Update String/replace?
Jan 15, 2008
Hi experts,
I need to do an update on a field which will update 3 characters within a string. Right now I have '000111000333'. I want to replace '000' starting from the 7th character space with '222'. The first set of zeroes will remain unchange. I want the final outcome to be '000111222333'. How can I do this?
I have tried searching this forum and could not find anything. the closest thing I can find is http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=81890#360936.
Thanks for the help!
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Jul 3, 2014
Trying to replace a string in a table and it is not working the path can be like OM-WD08-1 reportData.raw
USE Config
DECLARE @OldPath varchar(30), @NewPath varchar(30)
-- Initialize the variable
SET @OldPath ='OM-WD08-1';
SET @NewPath ='AA-PC';
UPDATE AnatomyConfigs
SET Path = REPLACE(Path,@OldPath,@NewPath) WHERE Path IS NOT NULL
AND Path LIKE @OldPath
GO
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Sep 8, 2015
I have following query which return me SP/Views and Functions script using:
select DEFINITION FROM .SYS.SQL_MODULESNow, the result looks like
Create proc
create procedure
create proc
create view
create function
I need its result as:
Alter Procedure
Alter Procedure
Alter Procedure
Alter View
Alter Function
I used following
select replace(replace(replace(DEFINITION,'CREATE PROCEDURE','Alter Procedure'), 'create proc','Alter Procedure'),'create view','Alter View') FROM .SYS.SQL_MODULESto but it is checking fixed space like create<space>proc, how can i check if there are two or more spaces in between create view or create proc or create function, it should replace as i want?
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Jul 26, 2002
Hi,
I need to write a single replace sql as folows:
I have a string consisting of numbers seperated by a space. Some of the numbers are suffixed with a star like this: '1 12* 5 7*'
I need to remove those numbers that are suffixed with a star. In other words, I need an output as follows: '1 5'
any help would be appreciated
Thanks
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Jul 26, 2002
Hi,
I need to write a single replace sql as folows:
I have a string consisting of numbers seperated by a space. Some of the numbers are suffixed with a star like this: '1 12* 5 7*'
I need to remove those numbers that are suffixed with a star. In other words, I need an output as follows: '1 5'
any help would be appreciated
Thanks
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Jul 26, 2002
Hi,
I need to write a replace sql in TSQL as folows:
I have a string consisting of numbers seperated by a space. Some of the numbers are suffixed with a star like this: '1 12* 5 7*'
I need to remove those numbers that are suffixed with a star. In other words, I need an output as follows: '1 5'
any help would be appreciated
Thanks
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May 7, 2008
I've got a simple table with a column called html. In the html column I need to replace all occurances of <BR> with <br />
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Thanks
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Mar 2, 2000
Hi,
I have a table where this one column(varchar) has rows of data with a period at the end of the string. Is there any function I could use to remove all the periods?
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bhjio.
shtpl.
should become:
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Jul 12, 2007
Hello
with the following query :
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Nov 12, 2007
Hi,
I am trying to replace a string column with 'Y' or 'N' in my SSRS report. I tried the following expressions, but no one works for me.
=IIf(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value Is Null, 'Y', 'N')
=IIf(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value = '', 'Y', 'N')
=IIf(IsDBNull(Fields!ExpectedWords.Value), 'Y', 'N')
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Thanks alot.
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Apr 15, 2008
Hi all, In a sql query I need to replace 0 (zero) with "Not rated" ...Can some one help me to do this.In short: how to replace a integer value to a string in a query? is it possible?Thanks for the HelpRamesh
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Mar 14, 2008
Please help me with the sql script to manipulate the string data:
I need to add <Text> at the beginning and end of the string.
I also need to add <option> before the first and after last occurence of the <Option> string. The original string
<StockNumber>502</StockNumber>
<OptionKey>113</OptionKey>
<OptionKey>151</OptionKey>
<Warranty>1</Warranty>
should look like
<Text>
<StockNumber>502</StockNumber>
<Option>
<OptionKey>113</OptionKey>
<OptionKey>151</OptionKey>
<Option>
<Warranty>1</Warranty>
<Text>
Thanks.
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Oct 15, 2006
I found it rather hard to replace a string in an NTEXT field in sql server 2000. Would it be easier in SSIS 2005? Please advise. Thanks.
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Mar 23, 2015
I have data like below
Potter, James J
Williams, Ted R
Allen, Gary G
I want to remove Middle Name from the output
Potter, James
Williams, Ted
Allen, Gary
My Query:
SELECT
CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, 0) + 1) > 0 THEN
REPLACE(Supervisor, SUBSTRING(Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, 0) + 1), LEN(Supervisor)), '')
ELSE Supervisor END AS NewSupervisor from data d
However, I stumble when Middle Name exists somewhere in the name as Replace function repalces every occurrence of the string. For ex: "Allen, Gary G" becomes "Allen,ary"
Do we have any way to say sql to replace after certain index?
