I have one column that called 'message' and includes several data such as fund_no, detail, keywords. This column is in table called 'trackemails'.
I have another table, called 'sendemails' that has a column called 'Fund_no'.
I want to retrieve all data from 'trackemail' table that the column 'message' contains characters same as 'Fund_no' in 'trackemails' Table.
I think If I want to check the equality, I would write this code:
select
case when t.message=ts.fund_no then 1 else 0 end
from trackemails t, sendemails s
But, I do want something like below code:
select
case when t.message LIKE ts.fund_no then 1 else 0 end
from trackemails t, sendemails s
I would be appreciate any advice to how to do this:
SELECT *
FROM trackemails tr
INNER JOIN sendemail se on tr.Message like '%' + se.Fund_No + '%'
Dear Check SQL CHARINDEX() Function. This function finds a string in another string and returns int for the position they match. Like
SELECT CHARINDEX('ha','Elham')
-- Returns: 3
And as you need:
SELECT *
,(SELECT *
FROM sendemail
WHERE CHARINDEX(trackemails.Message,sendemail.Fund_No)>0 )
FROM trackemails
For more information, If you want something much better for greater purposes, you can use Fuzzy Lookup Component in SSDT SSIS. This Component gives you a new column in the output which shows the Percentages of similarity of two values in two columns.
My code is:
CURSOR get_party_description is
select party_name
from ifsapp.IDENTITY_PAY_INFO_ALL
where party_type = :NEW.PARTY_TYPE
and identity = identity_
:NEW_PARTY_TYPE = 'SUPPLIER' while the value in the field is 'Supplier'. This code will pull back no records but if I change it to 'Supplier', it finds the record
How do I change to search with out matching the case?
You can convert both the variable and the field to upper or lower case.
where UPPER(party_type) = UPPER(:NEW.PARTY_TYPE)
This might cause a table space scan as the index on the field would be Case sensitive.
you can get around this by adding a generated column that is upper case and indexing that.
Change both of your values to upper case. Example:
CURSOR get_party_description is
select party_name
from ifsapp.IDENTITY_PAY_INFO_ALL
where UPPER(party_type) = UPPER('SUPPLIER')
and identity = identity_
Besides converting both strings to the same case (upper- or lower-) and then comparing them for equality, most SQL dialects allow one to do a case-insensitive comparison by using the LIKE operator, as follows:
CURSOR get_party_description is
select party_name
from ifsapp.IDENTITY_PAY_INFO_ALL
where party_type LIKE :NEW.PARTY_TYPE
and identity = identity_
I am using SQL Server Management Studio 2012. I work with medical records and need to de-identify reports. The reports are structured in a table with columns Report_Date, Report_Subject, Report_Text, etc... The string I need to update is in report_text and there are ~700,000 records.
So if I have:
"patient had an EKG on 04/09/2012"
I need to replace that with:
"patient had an EKG on [DEIDENTIFIED]"
I tried
UPDATE table
SET Report_Text = REPLACE(Report_Text, '____/___/____', '[DEIDENTIFED]')
because I need to replace anything in there that looks like a date, and it runs but doesn't actually replace anything, because apparently I can't use the _ wildcard in this command.
Any recommendations on this? Advance thanks!
You can use PATINDEX to find the location of Date and then use SUBSTRING and REPLACE to replace the dates.
Since there may be multiple dates in the Text you have to run a while loop to replace all the dates.
Below sql will work for all dates in the form of MM/DD/YYYY
WHILE EXISTS( SELECT 1 FROM dbo.MyTable WHERE PATINDEX('%[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',Report_Text) > 0 )
BEGIN
UPDATE t
SET Report_Text = REPLACE(Report_Text, DateToBeReplaced, '[DEIDENTIFIED]')
FROM ( SELECT * ,
SUBSTRING(Report_Text,PATINDEX('%[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',Report_Text), 10) AS DateToBeReplaced
FROM dbo.MyTable AS a
WHERE PATINDEX('%[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]%',Report_Text) > 0
) AS t
END
I have tested the above sql on a dummy table with few rows.I don't know how it will scale for your data but recommend you to give it a try.
To keep it simple, assume that a number represents an identifying element in the string so look for the position of the first number in the string and the position of the last number in the string. Not sure if this will apply to your entire set of records but here is the code ...
I created two test strings ... the one you supplied and one with the date at the beginning of the string.
