SQL Server 2012 :: Case Statement On Nvarchar With Literal String Comparison To Varchar?
Apr 14, 2015
how SQL 2012 would treat a literal string for a comparison similar to below. I want to ensure that the server isn't implicitly converting the value as it runs the SQL, so I'd rather change the data type in one of my tables, as unicode isn't required.
Declare @T Table (S varchar(2))
Declare @S nvarchar(255)
Insert into @T
Values ('AR'), ('AT'), ('AW')
Set @S = 'Auto Repairs'
Select *
from @T T
where case @S when 'Auto Repairs' then 'AR'
when 'Auto Target' then 'AT'
when 'Auto Wash' then 'AW' end = T.STo summarise
in the above would AR, AT and AW in the case statement be treated as a nvarchar, as that's the field the case is wrapped around, or would it be treated as a varchar, as that's what I'm comparing it to.
I have an Address column that I need to Substring. I want to remove part of the string after either, or both of the following characters i.e ',' OR '*'
Example Record 1. Elland **REQUIRES BOOKING IN*** Example Record 2. Theale, Nr Reading, Berkshire Example Record 3. Stockport
How do I achieve this in a CASE Statement?
The following two case statements return the correct results, but I some how need to combine them into a single Statement?
,LEFT(Address ,CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(',',Address) =0 THEN LEN(Address ) ELSE CHARINDEX(',' ,Address ) -1 END) AS 'Town Test'
,LEFT(Address ,CASE WHEN CHARINDEX('*',Address ) =0 THEN LEN(Address) ELSE CHARINDEX('*' ,Address ) -1 END) AS 'Town Test2'
I know that if I have an nvarchar column I can use an equality like = N'supersqlstring' so it doesn't implicit cast as a varchar, like if I were to do ='supersqlstring'. And then I'll be a big SQL hero and all my stored procedures will run before a millisecond can whisper.
But if I'm comparing an nvarchar column to a varchar column, is it better to cast the varchar 'up' to an nvarchar or cast the nvarchar 'down' to a varchar?
For instance:
cast(a.varchar as nvarchar(100)) = an.nvarchar
or
cast(an.nvarchar as varchar(100)) = a.varchar
Leaving aside non-matching, like (at least I don't think) that SQL considers the varchar n to be equal to the nvarchar ń, what's the best way to handle this?
Pretend for a moment that each column contains a mixed letter and number ID with no accented or wiggly-squiggly Unicode characters; it's just designs clashing.
Is there a performance hitch doing it one way or another? Should I use COLLATE? Should one of the columns be altered?
What i need is to create a function that compares 2 strings variables and if those 2 variables doesn't have at least 3 different characters then return failure , else return success.
I am trying to use a date comparison in a statement using the year statement as well. Here is what I have:
Case [LastHireDate] When YEAR([LastHireDate]) < Year(@EndYearlyDate) then '12' When Month([LastHireDate]) = '1' then '12' When Month([LastHireDate]) = '2' then '11' When Month([LastHireDate]) = '3' then '10' When Month([LastHireDate]) = '4' then '9'
[Code] ....
When I am looking at it [LastHireDate] is showing that red line underneath. The < symbol has a red line and @EndYearlyDate has a red line. I can not seem to get them to clear and am, wondering what I am missing. When I execute the error comes up that it does not like the < sign in there.
i was tasked to created an UPDATE statement for 6 tables , i would like to update 4 columns within the 6 tables , they all contains the same column names. the table gets its information from the source table, however the data that is transferd to the 6 tables are sometimes incorrect , i need to write a UPDATE statement that will automatically correct the data. the Update statement should also contact a where clause
the columns are [No] , [Salesperson Code], [Country Code] and [Country Name]
i was thinking of doing
Update [tablename] SET [No] = CASE WHEN [No] ='AF01' THEN 'Country Code' = 'ZA7' AND 'Country Name' = 'South Africa' ELSE 'Null' END
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE name = 'TwoDigitsNumber' AND type = 'FN') DROP FUNCTION MinimumOFThree; GO CREATE FUNCTION TwoDigitsNumber(@a int) RETURNS nvarchar(20)
[Code] ....
