SQL Server 2012 :: Pull Expected Results When Using Strings With Comparison Operators?
Mar 1, 2015
We can use comparison operators with strings as well. Hence, I tried to use the following query on a SQL Server 2012 instance with the sample AdventureWorks2012 database (the collation of the database and of the column is the default:
SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS):
USE AdventureWorks2012 ;
GO
--Returns 5 records
SELECT pp.Name
FROM Production.Product AS pp
WHERE pp.Name >= N'Short' AND pp.Name <= N'Sport' ;
GO
The query only returns 5 records. This despite the fact that the search is an inclusive search and the Production.Product table contains records that begin with "Sport".
Now, when I replace "Sport" with "Sporu" (just moving one character up in the alphabet to verify whether characters after the word have any impact on the search) gives me 8 records.
USE AdventureWorks2012 ;
GO
--Returns 8 records
SELECT pp.Name
FROM Production.Product AS pp
WHERE pp.Name >= N'Short' AND pp.Name <= N'Sporu' ;
GO
What's going on inside of SQL Server that allows it to fetch "Short-Sleeve Classic Jersey" for the starting word "Short" but prevents it from fetching "Sport-100 Helmet" for the ending word "Sport" despite the search being an inclusive search?
Is there a limit on the size of the strings on both sides of the '=' sign for string comparison? If I have two varchar(max) strings, will the comparison be done beyond 8,000 characters?
I'm trying to put an expression into a view query column. I've already created a column which contains the results of a calculation in the form of an expression. What I don't know how to do is use comparison operators to return a boolean value for display. I'll give some examples of what I'm trying to do, using literal values just to simplify things...
So say I want to display the result of an expression in a view query column, as a boolean value (or BIT), as True or False. I've tried putting the following expressions into the column and none work:
4 < 5: Access converts this to the string '4 < 5' and it's just displayed as a string.
CAST( '4 < 5' AS BIT ): When run, the query displays the error 'Syntax error converting the varchar value '4 < 5' to a column of data type BIT.
Although I'm using Access 2003, It's just a front end for a SQL Server 2000 database. The actual SQL statement containing the latter SQL function is:
SELECT dbo.Tapes.No, dbo.Tapes.Status, dbo.Tapes.LastWrittenDate, dbo.Tapes.Pool, dbo.Tapes.Location, dbo.TapeJobs.No AS Expr1, dbo.TapeJobs.JobNo, dbo.TapeJobs.TapeNo, dbo.Jobs.No AS Expr2, dbo.Jobs.Date, dbo.Jobs.Successful, dbo.Jobs.RetentionRule, dbo.RetentionRules.No AS Expr3, dbo.RetentionRules.Name, dbo.RetentionRules.Description, dbo.RetentionRules.RetentionPeriod, dbo.RetentionRules.RetentionCycles, dbo.Jobs.Date + dbo.RetentionRules.RetentionPeriod AS AgedJob, CAST('4 < 5' AS BIT) AS Expr4 FROM dbo.RetentionRules INNER JOIN dbo.Jobs ON dbo.RetentionRules.No = dbo.Jobs.RetentionRule RIGHT OUTER JOIN dbo.Tapes RIGHT OUTER JOIN dbo.TapeJobs ON dbo.Tapes.No = dbo.TapeJobs.TapeNo ON dbo.Jobs.No = dbo.TapeJobs.JobNo
I'm new to SQL. I think the CAST function is the way forward, but I just don't know how to force it to resolve the expression '4 < 5'.
DECLARE @Teams AS TABLE(Team VARCHAR(3)) INSERT INTO @Teams SELECT 'IND' UNION SELECT 'SA' UNION SELECT 'AUS' select Team from @Teams where Team > 'AUS'
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co-relation between comparison operators in WHERE Clause and the respective output.
I have a FullTextSQLQuery which I am trying to search a phrase(The Multi-part identifier) on full text indexed table. I am getting expected results on running the below sql query on QA machine and PreProduction servers, but not getting the same results on our development and production servres as even though same code running.
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 50 c.case_id,c.status_id,cal.cas_details FROM g_case_action_log cal (READUNCOMMITTED) INNER JOIN g_case c (READUNCOMMITTED) ON (cal.case_id = c.case_id) INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE(es.g_case_action_log, cas_details, ' "The multi-part identifier" OR "<br>The multi-part identifier" OR "The multi-part identifier<br>" ') as key_tbl ON cal.log_id = key_tbl.[key] ORDER By c.case_id DESC
We are using SqlServer 2008 R2 version on all servers.
