Hi everyone,
Thanks in advance for reading my mail. I have a query that returns a column consisting of numbers. However the numbers are all in String format so when I get the max value it returns the one with the largest first digit.
e.g. if it returned the values '5','7','9','20' and ordered them it would return 9 as the max value. Is there anyway to parse these to ints and then get the max.
Hi everyone,
Thanks in advance for reading my mail. I have a query that returns a column consisting of numbers. However the numbers are all in String format so when I get the max value it returns the one with the largest first digit.
e.g. if it returned the values '5','7','9','20' and ordered them it would return 9 as the max value. Is there anyway to parse these to ints and then get the max.
Sorry for posting twice,
didn't get the chance to say thanks,
Mark.
I have a varchar field that contains answers to questions separated by commas. Say there are 4 questions for each user. Here is an example of what the table would look like:
User Answer
1 Good,Fair,Good,Bad
2 Bad,Good,Good,Good
3 Fair,Good,Bad,Fair
I need to write a stored procedure to report off of that separates the Answer field into 4 different columns. How can this be achieved? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Hello everyone, I have this SP and can't get it to work on my SQL2000 server. I just can't seem to figure out what syntax error I am making.
(This works on my test SQL2005 server)
Truncate Table [SecurityEvents_Temp]
Insert Into SecurityEvents_Temp (
[BankNumber],
[UserName],
[DomainName],
[EventLog],
[RecordNumber],
[TimeGenerated],
[TimeWritten],
[EventID],
[EventType],
[EventTypeName],
[EventCategory],
[EventCategoryName],
[SourceName],
[Strings],
[ComputerName],
[SID],
[Message],
[Data]
)
Select
[BankNumber] = '001',
[UserName] = (Select [Value] From [dbo].[fn_Split]([Strings],'|') where idx = 3)
[DomainName] = (Select [Value] From [dbo].[fn_Split]([Strings],'|') where idx = 4),
[SecurityEvents].*
FROM [SecurityEvents]
JOIN [EventsToLog] on [SecurityEvents].[EventID] = [EventsToLog].[EventID]
WHERE [SID] NOT LIKE 'S-%'
Query Output:
quote:
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 28
Line 28: Incorrect syntax near 'Strings'.
Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 30
Line 30: Incorrect syntax near 'Strings'.
Thank You,
John Fuhrman
http://www.titangs.com
Hi guys,
I'm trying to parse a character string in a stored procedure but I'm not sure how to do it. For example:
-------------------------------
create procedure sp_test (
@fld varchar(1000)
)
AS
???
???
.
.
.
.
----------------------------------
sp_test '123:abc,456:def,789:ghi'
I need to put 123 into a seperate local variable, abc into a local variable, and so on...
What would be the best function to use?
Any help would greatly be appreciated.
- Gary
Hi again,
When developing web sites with Asp, DreamWeaver and Access, I've always used Unique IDs for setting things like userID or productID. However, with VWD Express and a .mdf db, this doesn't seem like an easy thing to do, at least not when inserting test data during development. The reason is that the uniqueIDs are 32 or so digits, and I have no idea what to write, and it's tiresome anyway.
I used a book from Wrox (Begninning Asp.Net 2.0) to learn VWD and Asp.Net, and in their examples they actually use ints for setting their productIDs and the like. I'm really surprised to see that in a text book, but that's the way they've done it.
So what's the best practice? What should I do? Please help me out here as I'm really confused!
Thanks in advance,
Pettrer
Hi I am storing a customer code in my db that will always be 9 digits long. Sometimes the first digit is zero which gets knocked off when added in.
e.g code 050101111 is stored as 50101111
Can anyone suggest a way of formatting it so it will always be 9 digits long. A similar thing can be done in Excel, anyone have any ideas?
much appreciated
Tom
I have an instead of trigger for update on particular table which adds3 or so columns and puts the total in a 4th No matter what the input is(as long as there is one NULL) the total is always NULL. More thanlikely is that only one of the fields has a value in it and the restnull but i don't want to do the MAX in case that is not true.a quick visual aid from input and desired outputInput DatacolA colB ColC tot5 NULL NULL NULLCurrent OutputcolA colB ColC tot5 NULL NULL NULLDesired OutputcolA colB ColC tot5 NULL NULL 5How do i Manipulate the TSQL command to work correctly?Update tbl_lossChecksSETclc_totalFees = Inserted.mny_LegalFees + Inserted.mny_AdjusterFees +Inserted.mny_Expense ,
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CAST
Code:
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CONVERT
Code:
CONVERT(numeric(10,2),avg(CONVERT(numeric(10,2),units)))
from myTable
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I thought a nice idea would be to assigne a text string/null value to each bit field and concatenate all of them into a result.
This is the basic logic goes soemthing like this:
select case new_accountant = 1 then 'acct/' end +
case new_advisor = 1 then 'adv/' end +
case new_attorney = 1 then 'atty/' end as String
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Rather than the real code, here's a sample we came up with.
