Select Statment On Column That Can Contain Alpha And Numeric Values
Sep 13, 2007
Hi,
I have a little bit of a problem I cannot seem to figure it out. Is it possible to write a Select statement that contains a WHERE column_name > desired_numeric_value
The tricky part it that the column is of CHAR type and can contain numeric grades ranging from 0-100 or the letter I for Incomplete.
My SQL was working perfect when this column contained only numbers as soon as a record with I was added I get the following error:
Character to numeric conversion error
This report will be used to find students who have failing grades. Thanks for any help!
Hi guys/ladies I'm still having some trouble formatting a select statement correctly. I am using a sqldatasource control on an aspx page. It is connecting via odbc string to an Informix database. Here is my select statement cut down to the most basic elements. SELECT commentFROM informix.ipr_stucomWHERE (comment > 70) The column "comment" contains student grades ranging from 0-100 and the letters I, EE, P, F, etc. Therefore the column is of a char type. This is a problem because I cannot run the above statement without hitting an alpha record and getting the following error "Character to numeric conversion error" How can I write this statement where it will work in the datasource control and have it only look at numeric values and skip the alpha values? I have tried case with cast and isnumeric... I don't think that I have the formating correct. I have also used: WHERE (NOT (comment = ' I' OR comment = ' EE' OR comment = ' NG' OR comment = ' WP' OR comment = ' WF' OR comment = ' P' OR comment = ' F')) This works but is very clunky and could possibly break if other letters are input in the future. There has to be a better way.I am sorry for my ignorance and thanks again for your help.
HI, Thanks in advance for taking your time to read this post. I am trying to write a SQL query using MS SQL 2005 that will read the value of a field and tell if it is alpha or numeric. I have tried the following but it does not work: select field1 from table1 where left(field1,2)='[0-9]' select field1 from table1 where isnumber(left(field1,2) tried with a =1 at the end and without and =1 at the end the goal is to read through a field and format it so if a field looks like this 12xxx111xx I can change it to look like 12-xxx-111-xx. Any help is greatly apprecaited
hi , can anyone tell me if there exists a function in SQL Server that help me determine if a variable is ALL Alphanumeric data or not by returning a 0 or 1 when condition fails or succeeds . thank you
In SQL I need to be able to take a varchar parameter @Area and convert it to a float.
The input values for @Area I can't control. They can range from 6300 to 6,300 SqFt to 1.2 Acres .
So to convert this value to a float I basically look through the string and remove everything that isn't a number or a period. Then I would convert this value to square feet based on how large the number is.
select @k = patindex('%[^0-9. ]%', @Temp) while @k> 0 begin select @Temp = replace(@Temp, substring(@Temp, @k, 1), '') select @k= patindex('%[^0-9. ]%', @Temp) end
If @Temp = '' BEGIN SET @Temp = '0' END
SELECT @SqFt = Convert(Float, @Temp)
--Distinguish if it was acres or square feet If (@SqFt > 750.00) BEGIN SET @SqFt = @SqFt END ELSE BEGIN SET @SqFt = (@SqFt * Convert(Float,43560) ) END
SELECT @SqFt
This works great except for one situation, If @Area is something like 6,300 Sq.Ft. . When I run it through the part that removes all non-numeric items and periods, I end up with 6300 .. . So to get around this I want to find the first letter in the string and then remove everything after it. Then take the result and run it through part that removes everything but the numbers and period.
However I can't find away to get the index of the alpha-numeric character and remove everything after it.
We have a table with an indesx that is varchar(7). It contains up to 5 numbers and 2 characters to denote batches. IE. 100a 105zz 1c 2 10001w
In an Access gui I need to be able to sort this field numericaly so each number shows up in its correct position. IE. 1c 2 100a 105zz 10001w
In order to accomplish this, I created a seperate field on the table named Num as varchar(5). I would like to create a trigger that updates this field any time a new batch number is entered. This way I can have my queries order by Num when returning the recordsets to the GUI.
Below is the code that I thought would work, but it is giving me an error near the keyword BEGIN after the IF(ISNUMERIC) statement. I can't seem to find an error with this code, but I thought maybe a thousand fresh sets of eyes could. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also if you know of a better way to accomplish this task, please feel free to post here.
