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Query for specific format

  • January 1, 2014 at 6:48 pm

    #286684

    I'm trying to find discrepancies in a telephone column in the client table and identify any telephone number that is not in the following format

    (555) 555-5555

    I've been digging around a bit and am a bit stuck as to what I should put in my where clause.

    Thanks in advance

  • January 2, 2014 at 1:13 am

    #1676801

    SELECT columnlist

    FROM dbo.SomeTable

    WHERE PhoneNumber NOT LIKE '([0-9][0-9][0-9]) [0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'

    Edit: Moved out of place parenthesis.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".
    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

  • January 2, 2014 at 5:47 am

    #1676853

    Perfect!

  • January 2, 2014 at 7:15 am

    #1676895

    caippers (1/2/2014)

    Perfect!

    Glad to be of help. The next question is, do you understand how it works?

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".
    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

  • January 2, 2014 at 8:26 am

    #1676927

    I do the only question I have is I don't see a consideration for the left and right parentheses. Wouldn't this miss that if a number was missing the right parentheses for example. (555 555-5555

  • January 2, 2014 at 8:31 am

    #1676934

    caippers (1/2/2014)

    I do the only question I have is I don't see a consideration for the left and right parentheses. Wouldn't this miss that if a number was missing the right parentheses for example. (555 555-5555

    It's in the end of the string. I assume it was a mistake from Jeff while building the expression (possibly due to Intellisense), just move it to the correct position.

    Luis C.
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  • January 2, 2014 at 10:53 am

    #1677005

    Luis Cazares (1/2/2014)

    caippers (1/2/2014)

    I do the only question I have is I don't see a consideration for the left and right parentheses. Wouldn't this miss that if a number was missing the right parentheses for example. (555 555-5555

    It's in the end of the string. I assume it was a mistake from Jeff while building the expression (possibly due to Intellisense), just move it to the correct position.

    Correct. Thanks, Luis. I went back and corrected that post. It was 3AM and I had run out of coffee about 4 hours before that. :blush:

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".
    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

  • January 2, 2014 at 8:12 pm

    #1677100

    Thanks again. I do understand how it works. I was trying to do a REGEXP_SUBSTR but it seemed that I had to do a UDF to do the equivilant in T-SQL.

    Either way this works!

    I come for oracle world so I'm slowly coming along.

    Thanks again!!

  • January 3, 2014 at 8:28 am

    #1677307

    Excellent. Thanks for the feedback.

    On the Oracle shift that you're having to make (I had to work with Oracle for about 3 years), my best advice would be to follow the idea of the "paradigm shift" that I have in my signature line below. When I first started out in T-SQL, that was probably the best lesson that I ever learned.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".
    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

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