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Sush
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-30 : 16:58:58

I have a column employee1 lastname,(comma) firstname and have another column employee2 which should be written as firstname lastname. How can i achieve this

Lamprey
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

4614 Posts

Posted - 2014-06-30 : 17:19:50

lots of ways to do this, here is one way:

DECLARE @Employee1 VARCHAR(255) = 'lastname, firstname'

SELECT 
	RIGHT(@Employee1, LEN(@Employee1) - CHARINDEX(',', @Employee1) - 1)
	,LEFT(@Employee1, CHARINDEX(',', @Employee1) - 1)

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