SQL Server 2012 :: Combine Functionality Of IN And LIKE In WHERE Clause
May 8, 2015
I would like to be able to combine the functionality of IN and LIKE in a WHERE clause. Although the simple AdventureWorks2012 example below illustrates the concept with 3 search criteria, the real-world example I need to apply the concept to has a couple dozen. This returns 50 rows, but requires multiple OR ... LIKE functions:
SELECT DISTINCT c.Name
FROM Sales.Store c
WHERE c.Name LIKE '% sports %'
OR c.Name LIKE '% exercise %'
OR c.Name LIKE '%toy%'
What I would like to do is something like this, which doesn't work:
SELECT DISTINCT c.Name
FROM Sales.Store c
WHERE c.Name IN(LIKE '% sports %', LIKE '% exercise %', LIKE '%toy%')
I could load up a cursor and loop through it, but the syntax is more cumbersome than the multiple LIKE statements, not to mention most SQL programmers are horrified at the mention of the abominable word 'cursor' for performance reasons.
I have a report that I am running in visual studio 2010, that gets its data from a few different stored procedures in a SQL 2012 Database. The variables are Date and Office Code. We currently have 6 different office codes. One of the Stored Procedures gets call information for each office. With the report we can select any single office or any combination of offices to compile data.
The problem I have is two of these share phone information, so when you select either one or both of them the same data gets returned. So for example we have office codes of AAAAA, BBBBB, CCCCC, DDDDD, EEEEE, and FFFFF. Now AAAAA, and BBBBB share phone information so if you select office code AAAAA, the phone info that is returned is for AAAAA, and BBBBB, and visa versa. So I am not sure how to accomplish that either in the report or in the stored procedure.
I have a query currently that looks like this . @Month and @Year are supplied as parameters
SELECT -- select the sum for each year/month combination using a correlated subquery (each result from the main query causes another data retrieval operation to be run) (SELECT SUM(SalesofProductA) FROM #ABC WHERE [Year]=T.[Year] AND [Month]=T.[Month]) AS [Sum_SalesofProductA]
[Code] ...
Right now I see an output like this : for a particular value of @Month and @Year
SalesofProductA, SalesofProductB, SalesofProductC What I would like to see is :
I cannot seem to find the syntax to combine IN + CASE in a WHERE clause
WHERE ses.BK_MS_SESSION <= '2015-03' AND vis.CAT_DRAW_STATUS = (CASE ses.BK_MS_SESSION WHEN '2015-03' THEN vis.CAT_DRAW_STATUS ELSE CASE stat.BK_MS_VISIT_STATUS WHEN 'T' THEN 'X' ELSE vis.CAT_DRAW_STATUS END END ) IN ('D','R')
From MS Dynamics NAV 2013 I get a lot of querries that have a where clause like this:
where [Field1] like @p1 and [Field1] < @p2. Field1 is the only primary key field and clustered index. The query also has a TOP 50 clause. @p1 is always a "Starts-With"-value (something like N'abc%').
The query plan uses a clustered index seek but the number of reads look more like a clustered index scan.
Depending on the table size I see 1M or more reads for these querries.
If I rebuild the query in SSMS, but replace the paramerters with actual values I only see a few reads.
I was able to reproduce the issue with a temp table. See code below.
Is there a way to make SQL Server use another strategy when using the parameterized query?
SQL Server Version is 11.0.3401. if object_id('tempdb..#tbl') is not null drop table #tbl; create table #tbl ( [No] nvarchar(20) ,[Description1] nvarchar(250)
Right now I have to do something like this and it is time consuming every time I have to query a specific table...
SELECT lots_of_columns FROM table WHERE (column5 = '1' OR column6 = '1' OR column7 = '1' OR column8 = '1' OR column9 = '1' OR column10 = '1' OR column11 = '1' OR column12 = '1') AND other_query_critiera_here
Typing out the OR statement gets long, time consuming and prone to errors because that first where line with all the ORs can sometimes have 20+ ORs in it. As some insight, the columns are text columns, sometimes they have data, sometimes they are NULL. Sometimes they have the same data (i.e., column5 and column6 and column12 could both have '1' as values).