The only first letter 'f', 's', 'e' is inserted in value instead 'first', 'second', 'equal'.
Hi all,I have created this simple Stored procedure. But it gives me wrong result when I pass a parameter to it. But if I hard code it, it gives me the right result. The I check if the field value of 'Email' is exactly equal to the parameter '@Email'. The field 'Email' is varchar, and CID is integer. CREATE PROCEDURE EmailExists @Email varcharASSELECT CIDFROM CustomersWHERE Customers.Email = @Emailreturn Instead, if I check the value directly, it gives me correct answer. The the following code works fine when I typethe Email directly in the code. CREATE PROCEDURE EmailExists @Email varcharASSELECT CIDFROM CustomersWHERE Customers.Email = 'tomyseba@yahoo.com' return Can anyone tell me the reason for it. Thanking you in advance
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+'[., ]%
'The problem I'm running into is that the '[, ]%' in the LIKE excludes any record that ends with the FirstName because it is requiring either a space, comma or period after the name. Is there some way to add an empty string to the list of acceptable characters as that would cover any scenario in the data? I would prefer not to add all characters except space, comma and period, but I guess I could do that.
Below is the scenario which I have currently in my query. I need to write this query without any hardcode values , so that it will work til n number of years without modifications.
Startdate = CASE WHEN Trandate between '06-04-2013' and '05-04-2014' then '06-04-2013' Trandate between '06-04-2012' and '05-04-2013' then '06-04-2012' Trandate between '06-04-2011' and '05-04-2012' then '06-04-2011' Trandate between '06-04-2010' and '05-04-2011' then '06-04-2010' Trandate between '06-04-2009' and '05-04-2010' then '06-04-2009' Trandate between '06-04-2008' and '05-04-2019' then '06-04-2008' END
How I am using a CASE statement within a WHERE clause to filter data:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.GetSomeStuff @filter1 varchar(100) = '', @filter2 varchar(100) = '' AS BEGIN SELECT
[Code] .
What I want, is to be able to pass in a single value to filter the table, or if I pass in (at the moment a blank) for no filter to be applied to the table.
Is this a good way to accomplish that, or is there a better way? Also, down the line I'm probably going to want to have multiple filter items for a single filter, what would be the best way to implement that?
I have a bit of trouble getting values into one alias field, my code is below. I am trying to get values into the alias extension, Agent_ID is sometimes null, and so is agent_id2, however sometimes they both have values in them, and then only one of the values is every returned. When in the example below only Agent_ID (11111) is ever returned by I want both of them returned.
Agent_ID Agent_ID2 11111 22222 <code> SELECT DISTINCT CASE WHEN [AGENT_ID] is not null then AGENT_ID when agent_id2 is not null then agent_id2 end as extension FROM [AA_Helper].[dbo].[tblEmpData] </code>
1. I have a simple JOIN statement between A and B, e.g. Cities A JOIN Countries B:
SELECT A.City_Name, B.Country_Code, B.Country_Area FROM Cities A JOIN Countries B ON B.Country_Id = A.Country_Id WHERE B.Country_Type='ABC';
That statement works absolutely fine, very fast (less than a second) and returns me 2 records
2. I need to replace Country Area column with 1 for Europe and 0 for all the rest. I implement so in the following way:
SELECT A.City_Name, B.Country_Code, CASE B.Country_Area WHEN 'EUR' THEN 1 ELSE 0 AS Country_Area FROM Cities A JOIN Countries B ON B.Country_Id = A.Country_Id WHERE B.Country_Type='ABC';
Now to get the same two records it takes 03:55 minutes (!)
I have looked into Estimated Execution Plan, but couldn't spot any difference - all straight forward.
