i have column in one table with string value than string value splited with ','
my table is like this:
id strColumn
1 abc,def,egh,asa,plok
I want the character string to be separated using the split function when placed in the selection command and placed in a table as follows
newColumn
abc
def
egh
asa
plok
USE tempdb
GO
IF OBJECT_ID(N'tempdb..#Test',N'U')IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE tempdb..#Test;
CREATE TABLE #Test
(
ID TINYINT NOT NULL,
StrColumn VARCHAR(50)
)
INSERT #Test(ID,StrColumn)
VALUES(1,'abc,def,egh,asa,plok');
SELECT T.ID,VALUE
FROM #Test AS T
CROSS APPLY STRING_SPLIT(StrColumn, ',');
DROP TABLE #Test;
Fro SQL Server 2016 and later you can use STRING_SPLIT-function (example is above)
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Is it possible to replace multiple words in a string in sql without using multiple replace functions?
For example I have a string where I need to replace word 'POLYESTER' with 'POLY' , 'COTTON' with 'CTN', 'GRAPHIC' with 'GRPHC' etc in order to keep the string length at a max of say 30 without much loosing the readability of contents in it(can't use substring to limit chars since it can trim the end meaningful parts of string completely). So we decided to short some keywords like above.
Current query I have used :
SELECT
REPLACE(REPLACE('**Some string value **COTTON **Some string value ** POLYESTER', 'POLYESTER', 'POLY'), 'COTTON', 'CTN')
If I have 10 keywords like this, what will be the best way to achieve the result other than using multiple replace function. I am using SQL Server 2012.
considering sql server is your only instrument (not a c# or another application), as a workaroud; use a temp or persistent table to store replacement options.
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#tmp') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #tmp
CREATE TABLE #tmp (
fromText VARCHAR(16),
toText VARCHAR(16)
);
INSERT INTO #tmp (fromText, toText)
VALUES
('POLYESTER', 'POLY'),
('COTTON', 'CTN'),
('GRAPHIC', 'GRPHC')
DECLARE #someValue AS NVARCHAR(MAX) =
'**Some string value **COTTON **Some string value ** POLYESTER';
SELECT #someValue = REPLACE(#someValue, fromText, toText) FROM #tmp;
PRINT #someValue
and the result is:
**Some string value **CTN **Some string value ** POLY.
The answer of mehmetx is actually very nice.
If you need your replacement functionality on a regular basis, you could think about using a normal table instead of a temporary table.
But if you need this logic only once in a while, and performance is not much of an issue, you could avoid the additional replacements table altogether and use a table expression in the FROM clause instead. Something like this:
DECLARE #someValue AS NVARCHAR(MAX) = '**Some string value **COTTON **Some string value ** POLYESTER';
SELECT #someValue = REPLACE(#someValue, fromText, toText)
FROM
(VALUES
('POLYESTER', 'POLY'),
('COTTON', 'CTN'),
('GRAPHIC', 'GRPHC')
) AS S (fromText, toText);
EDIT:
I noticed, that this logic regrettably does not work as expected when used in an UPDATE statement to update existing data in a table.
For that purpose (if needed), I created a user-defined function that performs the replacement logic. I called it MultiReplace. And it does not use the replacement data from a temporary table, but from a "normal" table, which I called Replacements.
The following code demonstrates it. It uses a data table called MyData, which gets updated with all replacements in the Replacements table using the MultiReplace function:
IF OBJECT_ID('MultiReplace') IS NOT NULL
DROP FUNCTION MultiReplace;
IF OBJECT_ID('Replacements') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE Replacements;
IF OBJECT_ID('MyData') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE MyData;
GO
CREATE TABLE Replacements (
fromText VARCHAR(100),
toText VARCHAR(100)
);
CREATE TABLE MyData (
SomeValue VARCHAR(MAX)
)
GO
CREATE FUNCTION MultiReplace(#someValue AS VARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS VARCHAR(MAX)
AS
BEGIN
SELECT #someValue = REPLACE(#someValue, fromText, toText) FROM Replacements;
RETURN #someValue;
END;
GO
INSERT INTO MyData (SomeValue)
VALUES
('**Some string value **COTTON **Some string value ** POLYESTER');
INSERT INTO Replacements (fromText, toText)
VALUES
('POLYESTER', 'POLY'),
('COTTON', 'CTN'),
('GRAPHIC', 'GRPHC');
SELECT * FROM MyData;
UPDATE MyData SET SomeValue = dbo.MultiReplace(SomeValue)
SELECT * FROM MyData;
But perhaps using multiple REPLACE statements might be more straightforward after all?...
