I have an update where I need to replace the first two numbers of a string with SF and remove the last number - e.g.:
029929229 >> SF992922
I have an update statement which works in Oracle, but I cannot get it to work in SQL Server. The statement is below:
UPDATE oraowner.ems_sam
SET sam_id = replace(sam_id,sam_id,'SF'||substr(sam_id, 3, length(sam_id) - 3));
Basically I want to do a find and replace.
All the rows where column1 starts with F: I want to replace with M:
I tried this without luck
update table
set left(column1,1)='M'
where
left(column1,1)='F'
thanks
I am having an issue when trying to do something that looks simple on the face of it.. I want to replace the value during update in the same table.
Here's my situation
tst_update
ID int
Col1 varchar(10
I want to ensure that everytime Col1 is updated to "A" I want to set it to "X". Otherwise leave it as is.
Can someone help.
Thanks,
Ashish
I need help with my statement using the SUBSTR. ( And this is not the MS SQL - but some flavor like it that we use on our AS400)
SELECT DISTINCT codstrctn, coacctno, cosrvlcn, losrvlctyp, losrvlcsts,
losrvlcnm, losrvlcnml, losrvlc, losrvlcn1, losrvlctyn,
losrvlcstc, losrvlczpc, cobstypcd, cosyscode, coctqty, cocntsz,
covolcd, cosrvschcd, copdycd001, copdycd002, copdycd003,
copdycd004, copdycd005, copdycd006, copdycd007, coonclflg,
cocmprsnfl, rachgamt, rahlrt, cbblnmln, cbblnmln1, cbblstn,
cbblstnm, cbblctynm, cbblstcd, cbblzpcd, racurr
FROM siqsprod/sipcontr, siqsprod/siplocat, siqsprod/sipcbill,
siqsprod/siprate
JOIN codstrctn.01=lodstrctn.02 AND coacctno.01=loacctno.02 AND
cosrvlcn.01=losrvlcn.02 AND codstrctn.01=cbdstrctn.03 AND
coacctno.01=cbacctno.03 AND codstrctn.01=radstrctn.04 AND
coacctno.01=raacctno.04 AND cosrvlcn.01=rasrvlcn.04
WHERE losrvlcnm CONTAINS 'SCHLOTSKY' AND racurr='C' AND
SUBSTR(losrvlcstc,2,2) IN('GA','TX') OR
losrvlcnml CONTAINS 'SCHLOTSKY' AND racurr='C' AND
SUBSTR(losrvlcstc,2,2) IN('GA','TX') OR
cbblnmln CONTAINS 'SCHLOTSKY' AND racurr='C' AND
SUBSTR(losrvlcstc,2,2) IN('GA','TX') OR
cbblnmln1 CONTAINS 'SCHLOTSKY' AND racurr='C' AND
SUBSTR(losrvlcstc,2,2) IN('GA','TX')
GROUP BY
HAVING
UNION
ORDER BY
I'm sure I haven't told you enough. I'm trying to write a query that will allow me to put in a number of different states for each search, so that I don't have to write additional lines for every state. So I'm taking a stab at doing this and it didn't return any data. Yet if I take out the statement about the SUBSTR it returns data. So can any one please set me in the right direction.
Thanks . . .
texasalynn
Hello,
What is the substr equivalent command in sql?
Thanks,
Kurt
I have a script that loops through a series of tables to send data to a table from each of the tables. My issue is that not all tables have the columns I need in them. What I would like is to replace the column with another column when it does not exist. Something like below
Select Misisng_Column(A.Name, replace with B.Name) as Name
FROM SomeTable A
Cross Join (Select Name FROM AnotherTable) B
AnotherTable has one record in it. To avoid a Cartesian issue. Like I said just an example
In my real script the table aliased as A is from a list of tables in a sys.tables query that loops through to the end.
Hello Everyone,
I'm a newbie to SSIS. While experimenting with it I've encountered an issue which I'm hoping someone of you could help me out with. I have need to make a specific transformation which as output would have to produce rows with a new calculated column that replaces single column from input. New column has different data type than input column it is replacing. I've used Derived Column Transformation (DER) to do the first part of the work - appending new column and calculating its value (based solely on value from single original column that has to be replaced). Question is how should I do second part, task of removing no longer needed column from the pipeline? I've tried in DER instead of Derived Column being added as new column, selecting Replace 'column' but as it seems it is meant to replace only column data and not column data type (what I've expected). I've also tried using Copy Column Transformation (CPYC) but as it turns out CPYC transformation just (logically) duplicates data in the pipeline with optional different allias.
I have two tables with the following structure:
Table 1
---------
id | Name
---------
1 | John
2 | Debbie
3 | Kim
4 | Mary
Table 2
---------
id | Name
---------
654 | John
415 | Debbie
68 | Kim
289 | Mary
Table 2 id's values are all messed up and I need to replace them so that they look exactly like in Table one, my guess is that query will have to replace value of "Id" based on the "Name" column, I hope I made myself clear.
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')
Would you please tell me what's wrong? Your suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks alot.
