Select Statement For Replacing A Character?
Jan 15, 2007
first of all... hello, forum! im a total newbie
ive been working on this script today and cannot for the life of me get the following employee name format correct...
the data is currently "lastname~firstname" in employee table... i am trying to write a select statement that will take that and remove the "~" (tilde) and replace it with a "," (comma).
how do i get "lastname~firstname" from employee table to display in "lastname,firstname" format?
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Oct 26, 2005
In the following simple select statement:
SELECT Selskabsnummer, Plademærkenummer, [Fra dato], isnull([Til dato], getdate()) as [Til dato], Bemærkning
FROM Gramex_DW.dbo.Plademærkelinie WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE convert(int, Plademærkenummer) = 1
ORDER BY isnull([Til dato], getdate()) ASC
I'm looking for a way to replace the [Fra dato] field with '1900-01-01' if the date earlier than this date. E.g. instances of 1800-01-01 exist.
I'm not looking for an update to the table, but merely a way to manipulate the output, as the front-end I'm developing can't handle pre 1900-01-01 date formats, and I would prefer formatting the data before it reaches he front-end as it would be easier to handle.
/Trin
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Jul 30, 2007
Hi
I have a table with column type as ntext. I need to modify the column value. I wanted to replace a given characterstring with another one in this column. Any assistance on this is highly appreciated.
Thanks!
Santhosh
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Jan 20, 2014
I have a problem where I want to write a function to remove recurring characters from a string and replace them with a single same character.
For instance I have the string '12333345566689' and the result should be '12345689'. In Oracle I could do this with "regexp_replace('12333345566689', '(.)1+', '1')", but in T-SQL the only solution I could think of is something like this:
DECLARE @code NVARCHAR(255)
SET @code = '12333345566689';
SET @code = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@Code, '1', '~1'), '1~', ''), '~1', '1');
and repeat this for 2 - 9. But I'm sure there is a more elegant version for this in SQL Server 2012.
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Apr 15, 2004
I 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?
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Jun 25, 2007
Hi All,I have come up against a wall which i cannot get over.I have an sql db where the date column is set as a varchar (i know, should have used datetime but this was done before my time and i've got to work with what is there). The majority of values are in the format dd/mm/yyyy. However, some values contain the word 'various'.I'm attempting to compare the date chosen on a c# .net page with the values in the db and also return all the 'various' values as well.I have accomplished casting the varchar to a datetime and then comparing to the selected date on the .net page. However, it errors when it comes across the 'various' entrant.Is there anyway to carry out a select statement comparing the start_date values in the db to the selected date on the .net page and also pull out all 'various' entrants at the same time without it erroring? i thought about replacing the 'various' to a date like '01/01/2010' so it doesn't stumble over the none recognised format, but am unsure of how to do it.This is how far i have got: casting the varchar column to datetime and comparing. SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE Cast(SUBSTRING(Start_Date,4,2) + '/' + SUBSTRING(Start_Date,1,2) + '/' +SUBSTRING(Start_Date,7,4) as datetime) '" + date + "'"Many thanks in advance!
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Dec 28, 2003
I have what I thought would be a simple problem: my SQL call has a few NULLs that I want to replace with 0s. Wherever I wanted this to happen, I put in code like this:
[code]CASE colName WHEN NULL THEN 0 ELSE colName END as colName[/code]
And it doesn't work...the column is the same as it was before I put in the case statement.
What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?
Thanks a lot,
-Starwiz
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Jun 26, 2001
Hi, and tanks for taking time to read this question. I am still a novice at SQL (Server 2000)programming.
Is there a way to replace the contents of a column of a table derivied from SELECT and WHERE statements?
For example,
SELECT * FROM table1
WHERE column1 = 'text'
and replace 'text' with say, 'newtext'
Any help would be appreciated!
