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pat74
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 Posted - 2011-10-11 : 04:59:13
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| I have a column with data looking like this'1-10-10-1 9001''1-10-1-10 9011''7-8-10-1 9001'I need to remove the first part (x-x-x-x). Any suggestions?? |
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senthil_nagore
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2011-10-11 : 05:03:21
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| Select SUBSTRING ('1-10-10-1 9001',3,LEN('1-10-10-1 9001'))Senthil.C------------------------------------------------------MCTS - [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Operation canceled |
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nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2011-10-11 : 05:06:16
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| right(col,charindex(' ',reverse(col)))or mayberight(col,charindex(' ',reverse(col))-1)==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.SSIS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2011-10-11 : 05:20:17
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make sure you identify only those records having the above format. else charindex will failie use where condition likeWHERE charindex(' ',reverse(col))>0------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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