This is obviously a radical idea but some actually DO want to store linefeeds in varchar columns.
In MySQL I can escape difficult characters for example
INSERT INTO sometable(address) VALUES("23 SomeRoad
SomeTown
SomeCounty");
Does anyone know how to do this in Transact SQL?
Hi,
I have a varchar(10) field in one of the sql2005 table. most of the data will be in the format of
xxxxx{yyyyy}
zzzz{eeeeee}
like above values i am storing into the column. Now i want to use only the value which is inside the brackets { }. Values inside the brackets are not fixed length but allways we use the brackets.
Please let me know if you have any idea.
I tried using the right(value,4).,.. but this is only for the fixed size. but like i said my situation is different length.please let me know if you have any idea.
Thank
-Dil
When I run the code below, SELECT LEN(@mytext) prints 300 as expected.Yet SELECT @mytext only prints the first 256 characters.Isn't varchar supposed to have up to 8000? Is there something from thediscrete math class I am forgetting here? Sorry, that was over 10 yearsago.DECLARE @mytext varchar(500)SELECT @mytext = '1111111111'select @mytext = @mytext + '2222222222'select @mytext = @mytext + '3333333333'select @mytext = @mytext + '4444444444'select @mytext = @mytext + '5555555555'select @mytext = @mytext + '6666666666'select @mytext = @mytext + '7777777777'select @mytext = @mytext + '8888888888'select @mytext = @mytext + '9999999999'select @mytext = @mytext + '0000000000'select @mytext = @mytext + '1111111111'select @mytext = @mytext + '2222222222'select @mytext = @mytext + '3333333333'select @mytext = @mytext + '4444444444'select @mytext = @mytext + '5555555555'select @mytext = @mytext + '6666666666'select @mytext = @mytext + '7777777777'select @mytext = @mytext + '8888888888'select @mytext = @mytext + '9999999999'select @mytext = @mytext + '0000000000'select @mytext = @mytext + '1111111111'select @mytext = @mytext + '2222222222'select @mytext = @mytext + '3333333333'select @mytext = @mytext + '444444444'select @mytext = @mytext + '5555555555'select @mytext = @mytext + '6666666666'select @mytext = @mytext + '7777777777'select @mytext = @mytext + '8888888888'select @mytext = @mytext + '9999999999'select @mytext = @mytext + '0000000000'SELECT LEN(@mytext)SELECT @mytext*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
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Hi,
I had a VARCHAR(MAX) parameter declared in my stored procedure and trying to concatenat single column from a table which has~500 rows into a string and keep in this variable, if i am not mistaken, i read that the VARCHAR(MAX) actually can hold up to 2GB of data, so it make me confuse why the variable which i declared as MAX size, can only hold up 8000 characters, any idea?
Regards,
Derek
I am trying to use this:
INSERT INTO BizNames ( [Key], [Name] ) VALUES ( 0, 'Bob's Lumber' );
The apostrophe embedded in the name value is giving me headaches. I tried using double-quotes and [] to delineate the value but then I get complaints that a "Name" is not allowed in this context.
How do you turn the embedded characters into an escape character so they can be ignored by SQL Server and passed into the table field.
Hello all,I have a field defined as VARCHAR(8000) yet it only accepts a maximum of 1024 characters. Does anyone know how I can save 8000 characters in a single field?Thanks,Bill.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi all,
I have a strange situation. I have a field in the database that has to be a string type field of around 4000 characters.
So naturally I setup the field as
type: varchar
length: 4000
However when I try to put any text in this field I find that I can put no more than 1023 characters of ascii text in there.
To check if this was a max record length prob I setup a test table with only 2 fields:
ID: int, PK, Identity
longVarchar: varchar, 4000
and tried to put some ascii text into the field called longVarchar. Again the most I could put in was 1023 characters!
Thinking that it could just be that SQL svr box that was wacky, I tried it on another one with the same result.
I have tried using other field types (nvarchar, char) and have found that they all could only hold 1023 characters max, no matter what how high I defined the size of the field.
Try it out yourselves and see if you get the same result. Any useful suggestions would really be appreciated.
Hopefully, someone can help me.
I am working with a database that contains multiple fields within the tables that are being used for Clinical notes. The fields are defined as VARCHAR(3500). But when I try to extract data (either through Query Analyzer or Crystal Reports), only the first 256 characters are displayed. I ran a query to give me the length of the maximum entry size which returned 2722 characters, yet only 256 are displayed.
