need help condition 1 replace characters on condition in table and cells but only if how to do it - if i put * (asterisk) like in employee 111 in day1 - the the upper characters the (A S B) i replace characters with '-' and it must work dynamically condition 2 replace characters on condition in table and cells but only if if i put number or 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 above any cell for example( employee id=222 name =bbbb day1) i replace characters with '0' and '#' and it must work dynamically table before the replace
I have followed many tutorials on selecting and replacing text in text fields, varchar fields and char fields, but I have yet to find a single script that will to all 3 based on field type. Let's assume for a moment that I don't know where all in my database a certain value that I need changed resides ... i.e., the data's tablename and fieldname. How would I go about doing the following ... or more importantly, is this even possible in a SQL only procedure?1) Loop over entire database and get all user tables2) Loop over all user tables and get all fields3) Loop over all fields and determine the field type4) switch between field types and change a string of text from 'a' to 'b'Please be gentle, I'm a procedure newb.
Here is my issue i have email addresses in a column of a table in sql server. Are addreses has changed since and i need to do a mass update of these email addreses i need to replace a few char to reflect this change like ex:
AAAAA@BBB.CCC.Com i need to replace the BBB. part with nothing so that it looks like this AAAAA@CCC.Com.
sunil writes "hi, i have a problem when i updating record in the database. i am trying to insert value ('Company's Director') in the field but i receive an error Incorrect syntax near 's' what do i do for this error.i want to value like as ('Company''s Director'). please solve my problem"
ok Im sure this is simple. what is the command to execute a replace in a select statement
SELECT CUSTOMER.customer_id, CUSTOMER.full_name, CUSTOMER.main_address_1, CUSTOMER.main_address_2 FROM CUSTOMER WHERE (((CUSTOMER.main_address_1) Like '%road%'))
???Replace all instences of road with RD??? can some one help on this one or even a refrence for research (besides BOL or Technet)
I’ve created a script which will do the following.
Update fields in a database which contain instances of an order number. An order number is defined as a 10 digit numeric sting which beings with 998. The first 3 digits of the order number need to change from 998 to 999. There are two types of fields to update: document number fields which may contain 1 instance of the order number and free text fields which may contain multiple instances of an order number.
I created a function which accepts the text to be updated, the text to find and the text to replace it with. The function then loops through the sting for instances of 998. For each instance it finds it checks to ensure that it is at the start of a 10 digit string which contains only numeric numbers – if this is the case then it will update the 998 to be 999. If the field is free text then it will continue to loop through the string (it will skip forward 10 digits for every order number found) until the end. If the field is not free text then it will exit the script after the first instance found which matches the above criteria, if any.
Need achieving this via set processing and not having to loop through every line. I’ve included the function below and some test data.
--Create the function we will call in order to do the replace if object_id(N'OrderReplace',N'FN') is not null drop function dbo.OrderReplace; go create function dbo.OrderReplace ( @Textnvarchar(4000),
I am working with a database named €œDocuments€? that contains 4 categories of text documents, each having its own number designation in an integer datatype column named SectionTypeId:
1 = Text 2 = Report 3 = Background 4 = Index
I would like to create a new column named €œDocType€? in which the integer data type for each document is replaced with a varchar data type letter (1 = T, 2 = R, 3 = B, 4 = I). I was able to easily create the new column and cast the data type from integer to varchar:
--CREATE NEW COLUMN €œDocType€? WITH VARCHAR DATATYPE
ALTER TABLE FullDocuments ADD DocType VARCHAR(1) NULL Go
--UPDATE NEW COLUMN WITH CAST STRING
UPDATE FullDocuments SET DocType = CAST(SectionTypeID AS VARCHAR(1)) Go
But I have problems with the REPLACE method for replacing the numbers with letters. First I tried this based on the examples in MSDN Library:
--REPLACE NUMBERS WITH LETTERS
UPDATE Fulldocuments REPLACE (DocType,"1","T")
Which produced an error message: €œIncorrect syntax near 'REPLACE'.€?
Thinking that the datatype may be the problem, I tried this to convert to DT_WSTR data type prior to replace:
I have a table that has a Text datatype column that has gotten somegarbagecharacters in it somehow, probably from key entry. I need to removethe garbage, multiple occurances of char(15). The replace functiondoes not work on Text datatype. Any suggestions?
