How to avoid Invalid number string error in OpenEdge DB? - openedge

I am accessing an 11.7 OE Enterprise RDBMS. I have two simple queries, one which works another which doesn't. In the queries below the LAB_VALUE field is a varchar data type. The first query returns 106 rows with no issues. The second query dies immediately.
Query 1;
SELECT to_number(LAB_VALUE) LAB_VALUE
FROM labrec_view
WHERE lab_yr_mon = 202006 AND
FACILITY_CODE = 'BUF' AND
LAB_RESULT_CODE = 'ALBUMIN'
Query2;
SELECT to_number(LAB_VALUE) LAB_VALUE
FROM labrec_view
WHERE lab_yr_mon = 202006 AND
FACILITY_CODE = 'BUF' AND
LAB_RESULT_CODE = 'ALBUMIN' and
to_number(LAB_VALUE) > 4
The error received is;
SQLState=HY000
ErrorCode=-20232
[DataDirect][OpenEdge JDBC Driver][OpenEdge] Invalid number string (7498)
I am at a loss. There is an KB atricle;
https://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/Invalid-number-string-7498-returned-by-SQL-query-on-OE-10-2B
But it seems to refer to older versions of OpenEdge and specifically states 11.7 should correct the issue.
I am not a Progress DB person, and I only have access to query views in the DB as a specific R/O user.
Where do I go from here in troubleshooting?
Edit:
Someone suggested the to_number (in the where clause) might be causing a problem because some data which I don't see may not be numeric. So I used the following query with the same error results;
SELECT LAB_VALUE_TEST
from
(
SELECT to_number(LAB_VALUE) LAB_VALUE_TEST
FROM labrec_view
WHERE lab_yr_mon = 202106 AND
FACILITY_CODE = 'BUF' AND
LAB_RESULT_CODE = 'ALBUMIN'
) iq
WHERE iq.LAB_VALUE_TEST >4;

at a guess, because you're using an expression ( "to_number(LAB_VALUE) > 4" ) the LAB_VALUE field has to be checked to see if it is greater than 4
if there "where" phrase does not short-circuit then all labrec records have to be checked , and there may be some with an invalid value for a number

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I want to apply this query on the database. There is problem in limit function. Please help me to solve this probem.
This is the database. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-mwsQHaJHbVzIDXVsj9jw35ZO8TyV6qM/view?usp=drivesdk
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Error
android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "limit": syntax error (code 1 SQLITE_ERROR): , while compiling: SELECT Track.Track, Artist.Artist, Album.Album, Genre.Genre FROM Track JOIN Genre JOIN Album JOIN Artist ON Track.genre_id = Genre.ID and Track.album_id = Album.id AND Album.artist_id = Artist.id ORDER BY Artist.Artist, Track.Track LIMIT 3 limit 20 offset 0
Read the error carefully: the end of the message says the following
... ORDER BY Artist.Artist, Track.Track LIMIT 3 limit 20 offset 0
There is a second "limit" clause appended to the query and this is why sqlite can't process it.
I believe your code appends "limit 20 offset 0" to the query automatically. Check the way how you create the query. The error is definitely there.

SELECT CASE - THEN - WHEN query throws an error [duplicate]

My code follows:
SELECT COUNT(_id) AS count FROM general WHERE _id = 1 CASE WHEN count > 0 THEN UPDATE general SET userGivenId = 'xxx' WHERE _id = 1 ELSE INSERT INTO general (userGivenId) VALUES ('xxx' ) END
With the error:
android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: near "CASE": syntax error: , while compiling: SELECT COUNT(_id) AS count FROM general WHERE _id = 1 CASE WHEN count > 0 THEN UPDATE general SET userGivenId = 'xxx' WHERE _id = 1 ELSE INSERT INTO general (userGivenId) VALUES ('xxx' ) END
This is the shortest query I will use. Why I do this is because my other queries will have rows that needs to be updated but some may not be touched. Using replace will replace all the data (at least that is how it works for me on my Android phone). For instance my File class will have a filePath, but sometimes the response from the server will return null and I am only to update the File IF the server returns a new File.
Did I forget to write anything?
SQLite does not have any control logic because this would not make sense in an embedded database (there is no separate server machine/process whose asynchronous execution could improve performance).
CASE can be used only for expressions, not for entire commands.
Handle the control logic in your app:
Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT 1 FROM general WHERE _id = 1", null);
if (c.moveToFirst())
db.execSQL("UPDATE general SET userGivenId = 'xxx' WHERE _id = 1");
else
db.execSQL("INSERT INTO general (userGivenId) VALUES ('xxx')");
For these particular commands, if you have a unique constraint on the _id column (and a primary key is constrained to be unique), you can use the INSERT OR REPLACE command:
INSERT OR REPLACE INTO general(_id, userGivenId) VALUES(1, 'xxx')

