SQL Server 2012 :: Counting Characters In A String Before A Space
Jun 11, 2014
I am trying to count the characters in a sting before a space. Here is the example of what I am trying to accomplish.
"2073 9187463 2700' 4 7 4, the string character count is 4 before the space, 7 is the count before the next space and the last is the last in the string, if there was more characters within this string for example....'2073 9187463 2700 7023 6044567' it would return the number of characters in the string before the space and at the very end of it.
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Mar 19, 2015
I am trying to figure out how to pull only a certain character string.
orig string varies in length (Varchar 50)
ex: MID - Proposed - Prime
ex: MID - NotProposed - NotPrime
I want to keep the first 6 characters 'MID - '
as well as up to the 3rd SPACE (not including the space)
so
ex: MID - Proposed
ex: MID - NotProposed
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Aug 18, 2014
I need extracting string that is between certain characters that are in certain position.
Here is the DDL:
DROP TABLE [dbo].[StoreNumberTest]
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[StoreNumberTest](
[StoreNumber] [varchar](50) NULL,
[StoreNumberParsed] [varchar](50) NULL)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[StoreNumberTest]
[Code] ....
What I need to accomplish is to extract the string that is between the third and fifth '-' (dash) and insert it into the StoreNumberParsed while eliminating the fourth dash.
Sample output would be:
KY117
CA132
OH174
MD163
FL191
I know that parse, charindex, patindex all might come in play, but not sure how to construct the statement.
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Jul 15, 2015
I am looking for the fastest way to strip non-numeric characters from a string.
I have a user database that has a column (USER_TELNO) in which the user can drop a telephone number (for example '+31 (0)12-123 456'). An extra computed column (FORMATTED_TELNO) should contain the formatted telephone number (31012123456 in the example)
Note: the column FORMATTED_TELNO must be indexed, so the UDF in the computed column has WITH SCHEMABINDING.... I think this implicates that a CLR call won't work....
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Sep 17, 2015
I have a varchar field which contains some Greek characters (α, β, γ, etc...) among the regular Latin characters. I need to replace these characters with a word (alpha, beta, gamma etc...). When I try to do this, I find that it is also replacing some of the Latin characters.
DECLARE @Letters TABLE (Letter NVARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO @Letters VALUES ('a'), ('A'), ('b'), ('B'), ('α')
SELECTLetter, REPLACE(Letter,'α','alpha')
FROM@Letters
In this case, the "α" is being replaced, but so are "a" and "A".
I have tried changing the datatype from varchar to nvarchar and also changing the collation.
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Jan 20, 2014
I have a problem where I want to write a function to remove recurring characters from a string and replace them with a single same character.
For instance I have the string '12333345566689' and the result should be '12345689'. In Oracle I could do this with "regexp_replace('12333345566689', '(.)1+', '1')", but in T-SQL the only solution I could think of is something like this:
DECLARE @code NVARCHAR(255)
SET @code = '12333345566689';
SET @code = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@Code, '1', '~1'), '1~', ''), '~1', '1');
and repeat this for 2 - 9. But I'm sure there is a more elegant version for this in SQL Server 2012.
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Jun 3, 2015
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'
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Dec 17, 2014
I have a string 'ACDIPFJZ'
In my table one of the column has data like
PFAG
ABCDEFHJMPUYZ
KML
JC
RPF
My requirement is that if the string in the column has any of the characters from 'ACDIPFJZ' , those characters have to be retained and the rest of the characters have to be removed.
My output should be:
PFAG -- PFA (G Eliminated)
ABCDEFHJMPUYZ -- ACDPFJZ (B,E,H,M,U,Y Eliminated)
KML -- No data
JC -- JC
RPF -- PF (R Eliminated)
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Jun 19, 2014
I have the following string and am trying to select only the characters before the last "</>". How can I do this?
declare @String varchar(500)
set @String = '<p>Assessed By: Michael Jordan Yagnesh</p>
<p>Reviewed By: Fred Smith</p>
<p>Home Address</p>'
select REVERSE(substring(REVERSE(@String),5,charindex(':',REVERSE(@String))-5))Here is what I tried so far:
[Code] ...
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Mar 1, 2014
I need to verify data in a column and do pattern matching on the string in each field.
I've create a CLR Function that will verify the element against the patter and return a True or Fales....
I have only used reg expressions once and am struggling mightly. I'm bacially here. A
I need to match a pattern that each word in the string will be a Capital letter.
ex. The beginning of the day - Fail
ex. The Beginning Of The Day - Pass
[URL] .....
