Monthly Archives: August 2014

Update dbase blank columns before published in SQL Server

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dbase_SSIS When I was designing a SSIS package to move dbase (DBF) files to SQL Server tables. I noticed I was going have to clean up the VARCHARs and DATETIMEs in the database before I could publish the data for BI Team. In my SSIS Package these are the last two tasks. The two queries below dynamically get the columns data types and names and does update statements on the columns to correct them.

Update DateTimes to NULL

declare @tab table (id int identity(1,1) primary key,SQLtable varchar(50),SQLcolumn VARCHAR(50))
insert into @tab(SQLtable,SQLcolumn)

select
so.name table_name
,sc.name column_name
--,st.name data_type
from sysobjects so
inner join syscolumns sc on (so.id = sc.id)
inner join systypes st on (st.type = sc.type)
where so.type = 'U'
and st.name IN ('DATETIME', 'DATE')
declare @sql varchar(8000), @i int,@count int, @sqltable varchar(50), @sqlcolumn varchar(50)

set @i=1
select @count= count(*) from @tab
while @i <= @count

begin
select @SQLtable=SQLtable from @tab where id=@i
select @sqlcolumn =sqlcolumn from @tab where id=@i

set @sql = '
UPDATE '+@SQLtable+'
SET '+@SQLcolumn+' = CASE WHEN '+@SQLcolumn+' = ''1899-12-30''
THEN NULL
ELSE '+@SQLcolumn+'
END
'
--To print in the Result/Message box
print @sql
--To EXECUTE
--EXEC (@sql)

set @i=@i+1
end

Update Varchars to NULL

declare @tab table (id int identity(1,1) primary key,SQLtable varchar(50),SQLcolumn VARCHAR(50))
insert into @tab(SQLtable,SQLcolumn)

 select
 so.name table_name
 ,sc.name column_name
 --,st.name data_type
from sysobjects so
inner join syscolumns sc on (so.id = sc.id)
inner join systypes st on (st.type = sc.type)
where so.type = 'U'
and st.name IN ('nvarchar', 'varchar', 'char', 'nchar')
--Added because of Error
AND sc.name <> 'group'

declare @sql varchar(8000), @i int,@count int, @sqltable varchar(50), @sqlcolumn varchar(50) 

set @i=1
select @count= count(*) from @tab
while @i <= @count

begin
select @SQLtable=SQLtable from @tab where id=@i
select @sqlcolumn =sqlcolumn from @tab where id=@i 

set @sql = '
 UPDATE '+@SQLtable+'
 SET '+@SQLcolumn+' = CASE WHEN LEN('+@SQLcolumn+') = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE '+@SQLcolumn+'
 END
'
--To print in the Result/Message box
print @sql
--To EXECUTE
--EXEC (@sql)
set @i=@i+1
end
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Turn Unusable Date into usable SQL DateTime

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We had situation where we had an application that feed a varchar date into a column that was not usable to our BI report writers. The column had 3 months letters and a space and the year which was numeric.

Analysis_Date

 

To create the sample Table:

SELECT * INTO [Table]
FROM (
SELECT N'Apr 2014' AS [Analysis_Date] UNION ALL
SELECT N'Feb 2012' AS [Analysis_Date] UNION ALL
SELECT N'Jan 2014' AS [Analysis_Date] UNION ALL
SELECT N'Jul 2014' AS [Analysis_Date] UNION ALL
SELECT N'Jun 2014' AS [Analysis_Date] UNION ALL
SELECT N'Mar 2014' AS [Analysis_Date] UNION ALL
SELECT N'May 2014' AS [Analysis_Date] UNION ALL
SELECT N'Apr 2013' AS [Analysis_Date]
) t;
SELECT [Analysis_Date]
FROM [Table]
--DROP TABLE [Table]
GO

 

First I broke the data into two columns as you can see below with a SUBSTRING.

SELECT DISTINCT
DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date ,
SUBSTRING(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 5, 9) AS [Analysis Year] ,
LEFT(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 4) AS [Analysis Month]
FROM Table

This produces:

Analysis_Date1

 

Then I took the two substrings and mashed them to recreate the beginning of the month datetime. The magic happens with the SUBSTRING and CHARINDEX.

