what am trying to do is adding an instead of trigger on update which concatenates the old value in the text column with the new value
so the problem is how i can concatenate both values since i cant declare a variable of type text.
A solution may be dividing the text column into many varchar(8000) variables and then add them but i dont know how it can be implemented or if there's an easier solution
the code am trying:
CREATE TRIGGER InsteadTrigger on tbl
INSTEAD OF Update
AS
BEGIN
if exists(select null from deleted)
begin
--am considering updating only 1 row
update tbl set theValue=((select theValue from deleted)+(select theValue from inserted))
end
i tried the writetext and updatetext functions and the problem is always related to both columns concatenation
Hi,I have a problem to insert(update) a long text (more than 64K) intoSQL 2000 (datatype - 'text'). It cuts the data and insert only 64K.MSDN says: "When the ntext, text, and image data values get larger,however, they must be handled on a block-by-block basis. BothTransact-SQL and the database APIs contain functions that allow applications towork with ntext, text, and image data block by block." Could somebodygive me an example how to do this, please.Thank you
I have an instance where I need to concatenate some data that is stored in a text datatype. I can't cast it to a varchar/char because that may well truncate the data. I just read about UPDATETEXT, which I think I can use, but I need to use it for a bunch or rows and it looks like this works on one row at a time. Anyone have experience with this?
I am a TSQL Newbie trying to concatenate two columns (DocumentNo & SequenceNo) that were created with a smallint? data type constraint in a full-text search database. I want to end up with a column containing varchar data such as 5-2? where this row of data contains information about the 2nd document in a series for a person or group designated as 5.
If I could change the data type for the columns to varchar I think I could query them like this:
SELECT ("DocumentNo" + '-' + "SequenceNo") AS DocumentNoFull FROM Full_Documents ORDER BY DocumentNo, SequenceNo
When I try to concatenate with this query the result is a mathematical addition of the numbers, not what I am trying to achieve (which is to combine the two numbers to produce a text string).
Due to the full-text search parameters for the database I have not been able to modify the data type constraints on the two relevant columns. Is there a way to concatenate the two smallint? columns and create a new column with text data (e.g., 5-2) for each row in the table?
My research suggests that casting? could be used to convert between data types, but I have not been able to figure out how to apply it to my situation. Any help would be appreciated.
I've just gotten my data into SQL Server, and changed the connection stringon the program.There was a memo field (Access 2000) and we put that in a text field (with adefault length of 16?).Now, when displaying the data online (through asp pages), there are bigwhite-space gaps in the pages (that display the memo field data), imageshave a "double" url(http://www.mysite.com/thisfolder/ht...thelinksite.com)there are lots of place with " ".The field data has html tags in it, if that has anything to do with it.It seems like I've heard that there are issues with text fields. Is thiswhat they meant? Is there anything I can do?Thanks, JA
My organization have a web-based application and needs it to support multilingual so we will be adapting our app to use unicode. However, one of our problems is to convert existing data from text to ntext. I couldn't find anything that document this. What is the best way to do that? I would like to be able to migrate the data from an existing text column to another ntext column in the table.
If I can't do that, what are the options? If it's possible, I would like to be able to do this in sql script.
Can some one please explain how the storage of a huge text or ntext object ( say a string of characters 100 KB in size ) is carried out please?
With a data page maximum size of 8000 bytes, how does SQL handle the storage of such an string - it would obviously obverlap multiple rows etc. Does the application writing it to the database have to split the object over multiple rows and manually keep track of which bit is in which row so it can be re-created later in correct sequence by adding the bits back together, or is it done some how differently?
My Stored Proc runs through a loop and concats the contents of each field into one big nvarchar. Procedure works fine on a smaller scale but now it is being implemented on a very large table and the results of the sequel overflow the nvarchar limits. I looked into using text and ntext but both cannot be declared locally. Does anyone know how I can work aroudn this limitation?
Summary:The problem is that the temporary variable I am using (nvarchar) is too small to contain the robust size that the SQL is concating into it. The final field it winds up in is a text field and will be able to handle the amount of data, its just getting the data there is the issue..... Your thoughts please....
Hi there! I've read through several of these forums and am impressed by the talent out there. I'm hoping someone could share some insight on a little complication I've got.
