Occurences Of A Character
Nov 2, 2007How can I get a count of occurences of a specific character in a string?
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To Find The Number Of Occurences Of A Particular Character In A String
Aug 8, 2001Hi all,
@str varchar(500)
select @str = 'abcd,efgh,i,jklmn,opsqrtuv'
For the above string, which string function can be used to find the number of occurences of a particular character, for example, ','? For this example, the answer should be 4. Is there any built-in function in SQL to do this?
Thanks in advance,
-Praveena
Number Of Occurences
May 13, 2008Hi,
I'm hitting my head against the wall because of a really small issue...
Basically, let's assume I have the following:
BOOK_ID
========
1
2
2
in a table BOOK. I am trying to code a query that would return the book_id that appears the most in the book table.
Anyone knows how to do this?
The closest i've got is this:
select max(count(book_id)) from intermeeting group by book_id;
But this only returns the number of occurences of the record. What i'm interested in, is the ID of the record that occurs that many times...
Thanks for your help
olo
Counting Occurences
Jul 20, 2005I'm having trouble getting my head around this, and no one in the groupshas posted exactly the problem.The table below tracks site traffic across a network. There is 1 rowper pageview and UUID is that user's unique cookie.CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Stats_Working] ([inac_stats_id] [int] NOT NULL ,[hit_time] [datetime] NULL ,[site_id] [int] NULL ,[site_cat_id] [int] NULL ,[item_id] [int] NULL ,[local_content_cat_id] [int] NULL ,[UUID] [float] NULL ,[USER_AGENT] [char] (50) NULL) ON [PRIMARY]GOA client asked: of these pageviews and within each category, how manyare accounted for by users that generated 2 or fewer pageviews, 3+pageviews, and 4+ pageviews?I said, "yes, we have that information". I know it's here, but I'mbraindead from looking at what should be a simple solution.Thanks for any helpCam Bevis*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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Feb 14, 2008I need to get the 5 most common occurences from a table. Not really sure of the SQL statement I would use to do that. Would someone be kind enough to throw out a select statement that would do this? psuedo code would be fine, I just need to know the jest of how to do it. I originally thought Select Top 5 would work, but then I actually started thinking and realized it wasnt it. So now im stuck. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve
EDIT: I should add that this will be coming from a view with multiple tables..thanks
Counting Numbers Of Occurences Of Null
Sep 20, 2005Hi All,
I have a table with (lets say) 2 fields: ACTIONED_TO & COMMENTS
There will be multiple rows with the same ACTIONED_TO value some of the COMMENTS will be null
eg:
ACTIONED_TO,COMMENTS
"Matt","This is a comment"
"Dave","This is a comment too"
"Matt",
what I'm looking for my query to return is:
ACTIONED_TO, NO COMMENTS, COMMENTS
MATT, 1,1
Dave,1,0
Do I need a CROSSTAB Query, How is it implemented?
Regards
Matt A
T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Find String Before Character When Character Appears Multiple Times
May 17, 2015I have a table that contains file paths as
ServernamefolderAfilenameA
ServernameFolderBFilenameB
and I need a query to return
ServernamefolderA
ServernameFolderB
I tried
SELECT DISTINCT left(Source, charindex('', Source)- 0) AS String
FROM Table
But that removes everything after the first and I need it to return all data before the last
T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Replace Multiple Occurrences Of Same Character With Single Character
Aug 6, 2015I have the following scenario, The contents of main file are like :
ServerCentral|||||forum|||||||||||||||is||||||the||best
so||||||be|||||on||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||it
And I need the output in the following form:
ServerCentral=forum=is=the=best
so=be=on=it
The logic being that multiple and consecutive occurrences of the special character, here - pipe , should be replaced by a single special character.
Select Part Of Character String Based On A Character
Apr 15, 2004I have data in a column that starts with 1-4 characters followed by a dash then followed by an number of characters (ex: EU-Surgery).
How do I select everything to the right of the dash when the number of characters to the left of the dash varies?