Regards,
Chandran
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Sep 6, 2005
Hi All,I'm confused by how to replace a SELECT statement in a SQL statementwith a specific value. The table I'm working on is a list of words (acolumn called "word") with an index int pointing to the sentence theycome from (a column called "regret"). I also have a table of stop words(called "GenericStopWords") that contains the words I do not want toconsider. That table has a single column called "word".I started off using a SQL function (called "GETALLWORDS") whichreturned the words of a string. This is how I used it:INSERT INTO WordsSELECT wrds.WORD, 1 FROMGETALLWORDS('I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a kingof infinite space', default) AS wrdsLEFT OUTER JOINGenericStopWordsON wrds.WORD = GenericStopWords.wordWHERE GenericStopWords.word IS NULLThis statement inserts every word in the sentence that is not a stopword. So, for example, ('bounded', 1) is added but ('could', 1) is notadded.I've now decided to move the function that breaks a string into wordsout of the SQL layer of my application and into the JavaScript whichruns under ASP on the web server. So now I want to call somethinganalogous to the above SQL statement, but word by word. What I'd likeis something like:INSERT INTO WordsSELECT 'bounded', 1 FROM ???LEFT OUTER JOINGenericStopWordsON 'bounded' = GenericStopWords.wordWHERE GenericStopWords.word IS NULLDoes that make sense? I want a SQL statement that will insert the tuple('bounded', 1) into the table Words if (and only if) 'bounded' does notappear in the table GenericStopWords. It's easy to say procedurally, Icannot see how to write it in a relational style in SQL.Thanks in advance for any help you can give.Cheers,Tim.
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Feb 14, 2008
i have following problem: i need to import csv data into a ole db destination. on colum in the csv file is a 'external' customer number but in the destination table there must be an 'internal' customer number. of course there's a table where the mappings between external and internal customer number are defined, but this tables is located on another server. So i have no idea how to solve this problem ... maybe because i'm pretty new to ssis
thanks a lot
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Oct 20, 2014
I have a stored proc that contains an update which utilizes a case statement to populate values in a particular column in a table, based on values found in other columns within the same table. The existing update looks like this (object names and values have been changed to protect the innocent):
UPDATE dbo.target_table
set target_column =
case
when source_column_1= 'ABC'then 'XYZ'
when source_column_2= '123'then 'PDQ'
[Code] ....
The powers that be would like to replace this case statement with some sort of table-driven structure, so that the mapping rules defined above can be maintained in the database by the business owner, rather than having it embedded in code and thus requiring developer intervention to perform changes/additions to the rules.
The rules defined in the case statement are in a pre-defined sequence which reflects the order of precedence in which the rules are to be applied (in other words, if a matching value in source_column_1 is found, this trumps a conflicting matching value in source_column_2, etc). A case statement handles this nicely, of course, because the case statement will stop when it finds the first "hit" amongst the WHEN clauses, testing each in the order in which they are coded in the proc logic.
What I'm struggling with is how to replicate this using a lookup table of some sort and joins from the target table to the lookup to replace the above case statement. I'm thinking that I would need a lookup table that has column name/value pairings, with a sequence number on each row that designates the row's placement in the precedence hierarchy. I'd then join to the lookup table somehow based on column names and values and return the match with the lowest sequence number, or something to that effect.
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Sep 3, 2007
Hello... im having a problem with my query optimization....
I have a query that looks like this:
SELECT * FROM table1
WHERE location_id IN (SELECT location_id from location_table WHERE account_id = 998)
it produces my desired data but it takes 3 minutes to run the query... is there any way to make this faster?... thank you so much...
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Dec 15, 2014
How to select specific character when you have a different length of characters. For example I have a columm where I have character ":". How to select only ":"?
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Sep 21, 2006
Hi Folks
If I wrote this in QA what does it mean?
Declare @X INT
Set @X = 2
Select (@X & 8)
What & do in this select statment
Thank you
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Aug 15, 2007
Anyone who knows a smarter way to select a special part of a text string.
A have done like this now but mabye the textstring changes. I know that the GO02 in the future will expand.
KnowgoodP_GO02_AA_K_20070807_2010_L.BBB
But the underscore _ sign is like a seperator and will always be there to separate the words.
