I have the following extract of a code used in SAS and wanted to write it in SQL Server to extract data.
substr(zipname,1,4) in("2000","9000","3000","1000");run;
How do I write this in SQL Server ?
I tried and got this error:
An expression of non-boolean type specified in a context where a
condition is expected
In sql server, there's no substr function (it's substring)
by the way, you need a complete query...
select blabla
from blibli
where substring(zipname, 1, 4) in ('2000', '9000', 3000', '1000')
assuming zipname is a varchar or something like that...
You need a table that you are getting the records from, and zipname would be a column in the table. The statement would be something like this:
select * from tablename where substring(zipname,1,4) in ('2000','9000','3000','1000')
Since you want the first x characters, you can also use the left() function.
where left(zipname, 4) in (values go here)
Bear in mind that your values have to be single quoted. Your question has double quotes.
Related
I am working on a third-party custom flat file DB that I access through ODBC and the ROUND function is throwing errors always.
Is there a function that can do rounding in ODBC?
An example that throws an error:
SELECT AUDIT_SPLIT.ACCOUNT_REF, ROUND(SUM(AUDIT_SPLIT.GROSS_AMOUNT), 2) FROM AUDIT_SPLIT GROUP BY AUDIT_SPLIT.ACCOUNT_REF
Though Excel the error is "Column not found"
So I will try something like this:
SELECT A.ACCOUNT_REF, ROUND(SUM(A.GROSS_AMOUNT), 2) GROSS_AMOUNT_SUM
FROM AUDIT_SPLIT A
WHERE A.ACCOUNT_REF IS NOT NULL AND A.GROSS_AMOUNT IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY 1
Is your flat file something like a csv, a delimited text file or a fixed length file?
In this case I will suggest to check for the last line is not empty.
If the file ends with a cr/lf a new line is added and it is filled with nulls.
Also, from which client are you running the query? You have not given a name to ROUND() column, maybe you need it.
So I will try something like this:
SELECT A.ACCOUNT_REF, ROUND(SUM(A.GROSS_AMOUNT), 2) AS GROSS_AMOUNT_SUM
FROM AUDIT_SPLIT A
WHERE A.ACCOUNT_REF IS NOT NULL AND A.GROSS_AMOUNT IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY A.ACCOUNT_REF
UPDATE
Maybe the problem is related to the comma present in ROUND function, because it is interpreted as a column separator, you can avoid it using ODBC escape clause {fn ROUND()} (as suggested by jarlh in his comment), and to be sure and clear I will try to split the SUM() and the ROUND() in this way:
SELECT S.ACCOUNT_REF, {fn ROUND(S.GROSS_AMOUNT_SUM, 2)} AS ROUNDED_SUM
FROM (
SELECT A.ACCOUNT_REF, SUM(A.GROSS_AMOUNT) AS GROSS_AMOUNT_SUM
FROM AUDIT_SPLIT AS A
WHERE A.ACCOUNT_REF IS NOT NULL AND A.GROSS_AMOUNT IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY A.ACCOUNT_REF
) AS S
I need for a SQL query to transform an int with a value between 1 to 300000 to a number which has this pattern : always 8 number.
For example:
1 becomes 00000001,
123 becomes 00000123,
123456 becomes 00123456.
I have no idea how to do that... How can I do it?
In Standard SQL, you can use this trick:
select substring(cast( (num + 100000000) as varchar(255)) from 2)
Few databases actually support this syntax. Any given database can do what you want, but the method depends on the database you are using.
For MS SQL Server
You could use FORMAT function, like this:
SELECT FORMAT(123,'00000000')
https://database.guide/how-to-format-numbers-in-sql-server/#:~:text=Starting%20from%20SQL%20Server%202012,the%20output%20should%20be%20formatted.
