>>>>>Yes, there are CHARINDEX and SUBSTRING functions in SQL Server. In SQL Server 2016 (I think) they also finally introduced the split function.
>>>>
>>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>You're welcome. Play with the select statements first until you get it parsed correctly.
>>>
>>>This blog post may help
>>>
>>>
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]
>>>
>Make sure all odd cases are handled as well (e.g. if you don't have ',' in the name, if you have something extra, NULL, etc.)
>
Thank you.
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