sql-server-2008-r2

I have a column that contains data like this. dashes indicate multi copies of the same invoice and these have to be sorted in ascending order 790711 790109-1 790109-11 790109-2 i have to sort it in increasing order by this number but since this is a varchar field it sorts in alphabetical order like this 790109-1 790109-11 790109-2 790711 in order to fix this i tried replacing the -(dash) with empty and then casting it as a number and then sorting on that select cast(replace(invoiceid,'-','') as decimal) as invoiceSort...............order by invoiceSort asc while this is better and sorts like

I have a field with that contains a mix of descriptions and dollar amounts. With TSQL, I would like to extract those dollar amounts, then insert them into a new field for the record. -- UPDATE -- Some data samples could be: Used knife set for sale $200.00 or best offer. $4,500 Persian rug for sale. Today only, $100 rebate. Five items for sale: $20 Motorola phone car charger, $150 PS2, $50.00 3 foot high shelf. In the set above I was thinking of just grabbing the first occurrence of the dollar figure... that is the simplest. I'm not trying to remove the amounts from the original text, just get

I have a table which captures appointments, some are single day appointments and some are multi day appointments, so the data looks like AppointmentId StartDate EndDate 9 2017-04-12 2017-04-12 10 2017-05-01 2017-05-03 11 2017-06-01 2017-06-01 I want to split the multi day appointment as single days, so the result I am trying to achieve is like AppointmentId StartDate EndDate 9 2017-04-12 2017-04-12 10 2017-05-01 2017-05-01 10 2017-05-02 2017-05-02 10 2017-05-03 2017-05-03 11 2017-06-01 2017-06-01 So I have split the appointment id 10 into multiple rows. I checked a few other questions like

I have three tables: Measurements (MeasureID, Time, Distance, Value) Events(EventID, Time Value) EventValues (EventDataID, EventID, Type, Value) I need to get for every measurement, the most recent event (in the past) and its associated eventvalues data. My current query is quite ugly: SELECT M.*, (SELECT TOP 1 EV.value FROM [Event] E JOIN EventValues EV ON E.EventID = EV.EventID WHERE M.Time >= E.Time ORDER BY M.Time-E.Time) AS Data, FROM [Measure] M ORDER BY M.Distance and it only allows me to select one column from the EventValues table (I need more) Is there any way this can be done using

there are date values in the below format,in one of the sql server 2000 tables 10/1/2013 10:39:14 PM 10/1/2013 6:39:04 PM 10/1/2013 8:19:31 AM 10/1/2013 3:35:40 AM how to convert the above format data values into a 24hour date format,as shown below 10/1/2013 10:39 10/1/2013 18:39 10/1/2013 8:19 10/1/2013 3:35 Try this: First convert varchar date to datetime and then you can manipulate it in the way you want as: -- CONVERT TO DATETIME TO GET 24HR FORMAT SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME, '10/1/2013 6:39:04 PM', 0) -- Concatenate in required format SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), CONVERT(DATETIME, '10/1/2013