This the column Description
Entity=10||WorkdayReferenceID=9000100332||HCMCostCenterMgr=nicoleb#broadinstitute.org||FRP=||
I want to retrieve the emailid only in the above scenario the desired output would be
nicoleb#broadinstitute.org
I tried using this:
select RTRIM(NVL(SUBSTR(TL.DESCRIPTION,(INSTR(TL.DESCRIPTION, '=',1,3)+1),
(LENGTH(TL.DESCRIPTION)-1)),'TL.DESCRIPTION'), '|') AS CCM
But after that new value of FRP was added so it got wrong .
Assuming (and it is a big assumption) that there is only ever one # in the data, the approach would be find the #, and then you want the text that is after the preceding = and before the next |. I do not know if the email address is always after HCMCostCenterMgr= so I won't assume that (but if that is the case the solution is easier).
It looks like you might be using Oracle (I see a NVL function), but I did this as SQL Server (it is more familiar off the top of my head). Here is a small script that will return just the email address you want - you can easily change these functions to Oracle if you need a version for Oracle.
DECLARE #data VARCHAR(200);
SELECT #data = 'Entity=10||WorkdayReferenceID=9000100332||HCMCostCenterMgr=nicoleb#broadinstitute.org||FRP=||';
SELECT REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(SUBSTRING(#data, 1, CHARINDEX('|', #data, CHARINDEX('#', #data)) - 1)), 1, CHARINDEX('=', REVERSE(SUBSTRING(#data, 1, CHARINDEX('|', #data, CHARINDEX('#', #data)) - 1)))-1));
It is ugly, but SQL often gets a bit convoluted. I had to reverse the string to find things before the '#' and then reverse it at the end to get the value in the correct direction.
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I want to get sub string my output should look like gmail,outlook,Skype.
my string values are
'abc#gmail.com'
'cde.nitish#yahoo.com'
'xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com'
somthing like this as you can see its having variable length with mix symbol '.' and '#'
string values store in table form as a column name Mail_ID and Table name is tbl_Data
i am using sql server 2012
i use chart index for getting sub string
select SUBSTRING(Mail_ID, CHARINDEX('#',MAil_ID)+1, (CHARINDEX('.',MAil_ID) - (CHARINDEX('#', Mail_ID)+1)))
from tbl_data
And i want my output like:
'gmail'
'yahoo'
'sarvang'
Please help me i am newbies in sql server
This is my solution. I first get the position of the '#', and then get the position of the '.' in the string prior to it (the '#'). Then I can use those results to get the appropriate substring:
SELECT V.YourString,
SUBSTRING(V.YourString,D.I,A.I - D.I) AS StringPart
FROM (VALUES('abc#gmail.com'),
('cde.nitish#yahoo.com'),
('xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com'))V(YourString)
CROSS APPLY(VALUES(CHARINDEX('#',V.YourString)))A(I) --Get position of # to not repeat logic
CROSS APPLY(VALUES(CHARINDEX('.',LEFT(V.YourString,A.I))+1))D(I) --Get position of . to not repeat logic
Note for value of 'abc.def.steve#... it would return 'def.steve'; however, we don't have such an example so I don't know what the correct return value would be.
I'm posting this as a new answer, a the OP moved the goal posts from the original answer. My initial answer was based on their original question, not their "new" one, and it seems silly to remove an answer that was correct at the time:
SELECT V.YourString,
SUBSTRING(V.YourString,A.I, D.I - A.I) AS StringPart
FROM (VALUES('abc#gmail.com'),
('cde.nitish#yahoo.com'),
('xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com'))V(YourString)
CROSS APPLY(VALUES(CHARINDEX('#',V.YourString)+1))A(I)
CROSS APPLY(VALUES(CHARINDEX('.',V.YourString,A.I)))D(I);
This answers the original version of the question.