TIA,
Aaron
CREATE TRIGGER [InsertNum] ON [dbo].[IP_Batch_Table_Temp] FOR INSERT, UPDATE AS
DECLARE @Num varchar(7) DECLARE @Num1 CHAR(7) DECLARE @x INT
SET @Num = (SELECT IP_Batch_Number FROM inserted) SET @x = 1 WHILE (@x < len(@Num)) BEGIN IF (ISNUMERIC( SUBSTRING(@Num, @x, 1) ) ) BEGIN SET @Num1 = @Num1 + SUBSTRING(@Num, @x, 1) END SET @x = @x + 1 END UPDATE IP_BATCH_TABLE_TEMP SET NUMBER = ltrim(rtrim(@Num1)) WHERE IP_BATCH_NUMBER = @Num
If I create an index on a field in SQL Server, what will be the most efficient (fastest) field type to index a field? (This field will be a "Pointer" to a child table that will contain a list of codes, and their description.) Would a Numeric field be quicker than a VarChar field? VarChar would make it easier for a Human to decipher the raw records. (For example, if I used a numeric the code would be 42 or 47, while the VarChar could be 'savings' or 'checking'.) Basically I will have the following "Master" table: FieldType --------- IDInt NameVarChar StatusInt -or- VarChar Customer_TypeInt -or- VarChar If Customer_Type is a code that can be looked up in another table, and I index that field, would I want the "Code" to be an Int or VarChar? SQL: Select * From Master Where Customer_Type = <42> or <'savings'> My Where clause would depend on the field type. Thank you, Bryan
Karikalan writes "We need alpha numeric auto increment code in sql server 2000. (for eg.: ico1001, ico1002, ico1003,......) Can any one send the code in MS sql server 2000? plz .................. bcoz i am beginner in sqlserver 2000"
scott writes "I am relatively new to SQL Server, but after a couple of hours searching help, I'm stuck.
I am trying to select a numeric column from a table and format it using sql. Desired format "-9999.9999" with leading sign and zeros. IS_NEGATIVE is a function to determine sign. The code below works, but seems inefficient.
Is there a better way?
SELECT RIGHT(dbo.IS_NEGATIVE(ISNULL(COST,0)),1) + RIGHT(REPLICATE('0',10) + RIGHT(abs(CONVERT(decimal(9,5),COST)),10),10) AS 'PRICE' FROM ORDERS"
I'm building a textbox with search functionality towards SQL 2000. The textbox is to include various search phrases, like "phrase1 phrase2 phrase3". Sort of like search engines where all words are considered. Do keep in mind that it's SQL2000 and not 2005. I've got all the strings I want to perform the search against in one column but various values in this column. The only thing I've come up with is to create "WHERE columnName LIKE @phrase1 OR columnName LIKE @phrase2" where I inject % as apropiate and chop up the string, but I'm hoping this is not the solution because it doesn't seem really clean (with 10 search words) and today I'm not having a 'bad-hack' day so I want it better. Whats is the best way of doing this? Cheers! /Eskil
I am new to sql query and have a question.I would like to display row column values as column names.questions table consisted ofquestion_id, group_id, questionresponse table consisted ofresponse_id, group_id, question_id, answerI would like to display the answer responses under the columns ofquestions : such asresponse_id, question(1), question(2), question(3)...It will be greatly appreciated if someone help me to get this down.Jason
How to select a column to compare two values in it with AND
Select distinct c.reg#, a.fname, a.lname, to_char(b.L#) as "L" from employee a, driver b, trip c where a.e#=b.e# and b.l#=c.l# and (c.reg#='PKR3344'AND c.reg#='WWF1155') order by c.reg#;
error no rows selected..I want c.reg# for the two values inclusive
I need to do the below, however rather than typing A = everytime(I need to do it multiple times) can I somehow do A = 1,2,3 - how can I do this? thanks MArco
Select * from X where A = 1 OR A = 2 OR A = 3 etc...
