T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Parsing Text Field Into 4 Fields
Sep 5, 2014
I have a text field that I need to parse out into 4 fields.
30.125x23.625-18.875x25.375
6.1875X19.375-2.4375x15.625
0X0-0x0
26.875X11.375-11.125x22.875
0X0-0x0
0X0-0x0
6.1875X26.875-2.4375x23.125
6.1875X26.875-2.4375x23.125
6.1875X26.875-2.4375x23.125
26.625X14.875-11.125x22.875
26.625X14.875-11.125x22.875
I need to 26.625X14.875-11.125x22.875 should be 26.625 then 14.875 then 11.125 then 22.875
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Nov 3, 1999
I have just started to look at SQL and have a theory question that I could apply to a test I want to run. I have some legacy data from a previous project and the database was not designed properly (in my opinion). They have ONE field to capture City and State information. All the data is formatted City, State .
Does SQL have commands that can look at data in a field, strip out info before and info after a comma and then write that to other fields?
So, I would like to normalize this to take the data in a field called CityState and parse it, trim it and then populate two new fields 1) City and 2) State.
Thanks for your help!
Scott
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Oct 11, 2001
Does anyone have a script already written to parse a text field in SQL?
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May 9, 2006
Hi,
My table has 2 fields as 'count' and 'codes'. The 'codes' field has 'count' # of code values in each record. Size of each code is 4. For example, if my record is 2,'abcdefgh' then there are 2 codes and the values are 'abcd' and 'efgh'.
Currently I am using 'script component' to parse the field into multiple values. Since I have to read 1 million records and on an average, each record has 10 codes, it is taking hrs to load it.
Can it be done without 'script component' using some other transformations?
Thanks.
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Jul 12, 2014
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[instructions](
[site_no] [int] NOT NULL,
[instructions] [text] NULL
)
Select top 3 * from instructions
Output
Site_noInstructions
20Request PIN then proceed
21Request PIN if wrong request name
22Request PIN allowed to use only numbers
All text instructions start with “Request PIN” but after that the text are different for every site_no
I need insert in all site_no rows and after the “Request PIN” the text “and codeword” keeping the current rest of text
Desired output
Site_noInstructions
20Request PIN and codeword then proceed
21Request PIN and codeword if wrong request name
22Request PIN and codeword allowed to use only numbers
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Oct 12, 2006
Hello,
I hope someone has already done this, but I have a table with a text column- example ColA, now i want to run a query to select the ColA in this table and combine the results of ColA into a ColB in another table.
Something like - Note: the codes below doesn't work!!
DECLARE @ResultID as int
DECLARE @AccID int
DECLARE _rows CURSOR
FOR SELECT AccID FROM tableA
FETCH NEXT FROM _rows INTO @AccID
WHILE (@@fetch_status <> -1)
BEGIN
UPDATE TableB SET Report = Report + (SELECT txtField FROM tableA WHERE AccID = @AccID)
WHERE AccID = @AccID
FETCH NEXT FROM _rows INTO @AccID
END
Thanks in advance
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Dec 7, 2006
Hi all. I have been going round and round for the past 2 days on this and would appreciate any help. In a view select statement, I need to concat 2 varchar fields with a text field. If I CONVERT the TEXT field to VARCHAR, only the first 30 characters of the field appear in the result set. If I convert the VARCHAR fields to TEXT, I get an error that I cannot CONCAT TEXT fields. I'm not sure what to do. Can someone please offer some assistance? Thanks in advance! Steve
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Oct 7, 2015
SQL code for the following? (SQL Server 2008 R2 - SQL Server 2012).
I have Table1 Containing two fields with the below entries
VehicleType Name
Two Wheels Bicycle
Two Wheels Scooter
Two Wheels Motorcycle
Four Wheels Sedan
Four Wheels SUV
Four Wheels Pickup
Four Wheels Minivan
The result I'm looking for would be
Table2
Vehicle Type
Two Wheels Bicycle, Scooter, Motorcycle
Four Wheels Sedan, SUV, Pickup, Minivan
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Apr 11, 2008
in my project,i have the 6 record types,in the flat file ,
i have to load the data into the loadaccount table like ( evrey record type has certain fields and i load those fields in to the different accounts.)
could anybody help regarding this issue?
