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Question

I have a text field (field named "BiographyText" in the "Employs" table) in SQL Server 2008 which stores KPI target figures:

rebfirst60,
reifirst1.3,
retfirst50

The first target is 60, for RebFirst, the second is 1.3 for ReiFirst and 50 for the third, RetFirst.

I want to be able to return the 3 different numerical values, as these would be deemed the targets for each kpi for a certain employee.

I am having a complete mind block trying to figure out the best way to do this, any advice/help?

Overall I am trying to find the kpiname ("rebfirst") and then retrieve the next 2 characters/digits

I tried the following, but it errors on function 2 of the first substring, as it is non-numeric:

select SUBSTRING(biographytext,SUBSTRING('rebfirst',1,2),2) from employs

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this

SELECT 
    CASE WHEN PatIndex('%[a-z]%',REVERSE(BiographyText)) > 0
      THEN RIGHT(BiographyText,PatIndex('%[a-z]%',REVERSE(BiographyText))-1)
      ELSE '' END AS target 
FROM employs

and also check another solution using function

Answer 2

From Post The first target is 60, for RebFirst, the second is 1.3 for ReiFirst and 50 for the third, RetFirst.

From Comment I don't need the actual kpiname from this just the value

The following Query will give you the Answer.

select case column_name when 'rebfirst60' then 60
       when 'reifirst1.3' then 1.3
       when 'retfirst50' then 50
from employs

Answer 3

I have this now by using the following:

select 
SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(biographytext,1,10),9,2) as RebookingFirst,
SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(biographytext,11,20),12,3) as ReInventFirst,
SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(biographytext,21,30),16,3) as ReCreateFirst,
SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(biographytext,31,40),20,2) as RetentionFirst,
SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(biographytext,41,50),23,2) as ReferralsFirst
from employs

This gives me the results for each kpi