Read at the link Leading Zeroes
For MySql/Oracle
You could use LPAD, like this:
SELECT LPAD('123',8,'0')
https://database.guide/how-to-add-leading-zeros-to-a-number-in-mysql/
I have a table which has a column with doc locations, such as AA/BB/CC/EE
I am trying to get only one of these parts, lets say just the CC part (which has variable length). Until now I've tried as follows:
SELECT RIGHT(doclocation,CHARINDEX('/',REVERSE(doclocation),0)-1)
FROM Table
WHERE doclocation LIKE '%CC %'
But I'm not getting the expected result
Use PARSENAME function like this,
DECLARE #s VARCHAR(100) = 'AA/BB/CC/EE'
SELECT PARSENAME(replace(#s, '/', '.'), 2)
This is painful to do in SQL Server. One method is a series of string operations. I find this simplest using outer apply (unless I need subqueries for a different reason):
select *
from t outer apply
(select stuff(t.doclocation, 1, patindex('%/%/%', t.doclocation), '') as doclocation2) t2 outer apply
(select left(tt.doclocation2), charindex('/', tt.doclocation2) as cc
) t3;
The PARSENAME function is used to get the specified part of an object name, and should not used for this purpose, as it will only parse strings with max 4 objects (see SQL Server PARSENAME documentation at MSDN)
SQL Server 2016 has a new function STRING_SPLIT, but if you don't use SQL Server 2016 you have to fallback on the solutions described here: How do I split a string so I can access item x?
The question is not clear I guess. Can you please specify which value you need? If you need the values after CC, then you can do the CHARINDEX on "CC". Also the query does not seem correct as the string you provided is "AA/BB/CC/EE" which does not have a space between it, but in the query you are searching for space WHERE doclocation LIKE '%CC %'
SELECT SUBSTRING(doclocation,CHARINDEX('CC',doclocation)+2,LEN(doclocation))
FROM Table
WHERE doclocation LIKE '%CC %'
I'm trying to query an xml column using an IN expression. I have not found a native XQuery way of doing such a query so I have tried two work-arounds:
Implement the IN query as a concatenation of ORs like this:
WHERE Data.exist('/Document/ParentKTMNode[text() = sql:variable("#Param1368320145") or
text() = sql:variable("#Param2043685301") or ...
Implement the IN query with the String fn:contains(...) method like this:
WHERE Data.exist('/Document/Field2[fn:contains(sql:variable("#Param1412022317"), .)]') = 1
Where the given parameter is a (long) string with the values separated by "|"
The problem is that Version 1. doesn't work for more than about 50 arguments. The server throws an out of memory exception. Version 2. works, but is very, very slow.
Has anyone a 3. idea? To phrase the problem more complete: Given a list of values, of any sql native type, select all rows whose xml column has one of the given values at a specific field in the xml.
Try to insert all your parameters in a table and query using sql:column clause:
SELECT Mytable.Column FROM MyTable
CROSS JOIN (SELECT '#Param1' T UNION ALL SELECT '#Param2') B
WHERE Data.exist('/Document/ParentKTMNode[text() = sql:column("T")
I have stored values in my database that look like 5XXXXXX, where X can be any digit. In other words, I need to match incoming SQL query strings like 5349878.
Does anyone have an idea how to do it?
I have different cases like XXXX7XX for example, so it has to be generic. I don't care about representing the pattern in a different way inside the SQL Server.
I'm working with c# in .NET.
You can write queries like this in SQL Server:
--each [0-9] matches a single digit, this would match 5xx
SELECT * FROM YourTable WHERE SomeField LIKE '5[0-9][0-9]'
stored value in DB is: 5XXXXXX [where x can be any digit]
You don't mention data types - if numeric, you'll likely have to use CAST/CONVERT to change the data type to [n]varchar.
Use:
WHERE CHARINDEX(column, '5') = 1
AND CHARINDEX(column, '.') = 0 --to stop decimals if needed
AND ISNUMERIC(column) = 1
References:
CHARINDEX
ISNUMERIC
i have also different cases like XXXX7XX for example, so it has to be generic.
Use:
WHERE PATINDEX('%7%', column) = 5
AND CHARINDEX(column, '.') = 0 --to stop decimals if needed
AND ISNUMERIC(column) = 1
References:
PATINDEX
Regex Support
SQL Server 2000+ supports regex, but the catch is you have to create the UDF function in CLR before you have the ability. There are numerous articles providing example code if you google them. Once you have that in place, you can use:
5\d{6} for your first example
\d{4}7\d{2} for your second example
For more info on regular expressions, I highly recommend this website.
Try this
select * from mytable
where p1 not like '%[^0-9]%' and substring(p1,1,1)='5'
Of course, you'll need to adjust the substring value, but the rest should work...
In order to match a digit, you can use [0-9].
So you could use 5[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] and [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]7[0-9][0-9][0-9]. I do this a lot for zip codes.
SQL Wildcards are enough for this purpose. Follow this link: http://www.w3schools.com/SQL/sql_wildcards.asp
you need to use a query like this:
select * from mytable where msisdn like '%7%'
or
select * from mytable where msisdn like '56655%'