I have declare #a varchar(100) = 'abc bcd cde def'. What I need is to select from a table where a column is like 'abc' or 'bcd' or 'cde' or 'def'. I can use a split function and a while to get what I want, but somewhere I saw a smart solution using replace or something similar and I just can't remember it.
I know I can use an xml variable, and parse it that way. However, the value is part of a large procedure, and the best way for me is to use it in string form.
I know I can solve this by building a dynamic sql query, but that is not an option in the domain I'm working in.
Damn, I just can remember the solution. Its a hack, a little dirty trick that do the job.
Anyways, I ll use the code bellow (Im over SQL Server 2008), is it a good idea? I prefer it over the dirty split. Is it more performatic?
declare #w varchar(100) = 'some word'
declare #f xml
set #f = '<word>' + replace(#w, ' ', '</word><word>') + '</word>'
select
template.item.value('.', 'varchar(100)') as word
from #f.nodes('/word') template(item)
Use a function to split the individual items into a table, one record per item. Then you simply join to that table.
insert into #FilterTable (filters)
select Items from dbo.Split(#YourFilterString)
select *
from YourTable yt
join #FilterTable f on f.filters = yt.YourColumn
Of course my example is using equality. It gets more complicated if you truly intend to use "like" with wildcards.
In tsql you can use a pattern col like '[abcd]'
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179859.aspx
For matching multiple words (not letter) and without dynamic SQL, you'll have to get the values into a temp table. For a split function try this page http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql-2005.html#iterative and look at the List of Strings function iter_charlist_to_table.
Or maybe you are thinking of this little trick Parameterize an SQL IN clause from the SO CEO.
for 4 sections max
WHERE
PARSENAME(REPLACE(#a, ' ', '.'), 1) = 'xxx'
OR
PARSENAME(REPLACE(#a, ' ', '.'), 2) = 'xxx'
OR
PARSENAME(REPLACE(#a, ' ', '.'), 3) = 'xxx'
OR
PARSENAME(REPLACE(#a, ' ', '.'), 4) = 'xxx'
Related
Below is my query. It is giving me correct output but I need to run it efficiently as it is used for 500k records.
DECLARE #DESC_MESSAGE VARCHAR(5000)
SET #DESC_MESSAGE = '12345 VENKAT was entered ODC ABCD-3'
SELECT REPLACE(#DESC_MESSAGE,SUBSTRING(#DESC_MESSAGE,1,CHARINDEX('was',#DESC_MESSAGE,3)-1),'')
I just want to retrieve text after 'was' which can change depending on condition.
for ex. text can be like
'112233 XYZ was entered ODC PQRS-3' or
'223344 HARRY was gone out of ODC AMD-3'
Please suggest efficient way to retrieve such text.
I would be inclined to use stuff():
select stuff(col, 1, chardindex('was ', col + 'was ') + 4, '')
The + 'was + in the charindex() function just guarantees no error if 'was ' is not in the text.
half milion rows is not so huge..
what i can see in your question is that there is an architecture issue,
why do you need to split a column to make a query?
why don't you keep the colums splitted in origin ?
eventually you could have another column that contains only the text after the "was"
this could be better even if the rows grow a lot.
select LTRIM(stuff(#DESC_MESSAGE, 1, CHARINDEX(' was', #DESC_MESSAGE + 'was') + 3, ''))
I'm trying to understand if the above question is possible. I've been conceptually thinking about it, and basically what I'm looking to do is:
Specify keywords that may appear in a title. Lets use the two terms "Portfolio" and "Mike"
I'm hoping to generate a query that will allow for me to search for when Portfolio is contained within a title, or Mike. These two titles need not to be together.
For instance, if I have a title dubbed: "Portfolio A" and another title "Mike's favorite" I'd like both of these titles to be returned.
The issue I've encountered with using a LIKE statement is the following:
WHERE 1=1
and rpt_title LIKE ''%'+#report_title+'%'''
If I were to input: 'Portfolio,Mike' it would search for the occurrence of just that within a title.
EDIT: I should have been a bit more clear. I believe it's necessary for me to input my variable as 'Portfolio, Mike' in order for it to find the multiple values. Is this possible?
I'm assuming you could maybe use a charindex with a substring and a replace?
