Splitting A Text Field
Feb 1, 2001hi,
I am trying to split a text field .
what I want to do is -
split a text field and insert chars 1 to 8 in one field and then from 9 to 20 in another and so on.
Can someone help me in solving this.
TIA.
PD
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Jul 20, 2005I have a field that contains codes likefhj#asdskjjljlj#12And so on.What I want to do is create two new fields (field1 and filed2) thatsplit the original filed at '#'If a field does not contain '#' I would like its entire contents to besaved in field1.Also how do I ensure that I save these changes?Thanks fo any help in advance.Regards,Ciarán
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Problems Splitting Name Field
Sep 1, 2006I am reading in data from a legacy system where name data is in one field. The single field includes last name, first name, middle initial(sometimes), and suffix(sometimes).
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FirstName:
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SQL Syntax Trouble (Splitting A Field In Two)
Apr 12, 2007I am able to use the following SQL Statement in Access, but when I try to use it in a View or Stored Procedure for SQL Server 2000, it says the function InStr is not a valid function. Would someone be able to assist me with modifying this query to work in SQL Server 2000. This is Spliting a field called EName into two fields called FName and LName.
SELECT EmployeeID, CountryCode, Branch, SSN, Title, HireDate, Status,
RIGHT(EName, LEN(EName) - InStr(EName, [, ]) - 1) AS FName, LEFT(EName, InStr(EName, [, ]) - 1)
AS LName
FROM dbo.Staging_Employees
Thank You,
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Apr 2, 2007Hi
I have a customer data in a flat file (*.csv). It has a field "Name" which has data as James Smith. I want to load the dat in the dimenson table as fields FName="James" and LName="Smith". What type of data transformation should i use and how should i make it happen?
thanks,
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Splitting Text String Into Multiple Columns
Dec 19, 2002I'm creating a web-based NT RAS report site and am looking for the most efficient way to import the data from NT Event log into SQL2k. I'm using the 'dumpel' utility from rsc kit and all is fine except the 10th column - the message detail:
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I've dablled with views but am facing a small performance issue that could get bigger: The sql server not only has to run the text file import package, but also the view to format the text dump into a workable dataset, then my report code bangs over 30 queries against the final dataset. It already takes our SQL2k server over 3 minutes to parse about 20,000 rows and the server's a beast (dual 1.8 p4 cpu, 3gb ram, raid, etc).
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TIA:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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Feb 16, 2004I receive a file that will have hyphens between data items such as
123-aed-edr-45r-ui9
1-ed3-45r-rrr-98u
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Apr 28, 2004have a field in a table that has combined lastname,firstname and middle name like
combs,albert mike
woods-athere,jane alice
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I need in tsql to split them to last name,first name and middle name
I used below
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substring (longname, patindex( '% %', longname) + 1, len(longname)) 'middlename'
FROM Demographic_staging
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Aug 25, 2015I'm new to SQL and I'm trying to write a statement to satisfy the following:
If [Field1] contains text from [Field2] then return [Field3] as [Field4].
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Problem With Text Field: Text Input Too Long, Weird Characters
May 15, 2006Hi,
Im a programmer for an university webportal which uses php and msssql.
When an user creates a new entry and his text is too long the entry is cut short and weird characters appear at the end of the entry.
For example:
http://www.ttz.uni-magdeburg.de/scripts/test-messedb/php/index.php?option=show_presse&funktion=presse_show_mitteilung&id=333
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SQL 2012 :: Text Qualifier Inside A Text Qualified Field
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In SQL 2012, this fails with the error message, cannot find the text qualifer for field.
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Nov 19, 2006Hi,
I'm importing an Access database to SQL Server 2000.
The issue I ran into is pretty frustrating... All Memo fields that get copied over (as Text fields) appear to be fine and visible in SQL Server Enterprise Manager... except when I display them on the web via ASP - everything is blank (no content at all).
I didn't have that problem with Access, so I ruled out the possibility that there's something wrong with the original data.
Is this some sort of an encoding problem that arose during database import?
