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I would suggest using the DATE data type. SQL server saves the date as 20140416. You only need to convert(date, FormReceivedDate). Formatting of the data is done for output.
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AzeeM_R wrote: Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar value 'Apr 7 2014 4:42PM' to data type int
You shouldn't be trying to convert the data to an int. SQL has specific data types for storing date/time data[^], which you should be using instead.
The yyyy-MM-dd and MMM d yyyy h:mmTT formats are easy to convert:
SELECT
Convert(date, '2014-05-01'),
Convert(datetime2(0), 'Apr 7 2014 4:42PM')
;
The other two formats will be impossible to convert unless your data contains another field indicating whether they're dd/MM/yyyy or MM/dd/yyyy. Without that additional field, there would be no way to know whether 01/02/2014 should be 1st February or 2nd January.
If you do have an additional field indicating the format of the date, then your options depend on the version of SQL that you're using. SQL 2012 and 2014 have the PARSE method[^]:
SELECT
PARSE('5/29/2014' As date),
PARSE('16/4/2014' As date USING 'en-GB')
;
For older versions, you would need to write your own function to parse the string.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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If you convert the garbage you have to a single string format and store it as varchar you are perpetuating the same garbage as you are having to deal with now. USE THE DATETIME DATA FORMAT.
And yes I did mean to shout.
You might need to do a number of passes through the data using the suggestion from the other replies to convert the data. Records that are ambiguous may require the mark I eyeball to get the context of the date from other data in the record.
Altogether a thoroughly nasty job 100% caused by not storing the data in the correct format. I know it is a legacy app but if you can add new fields in the correct format then your life will be possible and the users cannot repeat the input of garbage.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hi thanks for your help
we have to do it fast as we did not have time so i just copy past all values of column and paste in excel file and change the desired format 
and paste it in database
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Hello everyone,
I came across a problem when I loaded my records from SSIS to SQL DB.
My source file is a txt file.
I use 5 fields to make my records unique but unfortunately there are some records that can't be made unique.
Even the records that aren't unique must be loaded into my table although in SSIS the duplicate records are written to an error log and are excluded out of the load into the DB.
This is a small example of a few records:
record 1 and 2 are unique, 3 and 4 not.
HEADER WH DATE_CREATED TIME_CREATED PO RECEIPT ARTICLE QTY_PBS CW CODE_DATE_RECEIVED SYSTEM_FLAG QTY_PBL FLOW_RECEIVING_FLAG FLOW_DEMAND_FLAG VENDOR_ID SHIPPING_UNIT WH_FROM AANT_PALLETS SSCC_NR EMPTY_FACTURATION_FORM
1010 3 30/07/2014 11:49:24 861819693 71663 1610570 4 36507 18/08/2014 S 0 N N B986 77000 0 7 054001090102087337
1010 3 30/07/2014 11:49:24 861819693 71663 6750 1 0 18/08/2014 S 0 N N B986 77000 0 7 054001090102087337 I
1010 3 30/07/2014 11:49:24 861819693 71663 6681 4 0 18/08/2014 S 0 N N B986 77000 0 7 054001090102087337 I
1010 3 30/07/2014 11:49:24 861819693 71663 6681 16 0 18/08/2014 S 0 N N B986 77000 0 7 054001090102087337 I
In SQL I use a View to transform the data and load only the data I need from the txt file:
ALTER VIEW [dbo].[F_Received_Colli_VW]
AS
SELECT
CAST(NULL AS Numeric(8, 0)) AS DT_Start_Dates
, CAST(NULL AS NVARCHAR(6)) AS TI_Start_Times
, CAST(NULL AS Numeric(8, 0)) AS DT_Code_Dates
, NULL AS FK_Article
, NULL AS FK_FlowType
, CAST(CAST(RIGHT(dbo.AD.DATE_CREATED, 4) + SUBSTRING(dbo.AD.DATE_CREATED, 4, 2)
+ LEFT(dbo.AD.DATE_CREATED, 2) AS int) AS Numeric(8, 0)) AS CREATE_DATE
