Search postcode or town - asp.net

I need to search some data depending on whether user enters a postcode or a town. Since the town and the postcode is stored in different columns, how can I distinguish whether it is a postcode or a town and pass it on to query?

Can't see why you'd need to distinguish. Just check both columns.
SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE Postcode = #searchString OR Town = #searchString

You can use a regular express sentence to check whether it is a postcode or not, if not, treat it as a town name then.
How to valid a postcode? it depends on what language you are using, here is an example how to valid in PHP:
http://www.ukpostcode.net/validating-uk-postcodes-with-php-wiki-8.html
you can also find the scripts in javascripts and foxpro. good luck!

you should get user selection whether he want to search in postcode or a town. If you don't want that then you can run your query in both column one by one. ie search on postcode if found then ok else run on town. or you can join two columns result in one column and search accordingly. although first option is more optimized.
oops i missed or operator. my bad

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Incorrect work of autocomplete with Cyrillic

When sending a request to https://autocomplete.geocode.ls.hereapi.com/6.2/suggest.json?query=Вильнюс with an indication of cyrillic nothing comes and with a latin https: //autocomplete.geocode.ls.heraapi.com/6.2/suggest.json?query=Viln all is well. Tell me what the problem is or what I'm doing wrong?
You're not doing anything wrong. Autocomplete is designed to give you addresses that contain (perfectly match) your input string, and the results are sorted by relevance.
When you make your query in russian and provide only "Вильнюс" as input, the service is finding a lot of results (street names) that it considers are more relevant than the city. The city name is also found, but since the service doesn't think that this is what you're searching for, it puts the city much lower in the results list. You don't see it because you're limiting your query to give you only the first 10 matches (with the maxresults=10 parameter), but if you change the maxresults parameter to 20, for example, you will see that Vilnius appears in the 16th place of the API response.
If you want the service to better understand what is the thing you're querying for, you'll need to provide additional information. For example, if you continue typing and your input string is now "Вильнюс " (with a space at the end) or "Вильнюс Л" (a space and another letter), the service will understand what you mean and will return the result you want.
Another way of providing more information to change the way the service ranks the results is by adding a spatial filter, like the country, mapview, or prox parameters mentioned in the API Reference section of the documentation. Alternatively, the resultType parameter can help you filter out all the results with street names and return only city names, if that's what you want. These are just some options available, the one that is right for you will depend on your use case.

marketo smart list filters exclude matching records

Is there a way to use the smart list in a campaign to exclude records that match a filter?
I've got a custom table linked to the lead records, but it's a many-to-one style. I'm trying to suppress lead records where the history records match certain values.
Problem is that there seems to be no way to do it. I can have it include leads with no history records or leads with history records without certain values, but if the same lead has multiple history records, it will show up if either record has a value not in the exclusion.
What I want is the leads where NONE of the history records for it has those certain values, not simply to exclude the history records that match.
If this were a sql join statement, what I'm getting is:
select * from leads
join history on history.leadid = leads.id and history.myval != 'x'
but what I want is:
select * from leads
where id not in (select id from history where myval = 'x')
You might be able to do it by creating a couple of smart lists
a> A smart list that will checks for all the people who have that custom object AND have the exact value(s) that you want to Exclude
b> Then create another smart list with criteria like,
All the people who have,
1> That custom object
AND
2> Who are NOT in the first smart list A
That should give you the people you are looking for
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Netsuite - Saved Search - String All True Results of Case Formula

Hoping someone can help me out with a NetSuite question, and I apologize in advance if i’m misusing some lingo.
I am creating a item based saved search and one of my formula (text) result fields can have multiple true values when I apply my case formula. I’m look to combine all the true results of this formula into one comma separated string, instead of a new item row for each true value.
sku contact type
123 John S Owner
123 Jane S Clerk
123 Jack S Clerk
Formula (text) - Custom Label Field Name = Contact Name
Case when {type} = ‘Clerk’ then {contact} end
Currently my results generate a item (sku) row for each case of clerk:
Sku Contact Name
123 Jane S
123 Jack S
I’m looking for my results to be a single string
Sku Contact Name
123 Jane S, Jack S
I know the case function noted above will not string the results by itself; I originally intended to use the group by and max summary types, but I only get one Contact Name result.
Any solutions or work arounds?
Thanks
There are certain grouping functionality available for saved search results, but I don't think what you are trying to do is possible.
If you group your results by Sku, you will get one line per Sku but concenating the contact names from different line results I don't think is possible.
In your SaveSearch's Filter look for mainline and try to set either true(Yes) Or false(No).
There is an undocumented Netsuite function NS_CONCAT() (similar to Oracle's undocumented WM_CONCAT()) that does exactly this. You would group your results by the SKU column, and add formula field with the formula NS_CONCAT({contact}) and the summary type set to Minimum or Maximum.
According to some Netsuite employees on the Netsuite User Group, the LISTAGG function should also work now, and offers more flexibility (if you wanted a delimiter other than a comma for example).

Get peoples surnames or christian names from freebase?

Is it possible to get a users first name or surname from a freebase query?
For example, I have a person entry I have the id of, but I just want to extract their first name.
{
"id": "/en/paul_thomas_anderson",
"name" : null
}​
How would I modify this query, its something I've found nothing about by googling or searching here on S.O.? I know this kind of thing is possible in dbpedia for most people entries.
No, it's not possible directly. The name is stored as a single unit. There are topics for given names and surnames (e.g. http://www.freebase.com/view/base/givennames/given_name), so you could split the name and see which list(s) it appears in, but that's indirect and doesn't tell you about the specific person you are querying.

Comma Separated check in asp.net

How to search every word separated by comma in textbox
Please refer above post
Its Working perfectly...But i have small issues.. when i enter in text box like c,c++,4-5 yrs it have to check in database like either c,c++ skills and 4-5 yrs experiecne and then the reult has to be shown... Burt as per ur query it just show results whether any one of keyword satisfy database ...I want to compare year also how? –
If you want that behavior, you have to program that behavior. One design is to have multiple input boxes: one where you check if any of the words exist, another where you check that all of the words exist. (Perhaps even another for an exact phrase match.) Another design possibility would be for you to develop a syntax to indicate optional and required words all within a single input box. The point is it is up to you.
After you've decided on a design, then you could write code that builds your query based on or matches on the optional words and and matches on the required. Something like this pseudocode
Select * From Table Where
(Field Like OptionalWord1 Or Field Like OptionalWord2 Or Field Like OptionalWord3)
And Field Like RequiredWord1
And Field Like RequiredWord2
(etc.)

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