Retrieve value from a string

  • Hi,

    I want to retrieve the ID value from CustomFields and insert into CustomID and get the Value and insert into CustomValue . When CustomFields is [] then no action needed .

    CREATE TABLE #Staging

    (

    ID NVARCHAR(10),

    CustomFields NVARCHAR(100),

    CustomId NVARCHAR(100),

    CustomValue NVARCHAR(100)

    )

    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID1','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Organization/Roles"}]',NULL,NULL)

    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID2','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Project Management"}]',NULL,NULL)

    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID3','[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]',NULL,NULL)

    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID4','[]',NULL,NULL)

    SELECT * FROM #Staging

    DROP TABLE #Staging

    --Desired results

    SELECT 'ID1','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Organization/Roles"}]','IDXNA' AS CustomID,'Organization/Roles' AS CustomValue

    UNION

    SELECT 'ID2','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Project Management"}]','IDXNA' AS CustomID,'Project Management' AS CustomValue

    UNION

    SELECT 'ID3','[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]','IHN3K' AS CustomID,'true' AS CustomValue

    UNION

    SELECT 'ID3','[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]','IHN54' AS CustomID,'true' AS CustomValue

    UNION

    SELECT 'ID3','[]','' AS CustomID,'' AS CustomValue

    Thanks,
    PSB

  • Best option, stop getting values like that.
    Alternative option, try the following code:

    SELECT ID, CustomFields,
      ISNULL(SUBSTRING( s.Item, 7, NULLIF(CHARINDEX('"', s.Item, 7), 0)-7), '') AS CustomId,
      ISNULL(SUBSTRING( s.Item, y.ValueStart + 9, NULLIF(CHARINDEX('"', S.Item, y.ValueStart + 9) - y.ValueStart,0) - 9), '') AS CustomValue
    FROM #Staging
    CROSS APPLY (SELECT REPLACE( REPLACE( REPLACE( CustomFields, '[{', ''), '}]', ''), '},{', CHAR(7)) AS CleanString)x
    CROSS APPLY dbo.DelimitedSplit8K_LEAD(x.CleanString, CHAR(7)) s
    CROSS APPLY (SELECT CHARINDEX( '"value":', s.Item) AS ValueStart) y

    Find the splitting function from this article: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2012/106903/

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  • PSB - Monday, March 6, 2017 10:34 AM

    Hi,

    I want to retrieve the ID value from CustomFields and insert into CustomID and get the Value and insert into CustomValue . When CustomFields is [] then no action needed .

    CREATE TABLE #Staging

    (

    ID NVARCHAR(10),

    CustomFields NVARCHAR(100),

    CustomId NVARCHAR(100),

    CustomValue NVARCHAR(100)

    )

    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID1','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Organization/Roles"}]',NULL,NULL)

    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID2','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Project Management"}]',NULL,NULL)

    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID3','[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]',NULL,NULL)

    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID4','[]',NULL,NULL)

    SELECT * FROM #Staging

    DROP TABLE #Staging

    --Desired results

    SELECT 'ID1','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Organization/Roles"}]','IDXNA' AS CustomID,'Organization/Roles' AS CustomValue

    UNION

    SELECT 'ID2','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Project Management"}]','IDXNA' AS CustomID,'Project Management' AS CustomValue

    UNION

    SELECT 'ID3','[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]','IHN3K' AS CustomID,'true' AS CustomValue

    UNION

    SELECT 'ID3','[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]','IHN54' AS CustomID,'true' AS CustomValue

    UNION

    SELECT 'ID3','[]','' AS CustomID,'' AS CustomValue

    Thanks,
    PSB

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  • Thanks that worked perfectly .

  • That's a very nice thing to know . JSON in SQL 2016 . Will definitely try it out .

