SQL Server 2012 :: Find A Specific String And Replace It With Another Inside Of VARCHAR Field
Aug 14, 2015
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.
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Sep 8, 2015
I have following query which return me SP/Views and Functions script using:
select DEFINITION FROM .SYS.SQL_MODULESNow, the result looks like
Create proc
create procedure
create proc
create view
create function
I need its result as:
Alter Procedure
Alter Procedure
Alter Procedure
Alter View
Alter Function
I used following
select replace(replace(replace(DEFINITION,'CREATE PROCEDURE','Alter Procedure'), 'create proc','Alter Procedure'),'create view','Alter View') FROM .SYS.SQL_MODULESto but it is checking fixed space like create<space>proc, how can i check if there are two or more spaces in between create view or create proc or create function, it should replace as i want?
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Mar 24, 2008
Hi, I need to replace a character from a column of a txt file. I have defined the column and the values (datetime type for sql server) that I receive are like this: 2008-02-15-20.07.19
So, I need to replace the "." with a ":" beacuse those are minutes and sql server uses ":" for minutes
How can I do this? Any help?
Thanks
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Oct 15, 2006
I found it rather hard to replace a string in an NTEXT field in sql server 2000. Would it be easier in SSIS 2005? Please advise. Thanks.
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Dec 19, 2013
I need a query to get the first value greater than a specific threshold value
LoadTemp1 LoadTemp2 LoadTemp3 LoadTemp4 TimeStamp
300 200 100 320 12-10-2013 13:30:29
100 250 113 340 12-10-2013 14:20:12
114 339 209 345 12-10-2013 14:45:01
I need to get the first value >= 340 threshold
I need to make a Benchmark on when the first LoadTemp crosses Threshold of 340 and capture the time.
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Mar 23, 2015
I have data like below
Potter, James J
Williams, Ted R
Allen, Gary G
I want to remove Middle Name from the output
Potter, James
Williams, Ted
Allen, Gary
My Query:
SELECT
CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, 0) + 1) > 0 THEN
REPLACE(Supervisor, SUBSTRING(Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, CHARINDEX(' ', Supervisor, 0) + 1), LEN(Supervisor)), '')
ELSE Supervisor END AS NewSupervisor from data d
However, I stumble when Middle Name exists somewhere in the name as Replace function repalces every occurrence of the string. For ex: "Allen, Gary G" becomes "Allen,ary"
Do we have any way to say sql to replace after certain index?
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May 7, 2015
I would like to replace the value in the Select query of CO OWNER with a space ' ' or NULL if the ORDINAL value = 0.
The CO OWNER name is stored in the CARDNAME table, and the OWNER name is stored in the NAME table. I can not change the db structure.
JEAN is the ACCOUNT owner and BILL is CO OWNER of two cards.
Current Select Results:
ACCOUNT CARD ORDINAL CO OWNER OWNER
200500 9999999999999100 2 BILL JEAN
200500 9999999999999101 1 BILL JEAN
200500 9999999999999102 0 BILL JEAN
Desired Select Results:
ACCOUNT CARD ORDINAL CO OWNER OWNER
200500 9999999999999100 2 BILL JEAN
200500 9999999999999101 1 BILL JEAN
200500 9999999999999102 0 NULL JEAN
Current SQL Select statement:
SELECT DISTINCT
CARD.PARENTACCOUNT AS ACCOUNT,
CARD.NUMBER AS CARD,
CARD.ORDINAL,
CARD.STATUS,
CARDNAME.FIRST AS CO_OWNER,
[code]....
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Nov 18, 2014
I am trying to replace names found in 'xml' field name as hyperlinks, by matching with the names in database_tags.I am using the following function below, however the UDF is only recognizing one name from the XML fieldname data, instead of all the names present in the XML data.
ALTER FUNCTION [dbo].[ReplaceTags](@XML VARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
[code]...
for example, if the XML input data is the following: It consists of: BANKP, BCJA, BCJAM, BFTH, BFTH, and EMPOP.But the updated function is only recognizing two of names BFTH, BFTH, as hyperlinks, from the database_tags table.Is there a way to get the function to recognize more than one names as hyperlinks.
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Jun 12, 2015
I have such Function:
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'.