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Apr 14, 2015
I usually do this through Access so I'm not too familiar with the string functions in SQL. My question is, how do you remove characters from the middle of a string?
Ex:
String value is 10 characters long.
The string value is X000001250.
The end result should look like, X1250.
I've tried mixing/matching multiple string functions with no success. The only solution I have come up with removes ALL of the zeros, including the tailing zero. The goal is to only remove the consecutive zeroes in the middle of the string.
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Aug 31, 2005
Div writes "I have 8 columns consisting of 1 letter each.I want to be able to count the number of times that the letter 'a' or 'b' until 'z' occurs in one record. For example, for record number 1, the following information is available:
Column 1: a
Column 1: k
Column 1: t
Column 1: s
Column 1: a
Column 1: d
Column 1: d
Column 1: k
I want to be able to see that for this record there are 2 occurences of 'a',2 occurences of 'k', 1 occurence of 't', etc.
Please help!!
I'm using SQL Version 8.0 and Windows XP Professional.
Thank you!
Divya"
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Sep 18, 2014
Below is a script that count the amount of Void properties we had in a specific month.
SELECT COUNT(C.[Place Referance]) AS [April Total Voids]
FROM
(
SELECT DISTINCTTOP 100 PERCENT
HIST.[PLACE-REF] AS 'Place Referance'
[Code] ....
It tells me I have 53 total voids.
What I also want is a column next to this to say how many of those voids back in April are STILL Void.
So basically the WHERE clause would still be the same -
WHERE [Void Start Date YEAR] = '2014'
AND [Void Start Date MONTH] = '4'
but with the added -
AND HIST.[END-DATE] IS NULL
So ideally I'm after two columns with figures in them and then going forward I can then calculate other months as well.
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Nov 14, 2007
Hi,
I am trying to do this:
UPDATE Users SET uniqueurl = replaceAllEmptySpacesInUniqueURL('uniqueurl')
What would be the syntax.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
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Jun 18, 2015
I am using MS SQL 2012 and have a pretty simple table dbo. Migration Breakdown with sample data as follows.
DepartDateTime ZoneMovement
2015-06-26 14:00:00.000 6 to 4
2015-06-26 14:00:00.000 11 to 7
2015-06-26 15:30:00.000 9 to 6
2015-06-26 21:00:00.000 7 to 3
2015-06-27 08:01:00.000 7 to 4
[code]....
What I am trying to do is parse the data set to find out when we have more than three like movements ex. 3 to 10 within ANY rolling 72 hour period. I have looked at the SQL Window Functions OVER with a ROW | RANGE subclause, but I can't find out how to tackle this rolling 72 hour business.
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May 16, 2007
Hi to all,
I am having a string like (234) 522-4342.
i have to remove the non numeric characters from the above string.
Please help me in this regards.
Thanks in advance.
M.ArulMani
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May 16, 2007
Hi to all,
I am having a string like (234) 522-4342.
i have to remove the non numeric characters from the above string.
Please help me in this regards.
Thanks in advance.
M.ArulMani
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Aug 27, 2006
Hi ...I have a weblog database where I want to count the occurences of atable of string values that appear in all the urls viewed.My tblWebLog as a field that contains the url ...tblWebLog.[cs-uri-stem]I have another table ... tblStrings ... that has a field [strSearch]for a string value and an integer field [intViewCount] to count theoccurence of the string in tblWebLog.[cs-uri-stem]I've been trying ...Update tblStringsSet [intViewCount] = (Select Count(*) From tblWebLog Where[cs-uri-stem] Like '%_' + tblStrings.[strSearch] + '.htm%').... but it doesn't fly and I'm stumped. Any thoughts?Cheers.
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Oct 29, 2007
I have a fairly elaborate query that returns a string value something like this:
,,,6,7,6,7,,,,,,,,6,,,,,6,7,6,,,,,,,,,6,,,,,6,7,6,7,,,,,,,,6,,
basically its a series of numeric values seperated by commas.
What I want to do now is count the '6's ini the string and return a numeric value, i.e. the above example would = 9 and if i do the same for 7's it would return a 5
any idea on how to do this?
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Jan 25, 2008
This is with SQLCe NET 3.5.0.0 running on Windows Server 2003 or Server 2008, not on a Windows mobile operating system.
