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sg2255551
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Posted - 12/09/2012 :  05:22:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hi

I have these rows data in a field that looks like this

ColA
demohello, hi
john doe, dear
do you want to go, where

And i would like to shift whatever text after the comma to the front like

hi demohello
dear john doe
where do you want to go

How should go about it? Thanks a lot

sunitabeck
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Posted - 12/09/2012 :  08:22:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote 
STUFF(ColA,1,CHARINDEX(',',ColA),'') + ' ' + LEFT(ColA,CHARINDEX(',',ColA)-1)
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sodeep
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Posted - 12/09/2012 :  10:35:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote 
Declare @S Varchar(20)
Set @S = 'john doe, dear'

Select ltrim(REPLACE(REVERSE(Left(REVERSE(@S),CharIndex(',',REVERSE(@S)))),',','') + ' ' + REPLACE(REVERSE(Substring(REVERSE(@S),CHARINDEX(',',REVERSE(@S)),len(@S))),',',''))
Edited by - sodeep on 12/09/2012 10:36:14
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