I have a VARCHAR variable and I would like to remove all substrings that match a column in a table. So far I have built a query that will return all rows that are a substring of my variable, using the following query:
SET #myval = '%For Her, Shoes,, Sizes 14-24%';
SELECT strReplace
FROM tbl_StringsToReplace
WHERE #myval LIKE CONCAT('%', strReplace, '%');
But I am having trouble writing a REPLACE query that will replace multiple values. I am trying to write something like the following:
SET #myval = REPLACE((SELECT strReplace
FROM tbl_StringsToReplace
WHERE #myval LIKE CONCAT('%', strReplace, '%')), '', #myval);
But I am getting the error:
Error Code: 1242. Subquery returns more than 1 row
I would love to achieve this in pure SQL. Euther way, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Try:
SET #myval = '%For Her, Shoes,, Sizes 14-24%';
select val into #myval
from (
SELECT #myval := replace(#myval, strReplace, '') val
FROM tbl_StringsToReplace
) r
order by length(val)
limit 1;
select #myval;
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I have a SQL query. But that contains a where condition, and the OR in that where is not working.
Query
SELECT `st_student`.`st_id`, `ab_date`, `as_date` `st_status`
FROM (`st_student`)
WHERE `st_status` = 1
OR `st_status` = 2
AND `ab_date` BETWEEN '08/01/2015' AND '08/31/2015'
OR `as_date` BETWEEN '08/01/2015' AND '08/31/2015'
AND `aca_no` = 2
GROUP BY `st_student`.`st_id`
This condition is not working:
OR `as_date` BETWEEN '08/01/2015' AND '08/31/2015'
Is there any mistake in that?
One possible error concerns the use of the AND and OR operators, since AND has priority over OR, and your query can be interpreted in the wrong way. So you should use the parentheses, and write something like this:
SELECT `st_student`.`st_id`, `ab_date`, `as_date` `st_status`
FROM `st_student`
WHERE (`st_status` = 1 OR `st_status` = 2)
AND (`ab_date` BETWEEN '08/01/2015' AND '08/31/2015'
OR `as_date` BETWEEN '08/01/2015' AND '08/31/2015')
AND `aca_no` = 2
GROUP BY `st_student`.`st_id`
In case that your columns are declared as a varchar datatype you will need to use str_to_date function. Varchar cannot be compared as a date unless you convert it to one. Try this and let me know. Best of luck.
SELECT `st_student`.`st_id`, `ab_date`, `as_date` `st_status`
FROM `st_student`
WHERE (`st_status` = 1 OR `st_status` = 2)
AND STR_TO_DATE(`ab_date`,'%d/%m/%Y')
BETWEEN
STR_TO_DATE('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y')
AND
STR_TO_DATE('31/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y')
OR
STR_TO_DATE(`as_date`,'%d/%m/%Y')
BETWEEN
STR_TO_DATE('01/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y')
AND
STR_TO_DATE('31/08/2015','%d/%m/%Y')
AND `aca_no` = 2
GROUP BY `st_student`.`st_id`
I am trying to use the following query in SQL Server
SELECT [AL].[Subscriptions].Id,
[AL].[Subscriptions].name,
[AL].[Subscriptions].description,
[AL].[Subscriptions].price,
[AL].[Subscriptions].iconFileName,
IIf(a.expiryDate > Now(), 'TRUE', 'FALSE') AS isSubsByUser
FROM [AL].[Subscriptions]
LEFT JOIN (SELECT *
FROM [AL].[UserSubscriptions]
WHERE userId = 13259) AS a
ON Subscriptions.Id = a.itemid;
but always get the error
Error in list of function arguments: '>' not recognized.
Unable to parse query text.
How do I resolve it?
Like Martin Smith said you need to use a case statement. Also it looks like you are only using a couple of fields in the derived table therefor I would suggest not using *. I put a example below.
SELECT [AL].[Subscriptions].Id,
[AL].[Subscriptions].name,
[AL].[Subscriptions].description,
[AL].[Subscriptions].price,
[AL].[Subscriptions].iconFileName,
case when a.expiryDate > GetDate() then 'TRUE' else 'FALSE' end AS isSubsByUser
FROM [AL].[Subscriptions]
LEFT JOIN (SELECT expiryDate, itemid
FROM [AL].[UserSubscriptions]
WHERE userId = 13259) AS a
ON Subscriptions.Id = a.itemid;
In a SQL query like this:
SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE x = 5;
is it possible to modify the WHERE condition so that SELECT looks for every value of x? Something like (wrong syntax):
SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE x = ANY_VALUE;
The reason behind this question is that I have to parse and modify some SQL queries through some C++ code I am writing. I know in this case I could just remove or comment the whole WHERE condition, but this is a simplification.
Thank you.
In cases like this, you normally would do something like this:
SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE x = SOME_VALUE OR 1 = 1;
SOME_VALUE is arbitrary, it can be anything matching the type of the column, because the WHERE clause will always be true because of the second part.
You could just omit WHERE clause. :)
While I think it's really the wrong way to go about it (just make the effort to remove the Where), how about where x = x? It won't work if X is null (you'd have to use "x is null or x = x") but don't bother if you know x won't be null.
You can try that:
SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE x = x OR x IS NULL;
You could make your query like this
DECLARE #VALUE as (type of x)
--SET #VALUE = ''
SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE (#VALUE IS NULL OR x = #VALUE);
and your parse would only have to replace
the: --SET #VALUE = '' line for one with the value you want, minus the comment, like: SET #VALUE = 'abc'
hope this helps
I have three tables in a mysql database . Deseasetype(DTID,TypeName) , Symptom(SID, SymptomName, DTID) , Result(RID, SID1, SID2, SID3, result).1st two table, i think is clear enough.
