I have been asked to investigate the feasibility of converting an Invoice Number field from 6 to 7 digits, and allowing alpha characters. This means CHAR. The Invoice Number is not used outside of the application, but changes would have to be made to the database, and VB code that runs the app. Any ideas on how to proceed?
Any responses would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Hi ,Have a Visual C++ app that use odbc to access sql server database.Doing a select to get value of binary field and bind a char to thatfield as follows , field in database in binary(16)char lpResourceID[32+1];rc = SQLBindCol(hstmt, 1, SQL_C_CHAR,&lpResourceID,RESOURCE_ID_LEN_PLUS_NULL , &nLen1);and this works fine , however trying to move codebase to UNICODE antested the followingWCHAR lpResourceID[32+1];rc = SQLBindCol(hstmt, 1, SQL_W_CHAR,&lpResourceID,RESOURCE_ID_LEN_PLUS_NULL , &nLen1);but only returns 1/2 the data .Any ideas , thoughts this would work fine , nit sure why loosing dataAll ideas welcome.JOhn
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Insert Into AlaskaData2( CurrIssueDate, InactivationDate)
select Convert (Datetime, CurrIssueDate) CurrIssueDate,
Convert(Datetime, InactivationDate) InactivationDate
from Alaskadata1
go
I have a Database which is having a Counterdate time Column stored in the form of Char(24)
But i need it to be in form of datetime so that i can use the datetime functions on it..When i use the cast or convert inside the function where i am passing this character it gives me error
"Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string."
I am done all permutatiions and combinations for this used
Set @DE = convert ( datetime, @ts,121)
Set @de = cast( @ts as datetime)
BUT ALWZ give me same error.... also when i copy the whole of the data table into some other database the error doesnt come.. i converts the character into the datetime..
I DONT understand why the Server is behaving wiered..
Hoping to get an answer soon.
With regards
Sharad
Database Developer ,
UIC
Hello everyone, I have searched and seached for an answer to something that I know has to be simple but have been unsuccessful. I appreciate any help...
I am trying to take a char (6) column named col001 and convert it to datetime.
The column is in mmddyy format. I am using SQL 2000, but have available sql 7.0 servers if there is a difference. I expect that I have to write a cursor but have been unable to get the correct syntax. Thanks everyone
hello all, I am having a problem calculating the difference, in days, between two dates, STARTDATE and ENDDATE. The data is stored in the database as char(8), formatted YYYYMMDD. "Null" values are stored as '00000000'. When I try to use DATEDIFF an exception is thrown: "the conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value" How can I fix this, and a get a result even if STARTDATE or ENDDATE is '00000000'? Changing the format of the stored data is not an option. Thanks for any assistance. Mike CREATE TABLE dbo.DATETIME1 (ID1 int,STARTDATE char(8),ENDDATE char(8))INSERT into DATETIME1 (ID1, STARTDATE, ENDDATE)VALUES (1, '20070105', '20070108')INSERT into DATETIME1 (ID1, STARTDATE, ENDDATE)VALUES (2, '20070105', '00000000')Select * from DATETIME1Select DATEDIFF(d, STARTDATE, Convert(datetime,ENDDATE) ) as Difference from DATETIME1 WHERE ID1 = 1
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Here's my query:
DECLARE @StartDate AS varchar(30)
DECLARE @EndDate AS varchar(30)
SET @StartDate = (CONVERT(varchar(20),'01-05-2014', 101))
SET @EndDate = (CONVERT(varchar(20),'31-05-2014', 101))
[code]....
Hi,
I need to convert a var char field to date field (DD/MM/YYYY)
Current convertion format:
CAST(Report_Date as DATETIME)
How can i convert to Date field with date format of DD/MM/YYYY?
Thanks.
Onn Onn
hello all,is there a quick way to convert a zipcode of type int, to a 5 characterchar value ?e.g.declare @zip intdeclare @czip char(5)select @zip = 2109select @czip = convert(char, @zip)select @czipbut with @czip = 02109 instead of 2109 ?thanks in advance
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Can someone tell me how (in SQL) to convert an integer to a fixed length character filled with leading zeros. For example, I have an integer value of '125'. My user wants to see it displayed as '00000125'. How do I get the zeroes to fill in to a char(8) field when the length of the value differs, ie. '1', '125', '3452', etc.
