Problem Updating Varchar Field
Nov 29, 2001
Hiya!
I'm having a problem updating a varchar(4000) column in Enterprise Manager when I open the table and try to update one particular row directly. Most of my rows have approx. 100-500 characters in this column, and I can update all of them them, but one row which has 1976 characters in this varchar column doesn't let me change data by typing directly into this column, although it will let me update other columns in the same row. Altogether, my row size has a max. of approx. 5000, below the 8060 limit, so I doubt that's the problem. What Is?
Thanks,
Sarah
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Oct 4, 2004
I would like to update a varchar field with an update statement that appends information to what is currently stored in the field, for example in the Statement field I may currently have a name (Mark) and I want to add a unique identifier to the end of the name so that it may look like, Markq1572, is there a way to do this in an update statement?
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Aug 29, 2007
Hi,
What is the difference updating a null value to char/varchar type column
versus empty string to char/varchar type column?Which is the best to do and why?
Could anyone explain about this?
Example:
Table 1 : tCountry - Name varchar(80) nullable
Table 2 :tState - Name char(2) nullable
Table 3 :tCountryDetails - countryid,state (char(2) nullable) - May the country contain state or no state
So,when the state is not present for the country ,i have two options may be - null,''
tCountryDetails.State = '' or tCountryDetails.State = null?
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Dec 5, 2007
i want to import/copy a varchar field numeric data in to number field pls suggest the solution
one thing more can i convert field type of a table how?
jto it
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Aug 29, 2007
Hello,
I have a table with a column that is currently a varchar(50), but I want to convert it into an int. When I try to just change the type in design mode I get an error that conversion cannot proceed. When I look at the field it appears some of the entries have special characters appended at the end, I see a box after the value.
How can I remove all speical characters and then convert that field to an int?
Also I tried the following query which did not work as well, same error about conversion.
UPDATE myTable SET field = CAST(field AS int)
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Apr 12, 2005
I have a textbox that is receiving a date in the format mm/dd/yyyy. The field in the database is VarChar size 10. I purposely don't want to use the DateTime data type for various reasons. When I extract the text from that textbox:
Example:4/11/2005
I do my INSERT. When I look in the database at that field, it shows up like:April 11, 2005 12
The database's field is VarChar! How/why is it doing automatic DateTime formatting?
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Mar 28, 2007
Hi guys
I need immediate help with a query that I am trying to write. I want to sum the values in a query but the field has a type of varchar and it has decimal numbers too. So if I do the query something like that, that converts the field to int, I get the error message.
I tried converting it into real or float but I get error message on that too. I need help with adding the calculatedValues and getting there sum. I would appreciate any help with that.
Thanks
-Sarah
Select SUM(Convert(int, calculatedValue))
from monitor.dbo.monHistory
where LocalTimeWithoutDst > '8/26/06' and LocalTimeWithoutDst < '8/28/06'
This is the error message I recieve:
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '274.2' to data type int.
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Mar 23, 2008
After reading Dan Guzman's blog entry (http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/dang/archive/2008/02/21/Dont-Bloat-Proc-Cache-with-Parameters.aspx) I started modifying some of my code to try it out and ran into a stumbling block. What size would you specific for a varchar(MAX) field?
Since a varchar max field can hold up to 2 billion chracters I really don't think I need to specify 2 billion as the size. Anyone have any ideas?
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Jul 12, 2001
I have a varchar column which containd comma delimited values like
Rec# Fruits
1 Apple, Peach, Strawberry
2 Orange, Mango
3 Banana, Grape
...........
Now i have to add search facility so that a user could search for more than 1 fruit at a time. I have a Stored Procedure which returns records from this table. that SP has a Parameter @SearchFruit Varchar(500) and the user could pass in values like 'Apple, Mango' to this parameter.
Now how should i write the SQL so that i get back the records Rec# 1 & 2 since apple is there in 1st record and mango is there in the 2nd ??
I know if a put the comma delimited values as individual records in a temporary table and also do the same for the parameter values then i can get the desired results. But i want to avoid doing that. Any other way ?
Thanks
Sumit.
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Nov 21, 2000
What is the max field length in SQL Server 7.0 that a varchar field can be?
I think 8000. Please advise
Thanks
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Oct 4, 2004
I would like to append information to a varchar field with an update statement, for example the field currently contains a name (Mark) and I would like to add information to name for business purposes, to update it to Markqw215, is this possible to do with an update statement?
Thank you.
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Oct 4, 2004
I would like to append information to a varchar field with an update statement, for example the field currently contains a name (Mark) and I would like to add information to name for business purposes, to update it to Markqw215, is this possible to do with an update statement?
Thank you.
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Jan 17, 2005
I'm importing data from a text file into SQL as a varchar, and I'm leaving it a varchar in its final destination table. It is essentially a price, i.e., $25.65. I'm using this price field (varchar) to perform a calculation...
