Query Tool in SQL Enterprise Manager and it works but using through ODBC I can't get any results.
Query: SELECT company_id, company_name FROM lt_company ORDER BY company_name
HiI have a character field (char ot varchar) that I want to force only tocontain numeric characters.Can that be done by way of defining a constraint on the field ?or by any other way in the field/table definition ?What id the syntax ?Anyone have examples ?ThanksDavid Greenberg
I was wondering what everyone felt about the fomats in characterfields where the front end application accepts anything.I wouldn't want a customer table where the customer name was lowercase on one, upper on another and who knows on the third.If character fields are not consistent, then formatting will have tohappen every time someone access the data for reporting - as anexample ...Thanks,Craig
here is my business/data object for some reason I only get the first character back, say value is Charlie, I only get C public string GetUserName(long UserId) { try { string userName;
DiscussionDB data = new DiscussionDB(); List paramlist = new List(); paramlist.Add(data.CreateParameter("@UserId", UserId)); paramlist.Add(data.CreateParameter("@UserName", "", ParameterDirection.Output, DbType.String, 20)); data.ExecuteNonQuery("dbo.Discussion_User_Name", ref paramlist); userName = paramlist[1].Value.ToString();
return userName; } catch { throw; } }
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Discussion_User_Name] @UserId bigint, @UserName varchar(20) output AS SET NOCOUNT ON
SET @UserName = (Select [Name] from Discussion_Member WHERE UserID = @UserID)
if (@UserName is null or @UserName = '') BEGIN SET @UserName = (Select UserName from Membership_User WHERE UserID = @UserID) END
I am getting a date string that is contained in a character field (char(20)).
An example of the data is as follows:
2005-09-20121315001
it is in the format YYYY-MM-DDHHMMSSMMM.
I want to insert this value into a datetime field. I have used convert, but can only insert it when I split out the time portion and separate them with a colon
i.e. to get it to insert into a datetime field the data has to be in the following format
2005-09-20 13:15:18.001
YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.MMM
Is there a style parameter in the convert function that will allow me to insert this value without having to separate the hours/minutes/seconds with a colon? I have tried BOL but it seems that all the examples have colons in them where there is a time portion to the date,
Hi, I need to replace a character from a column of a txt file. I have defined the column and the values (datetime type for sql server) that I receive are like this: 2008-02-15-20.07.19 So, I need to replace the "." with a ":" beacuse those are minutes and sql server uses ":" for minutes How can I do this? Any help? Thanks
SET numDeterminationLevelTypeId = parent.numDeterminationLevelTypeId,
numInherentRiskID = parent.numInherentRiskID,
numControlRiskID = parent.numControlRiskID,
numCombinedRiskID = parent.numCombinedRiskID,
numApproachTypeId = parent.numApproachTypeId,
bInherentRiskIsAffirmed = 0,
bControlRiskIsAffirmed = 0,
bCombinedRiskIsAffirmed = 0,
bApproachTypeIsAffirmed = 0,
bCommentsIsAffirmed = 0
FROM EngagementAuditAreas WITH(NOLOCK) ...
And what I need is to conditionalize the values of the "IsAffirmed" fields by looking at their corresponding "num" fields. Something like this (which doesn't work).
UPDATE EngagementAuditAreas
SET numDeterminationLevelTypeId = parent.numDeterminationLevelTypeId,
numInherentRiskID = parent.numInherentRiskID,
numControlRiskID = parent.numControlRiskID,
numCombinedRiskID = parent.numCombinedRiskID,
numApproachTypeId = parent.numApproachTypeId,
bInherentRiskIsAffirmed = (numInherentRiskID IS NULL),
bControlRiskIsAffirmed = (numControlRiskID IS NULL),
bCombinedRiskIsAffirmed = (numCombinedRiskID IS NULL),
bApproachTypeIsAffirmed = (numApproachTypeID IS NULL),
bCommentsIsAffirmed = (parent.txtComments IS NULL)
How to modify values in a SQL Database. In the table PRDDEmpmaster there is a field called email_address, and for those fields that have a value I need to change that value to add { } opening/closing "curly braces" to that field.
For example,
RPARSONS@YAHOO.COM becomes {RPARSONS@YAHOO.COM} . Nulls/empty fields remain as is.
I am attempting to import a flat file and have come accross and issue that I do not know how to fix in SSIS. The issue is that some of the text fields use quoted identifiers. This is not an issue in itself. The problem is they also use quotes as escape character if quotes are on the field.
So I see instances of "" because inside the quoted field is a quote. How do i specify an escape character?
The formula for the above calculated fields are as below:
Opening Balance = carried forward balance from Year 2005 Debit = All positive amount Credit = All negative amount Net Change = Total Credit - Total Debit in Period 01 Balance = Total of Net Change + Opening Bal
Guys, hope someone out there can help me with the sql command for the above report?
SELECT DENSE_RANK() OVER (ORDER BY clroot.Ctgry1.Descr ASC) AS Row1, Row_Number() OVER (partition BY clroot.Ctgry1.Descr ORDER BY clroot.Ctgry1.Descr, T1.Descr ASC) AS Row2, left(t1.ID,4)+right(t1.levelid,4) AS ERPID,T1.ID AS Ctgry1ID, clroot.Ctgry1.ID AS ParentID, T1.LevelID, clroot.Ctgry1.Descr AS Category, T1.Descr AS SubCategory,
The formula for the above calculated fields are as below:
Opening Balance = carried forward balance from Year 2005 Debit = All positive amount Credit = All negative amount Net Change = Total Credit - Total Debit in Period 01 Balance = Total of Net Change + Opening Bal
Guys, hope someone out there can help me with the sql command for the above report?
I am setting up a database that will receive a lot of data from twoseparate telephone centers, the log table will in a short time haveover 1 million lines, and I was wondering if I should use 1 identifyfield or two:case 1:[Id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL[ServerId] [int] NOT NULLcase 2:[Id] [varchar(20)] IDENTITY NOT NULLWhere in case 1 I would just use a combination of Id and ServerId toidentify the line, where in case 2 I would have the Id field a varcharthat would look something like A-000001, A-000002 for server 1 andB-000001, B-000002 for server 2Which solution will be faster when searching for a record when thewill have over 1 million lines?
I 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 :
