>>>Yes, there are CHARINDEX and SUBSTRING functions in SQL Server. In SQL Server 2016 (I think) they also finally introduced the split function.
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>>Thank you.
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>You're welcome. Play with the select statements first until you get it parsed correctly.
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>This blog post may help
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http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/datamgmt/datadesign/parsing-fullname-field-to-individual/Thank you. I found this example online and trying to make it work for me:
DECLARE @FullName VARCHAR(50) = 'Mark Zuckerberg'
SELECT SUBSTRING(@FullName, 1, CHARINDEX(' ', @FullName) - 1) AS [First Name],
SUBSTRING(@FullName, CHARINDEX(' ', @FullName) + 1, LEN(@FullName)) AS [Last Name]
They have First Name + Last Name and I have Last Name + Comma + First Name. Give me a couple of hours (:)) and I will figure it out.
Update: I got it:
SELECT SUBSTRING(@FullName, 1, CHARINDEX(', ', @FullName) - 1) AS [Last Name],
SUBSTRING(@FullName, CHARINDEX(', ', @FullName) + 1, LEN(@FullName)) AS [First Name]
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