I'm trying to compare two varchars to check if they are the same, if they are the same then the color must turn red, if not then they must remain black
SELECT *
from members m, client c
where C.ClientID = m.ClientID
AND c.ClientID in (87,86)
AND m.email in ('dassd@fdskjh.com','asdfas@sdfd.net', etc...)
my results will give me two of the same email addresses but with different ClientID's, now when it
finds the same email it needs to make them both "RED"
I have an SQL Select statement that I need to add a column to called SalePrice, the SalePrice column needs to be calculated by adding together the values of 12 columns, then multiplying that value by the value in a another column to calculate margin. My issue is that I can only get it to add 7 column values together, if I add any more columns to the equation it just returns and null result. My DB is SQL 2005 Express SP2. My select statement is below: SELECT dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.ID, dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.MachineName, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU.PartDescription AS CPU, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU.PartCost AS CPUCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard.PartDescription AS Motherboard, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard.PartCost AS MotherboardCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM.PartDescription AS RAM, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM.PartCost AS RAMCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD.PartDescription AS HDD, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD.PartCost AS HDDCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive.PartDescription AS OpticalDrive, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive.PartCost AS OpticalDriveCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video.PartDescription AS Video, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video.PartCost AS VideoCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS.PartDescription AS OS, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS.PartCost AS OSCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem.PartDescription AS Modem, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem.PartCost AS ModemCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive.PartDescription AS FloppyDrive, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive.PartCost AS FloppyDriveCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader.PartDescription AS CardReader, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader.PartCost AS CardReaderCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply.PartDescription AS PowerSupply, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply.PartCost AS PowerSupplyCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType.PartDescription AS CaseType, dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType.PartCost AS CaseTypeCost, dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.Notes, dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.MarginPercent, dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.PriceOverride, (dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply.PartCost + dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType.PartCost) * ((dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.MarginPercent + 100) / 100) AS SalePrice FROM dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.CaseType = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CaseType.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.Motherboard = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Motherboard.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.Video = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Video.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.RAM = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_RAM.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.PowerSupply = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_PowerSupply.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.OS = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OS.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.OpticalDrive = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_OpticalDrive.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.Modem = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_Modem.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.HardDisk = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_HDD.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.FloppyDrive = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_FloppyDrive.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.CPU = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CPU.ID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader ON dbo.MFG_DATA_Machines.CardReader = dbo.MFG_DATA_Parts_CardReader.ID
I'm puzzled as to how to express what I want in a stored procedure. Assume two columns, Surname and GivenName. The surname might be missing. When I originally wrote this app in Access, I used the following expression:
SELECT Iif( IsNull(Surname), GivenName, Surname + ", " + GivenName ) AS Agent FROM Agents;
I've looked at the syntax for CASE but I can't figure out exactly how to say what I intend, particularly the AS Agent column aliasing.
Any help greatly appreciated. Please cc me privately so I receive your assistance at once!
Hello, Is there an SELECT statement to just return the last 100 row in my tables? I have about 500 rows in my tables and I only need the info on the last 100 rows. Thanks Steve
hello, i have a page "Picture.aspx?PictureID=4" i have a FormView witch shows details about that picture and uses a stored procedure with input parameter the "@PictureID" token from query string the Pictures table has among other rows "PictureID", "UserID" - uniqueidentifier - from witch user the picture belongs to i have a second FormView on the same page, witch should show "other pictures from the same user" and uses a Stored Procedure how should i write that stored procedure...frist to take the UserID from the picture with PictureID=4, then to pass it as input parameter and select the pictures witch has as owner the user with that UserID, and if can be done, to avoid showing the PictureID=4 again a solution should be to add at querry the UserID too, but i want to avoid that any sugestion is welcomed, please help me THANKS
Okay here is the deal. I need to take all data from tbl 1 and match it to data in 3 other tbls. I need to have it return everything back to me even if it is null.... IE tbl 1 I match the invoice_num to tbl2 site_id and then tbl2 marekt to tbl3 market. however even if tbl1 invoice_num dose not match tb2 site_id I still need to have it retun to a null value to the site_id. Here is what I have so far. This will return everything where the invoice_num and site_id match.
