T-SQL (SS2K8) :: When Script Out A Stored Procedure It Encloses Strings In Double Quotes
Jul 10, 2014
All of a sudden hen I script out a Stored Procedure it encloses strings (edit) in Double Quotes?
For example ANDPromo.[Group] IN (''FL_Small'',''FL_Large'')
Also it generates this code that I do not want. I just was Create Procedure...
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[usp_IncentiveReport]') AND type in (N'P', N'PC'))
BEGIN
EXEC dbo.sp_executesql @statement = N'
Hi: Got a newbie question that's been giving me fits! Basically I'm replicating what's going on here on this board...creating a "posting" interface that takes the "message" and inserts it into a table using an ADODB connection (using INSERT INTO table name,tablecells and VALUES)
However, if someone types in a single or double quote in the body of the message, I get an error similar to this:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e14'
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near 's'.
/test.asp, line 29
I think I understand why it's happening (SQL is interpreting the quote mark as a string-end), but what am I supposed to do to get around it?
I had a procdure in SQL 7.0 in which I am using both single quote and double quotes for string values. This proceudreused to work fine in SQL 7.0 but when I upgraded SQL 7.0 to SQL 2000, this proceudre stopped working. When I changed the double quotes to single quotes, it worked fine.
Hi, I am creating a flat file connection to a .csv file In the columns section of the flatt file connection manager editor, I am not sure why the texts in the .csv file are shown with double quotes arouond them. They do not have "" in the .csv file. Thanks
I have to use bcp to import two text files everyday for database update. The problem is that some of the character fields that are being imported have double-quotes and/or commas in them. When these are imported into the SQL Server tables additional double quotes are being added into these strings.
Hi,It seems to be simple, however, it stumbles me.how to replace all the double quotes (") within the followingsentence (or a column) with single quotes ('),colA = this is a freaking "silly" thing to dointocolA this is a freaking 'silly' thing to doSelect Replace(colA,'"',''')[color=blue]>From tblXYZ[/color]won't work,Select Replace(colA,'"',"'")[color=blue]>From tblXYZ[/color]won't work neither.How come? Thanks.
I have been searching for an escape character or a way of escapingdouble quotes that are actually in a string that I am using in thecontains predicate.Here is an exampleselect *from tablewhere contains(field, '"he said "what is wrong", that is what hesaid"')I need the double quotes in the string because they are part of thetext. Of course, Fulltext search raises the errorServer: Msg 7631, Level 15, State 1, Line 1Syntax error occurred near 'what is wrong", that is what he said'.Expected ''''' in search condition '"he said "what is wrong", that iswhat he said"'.If I remove the double quotes, the search does not return the properresults.Thanks in advance for the helpBill
Hi i am importing data from table to flat file(csv). i have two problems 1. if a column has commas(,) it should not create a new column i.e the column in csv file can have commas 2.if a column has double quotes then csv file column should have double quotes. please help me.I am using derived column I dont know how to search double quotes in string.
I have written a little bit of VB.NET code that basically takes three strings, transforms them, and returns a single string to be stored in my table.
I am running into a strange problem, however... for some reason, a number of my processed rows are missing a pair of double quotes (").
The vast majority of the records are formatted properly, and have the double quotes in the expected locations.
The most frustrating thing about it is that I have included the offensive input strings in my Test.sql test script, and when I step through the entire routine, the return value is perfect...
i apologize for being the worst ever at posting questions here, please let me know if i can add anything
I have a lot of data coming in from CSV files. I have many CSV files (~20), with varying amounts of data- but some are quite large (largest file is ~230mb)
I'm trying to import it into a SQL database via SSIS, but the data is a little bit frustrating.
Many things to notice here - as well you can imagine some of the difficulties here.
After parsing, this data should have 4 columns-
Column1 Column2 Column3 Column4
Text From Vendor "Vendor Name, Inc." blah blah Next string <blank> 1234
The biggest problems stem from the double quotes mixed in with the comma because it is a comma delimited file with quotes as the text qualifier. The other problem is the double quotes with blank text ... which prevents me from doing a replace on the double quotes ... I think ...
