I am using SSRS 2008 R2. And found situation which seems to me a bug.
I have a shared dataset -
SELECT 'value1' AS Value
UNION
SELECT 'value''2'
I bind this DS to multivalue parameter. When I check only value'2 from multivalue drop down - I see that in SQL Profiler such parameter is passed
#Value=N'value''2' -- Two single quotes
When I check both values in profiler I see
#Value=N'value1,value''''2' -- Four single quotes
My Procedure treats first case correctly.
It seems to me that escape happens twice - first for every value, second for whole string?
Does anyone know the source of such behaviour, Thx in advance!
Here is the same thread on MS
I experienced a very similar problem - the weirdest part, as you've seen, is that it worked when one parameter was selected but not for multiple parameters.
Anyway, I solved this by passing the parameter to the stored procedure slightly differently - in the Parameters section of the dataset use the following expression:
=Join(Parameters!Value.Value, ",") substituting your parameter name as appropriate.
This effectively will still pass the same comma delimited string of values but for some reason seems to handle the quotes correctly.
Related
I have a variable with a value of '1617'. It is a DT_WSTR datatype currently. Sometimes I need a string, others an integer.
I am using a derived column to replace the ' values so that I can cast this value as an integer.
My replace function is not working.
REPLACE([User::schoolYear],"'","")
What am I doing wrong?
The problem with your supplied expression, is that you are not referencing the variable schoolYear. Sometimes, you can address a variable as #schoolYear but the consistent, explicit syntax I would encourage is #[User::schoolYear] That way, you can identify the namespace in case someone like me has used a custom namespace.
Your Derived Column expression then becomes
REPLACE(#[User::schoolYear],"'","")
You are having space before and after the single quote, which is causing the replace to fail.
Modify the expression as given below. I have tested it. It is working fine.
REPLACE([User::schoolYear],"'","")
Issue with commas in array field.
For starters: I have a column that has an array in it of varchars like this: ,901,902, or ,901,906,902 or ,,,904,903,
The #parameter I use to select this data needs to be multi-value but I cannot get this to work. The #parameter is named #ArrayType and uses values: 901 to 910.
The WHERE statement I use is this:
WHERE vendorContactTypeArray IN (#ArrayType)
However, the report fails because I do not know how to deal with splitting or dealing with commas in the array.
You can use JOIN function to build multivalue parameter like this
=Join(Parameters!ParameterName.Value)
I'm just starting developing reports in SSRS and would appreciate some help with this issue if possible! I'm selecting a dataset from a Dynamics database and want to then pass them to a SQL Server stored procedure referenced in another dataset to retrieve data from another database. I have created a report parameter and set it to Allow multiple values and to retrieve its values from a query and set it to the field that I want to retrieve.
The dataset would look like this:
U1234
U5678
U6789
In the dataset that uses the stored procedure I have set up a parameter, #pnum, and in the Parameter Value field I have created an expression using the Join statement like this:
Join(Parameters!pnum.Value, ", ")
When this gets passed to the stored proc it seems to be passing a string formatted like this:
'U1234, U5678, U6789'
Whereas what I would like to achieve is this:
'U1234', 'U5678', 'U6789'
so that I can use them in an IN statement. Is there a way of doing this within SSRS?
Many Thanks!
To anyone else experiencing this issue, the assumption made in the question on how the values are passed to the stored procedure and how they can be used are incorrect.
The value passed from the join expression would be formatted as such, without single quotes at the start and end:
U1234, U5678, U6789
Further to this, when passed to a stored procedure as a single string this can only be used as an in list by using dynamic SQL.
To parse out and filter on the passed values, the string will need to be split on the delimiter and inserted into a table (temporary or otherwise) to be joined to.
A suitable splitting can be found here (though others exist that may better suit your needs) utilising logic as follows:
declare #xml as xml,#str as varchar(100),#delimiter as varchar(10)
set #str='A,B,C,D,E'
set #delimiter =','
set #xml = cast(('<X>'+replace(#str,#delimiter ,'</X><X>')+'</X>') as xml)
select N.value('.', 'varchar(10)') as value from #xml.nodes('X') as T(N)
If you don't have to pass the values to a stored procedure and are using hardcoded datasets (Shared or not) you can actually directly use the parameter value without additional processing either in the query or by adding a join expression to the parameter value in the report:
select cols
from tables
where cols in(#MultiValueParameterName)
You have to add an extra field with the value wrapped in quotes.
