SQL Server
I have a parameter that contains a comma delimited string:
'abc,def,ghi'
I want to use that string in a IN statement that would take my parameter like this:
select * from tableA where val IN ('abc','def','ghi')
Any ideas on how I would do this?
If using dynamic SQL is an option, this can be executed:
SELECT 'SELECT * FROM tableA WHERE val IN (' +
'''' + REPLACE('abc,def,ghi', ',', ''',''') + ''')'
Basically, the REPLACE() function separates each item by ',' instead of just ,.
The simplest way would be to do something like this:
SELECT *
FROM TableName
WHERE ',' + commaDelimitedString + ',' LIKE '%,' + FieldName + ',%'
But be careful about SQL injection. You might want to parameterize it.
You can use this SQL to 'pivot' a comma-separated string into a table;
DECLARE #badData TABLE (id INT NOT NULL, txt NVARCHAR(max));
INSERT INTO #badData
VALUES (1, 'foo,bar,baz'), (2, NULL);;
-- the idea is to recursively 'pop' a value from the start of the string, splitting it into 'head' and 'tail' components
WITH unpacked (id, head, tail)
AS (
SELECT id, LEFT(txt, CHARINDEX(',', txt + ',') - 1), STUFF(txt, 1, CHARINDEX(',', txt + ','), '')
FROM #badData
UNION ALL
SELECT id, LEFT(tail, CHARINDEX(',', TAIL + ',') - 1), STUFF(tail, 1, CHARINDEX(',', tail+ ','), '')
FROM unpacked
WHERE tail > ''
)
SELECT id, head
FROM unpacked
ORDER BY id
You could stick this result into a common table expression, then write a where clause like
select * from tableA where val IN (select head from unpacked)
heavily plagiarised from https://stackoverflow.com/a/5493616/6722
Many programming languages have a split() function, for example in Ruby
'123,456,789'.split ","
=> ["123", "456", "789"]
Related
I have a set of strings like this:
CAP BCP0018 36
MFP ACZZ1BD 265
LZP FEI-12 3
I need to extract only the last values from the right and before the space, like:
36
265
3
how will the select statement look like? I tried using the below statement, but it did not work.
select CHARINDEX(myField, ' ', -1)
FROM myTable;
Perhaps the simplest method in SQL Server is:
select t.*, v.value
from t cross apply
(select top (1) value
from string_split(t.col, ' ')
where t.col like concat('% ', val)
) v;
This is perhaps not the most performant method. You probably would use:
select right(t.col, charindex(' ', reverse(t.col)) - 1)
Note: If there are no spaces, then to prevent an error:
select right(t.col, charindex(' ', reverse(t.col) + ' ') - 1)
Since you have mentioned CHARINDEX() in question, I am assuming you are using SQL Server.
Try below
declare #table table(col varchar(100))
insert into #table values('CAP BCP0018 36')
insert into #table values('MFP ACZZ1BD 265')
insert into #table values('LZP FE-12 3')
SELECT REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(col),CHARINDEX(' ',REVERSE(col)) - 1)) FROM #table
Functions used
CHARINDEX ( expressionToFind , expressionToSearch ) : returns position of FIRST occurence of an expression inside another expression.
LEFT ( character_expression , integer_expression ) : Returns the left part of a character string with the specified number of characters.
REVERSE ( string_expression ) : Returns the reverse order of a string value
declare #lkaklf as varchar(Max)
Select ss.Data from SplitString('14,72', ',') as ss
Select #lkaklf = CONVERT(varchar, COALESCE( + #lkaklf + ',', '') + '''' + Data + '''') From
(
Select Data from SplitString('14,72', ',')
)de
select #lkaklf
print #lkaklf
Select * from LPO Where CONVERT(varchar, LPO.LocalPurchaseOrderId) in (#lkaklf)
#lkalf value is Printing in message but not coming into select query... Why ?
You cannot do what you want. I would recommend that you skip over the splitting part of the query and just do:
where ','+#lkaklf+',' like ','+cast(LPO.LocalPurchaseOrderId as varchar(255))+',%'
That is, just use string comparisons.
If you really want to use SplitString(), then put the results in a temporary table:
insert into #t
select data from splitstring('14,72', ',')
And then use a subquery:
where cast(#lkalklf as varchar(255)) in (select data from #t)
I have a table variable in a stored procedure. What I want is to find all of the unique values in one column and join them in a comma-separated list. I am already in a stored procedure, so I can do it some way that way; however, I am curious if I can do this with a query. I am on SQL Server 2008. This query gets me the values I want:
SELECT DISTINCT faultType FROM #simFaults;
Is there a way (using CONCAT or something like that) where I can get the list as a single comma-separated value?
This worked for me on a test dataset.
DECLARE #MyCSV Varchar(200) = ''
SELECT #MyCSV = #MyCSV +
CAST(faulttype AS Varchar) + ','
FROM #Simfaults
GROUP BY faultType
SET #MyCSV = LEFT(#MyCSV, LEN(#MyCSV) - 1)
SELECT #MyCSV
The last part is needed to trim the trailing comma.
