I am developing for a customer and they want a search facility that uses boolean logic and special characters. So they want to be able to add "AND" "OR" "NOT" "*" and "?". And for this to effect the search in the predicted way and ranked. I was wondering if there is any examples of this type of search implemented?Â
View 3 RepliesI am creating a key-wording module where I want to search data using the comma separated words.And the search is categorized into comma ',' and minus '-'. Take a look on the example what I exactly want to do is
I have a main table name `tbl_main` in SQL
AS_ID KWD
1 Man,Businessman,Business,Office,confidence,arms crossed
2 Man,Businessman,Business,Office,laptop,corridor,waiting
3 man,business,mobile phone,mobile,phone
4 Welcome,Greeting,beautiful,bride,celebration,wedding,woman,happiness
5 beautiful,bride,wedding,woman,happiness,mobile phone,talking
6 woman,girl,Digital Tablet,working,sitting,online
7 woman,girl,Digital Tablet,working,smiling,happiness,hand on chin
If serch text is = Man,Businessman then result AS_ID is =1,2
If serch text is = Man,-Businessman then result AS_ID is =3
If serch text is = woman,girl,-Working then result AS_ID is =4,5
What is the best why to do this?
I'm just wonder if this is a bug in MS Search or am I doing something wrong.
I have a query below
declare @search_clause varchar(255)
set @Search_Clause = ' "hepatitis b" and "hepatocellular carcinoma"'
select * from results
where contains(finding,@search_clause)
I don't get the correct result at all.
If I change my search_clause to "hepatitis" and "hepatocellular carcinoma -- without the "b"
then i get the correct result.
It seems MS Search doesn't like the phrase contain one letter or some sort or is it a know bug?
Anyone know?
Thanks
to reference columns.
i have a table that has a column that is repeated 25 times, sort of.
table_1
tbl_ID (PK)
tbl_c_1 char 5
tbl_c_2 char 5
tbl_c_3 char 5
tbl_c_4 char 5
tbl_c_5 char 5
....
tbl_c_25 char 5
everytime i want to query for any of tbl_c_? that contain a specific value i have to reference all 25 in my query. is there a better way?
I cannot change the table.
Hi guys,
I have a gridview and textbox. I can filter the grid just fine with the textbox, but I would like to allow the user to type in part of a name.
I thought something like this would work but it doesn't:
Emp_Name LIKE '%'+@Emp_Name+'%'
Thank you.
Hi
First interaction to the forum.
My Query is :
I had a User Management module in my application where I created a user with name
`~!@#$@%^&*()[_]+|}{":?><-=[[]];',./
Now I have a functionality to search for the user existing. For that give the search string or a single character and it finds out all the records containing the character.
How do I go about it as the SP i created for it gives correct results except the following
1. Search for % - Gives all record
2. Search for _ - Gives all records
3. Search for [ - Gives NO record
4. Search for the whole string - Gives NO Record
I handeled a few issues
1. replaced [ by [[]
2. replaced _ by [_]
So issues 2 & 3 are resolved.
Tried replacing % by [%] but did not work
Could someone plz help
Thanks in advance
Ashutosh
I'm very new to SQL so please forgive my ignorance...
I've made a simple .net search page which queries an sql database with the following query, (in a stored procedure):
SELECT Category, Number, RegisteredUser, DeptName, Surname, Forename, Site, IDFROM tblTelephonesWHERE (@surname IS NULL OR Surname LIKE @surname) AND (@site IS NULL OR Site = @site) AND (@deptname IS NULL OR DeptName LIKE @deptname)
This works fine, as expected if i leave fields null or enter an exact match, but I (of course) have to add a wildcard in my search string for a wildcard search. For example, looking for 'duncan' i need to enter 'du%' or 'duncan'.
What I really want is for all searches to have wildcards behind them so only the first few characters need be inputted, and I could just search for 'd' or 'dun' without adding the '%' to get 'duncan'. I think I am aware of the implications of this approach and do want to go ahead as there are only about 850 records.
Any help or links to useful articles would really be greatly appreciated.