I need the 20070807_2010 and fomat to 2007-08-07 20:10
SELECT @state = STATE,
@thetime = CONVERT(char(20),STATE_TIME,20),
@id = ID,
@textstrr = TEXTSTRRWHERE SUBSTRING(FILENAME, 21,4)+ '-'+ SUBSTRING(FILENAME, 25,2)+'-'+SUBSTRING(FILENAME, 27,2)+' '+ SUBSTRING(FILENAME, 30,2)+ ':'+ SUBSTRING(FILENAME, 32,2)+':00' between @starttime and @theEndTime
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Apr 22, 2005
The LIKE keyword in SELECT WHERE can use wildcard
%
Any string of zero or more characters.
_
Any single character.
but how to Pattern Matching for "zero or single character"?
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Apr 17, 2014
i am working on a small project, that I have found that someone is storing a float as a varchar(). But there are also some actual words in the same column.
I am trying to determine how I can select only the rows with alphabetical characters in that column.
Some of the data is:
1.5008e+015
1.54453e+015
1.51922e+015
1.51922e+015
1.52243e+015
but there is a mix of alphabetical characters in there as well.
1.51922e+015
1.53122e+015
FMCIT
ABCNP
FMCPNG
1.62073e+015
1.6127e+015
I want to be able to select the rows with only the alphabetical characters. There is a huge mix, and I am assuming that every first letter is one of the 26 alphabetical character used. How can I write a query to use a REGEX to select any and all rows that cannot be CAST as a Float? I have nill to no experience using REGEX.
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Aug 29, 2006
I am currently having this problem with gridview and detailview. When I drag either onto the page and set my select statement to pick from one table and then update that data through the gridview (lets say), the update works perfectly. My problem is that the table I am pulling data from is mainly foreign keys. So in order to hide the number values of the foreign keys, I select the string value columns from the tables that contain the primary keys. I then use INNER JOIN in my SELECT so that I only get the data that pertains to the user I am looking to list and edit. I run the "test query" and everything I need shows up as I want it. I then go back to the gridview and change the fields which are foreign keys to templates. When I edit the templates I bind the field that contains the string value of the given foreign key to the template. This works great, because now the user will see string representation instead of the ID numbers that coinside with the string value. So I run my webpage and everything show up as I want it to, all the data is correct and I get no errors. I then click edit (as I have checked the "enable editing" box) and the gridview changes to edit mode. I make my changes and then select "update." When the page refreshes, and the gridview returns, the data is not updated and the original data is shown. I am sorry for so much typing, but I want to be as clear as possible with what I am doing. The only thing I can see being the issue is that when I setup my SELECT and FROM to contain fields from multiple tables, the UPDATE then does not work. When I remove all of my JOIN's and go back to foreign keys and one table the update works again. Below is what I have for my SQL statements:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT:SELECT People.FirstName, People.LastName, People.FullName, People.PropertyID, People.InviteTypeID, People.RSVP, People.Wheelchair, Property.[House/Day Hab], InviteType.InviteTypeName FROM (InviteType INNER JOIN (Property INNER JOIN People ON Property.PropertyID = People.PropertyID) ON InviteType.InviteTypeID = People.InviteTypeID) WHERE (People.PersonID = ?)UPDATE:UPDATE [People] SET [FirstName] = ?, [LastName] = ?, [FullName] = ?, [PropertyID] = ?, [InviteTypeID] = ?, [RSVP] = ?, [Wheelchair] = ? WHERE [PersonID] = ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The only fields I want to update are in [People]. My WHERE is based on a control that I use to select a person from a drop down list. If I run the test query for the update while setting up my data source the query will update the record in the database. It is when I try to make the update from the gridview that the data is not changed. If anything is not clear please let me know and I will clarify as much as I can. This is my first project using ASP and working with databases so I am completely learning as I go. I took some database courses in college but I have never interacted with them with a web based front end. Any help will be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance for any time, help, and/or advice you can give.Brian
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Jan 9, 2015
Ok I have a query "SELECT ColumnNames FROM tbl1" let's say the values returned are "age,sex,race".
Now I want to be able to create an "update" statement like "UPATE tbl2 SET Col2 = age + sex + race" dynamically and execute this UPDATE statement. So, if the next select statement returns "age, sex, race, gender" then the script should create "UPDATE tbl2 SET Col2 = age + sex + race + gender" and execute it.