Yep, multiple Like statements with OR will work just fine -- just make sure you use the correct parentheses:
SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE 1=1
and (rpt_title LIKE '%Portfolio%'
or rpt_title LIKE '%Mike%')
However, I might suggest you look into using a full-text search.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms142571.aspx
I can propose a solution where you could specify any number of masks, without using multiple LIKE -
DECLARE #temp TABLE (st VARCHAR(100))
INSERT INTO #temp (st)
VALUES ('Portfolio photo'),('- Mike'),('blank'),('else'),('est')
DECLARE #delims VARCHAR(30)
SELECT #delims = '|Portfolio|Mike|' -- %Portfolio% OR %Mike% OR etc.
SELECT t.st
FROM #temp t
CROSS JOIN (
SELECT substr =
SUBSTRING(
#delims,
number + 1,
CHARINDEX('|', #delims, number + 1) - number - 1)
FROM [master].dbo.spt_values n
WHERE [type] = N'P'
AND number <= LEN(#delims) - 1
AND SUBSTRING(#delims, number, 1) = '|'
) s
WHERE t.st LIKE '%' + s.substr + '%'
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I have a sql function that includes this code:
DECLARE #CodeNameString varchar(100)
SELECT CodeName FROM AccountCodes ORDER BY Sort
I need to concatenate all results from the select query into CodeNameString.
Obviously a FOREACH loop in C# code would do this, but how do I do it in SQL?
If you're on SQL Server 2005 or up, you can use this FOR XML PATH & STUFF trick:
DECLARE #CodeNameString varchar(100)
SELECT
#CodeNameString = STUFF( (SELECT ',' + CodeName
FROM dbo.AccountCodes
ORDER BY Sort
FOR XML PATH('')),
1, 1, '')
The FOR XML PATH('') basically concatenates your strings together into one, long XML result (something like ,code1,code2,code3 etc.) and the STUFF puts a "nothing" character at the first character, e.g. wipes out the "superfluous" first comma, to give you the result you're probably looking for.
UPDATE: OK - I understand the comments - if your text in the database table already contains characters like <, > or &, then my current solution will in fact encode those into <, >, and &.
If you have a problem with that XML encoding - then yes, you must look at the solution proposed by #KM which works for those characters, too. One word of warning from me: this approach is a lot more resource and processing intensive - just so you know.
DECLARE #CodeNameString varchar(max)
SET #CodeNameString=''
SELECT #CodeNameString=#CodeNameString+CodeName FROM AccountCodes ORDER BY Sort
SELECT #CodeNameString
#AlexanderMP's answer is correct, but you can also consider handling nulls with coalesce:
declare #CodeNameString nvarchar(max)
set #CodeNameString = null
SELECT #CodeNameString = Coalesce(#CodeNameString + ', ', '') + cast(CodeName as varchar) from AccountCodes
select #CodeNameString
For SQL Server 2005 and above use Coalesce for nulls and I am using Cast or Convert if there are numeric values -
declare #CodeNameString nvarchar(max)
select #CodeNameString = COALESCE(#CodeNameString + ',', '') + Cast(CodeName as varchar) from AccountCodes ORDER BY Sort
select #CodeNameString
from msdn Do not use a variable in a SELECT statement to concatenate values (that is, to compute aggregate values). Unexpected query results may occur. This is because all expressions in the SELECT list (including assignments) are not guaranteed to be executed exactly once for each output row
The above seems to say that concatenation as done above is not valid as the assignment might be done more times than there are rows returned by the select
Here is another real life example that works fine at least with 2008 release (and later).
This is the original query which uses simple max() to get at least one of the values:
SELECT option_name, Field_M3_name, max(Option_value) AS "Option value", max(Sorting) AS "Sorted"
FROM Value_list group by Option_name, Field_M3_name
ORDER BY option_name, Field_M3_name
Improved version, where the main improvement is that we show all values comma separated:
SELECT from1.keys, from1.option_name, from1.Field_M3_name,
Stuff((SELECT DISTINCT ', ' + [Option_value] FROM Value_list from2
WHERE COALESCE(from2.Option_name,'') + '|' + COALESCE(from2.Field_M3_name,'') = from1.keys FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE)
.value('text()[1]','nvarchar(max)'),1,2,N'') AS "Option values",
Stuff((SELECT DISTINCT ', ' + CAST([Sorting] AS VARCHAR) FROM Value_list from2
WHERE COALESCE(from2.Option_name,'') + '|' + COALESCE(from2.Field_M3_name,'') = from1.keys FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE)
.value('text()[1]','nvarchar(max)'),1,2,N'') AS "Sorting"
FROM ((SELECT DISTINCT COALESCE(Option_name,'') + '|' + COALESCE(Field_M3_name,'') AS keys, Option_name, Field_M3_name FROM Value_list)
-- WHERE
) from1
ORDER BY keys
Note that we have solved all possible NULL case issues that I can think of and also we fixed an error that we got for numeric values (field Sorting).
