help in select data from a column

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help in select data from a column

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divyaram
Posting Yak Master

180 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-14 : 03:41:57

Hi all,

I have data in a column like this

[1_DATA]as [Data1]
[2_DATA] as [Data2]
[4_DATA] as [Data3]
[5_DATA] as [Data5]
[6_FQI] as [Data6]
[7_DATA] as [Data7]
[8_DATA] as [Data8]
[9_DATA] as [Data9]
[10_DATA] as [Data10]

i want to get data like this

[Data1]
[Data2]
[Data3]
[Data5]
[Data6]
[Data7]
[Data8]
[Data10]
and also need data
[1_DATA]
[2_DATA]
[4_DATA]
[5_DATA]
[6_FQI]
[7_DATA]
[8_DATA]
[9_DATA]
[10_DATA]

Regards,
Divya

nasim.sona
Starting Member

7 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-14 : 04:13:12

HI Divya,

I think you are looking to separate two set of data from a columns,
I think you should look for substring function.

-Nasim

divyaram
Posting Yak Master

180 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-14 : 04:51:57

S i tried that ... but it not working that I am confused

select
substring (TempColumn,1,20)as tempcolumn
from dbo.table1
where db like'%temp%'

BUt i have trim the data before 'as'

Regards,
Divya

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-14 : 12:54:07

if format is consistent just do like


SELECT PARSENAME(REPLACE(field,' as ','.'),1) AS val
FROM table
UNION ALL
SELECT PARSENAME(REPLACE(field,' as ','.'),2)
FROM table

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