This may be simplest with a case expression to detect if there is a period before the '#':
select (case when email like '%.%#%'
then stuff(left(email, charindex('#', email) - 1), 1, charindex('.', email), '')
else left(email, charindex('#', email) - 1)
end)
from (values ('abc#gmail.com'), ('cde.nitish#yahoo.com'), ('xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com')) v(email)
I create a temp table with your data and write below query its worked
CREATE TABLE #T
(
DATA NVARCHAR(50)
)
INSERT INTO #T
VALUES('abc#gmail.com'),
('cde.nitish#yahoo.com'),
('xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com')
SELECT *,LEFT(RIGHT(DATA,LEN(DATA)-CHARINDEX('#',DATA,1)),CHARINDEX('.',RIGHT(DATA,LEN(DATA)-CHARINDEX('#',DATA,1)),1)-1)
FROM #t
AND its a output of my T-SQL
abc#gmail.com gmail
cde.nitish#yahoo.com yahoo
xyz.vijay#sarvang.com.com sarvang
i would make a script that iterate over the records of a table with a cursor
and extract from a column value formatted like that "yyy://xx/bb/147011"
only the final number 147011and to put this value in a variable.
It's possible to do something like that?
Many thanks.
You don't need a cursor for this. You can just use a query. The following gets everything after the last /:
select right(str, charindex('/', reverse(str)) - 1 )
from (values ('yyy://xx/bb/147011')) v(str)
It does not specifically check if it is a number, but that can be added as well.
You can also use the below query.
SELECT RIGHT(RTRIM('yyy://xx/bb/147011'),
CHARINDEX('/', REVERSE('/' + RTRIM('yyy://xx/bb/147011'))) - 1) AS LastWord
If numeric value has exact position defined with sample data, then you can do :
SELECT t.*, SUBSTRING(t.col, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', t.col), LEN(t.col))
FROM table t;
I have a stored procedure that gives back a string that reads like //path1/path2/item.itm, //path1/path3/item.itm or //path4/path5/item.itm what I would like to do is have it just return something like /path2/item.itm I know that there is a replace in sql along the lines of REPLACE(String, ‘//path1’, ‘’) but this wont work since the string is not consistent in all entries. I cant do this in the code because I may need to put the values back in.
If I were to do this in code (which I cant do) it would be something along the lines of
string = string.Remove(string.LastIndexOf('/'),
string.Length - string.LastIndexOf('/'));
but I have no idea how to do this in SQL or any idea if it can be done.
You can use this:
declare #str varchar(100) = '//path1/path2/item.itm'
select SUBSTRING(#str, PATINDEX('%[^/]/%', #str) + 1, LEN(#str) - PATINDEX('%[^/]/%', #str))
or, if you know max length of your strings (I assume), says max = 8000, you can use this:
select SUBSTRING(#str, PATINDEX('%[^/]/%', #str) + 1, 8000)
I'm not sure if this would be faster than PATINDEX() but you could reverse the string take up to the / then reverse it again something like this:
SELECT REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(path),CHARINDEX('/',REVERSE(path))))
nb, I didn't test so I might have a typo.
I'm trying to understand if the above question is possible. I've been conceptually thinking about it, and basically what I'm looking to do is:
Specify keywords that may appear in a title. Lets use the two terms "Portfolio" and "Mike"
I'm hoping to generate a query that will allow for me to search for when Portfolio is contained within a title, or Mike. These two titles need not to be together.
For instance, if I have a title dubbed: "Portfolio A" and another title "Mike's favorite" I'd like both of these titles to be returned.
The issue I've encountered with using a LIKE statement is the following:
WHERE 1=1
and rpt_title LIKE ''%'+#report_title+'%'''
If I were to input: 'Portfolio,Mike' it would search for the occurrence of just that within a title.
EDIT: I should have been a bit more clear. I believe it's necessary for me to input my variable as 'Portfolio, Mike' in order for it to find the multiple values. Is this possible?
I'm assuming you could maybe use a charindex with a substring and a replace?
