URGENT!!! Search Tool Function: Splitting A String
Jan 14, 2008
Hi All!!!
I was tasked to come up with a search function and the content of the database given to me is in Chinese Characters. This would be my first time dealing with Chinese characters in the database and I need help with the following problem:
The company wants to conduct the search in such a way that, instead of having the system read the entire sentence/phrase which the user keyed in as a SINGLE string, they want the Chinese Characters to be accessed individually, so that as long as any information in the database contains any one of the characters which the user have entered, they will be retrieved and returned.
So how do I go about doing this? Does it have anything to do with Unicode? By the way, everything abt the search tool is working fine, I am just left with this dilemma of having the system recognise the entire sentence as ONE STRING, instead of conducting a search word by word or character by character.
Anyway, the following is the SQL statement of my SQL Data Source which is bound to a Gridview displaying the returned results after a search is done...1 SELECT Name, Trans, Address1, Address1T, Address2, Address2T, City, CityT, CRPLID
2 FROM CRPL
3 WHERE (Trans LIKE '%' + @Trans + '%') OR
4 (Name LIKE '%' + @Name + '%') OR
5 (Address1 LIKE '%' + @Address1 + '%') OR
6 (Address1T LIKE '%' + @Address1T + '%') OR
7 (Address2 LIKE '%' + @Address2 + '%') OR
8 (Address2T LIKE '%' + @Address2T + '%') OR
9 (City LIKE '%' + @City + '%') OR
10 (CityT LIKE '%' + @CityT + '%')
Hi All, I am tasked to create an MP3 Lyrics Search Tool, but here is the catch, the database content given are all in Chinese Characters. So my problem is as such: Currently, lets say I am looking for the lyrics of this singer and this song: �德伟 - �给我 The results returned will be only be the lyrics of ONLY this singer and this song: �德伟 - �给我 So, if user missed out any single chinese character IN BETWEEN like this: � - �, NO RESULTS WILL BE RETURNED AT ALL!!! This is because, the database/system reads �德伟 - �给我 as a SINGLE STRING!!! What I have to do now: MAKE THE DATABASE/READ THE WORDS �德伟 - �给我 NOT AS A SINGLE STRING, BUT CHARACTER BY CHARACTER �, 德, 伟, - , �, 给, 我!!! So that, even if user keyed in �, 德伟, �- � or even � - �给我, ALL RESULTS CONTAINING ANY OF THE CHARACTERS THAT USER HAVE ENTERED WILL BE SEARCHED, RETRIEVED FROM THE DATABASE AND RETURNED!!! This have been a rather pressing problem of mine, and I would really appreciate any help given!!! Thanks for all the help in advance!!!
Hi all, I have a search function in my website, which is fully functionable. But currently, this is the issue that I am having problem with. For example: I have only the name 'John' in my database. When the user search for 'John Tan', no results is shown as there was no such name in the database But if this happens, I want 'John' to be always returned and shown, no matter what 'John' the user search - E.g "john tan", John Loh", john wee" So, how do I go about doing this? I have done some research on how to go about doing it, what I found useful was the .Replace() function. However, I can never predict in advance what user is going to key in. Any help is welcome as this is a rather pressing problem of mine. Thanks for all the help in advance!!!
The 'LIKE' function looks for words that start with whatever is in the like condition. Is there an sql function similar but will look and compare at any part of the search string.
For example I am using a webservice in dot net to populate a dropdown list using this sql
SELECT compound_name FROM dbo.compound_name WHERE compound_name like @prefixText
In this table there is a compound called SILCAP310 and I would like the search function to pick up 310 if I put this into the @prefix parameter. (but I would still like the search to perform like the 'LIKE' does also.
SELECT compound_name FROM dbo.compound_name WHERE compound_name like @prefixText or compound_name SearchPartString @prefixText
Hi Everyone- i woder if someone know Built in function to search the occurence of char in string in T-SQL
and iam not talking about the Index of the first occurence (e.g CHARINDEX ) but it is more generic
i want to send to the function to ask about the index the second or the third or N occurence of the char. and i wonder if it is built in for performance reasons
example getseachIndex("M|d|d","|",2)==> the result is 4
I'm a non-programmer and an SQL newbie. I'm trying to create a printer usage report using LogParser and SQL database. I managed to export data from the print server's event log into a table in an SQL2005 database.