I've searched through this forum, and am extremely disappointed that something as simple as this can't be done without resorting to a script component (which I refuse to do):
I have a Lookup transformation that returns a GUID value -- or not, so I've configured its error output to ignore failure. That should leave a NULL in the output column, and I should be able to chain a Derived Column transformation that replaces the Lookup output column (e.g. foo) with an expression like:
isnull(foo) ? newid() : foo
But there's no newid() function! Who was the genius that decided SSIS should implement different expressions than Transact SQL? Is there a workaround, like (DT_GUID)GETDATE()?
Or do I have to craft a SQL statement in the Lookup that guarantees a non-NULL result?
Hi,
I have a table with col_noteText defined as 'Text' datatype column.
I want to search a pattern 'Lawyer' and replace with 'Attorney' in the column col_noteText.
Does anyone know how to do this for 'Text' datatype column.
Thanks in advance.
jfk
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What I can see that when a data conversion is done, only we can do it in a new column and not in the same one we are using as input.
Do you know if this it is posible?}
Thanks for your help!
Beli
Hi
How do i remove Carriage return in a varchar column?
Thanks
What is the correct syntax to replace a field data nvarchar(50)
Current data = 0020-10-02
Change = 2003-10-02
Thank you in advance.
How do you replace quotes in an expression
I mean for example if I needed to replace xx in a string with empty string then the following works: REPLACE(SelectedString, "xx","")
But the example I have needs to actually replace quote marks in a string with an empty string and REPLACE(SelectedString, " " ","") doesn't work. I tried guessing a few option like "E or &QTE or something...
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Richard
Hi,
We have a dataflow task that imports data from excel to a sql2005 database table. One of the columns is never filled in in the excel source. For updates we can use the lookup transformation to fill in that column, but for new values we need to calculate a new value for it (it's a PK) with MAX(column) +1 and replace the null value in the dataflow with this new value.
Just to be clear:
column id (int)
column name (string)
Based on the 'name' column, we can look up existing ids, and update these in the table. Ids that don't exist yet need to be filled in with the maximum value of the column + 1 (we can't use identity columns) and inserted in the table
Which transformation do I use to replace the value of the id column with this new id?
thanks,
Stephane
I have a SQL Server 2005 database that has a table with a TEXT column. This TEXT column has XML data in it. The length of the XML data in each record in the table is about 700,000 characters. What is the quickest most efficient method to replace a nodes text with another value? I.E., <LogoLarge>aasdfasdfaasadfasdfsdfasdfadsf</LogoLarge> with <LogoLarge>a</LogoLarge>. This table has about 2 million records. Thanks in advance for your help.
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-- 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
Hello All.
Hopefully someone out there will have an idea as this isdriving me nuts.
Ihave some sample problem. I want to use function replace() on Derived Column.
For example.
when strDate = 2007/03/22
I used ==> replace(strDate, "/", "") ==> 20060322
But If strTest = "123.10" ====>> 123.10
How can i do to replace ( " )double qoute ?
by function replace()
what is a statement for replace (") in Derived Column ?
please tell me for this event.
any suggesstion appreciated
Thank you very much.
Chonnathan
Hi, I am kinda new to this so here it goes:
table name: USERS
field names : LName, FName, EmpID
other table name:PERSONNEL
field names : (same as USERS)
The EmpID column in my USERS table is blank (I have 30 records in the table.)
I would like to update the USERS.EmpID table with the PERSONNEL.EmpID data
how would I do this or what would the code be?
sanctos
Hi,
I have dataset which has max(column) and between_sale_dates columns So I would like to
update those columns. CustomerNo and Sales_date are important . This group by for these 2
colums. I can write a sproc but How can I do with SSIS?
thanks
Hi,
I've a text column (text datatype) that contains carriage return and line feed.
Syntax-wise, how can I replace these by a space?
Thanks.
I am trying to replace all special characters in a column with one special character.
Example:
Table: dbo.Employee
Column: Name
Name
-------
edwardneuman!"<]
mikemoreno)'>$:
JeffJensen"?>"
I am trying to get the namepart to the left of ANY special character. To achieve this, I am thinking of replacing all the special characters with a single special character so that I can find the first occurrence of that special character and grab left of the special character (SUBSTRING/CHARINDEX). This way I don't need to loop through all the special characters.
I am expecting the following results:
Name
-------
edwardneuman<<<<
mikemoreno<<<<<
JeffJensen<<<<
I'm importing a csv-file delimited with semicolons. Firstly I LTRIM the columns "in place" and the data imports fine. All the numbers in right columns in the target table. Then I add another Derived Colum Transformation to replace decimal character comma (,) to a dot (.) in order to convert the string/varchar value to numeric. But here I run into trouble. Running the task ends in success but the result in the target table (same as above) is not. All the commas are now dots as expected but what is worse is that SSIS have added values in cells that should not be there. I get values in cells that shoud be empty!
Shortly: Only LTRIM([Column1]) as expression and "Derived Column" as Replace 'Column1' works OK.
