hello all
i am trying to concatenate strings in SQL Server by using '+' operator. but the problem is i have a code like this 1201 and another code like 0003 and when i use + operator. it removes the leading zeroes. i dont want to remove the leading zeros. how do i do this
Thanks in advance
Vignesh
I have a whole bunch of bit fields in an SQL data base, which makes it a little messy to report on.
I thought a nice idea would be to assigne a text string/null value to each bit field and concatenate all of them into a result.
This is the basic logic goes soemthing like this:
select case new_accountant = 1 then 'acct/' end +
case new_advisor = 1 then 'adv/' end +
case new_attorney = 1 then 'atty/' end as String
from new_database
The output would be
Null, acct/, adv/, atty, acct/adv/, acct/atty/... acct/adv/atty/
So far, nothing I have tried has worked.
Any ideas?
I should start by saying that I'm new to SQL Server and ASP.NET. My question is about connection strings. With so many possibilities of these strings, how will I ever know what is best to use or try when one does not work. Is there a rule of thumb or an article or even a book that someone can recommend? Something that will demystify this part of working with the SQL Server and ASP.NET?
Thank you very much for any help on this.
I could not write Unicode strings into SQL Server 2000 databse, for example "ÁU", "Tu?n"...
by using oleDbAdapter with InserCommand.
Please give me an instruction.
Thanks so much!
TaiPH - VietNam
I could not insert Unicode strings into SQL Server 2000 DB by using OleDbAdapter (insert into command), e.g: "á à u".
Please give me an instruction.
Thank you.
Hello,
I am trying to insert quoted strings into a database table, however, I cannot remember how to do so. For instance, I am trying to insert the following values into a SQL table:
My Friend's
"Happy Birthday"
exactly as they are listed. How can I do that in a SQL insert statement?
Thanks,
Crystal
Is there a limit on the size of the strings on both sides of the '=' sign for string comparison? If I have two varchar(max) strings, will the comparison be done beyond 8,000 characters?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have always (or at least intended to) treat NULL and empty strings separately in my SQL querying history. Now I have run across something that mystifies me (but probably shouldn't) that I would like an explanation for.
Consider this bit o' code:
DECLARE @ORDER CHAR(10)
SET @ORDER=
(
SELECT NULL
)
IF @ORDER <> ''
PRINT 'Not an empty string'
IF @ORDER IS NULL
PRINT 'It is NULL'
Run this and you will get:
It is NULL
I was expecting:
Not an empty string
It is NULL
Why is NULL not passing the 'not an empty string' test? In other words, how does NULL = '' ? Is NULL cast to an empty string for this comparison?
difference between
SELECT ROUND ('6.465',2) --- result 6.46
and
SELECT ROUND (6.465,2) --- result 6.47
with
It's because you're relying on an implicit conversion from a string to a decimal data type which SQL server will do to 2 decimal places by default...
Alright:
SELECT ROUND (CONVERT(DECIMAL(3,2),'6.465'),2) --- result 6.47 Now please explain this:
SELECT ROUND('0.285',2) -- 0.28
SELECT ROUND(0.285,2) -- 0.29
SELECT ROUND (CONVERT(DECIMAL(3,2),'0.285'),2) --- result 0.29 The string value does not seem to be converted to decimal with 2 decimal places.
MS is on the safe side with mentioning the last digit is always an estimate But because the result of the estimate is always the same, I would like to know:
* how is a string value exactly implicitly converted?
* how exactly does the estimation work, that in case of doubt rounds a value up or off?
We run some VB scripts to extract data from our SQL server. Within these scripts we reference a 'read only' SQL userid and it's password in the connection string.
What I want to do is remove the references to the 'read only' user and it's password from the scripts.
Could we add the user that is running the script as a SQL authenticated user (that has read only access) thereby not have to reference any passwords in our script ?
Hi, for my photo album database I'm trying to decide whether to store the actual photos as images in the db or whether to leave them in file directories with just the path & filename in the db. As a beginner in this field I don't know how either of these options compare (e.g. in terms of performance, complexity, flexibility and maintainablity) so any advice on the pros and cons of each would be appreciated.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write a function to compare the characters between 2 strings and eliminate the similarities to be able to return at the end the number of differences between them.
