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daniel50096230
Yak Posting Veteran
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 Posted - 2009-07-30 : 00:20:36
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| I have the following data in my [content] column:STORE NO : 908 FFDC SIMPANG PULAI (908) TEL : 03-42518482 FAX:03-42604102 FROM DATE : 01/01/09 TO DATE : 31/01/09How should I write my sql statement so that I can only get the date after "FROM DATE: " and another data after "TO DATE: "??? |
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GhantaBro
Posting Yak Master
215 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-30 : 00:27:34
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| Use patindex and substring functions. |
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daniel50096230
Yak Posting Veteran
99 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-30 : 00:48:06
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| Is there any sample for me to review because i am not really understand of patindex |
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khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)
17689 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-30 : 00:54:28
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[code]declare @str varchar(150)select @str = 'STORE NO : 908 FFDC SIMPANG PULAI (908) TEL : 03-42518482 FAX:03-42604102 FROM DATE : 01/01/09 TO DATE : 31/01/09'select FromDate = substring(@str, charindex('FROM DATE : ', @str) + 12, 8), ToDate = substring(@str, charindex('TO DATE : ', @str) + 10, 8)[/code]
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subhaoviya
Posting Yak Master
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Posted - 2009-07-30 : 01:49:01
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| as per your query i got , 908 FFDC as result for from date, why?why u add chaindex +12? |
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bklr
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2009-07-30 : 02:07:55
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| it is length of FROM DATE : is 12 so that khtan added 12in todate added 10 length of TO DATE : is 10substring (columnname, startloction,length) |
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khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)
17689 Posts |
Posted - 2009-07-30 : 02:08:37
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quote:
Originally posted by subhaoviya
as per your query i got , 908 FFDC as result for from date, why?why u add chaindex +12?
use case when to check for result of CHARINDEX() when it can't find the string, it will return 0.+ 12 is to skip the string "FROM DATE : "
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Select data after string