I have a report with a column which contains either a string such as "N/A" or a number such as 12. A user exports the report to Excel. In Excel the numbers are formatted as text.
I already tried to set the value as CDbl which returns error for the cells containing a string.
The requirement is to export the column to Excel with the numbers formatted as numbers and the strings such as "N/A' in the same column as string.
Hi,I have a table that has an ID field which is automatically incremented as each new record is added, so if I do a SELECT * FROM Table1 I get:ID, Name1, Billy2, Bob3, TonyYou get the idea. What I want to do is format the number differently when it's returned from an SQL statement so I get:ID, Name0001, Billy0002, Bob0003, TonySo I need something like SELECT FORMATNUMBER(ID, 4), Name FROM Table1 - Does anything like this exist?Little 'un.
What is the simplest way to format the 10 digit numeric string that represents a phone number, so that the result appearing on a web page looks like (xxx) xxx-xxxx. Should this take place in the database or out at the web server or where?
Here's my problem: I have to clean up a SQL Server 2005 database with a large number of phone number records (several hundred thousand). The records are of varchar datatype and contain phone numbers in every format imaginable. In fact, many records have written notes regarding the phone numbers after the numbers themselves. What I need to do is format all of the phone numbers to this format:
###-###-####-
Basically I'm figuring I need to do the following: 1. Strip all non-numeric characters from the record 2. Remove the 1 from any records that have a leading 1 (in many cases the records contain stuff like 1-888-555-1234) 3. Remove any digits following the first 10 digits (they don't want to keep any extensions - the formatting is more important) 4. Add dashes after the first three digits, after the second three and at the end of the phone number
This seems like a rather complex problem to me, and honestly I don't even know where to begin. I can accomplish this rather easily in javascript or C#, but writing SQL to solve this is beyond me. I'd really appreciate any help you guys can provide. Thanks alot!
Once I've converted my floats to chars using STR, is there an easy wayto put commas in separating the thousands.i.e. convert53000000.12to53,000,000.12I'm thinking I'll have to do it with a user defined function and thevarious string functions myself but was wondering if anyone had aneasier way?CheersDave
I'm using Reporting Services in conjunction with Analysis Services.
The problem I'm having is formatting numbers to be dollar amounts. I know how to set this in Reporting Services and when a data source was regular SQL, then everything was just fine. However, when I switch to Analysis Services the number would just stay the same. i.e. "60.2" instead of "$60.20". The only thing I can think of is if Analysis Services is returning the number as a string for some reason, and RS won't format strings for currency.
I'm trying to put conditional formatting on a field, that behaves as follows:
The data in the field is varchar, and sample data is either:
NULL 3.0 :0 11.7 :1 (these are ratios of a sort)
I want to evaluate the first 3 characters of the string as numbers.
Example: Mid(fieldvalue,1,3) = "3.0" or "11."
Any data that is greater than 1.99, I want to make the background dark red, anything else including nulls, zebra formatting. I have the following expression built so far and it appears to work, except when the value is null. If the value is null, it leaves the background color white.
This is the warning: [rsRuntimeErrorInExpression] The BackgroundColor expression for the text box "Asthma" contains an error: Input string was not in a correct format.
=iif( isnothing(Fields!Asthma.Value) ,(IIf(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2 = 0,"#b8cce4","#dbe5f1")) ,(iif(mid(Fields!Asthma.Value,1,3)>1.99 ,"DarkRed" ,IIf(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2 = 0,"#b8cce4","#dbe5f1"))))
My logic is, if the field is null, zebra format, if mid of the value is > 1.99, dark red, everything else zebra formatting. As I said, this seems to work except for nulls.
Why does M$ Query Analyzer display all numbers as positive, no matterwhether they are truly positive or negative ?I am having to cast each column to varchar to find out if there areany negative numbers being hidden from me :(I tried checking Tools/Options/Connections/Use Regional Settings bothon and off, stopping and restarting M$ Query Analyer in betwixt, butno improvement.Am I missing some other option somewhere ?
I have a table with a column ID of ContentID. The ID in that column is all NULLs. I need a way to change those nulls to a number. It does not matter what type of number it is as long as they are different. Can someone point me somewhere with a piece of T-SQL that I could use to do that. There are over 24000 rows so cursor change will not be very efficient.