Why ? How can i insert whole string
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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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Mar 14, 2008
Please help me with the sql script to manipulate the string data:
I need to add <Text> at the beginning and end of the string.
I also need to add <option> before the first and after last occurence of the <Option> string. The original string
<StockNumber>502</StockNumber>
<OptionKey>113</OptionKey>
<OptionKey>151</OptionKey>
<Warranty>1</Warranty>
should look like
<Text>
<StockNumber>502</StockNumber>
<Option>
<OptionKey>113</OptionKey>
<OptionKey>151</OptionKey>
<Option>
<Warranty>1</Warranty>
<Text>
Thanks.
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Feb 6, 2015
I have a table of "applicants" with unique applicant id and another table "reviews" with reviews which has unique id and Emplid and contains general program name like Math and then may contain 3 addition rows for specific program like Calculus, algebra, geometry etc.
There may or may not be a record for each applicant id in table reviews or there can be 1 or more than one record in reviews based on level of review( General or Specific).
All the general reviews has “Math” as Program_code but if there are more reviews, they can have Program_code like “Cal” , “Abr”, “Geo”
I want to join the tables so I can get all the records from both the tables where Program_code in reviews table is “Math” only.
That is I want to join the table and get all the records from reviews table where the program_code is “Math” only
How can I do that?
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Nov 1, 2006
Hi, got a problem and can't figure this one out.
basically i've got a field containing a value '(14)(12)(33)(22)' and i want to compare it to a table containing those values in separate cells...
record 1 : (01)
record 2 : (02)
etc...
and i want to compare this one field to those records to see whether that text string contains anything the table contains.
i've tried ContainsTable & IN but still can't figure this out.
any help greatly appreciated
:o
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Dec 5, 2007
Hi all,
Am searching for a built-in function that retrives me the occurrence (counts) of a particular character inside a string.
For e.g. In the String 'SqlServer'. I want to find the no of the character 'e', which shud retrive the value as 2.
Can this be acheived through any function.
Cheers !
ash
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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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Aug 6, 2015
Am converting varchar field to float and summing using group by and next inserting to varchar field(table).
while inserting float value it is converting to exponential ex:1.04177e+006 but if i execute only select statment actual float value will get display ex:1041765.726
My question is why it is converting while inserting ? and how to avoid it.
select query : SUM(CONVERT(float,(rtrim(REPLACE(REPLACE( column1, CHAR(13), ' '), CHAR(10), ' '))))) as AggregateValue
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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.
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Apr 8, 2014
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.
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Nov 14, 2005
Hi all,
We have a table that is full text enabled and it is working fine, but the full text search doesn't returns any record for the following case
select * from let_catalog_search where contains(search_field,'"Bulk Process 1*"')
even though there exist records that satisfy the condition in the table,
the record that i am talking abt is "bulk process 1 with price bp100-ilt1-00200136 bp100-ilt1"
If I remove the last 1 from the search string i get lot of records, Can anybody help me out.
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Apr 18, 2014
write a query which retrieves only unique rows excluding some columns.
IdStatusmanager Team Comments Proj number Date
19391New XUnassigned One 3732.0 16-Apr-14
19392Can YCustomer Two 3732.0 17-Apr-14
19393Can YCustomer Two 3732.0 17-Apr-14
19394Can YCustomer One 3732.0 18-Apr-14
19395New YCustomer One 3732.0 19-Apr-14
19396New YCustomer One 3732.0 21-Apr-14
19397New ZCustomer One 3732.0 20-Apr-14
In the above table project number and id shouldn't be considered and I should get the unique rows considering rest of columns and sorted based on date. Expected result is
IdStatusmanager Team Comments Proj number Date
19391New XUnassigned One 3732.0 16-Apr-14
19392Can YCustomer Two 3732.0 17-Apr-14
19394Can YCustomer One 3732.0 18-Apr-14
19395New YCustomer One 3732.0 19-Apr-14
19397New ZCustomer One 3732.0 20-Apr-14
19396New YCustomer One 3732.0 21-Apr-14
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Apr 11, 2015
In my staging table I am having data like below
ABL¯ABL¯0¯0¯ABL¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
ABL¯ABQ¯480¯825¯DLS¯AMA¯ABQ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
ABL¯ACD¯808¯1255¯DLS¯ELP¯TCS¯PHX¯ACD¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
ABL¯ADE¯1256¯471¯DLS¯AMA¯ABQ¯LSV¯ADE¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
ABL¯AFT¯1140¯1744¯DLS¯LAX¯FON¯AFT¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
ABL¯AHM¯1178¯1637¯DLS¯LAX¯AHM¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
ABL¯ALB¯1769¯1825¯DLS¯WIL¯ALB¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
ABL¯ALE¯1041¯1150¯DLS¯ALE¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
Now I want to find the Number of times a '¯'character appears in a string. I should get output 14
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Mar 19, 2014
I have a table that lists math Calculations with "User Friendly Names" that look like the following:
([Sales Units]*[AUR])
([Comp Sales Units]*[Comp AUR])
I need to replace all the "User Friendly Names" with "System Names" in the calculations, i.e., I need "Sales Units" to be replaced with "cSalesUnits", "AUR" replaced with "cAUR", "Comp Sales Units" with "cCompSalesUnits", and "Comp AUR" with "cCompAUR". (It isn't always as easy as removing spaces and added 'c' to the beginning of the string...)