Ora-00904 - Error with creating a View

I'm stuck with creating a view in Oracle, but before I create the view, I always test it first and I always got this error: Ora-00904.
This is the situation. I have this one Set of Query let say Query A that I need to combined using UNION ALL with the Query A itself with only few modifications applied to create another bigger Set of Query - Query B. The main constraint that keeps me on doing this is the Database Design, and I'm not in the position in the company to change it, so I have to adapt to it. Query A unions Query A for 6 times creating Query B. The additional Major constraint is Query B is from 1 database user only, but there are 54 database users with the same structures that I need to fetch the same query. Query B (db user1) unions Query B (db user2) unions Query B (db user3) and so on until 54 then finally creating Query C --- the final output. My scrip has already reached 6048 lines, then I got this problem that I don't get when I test Query A and Query B. All my table names, owner names, and column names are all correct but I got that error.
This is the code (that needs to be repeated for 54x6 times) - the Query A. Query B applies some similar modification only.:
Select
'2013' "YEAR",
Upper(a.text_month) "MONTH",
Upper('Budget') "VERSION",
case
when length(b.level1_name) > 5 then 'Parent'
else 'SUBSIDIARIES'
end "COMPANY_GROUP",
case
when length(b.level1_name) < 6 and b.level1_name <> '1000' then 'Subsidiaries'
else '1000 Parent'
end "COMPANY",
case
when length(b.level1_name) < 6 and b.level1_name <> '1000' then 'SUBS'
else '1000'
end "COMPANY_CODE",
case
when length(b.level1_name) > 5 then 'Parent'
else 'SUBSIDIARIES'
end "COMPANY_NAME",
b.level1_displayname "DIVISION",
b.level1_name "DIVISION_CODE",
case
when length(b.level1_name) > 5 then ltrim(upper(substr(b.level1_displayname, 8)))
else upper(ltrim(substr(b.level1_displayname, 10)))
end "DIVISION_NAME",
upper(a.text_nature_of_trip) "NATURE_OF_TRAVEL",
upper(a.text_placeeventstraining) "TRAVEL_DETAILS",
upper(a.text_country) "COUNTRY",
a.text_name_of_employee "EMPLOYEE_NAME", a.float_no_of_attendees "NO_OF_ATTENDEES",
a.text_sponsored "SPONSORED",
a.text_remarks "REMARKS",
'OTHER TRAVEL EXPENSES' "COST_ELEMENT",
a.FLOAT_702120005_OTHER_TRAVEL_E "AMOUNT"
From PUBLISH_PNL_AAAA_2013.et_travel_transaction a,
PUBLISH_PNL_AAAA_2013.cy_2elist b
Where a.elist = b.level3_iid
ORA-00904 is "invalid column name" -- either you've spelled the column name wrongly, or prefixed it with the wrong table alias, omitted quotes from a string literal, or any number of other issues.
Check the point in the code that the error message mentions for mistakes like that.

