How To Query For A Column Value That Contains Dashes
Oct 12, 2007
Hi,
I have a large table with a 'datetime' column that has date and time
values in it. The data is in this format:
2007-10-02 09:54:00.000
The table is called 'profile' and the column 'msgdate'
I want to return only rows that match a specific date. So far I have
the following query working:
select * from profile where msgdate like '%2007%'
This returns all rows that start with '2007'. However I cannot seem to
ge the syntax that will allow me to return a specific date, e.g.
2007-10-02
I have researched this, trying all sorts of queries with escape
characters/sequences because of the dash character, but I cannot get
it to return anything. Most of my queries have ran without error, its
just that no data is returned.
Hi,I'm having trouble running the following query:select * from message where text_body like ' ----------%'ie, five spaces followed by at least ten hyphens. The query doesn'tcomplete, so eventually I cancel it. If I remove the hyphens from thequery ("... like ' %'") then it runs fine (though it doesn't findthe correct data).Am I confusing SQL Server by using a wildcard or regular expression?(I'm using SQL Server 2000 - 8.99.760).Thanks in advance for any helpRichard
Hi all,I have a table in the DB which holds ISBN book nubers .. which, as you knowhave dashes (examlple: 0-98765-8-9).When I run a query from an ASP page to find the number, it doesn't returnanything:sISBN = "0-98765-8-9"OpenSQL(select URL from ISBN_Redirect where ISBN=" & sISBN )Can you give me a hind of what I am doing wrong?Thanks so much in advance.S
I run a query that returns strings that look like this: 08-07, 06-07,04-05 etc. But when I copy the query outuput from Management Studion in SS2005 into Excel 2003, strings get converted into custom dates such as 8-Jun, 9-Jul, 4-May etc in Excel. Is there anthing I can do in T-SQL to prevent this conversion? The strings are set as char(5) datatype in a T-SQL view.
Can anyone help with this. IF i have a ssn like 123459636 and i want to insert dashes into it how would i do that. Results would be 123-45-9636 The second problem is that some of the ssn dont have zero in them so some look like 1234567 i would have to pad with zero then trim from the right to 9 digits then insert the dashes not sure how to do that
when i do a bulk insert with dashes (i.e. one - two), i get the character u with two dots above it ( Ü ) in place of all the dashes? can't seem to figure out why. the field terminator is a comma ( , ).
i'm inserting just text with dashes into char(75) field.
can someone explain and provide a solution? i would greatly appreciate it!
my script is quite simple, maybe i'm missing something.
Code Snippet
bulk insert testtable from '\localc$adjust.txt' with (fieldterminator = ',')
I have a package which contains a variable with the value of a UNC sharename. The hostname in the share contains dashes.
I am trying to create a SQL Agent entry to execute said package. Because the package is now in production I want to pass in a new value for the sharename variable. I use the SQL @@SERVERNAME variable to build the package command. (Notice the BlotterUploadFolder variable at the end.)
If I print the @command variable right after setting it, I get what I expect.
/FILE "\PRD-NY-DB-01PackagesMiddleOfficeReconcilliationImportManualBlotter_AccountTransfers.dtsx" /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF /REPORTING EW /CONNECTION MiddleOfficeDb;"Data Source=PRD-NY-DB-01;Initial Catalog=MiddleOffice;Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Auto Translate=False;" /SET package.variables[BlotterUploadFolder].Value;\PRD-NY-DB-01ManualBlottersUploads
If I cut-paste this into cmd window and execute it with DTExec.exe the package works fine. But when I run the schedule task it causes an error. When I go into the Job Properties dialog to look at the step, I see the value (in the "Set values" table) set to \PRD instead of \PRD-NY-DB-01.
If I modify the SELECT command above to put double-quotes around the value, the value is correct in the Job Properties dialog but causes an error when I exec it with DTExec.
/FILE "\PRD-NY-DB-01PackagesMiddleOfficeReconcilliationImportManualBlotter_AccountTransfers.dtsx" /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF /REPORTING EW /CONNECTION MiddleOfficeDb;"Data Source=PRD-NY-DB-01;Initial Catalog=MiddleOffice;Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Auto Translate=False;" /SET package.variables[BlotterUploadFolder].Value;"\PRD-NY-DB-01ManualBlottersUploads"
causes the error
Option "-NY" is not valid.
Hopefully somebody has an idea of what is going on.
