Where should i put my Strings?
I need many relatively long Strings. Only one String is displayed simultaneously called by a switch/case. Should i save the Strings in the Code(in a separated class), in an array, a SQL DB or in the Strings.xml?
i am pretty new to android, but from what i understand res -> values -> strings.xml is for text or content description set in your layout.xml
if it were me depending on the importance of the data, i would either store it on a class if there is not too much information, or more than likely use sql lite;
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I am using SQL Server 2008 and I have a column in a table, which has values like below. It basically shows departure and arrival information.
-->Heathrow/Dublin*Dublin/Heathrow
-->Gatwick/Liverpool*Liverpool/Carlisle *Carlisle/Gatwick
-->Heathrow/Dublin*Liverpool/Heathrow
(The 3rd example shown above is slightly different where the person did not depart from Dublin, instead departed from a Liverpool).
This makes the column too lengthy, and I want to remove only the adjacent duplicates, so the information can be shown like below:
-->Heathrow/Dublin/Heathrow
-->Gatwick/Liverpool/Carlisle/Gatwick
-->Heathrow/Dublin***Liverpool/Heathrow
So, this would still show the correct travel route, but omits only the contiguous duplicates. Also, in the 3rd case, since the departure and arrival information location is not the same, Iwould like to show it as ***.
I found a post here that removes all duplicates (Find and Remove Repeated Substrings) but this is slightly different from the solution that I need.
Could someone share any thoughts please?
The first step is to adapt the process defined in the following link so that it splits based on /:
T-SQL split string
This returns a table which you would then loop through checking if the value contains an *. In that case you would get the text values before and after the * and compare them. Use CHARINDEX to get the position of the *, and SUBSTRING to get the values before and after. Once you have those check both values and append to your output string accordingly.
So you have a database column that contains this text string? Is your concern to display the data to the user in a new format, or to update the data in your database table with a new value?
Do you have access to the original data from which this text string was built? It would probably be easier to re-create the string in the format you desire than it would be to edit the existing string programmatically.
If you don't have access to this data, it would probably be a lot simpler to update your data (or reformat it for display) if you do the string manipulation in a high-level language such as c# or java.
If you're reformatting it for display, write the string manipulation code in whatever language is appropriate, right before displaying it. If you're updating your table, you could write a program to process the table, reading each record, building the replacement string, and updating the record before moving on to the next one.
The bottom line is that T-SQL is just not a good language for doing this sort of string examination and manipulation. If you can build a fresh string from the original data, or do your manipulation in a high-level language, you'll have an easier job of it and end up with more maintainable code.
I wrote a code for the first example you gave. You still need to
improve it for the rest ...
DECLARE #STR VARCHAR(50)='Heathrow/Dublin*Dublin/Heathrow'
IF (SELECT SUBSTRING(#STR,CHARINDEX('/',#STR)+1,CHARINDEX('*',#STR)-CHARINDEX('/',#STR)-1)) =
(SELECT SUBSTRING(#STR,CHARINDEX('*',#STR)+1,LEN(SUBSTRING(#STR,CHARINDEX('/',#STR)+1,CHARINDEX('*',#STR)-CHARINDEX('/',#STR)-1))))
BEGIN
SELECT STUFF(#STR,CHARINDEX('*',#STR),LEN(SUBSTRING(#STR,CHARINDEX('/',#STR)+1,CHARINDEX('*',#STR)-CHARINDEX('/',#STR)-1))+1,'')
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT STUFF(#STR,CHARINDEX('*',#STR),LEN(SUBSTRING(#STR,CHARINDEX('*',#STR)+1,LEN(SUBSTRING(#STR,CHARINDEX('/',#STR)+1,CHARINDEX('*',#STR)-CHARINDEX('/',#STR)-1)))),'***')
END
It's a similar one with one of my other questions. I try to solve all the side effects of the first one.
I have stored few non-ascii characters on my database. If I make few "encoding-decoding" stuffs, I managed to work with the database queries. But I have another problem.
If I use the
self.response.out.write(mystring)
in one of my entities ( looks like this -> u'\u0395\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03ae\u03bc\u03b5\u03c2')
I can see it without any problem. But, I have a javascript which create a graph and needs a list with those strings. If I pass the list to the javascript like it is from the database, the javascript doesn't work at all. If I use the
tag2 = tag.encode("utf-8")
for every entity on the list and then pass the new list, I see all the non-ascii characters like this one -> ÎÏιÏÏήμεÏ
I have an old system that uses varchar datatype in its database to store Arabic names, now the names appear in the database like this:
"ãíÓÇÁ ÇáãÈíÖíä"
Now I am building a new system using VB.NET, how can I read these names to appear in Arabic characters?