Thanks in advance,
Terry
Hi,
We are in process of converting all of the data type of the fields from CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT into NCHAR/NVARCHAR/NTEXT (DBCS). Having more than 900 store procedure its look like real pain to make modification in all of the SPs.
After failed to find any help from GOOGLE, I am posting this request. I am basically looking for any automated tool which are convert data type in SP based on the field of the table used in the SP. Or at least which can provide me some sort of list which can helpful for doing manual reactoring.
PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Thanks,
Firoz Ansari
DECLARE @datetimeoffset datetimeoffset(3)
DECLARE @datetime datetime
SELECT @datetimeoffset = '2012-11-08T17:22:13.575+00:00'
SELECT @datetime = @datetimeoffset
SELECT @datetimeoffset AS '@datetimeoffset ', @datetime AS 'datetime'
__________________________________________________ ___________
Result of above SQL is
@datetimeoffset datetime
2012-11-08 17:22:13.575 +00:002012-11-08 17:22:13.577
__________________________________________________ ____________
The result should be '2012-11-08 17:22:13.575', why the milliseconds value is incorrect
Hi
I'm extracting a char(2) field from a table that has a value of '1' and writing it to another table but want the output field to be padded with a zero. I have tried this below:
right('00' + isnull(Field1, ' '),2
but the output field comes out as '1 ' (that's 1 followed by a space). Does anyone have any idea how I can do this or please point out what I'm doing wrong in my 'right(' fucntion above.
Thanks,
Jeff
ok, so we have a field in one of our db's, a do_not_synch field. this field has a datatype of char...
the following sql statement does not update the field..
update contacts
set do_not_synch = 'Y'
where id=1
and if i open up the table in sql server management studio, and cannot type in and save the value Y...yes i can update other fields in this row...so its not a permissions issue?
is there anything special i should have to do?
Cheers,
Justin
Hi,
I have a varchar field that contains values to represent the month and year in the format mmyy (eg. 0107, 0207, 0307 etc).
I want to be able to select the value that is 6 months before the current month and year, for example if I were running the query in the current month/year (April 08) I would return the value 1007 (October 07).
Is someone able to help me with this please?
Thanks
Hi,
If I want to make a field of characters to be unlimited length(or maybe 2k for example), what datatype should I use?
Char, varchar and text have a max. limit of 255...
Will appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Nishi
I need help on replace char in ntext data type
Here is the example data
<qMultipleChoice><qText>The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off
20on.</qText><qChoice>Strongly20Disagree</qChoice><qChoice>Disagree
</qChoice><qChoice>Agree</qChoice><qChoice>Strongly%20Agree</qCh
I want result look like this
First Column:The AE Understands what conditions the Account Manager is allowed to sign-off.
Second Column: Strongly Disagree Disagree Agree Strongly Agree
This is what i had so far
Select (SUBSTRING(QuestionText, (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7),(PATINDEX(N'%</qText>%', QuestionText) - (PATINDEX(N'%<qText>%', QuestionText) + 7)))) From tblQuestion
my result:
The%20AE%20understands%20what%20conditions%20the%2 0Account%20Manager%20is%20allowed%20to%20sign-off%20on.
I have problem with replace '%20' and how to make the second column.
Any Help?
Thanks
Shan
We made a poor decision a long time ago when designing our databasestructure. We used bigint data types as the identity keys for many ofour base tables. For many reasons I would like to change these fieldsto int at the largest. The largest data in these fields is around200,000. I know that int can easily store this.What should I be worried about when changing these fields from bigintto int? If anything. Your help is appreciated. I did severalsearches without much luck.
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Barkingdog
I have a table with several million rows of data. There is a date field defined as a char(8) with some bad rows. i tried to locate them with below
select date_stopped from patient_medication
where isdate(convert(datetime,date_stopped)) = 1
This won't work, I get the
Server: Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value
Any way around this?
Hello,
what's best for year resp. quarter Field, char(4) resp. char(1), integer or other?
Both are part of a composite index.
