SQL Server 2012 :: String Concatenation Using + Operator With Semicolon Delimiter
Dec 5, 2013
I have 8 fields - I have requirement to concatenate using '+' operator with semicolon delimiter but issues is in the
Output I get semicolons for the fields that are empty below is my code :
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case
when [SLII Request Type] ='Job Posting' and [SmartLaborII Request Status] like 'Pending Approval (Level 4%'
and [New Extension or Replacement Audit Flag] like 'FLAG%'
then 'Reject – New, Extension, Replacement invalid entry' --'it is jp'
else ''
end as [ES Fully approved data 1],
case
Data from source goes into target table under same field...
ISSUE IS -
Data from 'n' no. of records from source table goes into a single record in the target table with delimiter being a semi colon (;)... where(n >=2)...
For example - if the source table has 'src1', 'src2' and 'src3' as the data then target table will have a single record with semicolon as delimiter as 'src1;src2;src3'
How do we compare the data under this particular field now...
Do we have to use a if then loop for identifying when the ; ends in target data...
Ok, here's my setup. I've got a named instance in a SQL 2000 cluster. I only have dbo rights on my database, because it is a shared infrastructure. Here's my current web.config connection string (the meat, anyway): When I'm at the office, this is my connection string, pretty normal: connectionString="Data Source=ServerNameInstanceName;Initial Catalog=blah..." But, when I connect through the VPN, I can't just connect through the named instance - I have a specific port. This is where things get odd. First, if I try to connect through SQL Server Management Studio (2005), i get nothing. If I try to connect using "ServerNameInstanceName, (comma) Port Number" it connects, but not to my instance. I get a seperate set of databases that I believe are in the default instance. So, I changed the comma to a semicolon (;) - and it still connected to the same thing - connected to the database, but to the wrong set of databases. So, on a whim, I tried plunking my string, which was now "ServerNameInstanceName;(semicolon) PortNumber" into the SQL 2000 Tools and it worked in both Query Analyzer and in Enterprise Manager. So, I thought, I'll just slam this into my connection string and all will be well. No. I can't use a semicolon in my connection string, and I can't find an escape character to use. Double semicolons don't work, a comma doesn't connect me properly, double colons don't work, the JDBC brackets don't work {} - so I'm at a loss. I'm out of ideas. I've set up aliases, and those don't work earlier. I'm using ASP.net 2 with VB & C# and Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Thanks for any help anyone can give on this!
I have a need to create a table in a sql server database from C# code. The kicker is that the user must be able to specify the table and field names via the UI. I can do a bit of sanity checking but as long as they enter something reasonable I need to accept it. Normaly I always ADO parameters to sanitise any user parameters but they can't be applied to table and field names, only values. As far as I'm aware that leaves me needing to concatenate strings and that's something I usually avoid like the plague due to risk of SQL injection.
My actual question : Assuming string concatenation is my only way forward, how can I sanitise the values that would go into the table name and fieldname bits of a CREATE TABLE statement to ensure that injection can't occur? I've been pondering it and I think I just need to check for semi-colons. Without a semi-colon I don't think a user could inject an extra statement could they?
I have a hierarchical structure for mapping products to categories, categories go 3 levels deep (depth is defined in articlegroups.catlevel, 0 being the main category and traversing down to lower category level 2). Also, a product may be in more than 1 category(!).
product details are stored in `[products]` articlegroups are defined in `[articlegroups]` and the mapping of the products to the articlegroups are defined in `[products_category_mapping]`
Now, I want to retrieve index the full category path for each item, so with the data provided below, I'd expect these 2 rows as a result:
Now I can get the separate fields via a statement like this:
SELECT ga.slug_nl as slug_nl_0 FROM articlegroups ga INNER JOIN products_category_mapping pcm ON pcm.articlegroup_id=ga.id INNER JOIN products gp on gp.id=pcm.artikelid WHERE gp.id=2481446
I want to extract two strings from xxxxx - yyyyyy separately as xxxxx and yyyyyy. The source always has two strings brought together with a - symbol. How to extract these two strings.
create procedure ChangePassword(@sUser char(20),@sPassword char(20)) as begin execute immediate 'GRANT CONNECT TO ' + @sUser + ' IDENTIFIED BY ' + @sPassword grant execute on ChangePassword to public end
I m getting syntax error at '+' sign. I saw in BOL and it is exactly the same. Can nyone help me out?
create procedure CheckSQLErrors( @TheCode integer, @TheState integer, @Routine varchar(40), @Help varchar(40)) as begin { call LogMsg('SQLA',@Routine,@Help,'sqlstate=' + @TheState + ', sqlcode=' + @TheCode) } end
I m getting this error. "Incorrect syntax near + "
+ is used for string concatenation. I tried to use CAST to convert @TheState and @TheCode variables to varchar but did not work. Can you help me out?