‘XXJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDEC’

this string lets me count the months and get a number instead of the months first three letters.

SELECT DISTINCT
DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date ,
SUBSTRING(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 5, 9) AS [Analysis Year] ,
LEFT(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 4) AS [Analysis Month],
 CAST(CAST(SUBSTRING(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 5, 9) AS VARCHAR(4))
 + RIGHT('0'
 + CAST(CHARINDEX(LEFT(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 3),
 'XXJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDEC')
 / 3 AS VARCHAR(2)), 2) + RIGHT('0'
 + CAST('01' AS VARCHAR(2)),
 2) AS DATETIME) AS Analysis_Datetime_BeginMonth
FROM Table

This produces:

Analysis_Date2

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Taking that same logic we can also get the end of that month datetime as well.

SELECT DISTINCT
DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date ,
SUBSTRING(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 5, 9) AS [Analysis Year] ,
LEFT(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 4) AS [Analysis Month],
CAST(CAST(SUBSTRING(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 5, 9) AS VARCHAR(4))
+ RIGHT('0'
+ CAST(CHARINDEX(LEFT(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 3),
'XXJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDEC')
/ 3 AS VARCHAR(2)), 2) + RIGHT('0'
+ CAST('01' AS VARCHAR(2)),
2) AS DATETIME) AS Analysis_Datetime_BeginMonth</pre>
<pre> DATEADD(DAY,
-DAY(DATEADD(MONTH, 1,
CAST(CAST(SUBSTRING(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date,
5, 9) AS VARCHAR(4))
+ RIGHT('0'
+ CAST(CHARINDEX(LEFT(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date,
3),
'XXJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDEC')
/ 3 AS VARCHAR(2)), 2) + RIGHT('0'
+ CAST('01' AS VARCHAR(2)),
2) AS DATETIME))),
DATEADD(MONTH, 1,
CAST(CAST(SUBSTRING(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date, 5,
9) AS VARCHAR(4)) + RIGHT('0'
+ CAST(CHARINDEX(LEFT(DDA_Hist.Analysis_Date,
3),
'XXJANFEBMARAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPOCTNOVDEC')
/ 3 AS VARCHAR(2)),
2) + RIGHT('0'
+ CAST('01' AS VARCHAR(2)),
2) AS DATETIME))) AS Analysis_Datetime_MonthEnd
FROM Table

This produces:

Analysis_Date3

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Have Fun!

Flattening a Parent Child Hierarchy with EnumeratedPath

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HFM_Hierarchy

This is for companies with HFM repository on MS SQL or users wanting to flattening a parent-child hierarchy. If you are administratoring HFM and have users who would like to have that HFM Account Hierarchy in SQL. These scripts will help you with flattening a parent-child hierarchy for internal reporting. They are designed and can be very useful for both SQL and HFM. By using a recursive CTE we can enumerate the path from the leaf to the root/roof (Bottom to the top). See the first image to envision the HFM parent child hierarchy tree.

First I created a temp table to work with one item’s parent-child hierarchy with 14 levels. The -1 is the top of the house  itemid in HFM; other applications/ examples may have NULL for the top parentid. Once you have this working you will want to change the first SQL view below to point to the hfm.dbo.Company_Account_Layout table.

SELECT * INTO tmp_GridResults_1
FROM (
SELECT N'860' AS [ItemID], N'861' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'861' AS [ItemID], N'868' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'868' AS [ItemID], N'908' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'908' AS [ItemID], N'1056' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'1056' AS [ItemID], N'1704' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'1704' AS [ItemID], N'1706' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'1706' AS [ItemID], N'1371' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'1371' AS [ItemID], N'1708' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'1708' AS [ItemID], N'1709' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'1709' AS [ItemID], N'1711' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'1711' AS [ItemID], N'1903' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'1903' AS [ItemID], N'2104' AS [ParentID] UNION ALL
SELECT N'2104' AS [ItemID], N'-1' AS [ParentID] ) t;
SELECT [ItemID], [ParentID]
FROM tmp_GridResults_1

This produces:

HFM1

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In this cte I’m going to build the tree Path, ItemID, ParentID and the Level. Remember change the hfm.dbo.Company_Account_Layout table after you have the temp table working.