Return Left-most Character From 8 Character String
Oct 1, 2014I'd like to return the left-most character from an 8 character string & the third from the left character too.
Like this ABC00123 returns AC
$query = "SELECT LEFT(uninum,3), RIGHT(uninum,5), clmarea, Date FROM tblunimov";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
echo "<div class='tblstyle1'>";
echo "<table class='tblstyle1'>";
echo "<tr><th>ini</th><th>item</th><th>area</th><th>date</th></tr>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
[Code] ....
Read Chinese Character From SQL(SQL Server 2005) Database Table Column And Display Chinese Character
Feb 1, 2008Hi!
I have a table like this below and it doesn't only contain English Names but it also contain Chinese Name.
CREATE TABLE Names
(FirstName NVARCHAR (50),
LastName NVARCHAR (50));
I tried to view the column using SQL Query Analyzer, It didn't display Chinese Character.
I know that SQL Server 2005 is using UCS-2 Encoding and Chinese Character uses Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) Encoding.
I want to read the FirstName and LastName columns and display in Window Form Data Grid and ASP.NET Grid View.
I tried to use this code below and it didn't work. It convert some of the English Name to Chinese Character and it display the chinese character and some still in the original unreadable characters.
Does anybody know how to read those character from SQL Table and display the correct Chinese Character without converting the English Name into Chinese also?
Thanks
int codePage = 950;
StringBuilder message = new StringBuilder();
Encoding targetEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(codePage);
byte[] encodedChars= targetEncoding.GetBytes(str);
.
message.AppendLine("Byte representation of '" + str + "' in Code Page '" + codePage + "':");
for (int i = 0; i < encodedChars.Length; i++)
{
message.Append("Byte " + i + ": " + encodedChars);
}
message.AppendLine(" RESULT : " + System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(encodedChars));
Console.Writeline(message.ToString());
Character Set
Oct 6, 2000Hi,
Anytime I BCP data from a table containing characters like ö it gets muddled up when I look at it in the text file. The code page of the NT OS is 850 and the character is included in it. Why is the character changed during the BCP ?
Bob
The ' Character
Nov 16, 2006Hello all.
Ok this is going to be a little hard to describe but here goes
I have a table within which one column is used to store a SQL select statement as a string. This means that the whole select statement has to be enclosed within two ' characters. The problem is that the SQL statement itself contains these characters. The specific SQL statement i wish to save as a string is:
select
'<A HREF=DisplayOnlyDiscipline?SESSION_ID=' + :SESSION_ID +
'&DISP_REF=' + cast(DISP_REF as varchar) +
'&EDIT_REF=' + :EDIT_REF + '>' + cast(DISP_REF as varchar) + '</A>' as Reference,
V.DESCRIPTION as Discipline_Stage,
DISP_DATE as Date
from
DISCPLIN D
left outer join
V_DISP V on (V.CODE = D.DISP_CODE)
where
EMPLOY_REF = :EDIT_REF
order by
DISP_DATE DESC
Can anyone suggest how i get round this?
thanks for reading peeps
Using BETWEEN With Only One Character
Nov 17, 2006Pls, what d this query return if applied on char type (string type)
select * from myTable where myNameColumn Between 'B' AND 'E'
would return all the names that start with : B, C, D, E
like these:
Bob, Chris, Edward, David
but not :
Marry, Jean....
or how does it work exactly when applied on string type but only putting one character in the search.
Thanks.
Character 0
Feb 18, 2007How can i add character 0 to the database??
i have a string of characters and one of them is 0 (its a license file)
i would like to save it to the database. but i get unclosed character string.
Hope its clear.
Tks
its a new database so you can also tellme wich datatype i need.
Tab Character
Jul 23, 2005what nchar() value equals the tab character. I need to replace it in astring.
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Feb 29, 2008I'm using MS SQL intelligence studio's SSIS import wizard to import some Excel files into SQL tables and for certain fields I'm getting this strange character instead of NULL. Does anyone know what this character is, how to avoid it, or a SQL query that will get rid of it? I can't even copy it to my clipboard.