EDIT 2:
Based on the short conversation in the comments, I could propose a simpler solution that uses multiple REPLACE statements in a clearer way. I have only tested it on SQL Server 2019; I am not sure if it will work correctly on SQL Server 2012.
Again, I use a table called MyData for testing here. But there are no additional database objects anymore.
Regrettably, I did not get it to work with a temporary table containing the replacement values.
-- Preparations:
IF OBJECT_ID('MyData') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE MyData;
CREATE TABLE MyData (
SomeValue VARCHAR(MAX)
);
INSERT INTO MyData
VALUES
('**Some string value **COTTON **Some string value ** POLYESTER'),
('**Another string value **GRAPHIC **Another string value ** POLYESTER');
-- Actual work:
SELECT * FROM MyData; -- Show the state before updating
DECLARE #someValue VARCHAR(MAX);
UPDATE MyData
SET
#someValue = SomeValue,
#someValue = REPLACE(#someValue, 'POLYESTER', 'POLY'),
#someValue = REPLACE(#someValue, 'COTTON', 'CTN'),
#someValue = REPLACE(#someValue, 'GRAPHIC', 'GRPHC'),
SomeValue = #someValue;
SELECT * FROM MyData; -- Show the state after updating
This may be a very basic question, but I have been struggling with this.
I have a SSMS query that I'll be using multiple times for a large set of client Ids. Its quite cumbersome to have to amend the parameters in all the where clauses every time I want to run it.
For simplicity, I want to convert a query like the one below:
SELECT
ID,
Description
From TestDb
Where ID in ('1-234908','1-345678','1-12345')
to a query of the format below so that I only need to change my variable field once and it can be applied across my query:
USE TestDb
DECLARE #ixns NVARCHAR(100)
SET #ixns = '''1-234908'',''1-345678'',''1-12345'''
SELECT
ID,
Description
From TestDb
Where ID IN #ixns
However, the above format doesn't work. Can anyone help me on how I can use a varchar/string variable in my "where" clause for my query so that I can query multiple IDs at the same time and only have to adjust/set my variable once?
Thanks in advance :D
The most appropriate solution would be to use a table variable:
DECLARE #ixns TABLE (id NVARCHAR(100));
INSERT INTO #ixns(id) VALUES
('1-234908'),
('1-345678'),
('1-12345');
SELECT ID, Description
FROM TestDb
WHERE ID IN (SELECT id FROM #ixns);
You can load ids to temp table use that in where condition
USE TestDb
DECLARE #tmpIDs TABLE
(
id VARCHAR(50)
)
insert into #tmpIDs values ('1-234908')
insert into #tmpIDs values ('1-345678')
insert into #tmpIDs values ('1-12345')
SELECT
ID,
Description
From TestDb
Where ID IN (select id from #tmpIDs)
The most appropriate way is to create a table type because it is possible to pass this type as parameters.
1) Creating the table type with the ID column.
create type MyListID as table
(
Id int not null
)
go
2) Creating the procedure that receives this type as a parameter.
create procedure MyProcedure
(
#MyListID as MyListID readonly
)
as
select
column1,
column2
...
from
MyTable
where
Id in (select Id from #MyListID)
3) In this example you can see how to fill this type through your application ..: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25871046/8286724
I'm trying to pass a comma separated string such as this: "101:string1,102:string2" into a stored proc and create a temp table out of it. The temp table would have two columns, one integer and one string. It would have two rows for this example. The comma delimits the rows, and the colons delimit the two columns. Anyone know how I can do this? I'm using sql server. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: By the way, I'm not asking about how to create a temp table, only how to create the function.