Hi all, I am currently using SQL Server 2000and am having some issues when searching a CHAR column and using the WildCard character '%'. The problem is that when I use this WildCard character, the results returned (if any!) are incorrect. For example, I know that there are many rows in the DB that have the following data in a column, 'ABERYSTWYTH CEREDIGION', but when I using the following SQL...'(WHERE (UPPER(AddrLine3) = 'ABERYSTWYTH%')' I get no results returned.Is there a known issue with the WildCard character in SQL Server 2000?ThanksTryst
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi someone please help me.
i have a serach page which have 4 textboxes.
passing this textboxes as parameters to storedproc iam searching the value.
filling atleast one textbox should fetch the value.
i have stored proc for searching it using normal column values but i want it do using wildcard search also.
set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
go
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[search1]
(@val1 varchar(225),
@val2 varchar(50),
@val3 varchar(50),
@val4 varchar(50))
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @MyTable table (CNo varchar(255))
INSERT @MyTable
Select CNo From customer where
((@val1 IS NULL) or (CNo = @val1)) AND
((@val2 IS NULL) or(LastName = @val2)) AND
((@val3 IS NULL) or(FirstName = @val3)) AND
((@val4 IS NULL) or(PhoneNumber = @val4))
--Now do your two selects
SELECT c.*
FROM customer c
INNER JOIN @MyTable T ON c.CNo = T.CNo
Select r.*
From refunds r
INNER JOIN @MyTable t ON r.CNo = t.CNo
END
I WANT THE SEARCH TO BE DONE FOR WILD CARD CHARACTERS ALSO.
if the user enters lastname s*
using same storedproc can i insert wildcard search.
how can i do that please some one help me.
thanks
renu
Hi,
I have a doubt about using a wildcar(% or *).
Can we use the the wildcard in query in the following way...
Select name from abcd where
(name like'%moh%'or name like '%raj%'or name like '%san%')
Is it allowed to use the wildcard at the biginning of the string. If any one says yes :Using the full text search is it possible to improve the query performance.
I thinking of that it is not allowed to use the wildcard at the beginning of the string.
Your comments and recommendation will be highly appreciated...
Thanks,
Mohammed.
hello,
i want to search for "any phrase here*" where i want it to match the exact same phrase and followed by anything. but the problem is that when using the following syntax: contains(myTbl,'"my phrase here*"') i will get results like "my123 phrases here" so the wildcard will be applied to the consecutive words and not the last word.
How can i search for an exact phrase followed by anything?
ps: i cant omit the wildcard becoz the last word is not exact
so treating the space as any other character and not as a seperator in the search_expression may be a solution but how to do it
Thanks
samham
Hi All,
I have a company table with CompanyName and Address details.
In the Company Name field - I have got companies with names like - 'The 1% Club', '99% Pure Water', 'The 1% Golfer' etc...
I want to search for Companies with % using the LIKE clause - Say for ex.
SELECT CompanyName from Company WHERE CompanyName LIKE 'The 1%%'
I was expecting the above query to return - All Companies starting with 'The 1%' - So from the above list - I expected it to return - 'The 1% Club' and 'The 1% Golfer'.
Unfortunately the query isn;t accepting % in the WHERE LIKE clause except for the wildcard character.
Is there a way out to escape the Wildcard Characters present in the Field Values while searching.
Thanks,
Loonysan
Is it possible to do a wildcard search on an encrypted column?
Many thanks!
the subject pretty much says it all, I want to be able to do the following in in VB.net code):
{[If [table with this name] already exists [in this sql database] then [ don't create another one] else [create it and populate it with these values]}
How would I do this?
Hi there,
I am trying to get the do a full text search using the CONTAINS operator and the asterisk wildcard prefix and apparently it is returning inconsistent results. I have a full-text enabled table named Content which contains an AutoId field with a clustering index built on it, a column named ContTitle which is fulltext indexed and a couple of other columns. The fulltext catalog has been fully populated.
When I perform this sample query:
SELECT AutoId, ContTitle FROM [Content] WHERE CONTAINS(ContTitle, ' "Live Band From Colombia" '),
it returns me a row, however when i change the sample query to include the asterisk wildcard behind the search phrase:
SELECT AutoId, ContTitle FROM [Content] WHERE CONTAINS(ContTitle, ' "Live Band From Colombia*" '),
it returns no rows.
