What is the best solution in finding a word in a variable? This needs to be within the Select statement, and if the word is found then '1' should be returned, else '0'.
Charindex or Regex?
I am trying something like this:
Select top 100
[ReportingEntity]
,if CHARINDEX('Issuers', [ReportingEntity]) = '1' ELSE '0' END AS 'Issuers'
FROM [MSC].[dbo].[dsl_file]
And [ReportingEntity] can have variables like:
Tickert Issuers
Fund_Manager-Issuers
Issuers of Event
...
Keen also to understand how that would work with regex
You can do so with IIF, or CASE
IIF
SELECT TOP 100 [ReportingEntity]
,IIF(ReportingEntity LIKE '%Issuers%', 1, 0) AS 'Issuers'
FROM [MSC].[dbo].[dsl_file]
CASE
SELECT TOP 100 [ReportingEntity]
,CASE WHEN ReportingEntity LIKE '%Issuers%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS 'Issuers'
FROM [MSC].[dbo].[dsl_file]
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I'm tasked with pulling relevent data out of a field which is essentially free text. I have been able to get the information I need 98% of the time by looking for keywords and using CASE statements to break the field down into 5 different fields.
My issue is I can't get around the last 2% because the errors don't follow any logical order - they are mostly misspellings.
I could bypass the field with a TRY CATCH, but I don't like giving up 4 good pieces of data when the routine is choking on one.
Is there any way to handle blanket errors within a CASE statement, or is there another option?
Current code, the 'b' with the commented out section is where it's choking right now:
CASE WHEN #Location = 0 THEN
CASE WHEN #Duration = 0 THEN
CASE WHEN #Timing = 0 THEN
SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Begin, #Context-#Begin)
ELSE
SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Begin, #Timing-#Begin)
END
ELSE SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Begin, #Duration-#Begin)
END
ELSE SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Begin, #Location-#Begin)
END AS Complaint
,CASE WHEN #Location = 0 THEN ''
ELSE
CASE WHEN #Duration = 0 THEN
CASE WHEN #Timing = 0 THEN SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Location+10, (#CntBegin-11))
ELSE SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Location+10, #Timing-(#Location+10))
END
ELSE SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Location+10, #Duration-(#Location+10))
END
END AS Location
,CASE WHEN #Timing = 0 THEN ''
ELSE
CASE WHEN #CntBegin = 0 THEN
SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Timing+#TimingEnd, (#Location+#Context)-(#Timing+#TimingEnd))
ELSE
'b'--SUBSTRING(#Comment,#Timing+#TimingEnd, (#Location+#CntBegin-1)-(#Timing+#TimingEnd))
END
END AS Timing
On this statement, which has a comma in an odd spot. I have to reference the comma usually for the #CntBegin, but in this case it's making my (#Location+#CntBegin-1) shorter then the (#Timing+#TimingEnd):
'Pt also presents with/for mild check MGP/MGD located in OU, since 12/2015 ? Stability.'
Please take into account, I'm not necessarily trying to fix this error, I'm looking for a way to handle any error that comes up as who knows what someone is going to type. I'd like to just display 'ERR' in that particular field when the code runs into something it can't handle. I just don't want the routine to die.
Assuming your error is due to the length parameter in SUBSTRING being less than 0. I always alias my parameters using CROSS APPLY and then validate the input before calling SUBSTRING(). Something like this should work:
SELECT
CASE WHEN CA.StringLen > 0 /*Ensure valid length*/
THEN SUBSTRING(#comment,#Timing+#TimingEnd,CA.StringLen)
ELSE 'Error'
END
FROM YourTable
CROSS APPLY (SELECT StringLen = (#Location+#CntBegin-1)-(#Timing+#TimingEnd)) AS CA
I am using this SELECT:
select romaji, CHARINDEX(Romaji,' ',1) from phrase
or this SELECT:
select romaji, CHARINDEX(RTRIM(Romaji),' ',1) from phrase
and I get this output with all zeros in the second column always even for the case of morau where there is one one word in the romaji column:
ryūgaku 0
tsumaranai 0
aka-i kaban-desu 0
kekkon shite-i-masu 0
morau 0
Can anyone give me some advice on what I might be doing wrong?
note that romaji is defined as NVARCHAR(MAX)
In CHARINDEX, the first argument should be the substring which needs to search within the string.
Syntax of CHARINDEX
CHARINDEX ( expressionToFind , expressionToSearch , start_location )
Query
select romaji, charindex(' ', rtrim(romaji), 1) from phrase;
If you just want to know if there is a space, I would suggest that you use case and like instead:
select romaji, (case when rtrim(Romaji) like '% %' then 1 else 0 end) as HasSpace
from phrase;
Of course, you might actually want the position of the space, in which case charindex() is the right choice.
I inherited the following query from a previous application. I'm having a hard time understanding the "Case" in the "Select" and "Where" clause also.
SELECT J1.AC_CODE, J1.PERIOD, J1.JRNAL_NO, J1.DESCRIPTN, - J1.AMOUNT ,
J1.ANAL_T3,
CASE 1
WHEN 1 THEN 'A'
ELSE J1.ACCNT_CODE
END ,
J1.JRNAL_LINE
FROM dbo.JSource J1
WHERE 1=1
AND 1=1
AND NOT ('A' LIKE '%Z%'
AND J1.JRNAL_SRCE IN ('B/F',
'CLRDN')
AND J1.JRNAL_NO = 0)
AND CASE 1
WHEN 1 THEN 'A'
ELSE J1.AC_CODE
END ='A'
AND J1.AC_CODE='156320'
AND J1.PERIOD BETWEEN 2014001 AND 2014012
AND J1.ANAL_T3='ANAL001'
ORDER BY 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
I'm not sure If I understand the following clauses correctly:
1st Clause:
CASE 1
WHEN 1 THEN 'A'
ELSE J1.AC_CODE
END
I understood as: If column 1 is true, then choose literal A ortherwise choose J1.AC_CODE.
