Thanks in advanace for taking the time to read this post. I am using MSSQL 2005 and have created a function that allows me to use regular expressions in my SQL queries. My question is I have a pattern buried in a field of misc data that I need to pull out just that pattern and discard the rest of the data. Here is the Regular Expression I am using select field1 from table1 where dbo.RegExMatch (field1,'[a-zA-Z]{4}[0-9]{6}[a-zA-Z]{2,4}')=1 This returns all values in the field that match the expression. What I want to do now is remove all data from the field on the left and right of the expression that does not match the expression. How would I accomplish this without reading through the 200k+ records and writing rules for every exception I run across? so I could have Gar b/a ge 'THE GOOD DATA' m/or1 ba4d da....ta. All I want to do is return 'THE GOOD DATA'
I have a separate list of calendar years with radiocarbon year equivalents in SQL server but no conversion equation. Most but not all of the data I have is in radiocarbon years. I thought at first I could just link the tables but I don't want the data that is already in calendar years to be linked to this conversion table. Is there any way I can either link the two tables with criteria for which data is linked (Only ages that are in radiocarbon years). Or possibly a way to query all ages that are in radiocarbon years and do something similar to a find and replace with a large list of numbers to change?
Is it possible to use the REPLACE function in SQL Server 2000 so thatit returns a string containing only alpha-numeric characters (muchlike using regular expressions)?Thank you in advance for any suggestion.Darren.
I have a table in which one of the column name is "NAME". I have to write query in which column is not null and if there is something then check for 'trust' or 'trustee' in the string. and if found don't pull that record. skip it
HiI'm looking to return rows from a table where a column is LIKE a keyword. This is my current code:SELECT DISTINCT business_name FROM Table WHERE business_name LIKE @keyword + '%' ORDER BY business_name ASCThe problem with this is that if a business is called "The White Ship Inn", and the keyword to match is "White Ship" it will not match. If i put another wild card in front of @keyword then this finds too many matches - i need it to match against columns which either start with the keyword, or have a whitespace in front of them. Is there some kind of T-Sql i can use or will i have to go down the regex route (using this (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mcpp/xpregex.aspx)) ?cheers
Does SqlServer support Regular expression? I want to know if it's avilable or not... And if it's not available, I want to know any other efficient way to validate string.. manipulating Regular expression style validation.
I need to remove all the [ and ] in every sql stmt where they are usedto close encircling numeric value, fyi, all these sql stmt areconverted from an Access db. For instance,select *from XYZtblwhere fieldA = [1] or fieldA = [2] or fieldA = [3]to beselect *from XYZtblwhere fieldA = 1 or fieldA = 2 or fieldA = 3-- and of course I'd have written in as follows, but that's not-- the pointselect *from XYZtblwhere fieldA IN (1,2,3)Thanks.
I am try to build a query which only matches whole words and so far I've got this.
Code:
SELECT * FROM tblSearchWords WHERE CorrectSpelling LIKE '%[^a-zA-Z0-9]blah[^a-zA-Z0-9]%'
This will return rows which contain the string 'blah' without any numeric or alphanumeric characters beside it. However it doesn't return the rows where 'blah' is either at the start or end of the string as it expects any character except a-zA-Z0-0.
Is there any way to accept string when there is nothing on either side as well?