Hi All, I am kindly seeking for help. I have a table(MyTable) which is defined as (date datetime, ID char (10), and R, P,M,D&Y are all float) and the layout is as following: Date ID R P M D... Y 1/1/90 A 1 2 3 4... 5 1/2/90 A 2 3 4 5... 1 ... 2/11/05 A 3 4 5 6... 2 1/1/90 B 1 2 3 4... 5 1/2/90 B 2 3 4 5... 1 ... 2/11/05 B 3 4 5 6... 2 ... The expected query results look like: ( this results from Date, ID and R fields) Date A B 1/1/90 1 1 1/2/90 2 2 ... 2/11/05 3 3
The SQL I wrote: select date, ID, A=sum(case when ID=A then R else 0 end), B=sum(case when id=B then R else 0 end) from MyTable Group by date
I would also like to get another set of results with the same format but from date,ID and P fields: Date A B 1/1/90 2 2 1/2/90 3 3 ... 2/11/05 4 4
select date, ID, A=sum(case when ID=A then P else 0 end), B=sum(case when id=B then P else 0 end) from MyTable Group by date
The problem with that is if I have thousands of ID in MyTable I have to "hard code" thousands times and the same problem with the fields/columns. Is there any easier way to do this? I also would like to insert the results into a table/view which will be refreshed whenever MyTable gets updated.
Any suggestion/comments are highly appreciated! shiparsons
I'm reading a lot of data from a database using SqlDataReader. Now I'd like to report the progress to the user, but for this I need to know in advance how many items SqlDataReader will return.
Is there any way to get this 'number of expected results' from the SqlDataReader?
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 have 2 tables. Product, ProductCategory. Product table consists of (productid, productname, producttypeid, createdate, portid) productcategory consists of (productid, categoryid, productcategoryid, categoryid, prodroletypeid, createdate) I want to write sql query to get the unique products. So the count should only give one value/resuls. But when I run the following query, I am getting more than one rows select count(distinct categoryid) as uniquecat from productcategory as pc, product as p where pc.prodroletypeid in ('P', 'F') and pc.createdate <= dateadd(d, 30, getdate()) and p.portid = 100 group by pc.productid
I have just added a third table to a query and I am no longer gettingthe results I am expecting.Three Tables:CUSTINVOICEJOUR (Header Table)CUSTINVOICETRANS (Line Item Table)MARKUPTRANS (Additional Header Info)CUSTINVOICEJOUR has a one to many relationship to CUSTINVOICETRANS.CUSTINVOICEJOUR has a one to many relationship to MARKUPTRANS.I need to sum an integer column from MARKUPTRANS, in rows that arerelated to CUSTINVOICEJOUR, and include that output with my querybelow, which right now has a row for each CUSTINVOICETRANS record:SELECT CUSTINVOICEJOUR.INVOICEAMOUNT, CUSTINVOICETRANS.QTYFROM CUSTINVOICEJOUR INNER JOINCUSTINVOICETRANS ON CUSTINVOICEJOUR.INVOICEID =CUSTINVOICETRANS.INVOICEIDWHERE (CUSTINVOICEJOUR.DATAAREAID = 'acm') AND(CUSTINVOICETRANS.DATAAREAID = 'acm')The above works fine - a row for each record in CUSTINVOICETRANS withthe header info in there as well.I tried the query below to add a SUM() from MARKUPTRANS, but when I runit, I get one row with strange results in it - not what I expected.What am I doing wrong?SELECT CUSTINVOICEJOUR.INVOICEAMOUNT, CUSTINVOICETRANS.QTY,SUM(MARKUPTRANS.VALUE) AS FreightValueFROM CUSTINVOICEJOUR INNER JOINCUSTINVOICETRANS ON CUSTINVOICEJOUR.INVOICEID =CUSTINVOICETRANS.INVOICEID INNER JOINMARKUPTRANS ON CUSTINVOICEJOUR.RECID =MARKUPTRANS.TRANSRECIDWHERE (CUSTINVOICEJOUR.DATAAREAID = 'acm') AND(CUSTINVOICETRANS.DATAAREAID = 'acm') AND (MARKUPTRANS.DATAAREAID ='acm')GROUP BY CUSTINVOICEJOUR.INVOICEAMOUNT, CUSTINVOICETRANS.QTY,MARKUPTRANS.MARKUPCODEHAVING (MARKUPTRANS.MARKUPCODE = 'Freight')
In my TSQL code i use a derived table to extract the value of account 321 to compare if they are the same that the SUM of my line invoice cost multiply by quantity line : Sum(fi.ecusto*qtt)
This is my script:
SELECT ft.ndoc [Doctype],ft.fno [Docnr] , Sum(fi.ecusto*qtt) [totalcostof my Invoiceline], xctb.conta [accountancy account], sum(Case when ft.tipodoc = 1 then Xctb.ecre else Xctb.edeb end) as [Value of Cost of invoice in accountancy], [DIF] = Sum(fi.ecusto*qtt) - Sum(Case when ft.tipodoc = 1 then xctb.ecre else xctb.edeb end)
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My problem is if i have more than on line on my invoice, for example 2 lines, the value of column [Value of Cost of invoice in accountancy] are duplicated, for 3 line invoice the value are multiply by 3.