A while back, a "quirky update" method was proposed for lightning fast running totals based on the three-part MSSQL UPDATE's SET statement and tally tables. However, some claimed this was not 100% absolutely guaranteed behavior.
How does the new OVER clause compare in terms of performance ?
DECLARE @Tbl TABLE ( pk int not null primary key identity, N int ) INSERT INTO @Tbl (N) SELECT TOP 1000 1 FROM syscolumns a CROSS JOIN syscolumns b SELECT pk, SUM(pk) OVER (ORDER BY pk ) FROM @Tbl
I am creating a dynamic query where i am appending a where clause something like -
IF (@CurCaptureDate IS NOT NULL) SET @where_clause = @where_clause + CHAR(10) + 'AND CD.CaptureDate = ' + @CurCaptureDate
PS - CD.CaptureDate is datetime and @CurCaptureDate is also datetime
but when executing , it gives this error - Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 169 Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
i am not able to use convert here with these quotes.
i tried this - SET @where_clause = @where_clause + CHAR(10) + 'AND CD.CaptureDate = ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(25),@CurCaptureDate )
but it makes it to -
AND CD.CaptureDate = Jul 19 2014 12:00AM. I would need the date in quotes.
Because of the way in which a specific piece of code is written, I'm bound into using a WHERE clause for a report generation.Each Inspection generates a unique Inspection Number. Any re-inspection created from that inspection is assigned that Inspection Number and appended with ".A", ".B", ".C" and so on.
The problem is this: Each row's Primary Key is the "InspectionId" in "dbo.v_InspectionDetailsReports". I need to return not only the data related to that particular InspectionId, but also the data related to any previous related inspection. For example, if I have a main number of CCS-2012 and three re-inspections, CCS-2012.A, CCS-2012.B and CCS-2012.C, and I report on CCS-2012.B, I need all the data for CCS-2012, CCS-2012.A and CCS-2012.B but NOT CCS-2012.C.
I would prefer to not have to do everything in a WHERE statement, but my hands are a bit tied.
The "SELECT * FROM dbo.v_InspectionDetailsReports WHERE . . ." is already hardcoded (don't ask). SELECT * FROM dbo.v_InspectionDetailsReports WHERE ( RefOnly = 0 OR RefOnly IS NULL
I am using an aggregate with the OVER clause.Running the script is fast less than 1 second but when I say insert into a temp table the execution plan is very different at it take 8 seconds.I have attached the execution plans. Also the Statistics IO, Time messages. I am using SQL Server 2014 with backward compatibility to 2008 R2.
if (select OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#MM')) is not null drop table #MM CREATE TABLE #MM ([MyTableID] [int], [ParticipantID] [int], [ConferenceID] [nvarchar](50), [Points] [money], [DateCreated] [datetime], [StartPoints] [money], [EndPoints] [money], [LowPoints] [money], [HighPoints] [money]) insert into #MM ([MyTableID], [ParticipantID], [ConferenceID], [Points], [DateCreated], [StartPoints], [EndPoints], [LowPoints], [HighPoints]) selectmm.MyTableID, mm.ParticipantID, mm.ConferenceID, mm.Points, mm.DateCreated,
I have 10k indexes I need to rebuild and each time the script reaches an error it stops all further activity. How can I append 'GO' to the end of each line so it will continue on error messages?
Once I have the syntax I can do a find and replace function in Notepad++
USE [AdventureWorks2014] + char(13) + char(10) + GO ALTER INDEX [IX_Person] ON [Person].[Person] REBUILD PARTITION = ALL WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF) + char(13) + char(10) + GO ALTER INDEX [IX_Emp] ON [HumanResources].[Employee] REBUILD PARTITION = ALL WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF) + char(13) + char(10) + GO ************** Truncate ***********
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?
the code below works (this is only a quick dumbed down version of the actual code, it might not work 100% for all cases). Is it at all possible to exploit the functions that were added to SSQL since v. 2005 to simplify this code ?
In SSRS, a parameter allows the user to create a list of invoices (from CRM) to be ordered in any of the following ways the user prefers:
'Document Date (most recent date first)' 'Document Number (highest number first)' 'Document Date (most recent first) and Number' 'Document Number (lowest number first)'
The invoices have a (supposedly) sequential identity-generated number. However Accounting may want to set a different date than the creation date on some invoices. So there is no way the invoice numbers will be in the same sequence as the invoice dates.