Hello,I have had a request, one of our tables is used as a report and I have beenasked that all fieldnames for months have dashes in them,like Jan-05 instead of Jan05 and so on...Now what we have is a CURSOR which loops through all values in another tablegenerating these fieldnames, like 'Jan-05', Feb-05' etc..Then the table definition is modified so these months display as fieldnames.That is fine,Except later it calls another stored procedure which inserts values fromanother table into this one.INSERT INTO TableNameSELECT *FROM TablenameObviously this is failing because the newly amended table now has dashes inthe fieldnames now.Now as the fieldnames are created dynamically I cannot simply do INSERTTablename ([Jan-05], [feb-5]) etc, as one would normally do,How could I do this bearing in mind its not always going to be 12 months weuse,Basically I am asking how can I modify this INSERT statement so it takesinto account the fieldnames with dashes in themBearing in mind I don't know what the fieldnames are called as they arecreated dynamically by a CURSOR in a different routine.And its not always 12 months.have you any ideas?and the dashes are requiredJayne
Using the "set values" tab, I am trying to set the values of package variables to strings that contain spaces and/or dashes. If I run the package using the integrations services server, it runs perfectly. If I schedule the package on SQL Server agent, I get the following error.
"Executed as user: GBPSQLServer. Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility Version 9.00.3042.00 for 64-bit Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-2005. All rights reserved. Option "-restofstring" is not valid. The command line parameters are invalid. The step failed."
Looking at the command line generated by the SQL Agent interface, the value is quoted using double quotes like this:
/SQL "PackageName" /SERVER SQL1 /MAXCONCURRENT " -1 " /CHECKPOINTING OFF /SET "Package.Variables[LogFolder].Value";"\remoteservernameinetpub he-restofstring estofstring" /REPORTING E
It seems that the command line parser is not recognising the quotes, or maybe the slashes are throwing it off, or sql server agent is doing something funny to the command line before it executes it.
I have created a job which executes a procedure which executes and creates logs of StartTime and EndTime and records affected. The last step of the job sends mails to recipients from the logs table. Though I get the info correctly I get all annoying dashes for 4-5 lines between each line of message. How to remove the dashes.
Below is the code i use to send mails.
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name='SQL Mail Service', @recipients='biscribbler@gmail.com', @copy_recipients='biscribbler@gmail.com', @subject='SOFT SCRUB Completed for LiveDB',
Hi,Suppose I have a table containing monthly sales figures from my shopbranches:Branch Month Sales-----------------------London Jan 5000London Feb 4500London Mar 5200Cardiff Jan 2900Cardiff Feb 4100Cardiff Mar 3500The question I am trying to ask is this: in which month did each branchachieve its highest sales? So I want a result set something like this:Branch Month----------------London MarCardiff FebI can do a "SELECT Branch, MAX(Sales) FROM MonthlySales GROUP BY Branch" totell me what the highest monthly sales figure was, but I just can't figureout how to write a query to tell me which month corresponded to MAX(Sales).Ideas anyone?Cheers,....Andy
-- The 3rd query uses an incorrect column name in a sub-query and succeeds but rows are incorrectly qualified. This is very DANGEROUS!!! -- The issue exists is in 2008 R2, 2012 and 2014 and is "By Design"
set nocount on go if object_id('tempdb.dbo.#t1') IS NOT NULL drop table #t1 if object_id('tempdb.dbo
[code]....
This succeeds when the invalid column name is a valid column name in the outer query. So in this situation the sub-query would fail when run by itself but succeed with an incorrectly applied filter when run as a sub-query. The danger here is that if a SQL Server user runs DML in a production database with such a sub-query which then the results are likely not the expected results with potentially unintended actions applied against the data. how many SQL Server users have had incorrectly applied DML or incorrect query results and don't even know it....?
do i need to nest a query in RS if i want a calculated column to be compared against a multi value variable? It looks like coding WHERE calcd name in (@variable) violates SQL syntax. My select looked like
SELECT ... ,CASE enddate WHEN null then 1 else 0 END calcd name FROM... WHERE ... and calcd name in (@variable)
When I run query in excel it gives result with different column sequence. The same query gives result with different column sequence when used in query analyzer or VBA Macro. E.g., Select * from ABC.
I need to name make the name of a column the same as the name of a table from the result of a sql query.. here is the assignment question below..I can't figure out how to get the name of the table to be inputed as the column name..