My full-text search isn't working at all! I have a temporary table with full-text indexing enabled where files are scanned for social security numbers. If it has one, the user will see a message that it believes it's found a SSN and won't upload it. There is only ever one row in this table, as we overwrite the contents upon each upload.
I'm testing this search, and it doesn't work. The table has the following columns: attachemtId (int) - primary key fileContent (image) - contents of the file fileExtension (varchar) - extension of the file (this is always either ".pdf" or ".doc")
I created a .doc file that simply says "ssn", and then run the following query:
SELECT * FROM TempAttachment WHERE CONTAINS(fileContent,'ssn')
and nothing is returned! I tried the same thing with a .pdf file, and same results.
I'm not sure if this is related, but earlier I had this issue where I had to reset permissions for the directory. I've tried removing the full-text index and adding it again, but that didn't do anything. I also checked error logs on the server, and there were no messages. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!
CASE WHEN com.completion_date IS NOT NULL AND dim.DayName <> 'Saturday' THEN DATEDIFF(d, com.current_task_target_date,com.completion_date) - non1.NoWorkDays WHEN com.completion_date IS NOT NULL AND dim.DayName = 'Saturday' THEN DATEDIFF(d, com.current_task_target_date,com.completion_date) ELSE NULL END AS 'DaysOverTarget'
Some of the figures coming back are minus figures. How could I get the minus figures reported to be 0.00?
Below is the full TSQL
SELECT DISTINCT com.comm_reference AS 'Referance' ,com.crt_date AS 'CreatedDate' ,com.current_task_target_date AS 'TargetDate' ,com.completion_date AS 'CompletionDate' ,CASE WHEN com.completion_date IS NOT NULL AND dim.DayName <> 'Saturday' THEN DATEDIFF(d, com.crt_date,com.completion_date) - non.NoWorkDays
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.
how to hard code mention date range in my SP to get expected results in my query 01/01/2012 to 12/31/2012
DECLARE @ACCOUNT AS INT DECLARE @POSTING_DATE AS DATETIME DECLARE @FIRST_POSTING_DATE AS DATETIME SET @POSTING_DATE = {?POSTING_DATE} SET @ACCOUNT = {?ACCOUNT}
SELECT ROUND ('6.465',2) --- result 6.46 and SELECT ROUND (6.465,2) --- result 6.47 with
It's because you're relying on an implicit conversion from a string to a decimal data type which SQL server will do to 2 decimal places by default...
Alright:
SELECT ROUND (CONVERT(DECIMAL(3,2),'6.465'),2) --- result 6.47 Now please explain this: SELECT ROUND('0.285',2) -- 0.28 SELECT ROUND(0.285,2) -- 0.29 SELECT ROUND (CONVERT(DECIMAL(3,2),'0.285'),2) --- result 0.29 The string value does not seem to be converted to decimal with 2 decimal places.
MS is on the safe side with mentioning the last digit is always an estimate But because the result of the estimate is always the same, I would like to know:
* how is a string value exactly implicitly converted?
* how exactly does the estimation work, that in case of doubt rounds a value up or off?
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)
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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.
I'd *like* to execute a sProc within another sProc, because this other one (let's call it dataProc) will provide me with results I need that are calculated based off execing other procs within that proc itself.
I'd like to use this data in a new sProc (we'll call it newProc), but I don't need NEARly all of the columns. The dataProc returns 1 row with 42 columns. I need about 4-5 of those for my newProc.
The dataProc does not have any output variables, and I do not want to change the signature, because several pages/apps use this existing dataProc.
My question: Is there a way to INSERT INTO table EXEC dataProc *Without* making a temp table that takes in every single column the dataProc puts out?