, CAST(dbo.LPAD(LEFT(dbo.AD.TIME_CREATED, 2) + SUBSTRING(dbo.AD.TIME_CREATED, 4, 2)
+ RIGHT(dbo.AD.TIME_CREATED, 2) , 6, '0') AS NVARCHAR(6)) AS CREATE_TIME
, CAST(CAST(RIGHT(dbo.AD.CODE_DATE_RECEIVED, 4) + SUBSTRING(dbo.AD.CODE_DATE_RECEIVED, 4, 2)
+ LEFT(dbo.AD.CODE_DATE_RECEIVED, 2) AS int) AS Numeric(8, 0)) AS CODE_DATE
, CAST(dbo.AD.VENDOR_ID AS nvarchar(255)) AS Vendor_ID_Cd
, CAST(CASE WHEN dbo.AD.WH IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE dbo.AD.WH END AS nvarchar(255)) AS WH_Cd
, dbo.AD.PO AS BK_PO_Cd
, dbo.AD.RECEIPT AS BK_Receipt_Cd
, CAST(dbo.Devide_Shipping_Unit(dbo.AD.SHIPPING_UNIT, dbo.AD.ARTICLE) AS Nvarchar (255)) AS BK_Shipping_Unit_Cd
, dbo.AD.SSCC_NR AS BK_License_Plate_Cd
, dbo.AD.ARTICLE AS BK_Article_Cd
, CAST(dbo.Devide_Shipping_Unit(dbo.AD.SHIPPING_UNIT, dbo.AD.ARTICLE) AS Nvarchar (255)) AS SHIPPING_UNIT
, dbo.AD.ARTICLE
, CASE DWH.dbo.D_Article.FlowType WHEN 'SAP' THEN ISNULL(CAST(dbo.AD.QTY_PBS AS int), 0)
ELSE ISNULL(CAST(dbo.AD.QTY_PBL AS int), 0) END AS M_Nr_Of_Colli
, CAST(ISNULL(dbo.AD.CW, 0) AS numeric(15,2)) / 100 AS M_Received_Weight
, 1 AS M_Nr_of_Pallets
FROM
(SELECT dbo.GETRESTARTTIMESTAMP(N'F_Received_Colli') AS restartTS) AS tmp CROSS JOIN
dbo.AD LEFT OUTER JOIN
DWH.dbo.D_Article ON (dbo.AD.ARTICLE = DWH.dbo.D_Article.BK_Article_Cd) and CAST(dbo.Devide_Shipping_Unit(dbo.AD.SHIPPING_UNIT, dbo.AD.ARTICLE) AS int) = Cast(DWH.dbo.D_Article.BK_Unit_Ship_Case_Cd AS int)
WHERE (dbo.AD.HEADER = '1010')
The fieldNames starting with BK_ are the fields I'm using to make a record unique. So I have 5 BK fields to make a record unique in the View:
1) BK_PO_Cd
2) BK_Receipt_Cd
3) BK_License_Plate_Cd
4) BK_Article_Cd
5) BK_Shipping_Unit_Cd
I think I can solve this by sorting on the BK's and then checking if the record exists.
If the record exists then the amount of field "QTY_PBS" should be added to the first record.
In case of my example it would be 1 record with an amount of 20 instead of 2 records with amount 4 and 16.
I tried to create a SP to resolve this issue but I'm failing misserably (lack of knowledge).
Can somebody please help me with this???
USE [DWH]
GO
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE PROCEDURE Check_Duplicates
(
@License_Plate VARCHAR(18),
@Article VARCHAR(18),
@PO VARCHAR(20),
@Receipt VARCHAR(5),
@M_Nr_Of_Colli Int
)
AS
BEGIN
Set @License_Plate = '054001090102087337'
Set @Article = '0006681'
Set @PO = '0861819693'
Set @Receipt = '71663'
Set @M_Nr_Of_Colli = 16
IF EXISTS (SELECT [M_Nr_of_Colli] FROM F_Received_Colli_VW
WHERE [BK_License_Plate_Cd]=@License_Plate AND BK_Article_Cd = @Article)
BEGIN
INSERT INTO F_Received_Colli_VW VALUES(@License_Plate,@Article,@PO, @Receipt, @M_Nr_Of_Colli)
PRINT 'New Record Insert Successfuly'
END
ELSE
BEGIN
PRINT 'Id All Ready Exist'
END
END
Kind regards,
Ambertje
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Hi i want to split column into multiple columns using c#.
Ex.
100 rows in COLUMN_A , convert into
COLUMN_A1(Firt 20 records)
COLUMN_A2(next 20 records)
COLUMN_A3(next 20 records)
COLUMN_A4(next 20 records)
COLUMN_A5(next 20 records)
is it posiblie?
modified 5-Aug-14 4:43am.
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Jaimin H Soni wrote: is it posiblie?
Yes, simply read it row by row and stuff the contents in a column. That'd be assuming that a "row" could fit in a single "column".
Can you show an example row?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have datatable that have one column in that 112 rows and i want to convert like that
col1 20 rows (1 to 20)
col2 20 rows (21 to 40)
col3 20 rows (41 to 60)
col4 20 rows (61 to 80)
col5 20 rows (81 to 100)
col6 20 rows (100 to 112)
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Then you'd have to add some columns to the datatable, and loop the records.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I tried looping but i cannot get exactly what i want...
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Show us your code
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Could you help figure out why my code not working?
