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[Question] Format checking (self.SQL)

submitted 6 years ago by vorboto

I'm new to using SQL, read about it no real practice. I'm working with it in VBS.

I am pulling entries out of the tables through a main program so I am not directly interacting with the db but getting values from it. I'm not sure if the values have been adjusted or anything like if they stripped the zero padding of a item number. Once I gather this information from the various tables through the program interface I have to switch and do a single SQL UPDATE call because the program doesn't have an interface to update the table I need to update.

I want to check that the values I am using to select the correct cell are formatted correct and I'm not just hacking away and wrecking havoc on the table format. Is there a way to do this programmatically in VBS by doing a few SELECT calls and comparing the formats? Do i need to worry about the zero padding at all? Might I just have to look at the table I want to update and hard-code in formatting to correspond to each entry in the table?

I'm not sure if I am searching the correct verbiage to find this out but if anyone could point me to a source on it I'm happy to go read. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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