I have a column called Equipment in my table that contains something like this: store(2) I need to create a new column and select only the number from the text otherwise we put 1. Example: Thanks. Answer You can use the REGEXP_SUBSTR function for this.
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Select range in SQL
I have a sql database that have InvoiceNumber column Now i need to select range between two numbers, but i don’t know what happened. I’ve tried “Between” and “<= , >=” Statements but the results are same. Table My query For example: If i need range between “13000” and “13020” and there is number “1301” its appear in results. Answer
Create Table variable datatype that would allow to save integer/floats [SQL]
as the title states, when creating a table, when definining an variable + datatype like: Question: You can define a variable as integer or as float etc. however, is there a datatype that can hold both values, integer as well as a float number ? Answer Some databases support variant data types that can have an arbitrary type. For instance,
T-SQL Pivot Behavior Question, Pivot not behaving as expected with CAS Numbers
I have a database of analytical laboratory data, one analyte per record (MS SQL Server Express 2014 (12.0.2000)). I have successfully (more or less) gotten results that I expect using a chemical’s …
Oracle how to truncate a decimal to 1 significant digit?
I would like to round decimal numbers down to the first significant digit. Since they will all have a varying number of leading zero decimals, i searched this site and found the following expression. …
SAS proc SQL: Extract number in front of the word ‘Month’ or ‘Months’
I want to extract a number from a string where it is directly followed by the word ‘Month’ or ‘Months’. The search should be case insensitive and the text to look in typically looks like No …
SQL BETWEEN for text vs numeric values
BETWEEN is used in a WHERE clause to select a range of data between two values. If I am correct whether the range’s endpoint are excluded or not is DBMS specific. What I can not understand in the following: If I have a table of values and I do the following query: The query returns as results rows including calories