I'm making a Windows Application by using Entity Framework.I have a table name "DichVu".
This is my talbe: "DichVu":
My problem here is when I insert new record to table "DichVu" the primary key just have 5 characters and I get successfully. But after that I write a method to get all records in my table "DichVu" and show them on GridControl my ID field(here is MaDV) has 10 characters (5 of them are blank).
I tried to use query in SQL Server and count the "MaDV" lenght but It showed me exactly 5 characters for each record.
Here is the result for using query:
And this is the result when I use the method to get those records:
As you can see in the above picture. I got the issue at the field "MaDV".
Hope everyone can help me. I will be grateful to everyone for helping me.
Use VarChar(10).
Char(10) will always be 10 characters long in storage, varchar (variable length characters) supports allowing different lengths.
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(Opening the following on behalf of a Snowflake client...)
When I try to insert into the table it threw below error:
Numeric value 'abc_0011O00001y31VpQAI' is not recognized
Have check the table DDL and found only 3 columns defined as NUMBER and rest as VARCHAR.
I checked the SELECT query and didnot find any string value in those NUMBER Datatype columns. Also tried searching in all the Varchar columns for the value 'abc_0011O00001y31VpQAI' , I didn't find any
I know one thing Snowflake doesn't always shows correct error. Am I missing anything here? Is there any way to fix it?
Both COL4_MRR and COL5_QUANTITY are NUMBER
INSERT INTO TABLE
(COL1_DATE, COL2_CD, COL3_CUST_NAME, COL3_LOC_NAME,COL4_MRR,COL5_QUANTITY)
SELECT
'2019-10-03' AS COL1_DATE ,
'AE' AS COL2_CD
,CUSTOMER_NAME AS COL3_CUST_NAME
,LOCATION_NAME AS COL3_LOC_NAME
,MRR_BILLED as COL4_MRR
,QTY_BILLED as COL5_QUANTITY
FROM SCHEMA.V_TABLEA
union all
SELECT
'2019-10-03' AS COL1_DATE ,
'BE' AS COL2_CD
,CUSTOMER_NAME AS COL3_CUST_NAME
,LOCATION_NAME AS COL3_LOC_NAME
,NULL as COL4_MRR
,QTY_BILLED as COL5_QUANTITY
FROM SCHEMA.V_TABLEB
I created a table_D same as original TABLE and tried inserting into it , it worked fine . Then Inserted into Original TABLE from table_D , it worked again .
Deleted those rows from original TABLE and reran the job , it worked fine.
There was no issue with data as all was Number only, I even tried with TRY_TO_NUMBER too. It inserted the data without any changes to the code.
...............
Client is currently waiting on a next day run to re-test to determine if this is either a bug or an issue with their data. In the meantime, we are interested to see if anyone else has run into similar challenges and have a viable recommendation. THANK YOU.
The error typically means you are trying to insert non-numeric data (like 'abc_0011O00001y31VpQAI') into a numeric column. It seems like the customer did everything right in testing and TRY_TO_NUMBER() is a great way to verify numeric data.
Do the SELECT queries run fine separately? If so, then I would check whether there might be a potential mismatch in the datatype of the columns and make sure they are in the right order.
I would also check whether or not the header is being skipped in the file (that may be where the 'abc_0011O00001y31VpQAI' is coming from since the customer did not see it in the data).
SELECT queries work fine, I tried creating a new table with same DDL as original and tried loading into that new table, it worked fine. Not sure why it is not loading into the original table
I'm trying to update a big amount of data in a customer db, but I've encountered a problem.
The column (ntext) I need to update contains a mix of regular text/comments and guid's.
I only need to update the cells that does NOT contain a GUID.
Searching for ways to determine if some text is a uniqueidentifier/guid in SQL gave multiple solutions like som regex, but for some reason that did not remove all entries of guids from the select statement. (I tried some of the solutions from here: How to check if a string is a uniqueidentifier?)
Can someone tell me how to remove all kinds of guid'like entries in the ntext column?
Any help would be much appreciated.