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Aug 20, 2006Hi all,
i've a reasonable amount of experience with MS Access and less
experience with SQL Server. I've just written an .NET application that
uses an SQL Server database. I need to collate lots of data from around
the company in the simplest way, that can then be loaded into the SQL
Server database.
I decided to collect the info in Excel because that's what most people
know best and is the quickest to use. The idea being i could just copy
and paste the records directly into the SQL Server database table (in
the same format) using the SQL Server Management Studio, for
example.
Trouble is, i have a problem with line feed characters. If an Excel
cell contains a chunk of text with line breaks (Chr(10) or Chr(13))
then the copy'n'paste doesn't work - only the text up to the first line
break is pasted into the SQL Server database cell. The rest is not
pasted for some reason.
I've tried with MS Access too, copying and pasting the contents of a
memo field into SQL Server database, but with exactly the same problem.
I've tried with 'text' or 'varchar' SQL Server database field formats.
Since i've no experience of using different types of databases
interacting together, can someone suggest the simplest way of
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I don't want to spend hours writing scripts/programs when it's just
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May 30, 2006Hi,
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Apr 24, 2007Hi,I been reading various web pages trying to figure out how I can extract some simple information from the XML below, but at present I cannot understand it.
I have a MS SQL 2005 database with which contains a field of type text (external database so field type cannot be changed to XML)The text field in the database is similar to the one below but I have simplified it by remove many of the unneeded tags in the <before> and <after> blocks. I also reformatted it to show the structure (original had no spaces or returns)
For each text field in the SQL table contain the XML I need to know the OldVal and the NewVal.
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Mar 27, 2008Hi,
I am very new to using SQL. Our department usually uses Brio to query the various databases under our control. However, I have recently come against a problem that prompted me to create a custom SQL query which works well as far as it goes. My problem is looking for specific conditions in billing information I receive monthly. I would like to compare on of the date fields contained in the database with a field in the form of YYYYMM (200710, for October 2007) I have created a custom column generator that forms a date from the YYYYMM. I would like, however, do the translation on the fly and make the comparison during the query. The problem is that query without the date check returns a mass of data, only about 1 percent of which is what I want.
The beginning of the SQL query looks like this:
FROM From.T_Crs_Tran_Dtl WHERE T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Crs_Bill_Yr_Mo IN ('200710', '200711', '200712') AND ((T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Crs_Cde IN ('1G', '1V') AND (T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Dptr_Dte < LastDay(ToDate(Substr ( Crs_Bill_Yr_Mo, 5, 2 )& "/1/"&Substr ( Crs_Bill_Yr_Mo, 1, 4 )))) AND (T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Prev_Stats_Cde IN (' ', 'TK', 'TL') AND T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Cur_Stats_Cde IN ('TK', 'TL') AND T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Std_Tran_Typ_Cde='B') OR (T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Prev_Stats_Cde='UN' AND T_Crs_Tran_Dtl.Cur_Stats_Cde='XX' AND€¦
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(Urgent) How Get A Text Field And Put The Result Into A Text Var
May 3, 2004Hi All
Iam trying to Get a text field value i wrote this code
DECLARE @ptrval varbinary(16)
DECLARE @length bigint
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FROM #TEMPLATE
READTEXT Template.#TEMPLATE @ptrval 0 @length
but i need to put the result into a text var
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May 9, 2007Hi everyone,
I'm extremely new to SQL so be nice
I am attempting to write a script to add onto the end of a text field the words " -- Disposed " (About 60 rows worth).
The field is a TEXT field, so unlike a varchar field I can't just use Update as shown below.
Code:
Update AR_Primary_asset
Set AR_Primary_asset.description = AR_Primary_asset.description + ' -- Disposed'
Where AR_Primary_Asset.ASSET_REF in ('1','2','4')
I found on the Mircosoft pages about UPDATETEXT, but this only seem to work to update one row (In the case below Asset_ref = 3, was the only row effected) .