I have a SQL Server 2005 database that has a table with a TEXT column. This TEXT column has XML data in it. The length of the XML data in each record in the table is about 700,000 characters. What is the quickest most efficient method to replace a nodes text with another value? I.E., <LogoLarge>aasdfasdfaasadfasdfsdfasdfadsf</LogoLarge> with <LogoLarge>a</LogoLarge>. This table has about 2 million records. Thanks in advance for your help.
There are plenty of scripts to do this on a per-DB level, but any that will allow me to generate a script for all DB's at once? Mine are split across dozens and it would be much easier to do a loop (using MS_ForeachDB ? )
I have a text field with about 17,500 rows I need to edit from for example: '1.90X .90' to '1.90X 0.90'? The numbers are various but follow the basic format albiet they may vary to say '22.78X .40'
I have a string column in a DB where it's values contain the following midway through the string ([DOCUMENTGUID] is a uniqueidentifier that is different for each row):
I've got an nvarchar(max) column that I need to transform with some simple text processing: insert some markup at the very beginning, and insert some markup just before a particular regular expression is matched (or at the end, if no match is found).
Since the SSIS expression language doesn't support anything like this, is a Script Component the only way to go? Does Visual Basic .NET provide regular expression matching?
I have a text file which has rows 7 rows.I want to insert the data into SQL table using ssis In text file we have a column which has values as Y or N...I wanted to take only those rows which are Y...But we have only 6 rows in SQL table.It does not have the column with Y or N.
We have a legacy database that have hundreds of stored procedures.
The previous programmar uses a string like servername.databasename.dbo.tablename in the stored procedures. We now have migrated the database to a new server. The old server is either needed to be replaced by the new server name, or remove it.
I don't know why he used servername as part of the fully qualified name, we don't use linked servers. So I think better removing the servername in all the stored procedures.
I know I can do a generate script, and replace the text and then use alter procedure to recreate all the stored procedures. But since hundreds of them, is there a programmatically way to replace them?
I've never used SQL for anything but simple copies and queries, and now I need to do something that's probably simple, as well, but I don't know how to start. I need to update values in a text field with new values from another table. I can do it individually with an update statement (Set [field1] = 'newvalue' where [field1] = 'oldvalue'). But I have 400 different values and a bunch of different tables that need to be updated, and can't imagine that's the only solution. I can make up a simple table that will have all the old values in one column, and the new values in the next. I need a statement that look at the old value, then fetch the new value from the table I made, and replace the old value with the new.
I've looked at various help files and tried to search for a solution elsewhere, but I'm not coming up with anything. I guess I just don't know where to look. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
I'm having a problem... maybe it's very simple, but with soo many work, right now I can't think well...
I need to filter rows in a dataflow...
I created a condition spli to that... maybe there is a better solution...
And the condition is: Datex != NULL(DT_DATE)
(Some DATE != NULL)
[Eliminar Datex NULL [17090]] Error: The expression "Datex != NULL(DT_DATE)" on "output "Case 1" (17123)" evaluated to NULL, but the "component "Eliminar Datex NULL" (17090)" requires a Boolean results. Modify the error row disposition on the output to treat this result as False (Ignore Failure) or to redirect this row to the error output (Redirect Row). The expression results must be Boolean for a Conditional Split. A NULL expression result is an error.
I am trying to write an visibility function to have message shown based on two different IIF conditions:
If behavior is to Add a customer ( if message =NAME ALREADY EXISTS, return " NAME ALREADY EXISTS",   otherwize return " NAME CREATED")If behavior is to Delete a customer (( if message =NAME DOES NOT EXIST, return "NAME DOES NOT EXIST",   otherwize return "NAME SUCCESSFULLY DELETED") I tried the following which doesn't work: =IIF((UCase(First(Fields!Message.Value, "DataSetName")) = "NAME ALREADY EXISTS"), "WARNING: NAME ALREADY EXIST", "NAME CREATED"), IIF((UCase(First(Fields!Message.Value, "DataSetName")) = " NAME DOES NOT EXIST"), "WARNING: NAME DOES NOT EXIST", " NAME DELETED")
Although this SP intends to sorround a search text in double quotes, it seems that when called from Management Studio it throws a Syntax Error even before entering the SP.
createproc fts(@t nvarchar(1000)=null) as begin
select @t = '"' + @t + '"'
select @t
select * from dbo.products where CONTAINS(name, @t)
end
GO
exec fts @t = 'my product name'
GO
Msg 7630, Level 15, State 3, Procedure fts, Line 4
Syntax error near 'product' in the full-text search condition 'my product name'.