Everything seems to work OK, but I'm not sure about using this varchar field to perform this calculation. Is this doable, or should it absolutely be converted to say, decimal?
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Jun 12, 2008
Hi guys,
How do you convert a date varchar field which looks like 20080525 to 2008/05/25?
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Feb 1, 2007
What's the maximum number of characters that varchar field will take? I read somewhere that it's 8k, but I may have misunderstood.
I have to potentially store 100k+ chars in a field.
What's the best way to do this?
Thanks,
--PhB
--PhB
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Jul 20, 2005
I am setting up a database that will receive a lot of data from twoseparate telephone centers, the log table will in a short time haveover 1 million lines, and I was wondering if I should use 1 identifyfield or two:case 1:[Id] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL[ServerId] [int] NOT NULLcase 2:[Id] [varchar(20)] IDENTITY NOT NULLWhere in case 1 I would just use a combination of Id and ServerId toidentify the line, where in case 2 I would have the Id field a varcharthat would look something like A-000001, A-000002 for server 1 andB-000001, B-000002 for server 2Which solution will be faster when searching for a record when thewill have over 1 million lines?
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May 23, 2006
Hi group,
I've got a table with two columns named [Year] and [Month]. They are both defined as VarChar.
Question:
Is it possible to ORDER THEM as if they where of type DateTime?
EG
select [year], [month]
from tbl_WeightedAverageGenerated
where [Year] = 2006
ORDER BY [Month]
Returns:
2006, 10
2006, 11
2006, 12
2006, 5
2006, 6
etc...
I need it to return:
2006 5
2006 6
2006 7
2006 8
2006 9
2006 10
2006 11
2006 12
Is this possible....and how??
TIA
Regards,
SDerix
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Apr 11, 2008
Hi,
I have source table , fact table and four dim. tables , I have to update a field in fact table from source table.
How can I do it?
thanks...
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Aug 4, 2004
Hi,
I want to update a field in my table whose value is a 0, to a value 1. This field is of type bit and here is the SP that I wrote to achieve this. Somhow, its giving some error when I tried executing it in the Query Analyzer. What am I doing wrong here??
CREATE PROCEDURE PublishSchedule
(
@SiteCode smallint,
@YearMonth int
)
AS
DECLARE @Active bit
IF ( (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM CabsSchedule WHERE YearMonth = @YearMonth AND SiteCode = @SiteCode) > 0 )
BEGIN
UPDATE CabsSchedule
SET Active=1
WHERE SiteCode=@SiteCode AND YearMonth=@YearMonth
END
GO
Thanks
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Aug 7, 2005
All other fields are updating ok and I'm not getting an error.I am trying to update a date and time (smalldatetime) using a stored procedure.First, the info to be updated comes from a datagrid.
Dim sDate As DateTime
sDate = CType(e.Item.FindControl("tDate"), TextBox).TextThen, passed to the SQLDal class and then to the stored procedure.....
Public Function updateData(ByVal sDate As DateTime, ByVal sp As String) 'Some items snipped for easier read
Dim command As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand(sp, conn) 'Where sp is the stored procdure name
command.Parameters.Add("@date", sDate)'And so on.....And then the stored procedure....@num VARCHAR(256),@date SMALLDATETIME,@contact VARCHAR(256),@notes VARCHAR(8000),@media VARCHAR(256) ASBEGIN DECLARE @errCode INT
BEGIN TRAN
-- UPDATE THE RECORDS UPDATE dbo.tblData SET fldDate = @date, fldContact = @contact, fldNotes = @notes, fldMedia = @media WHERE fldNum = @num
<sniped>Like I said, all other fields are updated with no problems, but not the date.The date format being passed into the sp is {0:MMM dd, yyyy hh:mm tt} or Aug 05, 2005 04:39 PM Is it the format of the date? Or something else I'm not seeing...Thanks all,Zath
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Mar 5, 2002
I have a sql database that includes a table of customer contact information. The area code for many of my customers is about to change. Is there a way to mass update the phone number field so that all phone numbers that currently start with 111 change to 222 ? Ex 1115554444 to 2225554444 ?
Thanks in advance.
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Apr 27, 2000
I try to update a field of text datatype using WRITETEXT statement. The information that I try to change has both the single(') and double (") quotes in it.
How can I get it done ?
Thanks
Pete
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Aug 28, 1999
Trying to update part of a field. Currently using ColdFusion 4.0 and SQL Server 7.0.
My field looks something like this: ABC.DEF.GHI and I just want to update the last 3 characters, GHI. The length of the field may change so it's not going to be 11 characters long.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Mar 25, 2004
How would i update a field with a triggers to set the column password to something else if the password column = <NULL> on a update.
thank you very much.
