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yguyon
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 Posted - 2015-01-14 : 15:07:39
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| I have this field in one of the column DBMP-1861571 and I would like to write a querry that only extract DBMP in a select statement... |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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Posted - 2015-01-14 : 15:15:29
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| select LEFT(columnname, 4) as aliasnamefrom your tableTara KizerSQL Server MVP since 2007http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/ |
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yguyon
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
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Posted - 2015-01-14 : 15:37:09
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| select left(columnname, charindex('-', columnname)-1) as aliasnamefrom yourtableTara KizerSQL Server MVP since 2007http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/ |
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How to only extra part of a column data?