In SQL I like to search a column for matches of a particular string using something like this:
SELECT t.attributeNAME
FROM myTable t
WHERE t.attributeNAME LIKE '%searchString%'
I might like to use that in a temp table and then use the result in subsequent sections of a longer script like so:
--find the keys
SELECT t.attributeKEY
INTO #Temp
FROM myTable t
WHERE t.attributeNAMELIKE '%searchString%'
--use the keys
SELECT SUM(f.measure)
FROM myFacts f
INNER JOIN #Temp t ON
f.attributeKEY = t.attributeKEY
--use the keys again
SELECT SUM(F.measure)
FROM myOtherFacts F
INNER JOIN #Temp t ON
F.attributeKEY = t.attributeKEY
Is there an equivalent to this in MDX? If I have an idea what items from a hierarchy that I'm after can I somehow use a searchString to filter to a specific set of items?
EDIT
As pointed out by Marc Polizzi answer it seems like instr is very useful in this situation and I can do the following:
CREATE SET [xCube].[Set_Names] AS
{FILTER(
[xDimension].[xHierarchy].[xLevel].Members,
(InStr(1, [xDimension].[xHierarchy].CurrentMember.NAME, "WIL") <> 0)
)
}
GO
SELECT
NON EMPTY
[Set_Names]
ON ROWS,
NON EMPTY
[Measures].[x]
ON COLUMNS
FROM [xCube]
GO
SELECT
NON EMPTY
[Set_Names]
ON ROWS,
NON EMPTY
[Measures].[y]
ON COLUMNS
FROM [xCube]
GO
SELECT
NON EMPTY
[Set_Names]
ON ROWS,
NON EMPTY
[Measures].[z]
ON COLUMNS
FROM [xCube]
You might be able to use the Instr function even if it does not support wildcard.
There is no such thing like like in plain MDX, but there is an implementation in the ASSP project: http://asstoredprocedures.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=StringFilters&referringTitle=Home
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I'm trying to write a SP that will allow users to search on multiple name strings, but supports LIKE functionality. For example, the user's input might be a string 'Scorsese, Kaurismaki, Tarkovsky'. I use a split function to turn that string into a table var, with one column, as follows:
part
------
Scorsese
Kaurismaki
Tarkovsky
Then, normally I would return any values from my table matching any of these values in my table var, with an IN statement:
select * from myTable where lastName IN (select * from #myTableVar)
However, this only returns exact matches, and I need to return partial matches. I'm looking for something like this, but that would actually compile:
select * from myTable where CONTAINS(lastName, select * from #myTableVar)
I've found other questions where it's made clear that you can't combine LIKE and IN, and it's recommended to use CONTAINS. My specific question is, is it possible to combine CONTAINS with a table list of values, as above? If so, what would that syntax look like? If not, any other workarounds to achieve my goal?
I'm using SQL Server 2016, if it makes any difference.
You can use EXISTS
SELECT * FROM myTable M
WHERE
EXISTS( SELECT * FROM #myTableVar V WHERE M.lastName like '%'+ V.part +'%' )
Can your parser built the entire statement? Will that get you what you want?
select *
from myTable
where CONTAINS
(lastName,
'"Scorsese" OR "Kaurismaki" OR "Tarkovsky"'
)
This can be done using CHARINDEX function combined with EXISTS:
select *
from myTable mt
where exists(select 1 from #myTableVar
where charindex(mt.lastName, part) > 0
or charindex(part, mt.lastName) > 0)
You might want to omit one of the conditions in the inner query, but I think this is what you want.
so I am new to SQL and I have little experience with it. So please excuse if this is really basic but I can't seem to find it after googling...
so I have a table which contains a serialnumber field.
I have a single inputfield which contains comma seperated values with each one being a serialnumber. I just want to display the serialnumbers that are in that comma seperated string.
So I have a splitstring function that I can use which splits the string at the commas like this:
SELECT * FROM dbo.SplitString('sn1,sn2,sn3,sn4,sn5,sn6', ',')
this returns a table with each sn being a row.
So I would want something like this:
SELECT
*
FROM
tbl_serials AS sn
WHERE
sn.serialnumber in dbo.SplitString('sn1,sn2,sn3,sn4,sn5,sn6', ',')
so this would display only the rows where the serialnumber is inside the string. But I don't know how to syntactily construct this.