In result table: there will be combination's of symtoms and any values of SymID1/ SymID2/ SymID3 can be null. here i send a picture of the table result.
I want to input some symptom and output will be the result from the 'Result' table.
For that i wrote this query:
$query = "select Result from result where (result .SID1= '$symptom1') AND (result.SID2= '$symptom2' ) AND (result.SID3 = '$symptom3')";
This work only when three symptom's have value. but if any of the symptom's are null, then no result found. May be the query should be more perfect.
**please avoid any syntax error in my writing.
That's because you are comparing NULL to an empty string, and they aren't equal. You could try this instead:
SELECT Result
FROM symptom
WHERE IFNULL(symptom.SID1, '') = '$symptom1'
AND IFNULL(symptom.SID2, '') = '$symptom2'
AND IFNULL(symptom.SID3, '') = '$symptom3'
Notes:
You need to correctly escape the values of $symptom1, $symptom2 and $symptom3.
This won't efficiently use indexes.
As mark pointed out, the query is eventually falling down to compare with null if you are not escaping the null.
Or you can slightly change your logic to show a empty symptom with value '0' and then using the coalesce function you can easily build your query.
Does this work?
$query = "select Result from result
where (result.SID1 = '$symptom1' OR result.SID1 IS NULL) AND
(result.SID2 = '$symptom2' OR result.SID2 IS NULL) AND
(result.SID3 = '$symptom3' OR result.SID3 IS NULL)";
Presently troubleshooting a problem where running this SQL query:
UPDATE tblBenchmarkData
SET OriginalValue = DataValue, OriginalUnitID = DataUnitID,
DataValue = CAST(DataValue AS float) * 1.335
WHERE
FieldDataSetID = '6956beeb-a1e7-47f2-96db-0044746ad6d5'
AND ZEGCodeID IN
(SELECT ZEGCodeID FROM tblZEGCode
WHERE(ZEGCode = 'C004') OR
(LEFT(ZEGParentCode, 4) = 'C004'))
Results in the following error:
Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 1
Error converting data type nvarchar to float.
The really odd thing is, if I change the UPDATE to SELECT to inspect the values that are retrieved are numerical values:
SELECT DataValue
FROM tblBenchmarkData
WHERE FieldDataSetID = '6956beeb-a1e7-47f2-96db-0044746ad6d5'
AND ZEGCodeID IN
(SELECT ZEGCodeID
FROM tblZEGCode WHERE(ZEGCode = 'C004') OR
(LEFT(ZEGParentCode, 4) = 'C004'))
Here are the results:
DataValue
2285260
1205310
Would like to use TRY_PARSE or something like that; however, we are running on SQL Server 2008 rather than SQL Server 2012. Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA.
It would be helpful to see the schema definition of tblBenchmarkData, but you could try using ISNUMERIC in your query. Something like:
SET DataValue = CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(DataValue)=1 THEN CAST(DataValue AS float) * 1.335
ELSE 0 END
Order of execution not always matches one's expectations.
If you set a where clause, it generally does not mean the calculations in the select list will only be applied to the rows that match that where. SQL Server may easily decide to do a bulk calculation and then filter out unwanted rows.
That said, you can easily write try_parse yourself:
create function dbo.try_parse(#v nvarchar(30))
returns float
with schemabinding, returns null on null input
as
begin
if isnumeric(#v) = 1
return cast(#v as float);
return null;
end;
So starting with your update query that's giving an error (please forgive me for rewriting it for my own clarity):
UPDATE B
SET
OriginalValue = DataValue,
OriginalUnitID = DataUnitID,
DataValue = CAST(DataValue AS float) * 1.335
FROM
dbo.tblBenchmarkData B
INNER JOIN dbo.tblZEGCode Z
ON B.ZEGCodeID = Z.ZEGCodeID
WHERE
B.FieldDataSetID = '6956beeb-a1e7-47f2-96db-0044746ad6d5'
AND (
Z.ZEGCode = 'C004' OR
Z.ZEGParentCode LIKE 'C004%'
)
I think you'll find that a SELECT statement with exactly the same expressions will give the same error:
SELECT
OriginalValue,
DataValue NewOriginalValue,
OriginalUnitID,
DataUnitID OriginalUnitID,
DataValue,
CAST(DataValue AS float) * 1.335 NewDataValue
FROM
dbo.tblBenchmarkData B
INNER JOIN dbo.tblZEGCode Z
ON B.ZEGCodeID = Z.ZEGCodeID
WHERE
B.FieldDataSetID = '6956beeb-a1e7-47f2-96db-0044746ad6d5'
AND (
Z.ZEGCode = 'C004' OR
Z.ZEGParentCode LIKE 'C004%'
)
This should show you the rows that can't convert:
SELECT
B.*
FROM
dbo.tblBenchmarkData B
INNER JOIN dbo.tblZEGCode Z
ON B.ZEGCodeID = Z.ZEGCodeID
WHERE
B.FieldDataSetID = '6956beeb-a1e7-47f2-96db-0044746ad6d5'
AND (
Z.ZEGCode = 'C004' OR
Z.ZEGParentCode LIKE 'C004%'
)
AND IsNumeric(DataValue) = 0
-- AND IsNumeric(DataValue + 'E0') = 0 -- try this if the prior doesn't work
The trick in the last commented line is to tack on things to the string to force only valid numbers to be numeric. For example, if you wanted only integers, IsNumeric(DataValue + '.0E0') = 0 would show you those that aren't.