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Sep 24, 2005
What are some good strategic approaches to using freeform text fields fordata that needs to be queried? We have a product whose tables we can'tchange, and I need to count on a "description" field for storing a value.Two, actually. I'm thinking of adopting this convention:InvoiceNumber@VendorAcronymThere'd be a lot of vendors.Additional issue: sometimes these values would be referred to in thedescription field, and I'd need to distinguish them as referrals ratherthan as original recorded instances of the values. For that, I imaginedeither:InvoiceNumber@@VendorAcronymorInvoiceNumber&VendorAcronymInvoiceNumber//VendorAcronymetc. -- something like that.I'm just wondering if there's best practice for doing anything this stupid(hey, I'm stuck with this as our only option just now; hopefully it's onlytemporary). How to parse out whatever I end up implementing -- well, itneeds to be tractable.Thoughts?--Scott
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Sep 28, 2005
Hi,I am running SQLServer2000 with ASP.NET. I have 3 fields:DATE_TIME (date time 8)DATEF ()TIMEF ()...when my default.aspx page is called, i need to execute a stored procedure that will parse my DATE_TIME field by the space in between, then update my DATEF and TIMEF fields with the appropriatevalues. NOw i have 2 fields to query from instead of 1. How would i write a SQL expression to do this? and what datatypes should the DATEF and TIMEF fields be?thxj
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May 18, 2015
I have a table Alert_Types with these fields :
alert_id,
alert_source,
body,
Now whenever a new alert is registered record goes in table like
alert_id = 1,
alert_source= document_detail_view,
body = Document ID: @document_id
Customer Name: @customer_name
Item name: @item_name
Quantity: @qty
it was simple to parse simple variables using replace functions. eg. REPLACE(@str, '@customer_name', @customer_name). It worked like mail merge.the converted string was then sent forward using a webservice.now my requirement is to add conditional values in body field e.g:
body = Document ID: @document_id
Customer Name: @customer_name
Item name: @item_name
Quantity: @qty
IF isnull(@rate, 0) > 0 Rate: @rate
IF isnull(@rate, 0) > 0 Amount: @amount
how can i parse strings like this. I'm open to change format of values for body field.
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Jun 9, 2015
I have a table with raw scientific test results in a single field, some of which are over 25Mb field. I need to parse into the field to find and aggregate selected values from the field.
Table structure is
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Gxxx_Data](
[id] [uniqueidentifier] NOT NULL,
[Status] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
[GxxxItem_ID] [int] NULL,
[Stats_Data] [varbinary](max) NULL,
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]
[code]...
From which I need to parse and summarize the (Assembler) opcodes (MOV,CMPi, SHR etc...)I need to parse the large field [Stats_Data] to locate the target data.The internal result strings are delimited with Char(10), conservative counts are from 64k to over 100k lines in each record. Is there a way to parse the individual lines into another table (temp) that would be queried/regexed ?
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Aug 4, 2015
I have a table which has been import from a TXT file. Most lines can be ignored, but when I get a line like this
'qwwwwwww 399 0 75124M - 2015-02-06 13:07:29'
I need to insert into a table as 6 columns ('-' is a value)
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Jul 6, 2007
Can you parse a SQL field? Let's say, FULLNAME field got a TEXT datatype with the following data: <firstname>Norm</firstname><lastname>bercasio</lastname><Color>blue</color>then using a select statement, parse the field to find the lastname then write it to another field called LASTNAME on the same table, same rowID. Can you send a select statement how it can be done? I am using SQL 2003 or 2005. thank you so much.
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Aug 18, 2000
Anybody out there ever take a column containing names and parse it out to salutation, first name, middle initial/name, last name, suffix using Transact-SQL? I think I know how to do it using an array in a procedural language, but using SQL I'm drawing a blank.
Any ideas or help will be appreciated!
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Aug 9, 2012
I have a name field that has many variations and been fighting with it for a few days. The possible name variations are:
Smith, Mike
Smith, Mike K.
Smith, Mike K., JR.
I would like to parse each of the for pieces in a separate field.
