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I know that I can combine multiple columns in mysql by doing:
SELECT CONCAT(zipcode, ' - ', city, ', ', state) FROM Table;
However, if one of the fields is NULL then the entire value will be NULL. So to prevent this from happening I am doing:
SELECT CONCAT(zipcode, ' - ', COALESE(city,''), ', ', COALESCE(state,'')) FROM Table;
However, there still can be situation where the result will look something like this:
zipcode-, ,
Is there a way in MySQL to only have to comma and the hyphen if the next columns are not NULL?
There is actually a native function that will do this called Concat with Separator (concat_ws)!
Specifically, it seems that what you would need is:
SELECT CONCAT_WS(' - ',zipcode, NULLIF(CONCAT_WS(', ',city,state),'')) FROM TABLE;
This should account for all of the null cases you allude to.
However, it is important to note that a blank string ('') is different than a NULL. If you want to address this in the state/city logic you would add a second NULLIF check inside the second CONCAT_ws for the case where a city or a state would be blank strings. This will depend on the database's regard for the blank field and whether you are entering true NULLS into your database or checking the integrity of the blank data before you use it. Something like the following might be slightly more robust:
SELECT CONCAT_WS(' - ', zipcode, NULLIF(CONCAT_WS(', ', NULLIF(city, ''), NULLIF(state, '')), '')) FROM TABLE;
For more, check out the native documentation on concat_ws() here:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/string-functions.html#function_concat-ws
I think you need something like this
Set #zipcode := '12345';
Set #city := NULL;
Set #state := NULL;
SELECT CONCAT(#zipcode, ' - ', COALESCE(#city,''), ', ', COALESCE(#state,''));
Result: 12345 - ,
SELECT CONCAT(#zipcode, IF(#city is NULL,'', CONCAT(' - ', #city)), IF(#state is NULL,'', CONCAT(', ',#state)))
Result 12345
You need to make the output of the separators conditional on the following values being non-NULL. For example:
SELECT CONCAT(zipcode,
CASE WHEN city IS NOT NULL OR state IS NOT NULL THEN ' - '
ELSE ''
END,
COALESCE(city, ''),
CASE WHEN city IS NOT NULL AND state IS NOT NULL THEN ', '
ELSE ''
END,
COALESCE(state, '')
) AS address
FROM `Table``
Output (for my demo)
address
12345 - San Francisco, CA
67890 - Los Angeles
34567 - AL
87654
Demo on dbfiddle
I have around 200,000 records of data with phone numbers, but the numbers are inconsistent.
for example, some may be 10 digits (missing a 0 at the beginning), some have spaces in there, some have a '-' in the middle and some begin with '+44' instead of 0.
Is there a way in mySQL to condition all these and cleanse the data in one query?
Without sample data and without an example output this is purely speculative and assuming you want the output in the format of 01234567891.
Use a combination of LENGTH, REPLACE' ANDLEFT` functions to resolve the 4 issues you highlighted:
Missing 0 at beggining.
Spaces in the string.
-'s in the string.
+44 rather than 0.
SELECT CASE WHEN LENGTH(REPLACE(REPLACE(numberfield, '-', ''), ' ', '')) = 10
THEN CONCAT('0', REPLACE(REPLACE(numberfield, '-', ''), ' ', ''))
WHEN LEFT(REPLACE(REPLACE(numberfield, '-', ''), ' ', ''), 3) = '+44'
THEN REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(numberfield, '-', ''), ' ', ''), '+44', '0'
END AS Cleannumber
FROM yourtable
Assuming the phone number field is a string - the following should deal with the conditions you specified :
RIGHT( LPAD( REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE('phonenumber', '-', ''), '+44', ''), ' ', ''), 11, '0' ), 11 )
first any '-' are removed, then '+44' is removed, then spaces are removed, then 11 '0's are added to the start of the number, finally the rightmost 11 characters are taken.
So you would do an UPDATE query replacing the phonenumber column.
I would want to switch 2 words (firstName lastName) in a mysql row's fields
example :
I have a column 'persons' with a field :
Jonh Smith
I would want to switch to : Smith Jonh
I searched a lot for a MySQL function or snippet but found no way.
Try this update if the field has only two words
UPDATE tablename
SET persons = CONCAT(SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(persons, ' ', 2), ' ', -1),' ',
SUBSTRING_INDEX(SUBSTRING_INDEX(persons, ' ', 1), ' ', -1))
Currently I'm working on a database redesign project. A large bulk of this project is pulling data from the old database and importing it into the new one.
One of the columns in a table from the old database is called 'name'. It contains a forename and a surname all in one field (ugh). The new table has two columns; forenames and surname. I need to come up with a clean, efficient way to split this single column into two.
For now I'd like to do everything in the same table and then I can easily transfer it across.
3 columns:
Name (the forename and surname)
Forename (currently empty, first half of name should go here)
Surname (currently empty, second half of name should go here)
What I need to do: Split name in half and place into forename and surname
If anyone could shed some light on how to do this kind of thing I would really appreciate it as I haven't done anything like this in SQL before.
Database engine: MySQL
Storage engine: InnoDB
A quick solution is to use SUBSTRING_INDEX to get everything at the left of the first space, and everything past the first space:
UPDATE tablename
SET
Forename = SUBSTRING_INDEX(Name, ' ', 1),
Surname = SUBSTRING_INDEX(Name, ' ', -1)
Please see fiddle here. It is not perfect, as a name could have multiple spaces, but it can be a good query to start with and it works for most names.
