I am trying to create a formula for the following criteria.
WHEN usernotes.notetitle CONTAINS ‘collection’ AND usernotes.notedate is within the last thirty days
Here is what I have right now. It lets me write a case then set the value.
CASE WHEN ({usernotes.notetitle} CONTAINS 'collection') AND (TRUNC({today}-{usernotes.notedate}) BETWEEN 0 AND 30) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
I don’t know if CONTAINS is the right syntax and I’m not sure if I can combine the two formulas or if I did it right.
I believe you are combining your conditions correctly with AND.
To do string comparisons, use LIKE and the % wildcard:
CASE WHEN ({usernotes.notetitle} LIKE '%collection%') AND (TRUNC({today}-{usernotes.notedate}) BETWEEN 0 AND 30) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
If you only need to look for notes that start with collection, then just remove the first %.
See the NetSuite Help article titled SQL Expressions for details on all the SQL functions you can use.
See this page on LIKE for more details about pattern matching.
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...Hi, a database ingenue here. I'm trying to figure out how to use LIKE with CASE in SQLite, or some equivalent approach. I've got a prod_names table that contains concatenated data--occasionally just 1 item, but usually containing several comma-separated items. For my new 'Toy' column, I need to find every record that contains 'CapGun'. The code below works only when 'CapGun' is the only item, and not when there are multiple items (eg, 'BarbieDoll, CapGun, EasyBakeOven').
SELECT
customer_id,
prod_names,
CASE prod_names WHEN 'CapGun' THEN 'CG' ELSE 'not_CG' END Toy
FROM
Toys_table
ORDER BY
Toy
I've tried various approaches like WHEN LIKE '%CapGun%', WHEN INSTR(prod_names,'CapGun') > 0, and WHEN GLOB '*CapGun*' but they all return no results or throw a syntax error.
Any suggestions? I'm sure there must be a simple solution.
Use the expanded case syntax:
CASE
WHEN prod_names LIKE '%CapGun%' THEN ...
ELSE ...
END
This lets use any expression as the condition in your CASE, including other columns.
I'm working on an SSIS package. This package loads information from a form a verdure files. the package works perfectly, however my issue is in one of the column called 'SpecialUnit'.
On the form the customer can select 23 values and all this values get recorded as a comma separated. In my SSIS I have created different fields for all 23 values I wanted all this values to show 1 when the person selects them.
Example.
CASE WHEN sp.CodeText = 'Transit Dept.'
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END AS FollowUpByTransit,
I have a table that separates the comma delimiter, but when loading I do not have a value I want which is 1 or 0.
Can you make your 23 fields as calculated fields, then on the equation for each field you can use something like the below
As case when CodeText like '%Transit Dept%' then 1 else 0 end as FollowUpByTransit
So you would need to use the like operator, so you ignore the commas and other values.
If your code words may be a bit similar to each other, you can go with the idea HABO presented and thats somthing like the below
As case when (','+CodeText+',') like '%,Transit Dept,%' then 1 else 0 end as FollowUpByTransit
Hope this helps.
I have a TERADATA dataset that resembles the below:
Customer_ID | Targeting_Region
12 | targ=EU, targ=!Eu.Fr
34 | targ=Asia
56 | targ=!EU
The '!' denotes 'does not equal'. For example, the customer in Row #1 wants to target the EU, but exclude France.
I want to create a field that flags (with a '1') any row where there is 'positive' targeting. By 'positive' targeting I am referring to any row where a specific region as been explicitly INCLUDED ('negative' targeting would be where a region is explicity EXCLUDED, such as the exclusion of France in Row #1). For example, Row #1 contains both positive and negative targeting, Row #2 contains only positive targeting, Row #3 contains only negative targeting.
The problem I am encountering is that a simple case statement won't work (as far as I can tell). I have tried the 2 statements below:
(case when targeting_region like '%targ=%'; then 1 else 0 end) as target_flag
(case when ((targeting_region like '%targ=%';) and (targeting_region not like '%targ=!%';)) then 1 else 0 end) as target_flag
The 1st statement above doesn't work because it will return 1 for both 'targ=' and 'targ=!
The 2nd statement above doesn't work because it will return 1 for rows that ONLY have positive targeting. As such, Row #1 (above) would return a 0 (I want it to return a 1)
Note that that value following 'targ=' could also be a number. E.g., 'targ=12345'
Any ideas on how I could accomplish this? I have heard that teradata has something called regexp but I have been unable to find a good explanation of it after quite a bit of searching.
Thanks!
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but if you want a 1 only when there is a positive target and no negative target, then why not make it 0 if there exists a negative target and 1 otherwise?
For example,
case when targeting_region like '%targ=!%' then 0
when targeting_region like '%targ=%' then 1
else null -- Optional if you want to handle when no targeting regions exist
end as target_flag
Would something like this work?
(case when REGEXP_INSTR(targeting_region,'targ=[A-Z,a-z]') = 0; then 0 else 1)
I found syntax and example of REGEXP_INSTR() at
http://www.info.teradata.com/HTMLPubs/DB_TTU_14_00/index.html#page/SQL_Reference/B035_1145_111A/Regular_Expr_Functions.085.03.html#ww14955402
Because there was too little info at this site, you will have to fiddle with it to get it to work.