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Jan 22, 2007
I want to change the following field in the database - text field.
Want it to be like this,
C:ProgramFilesHEATHEATSelfServiceattachmentsWinter019997.htm
want it to be H:2007Winter019997.htm
My aim is to move the files from C: to H: drive and update the database to reflect this. Thanks
Thsi is my code;
declare @str varchar(1000)
UPDATE heatgen
set @str = 'c:Program FilesHEATHEATSelfServiceattachmentsWinter019997.htm'
select reverse(@str)
select charindex('', reverse(@str))
select right(@str, charindex('', reverse(@str)))
select 'H:2007' + right(@str, charindex('', reverse(@str)))
SET gdetail = 'H:2007' + RIGHT(gdetail, CHARINDEX('', REVERSE(gdetail)))
The field is text I get error
Line 9: Incorrect syntax near '='.
Thanks.
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Feb 2, 2007
I have a complex issue that has several steps.
Question 1.
I need to be able to update the following path in the database, a text field
[Info] NumAttachments=1 [Attachments] Attachment1=65513|C:Program FilesHEATHEATSelfServiceattachmentsWinter019997.htm
I need to update the path only to H:2007|( Winter019997.htm)Filename as in database.
Question 2
This needs to be done automatically so when attachments are being added this updates. How can I do this?
Question 3
I have the attachments saved in this location C:Program Files etc… I need them moved to another location on the network. How can I do this?
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Apr 24, 2008
I have 3 tables and 1 view. Which are:
TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON
PlanningPointLocation
paflarea
VIEW_paapplic
The View paaplic has 100 records and I have to do the below for all 1000 records individually.
I have to update the field TP_Total in the TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON table depending on what is in the fields in the tables.
I am writing the below code but am unsure if this is going to achieve what I want.
BEGIN
Select file_number, land_use_code, pluse1_code
From VIEW_paapplic
END
BEGIN
If pluse1_code = 'A' Then
Select TP_Total From TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON
WHERE PlanningPointLocations.Townland = TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON.Townland
AND PlanningPointLocations.File_Number = File_Number
Update TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON SET TP_Total As TP_Total + 1
WHERE PlanningPointLocations.Townland = TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON.Townland
AND PlanningPointLocations.File_Number = File_Number
Else If pluse1_code = 'C' Then
Select Count(*) As TempCount From table paflarea
Where fk_paapplicfile_nu = file_number
Select TP_Total From TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON
WHERE PlanningPointLocations.Townland = TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON.Townland
AND PlanningPointLocations.File_Number = File_Number
Update TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON SET TP_Total As TP_Total + TempCount
WHERE PlanningPointLocations.Townland = TOWNLAND_GEOREFERENCE_POLYGON.Townland
AND PlanningPointLocations.File_Number = File_Number
END
Anyone any ideas?
Jmccon
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ok, i am trying to update a database at work for a product we are developing.
i need to run this command
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on every tabe in the database
is there a simple way to do this while pulling the table names out of information_schema.tables?
i have searched using google and been unable to find anything so far. the db server is running sql server express 2005 and i'm doing this from sql server management studio express
i really don't want to have to type the update statement by hand for 90+ tables................
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Nov 21, 2004
Hello Pros
I need to insert data in a varchar column to that when its displayed new lines will appear in the text, that is the field will hold text with multiple lines...
what's the most efficient way to do it ??
Any help will be highly appreciated,
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May 26, 2005
Hi,I am using MSDE together with Enterprise Manager.I have a table with a field named description.This field will be filled by a web forms's textbox web control.The textbox's maxsize attribute is set to "3000" characters.What size do I have to adjust for my DB field description?Is the size of 3000 in Enterpise Manager equal to 3000 characters for the textbox?I am just trying to avoid errors if MSDE cuts off the string that comes from the textbox webcontrol.
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Jun 30, 2005
I am trying to load a field in my DB and it is defined as varchar(11) but when I populate it, it still adds spaces at the end. When I try to use it in an If statement, it doesn't match and executes the else instead. The wierd part is it seems to make it 10 characters long and not 11 or the the actual length. I think I had originally set it up for char(10) then changed it afterward but I even deleted the field and reentered it as varchar(11).Thanks,Eric
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Oct 24, 2001
I have a field with State and Zip (ie; CA94526) which is a varchar field. I have lots of data that is invalid and need SELECT all records that the right(myfield,5) IS NOT Numeric. Can this be done?
Thanks!
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Aug 16, 2000
I am trying to change a text field into a varchar 8000.
I get his error message when trying to convert.
Unable to modify table.
ODBC error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot create a row of size 8317 which is greater than the allowable maximum of 8060.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]The statement has been terminated.
Anyone know of a way to either truncate the text field or
to select only those that are over the 8000 character mark?
Please advise
Thanks
Susan
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