Try this:
insert into new_table (forename, lastName, ...)
select
substring_index(name, ' ', 1),
substring(name from instr(name, ' ') + 1),
...
from old_table
This assumes the first word is the forename, and the rest the is lastname, which correctly handles multi-word last names like "John De Lacey"
For the people who wants to handle fullname: John -> firstname: John, lastname: null
SELECT
if( INSTR(`name`, ' ')=0,
TRIM(SUBSTRING(`name`, INSTR(`name`, ' ')+1)),
TRIM(SUBSTRING(`name`, 1, INSTR(`name`, ' ')-1)) ) first_name,
if( INSTR(`name`, ' ')=0,
null,
TRIM(SUBSTRING(`name`, INSTR(`name`, ' ')+1)) ) last_name
It works fine with John Doe. However if user just fill in John with no last name, SUBSTRING(name, INSTR(name, ' ')+1)) as lastname will return John instead of null and firstname will be null with SUBSTRING(name, 1, INSTR(name, ' ')-1).
In my case I added if condition check to correctly determine lastname and trim to prevent multiple spaces between them.
This improves upon the answer given, consider entry like this "Jack Smith Smithson", if you need just first and last name, and you want first name to be "Jack Smith" and last name "Smithson", then you need query like this:
-- MySQL
SELECT
SUBSTR(full_name, 1, length(full_name) - length(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', -1)) - 1) as first_name,
SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', -1) as last_name
FROM yourtable
Just wanted to share my solution. It also works with middle names. The middle name will be added to the first name.
SELECT
TRIM(SUBSTRING(name,1, LENGTH(name)- LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(name, ' ', -1)))) AS firstname,
SUBSTRING_INDEX(name, ' ', -1) AS lastname
I had a similar problem but with Names containing multiple names, eg. "FirstName MiddleNames LastName" and it should be "MiddleNames" and not "MiddleName".
So I used a combo of substring() and reverse() to solve my problem:
select
SystemUser.Email,
SystemUser.Name,
Substring(SystemUser.Name, 1, instr(SystemUser.Name, ' ')) as 'First Name',
reverse(Substring(reverse(SystemUser.Name), 1, instr(reverse(SystemUser.Name), ' '))) as 'Last Name',
I do not need the "MiddleNames" part and maybe this is not the most efficient way to solve it, but it works for me.
Got here from google, and came up with a slightly different solution that does handle names with more than two parts (up to 5 name parts, as would be created by space character). This sets the last_name column to everything to the right of the 'first name' (first space), it also sets full_name to the first name part. Perhaps backup your DB before running this :-) but here it is it worked for me:
UPDATE users SET
name_last =
CASE
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 1)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN ''
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 2)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -1)
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 3)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -2)
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 4)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -3)
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 5)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -4)
WHEN LENGTH(SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 6)) = LENGTH(full_name) THEN SUBSTRING_INDEX(del_name, ' ', -5)
ELSE ''
END,
full_name = SUBSTRING_INDEX(full_name, ' ', 1)
WHERE LENGTH(name_last) = 0 or LENGTH(name_last) is null or name_last = ''
SUBSTRING_INDEX didn't work for me in SQL 2018, so I used this:
declare #fullName varchar(50) = 'First Last1 Last2'
declare #first varchar(50)
declare #last varchar(50)
select #last = right(#fullName, len(#fullName)-charindex(' ',#fullName, 1)), #first = left(#fullName, (charindex(' ', #fullName, 1))-1);
Yields #first = 'First', #last = 'Last1 Last2'
I am trying to populate a table with phone number from a temp table. I have wrote the query with no problem. but my peoblem here is to know if the company already has a primary number or not
so I select 2 fields from my temp table called "cvsnumbers" 1) company_code (id) and the phone number.
I need to add a case statement to change the value of a main_number field. so if the number already has a number with main_number = 1 then I need to insert 0 for the new phone number but if there is no main_number then I need to insert 1 for the new phone number making it a primary phone number for the account.
this is my query
SELECT ac.account_id,
REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(ta.phone_number, '-', ''), ' ', ''), ')', ''),'(','') AS Phone,
IFNULL(ta.ext, '') AS extention,
IFNULL(ta.main_number, 0) AS MainNumber,
ta.type AS contact_type,
'2' AS created_by
FROM cvsnumbers AS ta
INNER JOIN accounts AS ac ON ac.account_id = ta.company_code
WHERE LENGTH(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(ta.phone_number, '-', ''), ' ', ''), ')', ''),'(','') ) = 10
AND REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(ta.phone_number, '-', ''), ' ', ''), ')', ''),'(','') NOT IN (SELECT contact_number FROM contact_numbers)
My issue is
`IFNULL(ta.main_number, 0) AS MainNumber,`
I want to change that to some what a case statment to check if a company_code already has a main_number or not.
How can I change this?
Thanks
I am still not sure exactly how your query should look like, but how about something along theese lines?
SELECT CASE
WHEN EXISTS (SELECT *
FROM contact_numbers
WHERE main_number = 1
AND contact_number =
<insert contact number from outer expression here>)
THEN 1
ELSE 0
END AS MainNumber
FROM ...