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Mar 5, 2008
Hi
I have got a column having data like
RT 12.5R20 (P) OL
RT 12.5R244(SP)GRADER
I want only need the value before '('. So, the result will be RT 12.5R20 and RT 12.5R244
Since the length of the character will change. Is there any funtions in T-SQL that I can use to achieve this?
Thanks
Replace, The ' Character, And Yea...
Aug 22, 2007I have the following:----------------- WHILE PATINDEX('%,%',@Columns)<> 0 BEGINSELECT @Separator_position = PATINDEX('%,%',@Columns)SELECT @array_Value = LEFT(@Columns, @separator_position - 1)SET @FieldTypeID = (SELECT FieldTypeID FROM [Form].[Fields] WHERE FieldID = (CAST(@array_Value AS INT)))SET @FieldName = (SELECT [Name] FROM [Form].[Fields] WHERE FieldID = @array_Value)print 'arry value' + CONVERT(VarChar(500), @array_value)print 'FieldTypeID: ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(500), @FieldTypeID)PRINT 'FieldName: ' + @FieldNameBEGINIF @FieldTypeID = 1 OR @FieldTypeID = 2 OR @FieldTypeID = 3 OR @FieldTypeID = 9 OR @FieldTypeID = 10 OR @FieldTypeID = 7BEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT ISNULL(CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX),[Value]),'''') FROM [Item].[ItemDetailFieldRecords] IDFR WHERE IDFR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND IDFR.FieldID = ' + @array_Value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT ISNULL(CONVERT(VARCHAR(MAX),[Value]),'''') FROM [Item].[TaskFieldRecords] TFR WHERE TFR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND TFR.FieldID = ' + @array_Value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FieldTypeID = 4 OR @FieldTypeID = 8 --DropDownList/RadioButtonlistBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT [Value] FROM [Form].[FieldListValues] FFLV INNER JOIN [Item].[ItemDetailFieldListRecords] IDFLR ON FFLV.FieldListValueID = IDFLR.FieldListValueID WHERE IDFLR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND FFLV.FIeldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT [Value] FROM [Form].[FieldListValues] FFLV INNER JOIN [Item].[TaskFieldListRecords] TFLR ON FFLV.FieldListValueID = TFLR.FieldListValueID WHERE TFLR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND FFLV.FIeldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FieldTypeiD = 5 --CascadingBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT [FCV].[Value] FROM [Form].[FieldCascadingValues] FCV INNER JOIN [Form].[FieldCascadingLookUpTables] LT ON FCV.FIeldCascadingLookupTableID = LT.FieldCascadingLookupTableID INNER JOIN [Item].[ItemDetailFieldCascadingRecords] IDFCR ON IDFCR.FieldCascadingValueID = FCV.FieldCascadingValueID WHERE IDFCR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND LT.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT [FCV].[Value] FROM [Form].[FieldCascadingValues] FCV INNER JOIN [Form].[FieldCascadingLookUpTables] LT ON FCV.FIeldCascadingLookupTableID = LT.FieldCascadingLookupTableID INNER JOIN [Item].[TaskFieldCascadingRecords] TFCR ON TFCR.FieldCascadingValueID = FCV.FieldCascadingValueID WHERE TFCR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND LT.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FieldTypeiD = 6 --ListBoxBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT i.[CSV] FROM @ItemDetailLV i WHERE i.ID = ID.ItemDetailID AND i.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT it.[CSV] FROM @TaskLV it WHERE it.ID = T.TaskID AND it.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FieldTypeID = 11 --UsersBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT SU.[UserID] FROM [Security].[Users] SU INNER JOIN [Item].[ItemDetailUserRecords] IDUR ON SU.UserID = IDUR.UserID WHERE IDUR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND IDUR.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT SU.[UserID] FROM [Security].[Users] SU INNER JOIN [Item].[TaskUserRecords] TUR ON SU.UserID = TUR.UserID WHERE TUR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND TUR.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDELSE IF @FIelDTypeID = 12 --GroupBEGINSET @InnerItemSelect = ' (SELECT SG.[GroupID] FROM [Security].[Groups] SG INNER JOIN [Item].[ItemDetailGroupRecords] IDGR ON SG.GroupID = IDGR.GroupID WHERE IDGR.ItemDetailID = ID.ItemDetailID AND IDGR.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'SET @InnerTaskSelect = ' (SELECT SG.