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ssury
Starting Member
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 Posted - 2010-11-19 : 16:00:25
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| Hi, does anyone know what the format of a select statement would be if I want to select data before the "-" in the following: 12345678-90? Thanks! |
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nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2010-11-19 : 16:04:24
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| select left(@str,charindex('-',@str)-1)==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.SSIS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2010-11-21 : 04:07:37
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| beware that this might break if you're having data without - in field or variable you're trying to retrieve the result.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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selecting specific data values