Strange SQLite behavior: Not returning results on simple queries

Ok, so I have a basic table called "ledger", it contains fields of various types, integers, varchar, etc.
In my program, I used to use a query with no "from" predicate to collect all of the rows, which of course works fine. But... I changed my code to allow selecting one row at a time using "where acctno = x" (where X is the account number I want to select at the time).
I thought this must be a bug in the client library for my programming language, so I tested it in the SQLite command-line client - and it still doesn't work!
I am relatively new to SQLite, but I have been using Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc. for years and never seen this type of issue before.
Other things I can tell you:
* Queries using other integer fields also don't work
* Queries on char fields work
* Querying it as a string (with the account number on quotes) still doesn't work. (I thought maybe the numbers were stored as a string inadvertently).
* Accessing rows by rowid works fine - which is why I can edit the database with GUI tools with no noticeable problem.
Examples:
Query with no WHERE (works fine):
1|0|0|JPY|8|Paid-In Capital|C|X|0|X|0|0||||0|0|0|
0|0|0|JPY|11|Root Account|P|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|150000|0|0|0|
3|0|0|JPY|13|Mitsubishi Bank Futsuu|A|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|150000|0|0|0|
4|0|0|JPY|14|Japan Post Bank|A|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|150000|0|0|0|
...
Query with WHERE clause: (no results)
sqlite> select * from ledger where acctno=1;
sqlite>
putting quotes around the 1 above changes nothing.
Interestingly enough, "select * from ledger where acctno > 1" returns results! However since it returns ALL results, it's not terrible useful.
I'm sure someone will ask about the table structure, so here goes:
sqlite> .schema ledger
CREATE TABLE "LEDGER" (
"ACCTNO" integer(10,0) NOT NULL,
"drbal" integer(20,0) NOT NULL,
"crbal" integer(20,0) NOT NULL,
"CURRKEY" char(3,0) NOT NULL,
"TEXTKEY" integer(10,0),
"TEXT" VARCHAR(64,0),
"ACCTYPECD" CHAR(1,0) NOT NULL,
"ACCSTCD" CHAR(1,0),
"PACCTNO" number(10,0) NOT NULL,
"CATCD" number(10,0),
"TRANSNO" number(10,0) NOT NULL,
"extrefno" number(10,0),
"UPDATEUSER" VARCHAR(32,0),
"UPDATEDATE" text(8,0),
"UPDATETIME" TEXT(6,0),
"PAYEECD" number(10,0) NOT NULL,
"drbal2" number(10,0) NOT NULL,
"crbal2" number(10,0) NOT NULL,
"delind" boolean,
PRIMARY KEY("ACCTNO"),
CONSTRAINT "fk_curr" FOREIGN KEY ("CURRKEY") REFERENCES "CURRENCY" ("CUR
RKEY") ON DELETE RESTRICT ON UPDATE CASCADE
);
The strangest thing is that I have other similar tables where this works fine!
sqlite> select * from journalhdr where transno=13;
13|Test transaction ATM Withdrawel 20130213|20130223||20130223||
TransNo in that table is also integer (10,0) NOT NULL - this is what makes me thing it is something to do with the values.
Another clue is that the sort order seems to be based on ascii, not numeric:
sqlite> select * from ledger order by acctno;
0|0|0|JPY|11|Root Account|P|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|150000|0|0|0|
1|0|0|JPY|8|Paid-In Capital|C|X|0|X|0|0||||0|0|0|
10|0|0|USD|20|Sallie Mae|L|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|153900|0|0|0|
21|0|0|USD|21|Skrill|A|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|154000|0|0|0|
22|0|0|USD|22|AES|L|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|154200|0|0|0|
23|0|0|JPY|23|Marui|L|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|154400|0|0|0|
24|0|0|JPY|24|Amex JP|L|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|154500|0|0|0|
3|0|0|JPY|13|Mitsubishi Bank Futsuu|A|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20121209|150000|0|0|0|
Of course the sort order on journalhdr (where the select works properly) is numeric.
Solved! (sort-of)
The data can be fixed like this:
sqlite> update ledger set acctno = 23 where rowid = 13;
sqlite> select * from ledger where acctno = 25;
25|0|0|JPY|0|Test|L|X|0|X|0|0|SYSTEM|20130224|132500|0|0|0|
Still, if it was stored as strings, then that leave a few questions:
1. Why couldn't I select it as a string using the quotes?
2. How did it get stored as a string since it is a valid integer?
3. How would you go about detecting this problem normally besides noticing bizzarre symptoms?
Although the data would normally be entered by my program, some of it was created by hand using Navicat, so I assume the problem must lie there.
You are victim of SQLite dynamic typing.
Even though SQLite defines system of type affinity, which sets some rules on how input strings or numbers will be converted to actual internal values, but it does NOT prevent software that is using prepared statements to explicitly set any type (and data value) for the column (and this can be different per row!).
This can be shown by this simple example:
CREATE TABLE ledger (acctno INTEGER, name VARCHAR(16));
INSERT INTO ledger VALUES(1, 'John'); -- INTEGER '1'
INSERT INTO ledger VALUES(2 || X'00', 'Zack'); -- BLOB '2\0'
I have inserted second row not as INTEGER, but as binary string containing embedded zero byte. This reproduces your issue exactly, see this SQLFiddle, step by step. You can also execute these commands in sqlite3, you will get the same result.
Below is Perl script that also reproduces this issue
This script creates just 2 rows with acctno having values of integer 1 for first, and "2\0" for second row. "2\0" means string consisting of 2 bytes: first is digit 2, and second is 0 (zero) byte.
Of course, it is very difficult to visually tell "2\0" from just "2", but this is what script below demonstrates:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI qw(:sql_types);
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:test.db") or die DBI::errstr();
$dbh->do("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ledger");
$dbh->do("CREATE TABLE ledger (acctno INTEGER, name VARCHAR(16))");
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(
"INSERT INTO ledger (acctno, name) VALUES (?, ?)");
$sth->bind_param(1, "1", SQL_INTEGER);
$sth->bind_param(2, "John");
$sth->execute();
$sth->bind_param(1, "2\0", SQL_BLOB);
$sth->bind_param(2, "Zack");
$sth->execute();
$sth = $dbh->prepare(
"SELECT count(*) FROM ledger WHERE acctno = ?");
$sth->bind_param(1, "1");
$sth->execute();
my ($num1) = $sth->fetchrow_array();
print "Number of rows matching id '1' is $num1\n";
$sth->bind_param(1, "2");
$sth->execute();
my ($num2) = $sth->fetchrow_array();
print "Number of rows matching id '2' is $num2\n";
$sth->bind_param(1, "2\0", SQL_BLOB);
$sth->execute();
my ($num3) = $sth->fetchrow_array();
print "Number of rows matching id '2<0>' is $num3\n";
Output of this script is:
Number of rows matching id '1' is 1
Number of rows matching id '2' is 0
Number of rows matching id '2<0>' is 1
If you were to look at resultant table using any SQLite tool (including sqlite3), it will print 2 for second row - they all get confused by trailing 0 inside a BLOB when it gets coerced to string or number.
Note that I had to use custom param binding to coerce type to BLOB and permit null bytes stored:
$sth->bind_param(1, "2\0", SQL_BLOB);
Long story short, it is either some of your client programs, or some of client tools like Navicat which screwed it up.

