T-SQL (SS2K8) :: Replace Multiple Characters With Single Character In A Column?
Jun 21, 2012
I am trying to replace all special characters in a column with one special character.
Example:
Table: dbo.Employee
Column: Name
Name
-------
edwardneuman!"<]
mikemoreno)'>$:
JeffJensen"?>"
I am trying to get the namepart to the left of ANY special character. To achieve this, I am thinking of replacing all the special characters with a single special character so that I can find the first occurrence of that special character and grab left of the special character (SUBSTRING/CHARINDEX). This way I don't need to loop through all the special characters.
I am expecting the following results:
Name
-------
edwardneuman<<<<
mikemoreno<<<<<
JeffJensen<<<<
For example we've got a row from [Formula_Calc] table 'F1+F3' as a string that needs to be transformed as 240+160=400
The below code works for the above example but if I pick 'F11+F3' instead , returns 2561 which comes from 2401+16. Probably replaces F1 value instead of F11 and adds 1st digit (1) if I got it right ...
DECLARE @formula NVARCHAR(100); DECLARE @Total NVARCHAR(100); SET @formula = 'F11+F3';
SELECT @formula = REPLACE(@formula,RowNo,Total) FROM [Totals]
Scenario is like that single dept can have multiple LocationHeads, If Location heads are multiple then they should display in single column using *starting the name as mentioned bottom under required output.
Below is sample of data:
create table #Temp(depID int, Name varchar(50),LocationHead varchar(50)) insert into #temp values(1,'test','head1') insert into #temp values(1,'test','head2') insert into #temp values(1,'test','head3') insert into #temp values(2,'test1','head1') insert into #temp values(2,'test1','head2')
Required output
depID Name LocationHead 1test *head1,*head2,*head3 2test1 *head1,*head2
I am working with a large amount of text data in a single column. I am in the process of pumping that column of data into a delimited text file. The data in the column has new line characters that I need to remove. I need to data to be in a single line in the text file.
So far the things that I have tried are not working. What I try for removing the new line characters?
I have an database that is housing a path used to locate an external file. This application was written many years ago and I am now trying to bring the files into the database as a VARBINARY.
The table is holding the path like this "/folder/folder/file"
I am trying to convert that path to "folderfolderfile"
In my Select statement I have
SELECT ProdID, REPLACE (PATH, /, ) FROM dbo.blahblah
The problem is that I can't figure out to make SQL understand that "/" is the character I want to replace.
I have a problem where I want to write a function to remove recurring characters from a string and replace them with a single same character.
For instance I have the string '12333345566689' and the result should be '12345689'. In Oracle I could do this with "regexp_replace('12333345566689', '(.)1+', '1')", but in T-SQL the only solution I could think of is something like this:
DECLARE @code NVARCHAR(255) SET @code = '12333345566689'; SET @code = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@Code, '1', '~1'), '1~', ''), '~1', '1');
and repeat this for 2 - 9. But I'm sure there is a more elegant version for this in SQL Server 2012.
I have a table with a varchar column that is delimited by char(227)+char(228) i.e.,
OrNo=7807ãäSeqNo=1ãäPStopType=PãäPCity=TillsonburgãäPSt=ONãäPZIP=N4G4J1ãäPAdr1=10 ROUSE STREETãäPAdr2=ãäPLat=42.8625ãäPLon=-80.7267ãäDStopType=DãäDCity=GaffneyãäDSt=SCãäDZIP=29341ãäDAdr1=121 PAN AMERICAN DRIVE
Looking for split function that accepts a multiple character value as a delimiter?
how we can replace the multiple values in a single select statement? I have to build the output based on values stored in a table. Please see below the sample input and expected output.
I have a script that loops through a series of tables to send data to a table from each of the tables. My issue is that not all tables have the columns I need in them. What I would like is to replace the column with another column when it does not exist. Something like below
Select Misisng_Column(A.Name, replace with B.Name) as Name FROM SomeTable A Cross Join (Select Name FROM AnotherTable) B
AnotherTable has one record in it. To avoid a Cartesian issue. Like I said just an example
In my real script the table aliased as A is from a list of tables in a sys.tables query that loops through to the end.
I am working with some old code that we are trying to clean up and perform some performance enhancements. The performance is now, so Very much better. From over 3 minutes to under 2 seconds.
But I am still trying to get the multiple rows into a single row. I would like to place this into a CTE to get the multiples into a single row. I just cannot get my head around how is the best, most efficient way to write the query.
This is a small example of what the rows look like in the resultset, and what I want to single to be.
DECLARE @BillingCorrect TABLE ( ContractNumber char(10) , pc1 int , pb int , om int , vp int
[Code] ....