Write a script that uses dynamic SQL to return a single column that represents the number of rows in the first table in the current database. The script should automatically choose the table that appears first alphabetically, and it should exclude tables named dtproperties and sysdiagrams. [highlight=#ffff11]Name the column CountOfTable, where Table is the chosen table name.[/highlight] Hint: Use the sys.tables catalog view.
I can figure out the rest. and actually have alredy done it, but i cannot figure out how to do the part that is highlighted above. I looked at lots of things on google to figure it out but no luck..Can some just give me some directlon or an example..
I have a column colC in a table myTable that has a value (e.g. '0X'). The position of a non-zero character in column colC refers to the ordinal position of another column in the table myTable (in the aforementioned example, colB).
To get a column name (i.e., colA or colB) from table myTable, I can join ("ON cte.pos = cn.ORDINAL_POSITION") to INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS for that table catalog, schema and name. But I want to show the value of what is in that column (e.g., 'ABC'), not just the name. Hoping for:
COLUMN_NAME Value ----------- ----- colB 123 colA XYZ
I've tried dynamic SQL to no success, probably not executing the concept correctly...
I'm having a bit of a trouble explaining what I'm trying to do here.
I have 3 "source" tables and a "connecting" table that I'm going to use
tblContacts - with contactID, ContactName etc tblGroups - with GroupID, GroupName tblSubGroups - with SubGroupID, GroupID and SubGroupName (groupID is the ID for the parent Group from tblGroups)
They are related in a table called tblContactsGroupConnection - with ContactID, GroupID and SubGroupID
One contact can be related to many subgroups. What I want is a list of all contacts, with their IDs, names and what groups they are related to:
Can someone tell me how to sum values in a column from a resultant Query. For example, consider this query which in partcalls a view named "Rpt_OverallIndMarket" select * from Rpt_OverallIndMarket order by MarketId,Year,Quarter The resultant query from the previous query will contain a column named TotalSquareFeet. How do I sum all of the TotalSquareFeet values inthat column?
Hi, I'm pretty sure that I've missed something obvious but I can't think of what it is, I need to get rows where "forid" is 0 and 1 but I can't think of how to do it, I tried:
SELECT * FROM `events` WHERE `forid` = '0' AND `forid` = '1'
ref.value('IsJavaRuling[1]', 'varchar(36)') as [IsJavaRuling]
FROM REQUESTCOMPLIANCE CROSS APPLY xml.nodes ('//CheckPointExpressIDNotRequired') R(ref)
order by lastmodifieddate desc
My query runs successfully but I am not getting any results back however there are many rows to be returned. Can you tell me what is wrong with the query?
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Is it possible to use a column name variable in a Select Statement for a column name?For example I have a dropdown with FName,LName,Phone and a text box. The user can select the field to search and the criteria will go into the text box. The problem is the select doesn't like a variable for the field name. I have tried both a standard variable and a Case statement (see below). This is being used in a Stored Procedure with MSSQL. The actual select is much more complicated than this but it gets the point across. Thanks for your help in advance@Field as varchar( 50),@Value as varchar (50)SELECT *FROM customersWHERE @Field = @ValueORSELECT *FROM customersWHERE CASE WHEN @Field = 'Fname' THEN Fname = @Value END, CASE WHEN @Field = 'Lname' THEN Lname = @Value END, CASE WHEN @Field = 'Phone' THEN Phone = @Value END;
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I am trying to parse a query column that has both a city name and state code within it. What I would like to do is parse the queryed column and seperate them by the ",". Can someone please help?
example: Select Name, Address1, Left(Address2, ",") as City, Right(Address2, ",") as State From tblPersonalInfo
I am trying to develop this query in MSSQL but am having a problem with the syntax.
I don't know why but the query is breaking on 'Invalid Column Name A1'. Here is my query.
Code:
SELECT Groups.GroupID, Sum(Stages_On_Route.Distance) AS Miles_Covered, Groups.Group_Name FROM Groups INNER JOIN ((Route INNER JOIN Departure ON (Route.GroupID=Departure.GroupID) AND (Route.RouteID=Departure.RouteID)) INNER JOIN Stages_On_Route ON Route.RouteID=Stages_On_Route.RouteID) ON Groups.GroupID=Departure.GroupID GROUP BY Groups.GroupID, Groups.Group_Name HAVING (((Groups.GroupID)="A1"));