[GroupID] FROM [Security].[Groups] SG INNER JOIN [Item].[TaskGroupRecords] TGR ON SG.GroupID = TGR.GroupID WHERE TGR.TaskID = T.TaskID AND TGR.FieldID = ' + @array_value + ') AS ''' + @FieldName + ''' 'ENDENDPRINT 'Inner Item Select:' + @InnerItemSelectPRINT 'Inner Task Select:' + @InnerTaskSelectSET @IDSelect = @IDSelect + @InnerItemSelect + ', 'SET @TSelect = @TSelect + @InnerTaskSelect + ', 'SELECT @Columns = STUFF(@Columns, 1, @separator_position, '')END --------------- That is only part of a large query that writs a SQL Query to a column in a Database. That Query (in the column) is just ran normally so I don't need to compile it each time I want to run it.THe problem I have is @FieldName might be: ryan's field. That apostrophe is killing me because the SQL keeps it as ryan's field, not ryan''s field(note the 2 apostrophes). I cannot do: REPLACE(@FieldName, ''', '''') because it's not closing the apostrophes. Is there an escape character that I can use to say only one: ' ?Would the only solution be to put: ryan''s field into the Database, and just format it properly on the output? Thanks.
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I am using right now nvarchar with a length of 4000.
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Character Translation
Nov 14, 2001I have a SQL Server 2000 database which uses a Cyrillic collation. The database itself is in English, but some of the tables contain text which use the Cyrillic character set. When creating an ODBC connection to the database, ODBC forces me to have the "Translate character data" option set, which means that a query or stored procedure parameter containing Cyrillic characters have the Cyrillic characters translated to plain ascii. Data returned from a query or SP with Cyrillic characters work fine.
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May 2, 2002I've forgotten the character set that I've chosen when I was installing the SQL Server 7. Is there a way to check?
I'm currently using US English version of Windows NT4 and SQL7. But interestingly, all the data is in Japanes characters. It's actually for a Japanese website, and the front-end application is written in ASP. I remember reading somewhere that it is impossible to do certain type of sorting (by some particular order for the Japanese language) as it is limited by the choice of the language of the NT OS.
The type of sorting that I'm looking at is the grouping of 5-characters. One example is in http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/aiueo.html
Would this be possible with my current setup? Or would it help if I migrate over to Windows 2000? (I'd rather not move to Japanese NT4)
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'enter' Character.
Aug 8, 2002How do I replcae an 'enter' character with a space in a field? This extra spaces entered in the web form while populating the field is causing extra spaces in the field. What is the ASCII value for the 'enter' character? so that we can replace that with a space?
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Character Or Numeric As PK
Mar 14, 2001Hello,
I am from the school of thought that you should in every case have your primary keys as numeric values only. However, where I currently work there is a project leader who is a recent FoxPro convert (I know, they are tough ones to crack). I made the suggestion recently that the keys in the table should be numeric and with him being the project leader and me just a lowely developer he said get lost. I made the point that later joining your tables together in a PK/FK relationship where the keys where character would be slower then with numeric keys. He didn't listen and now we are approaching production with a database that is really just a bunch of text file. He said that with SQL 7 it doesn't matter if the pk is numeric or character. I disagree. But I need solid documentation to take to him and to the managers to convince them. If anyone out there could advise me on this. And if anyone could give me or tell me where I could find documentation on why even in SQL 7 there is a need to use numeric keys that would be a great help and you would be making one more shop in this world a little bit more technically sound :-) Thank you in advance for your help.
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How Can I Change The Character Set ?
