Although I can find solutions to errors caused when a simple text value in a Google query contains an apostrophe, I cannot yet find a solution to when a variable in a Google query might (or might not) refer to a text value that contains an apostrophe.
I am using a simple code to extract a value (column B) related to a list of schools (column A), some of which have apostrophes in their names.
query(SchoolsData_db,"select B where A = '"&$A13&"' label B ''")
For all of the schools with apostrophes I get a #VALUE! error.
I am wondering if there is code I can run against the variable itself ('"&$A13&"') to handle the possible apostrophe. I know I can create a "cleaned name" column corollary to the school names, and then a reverse lookup to restore the names with my results table, but I am hoping the problem can be solved in each calculation instead.
You might try creating a variable first and concatenating that to the query string.
OK - interpreting the suggestion I got, I created and included a text ID column in the schools data (ex: S0001, etc.) and then I used that ID as my variable in the query. All is well. Thanks. I hope others can find this if they are similarly perplexed.
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I want to create 3 new columns with their names reffering to some date varibales and this is not possible to write them like this. So the first column name should be YEAR2022, 2nd column YEAR2021 and 3rd column YEAR2020.
Can you please give me an idea how to write this?
select column1*2 as CONCAT('YEAR',YEAR(DATEADD(YY,0,GETDATE()))),
column1*3 as CONCAT('YEAR',YEAR(DATEADD(YY,-1,GETDATE()))),
column1*4 as CONCAT('YEAR',YEAR(DATEADD(YY,-2,GETDATE()))) FROM table1
The error that I get is:
Incorrect syntax near 'YEAR'.
As I mentioned in my comment, an alias cannot be an expression, it has to be a literal. As such the expressions you have tried to use are not allowed and generate syntax errors.
Normally, this sort requirement is the sign of a design flaw, or that you're trying to do something that should be in the presentation in the SQL layer. I'm going to assume the latter here. As a result, instead you should use static names for the columns, and then in your presentation layer, control the name of the columns there, so that when they are presented to the end user they have the names you want (for today that would be YEAR2022, YEAR2021 and YEAR2020). Then your query would just look like this:
select column1*2 AS ThisYear,
column1*3 AS YearPrior,
column1*4 AS Year2Prior
FROM dbo.table1;
How you change the names of the columns in your presentation layer is a completely different question (we don't even know what language you are using to write your application). If you want to ask about that, I suggest asking a new question (only if after you've adequately researched the problem and failed to find a solution), so that we can help you there.
Note that Though you can achieve a solution via dynamic SQL, I would strongly suggest it is the wrong solution here, and thus why I haven't given an answer providing a demonstration.
NetSuite formula(text) problem.
I have a specific search I need to power up but I could also really use this for general use across a few types of reporting.
We use a lot of custom body fields which do not seem to have access to the Keyword Match option in the dropdown system or I would be using commas left and right.
I need to search a single custom field for multiple possible answers.
I was thinking maybe a CASE WHEN formula but I don't have an else.
Lets call the field states. I want this report to only return rows of records where there are the following 5 states in the custom body field "Shipping State". it isn't allowing keyword match. I only want to see transactions with Michigan, New Jersey and Floria (this is hypothetical) so I want just to put a filter in up front to pair down the results.
CASE WHEN {custbody.shippingstate} IS 'Michigan' ...
Can I use an OR construct here? and do I need an else?
I tried using coalesce but I don't think I had the syntax around the coalese right.
Any help for a formula newbie appreciated.
Try the following as a formula text result column in a NetSuite saved search.
CASE WHEN LOWER({custbody.shippingstate}) LIKE '%michigan%'
OR LOWER({custbody.shippingstate}) LIKE '%jersey%'
OR LOWER({custbody.shippingstate}) LIKE '%florida%'
THEN 'Y' END
LIKE conditions are case sensitive, so that's why I incorporated the LOWER() method. Reminder in NetSuite "%" matches any string of any length (including zero length, and "_" matches a single character. If this works as a results column you can add the formula text as a criteria to filter results.
I used a simple ETL tool to import QuickBooks data into Google BigQuery. Great! The only challenge notable limitation on this step is that I can't do any translation ... more like it's an EL tool.
That said, now I want to query the imported table. It's no problem at all for correctly named fields in BigQuery (like txndate). However, some of the fields are of the format abc.xyz (e.g., deposittoaccountref.value) and can't be queried. The "." in the name is apparently confusing BigQuery.