The following code fails with ntext entries above 4000 characters:
Dim cn As New SqlCeConnection(ConnectString())
If cn.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then
cn.Open()
End If
Dim info as string
info = "This is lengthy text".PadLeft(4200)
Dim cmd As SqlCeCommand
strSQL = "create table testTable ("
strSQL &= "docType nvarchar (50) NULL, "
strSQL &= "docFlag nvarchar(10) NULL, "
strSQL &= "docData ntext NULL, "
strSQL &= " )"
cmd = New SqlCeCommand(strSQL, cn)
Try
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
Catch sqlexception As SqlCeException
MessageBox.Show(sqlexception.Message & vbNewLine & strSQL, "Table Error 7", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Table Error 8", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Finally
cn.Close()
End Try
If cn.State = ConnectionState.Closed Then
cn.Open()
End If
'---- insert a row into the testTable
strSQL = "INSERT INTO testTable ("
strSQL &= "docType, "
strSQL &= "docFlag, "
strSQL &= "docData, "
strSQL &= ") "
strSQL &= "VALUES ("
strSQL &= "@docType, "
strSQL &= "@docFlag, "
strSQL &= "@docData, "
strSQL &= ")"
Try
cmd = New SqlCeCommand(strSQL, cn)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docType", "a type")
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docFlag", "a flag")
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docData", info)
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
Catch sqlexception As SqlCeException
MessageBox.Show(sqlexception.Message, "Table Error 9", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Table Error 10", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Finally
cn.Close()
End Try
End If
Changing the cmd.Parameters as follows works:
Dim paramdocData As SqlCeParameter
Try
cmd = New SqlCeCommand(strSQL, cn)
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docType", "a type")
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@docFlag", "a flag")
paramdocData = cmd.Parameters.Add("docData", SqlDbType.NText)
paramdocData.Value = info
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
Catch sqlexception As SqlCeException
MessageBox.Show(sqlexception.Message, "Table Error 9", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message, "Table Error 10", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1)
Finally
cn.Close()
End Try
Thanks to the following Microsoft ReadMe for the above suggestion. See:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/7/2/f72ebbf8-4df1-4800-b4db-c2405c10d937/ReadmeSSC35.htm
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Mar 20, 2014
We have some URLs within a bulk block of text some of which are very long. I need to identify rows where such urls exceed say 100 characters in length in amongst other text.So the rule would be return a record if within the string there is a string (without spaces) longer than 100 characters.
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May 19, 2015
Ok following scenario
create table dbo.ADAssets
(Computername nvarchar(max))
insert into dbo.ADAssets
values
('AIRLBEOF3565 CNF:4e926e06-6f62-4864-aebd-6311543d',
'AIRLBEOF3565')
So if execute the following
select Computername
from dbo.ADAssets
where Computername like
'AIRLBEOF3565%'
I get both records,but if I do this
select *
from dbo.ADAssets
where Computername in
(
'AIRLBEOF3565 CNF:4e926e06-6f62-4864-aebd-6311543d',
'AIRLBEOF3565'
)
I only get AIRLBEOF3565
So the big picture is that I need to compare 2 tables to find records that match & don't but that I get matches that shouldn't be & matches that aren't.
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Feb 7, 2014
i need to find and all special characters and replace with space.
Following query works well for me to finding all rows having special char.
SELECT DESC FROM TBL_DESC
WHERE DESC LIKE '%[^A-Z0-9 ]%'
replacing special char with space . i need to remove special chars only.
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Jul 6, 2015
I have a column that has data in column user4 such as :
CALBRIG ALBION COMPANY LTD
1900 No. 8 Road, RIchmond, BC, V6V 1W3
I can do a LEFT(user4, 7) That returns me the first 7 charcters but I need to retrieve the company information but the number of characters may vary with each field. Is there anyway I can do this without returning the entire line?
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Jul 1, 2015
Part 1: When there is ~ (tilde) and has any value after it then it goes into a new row and duplicating the other columns like the facility in the screenshot attached and new column having the sequence.
Part 2: When there is ^ (Caret) its a new column irrespective of a value present or not
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Equipment](
[EQU] [VARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
[Notes] [TEXT] NULL,
[Facility] [VARCHAR](50) NULL)
INSERT INTO [dbo].[Equipment] ([EQU] ,[Notes] ,[Facility])
SELECT '1001','BET I^BOBBETT,DAN^1.0^REGULAR^22.09^22.090~BET II^^^REGULAR^23.56^0~','USA' union
SELECT '998','BET I^JONES, ALANA^0.50^REGULAR^22.09^11.0450~BET II^^^REGULAR^23.56^0~','Canada' UNION
select '55','BET I^SLADE,ADAM F.^1.5^REGULAR^27.65^41.475~','USA'
SELECT * FROM dbo.Equipment
I created the table in excel and attached the screenshot for a clear picture as to what is required. I use text to Columns in excel to achieve this not sure if there is anything similar in sql.