There are 3 main columns in the table (PrintJob) - Server (the print server name), TimeWritten (timestamp of each print job), String (eventlog message containing all the info I need). My problem is I need to split the String column which is a varchar(255) delimited by | (pipe). Example:
2|Microsoft Word - ราย�ารรับ.doc|Sukanlaya|HMb1_SD_LJ2420|IP_192.10.1.53|82720|1
The first value is the job number, which I don't need. The second value is the printed document name. The third value is the owner of the printed document. The fourth value is the printer name. The fifth value is the printer port, which I don't need. The sixth value is the size in bytes of the printed document, which I don't need. The seventh value is the number of page(s) printed.
How I can copy data in this table (PrintJob) into another table (PrinterUsage) and split the String column into 4 columns (Document, Owner, Printer, Pages) along with the Server and TimeWritten columns in the destination table?
In Excel, I would use combination of FIND(text_to_be_found, within_text, start_num) and MID(text, start_num, num_char). But CHARINDEX() in T-SQL only starts from the beginning of the string, right? I've been looking at some of the user-defind-function's and I can't find anything like Excel's FIND().
Or if anyone can think of a better "native" way to do this in T-SQL, I've be very grateful for the help or suggestion.
Hello,I have been placed in charge of migrating an old access based databaseover to sql server 7.0. So far, I have imported all the tables intosql server, but now I have come across the issue of needing to split astring variable. For instance, in the old database, the variable forname was such that it included both first and last names, whereas inthe new database there are seperate entities for first and last name.I know that there is a way to write a script that will separate out thetwo strings by using the "space" in between the name, but I'munfamiliar how to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks!Rick
simply I hopeI have 2 functions which take '1,2,45,66' as an argument, split the numbers, joins to a table of values and returns OK, but I want to use the field from Table1 as an argument If I call the function from a procedure including Table1 I get Cannot find either column "dbo" or the user-defined function or aggregate "dbo.Function1", or the name is ambiguous. Table1 - I have a table has a field of delimetered numbers 1,2,45,66Function1 - splits the String and returns a table of integers OKFunction2 - Joins the results from Function1 and returns a table of string values OKThis is function 2 which works OK if I type the string to split as an argument ALTER FUNCTION [8977_sql].[Function2] (@list varchar(100))RETURNS TABLEASRETURN (SELECT dbo.tblOCompIssues_N.CompIssue, dbo.tblOCompIssues_N.IssueLocationFROM dbo.tblOCompIssues_N INNER JOINdbo.Function1(@list, ',') AS tempTable ON dbo.tblOCompIssues_N.CompIssueID = tempTable.Element) Thanks in anticipation
I'm trying to split a hyphen-delimited string into three columns in a view. I've been using substring and len to split up the string, but it is getting very complicated (and isn't working in all cases). I've used a SPLIT function in vbscript - does t-sql have anything similar? I've attached a spreadsheet that shows what I am looking for. Maybe someone can guide me in the right direction?
I need to creat distinct terms of the example parsing the term on the '|' character. I will be using mysql.
example: 1885-1974.|Johnson family|Frontier and pioneer life - Alberta - Black Hill district|Cadogan region (Alta.) - Biography|Black Hill district (Alta.) - Biography
I have a column in a table which looks like below.
Column ------- AA123 D123 AXC1 QF23
I need to split this value into two part, Alphabets and numeric. How to do this using SQL query.My column value will not have mixed characters like A1D3,G32S,12F.It will always follow the ablve pattern mentioned above.
I have a typed dataset where I used the sql query builder to build the following: SELECT DealManager.*, Contact AS Expr1FROM DealManagerWHERE (Contact = @Contact) How can I incorporate the "where % % " clause into this statement and still except the required parameter. In other words, I want something like this: SELECT DealManager.*, Contact AS Expr1FROM DealManagerWHERE (Contact like %@Contact%) but I get an error when I compile this... Any help always appreciated!!!
I'm creating a web-based NT RAS report site and am looking for the most efficient way to import the data from NT Event log into SQL2k. I'm using the 'dumpel' utility from rsc kit and all is fine except the 10th column - the message detail:
"The user DOMAINuserid connected on port Mdm15 on 08/23/2002 at 07:25am and disconnected on 08/23/2002 at 07:27am. The user was active for 2 minutes 23 seconds. 78809 bytes were sent and 50675 bytes were received. The port speed was 49300."
I need to parse this one long text string into 6 distinct columns: userID, port, duration, bytes_xmt, bytes_rcv and portspeed. After a quick review of the rowsets, the strings seem to hold a consistent output ... no real variances I can see.