You can try a Table-Valued Function instead of a temp table. Something like this:
CREATE FUNCTION ListToTable
(
#list nvarchar(4000)
)
RETURNS #return TABLE
(
n int,
s nvarchar(15)
)
AS
BEGIN
SET #list = NULLIF(ltrim(rtrim(#list)),'')
DECLARE #xml AS XML = CAST('<root><row><n>' +
REPLACE(REPLACE(#list,
',', '</s></row><row><n>'),
':', '</n><s>') +
'</s></row></root>' AS XML) ;
INSERT INTO #return (n, s)
SELECT root.row.value('n[1]', 'int')
, root.row.value('s[1]', 'nvarchar(4000)')
FROM #xml.nodes('/root/row') as root(row)
RETURN
END
Usage:
select * from dbo.ListToTable('101:string1,102:string2')
Output:
n s
----------- ---------------
101 string1
102 string2
SELECT 1
FROM geo_locationInfoMajor_tbl
WHERE geo_locationInfoM_taluka IN(SELECT * from #temp
I have created a temp table which gets its values from the front end.. using a function I insert values into the temp table...
Now the data in the temp table is mixed... it can be integer or varchar..
when I pass only int or varchar into the temp table it is fine.
but if the output is mixed the query throws an error.. how to deal with this?
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'English' to data type int.
this is fine-->
#temp
1
this is not-->
1
English
How many values do you have in you temp table?
if you want to use the IN clause you should only use one column that is identical with your geo_locationInfoMajor_tbl.
try this:
SELECT * FROM geo_locationInfoMajor_tbl
WHERE geo_locationInfoM_taluka IN (SELECT geo_locationInfoM_taluka from #temp)
I create a table and sequence in order to replace identity in the table I use SQL Server 2012 Express but I get this error while I tried to insert data to the table
Msg 11719, Level 15, State 1, Line 2
NEXT VALUE FOR function is not allowed in check constraints, default objects, computed columns,
views, user-defined functions, user-defined aggregates, user-defined
table types, sub-queries, common table expressions, or derived
tables.
T-SQL code:
insert into Job_Update_Log(log_id, update_reason, jobid)
values((select next value for Job_Log_Update_SEQ),'grammer fixing',39);
This is my table:
create table Job_Update_Log
(
log_id int primary key ,
update_reason nvarchar(100) ,
update_date date default getdate(),
jobid bigint not null,
foreign key(jobid) references jobslist(jobid)
);
and this is my sequence:
CREATE SEQUENCE [dbo].[Job_Log_Update_SEQ]
AS [int]
START WITH 1
INCREMENT BY 1
NO CACHE
GO
Just get rid of the subselect in the VALUES section, like this:
insert into Job_Update_Log(log_id,update_reason,jobid)
values (next value for Job_Log_Update_SEQ,'grammer fixing',39);
Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh272694%28v=vs.103%29.aspx
Your insert syntax appears to be wrong. You are attempting to use a SELECT statement inside of the VALUES section of your query. If you want to use SELECT then you will use:
insert into Job_Update_Log(log_id,update_reason,jobid)
select next value for Job_Log_Update_SEQ,'grammer fixing',39;
See SQL Fiddle with Demo
I changed the syntax from INSERT INTO VALUES to INSERT INTO ... SELECT. I used this because you are selecting the next value of the sequence.
However, if you want to use the INSERT INTO.. VALUES, you will have to remove the SELECT from the query:
insert into Job_Update_Log(log_id,update_reason,jobid)
values(next value for Job_Log_Update_SEQ,'grammer fixing',39);
See SQL Fiddle with Demo
Both of these will INSERT the record into the table.
Try this one:
–With a table
create sequence idsequence
start with 1 increment by 3
create table Products_ext
(
id int,
Name varchar(50)
);
INSERT dbo.Products_ext (Id, Name)
VALUES (NEXT VALUE FOR dbo.idsequence, ‘ProductItem’);
select * from Products_ext;
/* If you run the above statement two types, you will get the following:-
1 ProductItem
4 ProductItem
*/
drop table Products_ext;
drop sequence idsequence;
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