It is SQL 2012 SP1 with compatibility level set to 110
I have a stored proc that contains an update which utilizes a case statement to populate values in a particular column in a table, based on values found in other columns within the same table. The existing update looks like this (object names and values have been changed to protect the innocent):
UPDATE dbo.target_table set target_column = case when source_column_1= 'ABC'then 'XYZ' when source_column_2= '123'then 'PDQ'
[Code] ....
The powers that be would like to replace this case statement with some sort of table-driven structure, so that the mapping rules defined above can be maintained in the database by the business owner, rather than having it embedded in code and thus requiring developer intervention to perform changes/additions to the rules.
The rules defined in the case statement are in a pre-defined sequence which reflects the order of precedence in which the rules are to be applied (in other words, if a matching value in source_column_1 is found, this trumps a conflicting matching value in source_column_2, etc). A case statement handles this nicely, of course, because the case statement will stop when it finds the first "hit" amongst the WHEN clauses, testing each in the order in which they are coded in the proc logic.
What I'm struggling with is how to replicate this using a lookup table of some sort and joins from the target table to the lookup to replace the above case statement. I'm thinking that I would need a lookup table that has column name/value pairings, with a sequence number on each row that designates the row's placement in the precedence hierarchy. I'd then join to the lookup table somehow based on column names and values and return the match with the lowest sequence number, or something to that effect.
I am updating a remote table using linked server in sql server 2005.
but in case of varchar and nvarchar i am getting an error : "OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "LinkedServer1" returned message "Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.". Msg 16955, Level 16, State 2, Line 1 Could not create an acceptable cursor."
SELECT SUM(((CASE WHEN o.date>= a.activity_date, other filter condition, other filter condition THEN (select coalesce(d.balance,d2.balance) from drawtable d where coalesce(d.date, d2.date) < a.activity_date order by d.date desc limit 1) - ( select coalesce(d.balance, d2.balance) from drawtable d where coalesce(d.date, d2.date) = interval 'current date' else end ))
from emailtable a LEFT JOIN opportunity o left join drawtable d left join drawtable d2 etc
The tricky part is I'm joining that same table twice.....would this be better in a max/min case when statement?
I have successfully built a messaging system into my application, I now in the process of displaying the messages in the UI.
The following are how my tables are constructed.
CREATE TABLE [MailBox].[Message]( [Id] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [SenderId] [bigint] NOT NULL, [Message] [nvarchar](max) NOT NULL, [SentDate] [datetime] NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_MailBox.Message] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
[Code] .....
Now I haven't set the foreign key on the MessageReceipient table yet. When someone sends me an email I insert a record into [MailBox].[Message] and output the insert id into MessageReceipient along with the ReceipientId this is working as expected, when I then click on my inbox I call the following stored procedure:
Select p.Username, count(mr.RecipientId) [TotalMessages], CASE WHEN mr.ReadDate is null then 1 -- New message WHEN mr.ReadDate is not null then 0 -- Message has been read END AS NewMessage FROM [User].[User_Profile] p JOIN [MailBox].[Message] m on p.Id = m.SenderId JOIN [MailBox].[MessageRecipient] mr on m.Id = mr.MessageId GROUP BY p.Username, mr.RecipientId, mr.ReadDate
This will give me the person who has emailed me, the total amount of messages and if the message is new or its been read, I do this by checking the ReadDate column as shown in the case statement (but this gives me duplicates, which is not what I want). Lets say user1 emails me 5 times so when I call this proc I will have the same user displayed to me 5 times, what I'm trying to achieve with the proc is it will show User1 as the following:
User1 5 Messages 1 or 0 New Messages
I can get it to display as follow when I remove the case statement
User1 5 Messages
but as soon as I add the case statement back in then I get 5 rows.
How can I change this proc in such a way that it will display the data as follows;
User1 5 Messages 1 or 0 New Messages
New Messages is dependent on ReadDate if its null then we have a new message, otherwise its been read.