I've dablled with views but am facing a small performance issue that could get bigger: The sql server not only has to run the text file import package, but also the view to format the text dump into a workable dataset, then my report code bangs over 30 queries against the final dataset. It already takes our SQL2k server over 3 minutes to parse about 20,000 rows and the server's a beast (dual 1.8 p4 cpu, 3gb ram, raid, etc).
What I think would work best is to abandon the view (performance will only get worse as the row count increases) and instead INSERT the rows into one table.
Any ideas anyone? any good scripts out there that can help me to parse the long text string quicker that using substring and replace functions?
So we have a field called forenames, and it needs to be split into fields forename_1, forename_2, forename_3, forename_4 (don't ask).
Ok, I've come up with this so far, which works, but is pretty nacky in my opinion. Has any one got a better way of achieving this?
SELECT forenames , Replace(forenames, ' ', '.') , Reverse(ParseName(Replace(Reverse(forenames), ' ', '.'), 1)) As [f1] , Reverse(ParseName(Replace(Reverse(forenames), ' ', '.'), 2)) As [f2] , Reverse(ParseName(Replace(Reverse(forenames), ' ', '.'), 3)) As [f3] , Reverse(ParseName(Replace(Reverse(forenames), ' ', '.'), 4)) As [f4] FROM ( SELECT 'John' As [forenames] UNION SELECT 'John Paul' UNION SELECT 'John Paul George' UNION SELECT 'John Paul George Ringo' ) As [x]
Results
forenames (no column name) f1 f2 f3 f4 ---------------------- ---------------------- ---- ---- ------ ----- John John John NULLNULL NULL John Paul John.Paul John PaulNULL NULL John Paul George John.Paul.George John PaulGeorgeNULL John Paul George Ringo John.Paul.George.Ringo John PaulGeorgeRingo
I have a large poorly designed table (inherited) With a Name field that contains comma delimited text containing address information. I need to do several things with it but unfortunately there doesn't appear to be any true consistency in it. When it displays in its own text box it works by placing each section on a new Line and looks ok.But I need to pull it apart and place things like unit number, Building Name in its own column etc. In the data it could be in either the 2nd,3rd, 4th, dependent on what came 1st. the data looks some thing like the following
unitNumber/StreetNumber Space StreetName (Building Name), Subub,City,Country
Some addresses won't have unit number or Suburb or country so when splitting you could have Suburbs and Citys in multiple columns even if you try and stagger the split process.Has any body go a good tool or reference site for dealing for this sort of problem. I have a table that I have made up that has some of the street names that could be used for comparing against existing records but it is by no means fool proof due to spelling inconsistencies . I also have another list of Common building names that could be used to compare, remove and place in the new building column.
I have a column named "LIST" in a table with strings like the following:151231-1002-02-1001151231-1001-02-1001151231-1002-02-1002151231-1003-02-1001etc....What I'd like to do is include an ORDER BY statement that splits thestring, so that the order would be by the second set of four numbers(i.e. between the first and second - marks), followed by the third setof two numbers, and then by the last set of four numbers.How would I do something like this?--Sugapablo - Join Bytes!http://www.sugapablo.com | ICQ: 902845
I need a help in SQL Server 2000. I am having a string variable in the format like -- (1,23,445,5,12) I need to take single value at a time (like 1 for 1st, 23 for 2nd and so on) from the variable and update the database accordingly. This is like a FOR loop. Can anyone help me out in splitting the variable using the comma separator...