Having in mind i need the bigger number of differences to be returned also if a character is repeated in one of the 2 words it will be eliminated once because it exist only one time in other string.
I will give an example below to be more clear
--Start
declare @string1 as varchar(50)='imos'
declare @string2 as varchar(50)='nasos';
WITH n (n) AS (
SELECT 1 FROM (VALUES (1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1)) n (n)
[Code] ....
The differences in first string from second one are 2 (i,m) while the differences in second string from first one are 3(nas).
So the function should return 3 in previous example.
Hello,
I am wondering how it is going to work using SQL Server configuration type to store connection string in the SQL Server table. How does SSIS know what database to connect to if its connection string is store in the database? Thanks
We can use comparison operators with strings as well. Hence, I tried to use the following query on a SQL Server 2012 instance with the sample AdventureWorks2012 database (the collation of the database and of the column is the default:
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS):
USE AdventureWorks2012 ;
GO
--Returns 5 records
SELECT pp.Name
FROM Production.Product AS pp
WHERE pp.Name >= N'Short' AND pp.Name <= N'Sport' ;
GO
The query only returns 5 records. This despite the fact that the search is an inclusive search and the Production.Product table contains records that begin with "Sport".
Now, when I replace "Sport" with "Sporu" (just moving one character up in the alphabet to verify whether characters after the word have any impact on the search) gives me 8 records.
USE AdventureWorks2012 ;
GO
--Returns 8 records
SELECT pp.Name
FROM Production.Product AS pp
WHERE pp.Name >= N'Short' AND pp.Name <= N'Sporu' ;
GO
What's going on inside of SQL Server that allows it to fetch "Short-Sleeve Classic Jersey" for the starting word "Short" but prevents it from fetching "Sport-100 Helmet" for the ending word "Sport" despite the search being an inclusive search?
We have an SSIS package that will be used for both our Test and Prod imports on the same server. The SSIS imports are identical expect that Test needs all connections pointing to the Test database while Prod need its connections pointing to the Prod database.
How can I change the connections, based on Test or Prod, used inside a single SSIS package? (I don't want to create two tweaked packages on the same server. If I find a bug in one of them, I have to correct it twice.)
TIA,
barkingdog
All --
Please help.
I have some questions about connection strings.
BACKGROUND...
Note that I am using the "SQL Native Client OLE DB Provider", SQL Sever 2005 Express, ASP.NET, C#.NET, and VS.NET 2005.
Note that I do not want to use the "Attach a database file" type of connection string.
Note that I am using the site http://www.ConnectionStrings.com as a reference.
Note that this "Standard security" connection string...<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Server=MYTESTOFFICESERVERS;Database=MyDatabase;Uid=MyDatabaseUser;Pwd=MyDatabasePassword;" />...does not work and causes the following run-time error...A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: Shared Memory Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe.)
Note that this "Trusted connection" connection string...<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Server=MYTESTOFFICESERVERS;Database=MyDatabase;Trusted_Connection=yes;" />...works but is less-than ideal because it uses a Trusted Connection rather than a Username/Password combination.
QUESTIONS...
(A) What exactly does the error in Item 4 mean?
(B) Do 4 and 5 imply that one must use a Trusted_Connection for all SQL Server 2005 Express connection strings when the database does not reside in the web application's App_Data folder or use a "Attach a database file" type of connection string?
(C) Are there any alternatives?
(D) What do you suggest?
Please advise.
Thank you.
-- Mark Kamoski
I have a table that looks like the example below. I need to return the tindex and the entire description on one row. Any clues? I'm drawing a blank.
thanks for you help
tindex tdline description
1234 1 Talk to Mr. Cartwright about
1234 2 new issues with patent law. Conferece
1234 3 call to discuss payment of past bills.
I need to see
1234,Talk to Mr. Cartwright about new issues with patent law. Conferece call to discuss payment of past bills.