Code:
DECLARE @Dispose binary(16)
SELECT @Dispose = TEXTPTR(DESCRIPTION)
FROM AR_PRIMARY_ASSET
WHERE AR_Primary_Asset.ASSET_REF in ('1','2','3')
UPDATETEXT AR_PRIMARY_ASSET.DESCRIPTION @ptrval null null ' -- Disposed'
So i wrapped it into a cursor, this worked on my test SQL server which runs SQL2005.
Code:
DECLARE @Dispose varbinary(16)
DECLARE cursor1 CURSOR FOR
SELECT TEXTPTR(DESCRIPTION)
FROM AR_Primary_Asset
Where AR_Primary_Asset.ASSET_REF in('1','2','3')
OPEN cursor1
FETCH NEXT FROM cursor1
INTO @Dispose
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
UPDATETEXT AR_Primary_Asset.DESCRIPTION @Dispose NULL NULL ' -- Disposed'
FETCH NEXT FROM cursor1
INTO @Dispose
END
CLOSE cursor1
DEALLOCATE cursor1
But when it was run on our SQL2000 server it gave the following error message
Quote: Msg 403, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Invalid operator for data type. Operator equals add, type equals text.
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T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Insert Text In A Text Field
Jul 12, 2014CREATE TABLE [dbo].[instructions](
[site_no] [int] NOT NULL,
[instructions] [text] NULL
)
Select top 3 * from instructions
Output
Site_noInstructions
20Request PIN then proceed
21Request PIN if wrong request name
22Request PIN allowed to use only numbers
All text instructions start with “Request PIN” but after that the text are different for every site_no
I need insert in all site_no rows and after the “Request PIN” the text “and codeword” keeping the current rest of text
Desired output
Site_noInstructions
20Request PIN and codeword then proceed
21Request PIN and codeword if wrong request name
22Request PIN and codeword allowed to use only numbers
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All works fine,
However, am I using the correct field type to store the text files for efficiency and space saving?
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Jun 6, 2008 Hi
I
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This
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---------------------------------------
In
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I am haveing a field called as description in a table called info in the database. Now when I give the following query:
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Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (0x80040E14)
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Sep 8, 2004Hi all,
I have a table with millions of records, table has three fields: case_id,line_no and notedata field, notedata field is 60 chars long, datatype varchar.for each case_id there could be as many as 2000 line_no meaning 2000 notes. I need to compress these notes into one note by case_no, For example case_no 1 could have 2000 lines of notes but my comressed table shoul have only one line containing all 2000 notes in line_no sequence.
my compressed table contains two fields case_no and notetext, notetext is a text field.
here is the script I am trying to use to accomplish the task but it does not append more than 8000 chars in one case, so my notes are chopping of, how should I do this, please let me know of any suggestions..
Thanks.
truncate table eldoecinotescompressed
insert into eldoecinotescompressed (app_code, case_no)
select distinct app_code, substring(system_key, 6,8)
from eldoecinotes
DECLARE @case VARCHAR(20);
DECLARE @note VARCHAR(80);
DECLARE @lineno VARCHAR(5);
DECLARE notes_cursor CURSOR FOR
select substring(system_key, 6,8) case_no, line_no, rtrim(notedata) notedata FROM EldoECINotes
where substring(system_key, 6,8)<>''
order by 1,2;
OPEN notes_cursor;
FETCH NEXT FROM notes_cursor into @case, @lineno, @note;
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
BEGIN
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
update eldoecinotescompressed
set notetext =
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) >= 0 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 1, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 8000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 8001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 16000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 16001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 24000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 24001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 32000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 32001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 40000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 40001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 48000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 48001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 56000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 56001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 64000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 64001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 72000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 72001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 80000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 80001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 88000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 88001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 96000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 96001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 104000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 104001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 112000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 112001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 120000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 120001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 128000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 128001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 136000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 136001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 144000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 144001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 152000 then
substring(isnull(notetext,''), 152001, 8000)
else '' end ) +
(case when isnull(datalength(notetext), 0) > 0 then
char(13) + char(10)
else '' end) +
isnull(@note,'')
where case_no=@case;
commit;
FETCH NEXT FROM notes_cursor into @case, @lineno, @note;
END
CLOSE notes_cursor;
DEALLOCATE notes_cursor;
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