What would be your suggestions to help me parse this out? (don't forget, some of these are large files with about 260,000 records- )
From Access97 I need to execute a SQL 7.0 stored procedure that accepts several input parameters. A few of these are strings that can have imbedded single and/or double quotes (used as feet and inch identifiers). I've tried extra double quotes around the string, square brackets etc. in every combination that I can think of, with minimul success.
I have a problem when trying to display an error message from sql server 2005 on a web page with an alert (javascript command).
The Sql server 2005 returns a message like:
Insert statement conflicted with foreign key constraint "bla bla". The conflict occured indatabase "databasename", table "tablename", column 'columnname'.
In sql server 2000 the error message is the same except all names (constraint, database, table) is in single quotation marks; just like the columnname in the above example.
Is it a configurable issue on the sql server. I would prefer not to solve this issue on a number of different web pages!
I've an issue with double-quotes in CSV file. One of the columns may contain this kind of value: "STATUS ""H"" "
I've got quote set to "
The file source fails on such records.
I found this thread and Scott tells us there that the file can't contain " in data.
Is this 100% correct?
I've got mutliple text columns and the pain is that I don't know which column might have these cases in future. To create a script means to write my own file parser for all files I use.
Hi All, I am facing quotes problem. Without using the quotes my query is running fine, but I need to use IIF condition so for that I need quotes adjustment. I didn't figured it out how to adjust them, try several techniques but no success. I am using dotnetnuke. {IIF,"[frmradio,form]=text"," SELECT Docs.FileName, Dept_LegalLaw.MediaID, Dept_LegalLaw.ID, Dept_LegalLaw.LevelID, Dept_LegalLaw.LawID, Dept_LegalLaw.LawDate, Dept_LegalLaw.Agreement, Dept_LegalLaw.Name, Dept_LegalLaw.NameSearch, Dept_LegalLawType.LawType, Dept_LegalLaw.LawNo, Dept_LegalMinistries.RegID, Dept_LegalLaw.IssueNo, Dept_LegalLaw.Attachment, Dept_LegalLaw.Amendment, Dept_LegalLaw.Scanned, Dept_LegalLaw.Html, Dept_LegalMinistries.Description FROM OPENQUERY(LEGALDBSERVER, 'SELECT Filename FROM SCOPE() WHERE Contains('" @FilterAnyWrd ")' ) AS Docs INNER JOIN Dept_LegalLaw ON Docs.FileName = Dept_LegalLaw.FileName INNER JOIN Dept_LegalMinistries ON Dept_LegalLaw.RegID = Dept_LegalMinistries.RegID INNER JOIN Dept_LegalLawType ON Dept_LegalLaw.LawID = Dept_LegalLawType.LawID ", " "} {IIF,"'[frmradio,form]'='title'"," SELECT MediaID, Dept_LegalLaw.ID, Dept_LegalLaw.LevelID, Dept_LegalLaw.LawID, LawDate, Agreement, Name, NameSearch, Dept_LegalLawType.LawType, LawNo, Dept_LegalMinistries.RegID, IssueNo, Attachment, Amendment, Scanned, Html, Dept_LegalMinistries.Description, Dept_LegalLaw.FileName FROM Dept_LegalLaw LEFT JOIN Dept_LegalMinistries ON Dept_LegalLaw.RegID COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT = Dept_LegalMinistries.RegID COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT INNER JOIN Dept_LegalLawType ON Dept_LegalLaw.LawID COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT = Dept_LegalLawType.LawID COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT WHERE @FilterLawNo AND @FilterLawID AND @FilterRegID AND @FilterIssueNo AND @FilterFromDate AND @FilterToDate AND @FilterNtContNew AND @FilterAgreement AND @FilterAllWrdNew AND @FilterExWrdNew AND @FilterAnyWrdNew ORDER BY [SORTTAG] ", " "} Thanks for any help
How can I program BCP to output text items in double quotes (")? Here is an example (please try it) that trys to output some columns from a table to csv file. However, due to the existence of commas within the fields, the comma separation gets messed up.