2nd clause:
WHERE 1=1
AND 1=1
AND NOT ('A' LIKE '%Z%'
AND J1.JRNAL_SRCE IN ('B/F',
'CLRDN')
AND J1.JRNAL_NO = 0)
AND CASE 1
WHEN 1 THEN 'A'
ELSE J1.AC_CODE
END ='A'
AND J1.AC_CODE='156320'
AND J1.PERIOD BETWEEN 2014001 AND 2014012
AND J1.ANAL_T3='ANAL001'
I'm totally lost with this "Where" clause.
Can you help explain this query and write a better version for this whole query?
I'm running this query on SQL Server 2008 (R2)
I understood as: If column 1 is true, then choose literal A ortherwise
choose J1.AC_CODE.
No, it is comparing the value 1 with the value 1 and if that is true the case returns an A and that is of course always true so the case statement will always return A.
Your where clause does not do anything at all.
1=1
AND 1=1
will always be true and the case will always be true and 'A' LIKE '%Z%' will always be false and that makes the entire AND NOT 'A' LIKE '%Z%' .... expression to always be true.
A simpler version of your query would look like this.
SELECT J1.AC_CODE,
J1.PERIOD,
J1.JRNAL_NO,
J1.DESCRIPTN,
- J1.AMOUNT,
J1.ANAL_T3,
'A',
J1.JRNAL_LINE
FROM dbo.JSource J1
WHERE J1.AC_CODE='156320' AND
J1.PERIOD BETWEEN 2014001 AND 2014012 AND
J1.ANAL_T3='ANAL001'
ORDER BY 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Without knowing the history of this query, I am guessing that this was written with testing/debugging in mind and some of that code has been left in place. The case statement in the select line could (and I repeat could as this is my guess from looking at the query) have had other with clauses during creation of the query used for testing and these would have been switched between by changing the value after the CASE (example SELECT ..... CASE 1 WHEN 1 THEN 'A' WHEN 2 THEN 'some value' WHEN 3 'some other value' ELSE J1.ACCNT_CODE).
As for the where 1 = 1, I have seen this used during query creation/testing - mainly because it means each of the true conditions can easily be commented/uncommented or cut & pasted as the first where condition is always true. I've not seen AND 1 = 1 before. Not sure what that line was intended for, but I'd still think came about from testing/debugging and was not taken out the query.
I have a column that is typically only numbers (sometimes it's letters, but that's not important).
How can I make it natural sort?
Currently sorts like this: {1,10,11,12,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}
I want it to sort like this: {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}
IsNumeric is "broken", ISNUMERIC(CHAR(13)) returns 1 and CAST will fail.
Use ISNUMERIC(textval + 'e0'). Final code:
ORDER BY
PropertyName,
CASE ISNUMERIC(MixedField + 'e0') WHEN 1 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END, -- letters after numbers
CASE ISNUMERIC(MixedField + 'e0') WHEN 1 THEN CAST(MixedField AS INT) ELSE 0 END,
MixedField
You can mix order parameters...
Cast it. Also, don't forget to use IsNumeric to make sure you only get the numbers back (if they include letters it IS important ;).
SELECT textval FROM tablename
WHERE IsNumeric(textval) = 1
ORDER BY CAST(textval as int)
Also, cast to the datatype that will hold the largest value.
If you need the non-numbers in the result set too then just append a UNION query where IsNumeric = 0 (order by whatever you want) either before or after.
Have you tied using:
'OrderBy ColumnName Asc'
at the end of your query.
There is a field in a 3rd party database that I need to group on for a report I'm writing. The field can contain a few different types of data. First it could contain a 3 digit number. I need to break these out into groups such as 101 to 200 and 201 to 300. In addition to this the field could also be prefaced with a particular letter such a M or K then a few numbers. It is defined as VARCHAR(8) and any help in how I could handle both cases where it may start with a particular letter or fall within a numeric range would be appreciated. If I could write it as a case statement and return a department based either on the numeric value or the first letter that would be the best so I can group in my report.
Thanks,
Steven
If I could write it as a case statement and return a department based either on the numeric value or the first letter that would be the best so I can group in my report.
case when substring( field, 1, 1 ) = 'M' then ...
when substring( field, 1, 1 ) = 'K" then ...
else floor( (cast( field as int) - 1 ) / 100) end
select ....
group by
case when substring( field, 1, 1 ) = 'M' then ...
when substring( field, 1, 1 ) = 'K" then ...
else floor( (cast( field as int) - 1 ) / 100) end
Matt Hamilton asks,
Any reason why you've opted to use substring(field, 1, 1) rather than simply left(field, 1)? I notice that #jms did it too, in the other answer.
I know substring is specified in ANSI-92; I don't know that left is. And anyway, left isn't a primitive, as it can be written in terms of substring, so using substring seems a little cleaner.
select
CASE (CASE WHEN substring(field,1,1) between 0 and 9 then 'N' Else 'C' END)
WHEN 'N' THEN
CASE field
WHEN ... THEN ...
WHEN ... THEN ...
END
WHEN 'C' THEN
CASE field
WHEN ... THEN ...
WHEN ... THEN ...
END
END