November 7, 2013 at 9:00 am
Hi
i have the following field in a progress db which contains analysis codes for a given account. I need to split the codes into their own columns.
here's an example: 007;007;01D;P;999;999;
I am using the following to get the position of the ; character and then using substing to try and pull out the parts. The code is becoming painful already though and i'm only at the 3rd code.
Is there an easier way to do this?
charindex(';', analcode) pos1,
charindex(';', analcode, charindex(';',analcode)+1) pos2,
charindex(';', analcode, charindex(';', analcode, charindex(';',analcode)+1)+1) pos3
Thanks
November 7, 2013 at 9:07 am
spin (11/7/2013)
Hii have the following field in a progress db which contains analysis codes for a given account. I need to split the codes into their own columns.
here's an example: 007;007;01D;P;999;999;
I am using the following to get the position of the ; character and then using substing to try and pull out the parts. The code is becoming painful already though and i'm only at the 3rd code.
Is there an easier way to do this?
charindex(';', analcode) pos1,
charindex(';', analcode, charindex(';',analcode)+1) pos2,
charindex(';', analcode, charindex(';', analcode, charindex(';',analcode)+1)+1) pos3
Thanks
Take a look at the link in my signature about splitting strings. It will show a super easy and fast way to do this.
Also, I might suggest changing the name of your column. 😛
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November 7, 2013 at 9:13 am
thanks, i'll check that out.
believe me, our anal codes have been the humour in many a meeting. 🙂
November 7, 2013 at 9:17 am
Also, I might suggest changing the name of your column.
:w00t:
Reminds me of a report one of my ex co-workers used to run every month.
It was a pay analysis and it was called payanaly. A disturbing concept.
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
November 7, 2013 at 9:10 pm
Phil Parkin (11/7/2013)
Also, I might suggest changing the name of your column.
:w00t:
Reminds me of a report one of my ex co-workers used to run every month.
It was a pay analysis and it was called payanaly. A disturbing concept.
BWAHAHAHA!
I had a similar thought. 😛
My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?
My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.
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