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cnbhold
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USA
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Posted - 11/07/2012 :  20:53:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I need a way to only select the characters before the comma which are not the same length.

Example

Russell,123456
Cranford,6575647
Wells,9878676

Desired Results

Russell
Cranford
Wells

Angel

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

Singapore
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Posted - 11/07/2012 :  22:40:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote 
left(<column name>, charindex(',', <column name> + ',') - 1)


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cnbhold
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Posted - 11/07/2012 :  23:31:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
khtan,

Thanks!!! Your code worked great!!

Angel
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