Also I need to point out here that the old system even it stores the data as I mentioned earlier it converts the characters in a correct format.
How to display it properly in the new system and in the SQL Server Management Studio?
have you tried nvarchar? you may find some usefull information at the link below
When must we use NVARCHAR/NCHAR instead of VARCHAR/CHAR in SQL Server?
I faced the same Problem, and I solved it by two steps:
1.change the datatype of the column in DB into nvarchar
2.use the encoding to change the data into Arabic
I used the following function
private string GetDataWithArabic(string srcData)
{
Encoding iso = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1");
Encoding unicode = Encoding.Default;
byte[] unicodeBytes = iso.GetBytes(srcData);
return unicode.GetString(unicodeBytes);
}
but make sure you use this method once on DB data, because it will corrupt the data if used twice
I think your answer is here: "storing and retrieving non english characters" http://aalamrangi.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/storing-and-retrieving-non-english-unicode-characters-hindi-czech-arabic-etc-in-sql-server/
I need to append a paramter-value 'xval=9' to all non-blank SQL server column values in a multi-million row table. The column contains URLs and they have a random amount of "querystring" parameters appended to the column. So when I append, I may need to append '?xval=9' or I may need to append '&val=9', depending on if parameters already exist.
So the URL values could like like any of these:
http://example.com/example
http://example.com/example/?aval=1
http://example.com/example/?aval=1&bval=2
http://example.com/example/index.html?aval=1&bval=2
'aval' and 'bval' are just samples, really any kind of key/value pair might be on the end of the URL.
What is the smartest pure-TSQL way to manipulate that, hopefully utilizing some kind of indexing?
Thanks.
Do that on Presentation or Model layer, not on Data layer.
i.e. read all data and manipulate using C# or other language you use.
Maybe this should work
SELECT CASE CHARINDEX('?', Url) WHEN 0 THEN Url+'?foo=boo' ELSE Url+'&foo=boo' END AS Url FROM Whatever
I'm tring to create an SSIS package to import some dataset files, however given that I seem to be hitting a brick
wall everytime I achieve a small part of the task I need to take a step back and perform a sanity check on what I'm
trying to achieve, and if you good people can advise whether SSIS is the way to go about this then I would
appreciate it.
These are my questions from this morning :-
debugging SSIS packages - debug.writeline
Changing an SSIS dts variables
What I'm trying to do is have a For..Each container enumerate over the files in a share on the SQL Server. For each
file it finds a script task runs to check various attributes of the filename, such as looking for a three letter
code, a date in CCYYMM, the name of the data contained therein, and optionally some comments. For example:-
ABC_201007_SalesData_[optional comment goes here].csv
I'm looking to parse the name using a regular expression and put the values of 'ABC', '201007', and
'SalesData' in variables.
I then want to move the file to an error folder if it doesn't meet certain criteria :-
Three character code
Six character date
Dataset name (e.g. SalesData, in this example)
CSV extension
I then want to lookup the Character code, the date (or part thereof), and the Dataset name against a lookup table
to mark off a 'checklist' of received files from each client.
Then, based on the entry in the checklist, I want to kick off another SSIS package.
So, for example I may have a table called 'Checklist' with these columns :-
Client code Dataset SSIS_Package
ABC SalesData NorthSalesData.dtsx
DEF SalesData SouthSalesData.dtsx
If anyone has a better way of achieving this I am interested in hearing about it.
Thanks in advance
That's an interesting scenario, and should be relatively easy to handle.
First, your choice of the Foreach Loop is a good one. You'll be using the Foreach File Enumerator. You can restrict the files you iterate over to be just CSVs so that you don't have to "filter" for those later.
The Foreach File Enumerator puts the filename (full path or just file name) into a variable - let's call that "FileName". There's (at least) two ways you can parse that - expressions or a Script Task. Depends which one you're more comfortable with. Either way, you'll need to create three variables to hold the "parts" of the filename - I'll call them "FileCode", "FileDate", and "FileDataset".
To do this with expressions, you need to set the EvaluateAsExpression property on FileCode, FileDate, and FileDataset to true. Then in the expressions, you need to use FINDSTRING and SUBSTRING to carve up FileName as you see fit. Expressions don't have Regex capability.
To do this in a Script Task, pass the FileName variable in as a ReadOnly variable, and the other three as ReadWrite. You can use the Regex capabilities of .Net, or just manually use IndexOf and Substring to get what you need.
Unfortunately, you have just missed the SQLLunch livemeeting on the ForEach loop: http://www.bidn.com/blogs/BradSchacht/ssis/812/sql-lunch-tomorrow
They are recording the session, however.