Any help is appreciated
One method to do this is using join:
SELECT sn.*
FROM tbl_serials sn JOIN
dbo.SplitString('sn1,sn2,sn3,sn4,sn5,sn6', ',') as ss(val)
ON sn.serialnumber = ss.val;
With your route, you need a subquery:
SELECT sn.*
FROM tbl_serials sn JOIN
WHERE sn.serialnumber in (SELECT val
FROM dbo.SplitString('sn1,sn2,sn3,sn4,sn5,sn6', ',') as ss(val)
);
In both these cases, the as ss(val) assigns a table alias and a column alias to the value. Some versions of SplitString might return more than one value (such as a position). If you have such a version, then you need to include the extra return values as named columns.
I have to compare comma separated values with a column in the table and find out which values are not in database. [kind of master data validation]. Please have a look at the sample data below:
table data in database:
id name
1 abc
2 def
3 ghi
SQL part :
Here i am getting comma separated list like ('abc','def','ghi','xyz').
now xyz is invalid value, so i want to take that value and return it as output saying "invalid value".
It is possible if i split those value, take it in temp table, loop through each value and compare one by one.
but is there any other optimal way to do this ??
I'm sure if I got the question right, however, I would personally be trying to get to something like this:
SELECT
D.id,
CASE
WHEN B.Name IS NULL THEN D.name
ELSE "invalid value"
END
FROM
data AS D
INNER JOIN badNames B ON b.Name = d.Name
--as SQL is case insensitive, equal sign should work
There is one table with bad names or invalid values if You prefer. This can a temporary table as well - depending on usage (a black-listed words should be a table, ad hoc invalid values provided by a service should be temp table, etc.).
NOTE: The select above can be nested in a view, so the data remain as they were, yet you gain the correctness information. Otherwise I would create a cursor inside a function that would go through the select like the one above and alter the original data, if that is the goal...
It sounds like you just need a NOT EXISTS / LEFT JOIN, as in:
SELECT tmp.InvalidValue
FROM dbo.HopeThisIsNotAWhileBasedSplit(#CSVlist) tmp
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM dbo.Table tbl
WHERE tbl.Field = tmp.InvalidValue
);
Of course, depending on the size of the CSV list coming in, the number of rows in the table you are checking, and the style of splitter you are using, it might be better to dump the CSV to a temp table first (as you mentioned doing in the question).
Try following query:
SELECT SplitedValues.name,
CASE WHEN YourTable.Id IS NULL THEN 'invalid value' ELSE NULL END AS Result
FROM SplitedValues
LEFT JOIN yourTable ON SplitedValues.name = YourTable.name
How can you query a column for any value in that column? (ie. How do I build a dynamic where clause that can either filter the value, or not.)
I want to be able to query for either a specific value, or not. For instance, I might want the value to be 1, but I might want it to be any number.
Is there a way to use a wild card (like "*"), to match any value, so that it can be dynamically inserted where I want no filter?
For instance:
select int_col from table where int_col = 1 // Query for a specific value
select int_col from table where int_col = * // Query for any value
The reason why I do not want to use 2 separate SQL statements is because I am using this as a SQL Data Source, which can only have 1 select statement.
Sometimes I would query for actual value (like 1, 2...) so I can't not have a condition either.
I take it you want some dynamic behavior on your WHERE clause, without having to dynamically build your WHERE clause.
With a single parameter, you can use ISNULL (or COALESCE) like this:
SELECT * FROM Table WHERE ID = ISNULL(#id, ID)
which allows a NULL parameter to match all. Some prefer the longer but more explicit:
SELECT * FROM Table WHERE (#id IS NULL) OR (ID = #id)
A simple answer would be use: IS NOT NULL. But if you are asking for say 123* for numbers like 123456 or 1234 or 1237 then the you could convert it to a varchar and then test against using standard wild cards.
In your where clause: cast(myIntColumn as varchar(15)) like '123%'.
Assuming the value you're filtering on is a parameter in a stored procedure, or contained in a variable called #Value, you can do it like this:
select * from table where #Value is null or intCol = #Value
If #Value is null then the or part of the clause is ignored, so the query won't filter on intCol.