So I just created the "sorting fields" - they appear as junk in the output dataset (just do not drop them in the SSRS tablix - they have to be part of the SELECT statement to be usable in the ORDER BY clause.
The code is:
DECLARE @ls_OrderBy varchar(80) --'Document Number (highest number first)' --'Customer and Document Date (most recent date first)' --'Customer and Document Number (highest number first)' --'Document Date (most recent first) and Number'
I have a two tables each having a uniqueidentifier column person_id
I am trying to a select statement where I want a list of the person_id's in one table that are not in another table.
-- insert into wch_needed those who need checked
insert into #wch_needed (person_id, rendered_by ) select distinct e.person_id, e.rendered_by from #wch_who o, encounter e where o.person_id not in (select distinct person_id from #wch_have ) and o.person_id = e.person_id
the where conditional
where o.person_id not in (select distinct person_id from #wch_have )
I'm trying to write a query to select various columns from 3 tables. In the where clause I use a set of conditions, but most important condition is that I only want to see all results from the different columns where the ph.ProdHeaderDossierCode contains at least 25 lines of processed hours. I tried this with group by and having, but I constant get error messages on all other columns that I want to see: "is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause". How can I make this so I can see all information I need?
I want to create the following scenario. I have a table that stores employees working on projects and their project hours by week, but now I also need a running total per week for each of those projects. For example take a look below:
EmployeeID, Project, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,....Saturday, ProjectHours, TotalProjectHoursPerWeek(this is the column I am trying to derive), FiscalWeek
Correlated Subquery: SELECT EmployeeID,Project, Sunday, Monday,....Saturday, ProjectHours, SELECT(SUM(ProjectHours) FROM dbo.TableABC ap GROUP BY FiscalWeek), FROM dbo.TableABC a
I got this to work one time before, but now I am getting the following error:
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression.
I can't understand why I get 2 different results on running with a Bracket I get 'NULL' and without a bracket I get the declared variable value which is 'Noname'
Below is Query 1:
Declare @testvar char(20) Set @testvar = 'noname' Select @testvar= pub_name FROM publishers WHERE pub_id= '999' Select @testvar
Out put of this query is 'Noname'
BUT when I type the same query in the following manner I get Null-------Please note that the only difference between this query below is I used brackets and Select in the Select@testvar statement
Declare @testvar char(20) Set @testvar = 'noname' Select @testvar=(Select pub_name FROM publishers WHERE pub_id= '999') Select @testvar
I am writing a stored procedure and have a query where I create a variable from other table
Declare @Sem varchar (12) Null @Decision varchar(1) Null Select emplid,name, Semester Decision1=(select * from tbldecision where reader=1) Decision2=(select * from tbldecision where reader=2) Where Semester=@Sem And Decision1=@Decision
But I am getting error for Decision1 , Decision2. How can I do that.
In the past, I've combined server side traces with Perfmon successfully, which is pretty useful, I know that. I would like to do the same with Extended Events, so I can correlate and analyze the server side as well.