I am using Sql Server 2014 Express edition.I have a table with a varchar(max) column. I have created a full text search that use the stoplist "system". column has this struct: xxx.yyy.zzz.... where xxx, yyy, zzz... are numbers, like 123.345.123123.366456...I can have rows like that:
select * from Mytable where contains(MyColumn, '123.345.')
I gues the contains would return all the rows with column contains 123.345, but this does not return all the expected rows, only one row.I have tried to replace "." with "-" but the result is the same.I have also tried with '123.345.*. In this case I have got more results, but no all the exptected rows.If I use this query:
select * from MyTable where MyCOlumn like '123.345.%';
how do I get the variables in the cursor, set statement, to NOT update the temp table with the value of the variable ? I want it to pull a date, not the column name stored in the variable...
create table #temptable (columname varchar(150), columnheader varchar(150), earliestdate varchar(120), mostrecentdate varchar(120)) insert into #temptable SELECT ColumnName, headername, '', '' FROM eddsdbo.[ArtifactViewField] WHERE ItemListType = 'DateTime' AND ArtifactTypeID = 10 --column name declare @cname varchar(30)
I am comparing two fields one from our legacy table and one in our new table structure that should have identical text data. The new field has an assortment of ANSI characters where the legacy data did not have these. Is there anything I can do that will ignore all ansi character differences? The only route I can think of is just do a replace on each ANSI type on the new column but there are quite a few character types.
below is my statement to get data from one column (VARCHAR) from table SUPPLY_ITEM_01
SELECT @@SERVERNAME as ServerName,DB_NAME() AS DatabaseName, SUM(CASE WHEN CHARINDEX (CHAR(013) , supplydetail) > 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS TotalCHAR013, SUM(CASE WHEN CHARINDEX (CHAR(012), supplydetail ) >0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END)AS TotalCHAR012, SUM(CASE WHEN CHARINDEX (CHAR(010), supplydetail ) >0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS TotalCHAR010, SUM(CASE WHEN CHARINDEX (CHAR(009),supplydetail ) >0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS TotalCHAR009 FROM
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I need to get result from all the tables and all the columns which has bad data including schemaName, table name and column name in result.
I have created a view thats pulling data from two different tables to combine them into one report.
table 1 lists the client code and table 2 lists the client partner and they're linked by a variable.
When running the report the result shows the client codes with their respective partner however any client codes that didn't have a partner are not displaying in the report and I need all client codes to be displayed even if there's no partner.
Is there a way I can make this display all results and if the client partner doesn't exist for it to still display as 'Null' for the partner but still display the client code?
Script:
SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT C.cltCode AS ClientCode, C.cltSortName AS SortName, C.cltTerminationDate AS [Term date], dbo.vcltAttrib6.ainTVal AS Department, C.objInstID AS ClientID FROM dbo.cdbClient AS C INNER JOIN dbo.vcltAttrib6 ON C.objInstID = dbo.vcltAttrib6.ainObjectInstID GROUP BY C.cltSortName, C.cltTerminationDate, dbo.vcltAttrib6.ainTVal, C.objInstID, C.cltCode ORDER BY ClientID
I want to select all the records, and them them be in alphabetical order first by lastname, then by firstname, then by address. HOWEVER, and this is the tricky part, I want to group names together that have the same address. So, in this example, I want the results to be in this order:
HallC6309 N Olive HallP6309 N Olive <---- grouped with the C record because they have the same address HallE5488 W Catalina <---- back to alphabetical by first name HallJ7222 N Cocopas
I am getting a tab character at the end of my query fields, been trying various things to fix, such as using the replace function below but still i get the tabs!
select CAST(REPLACE(NAMEALIAS,CHAR(9),'')AS CHAR(40)) + ',' as PRODNAME, CAST(REPLACE(ISNULL(GLOBALTRADEITEMNUMBER,0),CHAR(9),'')AS CHAR(18))as EANNO,LTRIM(cast(ISNULL(GLOBALTRADEITEMNUMBER,0) as char(18))) as KONSEAN ,LTRIM(CAST(I.ITEMID AS CHAR(8))) AS PRODCODE,'00' from INVENTTABLE I LEFT JOIN INVENTITEMGROUPITEM IG ON I.ITEMID = IG.ITEMID
I have a lot of rows of hours, set up like this: 0745, 0800, 2200, 1145 and so on (varchar(5), for some reason).