The new formulas need to look like the following:
([cSalesUnits]*[cAUR])
([cCompSalesUnits]*[cCompAUR])
I have created a CTE of all the "Look-up" values, and have tried all kinds of joins, and other functions to achieve this, but so far nothing has quite worked.
How can I accomplish this?
Here is some SQL for set up. There are over 500 formulas that need updating with over 400 different "look up" possibilities, so hard coding something isn't really an option.
DECLARE @Synonyms TABLE
(
UserFriendlyName VARCHAR(128)
, SystemNames VARCHAR(128)
)
INSERT INTO @Synonyms
( UserFriendlyName, SystemNames )
[Code] .....
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Apr 30, 2015
One of my varchar columns in a table has multiple key words enclosed in a pattern of special characters.
Eg: William Shakespeare was an English [##poet##], [##playwright##], and [##actor##], widely regarded as the greatest [##writer##] in the English language and the world's pre-eminent [##dramatist##]. He is often called England's national [##poet##] and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 [##sonnets##], two long narrative [##poems##], and a few other [##verses##], of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other [##playwright##].
I need to write to query to find all distinct key words that are enclosed within [## and ##]. My query should yield the following results from the string in the example above
[##actor##]
[##dramatist##]
[##playwright##] -- 2 occurrances, but I need it only once in my result set
[##poems##]
[##poet##] -- 2 occurrances, but I need it only once in my result set
[##sonnets##]
[##verses##]
[##writer##]
I need to run this on a large table, so I am looking for the best possible way to minimize any performance issues.
Just give you sample code, I have provided below 2 separate snippets, one with table variable and another with temp table.
DECLARE @MyTable TABLE (MyString VARCHAR (8000))
INSERT @MyTable VALUES ('William Shakespeare was an English [##poet##], [##playwright##], and [##actor##], widely regarded as the greatest [##writer##] in the English language and the world''s pre-eminent [##dramatist##]. He is often called England''s national [##poet##] and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 [##sonnets##], two long narrative [##poems##], and a few other [##verses##], of which the authorship of some is uncertain.
[code].....
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Jul 13, 2015
I have a requirement where i have to insert empty string in column whose datatype is decimal.
I have to replace the column value if it is null then insert it as ' '.
Obviously its generate error msg for conversion, is there any workaround for this. I cannot add 0 or other value as this column is used to generate some output value.
IIF(Column1 IS NULL, ' ', Column1))
I used TRY_PARSE but it insert null value if there is conversion error.
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May 5, 2014
In the below procedure definition, i need to find a way parse the definition and get the list of places where the where clause is being used.
SELECT DISTINCT
FC.CASE_ID,
UPPER(FC.CASE_NUMBER) AS CASE_NUMBER,
UPPER(REPLACE(FC.CASE_SHORT_TITLE,CHAR(13)+CHAR(10),'')) AS CASE_SHORT_TITLE,
FC.CASE_STATUS_DESCR,
FC.CASE_TYP_DESC, FC.CASE_SUB_TYP_DESC,
[Code] ....
In the above query there are more than one places and the where clause may not have the same string the where clause it can be with a space between the "=" and the value in single quotes.
