Not sure if what I want to do is possible
But here it goes
A sql select command like...
select origtxno from posinvtrans
will return a value like
1-5454 or 23-54545 etc.
What I am after is removing everything before and including "-" in a select
example 1-5454 will be 5454 and 23-54545 will be 54545
Any suggestions?
select substring(origtxno from position('-', origtxno) + 1)
from posinvtrans
Related
I have the correct result coming back. I just need to convert 6 abbreviations in that result to their correct names. There are 20k names assigned to 1 of 6 abbreviated names.
I tried aliasing but that seems to only work for table names.
I tried doing a case statement but that didn't work.
You need to provide more details (like some sample input and output), but if you have data like EM100, and you want to make it EMPLOYEE 100, then you could use an expression such as:
CASE WHEN ColumnName like 'EM%' THEN 'EMPLOYEE ' + SUBSTRING (ColumnName,3,100)
WHEN ColumnName like 'RN%' THEN 'REGNURSE' + SUBSTRING (ColumnName,3,100)
else ColumnName END
But providing more details will help provide a more specific answer.
Long time lurker and learner, first time question here. I'm working a project for a local library to pull some data from their database to help the employees pull books put on hold for patrons. The catch here is the access to the database is read only. I cannot create any temporary tables or views.
We've created a long query to generate the data needed, I used a couple CTEs to whittle things down and then there's some logic based on which location the book may reside in to show where it should pick from. All in all, we're happy with the query results.
When I try to implement it using jdbcTemplate, I can't seem to find a way to get anything other than SELECT * to work.
WITH holdCTE1 (holdID, itemID, ...) AS (
SELECT *
FROM
table 1,
table 2,
table 3
WHERE
yada yada
This will give me results if I then do a SELECT * FROM holdCTE1.
If instead I specify columns, like this
WITH holdCTE1 (holdID, itemID, ...) AS (
SELECT t1.holdID, t2.itemID, t3.title
FROM
table 1,
table 2,
table 3
WHERE
yada yada
I get a syntax error at the first from table, regardless. I've tried adjusting all my table JOINs and using aliases and just about everything I can come across, but it doesn't seem to help.
A couple of things we're using to help the filtering and such, since we can't create a view to make it easy, is to call out the subqueries, so for example, in CTE1 we add a final column
'bib hold' AS hold_type
Even with the SELECT *, 'bib hold AS hold_type, I get the same syntax error. The actual wording of the error is:
StatementCallback; bad SQL grammar ... then my query ... nested exception is org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: syntax error at or near ... the first thing under the FROM line
The library is using a Postgresql database, and I'm using Spring with jdbcTemplate for the SQL side.
Thanks in advance for looking.
Sorry for the poorly worded question, but I think I stumbled across an answer this evening. I was checking all of my queries I'd noted in pgAdmin, and I did a copy/paste into my java class.
With the escape characters, the code seems to run just fine. So this looks like it is passing info correctly to the query
WITH hold_bib (hold_id, item_id, birl_bib, patron, status, hold_type) AS (SELECT\n"
+ " h.id,\n"
+ " i.record_id,\n"
+ " birl.bib_record_id,\n"
+ " h.patron_record_id,\n"
+ " i.item_status_code,\n"
+ " 'bib'AS hold_type\n"
The function looks like this at the beginning now:
public List<Hold> libraryNotPicked() {
String sql = "\n"
+ "WITH hold_bib (hold_id, item_id, birl_bib, patron, status, hold_type) AS (SELECT\n"
+ " h.id,\n"
+ " i.record_id,\n"
+ " birl.bib_record_id,\n"
+ " h.patron_record_id,\n"
+ " i.item_status_code,\n"
+ " 'bib'AS hold_type\n"
...
+ " ;
List<Hold> holds = jdbcTemplate.query(sql, new BeanPropertyRowMapper<>(Hold.class));
return holds;
Seems to me the key is the \n type characters in the query.
I need to be able to use variables in table names - I basically have the same set of tables used for different types of data, so I would like to just have one dashboard and swapping between all types instead of always having to set up multiple identical dashboards.
My query is something like:
select * from table_$variable_name;
Where my list of possible variable is something like cat, dog, bird
I can seem to make this work, if I only put the variable as shown above I get the following error
Error 1146: Table 'table_$variable_name' doesn't exist
If I enclose it in curly brackets, I get this error instead.
Error 1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '{bird}' at line 1
(i.e. with the selected variable actually being visible this time)
I'm not sure if the issue is having underscores in the table names, I tried putting underscores around my variables too to check and I had no luck with that.
Another thing I tried was gradually adding on to the table name, so e.g.
select * from table_$variable;
Still returns an error, but I can see the table name starting to form correctly
Error 1146: Table 'table_bird_' doesn't exist
However, as soon as I add another underscore, the variable is not picked up abymore
```Error 1146: Table 'table_$variable_' doesn't exist``
I'm sure it's something silly I am missing in the syntax of the query - anyone has any suggestions?
Using this https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/variables/templates-and-variables/ for reference
As #arturomp suggests, use
${var:raw}
At least in my case, this was the solution that worked.
I found double square brackets work. e.g.
Rather than
select * from table_$variable_name;
use
select * from table_[[variable_name]];
Is there a way to use UPPER with a LIKE ANY()?
I have the following example:
SELECT
....
where skus.number like any ('{"%00130204%", "%00130202"}')
Unfortunately the skus I'm checking here can be of different cases, so I tried doing this:
SELECT
....
where UPPER(skus.number) like any UPPER('{"%00130204%", "%00130202"}'))
Which doesn't work, is there any way to get this working in the query itself?
No need to use upper. Use the case insensitive version of like, "ilike" instead.
SELECT
....
where skus.number ilike any ('{"%00130204%", "%00130202"}')
along with being totally with #Joe on his answer as better for you query (and skipping phylosophy behind idea to represent digits in uppercase), I decided to answer the topic of your post
Is there a way to use UPPER with a LIKE ANY()?
yes - here it is:
t=# select UPPER('110013020411') like any (UPPER('{"%00130204%", "%00130202"}')::text[]) comaprison;
comaprison
------------
t
(1 row)
after you upper text in array represented as text you need to cast it back inorder to use with ANY (array)
this should be a simple thing but I've spent hours to no avail. Basically, I need to look up a salesrep # in a SQL database using the user's Window's user id. The format of the user id is
"Norstar\kjones" and I need the "kjones" portion of it.
using the split function, I am able to pull just the 'kjones' part out:
split(User!UserID,"\").GetValue(1)
I've created a parameter called SlsmnNum and created a dataset to be used to look up the salesrep # using the user id (the slsm_num field is a varchar, not an integer):
select slsm_num from Salesman_Msid where slsm_msid = ''' + split(User!UserID,"\").GetValue(1) + '''
However, I get no results. How can I get the select to work?
alternatively, I tried the following:
in parameter SlsmnNum, I set the default to an expression using:
split(User!UserID,"\").GetValue(1) and this returns 'kjones', as expected.
I created a SECOND parameter (which is positioned BELOW the SlsmnNum parameter), SlsmnNum2, that has a default (and an available) value using a query, which is a dataset containing the following select statement:
select slsm_num from Salesman_Msid where slsm_msid = (#SlsmnNum)
When I run the query on the Data tab, when I type in 'kjones' into the parameter box, it returns '1366', the salesrep # I'm expecting.
But, when I Preview the report, all I get in SlsmnNum2 box is Select a Value and nothing is there (it should return '1366').
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Try your first approach with Query Text as
="select slsm_num from Salesman_Msid where slsm_msid = '" & split(User!UserID,"\").GetValue(1) & "'"