But adding REPLACE-expression (i.e REPLACE(LTRIM([Column1]) , "," , ".") to this breaks things up
I'm aware that I could do this with SQL but this is not the point...
Any ideas?
BR Jompe
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.
Thanks.
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
W2k3 server, SQL 2005.
@@version = Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.1399.06 (Intel X86)
Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2
(Build 3790: Service Pack 1)
I have my first SSIS package almost working, but I'm having an odd problem and can't find any information to help resolve it.
I'm importing from a flat file (csv) to an existing table (append). I've got a Derived Column transformation in the middle to do some data cleanup. It's all working except for one little problem...
One of the transformations is 'REPLACE([Column 3],"^","; ")', output to a new column. (The input file has a field that uses carets as delimiters between an unknown number of items; I'm changing that to semicolons for easier reading.) Not all rows have data in this column, some will have one item, some will have multiple items.
The REPLACE works except that it fills in repeated data for all the blank rows.
Example:
Incoming data is:
1 Smith,Jane^Jones,Jane
2 Brown,John
3
4 Adams,James^Adams,Jim
5
6 White,Debra
Data inserted into the table is:
1 Smith,Jane; Jones,Jane
2 Brown,John
3 Brown,John
4 Adams,James; Adams,Jim
5 Adams,James; Adams,Jim
6 White,Debra
I've tried to use a Conditional to skip the empty rows, but I can't get that working at all (get syntax errors no matter what I put in).
Any suggestions on how to fix this would be most appreciated!
Thank you.
I am trying to update a users status from Pending to either Approved or Rejected. I created the following handers to update me db by I keep getting a syntax error. What am I doing wrong? public partial class admin_beta : System.Web.UI.Page{ protected void ApproveButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=TECATE;Initial Catalog=subscribe_mainSQL; User Id=maindb Password=$$ricardo; Integrated Security=SSPI"); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("UPDATE [main] ([status]) VALUES (@status)", conn); conn.Open(); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@status", "Approved"); int i = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); conn.Dispose(); } protected void DenyButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection("Data Source=TECATE;Initial Catalog=subscribe_mainSQL; User Id=maindb Password=$$ricardo; Integrated Security=SSPI"); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("UPDATE [main] ([status]) VALUES (@status)", conn); conn.Open(); cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@status", "Rejected"); int i = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); conn.Dispose(); }}
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Here is my table:
Code:
create table #add_diags(
add_diag_1 varchar(10) null,
add_diag_2 varchar(10) null,
add_diag_3 varchar(10) null,
add_diag_4 varchar(10) null,
add_diag_5 varchar(10) null,
add_diag_6 varchar(10) null,
add_diag_7 varchar(10) null,
add_diag_8 varchar(10) null
)
In my UPDATE/SET I am pulling data from another table to populate into the 'add_diag' columns however, I'm not sure how to write in SQL the ability to monitor all the columns, and if for example the first three are full to then populate into the fourth and so on.
Here is my UPDATE/SET statement (while involved, I think I need something in my WHERE clause in order for this to be resolved):
Code:
update ad
set add_diag_1=dsm_code
from #add_diags ad
join Doc_Entity de
on ad.patient_id=de.patient_id
and ad.episode_id=de.episode_id
and doc_code = 'DCDIAG'
join Patient_Assignment pa
on de.patient_assignment_id = pa.patient_assignment_id
and convert(char(8),de.effective_date,112) = convert(char(8),pa.date_discharged,112)
left outer join Doc_Diag_Axis_I_III dx1
on de.doc_session_no=dx1.doc_session_no
and de.current_version_no=dx1.version_no
where dx1.sequence_no=2
and de.is_locked = 'Y'
and dx1.rule_out = 'N'
and is_billable = 'Y'
and dx1.axis_type IN ('1','2')
and de.status in ('CO' , 'SA')
Any ideas? Thanks!
Hi guys,
I am looking for some syntax to help me with a traditional search/replace style requirement. I am wanting to examine the contents of one column and populate another.
similar to this SQL case statement
CASE ProductLine
WHEN 'R1' THEN 'Road'
WHEN 'M1' THEN 'Mountain'
WHEN 'T1' THEN 'Touring'
WHEN 'S2' THEN 'Other sale items'
ELSE 'Not for sale'
END,
the twist is that R1, M1 etc. can appear anywhere in the ProductLine column.
thanks for any assistance you can provide.
regards,
Chris
Please excuse my ignorance. I've researched this and it appears I am asking to do something that is ridiculous, so please let me know what is wrong with my design (or my brain). I'd like to update an ID number in a table. It is an identity column. In my solution I'm adding a lot of new entries into my table and deleting old ones. Call me anal, but It's driving me nuts that my ID numbers are growing so large so quickly and that I have so many unused ID's. If you were to look over my data ID's they would be something like 1,3,45,78,88,89,103,140,219. What I'm trying to do is renumber my data so that my data currently at say ID# 1067 can be moved to the unused ID#2, etc. So I either need a way to update an Identity column...or I need a way find the lowest unused number among a list of ID's. So is there anyway to achieve what I am trying to do? I see this guy had my same OCD issue (without a solution) :-(
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