I am working with a large amount of text data in a single column. I am in the process of pumping that column of data into a delimited text file. The data in the column has new line characters that I need to remove. I need to data to be in a single line in the text file.
So far the things that I have tried are not working. What I try for removing the new line characters?
I am trying to replace all special characters in a column with one special character.
Example:
Table: dbo.Employee
Column: Name
Name
-------
edwardneuman!"<]
mikemoreno)'>$:
JeffJensen"?>"
I am trying to get the namepart to the left of ANY special character. To achieve this, I am thinking of replacing all the special characters with a single special character so that I can find the first occurrence of that special character and grab left of the special character (SUBSTRING/CHARINDEX). This way I don't need to loop through all the special characters.
I am expecting the following results:
Name
-------
edwardneuman<<<<
mikemoreno<<<<<
JeffJensen<<<<
There is a table [Formula_Calc] with formula calculations that need to be replaced with relevant values based on another table [Totals]
[Totals]
RowNo|Total
F1|240
F2|160
F3|180
F11|1000
F12|1500
F13|2000
For example we've got a row from [Formula_Calc] table 'F1+F3' as a string that needs to be transformed as 240+160=400
The below code works for the above example but if I pick 'F11+F3' instead , returns 2561 which comes from 2401+16.
Probably replaces F1 value instead of F11 and adds 1st digit (1) if I got it right ...
DECLARE @formula NVARCHAR(100);
DECLARE @Total NVARCHAR(100);
SET @formula = 'F11+F3';
SELECT @formula = REPLACE(@formula,RowNo,Total)
FROM [Totals]
SET @Total='select '+@formula
EXECUTE sp_executesql @Total;
PRINT @Total;
I’m getting ASCII characters in one column of my table. So I want to replace same column value in NON ASCII characters.
Note – values in column must be same
Hi All,
I have a column in one of my tables and I need to display only Alphabets and Numbers of this column, preferably in one single query.
Eg: Column Value --> This is 4th value with no *, &, # symbols.
I want this to be displayed as
Thisis4thvaluewithnosymbols
(All spaces and characters other than alphabets and numerics are gone)
Pleas help.
Thanks
I've got a lot of %20 characters in my tables, and need to remove them however I get the error:
Argument data type ntext is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.
My Code:
UPDATE cmsPropertyData
SET dataNtext = REPLACE(dataNtext,'%20','')
WHERE cmsPropertyData.contentNodeId = 1151
Still new to SQL and having fun learning it. Here's my latest question.
I have a table 'Fields' that has a column named 'label'.
In label, I have values like 'Total Number of Orders'
I want to replace the text Number with a #. How can I do that for all records that contain 'Number'?
Thanks
Hi,
I am populating a dataset in .net with output from sql 2005 database. One of the columns in the table is a 'varchar(max)' type. This dataset is then converted to XML using WriteXml and written to a .xml document. But due to the presence of invalid characters, this process errors out.
Is there any way using which these invalid characters can be replaced at the database level itself when querying on the table?
The error that is produced is as follows:
' ', hexadecimal value 0x1C, is an invalid character. Line 32201, position 924.
Thanks,
Nisha
need help
replace characters on condition in table and cells
but only if
if i put number or 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 above the cell of the eployee for example( employee id=222 name =bbbb day1)
i replace characters with '0' and '#'
and it must work dynamically AND replace ONLY THIS characters
table before the replace
id fname val day1 day11 day111 day2 day22 day222
------------------------------------------------------
111 aaaa 2 1 3
111 aaaa 1 A C
222 bbbb 2
222 bbbb 1
333 cccc 2
333 cccc 1
444 dddd 2
444 dddd 1
555 eeee 2 2
555 eeee 1 B
table after the replace
id fname val day1 day11 day111 day2 day22 day222
------------------------------------------------------
111 aaaa 2 0 0
111 aaaa 1 # #
222 bbbb 2
222 bbbb 1
333 cccc 2
333 cccc 1
444 dddd 2
444 dddd 1
555 eeee 2 0
555 eeee 1 #
tnx FOR THE HELP
i need to find and all special characters and replace with space.
Following query works well for me to finding all rows having special char.
