Concatenate Text And Varchar Fields
May 29, 2008
I am trying to add a carriage return to the end of a text field through a script. This is what I'm trying:
UPDATE Table_Name SET Column_TEXT = Column_TEXT) + '
' WHERE Column_TEXT = 'Some text'
I also tried
UPDATE Table_Name SET Column_TEXT = Column_TEXT) + '<cr>' WHERE Column_TEXT = 'Some text'
But I keep getting the error
The data types text and varchar are incompatible in the equal to operator.
Help!!
Thanks in advance
Mangala
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Mar 29, 2006
New to using MS SQL server!
I have a requirements DB. Before I came on board, the DB was seeded with requirements text and a requirements ID in separate columns. I've been asked to append the ID in front of the text:
Text - The user shall be able....
ID - 1.01.01.
Combined - 1.01.01.The user shall be able....
I've created the following query that displays the columns:
CREATE VIEW dbo.ReqID
AS
SELECT RQREQUIREMENTS.ID, RQREQUIREMENTS.REQUIREMENTNAME,
RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.FIELDVALUE
FROM RQREQUIREMENTS LEFT OUTER JOIN
RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES ON
RQREQUIREMENTS.ID =
RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.REQUIREMENTID
WHERE (RQUSERDEFINEDFIELDVALUES.FIELDID = 171)
The Text field is REQUIREMENTNAME
The ReqId is FIELDVALUE
Should I create an UPDATE query based on this SELECT, updating the REQUIREMENTNAME column with FIELDVALUE + REQUIREMENTNAME?
Please advise - thanks!
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Oct 11, 2005
I have a couple columns in a table that have a data type of Text. In a query I need to concatenate these two columns into one result.
For example
Code:
SELECT (Table1.TextColumn1 + ' ' + Table1.TextColumn2) AS 'Text'
FROM Table1
However when I try this I get the error
Invalid operator for data type. Operator equals add, type equals text.
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Jan 2, 2007
Hi all, I am creating a search table where the keywords field is madeup of several text fields and this is causing me some problems. I canconcatentate the text ok but i can't seem to concatenate matchingrecords here is the cursor loop. I'm not a fan of cursors but alsodidn't see another way of achieving this.declare @ptr1 varbinary(16)declare @Ptr2 varbinary(16)declare @profileid intdeclare @x intset @profileid = 0while @profileid is not nullbeginselect@profileid = min([id]),@ptr1 = MIN(textptr(text1))from #holdingwhere [id] @profileiddeclare c2 cursor fast_forward forselect textptr(searchterms), datalength(searchterms)from searchwhere search.[id] = @profileidopen c2fetch c2 into @ptr2, @xwhile @@fetch_status = 0beginupdatetext search.searchterms @ptr2 null 0 #holding.text1 @ptr1fetch c2 into @ptr2, @xendclose c2deallocate c2endThe #holding table contains the fields that i want to concatenate andthe search table is the resulting table. This example would loopthrough search and find id 1 in search and then append another fieldmatching id 1 in holding then move onto the next field in turn goingthrough the whole table.i.e.search holding result after each loopid text id text1 abc 1 def abcdef2 ghi 2 jkl ghijklWhen I run this, some of the records concatenate properly but most dontwith the same text being appended to the end of searchterms. i.e loadsof results will end up with jkl tagged onto the end. I can't figure outwhen my loop is falliing over!!! Can anyone help?Dan
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I have a table like this:
tbl_Projects
-------------------------
ProjID | Description
-------------------------
1 | First
2 | Second
3 | Third
I want to write a SELECT statement that will output in this format:
1 - First
2 - Second
etc...
I've tried these two statements:
SELECT (ProjID + ' - ' + Description) AS Projects
FROM tbl_Projects
//Error: Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'First' to data type int.
and
SELECT CONCAT(ProjID, CONCAT(' - ', Description)) AS Projects
FROM tbl_Projects
//Error: The data types int and varchar are incompatible in the concat operator.
Is there any way to concatenate an int value with a varchar value?
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Declare @VariableA varchar(8000)
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If try select @VariableA + @VariableB , I only got 7999 characters…
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Code:
create table #ItemCat(
itemNo int,
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[Code] ....
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Thanks,
Ron
Table below.
ALTER PROCEDURE CreateOfficersTable
AS
CREATE TABLE [officers](
[off_int_id] [int] Identity Primary Key,
[off_badge] [int] NULL,
[off_lname] [nvarchar] (20) NOT NULL,
[off_mname] [nvarchar] (20) NOT NULL,
[off_fname] [nvarchar] (20) NOT NULL,
[off_radio_num] [int] NULL,
[off_handle] [nvarchar] (10) NULL,
[off_unit] [nvarchar] (5) NULL,
[off_prior] [int] NULL,
[off_shift] [int] null,
[dateadded] [datetime] NULL,
[userchange] [nvarchar](10) NULL,
[changedate] [datetime] NULL
)
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Create Table #read
(
id int
,field1 varchar(100)
,field2 varchar(100)
,field3 varchar(100)
,field4 varchar(100)
[code]...
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I have the folliwing two fields, want tp concatenate:
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I thought it's easy but somehow got lost, what is the good way to insert that Comma intelligently, depending if any of var value is NULL.
-- DECLARE @var1 varchar(10) = 'alpha1', @var2 varchar(10) = 'bravo2', @var3 varchar(10) = 'charlie3',@var4 varchar(10) = 'delta4'
DECLARE @var1 varchar(10) = 'alpha1', @var2 varchar(10) = NULL, @var3 varchar(10) = 'charlie3',@var4 varchar(10) = 'delta4'
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@var2, + iif(COALESCE (@var2,@var3,@var4) IS NULL,'',', '),
@var3, + iif(COALESCE( @var3,@var4) IS NULL,'',', '),
@var4) )
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I'm using field1 + " " + field2
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Thanks, Vic
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Categories: - CategoryID (int, PK) - CategoryName (varchar)
I need to create a full text index which searches the Title, Content and CategoryName fields. I figured since i needed to search the CategoryName field i would create an indexed view. I tried to execute the following query:
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GOCREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX vw_DocumentsIndexON vw_Documents(DocumentID)
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Cannot create index on view 'dbname.dbo.vw_Documents'. It contains text, ntext, image or xml columns.
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(I'm using MS SQL 2000)
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I tried converting and casting the field as nvarchar 4000, and I've also done the same for the fields in the two tables, but that doesn't seem to help.
I can query for the fields from each table and none of them are truncated by themselves. It only happens after I concatenate them.
I've created a new table and inserted the results into it, but the field in it is also truncated.
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IS there anything I can change in the ArchiveDB to make it run faster.
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Is there anyway around this problem?
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