Spliting Up A String In A Column
Apr 3, 2008
Good Morning,
I'm trying to write a scrip to compate two columns in two different tables to each other (billing_payee to Debtor_name)
The problem i have is that the info in the billing_payee column is CLIENT RE DEBTOR INITAL SURN and the infor in Debtor_name column is [i]DEBTOR TITLE NAME SURN[i]
What i need to be able to do is select all from Billing_Payee table where the Billing payee [i]DEBTOR INIAL SURN[i] is not the same as the info in Debtor_name.
I somehow need to split out the inial - first letter of debtor name and surname.
If i can't do it this way i need some other way of comaparing the two.
I am fairly new to t-SQL however have a pretty good grasp of it.
Please let me know if there is anything else i can provide to make this any easier any help is much appreciated!!
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Dec 6, 2000
Hi eveybody
In table1, column1 I am trying to split any string that has a pace in the middle like 'ABC XYZ' to two columns, Column2 to have 'ABC' and Column3 to have 'XYZ'
Any idea will appreciated
Saad
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May 29, 2008
I have been using this to split the name column into First name,last name & middle name
Input name column is in this format
First Name,Last Name Middle Name
I have no problem with spliting and running last name & middle name
But i have issues with First Name
I use the code below for first name in derived column
SUBSTRING([COPY OF Name1,FINDSTRING([COPY OF name],",",1) - 1)
I noticed in few places where the name is not in the format mentioned above
Eg : M
And which does not have a comma
SO how do i solve this kind of situations
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Feb 14, 2008
HI if I have a recrod in a plain text file , and it has some colums information including FromDate and ThruDates if the date range is over 30 days, Then the record should split and becomes 2 records rather then one.
for example:
if i have FromDate 07/01/06 and ThruDate = 08/25/06
than
that single record should be saved as two records
like
Record#1 FromDate ThruDate
1 07/01/06 07/30/06
2 08/31/06 08/25/06
so what should I do to work it out, in the database, what could be the t sql or trigger that I have to use??? help please.
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Jun 4, 2006
Hi,
I have a project in which I have about 20,000 records in sql database table.
What I would like to do is generate a query that lists all the unique words in a particular field acros the entire table so as to generate a glossary of words.
if we had a table that looked like
ID Description
001 This is the first record
002 This is the second record
003 This is not the first record
and the query was run on the description field, then the result I would like to see is
This
is
the
first
second
not
I hope this makes sense. Any help is appreciated.
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Sep 20, 2006
I have a table that contains many columns in a single row and I'd like to split the table so that it has fewer column values and more rows.
My table structure is:
create table #scoresheet
(Decisions varchar(10), DNumericalValue int, DVI varchar(10), DComments nvarchar(255),
Competence varchar(10), CNumericalValue int, CVI varchar(10), CComments nvarchar(255),
Equipment varchar(10), ENumericalValue int, EVI varchar(10), EComments nvarchar(255));
I would like to have three rows with four columns.
What I've done so far is create a stored procedure that uses a table variable:
create procedure sp_splitsinglerow as
declare @Scoresheet_rows_table_var table (
ReviewArea varchar(25),
NumericalValue int,
VI varchar(10),
Comments nvarchar(255));
insert into @Scoresheet_rows_table_var
(ReviewArea, NumericalValue, VI, Comments)
select Decisions, DNumericalValue, DVI, DComments
from #scoresheet
The trouble with this approach is that I have to explicitly name the columns that I insert into the table variable. What I'd really like to be able to is have a loop construct and select the first 4 columns the first time, the second 4 the next time and the last 4 the third time.
Any ideas on how to achieve that?
BTW, I have resolved this issue by suggesting to the Developers that they change the structure of the original table, but I'd still like to know if there is another solution. :)
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Jul 20, 2005
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May 18, 2007
For some reason I am having a really hard time grasping IS and I have a task that I would imagine is easy.
I have a flat file source with 6 columns, I would like to import this file into two flat files. One file containing columns 1,2,3,5 and the second containing 2,4,5,6. I created the connection managers for both destination files, but I can€™t determine what transformation tool I need to accomplish this task? Could you help?
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Mar 5, 2007
Hi,
I have dates in "mmddyy" format coming from the sources and they are older dates of mid 80s like 082580 for instance.
When I cast it this way (DT_DBTIMESTAMP) Source_Date , It says ok but throws a runtime error.
When I hardcode a date in same format, (DT_DBTIMESTAMP) "082580" , It becomes red (an indication of syntax error) . Please note that we use double quotes in expressions in Derived Column Transformation; So an anticipation that using double quotes over single ones would be the syntax problem would be wrong.
Any help in this will sincerely be appreciated.
Thanks
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Nov 8, 2006
I having a column formatted as char(12) being used for indexing. I am not getting the correct max value back from the statement:
"SELECT MAX(ID) FROM STAGING_TABLE"
i.e.
ID column contains 45,999,1726..The returned val for the query above is 999. Any ideas? TIA
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Dec 14, 2007
Hi All,
I have a table which contains values like this :
Column 1 Column 2
A 1
A 2
A 3
B 1
B 2
In need the output in this format:
Col1 Col 2
A 1,2,3
B 1,2
Can anyone help me with this ????
