jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Jun 23 08:53:04 CDT 2009
I am trying to append all of the pieces of an address into a single address string. As an example, if I have the address: 121 S. Main Street NE Apt #201 this address will be stored with standardized spellings of all the parts into a set of fields: 121 S Main St NE Apt 201 I need to get this all back into a single field. Understand however that lots of those pieces might be missing in any given address. For example the next field might be: 121 Main St Ste 1342 So... I need to get all the pieces back into a single address field. If a piece exists then it needs padding around it so I don't end up with: 121MainStSte1342 But if a piece does not exist then I do not want the padding for that missing field. I am assuming that I will be using a stored procedure. Pass in the database, table, UnifiedAddressField, then all of the field parts. It seems clumsy to do it this way, not to mention record by record, for 50 million records... well... There must be a better way. Has anyone on the list done this before? -- John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com