The equivalent of wildcards for numbers are the comparators.
So, if you wanted to find all positive integers:
select int_col from table where int_col > 0
any numbers between a hundred and a thousand:
select int_col from table where int_col BETWEEN 100 AND 1000
and so on.
I don't quite understand what you're asking. I think you should use two different queries for the different situations you have.
When you're not looking for a specific value:
SELECT * FROM table
When you are looking for a specific value:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE intcol = 1
You can use the parameter as a wildcard by assigning special meaning to NULL:
DECLARE #q INT = 1
SELECT * FROM table WHERE IntegerColumn = #q OR #q IS NULL
This way, when you pass in NULL; you get all rows.
If NULL is a valid value to query for, then you need to use two parameters.
If you really want the value of your column for all rows on the table you can simply use
select int_col
from table
If you want to know all the distinct values, but don't care how many times they're repeated you can use
select distinct int_col
from table
And if you want to know all the distinct values and how many times they each appear, use
select int_col, count(*)
from table
group by int_col
To have the values sorted properly you can add
order by int_col
to all the queries above.
Share and enjoy.
I am trying to find a way, if possible, to use IN and LIKE together. What I want to accomplish is putting a subquery that pulls up a list of data into an IN statement. The problem is the list of data contains wildcards. Is there any way to do this?
Just something I was curious on.
Example of data in the 2 tables
Parent table
ID Office_Code Employee_Name
1 GG234 Tom
2 GG654 Bill
3 PQ123 Chris
Second table
ID Code_Wildcard
1 GG%
2 PQ%
Clarifying note (via third-party)
Since I'm seeing several responses which don't seems to address what Ziltoid asks, I thought I try clarifying what I think he means.
In SQL, "WHERE col IN (1,2,3)" is roughly the equivalent of "WHERE col = 1 OR col = 2 OR col = 3".
He's looking for something which I'll pseudo-code as
WHERE col IN_LIKE ('A%', 'TH%E', '%C')
which would be roughly the equivalent of
WHERE col LIKE 'A%' OR col LIKE 'TH%E' OR col LIKE '%C'
The Regex answers seem to come closest; the rest seem way off the mark.
I'm not sure which database you're using, but with Oracle you could accomplish something equivalent by aliasing your subquery in the FROM clause rather than using it in an IN clause. Using your example:
select p.*
from
(select code_wildcard
from second
where id = 1) s
join parent p
on p.office_code like s.code_wildcard
In MySQL, use REGEXP:
WHERE field1 REGEXP('(value1)|(value2)|(value3)')
Same in Oracle:
WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(field1, '(value1)|(value2)|(value3)')
Do you mean somethign like:
select * FROM table where column IN (
SELECT column from table where column like '%%'
)
Really this should be written like:
SELECT * FROM table where column like '%%'
Using a sub select query is really beneficial when you have to pull records based on a set of logic that you won't want in the main query.
something like:
SELECT * FROM TableA WHERE TableA_IdColumn IN
(
SELECT TableA_IdColumn FROM TableB WHERE TableA_IDColumn like '%%'
)
update to question:
You can't combine an IN statement with a like statement:
You'll have to do three different like statements to search on the various wildcards.
You could use a LIKE statement to obtain a list of IDs and then use that in the IN statement.
But you can't directly combine IN and LIKE.
Perhaps something like this?
SELECT DISTINCT
my_column
FROM
My_Table T
INNER JOIN My_List_Of_Value V ON
T.my_column LIKE '%' + V.search_value + '%'
In this example I've used a table with the values for simplicity, but you could easily change that to a subquery. If you have a large list (like tens of thousands) then performance might be rough.
select *
from parent
where exists( select *
from second
where office_code like trim( code_wildcard ) );
Trim code_wildcard just in case it has trailing blanks.
You could do the Like part in a subquery perhaps?
Select * From TableA Where X in (Select A from TableB where B Like '%123%')
tsql has the contains statement for a full-text-search enabled table.
CONTAINS(Description, '"sea*" OR "bread*"')
If I'm reading the question correctly, we want all Parent rows that have an Office_code that matches any Code_Wildcard in the "Second" table.
In Oracle, at least, this query achieves that:
SELECT *
FROM parent, second
WHERE office_code LIKE code_wildcard;
Am I missing something?