------------------------------------ USE [MASTER]
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM sysobjects WHERE name = 'mcg1') DROP TABLE mcg1 go
CREATE TABLE mcg1 (pkINT IDENTITY(1,1) ,Address_1VARCHAR(100) ,CityVARCHAR(100)) go
Exec Master..xp_Cmdshell 'bcp "SELECT Address_1, City FROM mcg1" queryout "C:mcg1.csv" -c -t,"'
------------------------------------ The output I get is below. You can see how the use of commas in the text makes the comma separate list all confused 100 Road1, Suburb1,BigCity1 200 Road2, Suburb2,BigCity2
Thus what I want is "100 Road1, Suburb1","BigCity1" "200 Road2, Suburb2","BigCity2"
You can do this OK in DTS by specifying the text identifier to be double-quotes. I do NOT want to use DTS and want to be able to do via a T-SQL procedure. Note that the real table I will export from has numeric datatypes and I would prefer NOT to wrap them in double-quotes too.
Thus, how can I alter the Exec Master..xp_Cmdshell command, to wrap each text field in double quotes. I may have to use a format file in which case please provide the format file too.
hi,just wanted to know if i need to insert a string with double quotes init into a sql server table, do i need to use any delimeters, like "?an insert like:insert into producttable values(key, "double quote text")where i need the "double quote text" to go in like that, with the " "at both ends.Thank you.
I am running into an issue with the SSIS when I try to load a CSV file that contains double quotes wrapped around a field (CSV files have double quotes when field contains a comma; example: "Streams, Inc")
i need to add the double quotes in all the records from start and end.
source data col1   col2       col3      col4 1     abdul  this is email    it was very good ,and very relative posts. Target data col1  col2     col3              col4 "1" "abdul"  "this is email"   "it was very good, and very relative posts"
I have to import a flat file with commas and double quotes as the text qualifier in a SSIS package. However, when I try to import the data into a table, the data moves the information to right, therefore, the last field will capture mulitple fields worth of data. When I create the Connection Manager for the flat file, I have the format as [Delimited] and Text qualifier as ["]. I do not check the unicode button, but under Advanced, make each field a Unicode string [DT-WSTR]. I have included a sample of my data below.
I'm trying to build a dynamic sql statement in a stored procedurre and can't get the like statement to work. My problem is with the single quote. for example LIKE '%@searchvalue%'. This works fine: select * from view_searchprinters where serialnumber like '%012%' But I can't figure out how to create this in a stored procedure. What syntax should I use for the line in bold?SET NOCOUNT ON;DECLARE @sn varchar(50)SET @sn = N'012'DECLARE @sql nvarchar(4000)SELECT @sql = 'select top 10 * from view_searchprinters' + ' WHERE 1 = 1 'SELECT @sql = @sql + ' 'IF @sn IS NOT NULL SELECT @sql = @sql + 'and serialnumber LIKE ''' + '%' + '@sn' + '%' + ''' 'EXEC sp_executesql @sql, N'@sn varchar(50)', @sn
Normally when I do a sort for a stored procedure I use something like this:
ORDER BY CASE WHEN @SortOrder = 'FirstName' THEN FirstName WHEN @SortOrder = 'LastName' THEN LastName WHEN @SortOrder = 'Extension' THEN Extension ELSE LastName
How do I get that into a dynamic SQL statement with proper quotes? Most of the SQL left out for cleanliness. The order by below would be the ELSE condition.
I've got a flat file data source, that is to large to edit with most Windows apps on my server that contains both single and double quote characters that I need to load in a varchar column.
So I attempted to do it with a Replace in data transformation, but I can't get SSIS to allow me to use a variable or pair of single or double quotes within the replace.
If I don't replace the single quote characters with a pair then the records containing these characters all end up in my failed records output file.
Here are 5 example property legal descriptions from my FLAT FILE data source:
COM 441'6" N OF SW/C OF NW4 OF SEC 22-29-20 ELY1340' N200' CROSSING THE CNTR OF TR AT 100 WLY1240' S200' TO POB CONTAINING 6 3/10 ACRE MOL
N 50' OF S 330' OF W 122' OF E 735' OF SW4 OF NE4 OF SEC 28/28/18 A/K/A LOT
I’m working on a stored procedure that meant to mail out users some of their action items daily.
The procedure has a double loop, first the user ids and user email addresses are selected into a table, then the outer loop cycles through the user ids and selects relevant action items to another table. The inner loop then cycles through these action items and at the end of each outer loop a string is mailed out.