Oct 28, 1999I tried changing the character set of my database..transfering it btw two servers, first one with codepage850 and the second one with iso. As I expected the characters where not automatically transformed and I got some accents that are wrong.
Could anyone telle me how to transform this...do I need a filter or something ?
I'm using SQL 7.0...
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Aug 30, 20011)How do insert a Qoute after the the last digit on this number '2208ZX12 so it looks like '2208ZX12' in sql 2000.Please show me an easier and faster way cause l have 14000 records.
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Aug 30, 2001Q
1)How do insert a Qoute after the the last digit on this number '2208ZX12 so it looks like '2208ZX12' in sql 2000.Please show me an easier and faster way cause l have 14000 records.
Ans:- update SomeTable
set SomeField = rtrim(SomeField) + char(39)
where right(rtrim(SomeField),1) <> ''''
Thanks Bill for the solution it works.What l need now is an explanation so l can understand what l just did. Am l right in saying that the reason the char is 39 is to ensure that all fields regardless of length will have the qoute inserted at the end? What if the insert was to be at the beggining how would the query look like?
explain this portion (where right(rtrim(SomeField),1) <> '''') why those two qoutes?Thx a mil
Insert Character
Aug 31, 2001Q.
Initialy l wanted to insert a quote at the beginning and end of the filed. But l went on to try and insert a comma after the quote. Below are the steps that l followed. It basically gave me what l wanted to see but the problem is that ist got spaces in between which are too big and l getting an error as listed below.
Error Message
Server: Msg 8152, Level 16, State 9, Line 3
String or binary data would be truncated.
The statement has been terminated.
'1000101DF000' ,'1000101DF002' ,'1000101DF004' ,'1000101DF006' ,'1000101DF008' ,'1000101DF010' ,'1000101DF012'
What am l doing wrong from step 4? Is it possible to insert quote and a comma then remove the last comma in the table not printing to screen like l'm doing? If so how. Thx for the help thus far
Step 1:-
/** Select a 100 records then insert the characters **/
select top 100 * into Temp1 from Temp
Step 2 :-
/** Insert a quote at the beginning of a record **/
update Temp1
set field = char(39) + rtrim(field)
where left(Field,1) <> ''''
Step 3 :
/** Insert a quote at the end of a record **/
update Temp1
set Field = rtrim(Field) + char(39)
where right(rtrim(Field),1) <> ''''
Step 4 :
/** Inserting a comma after the qoute at the end of the record **/
Declare @Temp1 Varchar(200)
Set @Temp1 = ''
Update Temp1
Set @Temp1 = @Loan2 + Temp1 + ','
Set @Temp1 = Substring(@Temp1,1,len(@Temp1)-1)
-- to remove extra comma at the end
print @Temp1
What Is The ESCAPE CHARACTER?
Nov 9, 2004Hi Ya'll,
I tried searching for "escape character", "quotes", etc, but they didn't work.
I'm having troubling inserting data into my tables, if they have an apostrophe or double quotes. I know that MySQL's escape character is "", but I tried it for MS SQL and it didn't work. HOW DO I INSERT DATA INTO MY DB THAT HAS AN APOSTROPHE OR DOUBLE QUOTE? Thanks.
Override SQL Character
Aug 12, 2004I'm trying to search for all records that contain a quotation character in the database. These records were migrated from a mainframe system.
I use the following command:
%'%
The results are:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Unclosed quotation mark before the character string ' order by cliLastName, cliFirstName, cliBirthName'.
/ladds/lib/getrecordset.asp, line 6
Is there a way to override the quotation character temporarily?
Thanks ...
Character Conversion
Dec 8, 2004Hi,
I'm using an ETL tool called DecisionStream.
On a particular SQL Server, when it performs an insert, the degree character is being converted to a stacked bar:
source data: 1332 NS 4° Tall 32 oz
after insert: 1332 NS 4¦ Tall 32 oz
This works fine on my laptop with SQL Server, but for some reason, on the SQL Server at work, this behaviour occurs.
Any input would be great.
thanks,
d.