linq to entity join on string equals int

I saw this post Linq int to string, and tried it
var personalInfoQuery = from t in crnnsupContext.Tombstones
join i in crnnsupContext.InitialEducations on t.InitialEducation equals SqlFunctions.StringConvert((double)i.InitalEducationID)
where t.RegNumber == 25952
select new CPersonalInfo
{
Tombstone = t,
InitialEducation = i
};
in the database t.InitialEducation is char, i.InitalEducationID is int, but the retrieved result is null. I am pretty sure the value is not empty in the SQL server. So I think the problem is SqlFunctions.StringConvert((double)i.InitalEducationID)
when i remove the join statement, it got this person's information.
Does anyone know why. thanks
Finally find the reason!!
t.InitialEducation is nvarchar(1) in the database, i.InitalEducationID is int, after I modified to SqlFunctions.StringConvert((double)i.InitialEducationID, 1) it works!
"1" is the length of the returned string, the default length is 10, I guess there are some extra space.
Since you're using the SqlFunctions.StringConvert method, I'm assuming you're using EF as the underlying LINQ provider, no?
From the information given, it would appear that you're looking to do a 1 to many join on those properties. The code you've written could coalesce (not enough info on the context to be certain) as an INNER JOIN in SQL, so to force the LEFT JOIN behavior, you can add a .DefaultIfEmpty() call:
crnnsupContext.InitialEducations.DefaultIfEmpty()

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