+1 to JNK - the other common way you will see, which doesn't require a variable is:
SELECT DISTINCT faulttype + ','
FROM #simfaults
FOR XML PATH ('')
Note that if faulttype contains characters like "<" for example, those will be xml encoded. But for simple values this will be OK.
this is how we do this
create table #test (item int)
insert into #test
values(1),(2),(3)
select STUFF((SELECT ', ' + cast(Item as nvarchar)
FROM #test
FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 2, '')
Without the space after the comma it would be;
select STUFF((SELECT ',' + cast(Item as nvarchar)
FROM #test
FOR XML PATH('')), 1,1, '')
I have table where in a table called test which have 4 fields.one field named as listing, I have 1,2,3,4,5,6 multiple values separated by comma, I need to check whether in that table and in that particular field an id say 4 is there or not.. by a sql query.
You database design is wrong, that's why you have problems querying the data. You should have the values in a separate table, so that teach value is in it's own field. Then it would be easy to find the records:
select t.testId
from test t
inner join listing l on l.testId = t.testId
where l.id = 4
Now you have to use some ugly string comparison to find the records:
select testId
from test
where ','+listing+',' like '%,4,%'
You can try
SELECT *
FROM YourTable
WHERE REPLACE(Col, ' ', '') LIKE '4,%' --Starts with
OR REPLACE(Col, ' ', '') LIKE '%,4' --Ends with
OR REPLACE(Col, ' ', '') LIKE '%,4,%' --Contains
OR REPLACE(Col, ' ', '') = '4' --Equals
Just as a matter of interest, have a look at this
DECLARE #delimiter NVARCHAR(5),
#Val INT
SELECT #Val = 40
SELECT #delimiter = ','
DECLARE #YourTable TABLE(
ID INT,
Vals VARCHAR(50)
)
INSERT INTO #YourTable (ID,Vals) SELECT 1, '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8'
DECLARE #TempTable TABLE(
ID INT,
Vals XML
)
INSERT INTO #TempTable
SELECT ID,
CAST('<d>' + REPLACE(Vals, #delimiter, '</d><d>') + '</d>' AS XML)
FROM #YourTable
SELECT *
FROM #TempTable tt
WHERE EXISTS(
SELECT T.split.value('.', 'nvarchar(max)') AS data
FROM tt.Vals.nodes('/d') T(split)
WHERE T.split.value('.', 'nvarchar(max)') = #Val
)
The common approach is to parse the list into a table variable or table-valued function, then either join against the table, or use an EXISTS sub-query.
There are lots of examples on how to do this:
http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=SQL+parse+list+into+table
You could use an instring function in the where clause and in the select clause:
Oracle:
select substr(column, instr(column, '1', 1), 1)
where instr(column, '1', 1) > 0
works if you want a single value. Alternatively you can use a combination of case or decode statements to create a single column for each possible value:
select
decode(instr(column, '1', 1), 0, substr(column, instr(column, '1', 1), 1), null) c1,
decode(instr(column, '2', 1), 0, substr(column, instr(column, '2', 1), 1), null) c2,
decode(instr(column, '3', 1), 0, substr(column, instr(column, '3', 1), 1), null) c3
The beauty of this approach for such a poorly normalised set of data is you can save this as a view and then run SQL on that, so if you save the above you could use:
select c1, c2 from view where c1 is not null or c2 is not null
NB. In other dbms you might have to use different syntax, possibly the case rather decode statement
If you need to find 4 and only 4 (ie not 14 or 24 or 40 etc) you should use
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE col LIKE '%, 4,%'
or
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE col LIKE '%,4,%'
if there are no spaces between the commas and numbers
How about this?
Select * From Foo Where Col like '%4%'
In a SQL statement ( or procedure ) I want to collapse the rows of this table into a single comma delimited string.
simpleTable
id value
-- -----
1 "a"
2 "b"
3 "c"
Collapse to:
"a, b, c"
You can concatenate using an embedded 'set' statement in a query:
declare #combined varchar(2000)
select #combined = isnull(#combined + ', ','') + isnull(value,'')
from simpleTable
print #combined
(Note that the first isnull() initialises the string, and the second isnull() is especially important if there's any chance of nulls in the 'value' column, because otherwise a single null could wipe out the whole concatenation)
(edited code and explanation after comments)
Edit (ten years later):
SQL Server 2017 introduced the STRING_AGG() function which provides an official way of concatenating strings from different rows. Like other aggregation functions such as COUNT(), it can be used with GROUP BY.
So for the example above you could do:
select string_agg(value, ', ')
from simpleTable
If you had some other column and you wanted to concatenate for values of that column, you would add a 'group by' clause, e.g:
select someCategory, string_agg(value, ', ') as concatValues
from simpleTable
group by someCategory
Note string_agg will only work with SQL 2017 and above.
This will only work in MSSQL 2005+
select value + ',' from simpletable for xml path ('')
..one way to prevent the extra comma:
select case(row_number() over (order by id))
when 1 then value else ',' + value end
from simpletable
for xml path ('')
DECLARE #EmployeeList varchar(100)
SELECT #EmployeeList = COALESCE(#EmployeeList + ', ', '') +
CAST(Emp_UniqueID AS varchar(5))
FROM SalesCallsEmployees
WHERE SalCal_UniqueID = 1
SELECT #EmployeeList
Results:
1, 2, 4
This is based on #codeulike answer, but will prevent losing the portion of the string that gets concatenated before a null "value" is concatenated on.
declare #combined varchar(2000)
select #combined = isnull(#combined + ', ','') + ISNULL(value,'')
from simpleTable
print #combined