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Jul 20, 2005
hiI need to write a stored procedure that takes input parameters,andaccording to these parameters the retrieved fields in a selectstatement are chosen.what i need to know is how to make the fields of the select statementconditional,taking in consideration that it is more than one fieldaddedfor exampleSQLStmt="select"if param1 thenSQLStmt=SQLStmt+ field1end ifif param2 thenSQLStmt=SQLStmt+ field2end if
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Oct 29, 2007
Hi guys,
I have the query below (running okay):
Code Block
SELECT DISTINCT Field01 AS 'Field01', Field02 AS 'Field02'
FROM myTables
WHERE Conditions are true
ORDER BY Field01
The results are just as I need:
Field01 Field02
------------- ----------------------
192473 8461760
192474 22810
Because other reasons. I need to modify that query to:
Code Block
SELECT DISTINCT Field01 AS 'Field01', Field02 AS 'Field02'
INTO AuxiliaryTable
FROM myTables
WHERE Conditions are true
ORDER BY Field01
SELECT DISTINCT [Field02] FROM AuxTable
The the results are:
Field02
----------------------
22810
8461760
And what I need is (without showing any other field):
Field02
----------------------
8461760
22810
Is there any good suggestion?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Aldo.
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Jul 4, 2006
Hello friends,
I want to use select statement in a CASE inside procedure.
can I do it? of yes then how can i do it ?
following part of the procedure clears my requirement.
SELECT E.EmployeeID,
CASE E.EmployeeType
WHEN 1 THEN
select * from Tbl1
WHEN 2 THEN
select * from Tbl2
WHEN 3 THEN
select * from Tbl3
END
FROM EMPLOYEE E
can any one help me in this?
please give me a sample query.
Thanks and Regards,
Kiran Suthar
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May 5, 2015
I am attempting to run update statements within a SELECT CASE statement.
Select case x.field
WHEN 'XXX' THEN
 UPDATE TABLE1
  SET TABLE1.FIELD2 = 1
 ELSE
  UPDATE TABLE2
  SET TABLE2.FIELD1 = 2
END
FROM OuterTable x
I get incorrect syntax near the keyword 'update'.
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Sep 18, 2007
Hi guys/ladies I'm still having some trouble formatting a select statement correctly.
I am using a sqldatasource control on an aspx page. It is connecting via odbc string to an Informix database.
Here is my select statement cut down to the most basic elements.
SELECT commentFROM informix.ipr_stucomWHERE (comment > 70)
The column "comment" contains student grades ranging from 0-100 and the letters I, EE, P, F, etc. Therefore the column is of a char type. This is a problem because I cannot run the above statement without hitting an alpha record and getting the following error
"Character to numeric conversion error"
How can I write this statement where it will work in the datasource control and have it only look at numeric values and skip the alpha values?
I have tried case with cast and isnumeric... I don't think that I have the formating correct.
I have also used:
WHERE (NOT (comment = ' I' OR comment = ' EE' OR comment = ' NG' OR comment = ' WP' OR comment = ' WF' OR comment = ' P' OR comment = ' F'))
This works but is very clunky and could possibly break if other letters are input in the future. There has to be a better way.I am sorry for my ignorance and thanks again for your help.
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Sep 4, 2015
I'm trying to select only July from show_held but I keep on getting the error message saying:
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
I get error message after I write this code:
ANDshow.show_held = '&July&'
As you can see from the below code, How do I select July from times_held_in_July?
SELECTevent_name,
DATENAME (MONTH, show_held) AS times_held_in_July
FROMevent,
show
WHEREevent.show_id = show.show_id
Result:
event_name times_held_in_July
DressageJuly
Jumping July
Led in July
Led in September
Led in May
DressageApril
DressageJuly
Flag and PoleJuly
SELECTevent_name,
DATENAME (MONTH, show_held) AS times_held_in_July
FROMevent,
show
WHEREevent.show_id = show.show_id
ANDshow.show_held = '&July&'
Result:
Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 24
Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
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Apr 30, 2008
Good day all.