-------------------------
If I pass the string in double quotes I get a different error:
exec fts @t = '"my product name"'
Go
Msg 7630, Level 15, State 3, Procedure fts, Line 4
Syntax error near 'my' in the full-text search condition '""my product name""'.
Now, if I remove the quotes again and make the original call:
I am developing a scientific application (demographic forecasting) and have a situation where I need to update a variety of rows, say the ith, jth and kth row that meets a particular condition, say, x.
I also need to adjust rows, say mth and nth that meet condition , say y.
My current solution is laborious and has to be coded for each condition and has been set up below (If you select this entire piece of code it will create 2 databases, each with a table initialised to change the 2nd,4th,8th and 16th rows, with the first database ignoring the condition and with the second applying the change only to rows with 'type1=1' as the condition.)
This is an adequate solution, but if I want to change the second row meeting a second condition, say 'type1=2', I would need to have another WITH...SELECT...INNER JOIN...UPDATE and I'm sure this would be inefficient.
Would there possibly be a way to introduce a rank by type into the table, something like this added column which increments for each type:
ID Int1 Type1 Ideal Rank by Type
1 1 1 1
2 1 1 2
3 2 1 3
4 3 1 4
5 5 1 5
6 8 2 1
7 13 1 6
8 21 1 7
9 34 1 8
10 55 2 2
11 89 1 9
12 144 1 10
13 233 1 11
14 377 1 12
15 610 1 13
16 987 2 3
17 1597 1 14
18 2584 1 15
19 4181 1 16
20 6765 1 17
The solution would then be a simple update based on an innerjoin reflecting the condition and rank by type...
I hope this posting is clear, albeit long.
Thanks in advance
Greg
PS The code:
USE
master
GO
CREATE DATABASE CertainRowsToChange
GO
USE CertainRowsToChange
GO
CREATE TABLE InitialisedValues
(
InitialisedValuesID int identity(1 ,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
da = New Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter("SELECT [Products].[Names], Count([ProductList].[Products]) AS [Total] FROM [Products] LEFT JOIN [ProductList] ON [ProductList].[Names] = [Products].[Names] GROUP BY [Products].[Names] ", strConnection) can we use a where condition in the statement.If so how can we use it.
Hi all,I'm building a DataSet on Visual Studio and don't know how to do a condition (if/else) with SQL... I have a search form, with a DropDownList and have 2 options in it: Search by Title or Search by Author. If the "Title" is selected, then the value is "title and if "Author" is selected, then the value is "author".Here is what I have right now for the DataSet, as seperated queries but I think I can combine them to be one single query 1.This will returns the songs that matches the title:SELECT LYRICS_PK, LYRICS_TITLE, LYRICS_TITLE2, LYRICS_WRITER, LYRICS_WRITER2, LYRICS_COWRITER, LYRICS_DATE_ADDED, UserId_FK, LYRICS_APPROVED, LYRICS_TYPE, LYRICS_VIEWS, LYRICS_ADDED_BYFROM t_lyricsWHERE ((@LYRICS_TITLE IS NULL) OR (LYRICS_TITLE LIKE '%' + @LYRICS_TITLE + '%') OR (LYRICS_TITLE2 LIKE '%' + @LYRICS_TITLE + '%')) AND (@LYRICS_TYPE = 'title') 2. This returns the songs that matches the author: SELECT LYRICS_PK, LYRICS_TITLE, LYRICS_TITLE2, LYRICS_WRITER, LYRICS_WRITER2, LYRICS_COWRITER, LYRICS_DATE_ADDED, UserId_FK, LYRICS_APPROVED, LYRICS_TYPE, LYRICS_VIEWS, LYRICS_ADDED_BY FROM t_lyrics
WHERE ((@LYRICS_AUTHOR IS NULL) OR (LYRICS_AUTHOR LIKE '%' + @LYRICS_AUTHOR + '%') OR (LYRICS_AUTHOR2 LIKE '%' + @LYRICS_AUTHOR + '%')) AND (@LYRICS_TYPE = 'author') This is very inefficient because I have 2 queries, and I need to build 2 ObjectDataSources as well as 2 different GridViews to display the results. I think we can do something likeSELECT .... ... FROM t_lyricsif (@LYRICS_TYPE = 'title') DO THE WHERE CLAUSE THAT RETURNS MATCHES WITH TITLEelse if (@LYRICS_TYPE = 'author') DO THE WHERE CLAUSE THAT RETURNS MATCHES WITH AUTHOR But I don't know how to write that in T-SQL.Any help would be greatly appreciated,Thank you very much,Kenny.
