Update table with multiline comments

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Update table with multiline comments

abhas

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April 14, 2014 at 3:20 am

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Hi All,
How to update column with multiline coments.
eg. I need to update Notification column in my table as below.
Exit Formalities Notification sent to:
Employee: LastName, FirstName
EmployeeEmail: EmployeeEmailAddress
Is it possibe?
Please give an ideas.
Thanks
Abhas.

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182882 More actions · Answer 1

abhas (4/14/2014)
Hi All,
How to update column with multiline coments.

Add "carriage return" and "line feed" characters, see the example

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SELECT 'THIS IS A COMMENT LINE 1' + CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) + 'THIS IS LINE 2'

Output

----------------------------------------

THIS IS A COMMENT LINE 1

THIS IS LINE 2

Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22906 More actions · Answer 2

It can be done but I'm not entirely sure what you want. Are the LastName, FirstName and EmployeeEmailAddress' coming from a query? Can you give us a bit more information about what you want please? For example do you want to do this in SSRS or as part of a query?

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SQLCJ SSCommitted Points: 1781 More actions · Answer 3

While executing following script please see results to text...And I used '*' considering you don't have one in the field where you want to do it ... But I believe there has to be a easy way out too

DECLARE @tab TABLE

(

COMMENT VARCHAR(100)

)

INSERT INTO @tab(COMMENT)

SELECT 'Exit Formalities Notification sent to:' UNION ALL

SELECT 'Employee: LastName, FirstName' UNION ALL

SELECT 'EmployeeEmail: EmployeeEmailAddress'

DECLARE @COMM VARCHAR(1000)

SELECT @COMM = REPLACE(STUFF((SELECT '*' + COMMENT FROM @tab

FOR XML PATH ('')),1,1,''),'*',CHAR(13))

SELECT @COMM

abhas SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4681 More actions · Answer 4

Thanks friends,

Employee: @LastName, @FirstName

EmpEmail: @StudentEmailAddress

The above values are coming from query.

Thanks

Abhas.