How do I go about extracting ALL of the data from this field? Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I will try to explain this the best I can and even include the code. I have the following:
DECLARE @x XML
SELECT @x =cast(bulkcolumn as XML)
FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'C:databasexmldtdyahoostore3.xml', SINGLE_BLOB) AS x
USE yahoostore
-- create a table variable
CREATE TABLE PRODUCTS (ProductID VARCHAR(255), Code varchar(255), ProductDesc VARCHAR(255), Url VARCHAR(255),
Orderable varchar(255), Taxable varchar(255), HTMLPath varchar(255),
Caption varchar(255), Thumb varchar(255), Picture varchar(255),
BasePrice varchar(255), LocalizedBasePrice varchar(255), OriginalPrice varchar(255), LocalizedOriginalPrice varchar(255),
SalePrice varchar(255), LocalizedSalePrice varchar(255),
Availability varchar(255), Weight varchar(255), OptionLists varchar(255))
INSERT INTO Products (ProductID, Code, ProductDesc, Url, Orderable, Taxable, HTMLPath,
Caption, Thumb, Picture, BasePrice, LocalizedBasePrice, OriginalPrice, LocalizedOriginalPrice,
SalePrice, LocalizedSalePrice, Availability, Weight, OptionLists)
SELECT
x.value('@Id[1]','varchar(255)') AS id,
x.value('Code[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') AS code,
x.value('Description[1]','VARCHAR(255)') as description,
x.value('Url[1]','VARCHAR(255)') as url,
x.value('Orderable[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') AS orderable,
x.value('Taxable[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') AS taxable,
x.value('Path[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') as htmlpath,
x.value('Caption[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') as caption,
x.value('Thumb[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') AS thumb,
x.value('Picture[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') AS picture,
x.value('(Pricing/BasePrice)[1]', 'MONEY') AS baseprice,
x.value('(Pricing/LocalizedBasePrice)[1]', 'MONEY') AS localizedbaseprice,
x.value('(Pricing/OriginalPrice)[1]', 'MONEY') AS originalprice,
x.value('(Pricing/LocalizedOrignalPrice)[1]', 'MONEY') AS localizedoriginalprice,
x.value('(Pricing/SalePrice)[1]', 'MONEY') AS saleprice,
x.value('(Pricing/LocalizedSalePrice)[1]', 'MONEY') AS localizedsaleprice,
x.value('Availability[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') AS availability,
x.value('Weight[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') AS weight,
x.value('OptionLists[1]', 'VARCHAR(255)') as optionlist
FROM @x.nodes('/StoreExport/Products/Product') s(x)
--SELECT * FROM Products
This workings fine, but when I add it to the server agent to run nightly it fails.
The only thing I see for the error is:
Message
Executed as user: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM. INSERT failed because the following SET options have incorrect settings: 'QUOTED_IDENTIFIER'. Verify that SET options are correct for use with indexed views and/or indexes on computed columns and/or query notifications and/or xml data type methods. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 1934). The step failed.
Can some one explain what happened and how to fix this
Dee
Hi all,
I want to know how SQL Server deals with it if I imput unicode characters into a varchar column? Will it truncate or do something else?
Thanks!
I have a hungarian character which looks like a lower case o with two single quotes on top of it --> Å‘
I have this character stored in two table the datatype of the column where this is stored at is varchar in one table and nvarchar in the other. When I try to view the field in enterprise manager the character appears as it should in the 2 tables, but when I use a jsp page deployed on weblogic to look at this character the one stored in the column of type varchar displays perfectly, but the table in which the column is nvarchar the character on the jsp page appears as a Q instead.
Any inputs on how to correct this issue will be much appreciated. Any changes to the character set on the html / jsp pages has no affect on the result.
Thanks,
Manisha
Hello,I would like to create more lines by concatenating values.When I use: <select 'This' + ' ' + 'is' + ' ' + 'an' + ' ' +'example'> the result is <This is an example> (on the same line).I woul like to get:<Thisisanexample> (each 'word' on a new line, but in 1 field)Whis SQL statement do i have to use?
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Thanks in advance..
Is there a way to have a memo field in a table that is larger than 255 characters? I like to have a memo field of of about 1000 characters of text.
Thanks,
Jim
Div writes "I have 8 columns consisting of 1 letter each.I want to be able to count the number of times that the letter 'a' or 'b' until 'z' occurs in one record. For example, for record number 1, the following information is available:
Column 1: a
Column 1: k
Column 1: t
Column 1: s
Column 1: a
Column 1: d
Column 1: d
Column 1: k
I want to be able to see that for this record there are 2 occurences of 'a',2 occurences of 'k', 1 occurence of 't', etc.
