Teradata question. I need to select those rows that have more than 4 consecutive digits for column mycolumn
I tried the following
SELECT id, SUBSTR( mycolumn, ((POSITION( '3' IN CHAR2HEXINT(TRANSLATE( mycolumn USING UNICODE_TO_LATIN) ))/2)+1), 5) mycolumndigits
FROM mytable
WHERE TRIM(mycolumndigits+' ') LIKE '_ _ _ _ _ '
Sometimes I would get an untranslatable character exception, other time bad characted exception
Please help me to improve it
(PS: I am not allowed to use Oracle functions (otranslate etc.). Also i cannot create stored procedures and functions. DBA won't give me access)
If the digits are always found at the end of the string this should work:
Check if the last five chars are digits.
cast(char2hexint((substring( mycolumn from (char_length(mycolumn) - 4)))) as char(10)) like '3_3_3_3_3_'
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I create a SQLite function which takes a string and returns another string, then I can use the return value as match strings. Code is here
It works very well except for the single quotes. In this case, it can't match any rows, but if I directly use the returned string, it can match. Anyone know what's the problem here?
sqlite> select simple_query('''');
"''"
sqlite> select ' ', simple_highlight(t1, 0, '[', ']') from t1 where x match simple_query('''');
sqlite> select ' ', simple_highlight(t1, 0, '[', ']') from t1 where x match '"''"';
|#English &special _characters."[']bacon-&and[']-eggs%
Full example here
This question finally answered in sqlite-forum, and I'd like to post the reason in here.
The reason is SQLite will try to escape the string for us, we can verify that after turn on quote mode, as you can see, our return value will be escaped from "'" to "''" by SQLite. Which means we don't need to escape single quote in our function.
sqlite> select simple_query('''');
"'"
sqlite> select simple_query('"');
""""
sqlite> .mode quote
sqlite> select simple_query('"');
'""""'
sqlite> select simple_query('''');
'"''"'
I have a TERADATA dataset that resembles the below :
'Project: Hercules IssueType: Improvement Components: core AffectsVersions: 2.4.1 Priority: Minor Time: 15:25:23 04/06/2020'
I want to extract tag value from the above based on the key.
Ex:
with comm as
(
select 'Project: Hercules IssueType: Improvement Components: core AffectsVersions: 2.4.1 Priority: Minor' as text
)
select regexp_substr(comm.text,'[^: ]+',1,4)
from comm where regexp_substr(comm.text,'[^: ]+',1,3) = 'IssueType';
Is there a way to query without having to change the position arguments for every tag.
Also I am finding the last field a little tricky with date & time fields.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
There's the NVP function to access Name/Value-pair data, but to split into multiple rows you need either strtok_split_to_table or regexp_split_to_table. The tricky part in your case are the delimiters, would be easier if they were unique instead of ' 'and ':':
WITH comm AS
(
SELECT 1 as keycol, -- should be a key column in your table, either numeric or varchar
'Project: Hercules IssueType: Improvement Components: core AffectsVersions: 2.4.1 Priority: Minor Time: 15:25:23 04/06/2020' AS text
)
SELECT id, tokennum, token,
-- get the key
StrTok(token,':', 1) AS "Key",
-- get the value (can't use StrTok because of ':' delimiter)
Substring(token From Position(': ' IN token)+2) AS "Value"
FROM TABLE
( RegExp_Split_To_Table(comm.keycol
,comm.text
,'( )(?=[^ ]+: )' -- assuming names don't contain spaces: split at the last space before ': '
, 'c')
RETURNS (id INT , tokennum INTEGER, token VARCHAR(1000) CHARACTER SET Latin)) AS dt
(Using Oracle 11.2)
I have a rather complicated SQL with something like
wm_concat( distinct abc )
that is expected to return some varchar2(4000) compatible result.
It causes ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes in my select used in some coalesce( some_varchar_col, wm_concat( ... ) ).
So I tried casting it via two different methods:
dbms_lob.substr( ..., 4000 ) -- L) tried even with 3000 in case of "unicode byte blow-up"
cast( ... as varchar2(4000)) -- C) tried even with 3000 in case of "unicode byte blow-up"
(The are used in a view, but playing around with it suggests, it is not related to the views)
Depending on the column and other operators I either get N) no result or O) ORA-22922:
select * from view_with_above_included where rownum <= 100
N) My Eclipse Data Explorer JDBC connection returns without any result (no columns without results, no (0 rows effected), only the query time statistics). (It could be an internal exception not treated as such?)
