Why does MySQL refuse pipe ('|') character in string on INSERT INTO - sql

If I try this statement:
INSERT INTO TerminalEventChild (id,stringValue) VALUES
(64,'version123|');
MySQL fail with :
Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''version123' at line 1
SQLState: 42000
ErrorCode: 1064
If I remove the | character, everything works fine. Any idea?

I found the solution on Incorrect query parsing - ID: 3091322.
Squirrel SQL is using the pipe symbol as a procedure/function separator, so you need to change the MySQL preferences to use something else (e.g. |||).
In the "File > Global Preferences > MySQL" tab, in the "Procedure/Function Separator" field,
replace | with a different string, for example |||.

On my machine, this works fine:
CREATE TABLE TerminalEventChild (id INT, stringValue VARCHAR(200));
INSERT INTO TerminalEventChild (id,stringValue) VALUES
(64,'version123|');
Probably, your client treats the pipe character specially.
What client do you use?

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Cannot query my container using the GridDB Shell?

I have a device container with the name 1cbfce15ec4d which houses some my data. I know for a fact there's data in there, but when I try a simple query in the griddb shell, I got the following error:
gs[public]> sql select * from 1cbfce15ec4d;
D20332: An unexpected error occurred while executing a SQL. : msg=[[240001:SQL_COMPILE_SYNTAX_ERROR] Parse SQL failed, reason = Syntax error: 1cbfce15ec4d; on executing query (sql="select * from 1cbfce15ec4d") (db='public') (user='admin') (appName='gs_sh') (clientId='a6d92f48-e558-440-86dd-a05e949fa726:1') (clientNd='{clientId=3, address=127.0.0.1:55744}') (address=127.0.0.1:20001, partitionId=983)]
I am not exactly sure what is going on here -- at first I assumed my data must be corrupt or empty, but that is not the case. It seems to be a case of the shell dying trying to process something about that container name.
Any ideas?
According to the manual :
"If the name of a table or a column contains characters other than ASCII alphanumeric characters and underscore, or if the first character of the name is a number in a SQL statement, enclose the name with double quotation marks."
Try select * from "1cbfce15ec4d"

Hive -character '<EOF>' not supported here

Select * from mytable where field=
'ce7bd3d4-dbdd-407e-a3c3-ce093a65abc9;cdb597073;7cf6cda5fc'
Getting Below Error while running above query in Hive
FAILED: ParseException line 1:92 character '' not supported here
<EOF> here means End Of File. When you get an "unexpected End Of File" error it means the parser reached the end of the query unexpectedly. This typically happens when the parser is expecting to find a closing character, such as when you have started a string with ' or " but have not closed the string (with the closing ' or ").
When you come across these types of errors it is good to check that your query can be parsed correctly. In addition, the error gives you the location where the parser failed: line 1:92 in this case. You can usually look at this location (character 92 of the query) and work backwards to find the problem character.
Try adding the database name to the "from" statement as below.
Select * from my_db_name.mytable where field= 'ce7bd3d4-dbdd-407e-a3c3-
ce093a65abc9;cdb597073;7cf6cda5fc';
Hive uses the default database when no database was previously specified.

