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Topaz
Posting Yak Master

199 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 05:56:41

I have some data in a field called website3 which looks like this:

Skidrive.Co.Uk
Principles.Co.Uk

And basically it should look like this

Skidrive
Principles

Is there any SQL command that i can write which will get rid of everything after and including the '.' if a dot appears in the website3 field.

Thanks

harsh_athalye
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

5581 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 06:03:46

[code]declare @a varchar(20)

set @a = 'Skidrive.Co.Uk'

select left(@a, charindex('.', @a)-1) as stripped_name[/code]

Harsh Athalye
India.
"The IMPOSSIBLE is often UNTRIED"

Topaz
Posting Yak Master

199 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 06:14:52

Hmmm...

I cant really see whats going on here, but i probably forgot to mention that there are 40,000 records that need to be updated this way.

And from that it looks to me like i will have to enter each matching record?

madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 07:33:32

quote:
Originally posted by Topaz

Hmmm...

I cant really see whats going on here, but i probably forgot to mention that there are 40,000 records that need to be updated this way.

And from that it looks to me like i will have to enter each matching record?

Run this and see

Select left(yourcolumn,charindex('.',yourcolumn)-1) from yourtable

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

Lamprey
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

4614 Posts

Posted - 2008-01-03 : 15:46:16

Maybe this?

DECLARE @Yak TABLE(website3 VARCHAR(255))

INSERT @Yak
SELECT 'Skidrive.Co.Uk'
UNION ALL SELECT 'Principles.Co.Uk'
UNION ALL SELECT 'Foo.com'


SELECT PARSENAME(website3, 3)
FROM @Yak

-- OR
SELECT COALESCE(PARSENAME(website3, 3), PARSENAME(website3, 2))
FROM @Yak

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