O)
ORA-22922: nonexistent LOB value
ORA-06512: in "SYS.DBMS_LOB", line 1092
ORA-06512: in line 1
Strangely the following test queries work:
-- rownum <= 100 would already cause the above problems
select * from view_with_above_included where rownum <= 10
or
select * from view_with_above_included
but looking at the actual aggregated data does not show aggregated data that would exceed 1000 characters in length.
Luckily, it works with the listagg( ... ) function provided since 11.2 (we are already running on), so we did not have to investigate further:
listagg( abc, ',' ) within group ( order by abc )
(Where wm_concat(...) is, as one should know, some internal and officially unsupported function.)
a rather nice solution (because it is not so bloated) to implement the distinct functionality is via self-referencing regexp functionality which should work in many cases:
regexp_replace(
listagg( abc, ',' ) within group ( order by abc )
, '(^|,)(.+)(,\2)+', '\1\2' )
(Maybe/Hopefully we will see some working listagg( distinct abc ) functionality in the future, which would be very neat and cool like the wm_concat syntax. E.g. this is no problem since a long time with Postgres' string_agg( distinct abc )1 )
-- 1: postgres sql example:
select string_agg( distinct x, ',' ) from unnest('{a,b,a}'::text[]) as x`
If the list exceeds 4000 characters, one cannot use listagg anymore (ORA-22922 again).
But luckily we can use the xmlagg function here (as mentioned here).
If you want to realize a distinct on a 4000-chars-truncated result here, you could outcomment the (1)-marked lines.
-- in smallercase everything that could/should be special for your query
-- comment in (1) to realize a distinct on a 4000 chars truncated result
WITH cfg AS (
SELECT
',' AS list_delim,
'([^,]+)(,\1)*(,|$)' AS list_dist_match, -- regexp match for distinct functionality
'\1\3' AS LIST_DIST_REPL -- regexp replace for distinct functionality
FROM DUAL
)
SELECT
--REGEXP_REPLACE( DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR( -- (1)
RTRIM( XMLAGG( XMLELEMENT( E, mycol, listdelim ).EXTRACT('//text()')
ORDER BY mycol ).GetClobVal(), LIST_DELIM )
--, 4000 ), LIST_DIST_MATCH, LIST_DIST_REPL ) -- (1)
AS mylist
FROM mytab, CFG
for example my "select" query returns rows:
"asd/1"
"asd/2"
but for me rows "asd/1", "asd/2" represents the same value. Is any way to truncate strings to such result: (i want to truncate everything after '/' inclusive)
"asd"
??
Something like this should work
select distinct substr(column_name, 1, instr(column_name, '/') - 1) from table_name
This get back column_name up to the first '/' in the string (but not including the slash because of the -1) and then only give back the unique results (because of the distinct keyword)
I am very new to Oracle 11g and am trying to generate a large string by appending text for each column in a select statement and using a cursor to store the results. However I want the last statement to not have a union all included. The final result I want to build large string of each row generated or simply execute the result if possible.
Note: column1 has a list of schemas that I am interested in.
select 'select * from ' || column1 || '.' || column2 || ' union all ' from mytable
This is where column1 is the schema, column2 is the table name.
What is the simplest way to generate the final string without using rtrim to remove the last string. And is there a simple way to append all these rows together in the string automatically?
The final goal is to actually just execute the union into a resulting cursor.
If you're querying in a loop anyway I wouldn't try to construct the string as part of the select at all; I'd do it all within the loop. Something like (untested):
declare
str varchar2(32768);
begin
for rec in (select column1, column2, rownum as rn from mytable)
loop
if rec.rn > 1 then
str := str || ' union all ';
end if;
str := str || 'select * from "' || rec.column[ || '"."' || rec.column2 ||'"';
end loop;
-- do something with str e.g. display to verify the syntax
-- before using in a cursor
dbms_output.put_line(str);
end;
Rather than adding union all to the end of every row except the last one,the rn check means it's added to the start of every row except the first one, which is easier to detect.
I've also wrapped the schema and table names in double quotes, just in case you have to deal with any quoted identifiers. But if your stored values don't match the case of the owners and table names in all_tables this will cause a problem rather than solve it.