If I dump the whole table, I can see the "." name fields and the associated values.
However, I can't create a custom query against those fields. They don't show up in the auto-generated schema that allows one to drag and drop field names into the query.
Also, I tried to manually type the field name in and received the following error message: Missing column alias. Any expression in a SELECT statement that is not a column from the original data source must be followed by an alias, for example: AS my_alias.
I've tried quoting the field name and bracketing the field name but they still throw the same error.
I traced back to QB API documentation and this is indeed how Intuit labels the fields.
Finally, as long as I can query these fields at all, I can rename them to eliminate the "." problem.
Please advise and thank you!
ok, I solved this myself.
The way to fix this within bigquery query editor is to manually type in the field name (i.e., not available in the auto-generated schema) and to parenthesis the field name.
e.g, deposittoaccountref.value becomes (deposittoaccountref.value)
Now, this will label the column in the result set as "value", so you may want to relabel the data field to something without the ".". For example, I took the original
deposittoaccountref.value and modified it to
(deposittoaccountref.value) as deposittoaccountref_value
Hopefully, this will help someone else in the future!
the above answer works when there is a single dot in the name as in the example.
however, if there are multiple e.g., "line.value.amount" then the parenthesis trick doesn't work
i've tried nesting the parenthesis in different ways to no avail
e.g., (line.value.amount) = error error, ((line.value).amount) = error, (line.(value.amount)) = error
So I feel like this is a pretty simple question, but I cannot for the life of my find the answer, here or elsewhere.
I'm trying to autopopulate a column with custom text. I suppose it would be the row adjacent.
Thought vlookup was the solution, but I'm rusty.
Basically it's financial, if the Description contains, say, "Amazon" or "Subway" I'd like to populate the adjacent cell with "Amazon" or "Online Shopping" or "Subway" or Fast food.
I'm using numbers but assume that excel advice would apply for such a simple (seemingly) task.
Make sense?
Also, hope I formatted the image correctly.
Ok thanks!
Just looking at the sample data I can see a pattern that emerges from these transactions. However, My first thought would be to jump to VBA for Excel but I don't believe that is available for Mac OS.
Vlookup will only work with the Range_Lookup set to TRUE which means it will try to find the closest match. This might lead to incorrect matches returned or problems with the requirement for sorting your table array that is being queried.
The only other thing that came to mind which would work for a single query value such as "Amazon" OR "Subway" would be to use a nested formula that checks if that substring is found in the Description column for each cell. This would be something like:
=IF(FIND("Amazon",D1)>0,"Amazon","")
The problem with this is that it only checks for one value and it does not have an error handling mechanism so each string that is checked without the word "Amazon" in it will return a #Value error in Excel.
I am trying to find special characters in any of my fields that are not in the range of a-zA-Z0-9. However if I try this query:
select Name from table where Name like '%[?]%'
I get two records:
???? ?????
Fixed?????
Which is what I want. However, since I don't know what the special chars will be I need to use an exclusion of data that has mixed characters:
select Name from table where Name NOT like '%[a-zA-Z0-9]%'
Since this excludes all records with a-zA-Z0-9 I only get:
???? ?????
But I also need to get the 'Fixed?????' result. I need to get the data that has the special character merged into it.
I am bit at a loss as how to do this. I've seen this done with shell scripts or 'vi' (LIST), but in SQL that's not so easy.
Has anyone out there solved this?
Try this code:
select Name from table where Name like '%[^0-9a-zA-Z ]%'
Thank you for replying. I had tried your suggestions but I was still getting more results. However, it looks like you can get very specific with the exclusion. Eventually I ended up adding results from the data I got.
Like this:
select Name from table where Name LIKE '%[^0-9a-zA-Z() -._/\:=,]%'
This finally gave me what I was looking for. Although new issue I have now is how to suppress the [] brackets which apparently also are found in the data:
???? ?????
HP PCI 10/100Base-TX Core [100BASE-TX,FD,AUTO,TT=1500]
Fixed?????
Adding those brackets into the query breaks the array boundary:
'%[^0-9a-zA-Z() -._/\:=,**[]**]%'
However, this is something I can handle. As long as I am not getting "all" the data.
LIKE '%[^0-9a-zA-Z]%'
numbers (0-9), lowercase alphas (a-z), uppercase alphas (A-Z). The "^" makes that a "NOT" one of these things