Is there an equivalent to IsDate or IsNumeric for uniqueidentifier (SQL Server)?
Or is there anything equivalent to (C#) TryParse?
Otherwise I'll have to write my own function, but I want to make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel.
The scenario I'm trying to cover is the following:
SELECT something FROM table WHERE IsUniqueidentifier(column) = 1
SQL Server 2012 makes this all much easier with TRY_CONVERT(UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, expression)
SELECT something
FROM your_table
WHERE TRY_CONVERT(UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, your_column) IS NOT NULL;
For prior versions of SQL Server, the existing answers miss a few points that mean they may either not match strings that SQL Server will in fact cast to UNIQUEIDENTIFIER without complaint or may still end up causing invalid cast errors.
SQL Server accepts GUIDs either wrapped in {} or without this.
Additionally it ignores extraneous characters at the end of the string. Both SELECT CAST('{5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B}ssssssssss' as uniqueidentifier) and SELECT CAST('5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01BXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' as uniqueidentifier) succeed for instance.
Under most default collations the LIKE '[a-zA-Z0-9]' will end up matching characters such as À or Ë
Finally if casting rows in a result to uniqueidentifier it is important to put the cast attempt in a case expression as the cast may occur before the rows are filtered by the WHERE.
So (borrowing #r0d30b0y's idea) a slightly more robust version might be
;WITH T(C)
AS (SELECT '5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B'
UNION ALL
SELECT '{5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B}'
UNION ALL
SELECT '5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01BXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
UNION ALL
SELECT '{5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B}ssssssssss'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ÀD944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'fish')
SELECT CASE
WHEN C LIKE expression + '%'
OR C LIKE '{' + expression + '}%' THEN CAST(C AS UNIQUEIDENTIFIER)
END
FROM T
CROSS APPLY (SELECT REPLACE('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', '0', '[0-9a-fA-F]') COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN) C2(expression)
WHERE C LIKE expression + '%'
OR C LIKE '{' + expression + '}%'
Not mine, found this online... thought i'd share.
SELECT 1 WHERE #StringToCompare LIKE
REPLACE('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', '0', '[0-9a-fA-F]');
SELECT something
FROM table1
WHERE column1 LIKE '[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]';
UPDATE:
...but I much prefer the approach in the answer by #r0d30b0y:
SELECT something
FROM table1
WHERE column1 LIKE REPLACE('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', '0', '[0-9a-fA-F]');
I am not aware of anything that you could use "out of the box" - you'll have to write this on your own, I'm afraid.
If you can: try to write this inside a C# library and deploy it into SQL Server as a SQL-CLR assembly - then you could use things like Guid.TryParse() which is certainly much easier to use than anything in T-SQL....
A variant of r0d30b0y answer is to use PATINDEX to find within a string...
PATINDEX('%'+REPLACE('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', '0', '[0-9a-fA-F]')+'%',#StringToCompare) > 0
Had to use to find Guids within a URL string..
HTH
Dave
Like to keep it simple. A GUID has four - in it even, if is just a string
WHERE column like '%-%-%-%-%'
Though an older post, just a thought for a quick test ...
SELECT [A].[INPUT],
CAST([A].[INPUT] AS [UNIQUEIDENTIFIER])
FROM (
SELECT '5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B' Collate Latin1_General_100_BIN AS [INPUT]
UNION ALL
SELECT '{5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B}'
UNION ALL
SELECT '5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01BXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
UNION ALL
SELECT '{5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B}ssssssssss'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ÀD944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B'
UNION ALL
SELECT 'fish'
) [A]
WHERE PATINDEX('[^0-9A-F-{}]%', [A].[INPUT]) = 0
This is a function based on the concept of some earlier comments. This function is very fast.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[IsGuid] (#input varchar(50))
RETURNS bit AS
BEGIN
RETURN
case when #input like '[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]'
then 1 else 0 end
END
GO
/*
Usage:
select [dbo].[IsGuid]('123') -- Returns 0
select [dbo].[IsGuid]('ebd8aebd-7ea3-439d-a7bc-e009dee0eae0') -- Returns 1
select * from SomeTable where dbo.IsGuid(TableField) = 0 -- Returns table with all non convertable items!