FYI LogMsg is a sproc
create procedure dbo.LogMsg( @aAppName varchar(18), @aRoutine varchar(20), @aType varchar(5), @aMsg varchar(255)) as begin insert into MessageLog(strAppName,strRoutineName,strType,strMe ssage) values( @aAppName,@aRoutine,@aType,@aMsg) end GO
SUBSTRING(@s, start, CASE WHEN stop > 0 THEN stop-start ELSE 512 END) AS s
FROM Pieces
)
This works very well, other than instances of the delimter are, themselves, considered to be results. For example:
SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', 'foo bar') AS result returns: pn s 1 foo 2 bar
which is exactly the result I would want.
However, SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', ' foo bar ') AS result -- There are spaces before 'foo' and after 'bar' returns pn s 1 2 foo 3 bar 4
And SELECT * FROM vs_SplitTags(' ', 'foo bar') AS result -- There are two spaces between 'foo' and 'bar' returns pn s 1 foo 2 3 4 bar
I want the function to ignore whitespace altogether, be it a single space or multiple spaces. Other than to delimit the boundries between words, of course.
In other words, all three examples above should produce the same result: pn s 1 foo 2 bar
How can I do this? Any thoughts much appreciated...
I have a sitaution here where I need to convert some relational data to a flat file. I have a primary record that flatens out pretty well with the exception of two columns that need to have row data converted to strings via concatenation. The column size is Char(146) . I attempted to use 2 cursors to create the strings.
C1 --outside cursor to pull unique record id (161,000+ records)
C2 -- SELECTs the top 29 secondary (relational) records for each C1 rec (FIELDX as Char(5))
FIELDX is the concatenated up to 29 times and inserted in to a flat table based on record id for flat file export.
The issue is that this takes FOREVER to run and the 3Ghz XEON w/2GB Ram server weeps.
Declarations are as follows:
DECLARE C1 CURSOR FAST_FORWARD READ_ONLY FOR SELECT Distinct Record_ID FROM tblProcedure
DECLARE C2 CURSOR FAST_FORWARD READ_ONLY FOR --need only the top 29 relational records to string out SELECT TOP 29 Cast(pr_icd1 as Char(5)) FROM tblProcedure WHERE Record_ID = @RECID --From C1
OPEN C2
SET @tmpICDstr = ''
FETCH NEXT FROM C2 INTO @tmpICDchar
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN
SET @tmpICDstr = @tmpICDchar + @tmpICDstr
FETCH NEXT FROM C2 INTO @tmpICDchar
END
--'INSERT INTO [Validation].[dbo].[tmpICDStr] (RECID, sg) VALUES (@RECID, @tmpICDstr) --'INSERT INTO @tmp (RECID, STRsg) VALUES (@RECID, @tmpICDstr) SET @tmpICDchar = ''
Anybody have a suggestion on how to speed this up. I am looking at about 1min/100 C1 records. Do the math for 161,000+ C1 records. Ugh.
Hi,How can I remove a part of string from complete string in SQL?this is something i want to do:update aceset PICTURE = PICTURE - '\SHWETABHShwetabhI'But here ' - ' is not allowed.How can I remove the string \SHWETABHShwetabhI from the columnPICTURE?Regards,Shwetabh
My question is how i can save the first result in a temp_array (or table i dont know) so I can get the result and split up the results again with the delimiter ','.
Dear GroupJust wondered how I can avoid the CHAR(32) to be inserted if @String1 is NULL?SET @String3 = ISNULL(@String1,'') + CHAR(32) + ISNULL(@String2,'')Thanks very much for your expertise and efforts!Best Regards,Martin
I guess I'm the only one with this problem -- couldn't find anything on it in the back questions. Maybe it's a weird problem. :)
Anyway, although I'm not new to SQL, I am a bit new to stored procedures, and MS SQL Server 7. (I've been using mySQL, decent, but doesn't have many features ... )
I used some ASP and stored procedure code from 4guysfromrolla.com for session tracking through SQL Server.
