Tanks a lot! Perfect!

DECLARE @Test TABLE (Data VARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO @test
SELECT ‘INV0096′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0097′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0099′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0100′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0102′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0103′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0106′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0110′

select number from master..spt_values where
number not in (select right(data,4) from @test) and
number between (select min(right(data,4)) from @test)
and (select max(right(data,4)) from @test) and TYPE=’P’

Thanks for that mate!

I really appreciate the assistance!

Thanks Pinal for putting up such an awesome site!!

Regards,

enrico

I developed this script for SQL 2000.

In this script, there is limitation, that it will give you only one missing value.

If we miss 104,105 (means more than one value we missed) then it will return only one.

DECLARE @Test TABLE (Data VARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO @test
SELECT ‘INV0096′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0097′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0099′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0100′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0102′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0103′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0106′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0110′

CREATE TABLE #test (ID INT IDENTITY, RowID INT)
INSERT INTO #test(RowID)
SELECT CAST(RIGHT(Data,4) AS INT) As RowID
FROM @Test
ORDER BY CAST(RIGHT(Data,4) AS INT)

SELECT t1.RowID + 1
FROM #test t1
INNER JOIN #test t2 ON t1.ID + 1 = t2.ID
AND t1.RowID + 1 t2.RowID

DROP TABLE #test

I will try to make it as I made for SQL 2005, but I think it will take time.

Let me know if it helps you.

Thanks,

Tejas
(SQLYOGA.com)

Thanks for that!
That worked beautiful on SQL2005! You guys are awesome.

On the off chance, is there a way to get the same result on SQL2000?

I definitely appreciate your time guys. I can’t even begin to express my thanks for helping me out on this.

I’ll look forward to your thoughts on the same issue for SQL2000.

Thanks again.

Regards,

enrico

You can find Missing values with Recursive CTE as follwing, It will work only with SQL 2005 and above.

DECLARE @Test TABLE (Data VARCHAR(10))
INSERT INTO @test
SELECT ‘INV0096′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0097′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0099′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0100′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0102′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0103′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0106′
UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0110′

;with cte1 as(
SELECT CAST(RIGHT(Data,4) AS INT) As RowID
FROM @Test
), Missing as(
SELECT MIN(RowID) AS MissNum,
MAX(RowID) AS MaxID
FROM Cte1
UNION ALL
SELECT MissNum + 1,
MaxID
FROM Missing
WHERE MissNum < MaxID
)
SELECT missnum
FROM Missing
LEFT JOIN cte1 tt on tt.Rowid = Missing.MissNum
WHERE tt.Rowid is NULL
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 0);

Let us know if it helps you.

Thanks,

Tejas
(SQLYoga.com)

WITH
Data(Datum)
AS
(
SELECT ‘INV0096′ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0097′ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0099′ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0100′ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0102′ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘INV0103′
),
CTE
AS
(
SELECT
CAST(SUBSTRING(MIN(Datum), 4, 4) AS INT) Start,
CAST(SUBSTRING(MAX(Datum), 4, 4) AS INT) Finish
FROM
Data
UNION ALL
SELECT
Start + 1,
Finish
FROM
CTE
WHERE
Start < Finish
)
SELECT
Common.Formatted
FROM
CTE
CROSS APPLY(SELECT 'INV' + RIGHT('0000' + CAST(Start AS VARCHAR(4)), 4)) Common(Formatted)
WHERE
NOT EXISTS
(
SELECT
*
FROM
Data
WHERE
Data.Datum = Common.Formatted
)
OPTION
(MAXRECURSION 0);

The CROSS APPLY is just nice, but not required. Without it, the query is very similar:

WITH
Data(Datum)
AS
(
SELECT 'INV0096' UNION ALL
SELECT 'INV0097' UNION ALL
SELECT 'INV0099' UNION ALL
SELECT 'INV0100' UNION ALL
SELECT 'INV0102' UNION ALL
SELECT 'INV0103'
),
CTE
AS
(
SELECT
CAST(SUBSTRING(MIN(Datum), 4, 4) AS INT) Start,
CAST(SUBSTRING(MAX(Datum), 4, 4) AS INT) Finish
FROM
Data
UNION ALL
SELECT
Start + 1,
Finish
FROM
CTE
WHERE
Start < Finish
)
SELECT
'INV' + RIGHT('0000' + CAST(Start AS VARCHAR(4)), 4)
FROM
CTE
WHERE
NOT EXISTS
(
SELECT
*
FROM
Data
WHERE
Data.Datum = 'INV' + RIGHT('0000' + CAST(Start AS VARCHAR(4)), 4)
)
OPTION
(MAXRECURSION 0);

Can anyone please help me? I am stunned at this one.

Let’s say I have the following records:

INV0096
INV0097
INV0099
INV0100
INV0102
INV0103

How can I generate a SQL Script that will show me the gaps in the sequence?

In such a way that the results will give me INV0098 and INV0101.
Or even just the number 98, and 101.

Thank you so much for your time.

Best regards,

Enrico

WITH
Data(String)
AS
(
SELECT ‘287PHY 10102 PHY 10106 BIO 32001 BIO 33501′ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘4568PHY 10102 PHY 10106 BIO 32001 BIO 33501′ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘32891PHY 10102 PHY 10106 BIO 32001 BIO 33501′
)
SELECT
SUBSTRING
(
String,
1,
PATINDEX(‘%[^0-9]%’, String) – 1
)
FROM
Data;

Here is a quick CTE approach to putting each as a separate record.

WITH
Data(String) AS (SELECT ‘ABC”_I+{D[]}4|:e;”"5,/?6′),
CTE
AS
(
SELECT
0 X_Current,
LEN(String) X_Max,
” Digit
FROM
Data
UNION ALL
SELECT
CTE.X_Current + 1,
CTE.X_Max,
SUBSTRING(Data.String, CTE.X_Current, 1)
FROM
CTE,
Data
WHERE
CTE.X_Current <= CTE.X_Max
)
SELECT
Digit
FROM
CTE
WHERE
Digit LIKE '[0-9]'
OPTION
(MAXRECURSION 0);

I need to parse out the
287
4568
32891

in a separate column.
Can someone help me out?
Thanks in advance.

i mean, the result set should be in a table format not scalar varchar value.

your sample statement:
SELECT dbo.UDF_ParseAlphaChars(‘ABC”_I+{D[]}4|:e;””5,/?6′)

result should be:

Number
4
5
6

Thanks

I have a column called runtime where it has the runtime of movies, its a TEXT field, an most of the values inside are in this format:
124m or 1546mins or 92 mins

so how can i strip only the numbers from there??

i really need ur help and thx alot in advance

And now that i changed my DNS records, i am receiving email from your website. Silly bug in Exchange with CNAMEs.

Thanks very good solution.

Regards,
Pinal

WITH
EG([Employee Name])
AS
(
SELECT ‘Billgates’ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘George’ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘A1dam’ UNION ALL
SELECT ‘Gem9ini’
)
SELECT
[Employee Name]
FROM
EG
WHERE
[Employee Name] LIKE ‘%[0-9]%’

I have one table TABLE! , which contains one column named “EMPLOYEE NAME”.
There are various values inside it.
i want to check every field of EMPLOYEE NAME and find out if there is any Numeric Value inside.

EG.
EMPLOYEE NAME
Billgates
George
A1dam –Here 1 is present in between
Gem9ini –Here 9 is present in between

i want to identify this types of name which contains the numeric value in the field.