Here's the C# Code:
public class sptest : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label Label1;
private DataSet dtsData;
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Put user code to initialize the page here
string strSP = "sp_testOutput";
SqlParameter[] Params = new SqlParameter[2];
Params[0] = new SqlParameter("@Input", "Pudding");
Params[1] = new SqlParameter("@Error_Text", "");
Params[1].Direction = ParameterDirection.Output;
try
{
this.dtsData = SqlHelper.ExecuteDataset(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["SIM_DSN"], CommandType.StoredProcedure, strSP, Params);
Label1.Text = Params[0].Value.ToString() + "--Returned Val is" + Params[1].Value.ToString();
}
//catch (System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException ex)
catch (Exception ex)
{
Label1.Text = ex.ToString();
}
}
Here is the stored procedure:
CREATE PROCEDURE [user1122500].[sp_testOutput](@Input nvarchar(76),@Error_Text nvarchar(10) OUTPUT)AS
SET @Error_Text = 'Test'GO
When I run this, it prints up the input variable, but not the output variable.
I am trying to process an XML document that contains the attribute 'from_x'. However an openxml query can't seem to find any column with a '_x' suffix. For example if I were to execute the following fragment:
declare @hDoc int, @Message varchar(200)
select @Message = '<BACK_FM from_x="12"></BACK_FM>'
exec sp_xml_preparedocument @hDoc OUTPUT, @Message
select from_x from openxml(@hDoc, 'BACK_FM',1) with (from_x int)
I get back a null value from the openxml query. Attribute names 'fromx' and 'from_y' work ok but nothing I have tried with a trailing '_x' will work.
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Thanks,
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I need to figure out how to parse a comma separated value.
Lets say I have a variable equal to a comma separated list.
SET @Variable = '045, 032, 025, 653'
I need to create a dynamic sql string to look like:
SET @Variable = ''' + '045' + ''' + ',' + ''' + '032' + ''' + ',' etc...
Can someone teach me a optimized query to do this?
Thanks
Greg
What is parsing?? can someone give me an example please?? this what I got from BOL
Returns the specified part of an object name. Parts of an object that can be retrieved are the object name, owner name, database name, and server name.
Hi -
I am new to SQL server and was wondering if someone can help me with this one. Thanks
My table holds 2 columns (SECTOR and TERM) with following example values
SECTOR TERM
Hybrid 6/18
Hybrid 9/19
Hybrid 10/17
Hybrid 3/13
I would like to find out the rows where my values from SECTOR before '/' does not equal TERM
i.e.
Row 1 where 6<>8
and row 3 where 10<>7
Thanks.
Can you parse a SQL field? Let's say, FULLNAME field got a TEXT datatype with the following data: <firstname>Norm</firstname><lastname>bercasio</lastname><Color>blue</color>then using a select statement, parse the field to find the lastname then write it to another field called LASTNAME on the same table, same rowID. Can you send a select statement how it can be done? I am using SQL 2003 or 2005. thank you so much.
Hi All,
I'm using a SQL selection to fill a DataGrid. One of the fields I have is called diagnosis. This field in the database can contain multiple diagnosis. But I use a set of characters to divide each diagnosis.
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Thanks
How to remove same repeated string in a column per row from a table? Looked at
replace, stuff string functions, but none take a column name as a parameter.
Help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Do anyone know of any functions I can use to parse the following data eg.
M 3480-7 should be 3480
M 3477-19 should be 3477
M 28-10 should be 28
Thanks in advance,
Vic
Anybody out there ever take a column containing names and parse it out to salutation, first name, middle initial/name, last name, suffix using Transact-SQL? I think I know how to do it using an array in a procedural language, but using SQL I'm drawing a blank.
Any ideas or help will be appreciated!
I have a SQL Server table that holds XML documents. Is there a known SQL Server XML parser ?....how can I export XML data into a readable format ?
thanks
Does anyone know any good URL's for examples on parcing data using SQL?
As an example, i've got First/Middle/Last name of a person inside a single field, I want to turn that into 3 fields.
Thanks!
Caden
Hi guys!
Can anyone tell how I can parse the WHERE clause of an SQL statement to check for special characters such as ''' (single quotes) in fields of type varchar?
thanks
nelo
Hello everyone
Heres what it looks like:
I have a large file of over 40k email records. The emails are all mixed up and come in various formats but i noticed that most of them are in this format:
firstname.lastname@email.com
firstname.middlename.lastname@email.com
For all those emails with the period (.) in between, the (.) actually separates an individuals first and last name.
My task is this, to separate all the emails that are in this format into first and last name fields. I'm stimped folks and I'll really appreciate any pointers or ideas on how to go about solving this task.
Thanks
I have a name field that has many variations and been fighting with it for a few days. The possible name variations are:
Smith, Mike
Smith, Mike K.
Smith, Mike K., JR.
I would like to parse each of the for pieces in a separate field.
Parsing Address
This is not really a reply, but I saw the problem and the replies look very promissing.