Problem is that as the outer loop selects the relevant items for a user, the table holding the action items basically gets filled with more and more records and the inner loop then adds every item in the table to the string that gets mailed out, ending up with more and more items going to all the users.
I have tried to delete all records from the actionItems table at the end of each outer loop after the content of the action Items are mailed out, however this seems to keep the actionItems table empty at all times.
Not sure if this description is clear enough but I can’t see where I’m going wrong in terms of approach.
I've a weird problem in my application. In of the pages, while trying to update the text box "Name", when I enter Linda's test, it gets saved as Linda''s test. I'm not sure if this is a problem due to SQL server. When I look at the stored procedure, I don't anything different. Also, when I update the table directly in SQL Server, the result is displayed in single quote. But if I update the field thro' the application, the returned name is with double quotes instead of single quote. Has any of you faced problems like this? What am I missing? What do I need to do to get the name saved the way I entered (with single quotes) instead of double quotes?
Stored Procedure ProblemThis is probably a simple problem but i would appreciate some help.I have a stored procedure that takes the order date time plus other information fromvarious tables but the information is being returned double:ie 4 rows are being returned instead of two. Can anyone see where i am going wrong?Many thanksMartinThis is the stored procedureALTER PROCEDURE dbo.SP_RetrieveOrdersASSELECT distinct OD.DateCreated, O.OrderID,O.UserID,O.OrderTotal,O.Sent,O.Delivered,O.Paid,C.CustomerNameFROM Orders As O,Customers As C,OrderDetails as ODWHERE O.UserID=C.UserID And O.OrderTotal >0 RETURNThese are the results that are returnedDateCreated OrderID UserID OrderTotal Sent Delivered Paid CustomerName ----------------------- ----------- ------------------------------------ ---------------- ------ --------- ------ --------------- 18/10/2006 14:49:00 41 7A2E2B9B-57FA-4329-B4BB-D7ED965AA183 500 <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> bill 18/10/2006 14:49:00 42 7A2E2B9B-57FA-4329-B4BB-D7ED965AA183 590 <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> bill 18/10/2006 15:05:00 41 7A2E2B9B-57FA-4329-B4BB-D7ED965AA183 500 <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> bill 18/10/2006 15:05:00 42 7A2E2B9B-57FA-4329-B4BB-D7ED965AA183 590 <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> bill No rows affected.(4 row(s) returned)If I leave OD.DateCreated ie use ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.SP_RetrieveOrdersASSELECT distinct O.OrderID,O.UserID,O.OrderTotal,O.Sent,O.Delivered,O.Paid,C.CustomerNameFROM Orders As O,Customers As C,OrderDetails as ODWHERE O.UserID=C.UserID And O.OrderTotal >0 RETURNthen there is no problem. I get:41 7A2E2B9B-57FA-4329-B4BB-D7ED965AA183 500 <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> bill 42 7A2E2B9B-57FA-4329-B4BB-D7ED965AA183 590 <NULL> <NULL> <NULL> bill No rows affected.(2 row(s) returned)
I'm trying to replace a view with stored procedure for faster performance. the View is called by end user using a query as below, I need to pass the date as parameter for sp to execute with quotes for it to execute with correct results. Â I tried to pass the date as parameter but could not execute stored procedure with correct results. Is there any way to put quotes around returned date from sub query :Â
Execute statement is like Exec dbo.storedProc1Â select max(date) from table
I need to pass the above as :
Exec dbo.storedProc '2015-03-24'Â .
Somehow passing the date as parameter is giving me empty result set.
Basically I have two strings. Both strings will contain similar data because the 2nd string is the first string after an update of the first string takes place. Both strings are returned in my Stored Procedure For example:String1 = "Here is some data. lets type some more data"String2 = "Here's some data. Lets type some data here"I would want to change string2 (inside my Stored Procedure) to show the changed/added text highlighted and the deleted text with a strike though. So I would want string2 to look like thisstring2 = "Here<font color = "#00FF00">'s</font> <strike>is</strike> some data. <font color = "#00FF00">L</font>ets type some <strike>more</strike> data <font color = "#00FF00">here</font>" Is there an way to accomplish this inside a stored procedure?