I have an 'ID' column. I'm up to about ID number 40000, but not all are in use, so ID 4354 might not be in any row. I want a list of all numbers which aren't in use. I want to write something like this:
select [numbers from 0 to 40000] where <number> not in (select distinct id from mytable)
Hello all,I have a strange problem that i need some advice on. I have the following field called FILENO. It is a SQL 2000 field with the Data Type set to Char (7). The following sql statement works perfectly:SELECT TOP 1 RTRIM(FILENO) AS TEST, RIGHT(DATEPART(Yy, FILENOYEAR), 2) AS YEAR FROM tblRecordsWHERE RIGHT(DATEPART(Yy, FILENOYEAR), 2) = '05'ORDER BY FILENO DESCIt returns the correct data, 0050. Now, what i'm trying to do is add 1 to the value so i can get the next available number which is 0051. But, when i run the following sql statement, i get 51 instead of 0051.SELECT TOP 1 RTRIM(FILENO+1) AS TEST, RIGHT(DATEPART(Yy, FILENOYEAR), 2) AS YEAR FROM tblRecordsWHERE RIGHT(DATEPART(Yy, FILENOYEAR), 2) = '05'ORDER BY FILENO DESCDoes anyone have an idea how to solve this? Thanks.Richard M.
I'm working as a consultant for a project and I have been having constant issues with the in house "database guru" about stored procedure formating.
He insists I use a format similar to this:
create procedure getUser @UserId int = NULL as select UserName , UserPassword , UserRole from Users join UserRole on User.ID = UserRole.ID where User.ID = @UserID and User.Active = 1
where as I prefer this format:
create procedure getUser ( @UserId int = NULL ) as select UserName, UserPassword, UserRole from Users join UserRole on User.ID = UserRole.ID where User.ID = @UserID and User.Active = 1
Now normally I don't argue about style issues but I find his format confusing and it bothers me that it senselesly wastes lines make the stored procedure longer than necessary.
I'd love to get some comments on this issue or reference to any discussions on issues such as this.
Hello - Does anyone know why SQL Server Reporting Services formatts SQL weird? -- If I type a SQL statement in notepad or notepad++ and then paste it in Reporting Services it will change the whole structure and "expand" it out to three or four times its size. Thanks Adam
I need to show my SUM of the 2 columns added in the query below formatted as currency. Is this possible? SELECT SUM(QVSTDN + QVNONC) AS Total FROM INVOICE_TBL WHERE QVORDN = @QVORDN AND QVINV = @QVINV I tried: SELECT CONVERT(varchar(12), SUM(QVSTDN + QVNONC) , 1) AS Total FROM INVOICE_TBL WHERE QVORDN = @QVORDN AND QVINV = @QVINV But this does not format it as currency. Any input would be helpful.
I imported data from a text file, where dates are currently in the format: 050729 to represent July 29, 2005. How could I write a sql statment to put make this show up as 07/29/05?
I am trying to output data from SQL Server to an email body message with a little formatting (just to make it legible) Using this SQL statement: select top 1 'Name', app_first_name+' '+app_last_name [name] ,'Submission Date', submission_date ,'Address', app_address+', '+app_city+', '+app_state+' '+app_zip from vw_bpa_export where app_email = dave@email.com order by submission_date desc the resulting output displays this in the email body "Name","Brian Vogler","Submission Date","2008-01-30 07:45:00","Address","6285 Harrow Trace, Norcross, GA 30092 " but what I want is the text to look more like this: Name Brian VoglerSubmission Date 2008-01-30 07:45:00Address 6285 Harrow Trace, Norcross, GA 30092 Is there a way to do this in the SQL statement (without HTML tags)?
In a SQLDataSource, the following line throws an error as an undefined function. FilterExpression='left$(lname,1) = "D"' Isn't this a standard VB function and why does it produce an error. How do I fix? Thanks
I have values in my database that I'd like to display as $xxx,xxx.xx. Some of these values use the money datatype and others use float.
I'm building a string in a stored procedure that is eventually passed to Visual Basic. I want to format these values in the above format in the string that is passed. I've searched all through MSN and I couldn't find anything related to VB's FORMAT function in SQL Server.
Does Transact-SQL have any functions that could format these values for me?
Does anyone familiar with a tool or a quick way to put apostrophes and commas around some values, so they could be used in a query ? Example, if I have a bunch of zip codes such as: 10001 10003 10009 54321 89043 etc Let's say I have a couple of hundreds of them. I need to be able to see them as -
I am trying to run a query for the company that I work for and I am getting the right data but more than needed. the query is like this
select distinct(companyname),max(calldate) from tablename
what I want to see is the latest call made to a customer for each company but what I get back is the company listed several times with the dates of each call. I only want the latest. Any help?