I'm trying to create a case statement that if a field = a certain code, I'd like to take another field * 0.9. But, I'm getting a Null value for the answer..here is the statement:,case when parts.ndc = '50242-0138-01' then labels.BAGSDISP*0.9 end "Units Dispensed"..For this example labels.BAGSDISP is a value of 2. So, in theory it should be 2 * 0.9 and the result should be 1.8 but I'm getting a NULL
I have a DistributorInvoiceNumber that can end with in 'R', 'A', 'CRR' or 'CR'.I am trying to write a case statement like so:
CASE WHEN RIGHT([ih].[DistributorInvoiceNumber],1) = 'A' THEN 'ADJ' WHEN RIGHT([ih].[DistributorInvoiceNumber],1) = 'R' THEN 'REV' WHEN RIGHT([ih].[DistributorInvoiceNumber],3) = 'CRR' THEN 'REV' WHEN RIGHT([ih].[DistributorInvoiceNumber],2) = 'CR' THEN 'CREDIT' ELSE NULL END AS 'Status'
For the most part the code is working, with the exception of the fields that just end in 'R'. An example of this is 471268R, 2525125901CRR, 11100325230CR Basically if the number ends with an A, then its an Adjustment, if it ends with JUST an R, then its a Reversal; if it ends with just a CR then it is a Credit and if it ends with CRR then it is a Reversal (Credit Reversal). How can I differentiate between the different R's since three of them end with R? Would I use a RTRIM command somehow?
Hi, I want to convert literal string to unicode before insert into the database. and after insertion i want to retrive this value from data base and convert back to literal string. pls tell me how to incode and decode literal string to unicode and from unicode to literal string.
The proc below does two queries that are functionally identical. The only difference is that one LIKE 'foo%', and the other uses LIKE @searchText, where @searchText = 'foo%'.
But the first does an index seek, and the second does an index scan -- and it makes a big difference in performance. (Timing stats are below.)
How can I make the second query seek instead of scanning?
I'm trying to set up a statement that gives me a field called 'BINNO' if the payor = Commercial. But, I have a few customers that don't have Commercial. They have a Payor of Grant or Part D. How would I set up a statement that looks for Commerical 1st...then Grant or Part D. I started with this
case when inscomp.payor = 'COMMERCIAL' then INSCOMP.BINNO
I am selecting the count of the students in a class by suing select COUNT(studentid) as StCount FROM dbo.student But I need to use a case statement on this like if count is less than 10 I need to return 'Small class' if the count is between 10 to 50 then I need to return 'Medium class' and if the count is more than 50 then 'Big class'.
Right now I am achieving this by the following case statement
SELECT 'ClassSize' = CASE WHEN Stcount<10 THEN 'Small Class' WHEN Stcount>=10 and StCount<=50THEN 'Medium Class' WHEN Stcount>50 THEN 'Big Class' END FROM( select COUNT(studentid) as Stcount FROM dbo.student) Stdtbl
I have a stored procedure in which we are deriving some flags. So, we used series of CASE statements.
For examples
CASE WHEN LEFT(CommissionerCode, 3) IN ('ABC','DEF',...) THEN 1 WHEN PracticeCode IN (.......) THEN 1 WHEN (CommissionerCode IN (.....) OR PracticeCode NOT IN (.....) OR .....) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
I need to put these conditions in config table and generate dynamic sql.
What is the best way to do this? especially, 3rd condition with OR logic with multiple columns involved.
Hi, I have a datareader component of which i am dynamically setting its sqlcommand statement with expression (click the background of dataflow > properties > expressions). Now my sql select statement has about 600 fields so that makes my expression statment "select field1, field2, .....from table1 where field2 >=" + @[User::dateforfield2] but when i evalute the expresssion (which is right), i get the error: A string literal in the expression exceeds the maximum allowed length of 4000 character and i think its because of the fields in my select statment causing my string literal to grow more than 4000 characters. Is there any way to increase the max string literal for expressions. Please help.