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May 13, 2007
hi..i need help for my exam, I retrived data from my sms inbok andinsert to table.The record just like this:ID1,12x100,56x12,90x90..,how to pars the table in to:ID First SecondID1 12 100ID1 56 12ID1 90 90Thank for your help...===================
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Oct 6, 2006
I am trying to parse a single field into many. A sample of the data in one of my fields is:
0;127.20;3;23.90;13.56;0;0;0;0
I would like to parse it into 9 fields. I am sure that this is easy, but, since I am new to SQL2005, I am having a few probs with this simple task.
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Layne
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Jul 12, 2007
Hello,
I have a field that has the following data:
<li>Invalid email address.</li><li>Invalid zipcode.</li><li>Password is required.</li><li>
And, I'd like to parse this into rows separated by the "<li>"
Thanks!
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Jan 29, 2008
I'm trying to parse an ntext field that in my SQL View contains an invoice comment in order to be able to group on parts of the comment. I have two problems--one, the syntax to do this, and two, the best way to deal with the parts that I want.
The comment is like: "standard text ABCDE : $99.99" but can have multiple "ABCDE"s, e.g. "standard text ABCDE FGH IJKL $999.99" and I found some that had duplicates like "standard text standard text...".
I want to be able to report in SSRS 2005 by grouping the "ABCDE", "FGH", "IJKL" items.
Any ideas? Please be specific as I'm still learning.
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Nov 1, 2001
I am trying to parse a text column using a cursor. Basically here is the statement I am trying to convert to the cursor:
SELECT DATA_ROW,
SUBSTRING(FAILURE_MESSAGE,35,5) AS INVALID_1
SUBSTRING(FAILURE_MESSAGE,70,5 AS INVALID_2
fROM TBL_ERRORS
WHERE LEFT(FAILURE_MESSAGE,200) LIKE '%ORA%'
There can be multiple errors in one string
Thanks
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Mar 19, 2008
Hello all,
I have a question regarding importing text file data into SQL Server. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction, as my searches haven't turned up anything specific enough.
I'm trying to parse a large (24MB) text file. It's a fixed-width file, with multiple columns. I need to parse this file, check if a record already exists, and then import the data into the database. But I don't need to insert every column. There's only a few columns from the file I need to insert. This parsing also needs to occur at regular intervals (daily).
I looked at BULK INSERT, but I can't find an example that uses only some of the columns. Every example uses all columns, and the file is delimited, not fixed-width.
Is there anything within SQL Server that can accomplish this? I haven't turned up anything that will solve my problem. The only other solution I can think of is an application that parses the file for me and inserts the data into the database. But can I schedule that application to run every night at midnight (for example) through SQL Server?
I'm not too familiar with SQL Server, so I appreciate any help offered.
Thanks,Jay
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Apr 15, 2004
Hey Guys I knwo this may sound impossible but lets say I have a number of fields one of which is a Long blob or long text
is there a way to have MYSQL search the blobs for keywords and then to extract them to other fields?
basically what I am asking is it possible to parse a long text blob for keywords and then grab data before or after those keywords?/
anyone know a way???
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Feb 28, 2007
I have a website, where people upload tab delimited text files of their product inventories, which the site parses and inserts into a database table. Here's the catch: Instead of insisting that each user use a standardized format, each user can upload the file in whatever column order they want, they just have to let the site know through a GUI which column is in which order. And, they may upload columns that if not mapped, will be ignored. Right now, I am doing all of this in code and it runs slow, I was thinking of offloading this to either a stored procedure, ssis, or bulk upload. But, with the varying format of the uploaded text file, I am not sure how I could do that. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Apr 27, 2015
There is a column in a table that has values like '23 + 45 + 63', '2 + 54 - 22'... and so on. I want to get the result of this formula as float like 131, 34... and so on. Is that possible with a SELECT statement. I tried:
SELECT CAST('23 + 45 + 63' AS FLOAT)
Didn't work.
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Nov 5, 2014
I'm trying to parse out a line of data that is separated by the text "atc1.", "atc2." etc.
For example,
[atc1.123/atc2.456/atc3.789/atc4.xyz/]
If I only want the data after atc2., then I could search the string for "atc2." and collect all the characters afterwards. But how can I make sure to trim off all the data after "atc3." to make sure I'm only collecting "456" from the example above?