Please help!!
I'm using SQL Version 8.0 and Windows XP Professional.
Thank you!
Divya"
I have an issue where I am storing various international characters in nvarchar columns, but need to branch the data at one point of processing so that ASCII characters are run through an additional cleansing process and all non-ASCII characters are set aside.
Is there a way to identify which nvarchar values are within the ASCII range and can be converted to varchar without corruption? Also, the strings may contain a mix of english and international character sets, so the entire string must be checked and not just the first character.
i.e.
Pass:
'Hello', 'abc123'
Fail:
'太平市', 'abc太123'
I have a table that imported as varchar. Most of these columns need to be in a numerical format. How can I convert a table with columns named column0 (needs to be int),column1 (stays varchar), column2(needs to be int), and column 3(needs to be int)?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm attempting to use T-SQL to strictly parse/pull Names from a string field like such: CN=John Doe,OU=xyz,DC=ituy,DC=qwer,DC=org...I would like the ultimate result to be JUST the full name John Doe (pretty much everything after the first = sign and before the first comma. I'm attempting combinations of REPLACE, STUFF, PATINDEX and SUBSTRING, but to no avail.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHi all,
I'm new at this SSIS but have been able to successfully create some simple packages. My situation is that at work we use a column to describe a status of applications. However, this makes for hellacious query because some of those statuses inherintly were one or more statuses previously. Example
Admit = Admit
Accept = Admit then Accept
Withdraw Accept = Admit, Accept, then Withdraw
Decline = Admit then Decline
As you can see inherintly those were all admits at one point. So what I'd like to do is instead of having long queries for example to get all my "Admits", I'd rather query another table that has the following columns as bits:
Admit
Accept
Withdraw
That way I can query the admit column and get all my admits. How can I use SSIS to transform my "Decision" column into those bit columns?
Thanks for any help or suggestions you have.
Hello,
I have a table with a column that is currently a varchar(50), but I want to convert it into an int. When I try to just change the type in design mode I get an error that conversion cannot proceed. When I look at the field it appears some of the entries have special characters appended at the end, I see a box after the value.
How can I remove all speical characters and then convert that field to an int?
Also I tried the following query which did not work as well, same error about conversion.
UPDATE myTable SET field = CAST(field AS int)
Hi guys,
Is there a way to declare a default value of empty string '' for a varchar table column?
Thanks,Kevin
I have a table on two different servers, the only difference that I can see is that on server A columns first (varchar 32) and last (varchar 32) have ANSI_PADDING set ON and on server B those columns are OFF. No idea why this is true: I didn't specify that the table be set up this way and they both followed similar creation/upgrade paths.
I execute "select last+first from <table>" on server A and the result looks like:
<last1> <first1>
<last2> <first2>
...
On server B I get
<last1><first1>
<last2><first2>
Now the docs say ANSI_PADDING has nothing to do with this behavior; in fact if I copy the data on server B to 2 new columns with ANSI_PADDING ON I get the same results. But that's the *only* thing that was different in syscolumns. What is causing the different output behaviors on these two servers? Thanks.
I have an application with highly compressable strings (gzip encodingusually does somewhere between 20-50X reduction.) My base 350MBdatabase is mostly made up of these slowly (or even static) strings. Iwould like to compress these so that my disk I/O and memory footprintis greatly reduced.Some databases have the ability to provide a compressedtable, compressed column, or provide a user defined function tocompress an indvidual Field with a user defined function[ala. COMPRESS() and DECOMPRESS() ].I could right a UDF with an extended prodcedure if I need to but I'mwondering if there are any other known methods to do this in MS SQLServer 2000 today?--Frederick Staatsfrederick dot w dot staats at intel dot com (I hate junk mail :-)
View 6 Replies View RelatedPart 1: When there is ~ (tilde) and has any value after it then it goes into a new row and duplicating the other columns like the facility in the screenshot attached and new column having the sequence.
Part 2: When there is ^ (Caret) its a new column irrespective of a value present or not
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Equipment](
[EQU] [VARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
[Notes] [TEXT] NULL,
[Facility] [VARCHAR](50) NULL)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Equipment] ([EQU] ,[Notes] ,[Facility])
SELECT '1001','BET I^BOBBETT,DAN^1.0^REGULAR^22.09^22.090~BET II^^^REGULAR^23.56^0~','USA' union
SELECT '998','BET I^JONES, ALANA^0.50^REGULAR^22.09^11.0450~BET II^^^REGULAR^23.56^0~','Canada' UNION
select '55','BET I^SLADE,ADAM F.^1.5^REGULAR^27.65^41.475~','USA'
SELECT * FROM dbo.Equipment
I created the table in excel and attached the screenshot for a clear picture as to what is required. I use text to Columns in excel to achieve this not sure if there is anything similar in sql.
