T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Extract Quoted Text Elements From Varchar Column
Nov 18, 2014
I need to extract specific text elements from a varchar column. There are three keywords in any given string: "wfTask," "wfStatus" and "displayReportFromWorkflow." "wfTask" and "wfStatus" can appear multiple times, but always as a pair and will each be followed by by "==" (with or without surrounding spaces). "displayReportFromWorkflow" is always followed by "(" and there can be spaces on either side. The text elements will be between a pair of double quotes, and following one of keywords. For each row, I need to return the task, status and report name.
Output:
rowID, Task, Status, ReportName
----- --------- ------- ------------------------
1, Issuance, Issued, General Permit
2, Issuance, Issued, Capacity Letter Type III
2, Review, Denied, Capacity Letter Type III
I started with a string splitter using the double quote character, referencing elements "i" and "i+1" where the text like '%wfTask%' or '%wfStatus%' or '%displayReportFromWorkflow%', but the case of multiple task/status in a row has confounded me so far.
I am working in an environment where i inherited bad design. I have a column in a table. This col contains huge HTML files. We are mostly reading these files and very little updates.
I am changing this whole architecture and going to using Azure Blob storage. I am stuck right now. I need to extract these html strings and save them into separate files in year/month/day/filename.html format. I have another column in the table which has create date saved in it.
I am planning to import all these files into BLOB storage and save link in the table.
1) How can i extract these strings from the table and save them in the year/month/day/filename.html directory/sub-directory format
What would the syntax be to insert a column to the right of this one, and extract the first 8 digits from the data in the DATEID column and insert that into the new column DATE, therefore making it easier for me to query against an actual date?
I have a stored procedure which returns a count of products and a limited number of rows from a query.
I am using SQL Server 2005 and calling the procedure in asp.net
The procedure is as follows
Code Snippet
GO ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetProductsByCategoryId] @Category VARCHAR(255), @Range INT, @PageIndex INT, @NumRows INT, @CategoryName nvarchar(255) OUTPUT, @CategoryProductCount INT OUTPUT AS
BEGIN
/* Get product count */ SELECT @CategoryProductCount=(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Products LEFT JOIN tblVar on Products.ProductID = tblVar.prodidvar WHERE Products.Category=@Category AND Products.Range=@Range)
/* get full list of products */ With ProductEntries as ( SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY Products.ProductID, tblVar.idvar ASC) as Row, field1, field2 FROM Products LEFT JOIN tblVar on Products.ProductID=tblVar.prodidvar WHERE Range=@Range AND Category = @Category )
/*get only needed rows */ SELECT field1, field2 FROM ProductEntries WHERE Row Between @startRowIndex and @startRowIndex+@NumRows-1
END
The problem seems to be with the line
AND Category = @ Category in the query to make the ProductEntries
If I take this query and run it in an SQL pane I need to enclose the argument for @Category in single quotes. If I try to do this in the procedure it simply searchs for @Category as a string rather than the value of @Category.
The query returns and displays results with no problems without this line, and also if it is returning a result set that has no values in tblVar to join to.
Also if I run the query on just the Products table removing the left join it will return results with no problems.
Thanks to anyone who can help!
And I apologise if it is something simple but asp and SQL Server is not my usual coding platform.
I've got a fairly standard query that does a group by a type column, and then sums the lengths of a VARCHAR column. I'd like to add into that a concatenated version of the string always concatenating in primary key order. Is that possible?
I need to build an XML file with three sibling ComplexType elements, e.g. finance, itinerary and crew details. I can separately build each of them with no problem at all. Below is an example of the finance part, but how to have three within the same XML,?
What I have found so far was only to build one ComplexType, as I did below, but not a combination of them.
WITH finance AS (SELECT 200.12 AS fare, 12.78 AS VAT, 45.5 AS Tax UNION ALL SELECT 150.12 AS fare,
I'm dumping data from a table via BCP and when BCPing them back in to another table, it errors out on numeric and date fields. I'd like to place quote marks on the text fields. How do I do this using BCP?
When I change a column from text to varchar using thedesign view of a table within Enterprise Manager thevarchar value (less than 8000 characters) appears in thecolumn but does SQL Server automatically delete the textvalues from their pages?If not are they removed by routine reindex/defrag orshould I create a new table, import from the text asvarchar and drop the old table to make sure the pagesstoring the original text version of the values aredeleted?..