DECLARE @xmlPolicyType XML
SET @xmlPolicyType= REPLACE('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<NewDataSet>
<PolicyType>
MED
</PolicyType>
<PolicyType>
SPORT
</PolicyType>
</NewDataSet>
','utf-16','UTF-8')
DECLARE @xmlHandle INT
IF NOT @xmlPolicyType IS NULL
BEGIN
DECLARE @PolicyTypes TABLE
(
PolicyType CHAR(5)
)
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @xmlHandle output, @xmlPolicyType
--INSERT INTO @PolicyTypes
SELECT PolicyType
FROM OPENXML (@xmlHandle, '/NewDataSet/PolicyType',1)
WITH ( PolicyType CHAR(5) '@PolicyType' )
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @xmlHandle
SELECT t.value('(PolicyType/text())[2]','nvarchar(120)')AS PolicyType
FROM @xmlPolicyType.nodes('/NewDataSet/PolicyType')AS TempTable(t)
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What about it isn't working? Is there an error message? What database system?
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Your OPENXML query doesn't work because the node value contains white-space, which is not getting trimmed. Since you're only taking the first 5 characters, you'll get a string containing nothing by white-space.
Your .nodes() query doesn't work because you're getting the PolicyType nodes, and then trying to find the third PolicyType node within that node.
Try this:
DECLARE @xmlPolicyType XML
SET @xmlPolicyType= REPLACE('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<NewDataSet>
<PolicyType>
MED
</PolicyType>
<PolicyType>
SPORT
</PolicyType>
</NewDataSet>
','utf-16','UTF-8');
DECLARE @PolicyTypes TABLE
(
PolicyType char(5)
);
INSERT INTO @PolicyTypes
(
PolicyType
)
SELECT
LTrim(Replace(Replace(Replace(
T.PolicyType.value('.', 'varchar(120)')
, Char(13), ''), Char(10), ''), Char(9), ''))
FROM
@xmlPolicyType.nodes('/NewDataSet/PolicyType') As T (PolicyType)
;
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I create a new SQL CE database and try to add two tables with a key linkiing them. The first table is created successfully with the statement:
CREATE TABLE Classes(ClassId INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Class NVARCHAR(64) NOT NULL )
and I add 3 rows to it successfully.
I then try to create the second table with a foreign key thus:
CREATE TABLE Accounts(Account NVARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, Telephone NVARCHAR(128), ClassId INTEGER FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Classes(ClassId) )
but this fails with the message:
The constraint specified is not valid
What am I doing wrong?
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Have a read of the first answer in this StackOverflow Question[^] on the same subject.
The first answer suggests that you remove the FOREIGN KEY part of your create table statement
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Thanks for the reply, my syntax was wrong, Eddy found the answer.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: What am I doing wrong?
Specifying the constraint, below code should work for sqlite3;
The question is about SQL CE
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Thanks Eddy, your suggestion did work (for SQL CE). I have been staring at this for over an hour and could not see the subtlety of the optional parameters in the documentation[^].
[edit]
For the record the correct syntax is:
CREATE TABLE Accounts(Account NVARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, Telephone NVARCHAR(128), ClassId INTEGER, FOREIGN KEY (ClassId) REFERENCES Classes(ClassId) )
[edit]
modified 31-Jul-14 9:18am.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: your suggestion did work (for SQL CE).
Cool - one of those rare cases where both implemented the same sql-standard.
Makes me curious how easy (or hard) it is to switch from one to the other.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Dear All,
I would like to show you the following questions ( SQL server ):
- I have one procedure that return 2 result after execute
Eg:
create procedure spTest
as
begin
select * from table1
select * from table2
end
( this is just sample procedure that return 2 result after execute )
- I also have one temp Table name #tmpTable1, i want to insert into this temp table, but get result from procedure above, but i can't use this statement:
insert into #tmpTable1 exec spTest
( it will not work, because this procedure return 2 result )
Do you have any idea to get result from this procedure into my temp table?
Thank you in advance for your good idea...
Mr. LTM KH
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You have a some of choices, the obvious one is to split the child procedure into 2 procs, this is by far the better choice.
You could also use a global temp table in the child procs declare as ##TableName. IE create the global temp in the parent proc and call the insert proc, then consume the results in the parent proc. I would consider this a really crappy solution as it is fraught with problems.
You could also modify the child proc to use a UNION and return only 1 table (assumes if you are going to insert the data into 1 table then it is the same structure)
MS did a great disservice when they allowed multiple result sets to be returned from a single proc.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Dear Mycroft Holmes,
Thanks you so much for your solutions, I will test it with global temp table...
But this may not the best choice for me..
Regard
Mr.LTM-KH
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LTM_it_kh wrote: But this may not the best choice for me.
It may well be the worst solution! Global temp table are nasty to manage!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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