For example...
The equal sign in "...targ=...", and maybe even the left and right brackets, may need to be escaped, perhaps with backslash. Also, the above assumes that if there is no match, the function returns 0 (rather than NULL). It may need to be changed from "=0" to "IS NULL". Also, I assume that the parameters after the first two are optional. You may need to specify them, e.g., "1,1,i". Also, the expression could be simplified a bit, for example by using a shortcut for [A-Z,a-z], if you can find better documentation.
Explanation:
The second parameter specifies a "pattern" to look for in the first parameter.
1. "targ=" looks for exactly those characters.
2. "[A-Z,a-z]" looks for an alphabetic character. If a "!" occurs, it will not match and the search will proceed with the rest of the string.
3. REGEXP_SUBSTR() returns the character position where the pattern was found in the string. That's overkill because you only want to know yes it was found or no it was not, but hopefully it works because I couldn't find a simpler function.
If I understood you correctly you want 1 if there's any included target regardless of additional excluded regions?
This searches for 'targ=' followed by any other character than '!':
CASE WHEN REGEXP_INSTR(Targeting_Region,'targ=[^!]') = 0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END
If your release doesn't include REGEXP function there might be OREPLACE:
CASE WHEN POSITION('targ=' IN OREPLACE (Targeting_Region, 'targ=!', '')) > 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
All,
I'm writing a query that includes a CASE statement which compares two datetime fields. If Date B is > Date A, then I'd like the query to display Date B. However, if Date B is not > Date A, then the user who will be getting the report created by the query wants the column to be blank (in other words, not contain the word 'NULL', not contain a hyphen, not contain a low values date). I've been researching this today but have not come up with a viable solution so thought I'd ask here. This is what I have currently:
CASE
WHEN B.DTE_LNP_LAST > A.DTE_PROC_ACT
THEN B.DTE_LNP_LAST
ELSE ?
END AS "DATE OF DISCONNECT"
If I put NULL where the ? is, then I get a hyphen (-) in my query result. If I omit the Else statement, I also get a hyphen in the query result. ' ' doesn't work at all. Does anyone have any thoughts?
Typically the way nulls are displayed is controlled by the client software used to display query results. If you insist on doing that in SQL, you will need to convert the date to a character string:
CASE
WHEN B.DTE_LNP_LAST > A.DTE_PROC_ACT
THEN VARCHAR_FORMAT(B.DTE_LNP_LAST)
ELSE ''
END AS "DATE OF DISCONNECT"
Replace VARCHAR_FORMAT() with the formatting function available in your DB2 version on your platform, if necessary.
You can use the coalesce function
Coalesce (column, 'text')
If the first value is null, it will be replaced by the second one.
I am working with a table that contains two versions of stored information. To simplify it, one column contains the old description of a file run while another column contains the updated standard for displaying ran files. It gets more complicated in that the older column can have multiple standards within itself. The table:
Old Column New Column
Desc: LGX/101/rpt null
null Home
Print: LGX/234/rpt null
null Print
null Page
I need to combine the two columns into one, but I also need to delete the "Print: " and "Desc: " string from the beginning of the old column values. Any suggestions? Let me know if/when I'm forgetting something you need to know!
(I am writing in Cache SQL, but I'd just like a general approach to my problem, I can figure out the specifics past that.)
EDIT: the condition is that if substr(oldcol,1,5) = 'desc: ' then substr(oldcol,6)
else if substr(oldcol,1,6) = 'print: ' then substr(oldcol,7) etc. So as to take out the "desc: " and the "print: " to sanitize the data somewhat.
EDIT2: I want to make the table look like this:
Col
LGX/101/rpt
Home
LGX/234/rpt
Print
Page
It's difficult to understand what you are looking for exactly. Does the above represent before/after, or both columns that need combining/merging.
My guess is that COALESCE might be able to help you. It takes a bunch of parameters and returns the first non NULL.
It looks like you're wanting to grab values from new if old is NULL and old if new is null. To do that you can use a case statement in your SQL. I know CASE statements are supported by MySQL, I'm not sure if they'll help you here.
SELECT (CASE WHEN old_col IS NULL THEN new_col ELSE old_col END) as val FROM table_name
This will grab new_col if old_col is NULL, otherwise it will grab old_col.
You can remove the Print: and Desc: by using a combination of CharIndex and Substring functions. Here it goes
SELECT CASE WHEN CHARINDEX(':',COALESCE(OldCol,NewCol)) > 0 THEN
SUBSTRING(COALESCE(OldCol,NewCol),CHARINDEX(':',COALESCE(OldCol,NewCol))+1,8000)
ELSE
COALESCE(OldCol,NewCol)
END AS Newcolvalue
FROM [SchemaName].[TableName]
The Charindex gives the position of the character/string you are searching for.
So you get the position of ":" in the computed column(Coalesce part) and pass that value to the substring function. Then add +1 to the position which indicates the substring function to get the part after the ":". Now you have a string without "Desc:" and "Print:".
Hope this helps.