Cannot use dynamic sql in current context. So need some help regarding this.I am developing a stored procedure to update a table. Sending Column names as parameters, but not able to use them as given below.INSERT INTO Books (@Column1, @Column2) values.. Any way to execute without using dynamic sql?..Thanx.
I am unable to get FTS working where the column to be searched is type varchar(MAX) or Text. I can get this to work if my column to be indexed is some statically assigned array size such as varchar(1000).
For instance this works, and will return all applicable results.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TestHtml](
[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[PageText] [varchar](1000) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_TestHtml] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
SELECT * FROM TestHTML WHERE Contains(PageText, @searchterm);
And this does not. It returns zero results what so ever.
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TestHtml](
[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[PageText] [varchar](MAX) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_TestHtml] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
SELECT * FROM TestHTML WHERE Contains(PageText, @searchterm);
Could someone please tell me what I need to do to enable FTS on varchar(MAX) or Text columns?
Working on partitioning a few large tables. One of the tables included a text column and the €œTEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]€? clause which would prevent the partitioning of this table. After some research we found that the data was legacy and no longer used. We updated the column on the affected rows to NULLS and altered the column to a VARCHAR(20) When I attempted to run the ALTER TABLE SWITCH I encountered the error Msg 4947, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 ALTER TABLE SWITCH statement failed. There is no identical index in source table 'LocalDeltanet.dbo.testresultsjoe' for the index 'PKIDX_testSummary' in target table 'LocalDeltanet.dbo.testresults_part'. After a lot of grief and testing I determined that the message was bogus and the real issue is that the 'sys.tables' still has €œlob_data_space_id€? with a value of 1 for this table. I created a copy of the table with the text column altered to varchar and one with just the varchar to begin with. After copying data from the original table, I tried to run the alter switch. It failed once again for the text column altered to varchar table, but it worked for the varchar from the start.
Since it appears that this value is causing my issues, is there anyway to update the table in place. I know I can BCP the data out, but that would take too long and would defeat the advantage of using the alter switch method.
BOL States:
The allow updates option is still present in the sp_configure stored procedure, although its functionality is unavailable in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (the setting has no effect). In SQL Server 2005, direct updates to the system tables are not supported. This means we cannot update the table manually.
Hello everyone ! I want to perform Full Text Search with SQL Server 2000. My documents (.doc, .xls, .txt, .pdf) are stored in a SQL Server field which is binary (the type of the column is image). I would like to know, how you can extract pieces of text from the documents. Example: I have a ASPX page with codebehind in C# making the search in a table in SQL server that is full text indexed. I make a search looking for the word "peace", than SQL server will take care about the search and return it to me the rows that match with that. But also I'd like to extract the 50 characters before and after where sql server found the word "peace" to show in the result page. Does anyone has any idea how to work around it ? Best regards. Yannick
I have a parameter value as shown below and this is dynamic and can growÂ
Example : 101-NY, 102-CA, 165-GA 116-NY, 258-NJ, 254-PA, 245-DC, 298-AL How do I get the values in the below format NY,CA,GA Â --- each state to be followed with comma and the next state NY,NJ,PA,DC,AL Â --- each state to be followed with comma and the next state
correct query that will fetch  only state names and not the numbers.
I have looked far and wide and have not found anything that works to allow me to resolve this issue.
I am moving data from DB2 using the MS OLEDB Provider for DB2. The OLEDB source sees the column of data as DT_TEXT. I setup a destination to SQL Server 2005 and everything looks good until I try and run the package.
I get the error: [OLE DB Source [277]] Error: An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21. An OLE DB record is available. Source: "Microsoft DB2 OLE DB Provider" Hresult: 0x80040E21 Description: "Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.".
[OLE DB Source [277]] Error: Failed to retrieve long data for column "LIST_DATA_RCVD".
[OLE DB Source [277]] Error: There was an error with output column "LIST_DATA_RCVD" (324) on output "OLE DB Source Output" (287). The column status returned was: "DBSTATUS_UNAVAILABLE".
[OLE DB Source [277]] Error: The "output column "LIST_DATA_RCVD" (324)" failed because error code 0xC0209071 occurred, and the error row disposition on "output column "LIST_DATA_RCVD" (324)" specifies failure on error. An error occurred on the specified object of the specified component.