Hi to everyone,My problem is, that I'm not so quite sure, which way should I go.The user is inputing by second part application a long string (let'ssay 128 characters), which are separated by semiclon.Example:A20;BU;AC40;MA50;E;E;IC;GREENNow: each from this position, is already defined in any other table, asa separate record. These are the keys lets say. It means, a have someproperities for A20, BU, aso.Because this long inputed string, is a property of device (whih alsohas a lot of different properities) I could do two different ways ofstoring data:1. By writing, in SP, just encapsulate each of the position separatedby semicolon, and write into a different table with index of device,and the position in long stirng nearly in this way:Major device data tableID AnyData1 AnyData2 ... AnyData3123 MZD12 XX77 .... any comment text124 MZD13 XY55 ... any other commentString data Tablefk_deviceId position value123 1 A20123 2 BU123 3 AC40.....123 8 GREENThe device table, contains also a pointer (position), which mightchange, to "hglight" specified position.Then, I can very easly find all necessary data. The problem is, I needto move the device record data (from other table) very often into otherhistory table (by each update). That will mean, that I also need tomove all these records from 1 -8 for example to a separate historytable, holding the index for a history device dataset. This is a littleinconvinience in this, and in my opinion, it will use to much storagedata, and by programming, I need always to shift this properities intohistory table, whith indexes to a history table of other properities.2. Table will be build nearly in this way:Major device data tableID AnyData1 AnyData2 ... AnyData3 stringProperty pointer123 MZD12 XX77 .... any comment text A20;BU;AC40;MA50;E;E;IC;GREEN 3124 MZD13 XY55 ... any other comment A20;BU;AC40;MA50;E;E;IC;GREEN 2By writng into device table, there will be just a additional field forthis string, and I will have a function, which according to specifiedpointer, will get me the string part on the fly, while I need it.This will not require the other table, and will reduce the amout ofdata, not a lot ... but always.This solution, has a inconvinance, that it will be not so fast doing asearch over the part of this strings, while there will be no real indexon this.If I woould like to search all devices, by which the curent pointervalue is equal GREEN, then I need to use function for getting thevalue, and this one will be not indexed, means, by a lot amount ofdata, might be slow.I would like to know Your opinion about booth solutions.Also, if you might point me the other problems with any of thissolution, I might not have noticed.With Best RegardsMatik
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FROM Pieces
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This works very well, other than instances of the delimter are, themselves, considered to be results. For example:
SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', 'foo bar') AS result returns: pn s 1 foo 2 bar
which is exactly the result I would want.
However, SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', ' foo bar ') AS result -- There are spaces before 'foo' and after 'bar' returns pn s 1 2 foo 3 bar 4
And SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', 'foo bar') AS result -- There are two spaces between 'foo' and 'bar' returns pn s 1 foo 2 3 4 bar
I want the function to ignore whitespace altogether, be it a single space or multiple spaces. Other than to delimit the boundries between words, of course.
In other words, all three examples above should produce the same result: pn s 1 foo 2 bar
How can I do this? Any thoughts much appreciated...
I need to search through a database that has a large number of tables to see if each table has an index that is based on the primary key. I need this information in order to determine whether I can setup database replication or not. I believe all tables involved with a replication need to be indexed on the primary key. Does anyone know of a stored procedure or command file that will provide this information for me in a timely manner? I've used the sp_pkeys stored procedure but it is very time consuming running this against one table at a time.
I have a scenario where in I need to use a comma delimited string as input. And search the tables with each and every string in the comma delimited string.
dear friend, the problem i am finding is moreover a concatenation problem what i did is that have stored procedure which is accepting any character and i have to show all the records where this character is existing it is like this only ******************************** name1 like '% @str %' but then it is not treating the str as a variable and treating it as a string so if you have any solution please let me know early please give the answer with example waiting for reply ashish bhatnagar
I am trying to write a used car search function I want the user to be able to select a MAKE from the 1st drop down list and a MODEL from the second drop down list and click a button and for the data to be shown in a gridview, the code below is what I have so far and works i.e when user selects a make it shows all cars for that make, but now how do I take it further and add the model on there so that when the user selects i.e BMW as make and Z3 for model it only shows all BMW Z3'S
Here is the code behind the page Protected Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles button1.Click SqlDataSource1.SelectCommand = "select * from [used] where make like '%" & ddmake.Text & "%'" SqlDataSource1.DataBind() End Sub
We are in the process of developing an onlinestore like www.componentsource.com.We need to search for a product within our website.We already created pages using html.I have to take the 1st para of the product description and display. I don't want to save the description in the table how to do it?
Hi all I have a search function in one of my database's that when you click on the command button it window comes up that ask you for the last name. What I would like to do is alter it so that users can type in SM and get all the names that start with SM or Ma?? Like a Starts with. How can I do that = N'[@Enter_LastName].[dbo.Revocatiions] ALike [ta%]'
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Revocations (@Enter_LastName nvarchar(50)) RETURNS TABLE AS RETURN ( SELECT [SSN], [TM#], FirstName, LastName, ReasonofRevocation, Notes, [I/R #], Date FROM dbo.Revocations_Tbl WHERE (LastName = @Enter_LastName))
I create titles and submit them for approval. Once approved I can edit them again and either save them or submit them for approval again.
My problem is: When I am creating a title and saving it in the drafts and searching for the title, I am able to find it in the result page. This is before approval. When I submit the same title for approval and it's approved and then I change the title and save it as draft and then search the new title I cant find it. But when I search with the old title it shows me the result but with the new title name.
When I check the db and search for the new title no records found. When I check the db and search for the old title the system returns me the record with the same old name.
So when I search the old title in the db it returns the old title. So when I search the application for the new title it returns the old title.