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Jun 18, 2007
hey everyone, everyone here has been extremely helpful, I'm extremely appreciative. i have another question if anyone has the time.I want to pull the value of one column/row into a string, i know this value to be one int or 1 word under 10 characters. I'd like to be able to use this variable as a conditional, so my if/else statements have information to work off of. I have been using the following format in by code-behind pages to do my SQL insert/update/delete - however I cannot figure out how to SELECT and get those results into a string. I'm new obviously, so dumbed-down explanation would be greatly appreciated!This is what I've used so far for working with my DB:using System;using System.Data;using System.Configuration;using System.Collections;using System.Web;using System.Web.Security;using System.Web.UI;using System.Web.UI.WebControls;using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { SqlDataSource profilesinsert = new SqlDataSource(); profilesinsert.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ProfilesConnectionString1"].ToString(); profilesinsert.InsertCommandType = SqlDataSourceCommandType.Text; profilesinsert.InsertCommand = "INSERT INTO ProfileComments (Approved) VALUES (@Approved)"; profilesinsert.InsertParameters.Add("Approved", "yes"); profilesinsert.Insert(); } The SELECT into a string I'd like to do on page_load, so that I can test that variable upon button click, and have a different value in "Approved" depending on the 1 int or small word result from my SELECT.THANK YOU very much to anyone who offers help! love you guys :)
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Nov 13, 2003
Hello I currently am using the nvarchar type which has a maximum size of 4000 char's. Is there any other type that I can use which can store a greater amount of char's ?
Many thanks
Grant
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Mar 26, 2004
I have a column of 5 comma-separated-value strings:
stringA, stringB, stringC, stringD, stringE
The strings are GUID's with the hyphen stripped and made all uppercase so they are completely random. I need to be able to remove any one of the strings including the comma, in a stored procedure and I am not sure how to accomplish this.
SELECT tickets
FROM users
WHERE CONTAINS (tickets, @ticket)
IF @@rowcount > 0
REMOVE STUFF HERE
SET @valid = 1
ELSE
SET @valid = 0
So if stringB gets passed in as @ticket then the new value in the column would be :
stringA, stringC, stringD, stringE
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you
dave
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Aug 13, 2003
Hi All,
I am trying to write a select statement which will concatenate all values of a string column and provide me with a result set containing just one row of data containing a concatenation of all values.
For eg:
column1
abc
def
hij
klm
nop
is it possible to write a select statement which would return
result
abcdefghijklmnop
as a result?
TIA
Ketan
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Oct 1, 2013
I have access to a database's web front end and a limited amount of access to the server.
I am trying to find out what column a certain string is in.
I can see some text on the front end via the web that a user enters and then submits. This information must go to the back end of the database but I dont know where it goes...
I am able to provide a unique Sequence number that it would be linked with and obviously I have the string that im looking for its column name but other then that I dont know what I can do.
I don't have write access to the database so I am unable to make procedures. I am also not really aware how the front end works or if I would be able to find the script that deals with the text after the user hits "save"...
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Jan 21, 2008
I want to concaternate all rows that has the same ID and update another table.
Table1:
ID: COL1
1 txt1
1 txt2
1 txt3
2 txt7
3 txt5
3 txt6
OUTPUT:
ID: COL1:
1 txt1, txt2, txt3
2 txt7
3 txt5, txt6
How do I manage this, have tried self join but with no luck.
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Mar 7, 2008
I have the column of type string in the database
Following is the data in that column
1
2
11
12
21
abc
If i sort the table with the help of this column then the output come in the following manner
1
11
12
2
21
abc
can i improve the order actually i want the output like 1 2 11 12 21 abc
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Nov 12, 2007
Hi,
I am trying to replace a string column with 'Y' or 'N' in my SSRS report. I tried the following expressions, but no one works for me.
=IIf(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value Is Null, 'Y', 'N')
=IIf(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value = '', 'Y', 'N')
=IIf(IsDBNull(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value), 'Y', 'N')
Would you please tell me what's wrong? Your suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks alot.
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Apr 20, 2006
I am using Derived Column Transformation Editor. I have 3 string values which I would like to combine them into one string and have a newline character inbetween the 3 strings. I cannot see a Char() function similar to TSQL to use for this purpose. I thought about creating a Variable but even to that I don't know how I can assign a newline character.
Any ideas?
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May 30, 2008
Hi All,
I have a column in my table like so:
'D4B00 L2A00 L3A00 L6C00 P1C00 L2A28 P4B00 '
How do I check in SQL if any pieces have the first 3 character the same. In the above case, L2A is present twice. I need to do this because I need display disctinct items, therefore L2A needs to be displayed only once.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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Oct 11, 2005
how do i update a table which has like two strings in 1 column like
blog, joe ?
i want to strip the joe into a new field and the blog into another field
update Agency
set firstname= substring(firstname,charindex(' ',firstname)+1 ,len(firstname))
i managed to strip the first name which is the string at the back but not the last name which is the string at the front
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Jan 21, 2008
What do you guys think about creating a unique constraint on a string column in a database?
