I'm running into issue with character encoding and I found the functions EBCDIC_STR, ASCII_STR in Db2 for z/OS. Are there similar function for Db2 for IBM i?
Starting with v7.2, there is a similar function in DB2 for i, it is CHAR. It is not an exact replacement though. While EBCDIC_STR returns a string in the system EBCDIC CCSID, and provides a UTF-16 encoding for unknown characters, CHAR takes a string and converts it to a provided CCSID. CHAR has no defined behavior for characters that cannot be converted to the new CCSID.
I believe you will have to use a CAST specification in your SQL statement, specifying in it the desired CCSID, rather than using a built-in function.
This documentation page gives the syntax of a CAST specification, but it does not have a precisely relevant example. The DB2 for zOS CAST page gives an example that should be the same on the i Series:
CAST(MYDATA AS CHAR(10) CCSID 367)
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I am attempting to understand how TRY_PARSE actually works under the hood. I've read through the Documentation for TRY_PARSE by Microsoft. The documentation makes sense until I run some of my own tests. Using 2022-01-26T12:00:00.000Z and #2022-01-26T12:00:00.000Z# I will get a valid DateTime returned from the TRY_PARSE function; however, using !2022-01-26T12:00:00.000Z! I will get null returned from the TRY_PARSE function.
What special characters are allowed to wrap a date? Why does the # work but not !?
The TRY_PARSE function uses the .NET CLR to parse the values, so the rules for TRY_PARSE(#s As datetime) are the same as for .NET's DateTime.TryParse method:
DateTime.Parse Method (System) | Microsoft Docs
Any leading, inner, or trailing white space character in s is ignored.
The date and time can be bracketed with a pair of leading and trailing NUMBER SIGN characters ("#", U+0023), and can be trailed with one or more NULL characters (U+0000).
If your string uses any "special" character other than # around the date, it will not parse.
Also, if you have a mis-matched # at the start or the end of your date, it will not parse.
I want to convert a string into a blob with the f_strblob(CSTRING) function of FreeAdhocUDF. At this point I do not find a way to get my special characters like ß or ä shown in the blob.
The result of f_strblob('Gemäß') is Gem..
I tried to change the character set to UTF8 of my variables, but that does not help.
Is there a masking option which I did not find?
You don't need that function, and the FreeAdhocUDF documentation also marks it as obsolete for that reason.
In a lot of situations, Firebird will automatically convert string literals to blobs (eg in statements where a string literal is assigned to a blob value), and otherwise you can explicitly cast using cast('your string' as blob sub_type text).
The below OREPLACE query is throwing the error.
Select cast( OREPLACE (SimpledefinitionQuery , 'gpi','gpiREPLC') as varchar(40000)) as repl
from SimpleDef0;
The return string in the OREPLACE function is set to max of 64000. When I checked the length of column SimpledefinitionQuery, it does not exceed 16000. So I am unable to find why I am getting the error.
Also when I replace 'gpi' with 'gpiRPLC', the query works perfectly. What is going wrong here?
Thanks
According to this Teradata support page, when using OREPLACE the returned string also depends on the second and the third arguments
OREPLACE (SimpledefinitionQuery , 'gpi','gpiREPLC')
OREPLACE function implicitly converts source string(first argument) to UNICODE when second or third argument is literal(UNICODE) even if the source string is LATIN.
Thus maybe check if the function works if you truncate SimpledefinitionQuery for the first 8000 characters (as suggested in #dnoeth comment it returns Unicode VARCHAR(8000))? Or change the literal type of 2nd and 3rd arguments to Latin as well.
Based on my research so far this character indicates bad encoding between the database and front end. Unfortunately, I don't have any control over either of those. I'm using Teradata Studio.
How can I filter this character out? I'm trying to perform a REGEX_SUBSTR function on a column that occasionally contains �, which throws the error "The string contains an untranslatable character".
Here is my SQL. AIRCFT_POSITN_ID is the column that contains the replacement character.