I'm using ss2k, I have a table with an address column.
here is some example of the records under ADDRESS :
WILLOW CREEK PL
RED BARN DR
RED BARN DR
CARRINGTON DR
RENNER RD
EDMONTON CT
SPRINGBRANCH DR
HILLROSE DR
CEDAR RIDGE DR
LARTAN TRL
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH HWY
What I want to do is to write script that runs daily and parse the street names (RED BARN) and street types (Dr, PL , etc.. ) to 2 colums. As u can see there is no fixed length or fixed number of words ...etc ...
Any help would be really appreciated.
thnks
I found an article about string parsing but its done using db2
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/0303stolze/0303stolze1.html
can anybody translate to Transact SQL specifically the example of create function elemIdx i didnt understand how he used recursion may b cuz the language is odd to me i didnt get it
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I have a string that is coming from a legacy system
###T1937###U1875###U1960###U3287###U5926###U6388###U4408###T1909###U2620###U5025###U6354###U7072###U7074###U6715###U6714###U4085###U6441###U7067###U7073###U2392###U6348###U7758###U6717###U7755###U7069###U7756###U6350###U6760###U7070###D0002###D0001###U6238###U6349###U6353###U6355###F0005###U7750###U6351###U7757###
How can I convert above string to comma separted values
like one below so that it can be used for IN Clause for my SQL
'T1937','U1875','U1960','U3287','U5926','U6388','U4408','T1909','U2620','U5025','U6354','U7072','U7074','U6715','U6714','U4085','U6441','U7067','U7073','U2392','U6348','U7758','U6717','U7755','U7069','U7756','U6350','U6760','U7070','D0002','D0001','U6238','U6349','U6353','U6355','F0005','U7750','U6351','U7757'
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hi, im running into a bit of a problem. i will like to string parse the street name into what you see below using DTS. How can i get around this?
12 north plaza boulevard apt.16
12|N|plaza blvd| apt16
Hi,
I have a name field that has fullname in it and i need to parse it to firstname, lastname, middle initial and suffix.
I used the below query to parse the Last Name and first name.
SELECT
SUBSTRING([FullName], 1, CHARINDEX(' ',[FullName]) - 1)AS LastName,
SUBSTRING([FullName], CHARINDEX(' ',[FullName]) + 1, LEN(FullName)) AS FirstName
FROM CustomerTbl
There are middel initials and suffix present in the full name. How do i parse the middle initial and suffix.
The Sample Name that appear in the table:
JONAS VICKY ==> Format without Middle Initial or suffix
MAYES MARY T ==> Format with middle initial
MCGEE, III CLIFTON ==> Format with suffix
Pls advise
Thanks
Table1 includes a column for email address. I'd like to parse everything up to 8 chars before the '@' symbol in this column. My script doesn't appear to be working, and I'd appreciate any assistance in troubleshooting it!
select substring(UPPER(substring(email,1,charindex('@',email)-1)),1,8)
from table1
The error produced is;
Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function.
What am I doing wrong? The logic in the script looks good to me...
Hi,I have three tables in the following structure (simplified):Table 1: Containing the customers-------------------------------------------------create table Customers([cusID] int identity(1, 1) not null,[cusName] varchar(25) not null)Table 2: Containing the customer data fields---------------------------------------------------------------create table Data([datID] int identity(1, 1) not null,[datName] varchar(25) not null,[datFormula] varchar(1500))Table 3: Containing the customer data values-----------------------------------------------------------------create table Values([cusID] int not null,[datID] int not null,[valValue] sql_variant)In this structure the user can add as many data fields to a customer ashe wants (e.g. Country, City, Email, Phone, ...). I have added triggerswhich create a view similar to a pivot (I am working in SQL 2000) andadd triggers to the view so it is insertable, deletable and updateable.What I would like to do, is allow the user to create new fields wherethe values are based upon a calculation. This calculation would be donethrough a formula similar to what he would do e.g. in excel (thisformula is stored in the dimFormula field then).An example might help. Let's assume the user created a field 'Sales'(containing last year's sales) and 'Invoices' (containing the number ofinvoices that were created for him last year). Now, he wants to createa field 'AvgSales' with the formula '[Sales]/[Invoices]'.(Note that through adding these data fields, the above view was created(let's assume it is called vw_Customers and contains the columns [ID],[Name], [Sales], [Invoices], [AvgSales]).What I am looking for is a function which can parse this formula into at_sql query which runs the calculation. So, the formula'[Sales]/[Invoices]' would be translated into (let's assume there areno records with NULL or zero invoices):update vw_Customersset [AvgSales] = [Sales]/[Invoices]from vw_CustomersI am able to do the above with simple calculations (where you can evenuse sql functions e.g. year, len, ...). Now I would like to take thisone step forward into the possibility of using functions with morevariables.For example. Let's assume, the user wants to add a rating (field called'Rating') to his customers based upon the result of 'AvgSales. Heenters the formula 'if([AvgSales] > 2500, 'A', 'B')'.If anyone could help me on this, I would be very grateful. Thanks.M
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