We have a customer that is running SQL2012 and we are seeing a weird result on a query when we run it on their db. It is based off of a table that has about 30 columns but in this case we only care about 2 of them.
[Number] [varchar](15) NOT NULL
[Person_ID] [varchar](12) NULL
Here is the query we are doing:
Select Number,Person_ID From TableName where LP='ABC123'
The result I get back is the following:
Number:1
Person_ID:13864
The Person_ID should be a result of another table that created that Person_ID but it doesn't exist in that table. So we do not know where that 13864 is coming from. When we open that record through our application it shows Nothing for the Person_ID in that field.
When we do this query on our copy we get back
Number:1
Person_ID:
Which is exactly what we should see as the result.
Could there be a sql server setting that is set on their server that could possibly be given us back 13864 for a NULL value?
Hi,This is probably an easy question for someone so any help would beappreciated.I have changed the columns in a table that where nvarchar to the samesize of type varchar so halve the space needed for them.I have done this a) becuase this is never going to be an internationalapplication, b) we are running out of space and c) there are 100million rows.I have done this with the alter table statement which seems to work butthe space used in the database hasn't altered.I'm presuming that the way the records are structured within the tablethere is just now more space free inbetween each page???Is there a way or re-shrinking just an individual table and free upsome of the space in there or am i missing the point somewhere?Thanks in advance,Ian
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an encrypted column of data that is encrypted by a passphrase. The passphrase was encrypted by a symetric key in a key pair. The passphrase also is stored in a table. I can get the passphrase as needed to encrypt/decrypt the columns. I copied the production database to a new database for development. Subsequently I had to create a new symmetric/asymmetic key pair and recreated my passphrase with the new key pair. Now the passphrase will decrypt a text column but it will not decrypt two other columns which are of type varchar in the database. Here is an example:
DECLARE @pss varchar(30)
EXEC [dbo].[uspPassPhraseGet] @pss OUTPUT
SELECT DISTINCT contactid, uissueid, createdby, created_dt
,CONVERT(varchar(max),DecryptByPassPhrase(@pss, CONVERT(varchar(max),dbo.tbl_msg_app_legislativeinquiry.title), 1, CONVERT(varbinary, 23))) as title
,CONVERT(varchar(max),DecryptByPassPhrase(@pss, CONVERT(varchar(max),dbo.tbl_msg_app_legislativeinquiry.description), 1, CONVERT(varbinary, 23))) as description
,CONVERT(varchar(max),DecryptByPassPhrase(@pss, CONVERT(varchar(max),dbo.tbl_msg_app_legislativeinquiry.shortdesc), 1, CONVERT(varbinary, 23))) as shortdesc,
closed_dt, confidential, statusid, due_dt, deleted_dt,deletedbyid, highrisk, dbo.tbl_msg_app_legislativeinquiry.designator, dbo.tbl_ref_sys_status.description AS statusdesc
FROM dbo.tbl_msg_app_legislativeinquiry INNER JOIN
dbo.tbl_ref_sys_status ON statusid = dbo.tbl_ref_sys_status.ustatusid INNER JOIN
dbo.tbl_gbl_lkp_security ON uissueid = dbo.tbl_gbl_lkp_security.msgid AND
dbo.tbl_msg_app_legislativeinquiry.designator = dbo.tbl_gbl_lkp_security.designator
Like I said I can execute the uspPassPhraseGet stored procedure and I get my passphrase. It will correctly decrypt the dbo.tbl_msg_app_legislativeinquiry.description field which is great but the other two fields will not decrypt. When i copied the database over the encrypted fields do not display the same on the new database. The old database shows a box character followed by a bunch of junk (as expected). The new copied table on the new database shows only a single box (not the same as the original). Is there a known bug with copying a table with varchar fields that are encrypted to a new database? I tried to run a test and got the same result. I also tried to convert the varchar columns to text to see if that solved the problem and it didn't. The description field however is a text type column and it reads exactly as the original. The problem I think is that the Copy Database didn't actually copy my data correctly. How can I get the original encrypted data from the production into my development. I also tried just dropping the table and reimporting the table but that didnt take either. Scratching my head on this one.
I know that if I have an nvarchar column I can use an equality like = N'supersqlstring' so it doesn't implicit cast as a varchar, like if I were to do ='supersqlstring'. And then I'll be a big SQL hero and all my stored procedures will run before a millisecond can whisper.