Currently, I'm enforcing uniqueness through the stored procedure that inserts rows into the table. E.g.
PROCEDURE addRow( name )
DECLARE r INT;
SELECT COUNT(*) INTO r FROM foo WHERE foo.foo_name = name;
IF r = 0 THEN
INSERT INTO foo (foo_name) values(name);
ELSE
// Not unique throw an error
END PROCEDURE
What do you guys think?
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Dec 23, 2013
I'm trying to form a query that will select part of a result.I'm trying to take out the ending of results that end in '-PR'.
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Sep 13, 2001
quote:Another question is how to find a string in any column of any table.
(Above is a hint as to one way)
I had to do this because a system was sending out a not very impressive email to users ad we couldn't find what was triggering it.
I have run into a similar situation. Care to share your solution?
Cat
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Jun 7, 2006
I have come across something strange. I was wondering anyone else had the same problem or is it me?
I have a source file as shown below:
1,30-Feb-06,3,Test
2,20-Feb-06,5,Test1
Second column is defined as String(9) in the flat file source. Then I have a Derived Column between source and Trash destination. The Derived Column adds a new column to the datd flow. The expression is as shown below :
(DT_DBTIMESTAMP)(SUBSTRING(Col2,1,2) + "/" + SUBSTRING(Col2,4,3) + "/" + SUBSTRING(Col2,8,2))
The data is loading into the database successfully, where I was expecting it to fail. I placed a data viewer and saw the following result set.
Source (Col2) Derived Col
------------------- ------------------
30-Feb-06 06/02/1930 00:00:00 - WRONG result set
20-Feb-06 20/02/2006 00:00:00 - RIGHT result set
Can anyone repeat this problem or am I missing something? I have got SP1 and Hotfix installed.
Thanks
Sutha
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Feb 6, 2001
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Dec 1, 1999
I have a string of comma delimited values such as the following:
1,2,3,4,5
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If I type the following:
"INSERT INTO tabletest SELECT 1,2,3,4,5"
I get this error:
"Insert error: column name or number of supplied values does not match table definition. "
This makes sense because I do not have 5 columns I only have 1. But how can I get around this?
Any help is most appreciated! Thanks in advance...mary
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Oct 23, 2005
Hello,
I'm trying to set the default value of a column (SysInvNum) in a table (caseform) of mine by concatenating 3 other fields in the same table. These other fields are all Integer datatypes. they are "CaseYear" e.g. (2005), "InvNum" e.g. (0001) and "PostId" e.g. (5).
So basically the SysInvNum column for this row should read '200500015'
When I run a basic query using the CAST or CONVERT functions like this:
SELECT convert (varchar,caseyear) + convert(varchar,InvNum) + convert(varchar,postid) from caseform
OR
SELECT cast(caseyear as varchar(4)) + cast(InvNum as varchar(4)) + cast(postid as varchar(1)) from caseform
I get the results I want. But since I want this value to be the default value of the column, I tried inserting this: convert (varchar,caseyear) + convert(varchar,InvNum) + convert(varchar,postid) into the default value parameter of the column in the caseform table. The result is a string that is the query itself.
I then tried creating a UDF called getsysinvnum() where I declare and set 2 variables whilst returning one of the variables as a varchar. An example of what it looks like is this:
CREATE FUNCTION GetSysInvNum()
RETURNS varchar
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @maxcaseid Int
DECLARE @sysinvnum varchar
SELECT @maxcaseid = max (caseid) from caseform
SELECT @sysinvnum = cast(caseyear as varchar(4)) + cast(invnum as varchar(4)) + cast(postid as varchar(1)) from caseform where caseid = @maxcaseid
RETURN @sysinvnum
END
The result I get when I plug this into the default value of the column as : ([dbo].[getsysinvnum]()) is "2".
Yes it returns the number "2" could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong, or suggest a better way for me to do this?
Thanks in advance
'Wale
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I have system id information in table system_ids and productids and systemidinsformation has lot of data but I am looking two strings in tire data to pull into two separate columns. details below
Database versions :ms sql 2008/2012
tablename:system_id's
column:system id information
sample data from system_id_information column
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<obj xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="urn:vim25" versionId="5.5" xsi:type="ArrayOfHostSystemIdentificationInfo"><HostSystemIdentificationInfo xsi:type="HostSystemIdentificationInfo"><identifierValue> unknown</identifierValue><identifierType><label>Asset Tag</label><summary>Asset tag of the system</summary><key>AssetTag</key></identifierType>
[Code] .....
I am looking output of two columns, which are bolded
product_id snumber
654081-B21 MXQ43905SW
for serial number this is common
before string :HostSystemIdentificationInfo"><identifierValue>
and after string </identifierValue><identifierType><label>Service tag
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Jul 21, 2015
I want to extract a number within a column results, that is the number between the first two commas
Example:
select path from tablea
results:
1158285,1158286,1158287,1158288,1158289
1158288,1158289,1158290,1158291,1158292
....
How to extract the second number(between the first two commas) from the above results?
The output should be
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