Hi everyone.
Is it possible to put in a string value as one of the results? I'm trying to produce a string in the data table is the value is null so I want to do something like:
iif(somevalue is nothing, 'Other', somevalue)
Thank you in advance.
I am trying to develop a web site. I have a local ms sql database on my machine.
I am trying to connect to a ms Sql database on a goDaddy server from the application.
I am trying to understand the connection string and its total properties.
here is what I think should be in my web.config file
<
add name="Personal" connectionString="Server=whsql-v12.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net;
Database=DB_XX10;
User ID=myID;
Password=myypassword;
Trusted_Connection=False" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"
/>
<remove name="LocalSqlServer"/>
can someone please tell me where I am going wrong, Thanks for your help.....
I am using query strings to pass data from web form to web form and I have two questions. First if i use a asp:sqldatasouce to fill up a grid view and I have my select command set to a paramater that get whatever is in the query string it will not work because whatever is in the quers string gets a " ' " put in front and in the back of it. So if the query string was 5 whene it does the sql statement it sets my paramater = '5' not just 5 so its wont work. How can I fix this using the asp:sql datasource my aspx code looks like
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:Rental PropertiesConnectionString %>"
SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [APARTMENTS] WHERE ([PROPERITY_ID] = @PROPERITY_ID)">
<SelectParameters>
<asp:QueryStringParameter Name="PROPERITY_ID" QueryStringField="key" Type="Int32" />
</SelectParameters>
</asp:SqlDataSource>
Also since i have not been able to get around this so i have been wrting code in vb.net to attact a dataset to a grid view to populate it based on the query string i would do the following in vb.net to get ride of the ' in front and behind the query string
Dim y as string = "'" // " ' "
key = Request.QueryString("key").trim(y.tochararray)
But now i am doing another project in C# and I have re-written the above code in C# it will run but it will not take the " ' " out form infront or behind key. How does this need to be changed up?
string y = "'";
key = Request.QueryString["key"].trim(y.tochararray());
How can i make a sum (concatenation) of strings of one column in a table.
for example i have a table like this
field1 field2
1 abc
1 bcd
2 sdf
2 sdd
I want to get these strings added group by field 1
Thanks
I am submitting a telephone number into a table. I have 3 boxes for the telephone number. Telephone1,Telephone2,Telephone3. I need to insert the values of the 3 text boxes into a column called phone in my table.
so like
InsertCommand="INSERT INTO customer_mod (phone) Values (@Telephone_1)
<asp:formparameter name="Telephone_1" formfield="Telephone1+Telephone2+Telephone3" />
I don't think that is gonna work, so can you please help me make that code work?
I developed an application and deployed it onto a hosted provider. I use SQL 2005 Express for development SQL 2000 for production. Both systems work.
I backed up my production database and wish to use it for my development testing. I restored it as a SQL 2000 database on my development machine and changed my connection strings to point to it. I added it as a new Data Connection in Database Explorer and can see all of the data through it, but I see that all the tables now have the owner name in parenthesis as part of the table name.
My application now fails trying to find any of the tables. It works if I include the owner name as part of the SELECT statement. So much for data separation.
I don't know where to start. Is this an issue between SQL 2005 Express and SQL 2000, or is it an issue between SQL and ASP.NET, or is it a hosting provider issue, or what?????
Hey guys, don't know if this is in the right place but here goes.
I'd like some advice on optimizing the way I write my code. Here's the scenario. I have a select string for 3 different tables. One for the main gridview, and two others that are binded to dropdownlists.
So I created a Sqldatasource1,2,3 and had to create the connection strings for each one.
ex. SqlDataSource1.ConnectionString = "blah", SqlDataSource2.ConnectionString = "blah", SqlDataSource3.ConnectionString = "blah"the thing is, the connection string itself is the same. Is there a way to consolidate that? So that when I use a select/update/insert command for each sqldatasource i dont have to have another connection string? Also, having multiple connectionstrings, does that slow down the performance?