    Thanks,
    PSB

  • Here's a solution that doesn't require the JSON functions and doesn't use REPLACE, which can be slow with large volumes of records:
    CREATE TABLE #Staging (
        ID NVARCHAR(10),
        CustomFields NVARCHAR(100),
        CustomID NVARCHAR(100),
        CustomValue NVARCHAR(100)
    );
    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID1','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Organization/Roles"}]',NULL,NULL)
    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID2','[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Project Management"}]',NULL,NULL)
    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID3','[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]',NULL,NULL)
    INSERT INTO #Staging ( ID,CustomFields,CustomID,CustomValue ) VALUES ( 'ID4','[]',NULL,NULL)

    SELECT *
    FROM #Staging;

    SELECT ST.ID, ST.CustomFields,
        ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY ST.ID ORDER BY S.ItemNumber, S2.ItemNumber, S3.ItemNumber) AS ROWNUM,
        NTILE(2) OVER(PARTITION BY ST.ID ORDER BY S.ItemNumber, S2.ItemNumber, S3.ItemNumber) AS GROUPNUM,
        SUBSTRING(S3.Item, 2, CHARINDEX('"', S3.Item, 2)-2) AS ELEMENT
    INTO #SPLITS
    FROM #Staging AS ST
        CROSS APPLY dbo.DelimitedSplit8K_LEAD(ST.CustomFields, '{') AS S
        CROSS APPLY dbo.DelimitedSplit8K_LEAD(S.Item, ',') AS S2
        CROSS APPLY dbo.DelimitedSplit8K_LEAD(S2.Item, ':') AS S3
    WHERE S.Item NOT IN ('[', '[]')
        AND S2.Item <> ''
    ORDER BY ST.ID, S.ItemNumber, S2.ItemNumber, S3.ItemNumber;

    WITH ELEMENTS AS (

        SELECT *
        FROM (
            SELECT S.ID, S.CustomFields,
                S.ELEMENT, LEAD(S.ELEMENT, 1) OVER(PARTITION BY S.ID ORDER BY S.ROWNUM) AS NEXT_ELEMENT,
                S.ROWNUM,
                CASE
                    WHEN S.ROWNUM > 4 THEN S.GROUPNUM
                    ELSE 1
                END AS GROUPNUM
            FROM #SPLITS AS S
            ) AS X
        WHERE X.ROWNUM % 2 = 1
    )
    SELECT ST.ID,
        ST.CustomFields,
        MAX(CASE E.ELEMENT WHEN 'id' THEN E.NEXT_ELEMENT ELSE ST.CustomID END) AS CustomID,
        MAX(CASE E.ELEMENT WHEN 'value' THEN E.NEXT_ELEMENT ELSE ST.CustomValue END) AS CustomValue
    FROM #Staging AS ST
        LEFT OUTER JOIN ELEMENTS AS E
            ON ST.ID = E.ID
    GROUP BY ST.ID, ST.CustomFields, E.GROUPNUM
    ORDER BY ST.ID;

    DROP TABLE #SPLITS;
    DROP TABLE #Staging;

    --Desired results

    SELECT 'ID1' AS ID,'[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Organization/Roles"}]' AS CustomFields, 'IDXNA' AS CustomID, 'Organization/Roles' AS CustomValue
    UNION
    SELECT 'ID2', '[{"id":"IDXNA","value":"Project Management"}]', 'IDXNA' AS CustomID,'Project Management' AS CustomValue
    UNION
    SELECT 'ID3', '[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]', 'IHN3K' AS CustomID, 'true' AS CustomValue
    UNION
    SELECT 'ID3', '[{"id":"IHN3K","value":"true"},{"id":"IHN54","value":"true"}]', 'IHN54' AS CustomID, 'true' AS CustomValue
    UNION
    SELECT 'ID4', '[]', '' AS CustomID, '' AS CustomValue

    FYI,  your original inserts are in this code, as are the expected results.  The original expected results appeared to have a typo in that the last record in them used ID3, when the table inserts at the beginning used ID4.   Thus I updated the expected results code to match.

    Steve (aka sgmunson) 🙂 🙂 🙂
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