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Jul 21, 2015
I would like to create a function that will replace a string using a reference table
I have a table : reference
ID String ReplaceWith
1 ≈ &
2 < <
3 > >
If I pass a string into a function, function needs to replace a string with replace with string column in reference table
For example, if I pass   a string : car $ap; fjld
The function should return car & fjld
How can i create a function like this so that i can call it in Stored procedure....
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Dec 12, 2007
hi friends
can any one help me how to replace a string with another string in a column of table with out effecting the other charcaters
ex:
In srinivas reddy only 'srinivas' has to replace with 'sreenivas'
regards
nukala
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May 10, 2012
The string column value looks like as below. Each value has a size of 15 withing a string
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'2.202 30 4.0'
I need to handle the decimal values in such a way, if staring value with '.' and last digit is 0 then replace with space ''. So, it should look like
'2 2 2 30 4 ' = '2 2 2 30 4 '
When this string is compared, it results in EQUAL.
I tried the below logic, which even replaces the integer value like 30 to 3 and 3000 to 3 and results in equal which is incorrect.
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Ex:'2.2020 300 4.00' = '2.20200 30 4.0'
After replace, string looks like
Ex:'2 2 2 3 4 ' = '2 2 2 3 4 '
It results as EQUAL which is incorrect. I need only decimal value to be replaced not integer.
I am looking for a single string replace logic.
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<a href="../downloadDoc.aspx?dg=[DOCUMENTGUID]" target="_blank">
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I know that I should be using PATINDEX and REPLACE functions but I don't know how to utilise.
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Jul 15, 2010
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Jun 2, 2008
My issue is this. I have a total of 23000 rows in my Table. Now I'm trying to Replace any rows under the codeabbreviation column that has the word Protocol with the Abbreviation Prtcl. The problem that I'm running into is that When I use the UPDATE/REPLACE statement below I get the message that "23000 rows were affected" even though there are only total of 10rows that has the word Protocol. Shouldn't the correct message be "10 rows were affected" since the statement only did update 10 rows?
Update ProdDesc
SetCodeabbreviation = replace(codeabbreviation, 'protocol','Prtcl')
Here is my Table structure: ID is my Primary key
IDint
CodeIdnvarchar(50)
CodeCategoryIdnvarchar(50)
CodeCategorynvarchar(50)
CodeCategoryNamenvarchar(50)
Codenvarchar(50)
CodeNamenvarchar(250)
CodeAbbreviationnvarchar(250)
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Jan 22, 2008
Hi,
there is a table "attribute_definitions"
Field Name Type Size Key--------------------------------------------------
attr_name char 25 PK
attr_value nvarchar 250 PK
comment nvarchar 100
the records in the table are
attr_name attr_value comment------------------------------------------------------------------
mail dasari.kanth@gmail.com nothing
mail xyz@gmail.com nothing
UID test123 nothing
--------------------------------------------------------------------
now i am trying to update this table with the below UPDATE command
update attribute_definitions set attr_value=replace(attr_value,'gmail','yahoo') where attr_name='mail'
but the above update statement giving the error like
"Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_attribute_definitions'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'attribute_definitions'."
please can any one help me [?]
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Jun 14, 2005
Hi.
1.
Have a query that fetches a real value (e.g. 4.3345643)
Let say the field is called TheReal.
How can I format the value in the select statement so I get a thousand separator(s) and two decimals in the resultset.
2. In the same query I have a left join as well.
Table 2 retur (sometimes) <NULL>.
Is it possible to force this <NULL> value to be a fixed string value instead in the select statement.
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Apr 16, 2015
We have a legacy database that have hundreds of stored procedures.
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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?
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Nov 7, 2006
Ok.. so I have a fixed position data feed. I read the file in as just whole rows initially, process a specific position and evaluate a conditional split to determine direction of the file for proper processing (file contains multiple recors with different layouts). This all works fine. I then use the derived column feature to process all the columns.
Most of the columns are as simple as SUBSTRING(RecordData,1,10) for example to get the first column. This all works for string data. I then have a column that is a date field. The problem occurs that the code SUBSTRING(RecordData,20,10) returns either a date or empty set of data if no date was in the original file. When this gets sent to the OLEDB connection (SQL Server 2005) into the date field it fails. If the record has a date it works, but if it is empty it fails the insert.
I tried to replace empty strings with NULLs with this code. REPLACE(TRIM(SUBSTRING(RecordData,20,10)),"",NULL(DT_WSTR,10)). This does not work. So my question is how do I bring a date field from a fixed flat file into a SQL datetime field using a derived column? More specifically is how do I set it to NULL if its empty data? When I use the above code it inserts all the rows from the file, but it sets all rows to NULL not just the empty ones.