Declare #tstString varchar(100)
Set #tstString = 'patient had an EKG on 04/09/2012'
Set #tstString = '04/09/2012 EKG for patient'
Select #tstString
-- Calculate 1st Occurrence of a Number
,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',#tstString)
-- Calculate last Occurrence of a Number
,LEN(#tstString) - PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',REVERSE(#tstString))
,CASE
-- No numbers in the string, return the string
WHEN PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',#tstString) = 0 THEN #tstString
-- Number is the first character to find the last position and remove front
WHEN PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',#tstString) = 1 THEN
CONCAT('[DEIDENTIFIED]',SUBSTRING(#tstString, LEN(#tstString)-PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',REVERSE(#tstString))+2,LEN(#tstString)))
-- Just select string up to the first number
ELSE CONCAT(SUBSTRING(#tstString,1,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',#tstString)-1),'[DEIDENTIFIED]')
END AS 'newString'
As you can see, this is messy in SQL.
I would rather achieve this with a parser service and move the data with SSIS and call the service.
I have a set of cases that I frequently use to categorize query results and rather than copy/pasting them from a saved file every time I'm hoping I can turn this simplified version of what I use..
CASE
WHEN source = 'x' AND othersource = 'y' THEN 'region'
WHEN subsource = 'm' AND othersubsource = 'n' THEN 'district'
WHEN littlesource = 'a' AND otherlittlesource = 'b' THEN 'office'
ELSE 'ERROR - LOOK AT ME'
END AS "Service Channel"
Into
#RDOCASE
Where #RDOCASE is a stored, short-form version of the full case I've listed above. I'm thinking it would be like declaring a variable at the beginning of a query except it's stored somewhere and can be recalled at any time in any query being run on this database.
You should let a computed column do the work for you . . . assuming that the columns all come from the same table:
ALTER TABLE t ADD ServiceChannel AS (<your case here>)
If the values come from multiple tables, then you can use a view for this purpose. Or perhaps a scalar function, if you want to pass in the relevant variables.
On a side note: don't use single quotes for column aliases. This is just confusing. Single quotes should be used for string and date constants.
I'm a novice at SQL, so hopefully someone can spell this out for me. I tried following the "Replace Multiple Strings in SQL Query" posting, but I got stuck.
I'm trying to do the same thing as the originator of the above posting but with a different table and different fields. Let's say that the following field "ShiptoPlant" in table "BTST" has three records (my table actually has thousands of records)...
Table Name: BTST
---------------
| ShiptoPlant |
| ----------- |
| Plant #1 |
| Plant - 2 |
| Plant/3 |
---------------
Here's what I'm trying to type in the SQL screen:
SELECT CASE WHEN ShipToPlant IN ("#", "-", "/") Then ""
ELSE ShipToPlant END FROM BTST;
I keep getting the message (Error 3075)...
"Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression
'CASE WHEN ShiptoPlant IN (";","/"," ") Then "" ELSE ShipToPlant END'."
I want to do this operation for every character on the keyboard, with exception of "*" since it is a wildcard.
Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT: Background Information added from the comments
I have collected line-item invoice-level data from each our 14 suppliers for the 2008 calendar year. I am trying to normalize the plant names that are given to us by our suppliers.
Each supplier can call a plant by a different name e.g.
Signode Service on our master list could be called by suppliers
Signode Service
Signode - Service.
SignodeSvc
SignodeService
I'm trying to strip non-alphanumeric chars so that I can try to identify the plant using our master listing by creating a series of links that look at the first 10 char, if no match, 8 char, 6, 4...
My basic hang-up is that I don't know how to strip the alphanumeric characters from the table. I'll be doing this operation on several columns, but I planned on creating separate queries to edit the other columns.
Perhaps I need to do a mass update query that strips all the alphanumerics. I'm still unclear on how to write it. Here's what I started out with to take out all the spaces. It worked great, but failed when I tried to nest the replace
UPDATE BTST SET ShipToPlant = replace(ShipToPlant," ","");
EDIT 2: Further Information taken from Comments
Every month, up to 100 new permutations of our plant names appear in our line item invoice data- this could represent thousands of invoice records. I'm trying to construct a quick and dirty way to assign a master_id of the definitive name to each plant name permutation. The best way I can see to do so is to look at the plant, address, city and state fields, but the problem with this is that these fields have various permutations as well, for example,
128 Brookview Drive
128 Brookview Lane
By taking out alphanumerics and doing
LEFT(PlantName,#chars) & _
LEFT(Address,#chars) & _
LEFT(City,#chars) & _
LEFT(State,#chars)
and by changing the number of characters until a match is found between the invoice data and the Master Plant Listing (both tables contain the Plant, Address, City and State fields), you can eventually find a match. Of course, when you start dwindling down the number of characters you are LEFTing, the accuracy becomes compromised. I've done this in excel and had decent yield. Can anyone recommend a better solution?
