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!!
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'
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.
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.
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. :)
GreetingsFor performance reasons I am trying to determine how often the pages inthe index split due to inserts. Are there any records in the 'sys' tables,etc. Thanx
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?
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.
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
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 :)
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 ?
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 :
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
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"...
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
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.
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
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
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?
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.
hi, I have a field named city_state that contains city and state together (Warren, OH) in the same field. I need to create two seperate columns one city, another state. how can I extract the state out of the city_state column and have two different column. thanks
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?
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
######################################## <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
and snumber is always between the before and after string and number of characters of snumber varies and entire data for a row also varies