Hi,I'm not a big friend of MSSQL, but I have to do one query I've done formySQL.But I don't know how...I have to select 'user' from 'db' where first letter is E or N, second is Bor 0 and after that there are 6 or 7 digits I know.How can I do that?In mySQL it would be something like:SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `account` regexp '^[EN][B0]123456$' ORDER BY`Id`;Thanks in advance,Martin
I am trying to exclude all strings that has 'a' inside (I havesimplified the actual problem)select 1where 'bb b a dfg' like '%[^a]%'However, the above does not work. By the way, I can not use 'not like'such as:select 1where 'bb b a dfg' not like '%a%'Although the above will work but the idea is that I have to use 'like'and not 'not like'. This is partly because I have to exclude rows froman exclusion table (a table that has many rows that will be excluded).Actually I want to include all srings that has lets say // in it usinga regular expression. I would like to write it as (I am sure it willnot work):select 1where column like '%[^/][^/]%'That should exclude strings like: 'aaa // aa aa' or 'bb bbb // bb' etcand include strings like: 'aaa aa aa' or 'bb aa nn' etcIs there any way to write a regular expression to do it? Otherrwise Ihave to solve this problem without using regular expressions in theexclusion table.Thanks.
I have a table which stores a big chunk of html text, which I have to search for and replace some strings. How can I write a query that makes use of regular expressions to do the following:
Below is a block of example text ====================================================================== " src="http://aaaa/bbbb/cccc.nsf/blind%2010x10.gif?OpenImageResource" width=10> <img height=10 alt="" src="http://aaaa/bbbb/cccc.nsf/blind%2010x10.gif?OpenImageResource" width=10><img height=11 alt="" http://aaaa/bbbb/cccc.nsf/blablablabla?OpenDocument src="http://aaaa/bbbb/cccc.ns http://aaaa/bbbb/cccc.nsf/d8d4f0dfa09ba71142256cc50040ee51/ee9b4493dac727be422571c30027df61? OpenDocument" target=_self>
Now I want to search and replace the string that is highlighted in red with something like "FOUND" The below string is what I want to search for - I will used PATINDEX on the string below to find the start index of the string in the body, and then I will add on 114 to the when doing a replace:
what would the regular expression be and how does one type it in the query? I tried something like the below but it does not work, please advise ..... [a-z][0-9]{32} %/% [a-z][0-9]{32}
I have as csv-file wich I import into an SQL Server table. Now I want to do some checks on it. I use a conditional split to direct data to the other tables (1 table for the correct data, 1 table for the rejected data).
Is it possible to use a regular expression in a case in a conditional split to check if a columns has the right format?
Hello everyone I'm new with Reporting services, so my problem is that i want to show what filter the user enter exemple : Data between 12/1/2007 and 4/20/2008
I did all that with this statement :
= "Briefing between "+ Parameters!FromDate.Value+ " and " +Parameters!ToDate.Value
but when i want to dispaly another filter it doesn't show up like this :
= "Briefing between "+ Parameters!FromDate.Value+ " and " +Parameters!ToDate.Value IIf( Parameters!Company.Value!="",Parameters!Company.Value,"")
I am sorry i have to jump up into Sql reporting service without a good skills on expressions
this query is running fine in 2008 , but its not working in 2005 below is the error Msg 8115, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.there is some problem in converting date in cte
with a as ( SELECT dbname = DB_NAME(database_id) , [DBSize] = CAST( ((SUM(ms.size)* 8) / 1024.0) AS DECIMAL(18,2) ) , COALESCE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(12), MAX(bus.backup_finish_date), 101),'01/01/1900') AS LastBackUpTime FROM sys.master_files ms inner join msdb.dbo.backupset bus ON bus.database_name = DB_NAME()
I have these two queries I would like to join, however the later is a grouped query how can I join it with the first query? Has to be joined on EventId. The second query is a total table scan.