In an ASP.NET app, where is the preferred place (or your preferred place, I should say) to store any SQL Statements (updates, selects, stored procedure calls, etc.) you have? I have been using a key/value pair in AppSettings in my web.config but just feel like that isn't the best way. What say you?
View 4 Replies View RelatedHi,
Im struggling to work out the connection string to my ms sql database.
My website is being hosted with freezone.co.uk and I have a ms sql database called "aspnetdb". I usually log into the database with a username but no password. I don't no what other information is needed to create my connection string?
Thanks, Mark Lawton
I've got a GridView, a datasource, 2 textboxes and a button. If I choose to bind the GridView to the datasource the correct data is shown. But if I modify the datasource and chooses the TextBoxes as Parameter Controls it doesn't work out as I expected.
Can I please have a step-by-step response which will work? And expecially if one if the TextBoxes eguals nothing/null. Because this is very important, too, and that part doesn't work either.
This seems so simple but I can't find any examples to do it..
I have the following in a text file "Lastname, Firstname MI" and I want to select each part separetly.. What would be the SELECT statement to get the Lastname up to the comma, then the Firstname after the comma, then the MI after the last space..
Thanks for the help, and any reference to learn more.
I have a varchar field that contains answers to questions separated by commas. Say there are 4 questions for each user. Here is an example of what the table would look like:
User Answer
1 Good,Fair,Good,Bad
2 Bad,Good,Good,Good
3 Fair,Good,Bad,Fair
I need to write a stored procedure to report off of that separates the Answer field into 4 different columns. How can this be achieved? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
In MySQL I can represent a string as the following:
X'6162636465'
However, I can't seem to find an equivalent that is supported MS SQL from the last hour and a half of searching the net. Does anyone know of any way to do this?
I have a column called professional_degrees in my table
and it has the following data
professional_degrees
bs,ms,mba
bs,mba,
bs,ms,bs,ms
mba,mba
bs,mba
In the above data u can see some of the degrees are repeated.So how can i find them and delete them from the table.
Thanks.
I have a small problem that I can't figure out. Here's my table:
----------------------------------------
Members
----------------------------------------
ID | Name | Image
----------------------------------------
When a user signs up to become a member, they can upload an image, which will be stored under Image. It will also be stored in a folder. For example, if the user with the ID of 14 uploads an image, it will be stored in 'livefiles/Members/14/image.jpg'. If the user does not upload an image, NULL is stored under Image, and the user has a default image, which is stored under 'livefiles/MembersDefault/1/image.jpg'.
What I want to do is return the path of where the image is in the folders. Basically...
If Image is not null
SELECT 'livefiles/Members/' + ID + '/' + Image AS ImagePath
If Image is null
SELECT 'livefiles/MembersDefault/1/image.jpg'
I'd rather not do this with an IF statement, I'm doing a lot of other SELECTS, and I don't want to have to copy all that code. Here's what I tried...
COALESCE (NULLIF('livefiles/Members/' + CONVERT(varchar(20), ID) + '/' + Image, 'livefiles/Members/' + ID + '/'), 'livefiles/MembersDefault/1/image.jpg') AS ImagePath
but that gave me an error saying:
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'livefiles/Members/' to data type int.
I everyone, I have been on the admin side of IT for the past 20 years and recently started to do some scripting (VBscript) and a little SQL.
I have developed a solution to meet the needs of some federal auditors, but not really met my needs yet.
What I have done is this.
I use MS Logparser to go out to 64 servers and copy the event logs into a DB on a SQL 2000 Ent. Server.