Thanks
Silas
Can someone comment on why joining two tables on CHAR fields of different lengths would generate unexpected results?
I had an issue where I ran an update that used an inner join on two tables. The field I used in the join was char(50) in one table and char(13) in another table. The result gave bad matches. After changing the field types both to varchar(30), the problem was eliminate.
Any comments on this would be appreciated.
Rye Guy
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
I am attempting to find quotes (") in a column and replace with the string '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'. Right now my script only converts the first quote it finds in the description column, converts to the string and moves to the next row leaving the other quotes as they were. Below is my query script
DECLARE @find varchar(8000),
@replace varchar(8000),
@patfind varchar(8000)
SELECT @find = '"',
@replace = '--THIS-WAS-QUOTES--'
SELECT @patfind = '%' + @find + '%'
UPDATE Incident
SET description = STUFF(convert( varchar(8000), description ),
PATINDEX( @patfind, description ),
DATALENGTH( @find ),
@replace )
WHERE description LIKE @patfind
Would it be OK to use varchar(5) instead of char(5) as the first field of acomposite clustered index?My gut tells me that varchar would be a bad idea, but I am not finding muchinformation on this topic on this when I Google it.Currently the field is Char(4), and there is a need to increase it to hold 5characters.TIA
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The code i have below extracts the date part of a timestamp column and converts it to a char field. This becomes a problem when I joing the resultant table with a SAS dataset which contains the same column but is in a date format. The join process generates an error saying the column is in different formats.
convert(char(15), process_date,112) as process_dt
Hi,
What is the difference updating a null value to char/varchar type column
versus empty string to char/varchar type column?Which is the best to do and why?
Could anyone explain about this?
Example:
Table 1 : tCountry - Name varchar(80) nullable
Table 2 :tState - Name char(2) nullable
Table 3 :tCountryDetails - countryid,state (char(2) nullable) - May the country contain state or no state
So,when the state is not present for the country ,i have two options may be - null,''
tCountryDetails.State = '' or tCountryDetails.State = null?
I did create the field on table as TinyInt. I created an appending query and appended the records to the SQL table. Now I have 0's or 255's in the field.
Shouldn't they be 0's and 1's instead????
What am I doing wrong?
What's the best way to convert the Yes/No fields into SQL, since I want to keep the access front end.
Thanks for any help.
Is there a way to convert from varchar to text? I need to concatenate an varchar value into an existing text field. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I have a 6 char field which has to be converted to a datetime. I thought I had it solved when I did this
convert(datetime,(left(dob,2)+'-'+substring(dob,3,2)+'-'+right(dob,2)))
Problem is with a date value of 081649
I get 08/16/2049 instead of 1949, where did I goof
Stuart writes "Hi being new to this game
I have have an error when trying to inseet string into a table with datetime field.
the date is not that important its the time that I use in later steps
I am creating a global temp table and then inserting values into it
below is the code
-- create the temp table
Execute ( 'create table ##progsch0
([Time] [DateTime] , '
+ '[' + @day7 + '] [varchar](100) ,'
+ '[' + @day1 + '] [varchar](100) ,'
+ '[' + @day2 + '] [varchar](100) ,'
+ '[' + @day3 + '] [varchar](100) ,'
+ '[' + @day4 + '] [varchar](100) ,'
+ '[' + @day5 + '] [varchar](100) ,'
+ '[' + @day6 + '] [varchar](100) )')
set @Starttime = 'JUL 21,2006 5:30am'
I am doing the insert in this manor becuase the @Starttime
in code actually changes time and a new record in inserted into the temp table.
Set @SQL = 'Insert into ##progsch0 (Time)
Values(convert(varchar,Convert(datetime,'+ @Starttime +'),100))'
PRINT @SQL
execute sp_executesql @SQL
I may to doing this in the completely wrong manor.
Any help would be greatful "
How can I create a field in a view that takes a date field andconverts it to a month?For instance, if I have a field called "CreatedOn" with a date of'2/22/2007', how can I create another field called "Month" that willsay "February"? Is there a built-in SQL function that does this (likeusing CONVERT) or do I need to write my own?Thanks!Lisa
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