I have some fields in a MYSQL database with the following content:
eq":"fieldname1+fieldname2+fieldname3+fieldname4/4
The numbers are always different, so it could also be something like:
eq":"fieldname11+fieldname22+fieldname8/10
I would like to run a query to achieve the following:
eq":"((fieldname1+fieldname2+fieldname3+fieldname4)/4, 2)
I currently have the following query
UPDATE wp_wrdydtdbww_cp_calculated_fields_form_settings
SET form_structure = REPLACE(form_structure, '???', '???')
WHERE id IN (1,2,3);
The problem is, that there are a lot of additional strings, containing 'fieldname' or '/' as well, so I need to replace the exact structure.
Can somebody help me to modify it?
I tried something with the LIKE pattern (%), but can't get it to work as I always replace other parts of strings as well.
Thanks!
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I am trying to make sort of a search engine that searched through JSON values in my Database.
I have a table with a column called data in data there is a JSON string, example:
{"type_geld":"cash","bedrag":15.0,"totaal":8899.0,"reden":"itemshop-bought-item","citizenid":"EHT44095","steamnaam":"Finn"}
Now I want to search through the key steamnaam I am currently using this query:
SELECT * FROM logs_1 WHERE JSON_CONTAINS(lower(`data`), '"finn"', "$.steamnaam")
This does give me the rows that contain finn as a value in the steamname JSON.
But now I want to also make it check if it's not exactly the same, but almost the same. So basically a LIKE search. Can I achieve this with JSON_CONTAINS or something like that?
So if I type fin instead of finn I also want it to list the rows because it almost matches finn.
I tried a lot of things, but could not figure it out, hope someone has the solution for me! Thank you.
The solution I found:
Apparently after googling a bit more, I found this query, that exactly does what I want:
SELECT * FROM logs_1 WHERE JSON_EXTRACT(lower(`data`), "$.steamnaam") LIKE "%fin%"
The only concern I have if this will stay fast with a lot of rows..
SELECT *
FROM logs_1
WHERE data->>'$.steamnaam' LIKE '%fin%' /* COLLATE according CI collation */
I have a MySQL 5.7.29 database on which a website is built. I need to construct a query to find all table rows containing lines such as
https://example.com/index.php?topic=7989.0
or similar and replace them with
https://example.com/my-redirect-page/?7989.0
The wildcard here is the ?topic=7989.0 as this can be something like ?topic=1234 or even ?topic=3456.0#anchor
I can display the rows they appear in (in PHPMyAdmin) using this (thanks to 'sticky bit' below) :
SELECT * FROM `abc_posts` WHERE `post_content` LIKE '%example.com\index.php?topic%'
My problem is that I then need to change just that URL when there is also text content around it.
Thanks in advance.
The question mark doesn't need to be escaped.
But 'https://example.com/index.php?topic=7989.0' isn't LIKE '%example.com\?topic%' as the question mark doesn't immediately follow the host name.
Try:
...
post_content LIKE '%example.com/index.php?topic%'
...
You could do something like thin to find them
SELECT 'https://example.com/index.php?topic=7989.0'
WHERE 'https://example.com/index.php?topic=7989.0' REGEXP 'example.com/index.php?topic=';
Which would find all rows. But for replacing it, you must also tell which database version youh have mysql 5.x have not many regex fucntions mariadb and mysql 8 have much more
(Sorry for the longish question, I'll try to be concise.)
I'm running SQL Server Profiler and I'm chasing down some performance issues. I'm relatively new to what the profiler does and I've exported the traces into a table so I can run queries against the data.
One thing I've been running up against is some seemingly odd behavior doing select queries against the TextData field of the table generated by the trace export. It may have to do with the field's data type (ntext, null). I'm selecting for particular values, but getting unexpected results. For example, if I do this:
select * from [TraceAnalyzer].dbo.TraceTable
and I'm interested in values like this:
exec [Sproc_of_interest] #parm1=992
I'd do a query like this:
select * from [TraceAnalyzer].dbo.TraceTable
where TextData like '%exec [Sproc_of_interest] #parm1=%'
but the return result is empty.