EDIT:
Example of guid removed correctly:
4cfb5539-1656-4447-87f7-ea7c4ea94e96
Example f guid still in the list:
f5f284a0-c1c5-4c71-95b6-1eaa3ed38222
They're the same length, I don't see any hidden characters or spaces (tried to trim with no difference) etc.
EDIT 2:
The SQL statement I used:
SELECT * from TABLE
where VALUE like
REPLACE(REPLACE('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', '0', '[0-9a-fA-F]'),' ','')
EDIT 3:
Another statement removing any whitespace as first step
SELECT * from TABLE
where REPLACE(Convert(nvarchar(max),VALUE), ' ', '') not like
REPLACE('00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', '0', '[0-9a-fA-F]')
WHERE column like '%-%-%-%-%'
This filter condition will find all the rows that have a guid in the "column" column.
You could also do something more complex using PATINDEX
I have created a db called AllWords.db in sqlite that contains a list of all english words (count:172820). When I issue a select all query, it returns a list of all 172820 words. Also, when I print the count of the table words like this :
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM words;
the output is 172820, so the database clearly has all the words included in it. However, when I try to check if a word exists (the only thing I'll want to do with this database), it doesn't print anything :
SELECT * FROM words WHERE word="stuff";
returns nothing.
The database is a single table with the only column being 'words', which has all the words as rows. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Just to be sure you use a word in your database, look into your table with
select * from words limit 10
house
stuff
tree
...
and then select with one of the words you see
select * from words where word = 'stuff'
Edit: fixed where clause according to #MichaelEakins
Edit2: Unfortunately there's no difference between single and double quotes in this case, see SQL Fiddle
Answering my own question because I figured out what was wrong. To populate the table, I had written a python program to parse a file called words.txt (all words, separated by newlines), into sqlite. My problem was the query turned into :
INSERT INTO WORDS VALUES('englishWord\n')
And that messed up the database. I fixed that and it started to work, thanks to #ScoPi for the hint with using LIKE, it helped me figure out that there was a stray newline character.
I'm converting one of our Delphi 7 projects to Delphi X3 because we want to support Unicode. We're using MS SQL Server 2008/R2 as our database server. After changing some database fields from VARCHAR to NVARCHAR (and the fields in the accompanying ClientDatasets to ftWideString), random crashes started to occur. While debugging I noticed some unexpected behaviour by the TClientDataset/DbExpress:
For a NVARCHAR(10) databasecolumn I manually create a TWideStringField in a clientdataset and set the 'Size' property to 10. The 'DataSize' property of the field tells me 22 bytes are needed, which is expected since TWideStringField's encoding is UTF-16, so it needs two bytes per character and some space for storing the length. Now when I call 'CreateDataset' on the ClientDataset and write the dataset to XML (using .SaveToFile), in the XML file the field is defined as
<FIELD WIDTH="20" fieldtype="string.uni" attrname="TEST"/>
which looks ok to me.
Now, instead of calling .CreateDataset I call .Open on the TClientDataset so that it gets its data through the linked components ->TDatasetProvider->TSQLDataset (.CommandText = a simple select * from table)->TSQLConnection. When I inspect the properties of the field in my watch list, Size is still 10, Datasize is still 22. After saving to XML file however, the field is defined as
<FIELD WIDTH="40" fieldtype="string.uni" attrname="TEST"/>
..the width has doubled?
Finally, if I call .Open on the TClientDataset without creating any fielddefinitions in advance at all, the Size of the field will afterwards be 20(incorrect !) and Datasize 42. After saving to XML, the field is still defined as
<FIELD WIDTH="40" fieldtype="string.uni" attrname="TEST"/>
Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong here?
Check the fieldtype and it's size at the SQLCommand component (which is before DatasetProvider).
Size doubling may be a result of two implicit "conversions": first - server provides NVarchar data which is stored into ansi-string field (and every byte becomes a separate character), second - it is stored into clientdataset's field of type Widestring and each character becomes 2 bytes (size doubles).