Result set should be in the below format:
TABLE NAME Column Name VALUE
CFG_ELEMENTS ELEMENT_NAME REPORT_CONSOLIDATEDCASES_CASERELATEDTYPID
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Sep 8, 2015
I am querying with a SELECT statement against an address table that has a post code column with corrupt data.
Sample record:- Northants NN4 0NB
Should be NN4 0NB
I have used the following on another column:-
LEFT(A.Addr1,CASE WHEN CHARINDEX ('(', A.Addr1) =0 THEN LEN(A.Addr1) ELSE CHARINDEX('(' ,A.Addr1) -1 END) AS 'Address 1'
but unable to correct this problem?
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Aug 29, 2007
Hi,
What is the difference updating a null value to char/varchar type column
versus empty string to char/varchar type column?Which is the best to do and why?
Could anyone explain about this?
Example:
Table 1 : tCountry - Name varchar(80) nullable
Table 2 :tState - Name char(2) nullable
Table 3 :tCountryDetails - countryid,state (char(2) nullable) - May the country contain state or no state
So,when the state is not present for the country ,i have two options may be - null,''
tCountryDetails.State = '' or tCountryDetails.State = null?
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Jun 21, 2006
Hello all,I'm at a loss on how to do this. We're using MS SQL 2000 Server and Ihave a list of fields I need to find the first and last entry for.Here's an example of the table:Number - VarChar(10)Jan - IntFeb - IntMar - IntApr - IntMay - IntJune - IntANd it'll look something like this:NumberJanFebMarAprMayJun12322001901922012032054432433322 4565423754694665And I need to create a table with this:NumberFirstLastDifference123220020554432433456235423754665-89I'm not sure if this'll copy over correctly, but I have gaps in thedata so I can't just say Jun-Jan, but I need tofind the first fieldwith data and last field with data, then find the difference of these.Suggestions? Is there a loop or something I can do in TSQL that'll dothis? I'd like to do this in Query Analyzer since it's just a one-timereport. Thanks --Alex
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Mar 12, 2015
In SQL 2005 if i was trying to insert some data with a text qualifier inside a text qualified field, it would work, for example:
"Name","ID ","Location","","Comany",""House Name" Road",
In SQL 2012, this fails with the error message, cannot find the text qualifer for field.
To get around this, we are having to import the data into a Dirty Data column of aTEMP table, ID, Dirty Data, Clean data - perform multiple updates and change the text qualifier and ensure they are only changed in the right places so we can keep the ". In this example, we changed the text qualifier to PIPES.
After these updates, we then export the data from CLEAN data back out to CSV, then reimport it into the origional destination table with a new text qualifer.
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Aug 12, 2015
I have a separate list of calendar years with radiocarbon year equivalents in SQL server but no conversion equation. Most but not all of the data I have is in radiocarbon years. I thought at first I could just link the tables but I don't want the data that is already in calendar years to be linked to this conversion table. Is there any way I can either link the two tables with criteria for which data is linked (Only ages that are in radiocarbon years). Or possibly a way to query all ages that are in radiocarbon years and do something similar to a find and replace with a large list of numbers to change?
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Apr 24, 2014
There are plenty of scripts to do this on a per-DB level, but any that will allow me to generate a script for all DB's at once? Mine are split across dozens and it would be much easier to do a loop (using MS_ForeachDB ? )
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Aug 14, 2007
I have to replace 'MED-40'instead of '30' in an incidentno column of incidents table ,the fiels is varchar(12),now the problem is it is replacing whereever it sees '30' while I want only the leftmost to be replaced for eg
Let '301530' be the incidentno to be replaced
if I run
UPDATE incidents_mm set incidentno = replace(incidentno, '30', 'MD-40')where incidentno= '301530'
query i get the ans given below
'MD-4015MD-40'
and I just want the ans to be
MD-401530
In short i just want first 2 characters to be replaced is there any way i can do that
Thanks in adv
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Mar 12, 2008
Hi,
I'm creating a generic procedure in the master db and I'm getting the database name as a input parameter.
How do I set the database inside the procedure , according to this parameter?
T-Sql does not accept "USE" inside procedures .
I tried "sp_defaultdb" but when I select from a specific table in the procedure it still does not identify the table as belonging to that database, it still looks for the table in the master db.
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