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Natalia89
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Posted - 2013-12-05 : 15:28:55

how do i only display a part of data from the column
lets say emp_id is E3456 and all i want to display is 3456 without that E? any ideas?

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Natalia89
Starting Member

12 Posts

Posted - 2013-12-05 : 15:47:58

SELECT SUBSTRING( e.emp_id,2,4) AS supervisor, e.name
FROM employee e
WHERE exists (SELECT 1 from employee WHERE supervisor = e.emp_id)
ORDER BY name;

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-12-06 : 04:54:00

More genric solution
will work for any length numbers and also when length of alphabetical part also varies


SELECT STUFF( e.emp_id,1,PATINDEX('%[0-9]%',e.emp_id)-1,'') AS supervisor, e.name 
FROM employee e
WHERE exists (SELECT 1 from employee WHERE supervisor = e.emp_id) 
ORDER BY name;

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