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sanjay5219
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2012-08-27 : 14:36:25
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| Hi All,I have one table called emp_master i have one column emp_name,fname,lname.Now i have to update fname and lname based on Emp_Name.Please suggest some querye.gSanjay Test so FNAme should update Sanjay and Test as LNAMETest1 Test so FNAme should update Test1 and Test as Test |
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jimf
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2875 Posts |
Posted - 2012-08-27 : 15:24:24
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| There's no sure-fire way to do this, unless FNAME has only 2 parts to it. If someone has a middle name or initial, or any deviation from just first and last name, you'll never be able to programatically address all situations. That being saiddeclare @empname varchar(20)set @empname = 'Sanjay Test'select substring(@empname,1,charindex(' ',@empname)-1) as FNAME,substring(@empname,charindex(' ',@empname)+1,50) as LNAMEorselect parsename(replace(@empname,' ','.'),1) as LNAME,parsename(replace(@empname,' ','.'),2) as FNAMEJimEveryday I learn something that somebody else already knew |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2012-08-27 : 17:42:10
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| first analysis various formats in which you've name values coming and then you might have to apply separate update logic for each of them------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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