Also, if I do a query like:
select * from [TraceAnalyzer].dbo.TraceTable
where TextData like '%exec [Sproc_of_interest]%'
I get unexpected TextData values like exec sp_reset_connection
Would the square brackets in the criteria be messing things up? I've tried omitting them, but that just excludes everything. I'm not aware of escape characters in SQL select queries, but when I copy/paste the value from one of the offending records, the pasted value does not appear to contain anything that would meet the original query's criteria.
Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[Sproc_of_interest] in the pattern syntax is interpreted as matching one character that is in the set S,p,r,o,c,_,o,f,_,i,n,t,e,r,e,s,t.
Three possible ways of solving this are below.
1) Escape [ with square brackets
LIKE '%exec [[]Sproc_of_interest] #parm1=%'
2) Use an escape character
LIKE 'exec \[Sproc_of_interest] #parm1=' ESCAPE '\'
3) Use CHARINDEX instead of escaping anything
WHERE CHARINDEX('exec [Sproc_of_interest] #parm1=' , TextData) > 0
I am struggling with this query and want to know if I am wasting my time and need to write a php script or is something like the following actually possible?
UPDATE my_table
SET #userid = user_id
AND SET filename('http://pathto/newfilename_'#userid'.jpg')
FROM my_table
WHERE filename
LIKE '%_%' AND filename
LIKE '%jpg'AND filename
NOT LIKE 'http%';
Basically I have 700 odd files that need renaming in the database as they do not match the filenames as I am changing system, they are called in the database.
The format is 2_gfhgfhf.jpg which translates to userid_randomjumble.jpg
But not all files in the database are in this format only about 700 out of thousands. So I want to identify names that contain _ but don't contain http (thats the correct format that I don't want to touch).
I can do that fine but now comes the tricky bit!!
I want to replace that file name userid_randomjumble.jpg with http://pathto/filename_userid.jpg So I want to set the column user_id in that row to a variable and insert it into my new filename.
The above doesn't work for obvious reasons but I am not sure if there is a way round what I'm trying to do. I have no idea if it's possible? Am I wasting my time with this and should I turn to PHP with mysql and stop being lazy? Or is there a way to get this to work?
Yes it is possible without the php. Here is a simple example
SET #a:=0;
SELECT * FROM table WHERE field_name = #a;
Yes you can do it using straightforward SQL:
UPDATE my_table
SET filename = CONCAT('http://pathto/newfilename_', userid, '.jpg')
WHERE filename LIKE '%\_%jpg'
AND filename NOT LIKE 'http%';
Notes:
No need for variables. Any columns of rows being updated may be referenced
In mysql, use CONCAT() to add text values together
With LIKE, an underscore (_) has a special meaning - it means "any single character". If you want to match a literal underscore, you must escape it with a backslash (\)
Your two LIKE predicates may be safely merged into one for a simpler query
I'm trying to replace all instances of an old BB tag markup in a MySql database with a newer, slightly different one.
The old format is this...
[youtube:********]{Video ID}[/youtube:********]
Which I would like to replace with this...
[youtube:********]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={Video ID}[/youtube:********]
Where the *'s are a random string of alpha-numeric characters. So simply REPLACE(feild, '[youtube:********]', '[youtube:********]http://www.youtube.com?watch?v= won't do unfortunately.
All the clumsy attempts I've made using REPLACE() and INSTR() have resulted in nasty things like [b]Bold Text[/b]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Is there a way to do this kind of pattern replacement in MySql? Possibly with Regular Expressions?
Thank you.
Is this what you tried?
UPDATE table SET Field = REPLACE(Field,']{',']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v={')
This would depend if there isnt any other occurences of ']{'
EDIT: You may also want to try:
UPDATE table SET Field = LEFT(Field,#) + 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v='+
RIGHT(Field,(Char_Length(Field)-#);
Just check the syntax with MYSQl docs. Char_LNEGTH() may need to be LENGTH() - im sure you get the idea