{"id":144,"date":"2017-11-23T03:11:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T03:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/?p=144"},"modified":"2017-11-23T03:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T03:11:28","slug":"sorting-out-phone-number-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lance.conryclan.com\/home\/sorting-out-phone-number-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting out phone number hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In trying to consolidate my phone numbers, something broke, and the formatting of my numbers ended up broken.\u00a0 Augh.\u00a0 SQL Server to the rescue!<\/p>\n

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I started out exporting all my various contact lists, and loading them into a SQL Server table.\u00a0 I then ran the following commands to make all my phone numbers valid again.\u00a0 Then exported to a CSV and imported back into google contacts.<\/p>\n

–remove all brackets
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘)’, ”)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘(‘, ”)<\/p>\n

–remove hyphens
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘-‘, ”)<\/p>\n

–replace leading 0011 with +
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = ‘+’ + SUBSTRING([Phone 1 – Value], 5, LEN([Phone 1 – Value])-1) WHERE [Phone 1 – Value] LIKE ‘0011%’
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 0011’, ‘::: +’)<\/p>\n

–remove leading 0s
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = SUBSTRING([Phone 1 – Value], 2, LEN([Phone 1 – Value])-1) WHERE [Phone 1 – Value] LIKE ‘0%’
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 0’, ‘::: ‘)<\/p>\n

–add a plus where it’s missing on existing intl codes.
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = ‘+ ‘ + [Phone 1 – Value] WHERE LEN([Phone 1 – Value]) > 10 AND [Phone 1 – Value] LIKE ‘61%’<\/p>\n

–add the international code where required. Ignore local numbers (len < 8)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = ‘+61 ‘ + [Phone 1 – Value] WHERE LEN([Phone 1 – Value]) > 8 AND SUBSTRING([Phone 1 – Value], 1, 1) IN (‘2′,’3′,’4′,’5′,’6′,’7′,’8′,’9’)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 2’, ‘::: +61 2’)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 3’, ‘::: +61 3’)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 4’, ‘::: +61 4’)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 5’, ‘::: +61 5’)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 6’, ‘::: +61 6’)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 7’, ‘::: +61 7’)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 8’, ‘::: +61 8’)
\nUPDATE google SET [Phone 1 – Value] = REPLACE([Phone 1 – Value], ‘::: 9’, ‘::: +61 9’)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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