Note that in prior versions of Delphi string field size mismatch between ClientDataset's field and corresponding Query/Command field did not result in an exception but starting from one of XE*'s it offten results in AV. So you have to check carefully string field sizes during migration.
Sounds like because of the column datatype being changed, it has created unexpected issues for you. My suggestion is to
1. back up the table,multiple ways to doing this,pick your poison figuratively speaking
2. delete the table,
3. recreate the table,
4. import the data from the old table to the newly created table. See if that helps.
Sql tables DO NOT like it when column datatypes get changed, and unexpected issues may arise from doing just that. So try that, and worst case scenario, you have wasted maybe ten minutes of your time trying a possible solution.
I have a bunch of records in several tables in a database that have a "process number" field, that's basically a number, but I have to store it as a string both because of some legacy data that has stuff like "89a" as a number and some numbering system that requires that process numbers be represented as number/year.
The problem arises when I try to order the processes by number. I get stuff like:
1
10
11
12
And the other problem is when I need to add a new process. The new process' number should be the biggest existing number incremented by one, and for that I would need a way to order the existing records by number.
Any suggestions?
Maybe this will help.
Essentially:
SELECT process_order FROM your_table ORDER BY process_order + 0 ASC
Can you store the numbers as zero padded values? That is, 01, 10, 11, 12?
I would suggest to create a new numeric field used only for ordering and update it from a trigger.
Can you split the data into two fields?
Store the 'process number' as an int and the 'process subtype' as a string.
That way:
you can easily get the MAX processNumber - and increment it when you need to generate a
new number
you can ORDER BY processNumber ASC,
processSubtype ASC - to get the
correct order, even if multiple records have the same base number with different years/letters appended
when you need the 'full' number you
can just concatenate the two fields
Would that do what you need?
Given that your process numbers don't seem to follow any fixed patterns (from your question and comments), can you construct/maintain a process number table that has two fields:
create table process_ordering ( processNumber varchar(N), processOrder int )
Then select all the process numbers from your tables and insert into the process number table. Set the ordering however you want based on the (varying) process number formats. Join on this table, order by processOrder and select all fields from the other table. Index this table on processNumber to make the join fast.
select my_processes.*
from my_processes
inner join process_ordering on my_process.processNumber = process_ordering.processNumber
order by process_ordering.processOrder
It seems to me that you have two tasks here.
• Convert the strings to numbers by legacy format/strip off the junk• Order the numbers
If you have a practical way of introducing string-parsing regular expressions into your process (and your issue has enough volume to be worth the effort), then I'd
• Create a reference table such as
CREATE TABLE tblLegacyFormatRegularExpressionMaster(
LegacyFormatId int,
LegacyFormatName varchar(50),
RegularExpression varchar(max)
)
• Then, with a way of invoking the regular expressions, such as the CLR integration in SQL Server 2005 and above (the .NET Common Language Runtime integration to allow calls to compiled .NET methods from within SQL Server as ordinary (Microsoft extended) T-SQL, then you should be able to solve your problem.
• See
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/SqlRegEx.aspx
I apologize if this is way too much overhead for your problem at hand.
Suggestion:
• Make your column a fixed width text (i.e. CHAR rather than VARCHAR).
• Pad the existing values with enough leading zeros to fill each column and a trailing space(s) where the values do not end in 'a' (or whatever).
• Add a CHECK constraint (or equivalent) to ensure new values conform to the pattern e.g. something like
CHECK (process_number LIKE '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][ab ]')
• In your insert/update stored procedures (or equivalent), pad any incoming values to fit the pattern.
• Remove the leading/trailing zeros/spaces as appropriate when displaying the values to humans.
Another advantage of this approach is that the incoming values '1', '01', '001', etc would all be considered to be the same value and could be covered by a simple unique constraint in the DBMS.
BTW I like the idea of splitting the trailing 'a' (or whatever) into a separate column, however I got the impression the data element in question is an identifier and therefore would not be appropriate to split it.
You need to cast your field as you're selecting. I'm basing this syntax on MySQL - but the idea's the same:
select * from table order by cast(field AS UNSIGNED);
Of course UNSIGNED could be SIGNED if required.