I have been requested to take a number of columns and concatenate them into one column with a specifc format/layout. For example I need to take this, (noting all columns are of different datatypes:
col_1 col_2 col_3 col_4 col_5 col_6 col_7 PK #1 John Doe 123 Elm Street Anywhere NM 55660 #2 #3 etc..
...and create this on a different table (noting col_2 is of datatype "text": col_1 col_2 PK #1 John Doe 123 Elm Street Anywhere NM 55660 #2 #3 etc..
Can this type of formatting be done? I know how to concatenate data and use the convert function, but how do you add in CR-LF to get the proper formatting??
Requirement: On Insert, Trigger xp_sendmail to complete pre-formatted email with specific content and send to given email address.
Question: What tools/methods are available to develop a template that SQL Mail's (SQL Server) xp_sendmail function can utilise without resorting to attachments.
e.g. - how do Amazon.com format and send their automated shipping confirmaion emails ??
I'm currently getting a date in this format 2001-10-08 10:35:45 (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss) how would I convert the date to this format 2001-10-08/10:35:45 (yyyy-mm-dd/hh:mm:ss)? The only thing added was the / between the date and time.
I am new to php/MySQL and am working on an online manual. The data is divided into Title and Content. The title is easy as it is one line but the content is meant to be in a number of paragraphs.
The Content field is currently set as "blob" and the text comes out as just one paragraph. Wha can I do to get paragraphs etc into the text?
Hi, I am running a script which inserts certain rows into a table and at the end of the execution, I do a select statement to show the inserted data as output in the results pane and it is showing as truncated...How can I show the full results.. Here is my script to show the results. ---------- SET NOCOUNT ON DECLARE @errorCount INT SELECT @errorCount = COUNT(*) FROM error_report WHERE id != - 2 ANDid != - 5 IF @errorCount = 0 BEGIN INSERT INTO error_report VALUES( '' , - 1 , 'No error found.' ) END INSERT INTO error_report VALUES( '' , - 2 , 'The Report was generated on ' + CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(23), GETDATE(), 1) AS VARCHAR) ) GO SELECT table_name + ' table has bad data at id = ' + CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(23), id) AS VARCHAR) + ' (' + CAST(reason AS VARCHAR) + ')'FROM error_report WHERE id > 0 SELECT table_name + ' table has bad data (' + CAST(reason AS VARCHAR) + ')' FROM error_report WHERE id = 0 SELECT reason FROM error_report WHERE id = - 1 SELECT '' SELECT reason FROM error_report WHERE id = - 2 SET NOCOUNT OFF GO ------------------------- The Results in the bottom pane looks like this below ------------------ NODETABLE table has bad data (There are 2 duplicate subclass) Propertytable table has bad data (at Parentid = 2000000859 and p) Propertytable table has bad data (at Parentid = 10122 and proper) ------------------- But, when I do a select, they are like this below ----
NODETABLE0There are 2 duplicate subclass name: Specification Propertytable0at Parentid = 2000000859 and propertyid = 721 Propertytable0at Parentid = 10122 and propertyid = 9
I wrote the below code and procedure that exports two tables contents into 2 separate Excel files. Is there a way to export contents of two tables via BCP utility into 1 Excel file but 2 different Worksheets of this file?
DECLARE @FileName varchar(50), @FileName1 varchar(50), @bcpCommand varchar(2000) SET @FileName = 'E:GPPD_db_stats.XLS' SET @FileName1 = 'E:GPPD_file_stats.XLS' print @FileName SET @bcpCommand = 'bcp "master.dbo.spdbdesc" OUT ' + @FileName + ' -Samex-srv-gppdb -T -c' print @bcpCommand EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @bcpCommand
SET @bcpCommand = 'bcp "master.dbo.spfiledesc" OUT ' + @FileName1 + ' -Samex-srv-gppdb -T -c' print @bcpCommand EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @bcpCommand exec master.dbo.xp_stopmail set @bcpCommand = ' ' + @FileName + '; ' + @FileName1 + '' DECLARE @body VARCHAR(1024) SET @body = 'Please find enclosed files with the database status reports as of '+ CONVERT(VARCHAR, GETDATE()) + '. Please DO NOT respond to this email or the ones coming in the future ' + 'with data files as this email address is not monitored for incoming emails. However, if you have any ' + 'questions/concerns please contact ....'