see article: Article ID: Q216700 . Within a trigger on SQL Server 6.5 Service Pack 5 or 5a, the IF UPDATE clause will evaluate to true for all columns when an INSERT is performed, even if there is no value specified and no default value exists for the column
I have a webpage that displays 4000 or more records in a GridView control powered by a SqlDataSource. It's very slow. I'm reading the following article on custom paging: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/031506-1.aspx. This article uses an ObjectDataSource, and some functionality new to Sql Server 2005 to implement custom paging.There is a stored procedure called GetEmployeesSubestByDepartmentIDSorted that looks like this:ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.GetEmployeesSubsetByDepartmentIDSorted( @DepartmentID int, @sortExpression nvarchar(50), @startRowIndex int, @maximumRows int)AS IF @DepartmentID IS NULL -- If @DepartmentID is null, then we want to get all employees EXEC dbo.GetEmployeesSubsetSorted @sortExpression, @startRowIndex, @maximumRows ELSE BEGIN -- Otherwise we want to get just those employees in the specified department IF LEN(@sortExpression) = 0 SET @sortExpression = 'EmployeeID' -- Since @startRowIndex is zero-based in the data Web control, but one-based w/ROW_NUMBER(), increment SET @startRowIndex = @startRowIndex + 1 -- Issue query DECLARE @sql nvarchar(4000) SET @sql = 'SELECT EmployeeID, LastName, FirstName, DepartmentID, Salary, HireDate, DepartmentName FROM (SELECT EmployeeID, LastName, FirstName, e.DepartmentID, Salary, HireDate, d.Name as DepartmentName, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY ' + @sortExpression + ') as RowNum FROM Employees e INNER JOIN Departments d ON e.DepartmentID = d.DepartmentID WHERE e.DepartmentID = ' + CONVERT(nvarchar(10), @DepartmentID) + ' ) as EmpInfo WHERE RowNum BETWEEN ' + CONVERT(nvarchar(10), @startRowIndex) + ' AND (' + CONVERT(nvarchar(10), @startRowIndex) + ' + ' + CONVERT(nvarchar(10), @maximumRows) + ') - 1' -- Execute the SQL query EXEC sp_executesql @sql ENDThe part that's bold is the part I don't understand. Can someone shed some light on this for me? What is this doing and why?Diane
I'm in the process of building messaging functionality in to my application where by users can contact one another, look at it as a dating site, you click on someones profile, view their profile and then send that user a message.
I started to build the table which looked like this:
Id (PK) (Increments by 1)
ToUserId (FK) -- User who they're getting in contact with
FromUserId (FK) -- User who sent the message
Content (nvarchar(3000)) -- Message being send
Status (int) -- read / new / deleted / sent
EmailDate (datetime)
EmailDeleted (datetime)
But the problem with this setup is both user's maybe sending / replying to each other so I would have multiple entries / statuses in one table which may become a nightmare to manage / control.
The objects "MYTEST2.TEST" and "mytest.TEST" in the FROM clause have the same exposed names. Use correlation names to distinguish them.use of fully qualified names is allowed without having to alias them.One workaround is changing compatibility mode to 80.Is there another (startup flag?).Reason for no alias: MS Reportbuilder doesn't provide them when building queries
CREATE SCHEMA MYTEST; go CREATE SCHEMA MYTEST2; go CREATE TABLE MYTEST.TEST
Looking to coalesce a WHERE clause with XML data. I cannot supply test data.
If 472 is null, check the NEXT XML field at grab the 150, if both 472 AND 150 do NOT exist let it be NULL.
set @Date = (select top 1 XL.value('(DTM/DTM.02/DTM.02.1)[1]', 'varchar(100)') from #src where coalesce(XL.value('(DTM/DTM.01/DTM.01.1)[1]', 'varchar(50)') = '472', '(DTM/DTM.01/DTM.01.1)[1]', 'varchar(50)') = '150')
I have an SSIS package which uses variables and foreach loop containers so connect to multiple instances to retrieve config data. I am adding an extra step to include the port of each instance.
I used a select from a central table to get the connection strings, which is put into [User::Server2]
I have a temporary table #Temp with, among others, a column CountryCode and a column Lastname.I would like to change the ü that appears in some names to u (u umlaut to a plain u), but only for those that have the nationality 'Ned'
My code so far:
Update #Temp set LastName = replace(Lastname, 'ü', 'ue') WHERE CountryCode = 'Ned'
This code deletes all entries in the column Lastname
I think it must be easy, but I keep staring at the code.
I have a MDX query , where I have a date Range in where clause.
I want to replace it with Cuurent Date and Last 7 days date.
I tried multiple ways using NOW function , but could not get it correct .
modifying the Query so that I can fetch DATA for last 7 days
SELECT NON EMPTY { [Measures].[X] } ON COLUMNS, NON EMPTY { ([PRODUCT].[PRODUCT].[PRODUCT].ALLMEMBERS ) } DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_CAPTION, MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS FROM ( SELECT ( { [COLOR].[COLORName].&[BLACK], [COLOR].[COLORName].&[BLUE] } ) ON COLUMNS FROM ( SELECT ( [Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2015].&[2015]&[3].&[7].&[20150706] : [Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2015].&[2015]&[2].&[6].&[20150629] ) ON COLUMNS FROM [MYCUBE]))
I want to replace Date Hard code value , I have used Calendar Hierarchy of date dimension. to find Last 7 days Data.