[DTS.Pipeline] Error: The PrimeOutput method on component "OLE DB Source" (277) returned error code 0xC0209029. The component returned a failure code when the pipeline engine called PrimeOutput(). The meaning of the failure code is defined by the component, but the error is fatal and the pipeline stopped executing.
Any suggestions on how I can get the large string data in the varchar column in DB2 into the varchar(max) column in SQL Server 2005?
I have a column that contains the follwoing string I need to compare.
ek/df/cv/ ek/df/cv/f
All fields bfore the third / are not fixed but behind the third/ is eiter nothing or one letter I need a function to extract all the fields before the third / to compare if they are equal.
I can't do it by using the combination of Substring() and charindex() and Len()
I have followed many tutorials on selecting and replacing text in text fields, varchar fields and char fields, but I have yet to find a single script that will to all 3 based on field type. Let's assume for a moment that I don't know where all in my database a certain value that I need changed resides ... i.e., the data's tablename and fieldname. How would I go about doing the following ... or more importantly, is this even possible in a SQL only procedure?1) Loop over entire database and get all user tables2) Loop over all user tables and get all fields3) Loop over all fields and determine the field type4) switch between field types and change a string of text from 'a' to 'b'Please be gentle, I'm a procedure newb.
I have a long text in 'Quote' column as below and i have to extract Trip Duration, Destination and Base Rate from this text. The ‘Base Rate’ will be repeated throughout the text if there is more than one traveler and I only need the first instance.
Begin Quote Calculation<br /> <br />....<br /> Agent Id: 001<br /> Trip Duration: 5days<br /> Relationship Type: Individual<br />....nDestination: AreaTwo<br /> <br ...../>Resolved Trip Type To: 1 with Trip Subtype: 0<br /> Resolved Relationship: Individual....... /> *Base Rates*<br /> Base Rate: 6.070000<br />.....Resolved Trip Type To: 2 with Trip Subtype: 0<br /> Resolved Relationship: Individual....... /> *Base Rates*<br /> Base Rate: 9.070000<br />.....
Result
Trip Duration: 5 days Destination: AreaTwo Base Rate: 6.070000
I need to pull certain text from a large varchar field with up to 2 GB-per-instance capacity based on COCustServ
Example Entry: 'KSAUNDERS COCustServ 4/11/2006 5:58:31 PM -- patient called to verify exp date based on letter he received. SJOY RN 3/27/2006 3:46:56 PM -- Test Ordered: 70460/36yof MANTHONY COCustServ 3/27/2006 4:52:58 PM -- site called to chk sts.'
I will need to pull text in two seperate columns before COCustServ (username) and after COCustServ (date) which could appear multiple times in the same entry. In this case I will need to pull
What I am trying to do, Extract the data from SQL table and Insert in Email Body and email to user. I got good article on Internet, I follow all steps as it is, but still I am getting error.
Here is the link : [URL] ....
But I am getting Error:
Error: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.FormatException: Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list. at System.Text.StringBuilder.AppendFormat(IFormatProvider provider, String format, Object[] args) at System.String.Format(IFormatProvider provider, String format, Object[] args) at ST_7f59d09774914001b60a99a90809d5c5.csproj.ScriptMain.Main()
First of all I am a novice here. I am working on a table with a column of URL. I want to seperate the data in the URL delimited by '/'. Eg: http://www.simpletech.com/upgrades/aopen/s661fxm/s661fxmintelp4/
Here I want aopen as manufacturer, s661fxm as model_number and intelp4 as submodel_number. I solved this problem in Oracle using substring and instring. But I have no ides how to achieve this in SQL server. Please..advice me. Thanks in advance.
Hi all,I've the following scenario: One Full Text Search enabled SQL Server Table with one image type field that holds document uploaded from users.The idea is to store binary document(.doc. xls, .pdf, .ppt, html, .xml and so on) and using SQL server full text search i can retrieve record that contains certaind word or words.I have no problems with them. So imagine i do a simple select * from Documents where a=b and i get one collumn with binary document field.With this scenario, i want to "extract" that text from that document + 20 words left and 20 right to show user some info and help him to search desired document (not only for its type or title). Like search engines do.But believe me, i cant find out any component, class or something to do such a thing.I think, the hard work is done with full text search engine...Sql server has that data, but it can decodeI'm so desperate. I would accept answers such "sorry, it can't be done", from a experienced user, but i need to know Thanks in advance