I have a sproc that essentially is pulling all mail items from a profile, reading them in and storing them in a table. It is all working fine MINUS the fact that I cannot pass the message because it won't allow me to pass text or ntext.
If anyone has any ideas I would truly appreciate it. In the meantime I'll be searching through the forum looking for a way to make it happen. Thx, Camey
declare @post_id int declare@topic_id int declare@forum_id int declare@poster_id int declare@post_time int declare@poster_ip int declare@post_username char(25) declare@enable_bbcode smallint declare@enable_html smallint declare@enable_smilies smallint declare@enable_sig smallint declare@post_edit_time int declare@post_edit_count smallint declare@bbcode_uid char(10) declare@post_subject char(60) declare@post_text text
Set @msg_id = NULL while (1=1) begin exec master..xp_findnextmsg @msg_id = @msg_id output if @msg_id is null break
I have a table column type as nText, however there are some Chinese character stored in that field and it is a messed up as it is not readable.
In my vb.net code, I did Convert to unicode by getting the byte of each character and encode it with UTF8 e.g:
Public Shared Function ConvertToUnicode(ByVal s As String) As String
' Convert To Unicode
Dim MyBytes As Byte() = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(s)
Dim GBencoding As Encoding = System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8
Return GBencoding.GetString(MyBytes)
End Function
This works well but ,the problem is that it slows down the process quite alot, and I wonder are there any text encoding method I can use in SQL that can run when i do the SELECT Statement?
SELECT Convert(MyNTEXTColumn) .... something like that?
i have created asp.net page, one feild of this page text area. when i insert some text through this page in "text feild" of SQL server on few words of this feild cut and inserted to text feild of SQL server but all text that i have written in text area feild.
can u please help me how to handle so that i can all text in text feild of SQL server data type text/next.
I have two SQL 2005 SP2 Server and want to use the transaction replication with updateable subscriber. Now the problem is that i can do any changes on the master server. But if i want to change a record on the subscriber which contains a ntext, text, oder image column - then i geht the error that the field will be NULL on the master.
Is there any solution to fix this problem? I dont wan`t to change the datatype vom ntext to varchar(max) !!
I have to run a dynamic sql that i save in the database as a TEXT data type(due to a large size of the sql.) from a .NET app. Now i have to run this sql from the stored proc that returns the results back to .net app. I am running this dynamic sql with sp_executesql like this.. EXEC sp_executesql @Statement,N'@param1 varchar(3),@param2 varchar(1)',@param1,@param2,GO As i can't declare text,ntext etc variables in T-Sql(stored proc), so i am using this method in pulling the text type field "Statement". DECLARE @Statement varbinary(16)SELECT @Statement = TEXTPTR(Statement)FROM table1 READTEXT table1.statement @Statement 0 16566 So far so good, the issue is how to convert @Statment varbinary to nText to get it passed in sp_executesql. Note:- i can't use Exec to run the dynamic sql becuase i need to pass the params from the .net app and Exec proc doesn't take param from the stored proc from where it is called. I would appreciate if any body respond to this.
SQL ERROR - I need DISTINCT but can use it with image,ntext, text - How To work around??? ! more - How to Work around - MIN() I cant use it when having text in SELECT statement The text, ntext, or image data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The text, ntext, or image data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Hi, We are in process of converting all of the data type of the fields from CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT into NCHAR/NVARCHAR/NTEXT (DBCS). Having more than 900 store procedure its look like real pain to make modification in all of the SPs.
After failed to find any help from GOOGLE, I am posting this request. I am basically looking for any automated tool which are convert data type in SP based on the field of the table used in the SP. Or at least which can provide me some sort of list which can helpful for doing manual reactoring.
I do not understand the error message but I do know it is associated with a specific table and one of its indexes. If I try to drop the index that is the error message I get.
I have copied the data from the table to a new table and rebuilt the indexes on the new table and everything is working fine.
The bad table is now renamed to myTable_BAD. I now want to delete it but can't as everytime I enter drop table myTable_BAD
I get Page (1:404399), slot 5 for text, ntext, or image node does not exist.
