Need to auto increment string in SQL Server 2012 - sql

Question

Consider the table in SQL Server 2012
789-0000000
The above number will be consider as a string in SQL Server 2012, but whenever I update the record I need increment to 1.
For example:
When I update the record 1 it should increment to 789-0000001
When I update the record 2 it should increment to 789-0000002
Finally increment should done only 789-0000000

Answer 1

The best solution is to use
an ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) column to get SQL Server to handle the automatic increment of your numeric value
a computed, persisted column to convert that numeric value to the value you need
So try this:
CREATE TABLE dbo.YourTable
(ID INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED,
CompanyID AS '789-' + RIGHT('000000' + CAST(ID AS VARCHAR(7)), 7) PERSISTED,
.... your other columns here....
)
Now, every time you insert a row into dbo.YourTable without specifying values for ID or CompanyID:
INSERT INTO dbo.YourTable(Col1, Col2, ..., ColN)
VALUES (Val1, Val2, ....., ValN)
then SQL Server will automatically and safely increase your ID value, and CompanyID will contain values like 789-0000001, 789-0000002,...... and so on - automatically, safely, reliably, no duplicates.

Answer 2

DECLARE #base int = 0
UPDATE TableX
SET
TableX.Value = 'Prefix' + RIGHT('0000000' + CAST(#base AS nvarchar),7),
#base = #base + 1
FROM
TableX

Answer 3

you can split the string
e.g.:
SELECT Item
FROM dbo.SplitString('Apple,Mango,Banana,Guava', ',')
then cast it
e.g.:
SELECT CAST(YourVarcharCol AS INT) FROM Table
then manually increment it
e.g.:
DECLARE max_id INT
SET #max_id = (SELECT MAX(id) FROM source_table)
DECLARE cursor_name CURSOR FOR
SELECT columns, to, copy
FROM source_table
OPEN cursor_name
FETCH NEXT FROM cursor_name
INTO #columns, #to, #cop
at update
e.g.:
declare #i int = SELECT ISNULL(MAX(interfaceID),0) + 1 FROM prices
update prices
set interfaceID = #i , #i = #i + 1
where interfaceID is null
you can understand how complicate this is and why
the solution using a constant to store that prefix is right one.

Answer 4

Declare #str varchar(max) = '789-0000000'
Select
SUBSTRING ( #str ,0 ,CHARINDEX ( '-' ,#str ))
+'-'
+
(SUBSTRING ( #str ,(CHARINDEX ( '-' ,#str)+1) ,(7-LEN(CAST(SUBSTRING ( #str ,CHARINDEX ( '-' ,#str)+1,LEN(#str)) as int))
)
)+
CAST(CAST(SUBSTRING ( #str ,CHARINDEX ( '-' ,#str)+1,LEN(#str)) as int)+1 as varchar))
When #str='789-0001947'
Output #str= 789-0001948
You can write a update trigger on the table with above logic.