CREATE VIEW [dbo].[vw_HFM_CTE] AS

WITH cte([ItemID] ,[Path],[Level], [ParentID])
AS
(
--Parents
SELECT e.[ItemID],
Path=CAST(CAST(e.[ItemID] AS VARCHAR(500)) + ',' AS VARCHAR(1000)),
0 AS [Level],
[ParentID]
FROM [dbo].[tmp_GridResults_1]AS e
--FROM hfm.dbo.Company_Account_Layout AS e
WHERE e.[ParentID] = -1
UNION ALL
--Levels up
SELECT
l.[ItemID],
Path1=CAST(CAST(cte.Path AS VARCHAR(500)) + CAST(l.[ItemID] AS VARCHAR(500)) + ',' AS VARCHAR(1000)),
[Level] + 1,
l.[ParentID] AS [ParentID]
FROM [dbo].[tmp_GridResults_1] AS l
--FROM hfm.dbo.Company_Account_Layout AS l
INNER JOIN cte
ON l.[ParentID] = cte.[ItemID]
)
SELECT *
FROM cte
GO

This produces:

HFM2

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Then to keep things easy and clear for me I break into another view. I built a SQL view to flattening a parent-child hierarchy path with another cte that converts the Path column to XML and then cross apply to unpivot the data then I pivot the data back on the levels.

I’m including HFM’s Label and Description from the COMPANY_ACCOUNT_ITEM and COMPANY_ACCOUNT_DESC tables.

The three case statements are separating the label, description, and child item. I also replace brackets around the work [NONE] in our labels.

CREATE VIEW [dbo].[vw_HFM_CTE_Results] AS
 WITH cte1 AS (

 SELECT
 t2.ItemID,
 t3.split,
 ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY t2.ItemID ORDER BY t2.ItemID) AS num
 FROM
 (
 SELECT *,
 CAST('<X>'+REPLACE(t.path,',','</X><X>')+'</X>' AS XML) AS xmlfilter
 FROM [HFM].[dbo].[vw_HFM_CTE] t
 WHERE [Path] NOT LIKE '%,2101,%'
 ) t2
 CROSS APPLY
 (
 SELECT col1data.D.value('.','varchar(50)') AS split
 FROM t2.xmlfilter.nodes('X') AS col1data(D)) t3

 )