You may wish to consider a User Defined Function (UDF)
SELECT ShiptoPlant, CleanString([ShiptoPlant]) AS Clean
FROM Table
Function CleanString(strText)
Dim objRegEx As Object
Set objRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
objRegEx.IgnoreCase = True
objRegEx.Global = True
objRegEx.Pattern = "[^a-z0-9]"
CleanString = objRegEx.Replace(strText, "")
End Function
You could use the built in Replace function within Access
SELECT
Replace(Replace(Replace(ShipToPlant, "#", ""), "-", ""), "/", "") AS ShipToPlant
FROM
BTST
As others have said, within Access you can write your own functions in VBA and use them in your queries.
EDIT:
Here's a way to handle the nested Replace limit by wrappering the Replace function within our own function. It feels dirty but it works- put this in a module within Access
Public Function SuperReplace(ByRef field As String, ByVal ReplaceString As String) As String
' Size this as big as you need... it is zero-based by default'
Dim ReplaceArray(3) As String
'Fill each element with the character you need to replace'
ReplaceArray(0) = "#"
ReplaceArray(1) = "-"
ReplaceArray(2) = "/"
ReplaceArray(3) = " "
Dim i As Integer
For i = LBound(ReplaceArray) To UBound(ReplaceArray)
field = Replace(field, ReplaceArray(i), ReplaceString)
Next i
SuperReplace = field
End Function
Then test it with this query
SELECT
SuperReplace(ShipToPlant,"") AS ShipToPlant
FROM
BTST
You might want to take this an expand it so that you can pass in an array of strings instead of hard-coding them into the function.
EDIT 2:
In response to the additional information in the comments on the question, here's a suggestion for how you might want to handle the situation differently. The advantage to this apprach is that once you have mapped in a plant name permutation, you won't need to perform a string replace on future data in future years, only add new plant names and permutations to the map.
Start with creating another table, let's call it plant_map
CREATE TABLE plant_map (id AUTOINCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT, master_id LONG)
into plant_map, add all of the permutations for plant names and insert the id for the name you wish to use to refer to a particular plant name permutation group with, into the master_id field. From your comments, I'll use Signode Service
INSERT INTO plant_map(name, master_id) VALUES ("Signode Service", 1);
INSERT INTO plant_map(name, master_id) VALUES ("Signode Svc", 1);
INSERT INTO plant_map(name, master_id) VALUES ("Signode - Service", 1);
INSERT INTO plant_map(name, master_id) VALUES ("Signode svc", 1);
INSERT INTO plant_map(name, master_id) VALUES ("SignodeService", 1);
Now when you query BTST table, you can get data for Signode Service using
SELECT
field1,
field2
FROM
BTST source
INNER JOIN
(
plant_map map1
INNER JOIN
plant_map map2
ON map1.master_id = map2.id
)
ON source.ShipToPlant = map1.name
WHERE
map2.name = "Signode Service"
Data within table BTST can remain unchanged.
Essentially, this is joining on the plant name in BTST to the name in plant_map then, using master_id, self joining on id within plant_map so that you need only pass in one "common" name. I would advise putting an index on each of the columns name and master_id in plant_map as both fields will be used in joins.
Don't think Access supports the CASE statement. Consider using iif:
iif ( condition, value_if_true, value_if_false )
For this case you can use the REPLACE function:
SELECT
REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(yourfield, '#', ''), '-', ''), '/', '')
as FieldName
FROM
....
Create a public function in a Code module.