I've modified most of the stored procedures so that they actually work. :)
To answer some questions before they're asked: It's a resume database, and does need to be able to store 8000 characters at a shot. (I'm hoping 8000 is as large as it gets for this particular field.)
There's only one problem now: One of the stored procedures enters information into the sessionvalue field of the table. However, much of our data contains apostrophes ('), and we need to be able to store them. I thought that modifying the execute statement would do it, something like:
Hi,I'm trying to concatenate a Description (nchar(100)) and Date(datetime) as Description and my initial effort was just"...description+' '+open_date as description..." which throws a date/string conversion error; finally came up with a working string belowbut don't think it's the optimal way to do this - any suggestions?select (rtrim(description)+''+rtrim(convert(char(2),datepart(mm,open_date)))+'/'+convert(char(2),datepart(dd,open_date))+'/'+convert(char(4),datepart(yyyy,open_date))) as description fromoncd_opportunity where opportunity_id=?open_date is not a required field at the db level, but it is requiredon the form so it should not be null as a rule.
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.
I have a table with a field that contains a filter string. I would like to combine the fields into 1 string with an 'OR 'logical operator. eg. FilterID 1 FilterString: (PROD.ProductID='10000') FilterID 1 FilterString: (PROD.ProductID='10001')
Output as 1 line: (PROD.ProductID='10000') OR (PROD.ProductID='10001')
SELECT FHDR.FilterID, FDET.QString FROM tblFilters FHDR INNER JOIN (SELECT QString = ????, FilterID FROM tblFilterDetails GROUP BY FilterID) FDET ON FDET.FilterID = FHDR.FilterID
We are setting up a job for the SQL Server Agent via SSMS. The Job Step Type is SSIS.
In the Job Step Properties window, on the Set values tab, you can enter Values to override your package variables - normally all well and good.
However in this particular case, the variable Value contains semicolons ( - it is a Connection String for an ODBC driver. Eg: Driver={Client Access ODBC Driver (32-bit)};system=MYSERVER;...
The behaviour for this Value is weird:
If the Value is not surrounded with double quotes ("), the job fails with "The command line parameters are invalid." If the Value is surrounded with double quotes ("), the job will run as intended. The catch is: that entry and any subsequent "Set Values" entries disappear next time the Job Step Properties window is opened.
This looks like a bug with the parsing of those strings by the Job Step Properties window?
Hi all, mister I want create a function but I get this error: Error Invalid use of side-effecting or time-dependent operator in 'EXECUTE STRING' within a function
I think in a function, cannot use temp tables, or calling exec or store procedures.
Which is the best solution for my issue ? develop store procedure ??
I have a string and i want to get only the numbers from right.
For example if I have the string Like '123756zxfggr123456' then it will show me only 123456 or if i have the string like '4vbz67xfggr123dfd' then it will show me only 123 or if i have the string like '123756zxfgg43r5' then it will show me only 5.
I got a function where it gives me all the numbers in a string but I don't need that
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.udf_GetNumeric (@strAlphaNumeric VARCHAR(256)) RETURNS VARCHAR(256) AS BEGIN DECLARE @intAlpha INT
[Code] ....
If I ran the select statement it gives me the result 111123456 but i want only 123456 or if i select
SELECT dbo.udf_GetNumeric('111zxfggr6587fhhfkwee') AS 'Num' it will show me 6587.
I have log files that I am loading into a table with duration data in the format "xx hrs xx min xx sec". Only the parts that are required will be there so if duration is only 2 seconds , the column will show "2 sec".
I am trying to get the duration into in to do some analysis on it and I have come up with this query so far which returns the correct data but i am wondering if there is a way to do what I am trying in a more readable format.
CREATE TABLE #tmp(duration VARCHAR(20))
INSERT INTO #tmp VALUES ('1 hrs 20 min 12 sec'), --4812 sec ('48 sec'), --48 sec ('39 min 1 sec'), --2341 sec ('11 hrs 1 min 1 sec'), --39661 sec ('59 min 0 sec'), --3540 sec ('2 min 50 sec') --170 sec
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.
I am trying to make a query that will group my errors messages together - my problem is that each of the error messages is unique, due to them having an unique id in them.