Code:
Select distinct t1.ID,t1.Deposit_date,t1.Ref_Num,t1.Company,t1.check_num,t1.Check_Date,t1.Check_Date,t1.Check_Total, t1.Individual_PMT,t1.Invoice_Num,t1.Invoice_Desc, t2.site_id,t3.CompanyCode,t3.CostCenter From( PMTK_tbl as t1 Left Join Leaseinfo as t2 on t2.site_id = t1.Invoice_Num) inner Join CostCenters AS t3 on t2.market = t3.market and t2.market_region = t3.RegionCode
Hi all, i'm new to SQL but i've been asked to write an SQL statement to select the latest numeric version value(in this case version 3) from this table, any help?
I have a table 'wRelated' with the following columns
[related_id] [int] [channel_id] [int] [mui] [varchar] [price_group_id] [type_id] [int] [related_mui] [varchar] (100) [date_started] [smalldatetime] [date_ended] [smalldatetime] [date_entered] [datetime] [deleted] [tinyint], [rank] [int] data in column [mui] is repeated as the table has more than one entries for the same [mui], The requirement is to select the distinct[mui] but value in all the other columns for the same mui should be select in the next row with null for the same [mui] The recordset expected should be something like this.
I need to write a select query that gets the values of all columns but only returns unique sites because some sites are load balanced across several servers and where this is the case I don't want the site to appear multiple times in the list.
Hello all I create sp --------------------code---------------------- ALTER procedure [dbo].[uspInviteGroup] --uspInviteGroup 'fdi' @strUserId nvarchar(50)=null as select GroupName as 'strGroupName',GroupFounder as 'strGroupFounder' from SITE_MemberGroupswhere GroupId= (select GroupId from SITE_GroupMember where userId=@strUserId) --------------------code---------------------- but when I tested the above sp --uspInviteGroup 'fdi'return this error ------------------error--------------------- Msg 512, Level 16, State 1, Procedure uspInviteGroup, Line 6 Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression. ------------------error---------------------
in my case the second select statment return 2 value,I need the first select statment return two row how can I do that? thank you
Hello, Why when I make a custom select statment with multiple tables, that when I test my query I'm shown the same rolls multiple times. When I make a custom query with just one table everything works just fine. I don't have any primary keys or restraints or whatever. SELECT * FROM table1, table2, table3 Does not work(shows each row multiple times) SELECT * FROM table1 works just fine (shows each row just one time) Thanks Steve
I need to add some cases to the select statment for cpeorderstatus: Here is my Select statement: "SELECT O.ORDERID, C.FIRSTNAME, C.LASTNAME, O.CLIENTORDERID AS CRMORDERID, TO_CHAR(O.ORDERDATE, 'YYYYMMDD') AS CPEORDERDATE, TO_CHAR(O.SHIPDATE, 'YYYYMMDD') AS SHIPDATE, O.TRACKINGNBR AS TRACKINGNUMBER, O.SHIPNAME AS CARRIER, OI.ITEM AS CPEORDERTYPE, OI.QTY, O.STATUS AS CPEORDERSTATUS, OSN.ORD_SERIAL_NO AS SERIALNUMBER, C.BTN AS BTN, C.FIRSTNAME AS FIRST, C.LASTNAME AS LAST, C.SHIPADDR1 AS ADDRESSLINE1, C.SHIPADDR2 AS ADDRESSLINE2, C.CITY AS CITY, C.STATE AS STATE, C.ZIP AS ZIP, TO_CHAR(R.ISSUEDATE, 'YYYYMMDD') AS ISSUEDATE, R.RMA_ID AS RMANUMBER, R.RMA_REASON AS REASON, TO_CHAR(R.RETURNDATE, 'YYYYMMDD') AS RETURNDATE FROM SELF.ORDERS O, SELF.CUSTOMER C, SELF.ORDERITEM OI, SELF.ORD_SERIAL_NUMBER OSN, SELF.RMA R WHERE O.CUSTID = C.CUSTID AND O.ORDERID = OI.ORDERID AND O.ORDERID = OSN.ORDER_ID (+) AND O.ORDERID = R.ORDER_ID (+) AND (C.CUSTID IN (SELECT C.CUSTID FROM SELF.CUSTOMER C WHERE C.BTN='{0}')) ORDER BY O.ORDERDATE DESC" I need to add multiple cases to cpeorderstatus, five different cases. Cane anyonye HELP
