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esthera
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1410 Posts

Posted - 2008-04-07 : 05:21:52

i have a query

select message from ticket

but i want to only get the first 100 characters

select left(message,100) from ticket

is giving me an error - please advise?

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2008-04-07 : 05:25:20

If Message is a TEXT column, you will have this error.
Try SUBSTRING(Message, 1, 100) instead.

And furthermore, please provide this additional information next time.

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esthera
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1410 Posts

Posted - 2008-04-07 : 05:58:23

yes that was the issue

thanks for your help

madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2008-04-08 : 03:08:41

quote:
Originally posted by esthera

i have a query

select message from ticket

but i want to only get the first 100 characters

select left(message,100) from ticket

is giving me an error - please advise?

Why dont you give exact error message instead of letting us to guess it?

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

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