Like this:
SELECT field1 AS display, '''' + field1 + '''' AS value
I have in my database a column with the parameters value of an url. I want with an sql query to put those parameters in different columns. I give an example:
I have now a column named parameters with for example this value: pOrgNum=j11000&pLanguage=nl&source=homepage
now I want three columns: pOrgnum | pLanguage | source with the values of my parameters.
The problem is that I don't know the order of my parameters or the length of it, so I can't use for example substring(parameters,9,6) to extract the parameter pOrgnum. can someone help me please?
There's a MySQL UDF that you can use to do exactly this, which also handles decoding the params and handles most character encodings, etc.
https://github.com/StirlingMarketingGroup/mysql-get-url-param
Examples
select`get_url_param`('https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDszSrddGBc','v');
-- "KDszSrddGBc"
select`get_url_param`('watch?v=KDszSrddGBc','v');
-- "KDszSrddGBc"
select`get_url_param`('watch?v=KDszSrddGBc','x');
-- null
select`get_url_param`('https://www.google.com/search?q=cgo+uint32+to+pointer&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS767US767&oq=cgo+uint32+to+pointer&aqs=chrome..69i57.12106j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8','q');
-- "cgo uint32 to pointer"
select`get_url_param`('/search?q=Na%C3%AFvet%C3%A9&oq=Na%C3%AFvet%C3%A9','q');
-- "Naïveté"
Disclaimer, I am the author.
I achieved this by taking the right of the string after the search parameter, then the left of the resulting string before the first &.
This handles
if the parameter was the last in the url (so no "&" follows it)
if the parameter does not exist (returns blank)
varying lengths of the search string (provided you replace "utm_medium" everywhere)
This finds the value of "utm_medium" in a parameter named url:
IF(locate("utm_medium", url)=0, '', LEFT(RIGHT(url,length(url)-locate("utm_medium",url)-length("utm_medium")),IF(locate("&",RIGHT(url,length(url)-locate("utm_medium",url)-length("utm_medium")))=0,length(RIGHT(url,length(url)-locate("utm_medium",url)-length("utm_medium")+1)),locate("&",RIGHT(url,length(url)-locate("utm_medium",url)-length("utm_medium"))))-1)) utm_medium
To use, find and replace url with your field name, and utm_medium with your url parameter.
May be inefficient, but gets the job done, and couldn't find an easy answer elsewhere
Its code work in mysql:
SELECT substring_index(URL_FIELD,'\',-1) FROM DemoTable;
I ran into a problem with SQL Server Integration Services 2012's new string function in the Expression Editor called TOKEN().
This is supposed to help you parse a delimited record. If the record comes out of a flat file, you can do this with the Flat File Source. In this case, I am dealing with old delimited import records that were stored as strings in a database VARCHAR field. Now they need to be extracted, massaged, and re-exported as delimited strings. For example:
1^Apple^0001^01/01/2010^Anteater^A1
2^Banana^0002^03/15/2010^Bear^B2
3^Cranberry^0003^4/15/2010^Crow^C3
If these strings are in a column called OldImportRecord, the delimiter is a caret (as shown), and we wish to put the fifth field into a Derived Column, we would use an expression like:
TOKEN(OldImportRecord,"^",5)
This returns Anteater, Bear, Crow, etc. In fact, we can create Derived Columns for each of the fields in this record (note that the index is one-based), change them as needed, and then build another delimited record for export.
Here's the problem. What if some of our data includes some empty strings (or Nulls rendered as empty strings)?
4^^0004^6/15/2010^Duck^D4
The TOKEN() fails to count the adjacent column delimiters, which throws off the column count. Now it only sees five columns instead of six columns. Our TOKEN(OldImportRecord,"^",5) returns "D4" instead of the intended "Duck". When we extract the fourth column, we wind up trying to put "Duck" into a Date column, and all sorts of fun ensues.
Here's a partial workaround:
TOKEN(REPLACE(OldImportRecord,"^^","^ ^"),"^",5)
Notice this misses every second delimiter pair, so it will fail for a string like "5^^^^Emu^E5", which looks like"5^ ^^ ^Emu^E5" after the REPLACE(). The column count is still wrong.