Yep, multiple Like statements with OR will work just fine -- just make sure you use the correct parentheses:
SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE 1=1
and (rpt_title LIKE '%Portfolio%'
or rpt_title LIKE '%Mike%')
However, I might suggest you look into using a full-text search.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142571.aspx
I can propose a solution where you could specify any number of masks, without using multiple LIKE -
DECLARE #temp TABLE (st VARCHAR(100))
INSERT INTO #temp (st)
VALUES ('Portfolio photo'),('- Mike'),('blank'),('else'),('est')
DECLARE #delims VARCHAR(30)
SELECT #delims = '|Portfolio|Mike|' -- %Portfolio% OR %Mike% OR etc.
SELECT t.st
FROM #temp t
CROSS JOIN (
SELECT substr =
SUBSTRING(
#delims,
number + 1,
CHARINDEX('|', #delims, number + 1) - number - 1)
FROM [master].dbo.spt_values n
WHERE [type] = N'P'
AND number <= LEN(#delims) - 1
AND SUBSTRING(#delims, number, 1) = '|'
) s
WHERE t.st LIKE '%' + s.substr + '%'
In my database (SQL 2005) I have a field which holds a comment but in the comment I have an id and I would like to strip out just the id, and IF possible convert it to an int:
activation successful of id 1010101
The line above is the exact structure of the data in the db field.
And no I don't want to do this in the code of the application, I actually don't want to touch it, just in case you were wondering ;-)
This should do the trick:
SELECT SUBSTRING(column, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', column), 999)
FROM table
Based on your sample data, this that there is only one occurence of an integer in the string and that it is at the end.
I don't have a means to test it at the moment, but:
select convert(int, substring(fieldName, len('activation successful of id '), len(fieldName) - len('activation successful of id '))) from tableName
Would you be open to writing a bit of code? One option, create a CLR User Defined function, then use Regex. You can find more details here. This will handle complex strings.
If your above line is always formatted as 'activation successful of id #######', with your number at the end of the field, then:
declare #myColumn varchar(100)
set #myColumn = 'activation successful of id 1010102'
SELECT
#myColumn as [OriginalColumn]
, CONVERT(int, REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(#myColumn), CHARINDEX(' ', REVERSE(#myColumn))))) as [DesiredColumn]
Will give you:
OriginalColumn DesiredColumn
---------------------------------------- -------------
activation successful of id 1010102 1010102
(1 row(s) affected)
select cast(right(column_name,charindex(' ',reverse(column_name))) as int)
CAST(REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(#Test),CHARINDEX(' ',REVERSE(#Test))-1)) AS INTEGER)
-- Test table, you will probably use some query
DECLARE #testTable TABLE(comment VARCHAR(255))
INSERT INTO #testTable(comment)
VALUES ('activation successful of id 1010101')
-- Use Charindex to find "id " then isolate the numeric part
-- Finally check to make sure the number is numeric before converting
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(JUSTNUMBER)=1 THEN CAST(JUSTNUMBER AS INTEGER) ELSE -1 END
FROM (
select right(comment, len(comment) - charindex('id ', comment)-2) as justnumber
from #testtable) TT
I would also add that this approach is more set based and hence more efficient for a bunch of data values. But it is super easy to do it just for one value as a variable. Instead of using the column comment you can use a variable like #chvComment.
If the comment string is EXACTLY like that you can use replace.
select replace(comment_col, 'activation successful of id ', '') as id from ....
It almost certainly won't be though - what about unsuccessful Activations?
You might end up with nested replace statements
select replace(replace(comment_col, 'activation not successful of id ', ''), 'activation successful of id ', '') as id from ....
[sorry can't tell from this edit screen if that's entirely valid sql]
That starts to get messy; you might consider creating a function and putting the replace statements in that.
If this is a one off job, it won't really matter. You could also use a regex, but that's quite slow (and in any case mean you now have 2 problems).