I tried the to change the search phrase to "Excellence Service Award", for e.g.
SELECT AutoId, ContTitle FROM [Content] WHERE CONTAINS(ContTitle, ' "Excellence Service Award" '),
and
SELECT AutoId, ContTitle FROM [Content] WHERE CONTAINS(ContTitle, ' "Excellence Service Award*" '),
both queries will return rows with the content title Excellence Service Award
Does anyone know if I'm missing out on any anything, like the full text indexed is not populated correctly for e.g? It's just weird that the same kind of search will work on some rows and not for the rest. Thank you very much.
Hi All,
I am doing search engine in my home page. It will search all products details for a specified pattren/search keyword in all categories. It should display the first product as the most character match of key words which the user has entered for the Products. Any idea plz......................
My logic is prod_name like '%mobile%'
Thanks.
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
would you use sql server "full text search" feature as your site index? from some reason i can't make index server my site search catalog, and i wonder if the full text is the solution. i think that i wll have to you create new table called some thing like "site text" and i will need to write every text twice- one the the table (let's say "articles table") and one to the text. other wise- there is problems finding the right urlof the text, searching different tables with different columns name and so on...
so i thought create site search table, with the columns:
id, text, url
and to write every thing to this table.
but some how ot look the wrong way, that every forum post, every article, album picture or joke will insert twice to the sqr server...
what do you think?
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[bkrm_lendcoll] ADD CONSTRAINT
   ReqdCovgAmt_constraint33 CHECK   Â
( caseÂ
 when CovgAmt = 0 and  ReqdCovgAmt = 0 then 1
 when CovgAmt = 0 and  ReqdCovgAmt = 1 then 1
 when CovgAmt = 1 and  ReqdCovgAmt = 0 then 1
 when CovgAmt = 1 and  ReqdCovgAmt = 1 then 0
end =1
)
This is my first attempt to add a constraint for business logic. Â The desired behavior is that the two columns together have the same behavior as a radio button. Â (one can be true, the other true, both can be false, but both cannot be true.) I get this error when I attempt to update it.
The ALTER TABLE statement conflicted with the CHECK constraint "ReqdCovgAmt_constraint33". The conflict occurred in database "Std", table "dbo.lendcoll".
So, basically my question is, when you have two bit columns and want them to have the truth table such as described, how can I set a Check constraint to enforce this?
There are two seperate jobs,Job A and Job B, which run and insert records in a table. Job A runs first and then Job B runs. The task is to overwrite Job B records if Job A and Job B have same
PID,EDate,CP,RelativePNum,XrefCode,CPDÂ
PID,EDate,CP,RelativePNum,XrefCode,CPDÂ
In the above screenshot, row 1 and row 2 have same
So i want to write a query which deletes row 2 records, and keep row 1,row 3 and row 4 records. This i want to do in the whole table.
create
table AB
(
PID
int,
tTimeStamp
datetime,
EDateÂ
varchar(40),
[Code] ....
Hello,
a database field of type varchar contains among others % and _ characters.
When we do a SELECT how can be search on % characters in the LIKE operator.
Ricardo
Hi !
I have an DB in SQL Server 7, and in Portuguese we have special characters like "á","õ",etc. And I want to let the visitor to a site to do a search (written in ASP), and not to need to write the correct way (without the accents). But either he writes or not in the correct way, the results are the same, not necessarly in the same order. Is there a SQL Server mechanism that permits this functionality, without doing a very complicated SELECT (takes a lot of time) or replicating a field in the DB (takes a lot of extra space)...
Thanks !
Filipe Lopes, Lisbon, Portugal.
Hi All
Is there a function to search for characters in the string simlilar to the IndexOf function is C#.net?
I need answers urgently.
In order to feed a fact table of a dwh from a staging table I'm using the MERGE statement in order to control insert and update operations. It is possible that the staging table has duplicate rows respect to the fields controlled in the merge condition:
When I run the first time the MERGE statement unwanted rows could be inserted in the fact table.
Does the MERGE statement allow to manage this case or do I need to filter data from the staging table before to write them into the fact table?