Let's see if I can stump you with this one.....
Code Snippet
SELECT Account.New_DistributorAccountNumber, Account.New_NameonBill, ActivityPointer.Subject, ActivityPointer.CreatedOn AS ExprX
FROM Account INNER JOIN
ActivityPointer ON Account.AccountId = ActivityPointer.RegardingObjectId
UNION
SELECT Account_1.New_DistributorAccountNumber AS Expr1, Account_1.New_NameonBill AS Expr2, ActivityPointer_1.CreatedOn AS Expr19,
ActivityPointer_1.Subject AS Expr20
FROM Account AS Account_1 INNER JOIN
Contact AS Contact_1 ON Account_1.AccountId = Contact_1.AccountId INNER JOIN
ActivityPointer AS ActivityPointer_1 ON Contact_1.ContactId = ActivityPointer_1.RegardingObjectId
gives the error mentioned above. Each select statement, when run separately, works fine. Any clues?
Thank you in advance
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Oct 20, 2014
In the below code i want to use select statement for getting customer
address1,customeraddress2,customerphone,customercity,customerstate,customercountry,customerfirstname,customerlastname
from customer table.Rest of the things will be as it is in the following code.How do i do this?
INSERT INTO EMImportListing ("
sql += " CustId,Title,Description,JobCity,JobState,JobPostalCode,JobCountry,URL,Requirements, "
sql += " IsDraft,IsFeatured,IsApproved,"
sql += " Email,OrgName,customerAddress1,customerAddress2,customerCity,customerState,customerPostalCode,
[code]....
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Aug 10, 2006
I have 3 tables, with this relation:
tblChats.WebsiteID = tblWebsite.ID
tblWebsite.AccountID = tblAccount.ID
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SELECT * FROM tblChats c
LEFT JOIN tblWebsites sites ON sites.ID = c.WebsiteID
LEFT JOIN tblAccounts accounts on accounts.ID = sites.AccountID
WHERE accounts.ID = 16 AND GETDATE() - c.StartTime > 180
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Sep 17, 2007
Hey guys i have a stock table and a stock type table and what i would like to do is say for every different piece of stock find out how many are available The two tables are like thisstockIDconsumableIDstockAvailableconsumableIDconsumableName So i want to,Select every consumableName in my table and then group all the stock by the consumable ID with some form of total where stockavailable = 1I should then end up with a table like thisEpson T001 - Available 6Epson T002 - Available 0Epson T003 - Available 4If anyone can help me i would be very appreciative. If you want excact table names etc then i can put that here but for now i thought i would ask how you would do it and then give it a go myself.ThanksMatt
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Aug 6, 2007
SELECT Top 10 Name, Contact AS DCC, DateAdded AS DateTimeFROM NameTaORDER BY DateAdded DESC
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May 17, 2015
I have a table that contains file paths as
ServernamefolderAfilenameA
ServernameFolderBFilenameB
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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
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Jul 11, 2007
Hello
How can i say this I would like my if statement to say: if what the client types in Form1.Cust is = to the Select Statement which should be running off form1.Cust then show the Cust otherwise INVALID CUSTOMER NUMBER .here is my if statement.
<% If Request.Form("Form1.Cust") = Request.QueryString("RsCustNo") Then%> <%=Request.Params("Cust") %> <% Else %> <p>INVALID CUSTOMER NUMBER</p> <% End If%>
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:RsCustNo %>"
ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:RsCustNo.ProviderName %>" SelectCommand="SELECT [CU_CUST_NUM] FROM [CUSTOMER] WHERE ([CU_CUST_NUM] = ?)">
<SelectParameters>
<asp:FormParameter FormField="Cust" Name="CU_CUST_NUM" Type="String" />
</SelectParameters>
</asp:SqlDataSource>any help would be appreciated
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May 15, 2008
Hi,
I am a newbie to this site and hope someone can help....
I have a select statement which I would like to create an extra column and put an if statement in it.... Current syntax is:
if(TL_flag= '1', "yes") as [Trial Leave]
it is coming up with an error.... I can use Select case but I should not need to as this should work?
Any ideas?
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