December 18, 2013 at 5:10 am
Hi,
I want create unique userid by rtaking first character of firstname + lastName.
if first character of first name and last name is same then i want to increase it by 1.
eg. john macmohan then it would be jmacmohan
jim macmohan
then it would be jmacmohan01 ......
but while creating i want to check this with current table if that username is present then increase by one and also there is another check. i.e. same username should not present in the directory. i.e. another table. if same name is present there then also increase by one.
eg.
jack macmohan should be jmacmohan02 in our case. but if this is present in the directory table then it should be jmacmohan03.
how can i do it. Please guide or share sample if aviliable?
Thanks
Abhas.
December 18, 2013 at 5:55 am
well you are assuming based on your formatting that you'd never have more than 10 people with the same name(xxx09);
i'm providing an example below, but i don't think like the idea;
id rather let people use their emails as a username, which at least ends up unique to the end user; i'd hate to comeback to some web site and not be able to remember my "username" was "Lowell312" or something(I'm talking to you, Progressive Insurance!), which was something i didn't pick or even want.
don't get caught up on the CTE's, they are just generating random data;
the trick is to use row number and a case statement to generate the string
--this is just generating fake sample data.
With MYFirstNames(FName) AS
(
Select 'Leonardo' UNION ALL
Select 'Brad' UNION ALL
Select 'Arnold' UNION ALL
Select 'Mark' UNION ALL
Select 'Matt' UNION ALL
Select 'Bruce'
),
MyLastNames(LName) AS
(
Select 'DeCaprio' UNION ALL
Select 'Pitt' UNION ALL
Select 'Schwarzenegger' UNION ALL
Select 'Wahlberg' UNION ALL
Select 'Damon' UNION ALL
Select 'Willis'
), NamesWithRowNumber
AS
(
SELECT TOP 10000
row_number() over (partition by LEFT(A.FName,1),B.LName ORDER BY A.FName,B.LName) - 1 AS RW, --zero indexed
A.FName,B.LName
FROM MYFirstNames A
CROSS JOIN MyLastNames B
CROSS JOIN sys.columns
ORDER BY NEWID()
)
SELECT
CASE
WHEN RW = 0
THEN LEFT(FName,1)+ LName
ELSE LEFT(FName,1) + LName + RIGHT('0000' + CONVERT(varchar,rw),4)
END AS UserName,
*
FROM NamesWithRowNumber
ORDER BY RW,UserName
Lowell
December 18, 2013 at 6:00 am
I agree with Lowell but if you must do it, try this. It's not fully tested but may get you started.
declare
@ID varchar(100),
@FirstName varchar(100),
@LastName varchar(100),
@Counter int,
@RecordCounter int
set @FirstName = 'john'
set @LastName = 'doe'
set @Counter = 0
set @RecordCounter = 0
if exists(select ID from Users where ID = left(@FirstName, 1) + @LastName)
begin
set @Counter += 1
while (@RecordCounter = 0)
begin
set @RecordCounter = (select count(*) from Users where ID = left(@FirstName, 1) + @LastName + '0' + convert(varchar(5), @Counter))
if @RecordCounter = 1
begin
set @ID = left(@FirstName, 1) + @LastName + '0' + convert(varchar(5), @Counter+1)
set @RecordCounter = 1
break
end
else
begin
set @ID = left(@FirstName, 1) + @LastName + '0' + convert(varchar(5), @Counter)
set @RecordCounter = 1
break
end
end
end
else
begin
set @ID = left(@FirstName, 1) + @LastName
end
print 'new ID is ' + convert(varchar(50), @ID)
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