These are converted into a smalldatetime like this:
CONVERT(smalldatetime, STUFF(timestarted, 3, 0, ':')) [this would give output like this - 1900-01-01 11:45:00]
This code has been in place for years...and we stick the date on later from another column.
But recently, it's started to fail for some rows, with "The conversion of a varchar data type to a smalldatetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value".
My assumption is that new data being added in is junk. If I query for these values and just list them (rather than adding a column to convert them also) that's fine, of course. I've checked all the stuffed (but not yet converted - so 11:45 rather than 1145) output to see if it ISDATE(), and it is. There are no times with hours > 23 or minutes greater than 59 either.
If I add the CONVERT in, we see the error message. But here's the oddity, if I place all of the rows into a holding table, and retry the conversion, there is no error. It's this last bit that is puzzling me. Plus I can't see any errors in the hours data that would cause a conversion problem.
I've put the whole of this into a cursor to try to trap the error rows too, but all processes fine. Why would it fail if NOT in a cursor?
I have a view I've created which displays client sortname, partner and date added which displays 7 results.
When I add another table to this view to display the Industry it then only gives me 4 results as the other 3 results have no Industry instead of giving me the 7 results and showing the Industry column as empty for the other 3.
Is there a way I can make it show all 7 results and havethe column where the industry is empty display the other results instead of not displaying any results at all for them?
Script: SELECT dbo.cdbClient.cltSortName AS ClientName, dbo.vcltAttrib4.ainTVal AS ClientPartner, dbo.vcltAttrib422.ainDVal AS [Date Added], dbo.cdbAttribInst.ainTVal AS Inudstry FROM dbo.cdbClient LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.cdbObject ON dbo.cdbClient.cltCategoryID = dbo.cdbObject.objID LEFT OUTER JOIN
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In the above script the cbdAttribInst table has the Industry column I need which is 'ainTVal'...
I can find many examples of loading DBCC results into tables. They all begin with a create table statement defining the results. My question is , other than trial and error, is there a way to determine what data types will be returned. Sure you can say that first element looks like an integer, but is it really a bigint, and that text string can be varchar(max) but will char(2) work.
I'm not looking for an answer for a specific DBCC function, but rather a generic way I can determine the characteristics of any DBCC result set.
I tried
SELECT * INTO #tmp FROM OPENROWSET('SQLOLEDB', 'Server=ray;Trusted_Connection=Yes;Database=Ed_sandbox', 'Set FmtOnly OFF; DBCC loginfo WITH tableresults ')
but I got back
Msg 11527, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_describe_first_result_set, Line 1
The metadata could not be determined because statement 'DBCC loginfo WITH tableresults' does not support metadata discovery.
I have a table that has multiple transactions for stock items.
This table holds all records relating to items that are inducted onto the system and there movement. For each stock item i am interested in getting the drop destination, if it has one, and only when it follows the sequential order of "Inducted>OnTransport>Dropped" (this sequence isn't always the case). Also note the CreatedDate for the Inducted and OnTransport records for the valid sequences are always the same. Below is a valid sequence for a stock item so i would want to return 'Lane01' for the Destination of this occurrence of the stock item, if this item didn't have a valid drop location then destination would be blank. Also note each stock item can be inducted more than one time per-day.
I think i have managed to build the below sql but it will only do one item at a time, so would have to wrap it in a function. Is there a way of writing a set based select statement that gets all the inducted items and for the ones that do follow the "Inducted>OnTransport>Dropped" return the destination it was dropped at? I've attached scrips below:
I have written a SQL statement.There is a table called customer.It contains all customer data with customerid as PK.There is another table called logs and it contains customerid as foreign key and it contains a field to keep more than 90 days older user accounts.That field name is "Checked"
What I need get all records from these 2 tables and remove/hide more than 90 days older customers from record set.See my illustration.
I have written this code but I dont understand how to remove more than 90 days older user from result (because customer table doesnt contain a record called "Checked")
SELECT * FROM [dbo].[Customers],[dbo].[VIESLog] WHERE [dbo].[VIESLog].[Checked] < DATEADD(day, -90, GETDATE())
I have a simple update statement (see example below) that when runs, I expect to see the number of records updated in the Results tab. This information shows up in the Messages tab; however, what is displayed in the Results tab is (No column name) 40. From where the 40 is being generated. I have tried restarting SSMS 2012, restarting my computer, turning NOCOUNT on and off.
"UPDATE TableA SET Supervisor = 'A123' WHERE PersonnelNumber = 'B456'"