Assuming the string pattern at the end of the string needs to be identical to a pattern in the first half of the string, the sample code might work:

DECLARE @col...

Why would you use a cursor in the first place?

Build a dynamic SQL string and run your update all in one. Something like the following (untested)

DECLARE @sql VARCHAR(1000)

SET @sql=

'INSERT INTO...

Another option would be using a computed column.

However, since this cannot be used as persisted column (getdate() is non-deterministic) and cannot be indexed either, the column will be recalculated every...

unfortunately, neither your sample data nor any description did point to that... :ermm:

You might want to look into using the OUTPUT in your first insert statement to capture the id...

Please provide table def, some sample and expected result as described in the first link in my signature. It would help us help you.

The task itself sounds like a pretty...

My first advice is to get rid of the custom data type.

It won't add any value to your code or database structure. Instead it will cause pain to maintain it....

It would be a lot easier if you'd consider storing the separate logical information in separate columns. There are many scenarios to be covered to make a string parsing like...

Well, then you'd just have to create your own serialized number using ROW_NUMBER.

Based on Lynns sample data it would look like

;WITH cte AS

(

SELECT

ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY StartTime) AS ROW,

...

The following sample will add 15 hours to the day before today ( GETDATE()-1 ), normalized to the beginning of the day using a common dateadd/datediff routine.

DECLARE @yesterday DATETIME

SET @yesterday...

It depends on how you want to deal with your data. Or, in other words: what's...

To meet the requirement

Pauls query need to be changed into dynamic SQL, I guess:

DECLARE...

I don't have an answer why you cannot use a COUNT function on a uniqueidentifier data type.

But considering it's the primary key I'd say COUNT(*) would work as a substitute,...

anish_ns (3/9/2010)

Now, we want to so some text mining on the data. So, I would like to create a text file for each unique sessionID with all associated text data....

Doesn't look like a valid xml to me... Where are the closing tags for the various "field name" tags? And what would be your expected result?

Btw: whoever came up with...

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