SELECT DESC FROM TBL_DESC
WHERE DESC LIKE '%[^A-Z0-9 ]%'
replacing special char with space . i need to remove special chars only.
need help
condition 1
replace characters on condition in table and cells
but only if
how to do it - if i put * (asterisk) like in employee 111 in day1 - the the upper characters the (A S B)
i replace characters with '-'
and it must work dynamically
condition 2
replace characters on condition in table and cells
but only if
if i put number or 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 above any cell for example( employee id=222 name =bbbb day1)
i replace characters with '0' and '#'
and it must work dynamically
table before the replace
id
fname
val
day1
day11
day111
day2
day22
day222
day3
day33
day333
day4
day44
day444
day5
day55
day555
111
aaaa
2
A
S
B
e
t
y
R
Y
M
j
o
p
111
aaaa
1
*
*
*
*
222
bbbb
2
1
1
222
bbbb
1
A
-
-
-
B
-
333
cccc
2
333
cccc
1
444
dddd
2
3
4
444
dddd
1
-
-
C
C
555
EEE
2
A
G
C
555
EEE
1
*
table after the replace
id
fname
val
day1
day11
day111
day2
day22
day222
day3
day33
day333
day4
day44
day444
day5
day55
day555
111
aaaa
2
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
111
aaaa
1
null
null
null
null
222
bbbb
2
0
0
222
bbbb
1
#
-
-
-
#
-
333
cccc
2
333
cccc
1
444
dddd
2
0
0
444
dddd
1
-
-
#
#
555
EEE
2
-
-
-
555
EEE
1
null
tnx for the help
Hi !
Im having trouble storing newline characters in my varchars so that when I INSERT something like this ...
"one
two
three"
... it doesnt get displayed as "onetwothree" when I get it back out of the database ?
How can I get this kind of functionality ?
Many thanks for your replies, I'm sure this must be pretty simple. Im using SQLServer 2005 and PHP.
I want to replace special characters and space except '-' Tried with Pathindex and function but not getting expected results.
Ex: Input kjkdjfdf-234#kei$ ewiw
output: kjkdjfdf-234keiewiw
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bcp worked with password in normal characters, but failed with {;"
I tried for SQL 2005 and SQL 2000, from Window 2003 SP1. Is this a bug?
When the special character { was used in the password, bcp failed with Native error 0.
>>
F:ftplogCases>bcp "sem5.sem5.server_system_log_1" in server_system_log_1.dat
-n -Smodonald -Usem5 -P{
SQLState = 08001, NativeError = 0
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Neither DSN nor SERVER keyword supplied
SQLState = 01S00, NativeError = 0
Warning = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid connection string attribute
>>
When the special character ; or " was used in the password, bcp failed with Native error 18456.
>>
F:ftplogCases>bcp "sem5.sem5.server_system_log_1" in server_system_log_1.dat
-n -Smodonald -Usem5 -P;
SQLState = 28000, NativeError = 18456
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'sem5'.
F:ftplogCases>bcp "sem5.sem5.server_system_log_1" in server_system_log_1.dat
-n -Smodonald -Usem5 -P"
SQLState = 28000, NativeError = 18456
Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'sem5'.
>>
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[instructions](
[site_no] [int] NOT NULL,
[instructions] [text] NULL
)
Select top 3 * from instructions
Output
Site_no Instructions
20 Request PIN#510 then proceed
21 Request PIN#987 if wrong request name
22 Request PIN#688 allowed to use only numbers
All text instructions start with “Request PIN#XXX” also after that the text are different for every site_no
I need insert in all site_no rows and after the “Request PIN#XXX” the text “and codeword” keeping the current rest of text
How can I set e REPLACE CAST sentence using something LIKE PIN%%%%
To get these type of results
site_no instructions
----------- ----------------------------------------------------
20 Request PIN#510 and codeword then proceed
21 Request PIN#987 and codeword if wrong request name
22 Request PIN#688 and codeword allowed to use only numbers
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We have over 200 variants of the above, but following the same syntax (@step_name, Dbname, @Command etc...
Rules:
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The table is holding the path like this "/folder/folder/file"
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In my Select statement I have
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I have data like below
Potter, James J
Williams, Ted R
Allen, Gary G
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Potter, James
Williams, Ted
Allen, Gary
My Query:
SELECT
CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, 0) + 1) > 0 THEN
REPLACE(Supervisor, SUBSTRING(Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, 0) + 1), LEN(Supervisor)), '')
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easy way to extract a substring that is between 2 characters?
Example string: 123n_abcn_123n
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[Code] ....
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For Example:
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I have a table with code and description as below
create table isin_code
(
code varchar(5),
code_desc varchar(255)
)
go
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go
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go
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go
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I have 2 tables ... order table (shipping city and destination city) and a referential city table:
1:New York
2:Chicago
3:Atlanta
etc...
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;with srcemkt as
(
select ID, OrderNumber, b.MarketCenterCity as 'SourceMKT',
from Orders as a
join MarketCity as b
[Code] .....
I have a table which has been import from a TXT file. Most lines can be ignored, but when I get a line like this
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I am using SQL Server 2008. In one of my table, one column has values like
"MFY RLHH CSQÉ"
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I want to remove special characters from a string in sql like <?> in a column value in a table.
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Example SQL data
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[AlwaysInclude] [bit] NOT NULL)
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING OFF
[code]....
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eg. I need to update Notification column in my table as below.
Exit Formalities Notification sent to:
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