Truncate Characters In A Column
Jan 26, 2006
I recieve data where I am comparing zip codes from raw data, to a zip code table. The columns I am matching are in integers.
The issue is that in the raw data, sometimes the zip code is extended to more than the 5 characters in the zip code table so I am getting null value returns
A sample of this is in the raw data is:
Zipcode
54303
54304786
78641
Is there a way I can have it compare only the first 5 digits of the zip codes in the raw data zip code column to the zip code table? Or would I have to convert the data type? Or alter or truncate the characters somehow? If so, please include how to do this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Jul 13, 2001
hello,
how to make to have not the result of a requète truncated with 255 characters in an application which reaches by accesses native to a base sql server 7
thank you
Pascal
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Oct 22, 2015
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
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Dec 13, 2011
Code:
credit | debit | cash_in_hand
------------------------------
100 100 0
consider this as my table where i have an requirement where i need to truncate just the column cash_in_hand but if i do something like this
Code:
delete from credit_debit_table where cash_in_hand = '0'
then it will delete the entire row with credit & debit information but i need to delete only cash_in_hand column how to do that ?
note : i need to delete only data not the structure of cash_in_hand
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Apr 10, 2008
Hi,
Is there a way to truncate a number to a certain number of decimal places in the SSIS Derived Column component (similar to TRUNC in excel)?
Thanks!
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May 14, 2008
I've looked on line, but can't figure out how to select the first fifty characters of a varchar field in sql. (this seems so easy).. argh..
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Mar 11, 2002
Is there a way to alter the default 256 value to some other value in a transac SQL script?
The value can be changed manually in the advanced tab of the current connection options. I need to be able to set and reset this value in a script and/or stored procedure.
Kind of urgent for an answer to this problem.
Thanks in advance.
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Apr 19, 2001
I have a table called exchange and field called address. The rows(1400+) in the field look like:
MS:VA/Celcmv/VHACLEADAM%SMTP:Doe.Jane@med.va.gov%X200:c=US;a= ;p=av;o=Celcmv;s=Doe;g=Jane;
How do I remove everything to the left of doe.jane@med.va.gov and everything to the right of doe.jane@med.va.gov using query analyzer? Thank you in advance...
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Sep 19, 2001
Can someone please suggest a function to remove the last 3 characters from a column? I was thinking of the LEN function, but I am unsure of the syntax.
Thanks!
Lisa
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May 2, 2007
I've got an issue - I've got a needed query that executes fine, etc..etc...
the issue is , 1 or more columns (depending) are of TEXT data type - and by virtue of potentially poor front end data entry design - they have large strings stored in each record - much of these strings are made even larger ( in char size ) because of html being stored in the db -- from a design point of view - I blame who ever designed the CMS system that allows this --- thats neither here nor there
The issue is I need these fields and their respective "description" data. BUT I also need to export it to something usable my a marketing department.
The issue lies in that MSSQL Studio - which in grid reports the columns, values, etc..etc.. fine - upon .CVS export - INSTEAD OF TRUNCATING @ THE MAX CHAR LENGTH PER COLUMN (8126 or something) IT PUSHES THE REMAINING TEXT TO THE NEXT COLUMN.
big problem --- to be honest, I dont really need all the data - even just like 500 characters would be more then enough
my question : Is there a way to limit column return lenght @ the query level ? (NOT a truncation of table)
Thanks!
EDIT:
HRMMM - Why not covert to varchar(XXX) size?
trying that
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Mar 9, 2014
We have identity functionality for integer , Similarly i want for characters .i.e.
EX:
ID Name Sal
CD101 A 1000
CD102 B 2000
CD103 C 3000
CD104 D 4000
CD105 E 5000
I want output like above, I wont provide Value for ID column. It it should take automatically while inserting data into table.(like identity column)? Is it possible in SQL Server?
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Jul 23, 2005
I need a query to simply return rows where a column has less than 10characters (nvar).thanks.rjl
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Nov 24, 2007
I was wondering does anybody have advice for storing Russian in a column in either 2000 or 2005.
Example:
create table Russian
(
Word varchar(100),
Meaning varchar(500),
Russian varchar(500) COLLATE Cyrillic_General_CI_AS_KS not null,
English varchar(1000)
)
insert into Russian
(
Word,
Meaning,
Russian,
English
)
values
(
'Thank You',
'Thank you',
'Ñ?паÑ?бо',
'spice e ba'
)
What I get is
Thank You Thank you ?????? spice E bo
How can I store 'Ñ?паÑ?бо' and get this value to display, and not ??????
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Feb 19, 2007
Hi,
I am trying to insert some arabic characters into one of the tables but after I insert it, it get stored as ?????. What should I do? I have SQL Sever Managment Studio Express running on Windows XP. I appreciate any suggestions!!
Thanks
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Jan 10, 2008
Is there any way to retrieve partial contents of a database column? For example, say a column holds 5,000 characters, but I only wish to retrieve the first 50.
Thanks
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Nov 13, 2001
Hi,
this is my second attempt to get an answer to this question.
We want to strip our firstName column and lastname column of any punctuation that might be present.
What's the best of doing that?