*/
DECLARE #guid_string nvarchar(256) = 'ACE79678-61D1-46E6-93EC-893AD559CC78'
SELECT
CASE WHEN #guid_string LIKE '________-____-____-____-____________'
THEN CONVERT(uniqueidentifier, #guid_string)
ELSE NULL
END
You can write your own UDF. This is a simple approximation to avoid the use of a SQL-CLR assembly.
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.isuniqueidentifier (#ui varchar(50))
RETURNS bit AS
BEGIN
RETURN case when
substring(#ui,9,1)='-' and
substring(#ui,14,1)='-' and
substring(#ui,19,1)='-' and
substring(#ui,24,1)='-' and
len(#ui) = 36 then 1 else 0 end
END
GO
You can then improve it to check if it´s just about HEX values.
I use :
ISNULL(convert(nvarchar(50), userID), 'NULL') = 'NULL'
I had some Test users that were generated with AutoFixture, which uses GUIDs by default for generated fields. My FirstName fields for the users that I need to delete are GUIDs or uniqueidentifiers. That's how I ended up here.
I was able to cobble together some of your answers into this.
SELECT UserId FROM [Membership].[UserInfo] Where TRY_CONVERT(uniqueidentifier, FirstName) is not null
Use RLIKE for MYSQL
SELECT 1 WHERE #StringToCompare
RLIKE REPLACE('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', '0', '[0-9a-fA-F]');
In a simplest scenario. When you sure that given string can`t contain 4 '-' signs.
SELECT * FROM City WHERE Name LIKE('%-%-%-%-%')
In BigQuery you can use
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE
REGEXP_CONTAINS(uuid, REPLACE('^00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000$', '0', '[0-9a-fA-F]'))
In my database (SQL 2005) I have a field which holds a comment but in the comment I have an id and I would like to strip out just the id, and IF possible convert it to an int:
activation successful of id 1010101
The line above is the exact structure of the data in the db field.
And no I don't want to do this in the code of the application, I actually don't want to touch it, just in case you were wondering ;-)
This should do the trick:
SELECT SUBSTRING(column, PATINDEX('%[0-9]%', column), 999)
FROM table
Based on your sample data, this that there is only one occurence of an integer in the string and that it is at the end.
I don't have a means to test it at the moment, but:
select convert(int, substring(fieldName, len('activation successful of id '), len(fieldName) - len('activation successful of id '))) from tableName
Would you be open to writing a bit of code? One option, create a CLR User Defined function, then use Regex. You can find more details here. This will handle complex strings.
If your above line is always formatted as 'activation successful of id #######', with your number at the end of the field, then:
declare #myColumn varchar(100)
set #myColumn = 'activation successful of id 1010102'
SELECT
#myColumn as [OriginalColumn]
, CONVERT(int, REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(#myColumn), CHARINDEX(' ', REVERSE(#myColumn))))) as [DesiredColumn]
Will give you:
OriginalColumn DesiredColumn
---------------------------------------- -------------
activation successful of id 1010102 1010102
(1 row(s) affected)
select cast(right(column_name,charindex(' ',reverse(column_name))) as int)
CAST(REVERSE(LEFT(REVERSE(#Test),CHARINDEX(' ',REVERSE(#Test))-1)) AS INTEGER)
-- Test table, you will probably use some query
DECLARE #testTable TABLE(comment VARCHAR(255))
INSERT INTO #testTable(comment)
VALUES ('activation successful of id 1010101')
-- Use Charindex to find "id " then isolate the numeric part
-- Finally check to make sure the number is numeric before converting
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(JUSTNUMBER)=1 THEN CAST(JUSTNUMBER AS INTEGER) ELSE -1 END
FROM (
select right(comment, len(comment) - charindex('id ', comment)-2) as justnumber
from #testtable) TT
I would also add that this approach is more set based and hence more efficient for a bunch of data values. But it is super easy to do it just for one value as a variable. Instead of using the column comment you can use a variable like #chvComment.
If the comment string is EXACTLY like that you can use replace.
select replace(comment_col, 'activation successful of id ', '') as id from ....
It almost certainly won't be though - what about unsuccessful Activations?
You might end up with nested replace statements
select replace(replace(comment_col, 'activation not successful of id ', ''), 'activation successful of id ', '') as id from ....
[sorry can't tell from this edit screen if that's entirely valid sql]
That starts to get messy; you might consider creating a function and putting the replace statements in that.
If this is a one off job, it won't really matter. You could also use a regex, but that's quite slow (and in any case mean you now have 2 problems).