But if I'm comparing an nvarchar column to a varchar column, is it better to cast the varchar 'up' to an nvarchar or cast the nvarchar 'down' to a varchar?
For instance:
cast(a.varchar as nvarchar(100)) = an.nvarchar
or
cast(an.nvarchar as varchar(100)) = a.varchar
Leaving aside non-matching, like (at least I don't think) that SQL considers the varchar n to be equal to the nvarchar Å„, what's the best way to handle this?
Pretend for a moment that each column contains a mixed letter and number ID with no accented or wiggly-squiggly Unicode characters; it's just designs clashing.
Is there a performance hitch doing it one way or another? Should I use COLLATE? Should one of the columns be altered?
-- My first Data
create table #myfirst (id int, city varchar(20))
insert into #myfirst values (500,'Newyork')
insert into #myfirst values (100,'Ediosn')
insert into #myfirst values (200,'Atlanta')
insert into #myfirst values (300,'Greenwoods')
insert into #myfirst values (400,'Hitchcok')
insert into #myfirst values (700,'Walmart')
insert into #myfirst values (800,'Madida')
-- My Second Data
create table #mySecond (id int, city varchar(20),Sector varchar(2))
insert into #mySecond values (1500,'Newyork','MK')
insert into #mySecond values (5500,'Ediosn','HH')
insert into #mySecond values (5060,'The Atlanta','JK')
insert into #mySecond values (7500,'The Greenwoods','DF')
insert into #mySecond values (9500,'Metro','KK')
insert into #mySecond values (3300,'Kilapr','MK')
insert into #mySecond values (9500,'Metro','NH')
--Third Second Data
create table #myThird (id int, city varchar(20),Sector varchar(2))
insert into #myThird values (33,'Walmart','PP')
insert into #myThird values (20,'Ediosn','DD')
select f.*,s.Sector from #myfirst f join #mySecond s on f.city = s.city
/*
idcitySector
500NewyorkMK
100EdiosnHH
*/
i have doubt on two things
1) How Can i compare the City names, by eliminating 'The ' at the beginning (if there is any in second tale city) between first and second
2) after comparing first and second if there is no match found in second them want to compare with third table values for those not found
--i tried below to solve first doubt, it is working but want to know any other wasys to do it
select f.*,s.Sector from #myfirst f join #mySecond s on replace (f.city, 'THE ','')= replace (s.city, 'THE ','')
--Expected results wull be
create table #ExpectResults (id int, city varchar(20),Sector varchar(2))
insert into #ExpectResults values (200,'Atlanta','JK')
insert into #ExpectResults values (100,'Ediosn','HH')
insert into #ExpectResults values (300,'Greenwoods','DF')
insert into #ExpectResults values (500,'Newyork','MK')
insert into #ExpectResults values (700, 'Walmart','PP')
insert into #ExpectResults values (800, 'Madidar','')
[code]....
I have a string which I need to know where it came from in a database.I don't want to spend time coding this so is there a ready made scriptwhich takes a string as a parameter and searches all the tables whichcontain varchar type columns and searches these columns and indicate whichtables contain that string?Full text search is not enabled.--Tonyhttp://dotNet-Hosting.com - Super low $4.75/month.Single all inclusive features plan with MS SQL Server, MySQL 5, ASP.NET,PHP 5 & webmail support.
View 1 Replies View Relateddeclare @var varchar(8000)
set @var='Name1~50~20~50@Name2~25.5~50~63@Name3~30~80~43@Name4~60~80~23'
---------------------
Create table #tmp(id int identity(1,1),Name varchar(20),Value1 float,Value2 float,Value3 float)
Insert into #tmp (Name,Value1,Value2,Value3)
Values ('Name1',50,20,50 ), ('Name2',25.5,50,63 ), ('Name3',30,80,43 ), ('Name4',60,80,23)
select * from #tmp
I want to convert to @var to same like #tmp table ..
"@" - delimiter goes to rows
"~" - delimiter goes to columns
In my application I must store over 16000 character in a sql table field . When I split into more than 1 field it gives "unclosed quotation mark" message.
How can I store over 16000 characters to sql table field (only one field) with language specific characters?
Thanks
Hi everybody,
I would like to know if there is any property in sql2000 database to separate lowercase characters from uppercase characters. I mean not to take the values €˜child€™ and €˜Child€™ as to be the same. We are transferring our ingres database into sqlserver. In ingres we have these values but we consider them as different values. Can we have it in sqlserver too?
Hellen