Is my only choice to write a nested REPLACE for each character we want replaced (which will end up being very very long) or is there another way.
thanks
Zoey
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Jun 21, 2007
I'm adding data to a text column, and whenever I have a backslash at the end of a line it disappears. Here's an example:
Code:
INSERT INTO MyTable (TextCol) VALUES ('some text
some more text
yet more text')
The on the first line is fine- the on the 2nd line just disappears. If I add a 2nd backslash on the end of the line, one is inserted. If I add a space to the end of the line, everything works as normal. I can fix this client-side, but before I do I'd really like to know what's going on?
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Mar 12, 2012
I have a table and one of the column have junk characters in it, how can I remove the junk characters?.
Eg : Employee
Eid Ename
1 a�
2 �ddd
how can i remove Junk characters and get only Enames from above table.
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Jul 30, 2007
Hello,
I have a select statement that looks like this:
SELECT TOP 10 [Id], [Abstract] FROM NewsArticles
Abstract is a TEXT Column. I'd like to limit it to 50 characters... how would I do that.
Thanks,
-- shawn
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Dec 28, 2010
How to import data into SQL table from Excel column which has more than 255 characters?
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Jun 21, 2006
Hi,
I'm having dificulties in loading data into a table coming from an excel file because one of the columns is a text based with an average of 1024 characters... How can i import that column? The excel source always shows me the column as a DT_WSTR of 255 characters...
Best Regards,
Luis Simões
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Dec 4, 2007
I have written this query to return only numeric characters from a string.
select *
from TableA
where isNumeric(Column_A) = 1
But I have discovered that the following
SELECT IsNumeric('-')
SELECT IsNumeric('£')
SELECT IsNumeric('$')
SELECT IsNumeric('+')
all return a value of 1. I do not want these in my result set.
If I use Column_A NOT LIKE '%[a-z]%' and Column_A <> '' I get characters such as "", ----- etc in my result set.
I would like a simple way of only returning numbers in my resultset.
Thanks for looking at this.
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Dec 30, 2004
With a database size of almost 2 GB, I run the 'truncate table eventlog command' which completes successfully, but the database size only decreases by about 10 MB so stays too large - indeed the number of rows in the eventlog table is minimal, but the otehr tables in this database don't show such an amount of tables large enough to cause the size issue either. What could be the reason and how can I reduce it (possibly truncating another table but then which one, how could I determine which is too large and needs truncating?).
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Jul 14, 2014
I am using SQL Server 2008. In one of my table, one column has values like
"MFY RLHH CSQÉ"
"Aamj Gxmolwn Slf Yytrzgan Hiwd Fnlmyw"
So to fetch the data having only special characters in it, I used below query
Select * From Table Where Column Like '%[^0-9a-zA-Z]%' Escape ' '. Its returning both the records. Here I would like to fetch records for those Unicode characters only which are not within 00201 - 0070E [URL].
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May 16, 2015
I want to remove special characters from a string in sql like <?> in a column value in a table.
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Apr 14, 2015
Select statement. In my database i am using the employee table. I need my first column to display your full name is 99 characters. so like if the employee is john smith it would display Your Full Name Is 9 characters (including the space).
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Jun 21, 2012
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<<<<
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Oct 21, 2013
I have to select rows from a table
if the first 2 characters of a 12 char column are
'GB'
Select BFKEYC from table where
I have a hokey way of doing it but it looks embarrassing:
BFKEYC GT 'GA9999999999'
AND BFKEYC LT 'GC'
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Jul 20, 2005
Here's a tricky SQL question that has definitely driven me to the end ofmy rope. I'm using Oracle 9i and I need to perform some simplemultiplication on a field and then display it with a percent sign usingthe COLUMN command. Here's the code thus far:COLUMN price format 9,999.99 HEADING 'Charged%'SELECT pricecharged * .231 as priceFROM VT_examdetailThe output from this reads:Charged%---------23.1034.6534.65....The kicker here is that I need to add a percent sign to the right of theoutput, so that it reads:Charged%---------23.10%34.65%34.65%....I thought I could do this by just adding "|| ('%')" into the SELECTstatement, but when I do this the decimal position defined in the COLUMNcommand is lost. Does anyone know another way around this?Thanks,Alex
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Jan 16, 2007
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!
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Dec 28, 2007
i would to make a column contains of 3 characters and 6 auto increment numbers (example: "DLL - 123456")
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Feb 19, 2008
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
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Apr 17, 2008
Hi all...
Please forgive the elementary nature of my question, but could someone please explain the differences between these two database backup types:
1. Log backup
2. Log backup no truncate
From what I understand and have read, the "no truncate" backup method keeps the entire transaction log indefinitely. Using the truncation method, the transaction log is either 1) compressed or 2) cleaned up so that any completed transactions are removed from the log. Which one of these is true?
And, for the big question: is it better to run a backup of the transaction log with truncation or not? Our current backup scheme is similar to the following:
Full backup every 24 hours
transaction log backup every hour with no truncation
Should we insert a truncation backup somewhere in here? What is the danger of removing (or compressing) parts of the transaction log? Will this affect the restore process?
Thanks in advance!
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