I am running this query to an sql server 2000 database from my aspcode:"select * from MyTable whereMySqlServerRemoveStressFunction(MyNtextColumn) = '" &MyAdoRemoveStressFunction(MyString) & "'"The problem is that the replace function doesn't work with the ntextdatatype (so as to replace the stresses with an empty string). I hadto implement the MySqlServerRemoveStressFunction, i.e. a function thattakes a column name as a parameter and returns the text contained inthis column having replaced some letters of the text (the letters withstress). Unfortunately, I could not do that because user-definedfunctions cannot return a value of ntext.So I have the following idea:"select * from MyTable whereCheckIfTheyAreEqualIngoringTheStesses(MyNtextColum n, '" & MyString &"')"How can I implement the CheckIfTheyAreEqualIngoringTheStessesfunction? (I don't know how to combine these functions to do what Iwant: TEXTPTR, UPDATETEXT, WRITETEXT, READTEXT)
My organization have a web-based application and needs it to support multilingual so we will be adapting our app to use unicode. However, one of our problems is to convert existing data from text to ntext. I couldn't find anything that document this. What is the best way to do that? I would like to be able to migrate the data from an existing text column to another ntext column in the table.
I brief you about my system, I used List manager system to store the messages and distribute to all members. Right now,by design the Lyris system keep the message in the text field which mean it 's not support multilanguage directly because of unicode field. We needs to create new Db which has the data structure as same as Lyris but just one difference is keep the message in unicode format (ntext) which we need the sql script to automatically update the new record get from Lyris to new DB.
If I can't do that, what are the options? If it's possible, I would like to be able to do this in sql script.
I need to concatenate two date fields so they appear in a drop-down list like this: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM I'm using MS SQL 2005 and my query looks like this: SELECT ClinicTimesID, ClinicID, (CTStartTime + ' - ' + CTEndTime) AS TimeSlot FROM Clinics_Times WHERE (ClinicID = 1) and I get this error: Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1 The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value. Can I strip out the date so that only the time appears or is it even possible to concatenate these fields? If so, how? Thanks!
Hello all, I'm trying to combine two columns of data into a third column using a formula on the thrid column. Each of the columns could contain nulls and each of the columns could contain padding after or before the data. I'm trying to use the following formula yet SQL is throwing an error. Can someone provide another set of eyes to check this out? ISNULL(LTRIM(RTRIM([user_Define_4a])),ββ) + ISNULL(LTRIM(RTRIM([user_Define_1])),ββ) Thanks
I am completely new to SQL and I have some syntax questions. I am trying to concatenate 4 fields and some padded constants to form a new key field to perform joins. The result should be a twelve character field without spaces. My problem is that the current fields use spaces as place holders and I need to replace the spaces with β0β.
1st β0β (constant) 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, from [RD_ID] (without the suffix) 5th and 6th from [RD_ID] suffix or replace spaces with β00β 7th 1 or 2 from [RDWY_ID] 8th Z from [MLGE_TYPE] or replace space with β0β 9th 1 β 9 from [OVLAP_MLGE_CD] or replace space with β0β 10th βSβ (constant) 11th β0β (constant) 12th β0β (constant)
Results should resemble 0001CQ100S00 or 000100100S00
Col1 Col2 Col3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrews S 93845877712 P Sylvia 9999876669 J Bill K 7657654677 L
I need the output like this Col1 Col2 Col3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- AndrewsS 93845877712 P Sylvia 99999876669 J BillK 76576546677 L
The character on the left of Col2 has to be joined to Col1 and character on the right of col2 has to be joined to Col3. Can anybody suggest a query for this.