Public Function StripChars(ByVal pStringtoStrip As Variant, ByVal pCharsToKeep As String) As String
Dim sChar As String
Dim sTemp As String
Dim iCtr As Integer
sTemp = ""
For iCtr = 1 To Len(pStringtoStrip)
sChar = Mid(pStringtoStrip, iCtr, 1)
If InStr(pCharsToKeep, sChar) > 0 Then
sTemp = sTemp & sChar
End If
Next
StripChars = sTemp
End Function
Then in your query
SELECT
StripChars(ShipToPlant, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") AS ShipToPlantDisplay
FROM
BTST
Notes - this will be slow for lots of records - if you what this to be permanent then create an update query using the same function.
EDIT: to do an Update:
UPDATE BTST
SET ShipToPlant = StripChars(ShipToPlant, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789")
OK, your question has changed, so the solution will too. Here are two ways to do it. The quick and dirty way will only partially solve your issue because it won't be able to account for the more odd permutations like missing spaces or misspelled words. The quick and dirty way:
Create a new table - let's call it
tChar.
Put a text field in it - the
char(s) you want to replace - we'll
call it char for this example
Put all the char or char combinatios that you want removed in this table.
Create and run the query below.
Note that it will only remove one
item at a time, but you can also put
different versions of the same
replacement in it too like ' -' or
'-'
For this example I created a table called tPlant with a field called ShipToPlant.
SELECT tPlant.ShipToPlant, Replace([ShipToPlant],
(SELECT top 1 char
FROM tChar
WHERE instr(ShipToPlant,char)<>0 ORDER BY len(char) Desc),""
) AS New
FROM tPlant;
The better (but much more complex) way. This explanation is going to be general because it would be next to impossible to put the whole thing in here. If you want to contact me directly use my user name at gmail.:
Create a table of Qualifiers -
mistakes that people enter like svc
instead of service. Here you would
enter every wierd permutation you
get.
Create a table with QualifierID and
Plant ID. Here you would say which
qualifier goes to which plant.
Create a query that joins the two
and your table with mistaken plant
names in it. Use instr so say what
is in the fields.
Create a second query that
aggragates the first. Count the
instr field and use it as a score.
The entry with the highest score is
the plant.
You will have to hand enter the ones
it can't find, but pretty soon that
will be next to none as you have
more and more entries in the table.
ughh
You have a couple different choices. In Access there is no CASE in sql, you need to use IIF. It's not quite as elegant as the solutions in the more robust db engines and needs to be nested for this instance, but it will get the job done for you.
SELECT
iif(instr(ShipToPlant,"#")<>0,"",
iif(instr(ShipToPlant,"-")<>0,"",
iif(instr(ShipToPlant,"/")<>0,"",ShipToPlant ))) AS FieldName
FROM BTST;
You could also do it using the sql to limit your data.
SELECT YourID, nz(aBTST.ShipToPlant,"") AS ShipToPlant
FROM BTST LEFT JOIN (
SELECT YourID, ShipToPlant
FROM BTST
WHERE ShipToPlant NOT IN("#", "-", "/")
) as aBTST ON BTST.YourID=aBTST.YourID
If you know VB you can also create your own functions and put them in the queries...but that is another post. :)
HTH
SELECT
IIF
(
Instr(1,ShipToPlant , "#") > 0
OR Instr(1,ShipToPlant , "/") > 0
OR Instr(1,ShipToPlant , "-") > 0, ""
, ShipToPlant
)
FROM BTST
All - I wound up nesting the REPLACE() function in two separate queries. Since there's upwards of 35 non-alphanumeric characters that I needed to replace and Access limits the complexity of the query to somewhere around 20 nested functions, I merely split it into two processes. Somewhat clunky, but it worked. Should have followed the KISS principle in this case. Thanks for your help!
I know this is a really old question, but I stumbled over it whilst looking for a solution to this problem, but ended up using a different approach.
The field that I wish to update is called 'Customers'. There are 20-odd accented characters in the 'CustName' field for which I wish to remove the diacritics - so (for example) ã > a.
For each of these characters I created a new table 'recodes' with 2 fields 'char' and 'recode'. 'char' contains the character I wish to remove, and 'recode' houses the replacement.
Then for the replace I did a full outer join inside the update statement
UPDATE Customers, Recodes SET Customers.CustName = Replace([CustName],[char],[recode]);
This has the same effect as nesting all of the replace statements, and is a lot easier to manage.
This query grabs the 3 first characters and replace them with Blanks
Example: BO-1234
Output: 1234
BO: IIf(IsNumeric(Left([sMessageDetails],3)),[sMessageDetails],Replace([sMessageDetails],Left([sMessageDetails],3),""))