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Apr 21, 2008
I've got a table that I have to update in preparation for our environment move (2k to 2005 SP2). The developers that designed the application created a table called schemas, which holds the contents of an XML file inside of an ntext field named Data.I need to parse through the field and do a find/replace to replace all instances of www.site.com with www7.site.com. It's all over the place in the file. The problem is, that the datalength() of each of the fields (there are 2 rows) are above 15000.normally, I'd run something like this:update schemas set data=replace (cast(Data as varchar(max)),'www.site.com','www7.site.com') where data like '%www.site.com%'Smaller columns it works great - but it won't work on these because they're too big (the update will chop anything beyond the varchar(max) value). I could do it manually, but this DB will be refreshed from production on a weekly basis and I'd like to script as many of the environment changes to the DB as much as possible. Any ideas?
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Mar 27, 2008
Hi!
I recently was confronted with a problem where a piece of text that was included in many NTEXT column values in a table needed to be replaced with another piece of text. You can't issue normal REPLACE statements against NTEXT columns, so this seemed to be a bit of a challenge €” issuing a REPLACE() against a TEXT or NTEXT column in SQL Server yields error
I tried following
UPDATE CaseTypeDefs SET definition = replace(LTRIM(RTRIM(definition)), '<![CDATA[sp_YOTAssetAdditionalOffences 0, ArgParamHearingsId, ArgParamLanguage, ArgParamReferralId]]>', '<![CDATA[sp_YOTAssetAdditionalOffences 0, ArgParamHearingsId, ArgParamLanguage]]>')
But this is producing following error
Server: Msg 8116, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Argument data type ntext is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.
For Example: I want to replace string <![CDATA[sp_YOTAssetAdditionalOffences 0, ArgParamHearingsId, ArgParamLanguage]]> with <![CDATA[sp_YOTAssetAdditionalOffences 0, ArgParamHearingsId, ArgParamLanguage, ArgParamReferralId]]> in NTEXT column values in a table.
Need help, how to do it?.
Thanks In Advance
Devloper
Anil Kumar Dwivedi
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Apr 10, 2007
I need to do an update to several tables that would update just a few characters w/in a string. So if the String is 1122334455 I would need to update just '1122' and replace with '0000' - leaving '0000224455'.
I've tried the update/replace functions and they're not working. How would I do this or would I just create a trigger?
Thanks in advance any info
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Aug 14, 2015
I'm trying to find a specific string (a name) and replace it with another inside of a VARCHAR(7000) field. Unfortunately, there are names like Ted and Ken that I'm trying to replace. I would like to leave words like Broken, admitted, etc... intact.
UPDATEtbl
SETBody = LEFT(REPLACE(tbl.Body, pm.OldFirstName, p.FirstName), 7000)
FROM Table tbl
JOIN Person p ON p.PersonID = tbl.PersonID
JOIN PersonMap pm ON pm.PersonID = p.PersonID AND LEN(pm.OldFirstName) > 2
WHEREtbl.Body LIKE '%[^a-z]'+pm.OldFirstName+'[., ]%
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Jan 15, 2008
I can think of ways to resolve this issue, but I am wondering if there is a standard practice or some setting that is used to ensure that text containing a single quote, such as "Bob's house", is passed correctly to the database when using a SqlDataSource with all of the default behavior.
For example, I have a FormView setup with some text fields and a SqlDataSource that is used to do the insert. There is no code in the form currently. It works fine unless I put in text with a single quote, which of course messes up the insert or update. What is the best way to deal with this?
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May 13, 2008
I'm new to this forum.
This 'problem' has occured many times, but I've always found a way around it.
I have pages with datagrids, in which a user can edit a certain fields and then update the tables with new data. Lets say when a user edit a Name field and a money field. If he/she left those two fields blank, the table is automatically updated with a <null> (for the name field) and a 0 (for the money field.) Both these columns were set up to allow Null values.
Anyone has an idea why they were updated that way? And is there like a standard on how the data types are updated if a field is left blank?
Thank you very much.
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Feb 13, 2006
We have the following two tables :
Link ( GroupID int , MemberID int )
Member ( MemberID int , MemberName varchar(50), GroupID varchar(255) )
The Link table contains the records showing which Member is in which Group. One particular Member can be in
multiple Groups and also a particular Group may have multiple Members.
The Member table contains the Member's ID, Member's Name, and a Group ID field (that will contains comma-separated
Groups ID, showing in which Groups the particular Member is in).
We have the Link table ready, and the Member table' with first two fields is also ready. What we have to do now is to
fill the GroupID field of the Member table, from the Link Table.
For instance,
Read all the GroupID field from the Link table against a MemberID, make a comma-separated string of the GroupID,
then update the GroupID field of the corresponding Member in the Member table.
Please help me with a sql query or procedures that will do this job. I am using SQL SERVER 2000.
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