On the SQL server I have one StoredProcedure that parses out information from the security event log DB and put that info into a temp DB.
set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
go
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[stp_SecurityAuditReport]
AS
TRUNCATE TABLE SecurityEvents_Tmp
-- Parse Bank Number & UserName
INSERT INTO SecurityEvents_Tmp(DepartmentNumber, UserName, EventLog, RecordNumber, TimeGenerated, TimeWritten, EventID, EventType, EventTypeName, EventCategory, EventCategoryName, SourceName, Strings, ComputerName, SID, Message, Data)
SELECT
DepartmentNumber = '001',
UserName = CASE
WHEN Strings LIKE '[0-9][0-9][0-9]%'
THEN SUBSTRING(Strings,1,charindex('|',Strings,1)-1)
WHEN Strings LIKE '-|[0-9][0-9][0-9]%'
THEN SUBSTRING(Strings,3,charindex('|',Strings,3)-3)
WHEN Strings LIKE '-|[a-z]%'
THEN SUBSTRING(Strings,3,charindex('|',Strings,3)-3)
WHEN Strings LIKE 'Account Unlocked. |%'
THEN SUBSTRING(Strings,21,charindex('|',Strings,21)-21)
ELSE SUBSTRING(Strings,1,charindex('|',Strings,1)-1)
END,
Events.*
FROM Events
JOIN EventsToLog on Events.EventID = EventsToLog.EventID
WHERE SID NOT LIKE 'S-%'
-- Update blank usernames
UPDATE SecurityEvents_Tmp SET UserName = 'NO USERNAME'
WHERE UserName = '' OR UserName = '-'
-- Update DepartmentNumbers with zeros
UPDATE SecurityEvents_Tmp SET
DepartmentNumber = CASE
WHEN UserName LIKE '[0-9][0-9][0-9][a-z]%' OR
UserName LIKE '[0-9][0-9][0-9]#%' OR
UserName LIKE '[0-9][0-9][0-9]$%'
THEN SUBSTRING(UserName,1,3)
ELSE '001' END
As you can see, we use 3 didgit numeric prefixes on all Departmental employee accounts. This is later used to produce departmenntal user audit reports.
I then have this script in a DTS that exports the report to an excel spreadsheet. (All works well for this purpose!)
DECLARE @TimeGenerated datetime
SELECT @TimeGenerated = TimeGenerated FROM SecurityEvents_TimeGenerated
DECLARE @TimeGeneratedEnd datetime
SELECT @TimeGeneratedEnd = TimeGeneratedEnd FROM SecurityEvents_TimeGenerated
SELECT DepartmentName = CASE WHEN b.DepartmentName IS NULL
THEN 'All Department' ELSE b.DepartmentName END,
a.EventID,d.EventDescription,a.UserName, a.TimeGenerated,c.Email1,c.Email2,c.Email3,c.Email4
FROM SecurityEvents_Tmp a
LEFT JOIN DepartmentList b on a.DepartmentNumber = b.DepartmentNumber
LEFT JOIN EmailToList c on b.DepartmentNumber = c.DepartmentNumber
JOIN EventsToLog d on a.EventID = d.EventID
WHERE b.Departmentnumber in (select Departmentnumber from Departmentlist)
AND a.TimeGenerated BETWEEN @TimeGenerated AND @TimeGeneratedEnd
ORDER BY b.DepartmentNumber,a.EventID,a.TimeGenerated
This combination of utils and scripts does very good for producing generic security reports for branch officers.
But now I am getting requests to justify/explain what is in these reports. The problem I have is that the information needed to delve further into the event logs is in a field called Strings. This field not only changes in length and the amount of fields within this string, but the information in this field changes depending on the type of event record it came from.
This is the Strings field from a failed logon (529)
200jenil|DOMAIN|10|User32 |Negotiate|SERVER|SERVER$|DOMAIN|(0x0,0x3E7)|6920|-|10.190.12.10|48397
And this is from Event ID 642 which was an account being created.
-|381$cmiller|DOMAIN|%{S-1-5-21-3554868564-134719009-1577582102-7972}|Jmotta|DOMAIN|(0x0,0x58F635E)|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|%%1792|-|-
Now, my script does a good job of getting the first user name out but as in the 642 event the second users name would be useful as well. This is the person that created/modified the user account.
So what I was hoping was that I could use a function (or whatever) to automaticaly split the Strings value into it's individual components and put them into an auto-sizing temp table as something like Field1, Field2, Field3, and so on until the end of string.
I could then use a case to get the information needed.
HELP PLEASE!!
Thank You,
John Fuhrman
http://www.titangs.com