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Mar 5, 2014
I am looking for a function or way to return only results which does not include appended characters to order numbers.
For instance, below is a list of order numbers. I only want the order number that is SO-123456
OrderNumbers
SO-123456
SO-123456-01
SO-123456-2
SO-123457
SO-123457-1
SO-123457-02
SO-123458
I would like my query to only show the below results
SO-123456
SO-123457
SO-123458
What functions or query methods could achieve this?
I was hoping for something similar to RTRIM but that is only specific to white space.
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Apr 29, 2015
SQL Server 2012 SP2 Enterprise Edition (11.0.5058.0) on Windows Server 2008 R2
At some point a few months ago we encountered an issue where we hit some size limit on the amount of text we could enter into a Transact-SQL step of an Agent job. Attempting to create a job like this with sp_add_job will produce the error
Msg 50000, Level 16, State 10, Procedure sp_add_jobstep_internal, Line 255
String or binary data would be truncated.
Adding the job step via SSMS yields
Alter failed for JobStep 'xxx'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
Additional information:
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
String or binary data would be truncated.
The statement has been terminated. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 8152)
I've checked sp_add_jobstep_internal, sp_add_jobstep and the sysjobsteps table and all references to the command field are nvarchar(max). We can run the same job creation code without error on a SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition machine and two SQL Server 2012 SP2 Developer Edition boxes. All our 2012 servers were fresh installs, not upgrades.
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Sep 18, 2015
I want to replace special characters and space except '-' Tried with Pathindex and function but not getting expected results.
Ex: Input kjkdjfdf-234#kei$ ewiw
output: kjkdjfdf-234keiewiw
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Oct 13, 2015
I am trying to write a function to compare the characters between 2 strings and eliminate the similarities to be able to return at the end the number of differences between them.
Having in mind i need the bigger number of differences to be returned also if a character is repeated in one of the 2 words it will be eliminated once because it exist only one time in other string.
I will give an example below to be more clear
--Start
declare @string1 as varchar(50)='imos'
declare @string2 as varchar(50)='nasos';
WITH n (n) AS (
SELECT 1 FROM (VALUES (1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1)) n (n)
[Code] ....
The differences in first string from second one are 2 (i,m) while the differences in second string from first one are 3(nas).
So the function should return 3 in previous example.
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Jun 8, 2015
I'm trying to replace special characters in SQL SERVER and all the solutions for this RDBMS that I found, it uses loops and the source of my data it's in Oracle. in ORACLE and they use REGULAR EXPRESIONS to solve it..Do you know what its the better option to replace special characters? Using loops in SQL SERVER or REGULAR EXPRESSIONS in ORACLE ?
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Aug 21, 2015
I'm presented with a problem where I have a database table which must be migrated via a "custom tool", moving the data into a new table which has special character requirements that didn't exist in the source database. My data resides in an SQL Server 2008R2 instance.
I envision a one-time query which will loop through selected records and replace the offending characters with --, however I'm having trouble understanding how this works.
There are roughly 2500 records which meet the criteria of "contains bad characters", frequently containing multiple separate bad chars, and the table contains roughly 100000 rows.
Special Characters are defined as #%&*:<>?/{}|~ and ..
While the field is called "Filename" it isn't always so, it is a parent/child table where foldernames are also stored.
Example data:
Tablename = Items
ItemID Filename ListID
1 Badfile<2015>.docx 15
2 Goodfile.docx 15
3 MoreBad#.docx 15
4 Dog&Cat#17.pdf 15
5 John's "Special" Folder 16
The examples I'm finding are all oriented around SELECT statements, to change the output of what I see returned, however I'd rather just fix the entire column using an UPDATE. Initial testing using REPLACE fails because I don't always have a single character as the bad thing in a string.
In a better solution, I found an example using a User Defined Function to modify the output of a select, but I cannot use that UDF in an UPDATE.
My alternative is to learn enough C# to modify the "migration tool" to do this in-transit, but I know even less about C# than I do of SQL.
I gather I want to use @@ROWCOUNT to loop through the rows but I really can't put it all together in a cohesive way.
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Jul 7, 2006
Hi
I am using nvarchar(MAX) string variable. But its length is maximum upto 8,000 charaters. But I want to assign 10,000 characters. So how can I get this.
Thanks
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Jan 24, 2005
Is there a way to make a string field that has an unlimited amount of characters?
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