SELECT AH.EventID, AH.TechnicalAddress, AH.AlarmAlias, AH.AlarmPath as [OrgAlarmPath], AH.AlarmCounter as AlarmCount, AH.EventDateTime as EventTime, AH.[Priority], AH.AlarmMessage, AH.EventText, AH.CallListName, AH.AlarmReadDate as EndTime, AH.alh_EventEndedUserRemark as [EndRemark] --, SUM(seconds) here, and AlarmSessions here FROM AlarmHistory AH
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2) WHERE ia.EventTypeId = 0 group by ia.EventId order by EventId desc
Guys ... got a puzzle kinda problem am stuck up with so asking for your help (after all .. you are the gurus)... What i need to do is append Src. to any column name that comes in the expression. Here we go ... and the last query is part of what I was coming up with ... not exactly working :) Create Table ColumnNames(ColumnName varchar(256))goInsert into ColumnNamesSelect 'name'UNIONSelect 'dbid'UNIONSelect 'sid'UNIONSelect 'mode'UNIONSelect 'status'UNIONSelect 'status2'UNIONSelect 'crdate'UNIONSelect 'reserved'UNIONSelect 'category'UNIONSelect 'cmptlevel'UNIONSelect 'filename'UNIONSelect 'version'goDeclare @Expression varchar(256)Select @Expression = 'dbid = 1 AND cmptlevel = 100' Select replace(@Expression,ColumnName,'Src.'+ColumnName) from ColumnNames Where charindex('Src.',replace(@Expression,ColumnName,'S rc.'+ColumnName)) <> 0
I have a SQL text column from SP_who2 in table #SqlStatement:
like 1row shown below :
"update Panel set PanelValue=7286 where PanelFirmwareID=4 and PanelSettingID=9004000"
I want to find what table and column names are in the text ..
I tried like below ..
Select B.Statement from #sp_who2 A LEFT JOIN #SqlStatement B ON A.spid = B.spid where B.Statement IN ( SELECT T.name, C.name FROM sys.tables T JOIN sys.columns C ON T.object_id=C.object_id WHERE T.type='U' )
Something like this : find the column names and tables name
I'm importing a csv-file delimited with semicolons. Firstly I LTRIM the columns "in place" and the data imports fine. All the numbers in right columns in the target table. Then I add another Derived Colum Transformation to replace decimal character comma (,) to a dot (.) in order to convert the string/varchar value to numeric. But here I run into trouble. Running the task ends in success but the result in the target table (same as above) is not. All the commas are now dots as expected but what is worse is that SSIS have added values in cells that should not be there. I get values in cells that shoud be empty!
Shortly: Only LTRIM([Column1]) as expression and "Derived Column" as Replace 'Column1' works OK.
But adding REPLACE-expression (i.e REPLACE(LTRIM([Column1]) , "," , ".") to this breaks things up
I'm aware that I could do this with SQL but this is not the point...
To ensure I don't leave orphans floating around in tables when records get deleted (values from one record might link to values in another) how do I find and possibly replace values in tables?For example, if I have a unit of measure table and want to delete the value "inches", how do I look in other tables to find this value and give the user the option to cancel or clear it out. If I don't it will cause controls bound to that value like the dropdownlist to throw an error.
Does anybody know how to search through all stored procedures (in SQL Server 2000) and find and replace text without having to open each one individually in Query Analyzer and doing so one at a time?
That would be so time consuming. I want to be able to change my table names, but I have so many stored procedures allready using the old names. To go and find each name and replacing them is a task I don't want to even try and do.
Wondering if anyone may have any advice on how to do this?
I need to do Find/Replace of text in a varchar field so that it looks for text I want then it replaces that text with the new text and updates the field with that specific change, leaving everything else intact.
I am looking for some syntax to help me with a traditional search/replace style requirement. I am wanting to examine the contents of one column and populate another.
similar to this SQL case statement
CASE ProductLine WHEN 'R1' THEN 'Road' WHEN 'M1' THEN 'Mountain' WHEN 'T1' THEN 'Touring' WHEN 'S2' THEN 'Other sale items' ELSE 'Not for sale' END,
the twist is that R1, M1 etc. can appear anywhere in the ProductLine column.
acutally due to certain reason i have changed the few tables name in my database, but now i m facing problem in my software, i have alot of procedures and function as well in my database and these are using old table name, Is there any script that i can use to replace the name of the tables. i have checked few procedure/function in which i use table name with different style like [dbo].[tablename] and in some places i just use only [tablename].