So here's my full workaround. This includes two nested REPLACE statements(), an RTRIM() to remove the superfluous spaces, and a DT_STR cast because I would like to keep the result in VARCHAR:
(DT_STR,255,1252)RTRIM(TOKEN(REPLACE(REPLACE(OldImportRecord,"^^","^ ^"),"^^","^ ^"),"^",5))
I am posting this for information, since others may also run into this problem.
Does anyone have a better workaround, or even a real solution?
Reason for the issue:
TOKEN method in SSIS uses the implementation of strtok function in C++. I gathered this information while reading the book Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Integration Services. It is mentioned as note on page 113 (I like this book! Lots of nice information.).
I searched for the implementation of strtok function and I found the following links.
INFO: strtok(): C Function -- Documentation Supplement - The code sample in this link shows that the function does ignore consecutive delimiter characters.
The answers to the following SO questions point out that strtok function is designed to ignore consecutive delimiters.
Need to know when no data appears between two token separators using strtok()
strtok_s behaviour with consecutive delimiters
I think that the TOKEN and TOKENCOUNT functions are working as per design but whether that is how SSIS should behave might be a question for the Microsoft SSIS team.
Original Post - Above section is an update:
I created a simple package in SSIS 2012 based on your data inputs. As you had described in your question, the TOKEN function does not behave as intended. I agree with you that the function doesn't seem to work. This post is not an answer to your original issue.
Here is an alternative way to write the expression in a relatively simpler fashion. This will only work if the last segment in your input record will always have a value (say A1, B2, C3 etc.).
Expression can be rewritten as:
This statement will take the input record as the parameter, the delimiter caret (^) as the second parameter. The third parameter calculates the total number segments in the records when split by the delimiter. If you have data in the last segment, you are guaranteed to have two segments. You can then subtract 1 to fetch the penultimate segment.
(DT_STR,50,1252)TOKEN(OldImportRecord,"^",TOKENCOUNT(OldImportRecord,"^") - 1)
I created a simple package with data flow task. OLE DB source retrieves the data and the derived transformation parses and splits the data as per the screenshot below. The output is then inserted into the destination table. You can see the source and destination tables in the last screenshot. Destination table has two columns. The first column stores the penultimate segment data and the segments count based on the delimiter (which again isn't correct). You can notice that the last record didn't fetch the correct results. If the last record didn't have the value 8, then the above expression will fail because the expression will evaluate to zero index.
Hope that helps to simplify your expression.
If you don't hear from anyone else, I would recommend logging this issue in Microsoft Connect website.
Create table and populate scripts:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SourceTable](
[OldImportRecord] [varchar](50) NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DestinationTable](
[NewImportRecord] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
[CaretCount] [int] NOT NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO
INSERT INTO dbo.SourceTable (OldImportRecord) VALUES
('1^Apple^0001^01/01/2010^Anteater^A1'),
('2^Banana^0002^03/15/2010^Bear^B2'),
('3^Cranberry^0003^4/15/2010^Crow^C3'),
('4^^0004^6/15/2010^Duck^D4'),
('5^^^^Emu^E5'),
('6^^^^Geese^F6'),
('^^^^Pheasant^G7'),
('8^^^^Sparrow^');
GO
Derived column transformation inside data flow task:
Data in source and destination tables:
Not only does TOKEN skip adjacent delimiters, it also skips leading and trailing delimiters as well. So, using your example, if you had a field "good" field that looks like this:
1^Apple^0001^01/01/2010^Anteater^A1
Followed by one with adjacent and leading delimiters like this:
^^^0004^6/15/2010^Duck^
TOKENCOUNT would only find two delimiters and you'd end up with 0004 assigned to Token1, 6/15/2010 for Token2, and Duck for Token3.
I used a different kind of replace. Rather than placing spaces between adjacent delimiters, which wouldn't help with leading or training, I used replace to surround the delimiters with characters I absolutely wouldn't find in my text. The following Expression works well for me. It's wordy, but it is what it is.
(DT_STR,255,1252)REPLACE(TOKEN(REPLACE(OldImportRecord,"^","~^~"),"^",1),"~","")
Of course, you'd replace the number 1 with whatever Token you wanted and adjust the cast according to your needs. Hope that helps.