In our schools we have a number of East-European, Turkish, Scandinavian, ... students. Their names contain "special" characters, like Ö, Ü, Ø, ... Our users want to be able to search for student names without having to enter those special characters. Most often they don't know the exact spelling of the names and they get "no match found" messages as a result.
They want to have persons with the name Ösgür, Osgueld, ... in the result set after entering "osgu" in the search field.
What is the best way to do this? I was thinking about using another collation near the LIKE, but I don't know if that would work and how it should be done. The Database collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS.
I'm trying to search for commonly abbreviated company titles (ie limited, partnership, and so on). I would like to make my sql statement as short as possible (it's already quite lengthy as is). But I'm having trouble netting the abbreviated forms such as LTD and LMTD for limited (I have no control over the data I get, it comes from different counties with no standardization). I've tried using braketted strings like "L[I,IMI,M,]T[ED,D,]" and all other combinations I can think of, including using single quotes in the each string, and removing the empty placeholder and still can grab all instances.
Someone else's insight would be appreciated.
In my database, I have records stored as "Scooter, gears, hard hat" When the user enters in the textbox "Scooter gears hat" it does not return any records. How can I tell the DB to ignore the characters in the column and search for the full text only and return all values?
Thanks
I would like to create a function that take a value and run some logic and output the value
I have a table like this
Table A
value
*
001
004.00
3.0
1.22
Logic I want to run is
The value that you are passing is numeric and numeric with only decimal 0 value, and then convert it to integer otherwise leave as it is
So if I run a query something like this
Select value, fn_convertointerger(value) as converted_value from TableA
I will get
Value converted_value
* *
001 1
004.00 4
3.0 3
1.22 1.22
2.02 2.02
4.000 4
Jkil& Jkil&
How can I create a function like this to convert specific numeric value?
I am need to create comma separated list in sql and I am using below query.
declare @ConcatenatedString NVARCHAR(MAX)
select @ConcatenatedString = COALESCE(@ConcatenatedString + ', ', '') + CAST(rslt.Number AS NVARCHAR)
from
(
select 1 Number
union
select 2 Number
union
select 3 Number
)rslt
select @ConcatenatedString
When I use the above code inside a function, i am not getting desired output.
create function GetConcatenatedValue
AS
(
declare @ConcatenatedString NVARCHAR(MAX)
select @ConcatenatedString = COALESCE(@ConcatenatedString + ', ', '') + CAST(rslt.Number AS NVARCHAR)
from
(
select 1 Number
union
select 2 Number
union
select 3 Number
)rslt
return @ConcatenatedString
)
MS SQL 2000. Does anyone know how to find all rows where an nvarchar column contains a specific unicode character? Is it possible without creating a user defined function? Here's the issue. I have a table Expression (ExpID, ExpText) with values like 'x < 100' and 'y ≤ 200'. where the second example contains Unicode character 8804 [that is, nchar(8804)]. Because it's unicode, I don't seem to be able to search for it with LIKE or PATINDEX. These fail:
SELECT * FROM Expression WHERE ExpText LIKE '%≤%' -- no recordsSELECT * FROM Expression WHERE PATINDEX('%≤%', ExpText) -- no records
However, SELECT PATINDEX('%≤%', 'y ≤ 200') will return 3.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
I think this may have been asked for million times... but for some strange reason, i couldn't find anything related about that in this forum......
So, just wondering if there is any way to handle special characters like "&" in full text search ?
like "AT&T" ?
cause when I do a simple select * contains AT&T, it won't return any result ...
thank you in advance.
Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to get sql server NOT to ignore the colon when performing a full text search (CONTAINS) for a string "sometext:". At this moment the query works, only the results are not narrowed to the ones containing the specified colon. I've read about this and I saw that these kind of characters (word breakers and stemmers) are ignored and want to know if there's a way to work around this (obviously performing well - so LIKE fails the test). Thanks
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi, i have a query that goes like this
select *
from Users
where UserName Like =@Username;
the values for 'UserName' go like this
Adrián
Jesús
Fernández
Güero
all of them have spanish accents. is there a way to make the "like" value to ignore the spanish characters? (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, etc)
That is because the user will not always write "Jesús" they will write "Jesus" or they will not write "Adrián" they will write "Adrian"
so is there any way to tell the SQL Server engine to ignore those characters?
thanks!!!