Removing replacement character � from column

Based on my research so far this character indicates bad encoding between the database and front end. Unfortunately, I don't have any control over either of those. I'm using Teradata Studio.
How can I filter this character out? I'm trying to perform a REGEX_SUBSTR function on a column that occasionally contains �, which throws the error "The string contains an untranslatable character".
Here is my SQL. AIRCFT_POSITN_ID is the column that contains the replacement character.
SELECT DISTINCT AIRCFT_POSITN_ID,
REGEXP_SUBSTR(AIRCFT_POSITN_ID, '[0-9]+') AS AUTOROW
FROM PROD_MAE_MNTNC_VW.FMR_DISCRPNCY_DFRL
WHERE DFRL_CREATE_TMS > CURRENT_DATE -25
Your diagnostic is correct, so first of all, you might want to check the Session Character Set (it is part of the connection definition).
If it is ASCII change it to UTF8 and you will be able to see the original characters instead of the substitute character.
And in case the character is indeed part of the data and not just an indication for encoding translations issues:
The substitute character AKA SUB (DEC: 26 HEX: 1A) is quite unique in Teradata.
you cannot use it directly -
select '�';
-- [6706] The string contains an untranslatable character.
select '1A'XC;
-- [6706] The string contains an untranslatable character.
If you are using version 14.0 or above you can generate it with the CHR function:
select chr(26);
If you're below version 14.0 you can generate it like this:
select translate (_unicode '05D0'XC using unicode_to_latin with error);
Once you have generated the character you can now use it with REPLACE or OTRANSLATE
create multiset table t (i int,txt varchar(100) character set latin) unique primary index (i);
insert into t (i,txt) values (1,translate ('Hello שלום world עולם' using unicode_to_latin with error));
select * from t;
-- Hello ���� world ����
select otranslate (txt,chr(26),'') from t;
-- Hello world
select otranslate (txt,translate (_unicode '05D0'XC using unicode_to_latin with error),'') from t;
-- Hello world
BTW, there are 2 versions for OTRANSLATE and OREPLACE:
The functions under syslib works with LATIN.
the functions under TD_SYSFNLIB works with UNICODE.
In addition to Dudu's excellent answer above, I wanted to add the following now that I've encountered the issue again and had more time to experiment. The following SELECT command produced an untranslatable character:
SELECT IDENTIFY FROM PROD_MAE_MNTNC_VW.SCHD_MNTNC;
IDENTIFY
24FEB1747659193DC330A163DCL�ORD
Trying to perform a REGEXP_REPLACE or OREPLACE directly on this character produces an error:
Failed [6706 : HY000] The string contains an untranslatable character.
I changed the CHARSET property in my Teradata connection from UTF8 to ASCII and I could now see the offending character, looks like a tab
IDENTIFY
Using the TRANSLATE_CHK command using this specific conversion succeeds and identifies the position of the offending character (Note that this does not work using the UTF8 charset):
TRANSLATE_CHK(IDENTIFY USING KANJI1_SBC_TO_UNICODE) AS BADCHAR
BADCHAR
28
Now this character can be dealt with using some CASE statements to remove the bad character and retain the remainder of the string:
CASE WHEN TRANSLATE_CHK(IDENTIFY USING KANJI1_SBC_TO_UNICODE) = 0 THEN IDENTIFY
ELSE SUBSTR(IDENTIFY, 1, TRANSLATE_CHK(IDENTIFY USING KANJI1_SBC_TO_UNICODE)-1)
END AS IDENTIFY
Hopes this helps someone out.

how insert ODI step error message in to Oracle table, if the error message has single quotes and colons

I'm trying to insert ODI step error message into oracle table.
I captured the error message using <%=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("MESSAGE")%>.
ODI-1226: Step PRC_POA_XML_synchronize fails after 1 attempt(s).
ODI-1232: Procedure PRC_POA_XML_synchronize execution fails.
ODI-1227: Task PRC_POA_XML_synchronize (Procedure) fails on the source XML connection XML_PFIZER_LOAD_POA_DB_DEV.
Caused By: java.sql.SQLException: class java.sql.SQLException
oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: End tag does not match start tag 'tns3:ContctID'.
at com.sunopsis.jdbc.driver.xml.SnpsXmlFile.readDocument(SnpsXmlFile.java:459)
at com.sunopsis.jdbc.driver.xml.SnpsXmlFile.readDocument(SnpsXmlFile.java:469)
When I try to insert this into a table, I'm getting the following error:
Missing IN or OUT parameter at index:: 1
I tried with substr, replace. Nothing works as in middle of the error message we have a single quotes 'tns3:ContctID'.
Is there any way to insert this into a table?
that's a tough one if you want to use pure java BeanShell and you've given way too little details to get short and straight answer, like
how do you try to insert this (command on source/target, bean shell only, Oracle SQL +jBS, jython, groovy etc...)
The problem here is not only quotes but also newlines.
To replace them is even more difficult as every parsing step <%, <?, <# requires different trick to define those literals
What will work for sure is if you write Jython task for inserting log data (Jython in technology).
There you may use Python ability for multiline string literals
simply:
⋮
err_log = """
<?=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("MESSAGE")?>
"""
⋮
I faced this error few days back . I applied below mentioned solution in ODI ...
Use - q'#<%=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("MESSAGE")%>#'
This will escape inverted comma (') for INSERT statement.
I have used this in my code and it is working fine :)
For example -
select 'testing'abcd' from dual;
this query will give below error
"ORA-01756: quoted string not properly terminated"
select q'#testing'abcd#' from dual;
This query gives no error and we get below response in SQL Developer
testing'abcd

Need to add string with \ in it to database

I have a string that is read from an excel file. String is ¬©K!n?8)©}gH"$.F!r'&(®
I keep getting the following error. When running the insert statement
ERROR [42601] [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2/NT] SQL0007N The character "\" following " K!n?8) }gH""$.F!r'" is not valid. SQLSTATE=42601
How do I do this insert with the \ character in the string? The Character causing the problem might also be the &.
Its a DB2 Database
Thanks
It depends on which interface you are sending the insert statement.
In my experience, it is most probably the typewriter single quote character (') which makes the problem.
INSERT INTO TEMP.CHAR_TEST
VALUES ('¬©K!n?8)©}gH"$.F!r''&(®');
works fine for me, but notice that I have changed ' to '' (insert another single quote after the existing one).