Hi All, I've been trying to create a dynamic query using the 'Like' clause and '%'. my code snippet looks like this: while (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)begin set @likeString = @likeString + ' item_Text LIKE ''%'+@word+'%'' OR ' fetch next from theLike into @word end
-- strip off last ORset @likeString = ltrim(rtrim(substring(@likeString, 0, (len(@likeString) - 3))))-- ================================================-- create query to find keywords in the index and store in temp table-- ================================================set @query = 'INSERT into #resulttable (itemcount, item_id) SELECT COUNT(d.item_id), d.item_id FROM tp_index_details AS d INNER JOIN tp_index ON d.idx_id = tp_index.idx_id 'set @query = @query +' WHERE (d.idx_id IN (SELECT idx_id FROM tp_index AS i WHERE ( 'set @query = rtrim(@query) + @likeStringset @query = @query + ' ) AND (subscription_id = 1000))) GROUP BY d.item_id ORDER BY d.item_id DESC' The problem is the @query string gets truncated. My question is how to get the quotes around '%' variables to work in a string? Thanks for any help! regards Davej
Hi all - I have posted inquiries on this rather vexing issue before, so I apologize in advance for revisting this. I am trying to create the code to add the parameters for two CheckBoxLists together. One CheckBoxList allows users to choose a group of Customers by Area Code, the other "CBL" allows users to select Customers by a type of Category that these Customers are grouped into. When a user selects Customers via one or the other CBL, I have no problems. If, however, the user wants to get all the Customers from one or more Area Codes who ALSO may or may not be members of one or more Categories; I have had trouble trying to create the proper SQL. What I have so far:Protected Sub btn_CustomerSearchCombined_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btn_CustomerSearchCombined.Click Dim CSC_SqlString As String = "SELECT Customers.CustomerID, Customers.CustomerName, Customers.CategoryID, Customers.EstHours, Customers.Locality, Category.Category FROM Customers INNER JOIN Category ON Customers.CategoryID = Category.CategoryID WHERE " Dim ACItem As ListItem Dim CATItem As ListItem For Each ACItem In cbl_CustomersearchAREA.Items If ACItem.Selected Then CSC_SqlString &= "Customers.AreaCodeID = '" & ACItem.Value & "' OR " End If Next CSC_SqlString &= "' AND " <-- this is the heart of my problem, I believe For Each CATItem In cbl_CustomersearchCAT.Items If CATItem.Selected Then CSC_SqlString &= "Customers.CategoryID = '" & CATItem.Value & "' OR " End If Next CSC_SqlString = Left(CSC_SqlString, Len(CSC_SqlString) - 4) CSC_SqlString &= "ORDER By Categories.Category" sql_CustomersearchGrid.SelectCommand = CSC_SqlString End SubAny help on this is much appreciated, many thanks --
Hi, I'm trying to mak emy query dynamic such that depending upon certain conditions, the conditions in the WHERE clause change. I have my SP as shown below and it doesn't seem to work correctly this way and seems like it is not even taking it as a condition. Please advise on what is going wrong here. I'm building the @Condition variable dynamically and appending it to the where clause below. Any help wud be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.CabsSchedule_ViewSchedule ( @SiteCode smallint = 0, @YearMonth int = NULL, @ByYearMonth bit = 1 ) AS
DECLARE @tempYearMonth int DECLARE @Condition varchar(1000) SET @tempYearMonth = 0
IF @YearMonth IS NULL OR @YearMonth = 0 BEGIN EXECUTE CabsSchedule_GetYearMonth @tempYearMonth, @YearMonth OUTPUT END
IF @ByYearMonth = 0 BEGIN DECLARE @Year int DECLARE @Month int SET @Year = CAST(SUBSTRING(CAST(@YearMonth AS VARCHAR(6)),1,4) AS INT) SET @Month = CAST(SUBSTRING(CAST(@YearMonth AS VARCHAR(6)),5,2) AS INT) SET @Condition = ' DATEPART ([month], FullDate) = ' + CAST(@Month AS VARCHAR(2)) + ' AND DATEPART ([year], FullDate) = ' + CAST(@Year AS VARCHAR(4)) + ' AND ' END ELSE BEGIN SET @Condition = ' YearMonth = ' + CAST(@YearMonth AS VARCHAR(6)) + ' AND ' END
SELECT BillPeriod = CASE WHEN BillPeriod = 32 THEN 'NB' WHEN BillPeriod = 33 THEN 'Holiday' ELSE Convert(nVarChar(7), BillPeriod) END, WorkDay = CASE WHEN WorkDay = -1 THEN '' WHEN WorkDay = 0 THEN 'Holiday' ELSE Convert(nVarchar(7), WorkDay) END, JulianDate, CalendarDay, CalDayBillRcvd, Remarks, FullDate FROMdbo.CabsSchedule WHERE YearMonth = @YearMonth AND SiteCode = @SiteCode GO