SELECT ItemID
 ,[1] AS [1_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([1]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([1],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([1],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [1]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([1]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([1],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([1],'[',''),']',''))+1,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([1],'[',''),']','')))-1)
 END AS [1_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([1]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([1],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([1],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [1_Description]
 ------
 ,[2] AS [2_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([2]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([2],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([2],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [2]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([2]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([2],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([2],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([2])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([2],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([2],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [2_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([2]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([2],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([2],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [2_Description]
 ------
 ,[3] AS [3_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([3]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([3],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([3],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [3]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([3]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([3],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([3],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([3])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([3],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([3],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [3_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([3]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([3],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([3],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [3_Description]
 --------
 ,[4] AS [4_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([4]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([4],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([4],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [4]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([4]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([4],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([4],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([4])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([4],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([4],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [4_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([4]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([4],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([4],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [4_Description]
 -------
 ,[5] AS [5_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([5]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([5],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([5],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [5]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([5]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([5],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([5],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([5])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([5],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([5],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [5_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([5]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([5],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([5],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [5_Description]
 -------
 ,[6] AS [6_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([6]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([6],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([6],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [6]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([6]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([6],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([6],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([6])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([6],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([6],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [6_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([6]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([6],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([6],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [6_Description]
 -------
 ,[7] AS [7_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([7]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([7],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([7],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [7]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([7]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([7],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([7],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([7])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([7],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([7],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [7_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([7]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([7],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([7],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [7_Description]
 -------
 ,[8] AS [8_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([8]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([8],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([8],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [8]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([8]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([8],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([8],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([8])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([8],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([8],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [8_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([8]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([8],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([8],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [8_Description]
 -------
 ,[9] AS [9_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([9]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([9],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([9],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [9]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([9]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([9],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([9],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([9])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([9],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([9],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [9_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([9]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([9],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([9],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [9_Description]
 -------
 ,[10] AS [10_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([10]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([10],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([10],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [10]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([10]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([10],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([10],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([10])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([10],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([10],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [10_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([10]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([10],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([10],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [10_Description]
 -------
 ,[11] AS [11_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([11]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([11],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([11],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [11]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([11]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([11],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([11],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([11])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([11],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([11],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [11_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([11]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([11],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([11],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [11_Description]
 -------
 ,[12] AS [12_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([12]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([12],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([12],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [12]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([12]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([12],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([12],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([12])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([12],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([12],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [12_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([12]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([12],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([12],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [12_Description]
 -------
 ,[13] AS [13_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([13]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([13],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([13],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [13]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([13]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([13],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([13],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([13])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([13],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([13],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [13_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([13]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([13],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([13],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [13_Description]
 -------
 ,[14] AS [14_Path]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([14]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([14],'[',''),']',''),0,CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([14],'[',''),']',''))) END AS [14]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([14]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE SUBSTRING(REPLACE(REPLACE([14],'[',''),']',''),CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([14],'[',''),']',''))+1,LEN([14])-CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([14],'[',''),']','')))-CHARINDEX('|',REPLACE(REPLACE([14],'[',''),']','')))
 END AS [14_Label]
 ,CASE WHEN LEN([14]) = 0
 THEN NULL
 ELSE REVERSE(SUBSTRING(REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([14],'[',''),']','')),0,CHARINDEX('|',REVERSE(REPLACE(REPLACE([14],'[',''),']','')))))
 END AS [14_Description]
 -------
FROM
(
 SELECT cte1.ItemID, num, CAST(split+'|'+CAST(LTRIM(RTRIM(t4.Label))AS VARCHAR(20))+'|'+LTRIM(RTRIM(t5.[Description]))AS VARCHAR(8000)) AS split
 FROM CTE1
 INNER JOIN hfm.dbo.COMPANY_ACCOUNT_ITEM t4
 ON cte1.split = t4.ItemID

 INNER JOIN hfm.dbo.COMPANY_ACCOUNT_DESC t5</pre>
<pre> ON cte1.split = t5.ItemID
) AS sourcetable
PIVOT
(MAX(split) FOR num IN ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12],[13],[14])
) AS pivottable
GO

This produces:

HFM3

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Then I have a 4th view to filter alternate hierarchy paths and comment out the paths.

CREATE VIEW [dbo].[vw_HFM_Hierarchy]
AS
SELECT cte.[ItemID]
,t1.Label
 --,[1_Path]
 ,[1]
 ,[1_Label]
 ,[1_Description]
 --,[2_Path]
 ,[2]
 ,[2_Label]
 ,[2_Description]
 --,[3_Path]
 ,[3]
 ,[3_Label]
 ,[3_Description]
 --,[4_Path]
 ,[4]
 ,[4_Label]
 ,[4_Description]
 --,[5_Path]
 ,[5]
 ,[5_Label]
 ,[5_Description]
 -- ,[6_Path]
 ,[6]
 ,[6_Label]
 ,[6_Description]
 --,[7_Path]
 ,[7]
 ,[7_Label]
 ,[7_Description]
 -- ,[8_Path]
 ,[8]
 ,[8_Label]
 ,[8_Description]
 --,[9_Path]
 ,[9]
 ,[9_Label]
 ,[9_Description]
 -- ,[10_Path]
 ,[10]
 ,[10_Label]
 ,[10_Description]
 --,[11_Path]
 ,[11]
 ,[11_Label]
 ,[11_Description]
 -- ,[12_Path]
 ,[12]
 ,[12_Label]
 ,[12_Description]
 -- ,[13_Path]
 ,[13]
 ,[13_Label]
 ,[13_Description]
 --,[14_Path]
 ,[14]
 ,[14_Label]
 ,[14_Description]
 FROM [HFM].[dbo].[vw_HFM_CTE_Results] cte

 LEFT JOIN [hfm].[dbo].[COMPANY_ACCOUNT_ITEM] t1
 ON t1.ItemID = cte.ItemID

WHERE [FirstChildID] = -1
AND LEN([Label]) = 4
GO

This produces:

HFM4

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The obvious downside with method is the static nature of the levels.

Happy Coding and Have Fun!