SELECT DISTINCT AIRCFT_POSITN_ID,
REGEXP_SUBSTR(AIRCFT_POSITN_ID, '[0-9]+') AS AUTOROW
FROM PROD_MAE_MNTNC_VW.FMR_DISCRPNCY_DFRL
WHERE DFRL_CREATE_TMS > CURRENT_DATE -25
Your diagnostic is correct, so first of all, you might want to check the Session Character Set (it is part of the connection definition).
If it is ASCII change it to UTF8 and you will be able to see the original characters instead of the substitute character.
And in case the character is indeed part of the data and not just an indication for encoding translations issues:
The substitute character AKA SUB (DEC: 26 HEX: 1A) is quite unique in Teradata.
you cannot use it directly -
select '�';
-- [6706] The string contains an untranslatable character.
select '1A'XC;
-- [6706] The string contains an untranslatable character.
If you are using version 14.0 or above you can generate it with the CHR function:
select chr(26);
If you're below version 14.0 you can generate it like this:
select translate (_unicode '05D0'XC using unicode_to_latin with error);
Once you have generated the character you can now use it with REPLACE or OTRANSLATE
create multiset table t (i int,txt varchar(100) character set latin) unique primary index (i);
insert into t (i,txt) values (1,translate ('Hello שלום world עולם' using unicode_to_latin with error));
select * from t;
-- Hello ���� world ����
select otranslate (txt,chr(26),'') from t;
-- Hello world
select otranslate (txt,translate (_unicode '05D0'XC using unicode_to_latin with error),'') from t;
-- Hello world
BTW, there are 2 versions for OTRANSLATE and OREPLACE:
The functions under syslib works with LATIN.
the functions under TD_SYSFNLIB works with UNICODE.
In addition to Dudu's excellent answer above, I wanted to add the following now that I've encountered the issue again and had more time to experiment. The following SELECT command produced an untranslatable character:
SELECT IDENTIFY FROM PROD_MAE_MNTNC_VW.SCHD_MNTNC;
IDENTIFY
24FEB1747659193DC330A163DCL�ORD
Trying to perform a REGEXP_REPLACE or OREPLACE directly on this character produces an error:
Failed [6706 : HY000] The string contains an untranslatable character.
I changed the CHARSET property in my Teradata connection from UTF8 to ASCII and I could now see the offending character, looks like a tab
IDENTIFY
Using the TRANSLATE_CHK command using this specific conversion succeeds and identifies the position of the offending character (Note that this does not work using the UTF8 charset):
TRANSLATE_CHK(IDENTIFY USING KANJI1_SBC_TO_UNICODE) AS BADCHAR
BADCHAR
28
Now this character can be dealt with using some CASE statements to remove the bad character and retain the remainder of the string:
CASE WHEN TRANSLATE_CHK(IDENTIFY USING KANJI1_SBC_TO_UNICODE) = 0 THEN IDENTIFY
ELSE SUBSTR(IDENTIFY, 1, TRANSLATE_CHK(IDENTIFY USING KANJI1_SBC_TO_UNICODE)-1)
END AS IDENTIFY
Hopes this helps someone out.
Our application receives data from various sources. Some of these contain HTML character makeup instead of regular characters. So instead of string "â" we receive string "â".
How can we convert "â" to a character in the database character set using SQL/PLSQL?
Our database is 10GR2.
Unescape_reference and excape_reference I believe is what you're looking for
UTL_I18N.UNESCAPE_REFERENCE('hello < å')
This returns 'hello <'||chr(229).
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28419/u_i18n.htm#i998992
You can use the CHR() function to convert an ascii character number to a character representation.
SELECT chr(226)
FROM dual;
CHR(226)
--------
â
For more information see: http://www.techonthenet.com/oracle/functions/chr.php
Hope it helps...
one solution
replace(your_test, 'â', chr(226))
but you'd have to nest many replace functions, one for each entity you need to replace. This might be very slow if you have to replace many.
You can wrote your own function, seqrching for the ampersand and replacing when found.
Have you searched the Oracle Supplied Packages manual? I know they have a function that does the opposite for a few entities.
to convert a column in oracle which contains HTML items to plain text, you could use:
trim(regexp_replace(UTL_I18N.unescape_reference(column_name), '<[^>]+>'))
It will replace HTML character as above stated but will also remove HTML tags en remove leading and trailing spaces.
I hope it will help someone.