I am not sure how to write the query to have all the data in a single row.
i am working on a small project, that I have found that someone is storing a float as a varchar(). But there are also some actual words in the same column.
I am trying to determine how I can select only the rows with alphabetical characters in that column.
I want to be able to select the rows with only the alphabetical characters. There is a huge mix, and I am assuming that every first letter is one of the 26 alphabetical character used. How can I write a query to use a REGEX to select any and all rows that cannot be CAST as a Float? I have nill to no experience using REGEX.
So to fetch the data having only special characters in it, I used below query
Select * From Table Where Column Like '%[^0-9a-zA-Z]%' Escape ' '. Its returning both the records. Here I would like to fetch records for those Unicode characters only which are not within 00201 - 0070E [URL].
I've a requirement where I need to merge multiple rows in single rows. For example in the attached image output, I need to return a single column for type Case like this.
CH0, CH1, CH2, CHX Case CM0, CM1, CM2, CMX Mechanical
I'm using T-SQL to generate the column type. Below is my DDL.
USE tempdb GO CREATE TABLE ProdCodes (Prefix char(8), Code char(5)
SELECT 'Type'[Type] ,CASE WHEN code='09' THEN SUM(Amt/100) ELSE 0 END ,CASE WHEN code='10' THEN SUM(Amt/100) ELSE 0 END ,CASE WHEN code='11' THEN SUM(Amt/100) ELSE 0 END ,CASE WHEN code='12' THEN SUM(Amt/100) ELSE 0 END FROM Table1 WHERE (Code BETWEEN '09' AND '12') GROUP BY Code
and the output
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Column 4 Type 14022731.60 0.00 0.00 0.00 Type 0.00 4749072.19 0.00 0.00 Type 0.00 0.00 149214.04 0.00 Type 0.00 0.00 0.00 792210.10
How can I modify the query to come up with output below,
I have multiple databases in the server and all my databases have tables: stdVersions, stdChangeLog. The stdVersions table have field called DatabaseVersion which stored the version of the database. The stdChangeLog table have a field called ChangedOn which stored the date of any change made in the database.
I need to write a query/stored procedure/function that will return all the database names, version and the date changed on. The results should look something like this:
I have created a single FULLTEXT on col2 & col3. suppose i want to search col2='engine' and col3='toyota' i write query as
SELECT
TBL.col2,TBL.col3 FROM
TBL INNER JOIN
CONTAINSTABLE(TBL,col2,'engine') TBL1 ON
TBL.col1=TBL1.[key] INNER JOIN
CONTAINSTABLE(TBL,col3,'toyota') TBL2 ON
TBL.col1=TBL2.[key]
Every thing works well if database is small. But now i have 20 million records in my database. Taking an exmaple there are 5million record with col2='engine' and only 1 record with col3='toyota', it take substantial time to find 1 record.
I was thinking this i can address this issue if i merge both columns in a Single column, but i cannot figure out what format i save it in single column that i can use query to extract correct information. for e.g.; i was thinking to concatinate both fields like col4= ABengineBA + ABBToyotaBBA and in search i use SELECT
TBL.col4 FROM
TBL INNER JOIN
CONTAINSTABLE(TBL,col4,' "ABengineBA" AND "ABBToyotaBBA"') TBL1 ON
TBL.col1=TBL1.[key] Result = 1 row
But it don't work in following scenario col4= ABengineBA + ABBCorola ToyotaBBA
SELECT
TBL.col4 FROM
TBL INNER JOIN
CONTAINSTABLE(TBL,col4,' "ABengineBA" AND "ABB*ToyotaBBA"') TBL1 ON
TBL.col1=TBL1.[key]
Result=0 Row Any idea how i can write second query to get result?
I have the following result set but I want to stack or transpose the 3 fields into a single column. I may add more fields later, but right now I want to know what's the best and simplest way.
It is possible to alter multiple columns within a single alter table statement? I have got the following URL that tells it is not possible to alter multiple columns within in signle alert table statement. http://www.blogcoward.com/archive/2005/05/09/234.aspx[^] Does anyone know about that?
With the below query iam able to retrieve all the tables invloved in a stored proc. But, what I want to display the table names as comma separated list for each table.
;WITH stored_procedures AS ( SELECT o.id, o.name AS proc_name, oo.name AS table_name, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(partition by o.name,oo.name ORDER BY o.name,oo.name) AS row FROM sysdepends d INNER JOIN sysobjects o ON o.id=d.id INNER JOIN sysobjects oo ON oo.id=d.depid WHERE o.xtype = 'P') SELECT id,proc_name, table_name FROM stored_procedures WHERE row = 1 ORDER BY proc_name,table_name