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Jul 21, 2014
I want to grab some key value pairs from the text in sql column
e.g.
some text[Key1=Val1]some text[Key2=Val2][Key3=Val3]some text
I want a function which takes Keyname as input & returns the value related with it if found.
GetValueFmKey('Key1') should return Val1 and like on.
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Sep 7, 2007
Hi, i'm trying to do a full text search on my site to add a weighting score to my results. I have the following database structure:
Documents: - DocumentID (int, PK) - Title (varchar) - Content (text) - CategoryID (int, FK)
Categories: - CategoryID (int, PK) - CategoryName (varchar)
I need to create a full text index which searches the Title, Content and CategoryName fields. I figured since i needed to search the CategoryName field i would create an indexed view. I tried to execute the following query:
CREATE VIEW vw_DocumentsWITH SCHEMABINDING ASSELECT dbo.Documents.DocumentID, dbo.Documents.Title, dbo.Documents.[Content], dbo.Documents.CategoryID, dbo.Categories.CategoryNameFROM dbo.Categories INNER JOIN dbo.Documents ON dbo.Categories.CategoryID = dbo.Documents.CategoryID
GOCREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX vw_DocumentsIndexON vw_Documents(DocumentID)
But this gave me the error:
Cannot create index on view 'dbname.dbo.vw_Documents'. It contains text, ntext, image or xml columns.
I tried converting the Content to a varchar(max) within my view but it still didn't like.
Appreciate if someone can tell me how this can be done as surely what i'm trying to do is not ground breaking.
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Aug 7, 2015
I have a problem at the moment, where the client wants to be able to type in a custom algebraic formula with add/minus operators, and then to have this interpreted, so that the related datasets are then added and returned as a single dataset.
An example would be having a formula stored of [a] + [b] - [c]
and if I were to write the SQL to apply that formula, I might write something like (let's assume 1:1 relationships with the ID's)
select a.a + b.b - c.c as [result]
from z
inner join tblA a on z.id = a.id
inner join tblB b on z.id = b.id
inner join tblC c on z.id = c.id
The formula can change though, maybe things like:
[a] + [b] + [c] + [d]
[a] + [b]
The developer before me wrote something SQL-based where they parsed the string and assigned each value of the formula as either positive or negative (e.g A is positive, B is positive, C is negative, now sum the datasets to get the result), and then created one large table of values then summed them. This does (kind of) work, I'm just contemplating potential alternatives, as it is quite a slow process, and feels like it is quite convoluted, when I get into the details. If I were to do something like this in SQL, I'd normally want each part of the expression to be a column, and then to just apply the operators, but because the formula can change, then the SQL would need to be somehow dynamic for this approach.
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Jul 20, 2005
I know there has to be a way to do this, but I've gone brain dead. Thescenario..a varchar field in a table contains a date range (i.e. June 1,2004 - June 15, 2004 or September 1, 2004 - September 30, 2004 or...). Theusers have decided thats a bad way to do this (!) so they want to split thatfield into two new fields. Everything before the space/dash ( -) goes intoa 'FromDate' field, everything after the dash/space goes into the 'ToDate'field. I've played around with STRING commands, but haven't stumbled on ityet. Any help at all would be appreciated! DTS?
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Jan 22, 2008
I have followed many tutorials on selecting and replacing text in text fields, varchar fields and char fields, but I have yet to find a single script that will to all 3 based on field type. Let's assume for a moment that I don't know where all in my database a certain value that I need changed resides ... i.e., the data's tablename and fieldname. How would I go about doing the following ... or more importantly, is this even possible in a SQL only procedure?1) Loop over entire database and get all user tables2) Loop over all user tables and get all fields3) Loop over all fields and determine the field type4) switch between field types and change a string of text from 'a' to 'b'Please be gentle, I'm a procedure newb.
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Sep 25, 2007
I have a data table in my project that has a "text" (not varchar) field in it. I am trying to load this field with little paragraphs of text for showing on my pages. How do I get the free text loaded into the table? The database explorer and all the data grid controls cut the text off at one line. There doesn't seem to be any way to get multiline text into this table.
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