Script for firstname first letter and lastname

• susmitha117

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  July 2, 2014 at 1:58 pm

  #309628

  Hi,

  I have a column with firstname lastname say 'john fernandez' i have to get jferandez..Please help

  TQ

• Sean Lange

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  July 2, 2014 at 2:10 pm

  #1726636

  Assuming your data in consistent (ROFL) you could do something like this.

  declare @SomeValue varchar(20) = 'john fernandez'

  select LEFT(@SomeValue, 1) + SUBSTRING(@SomeValue, charIndex(' ', @SomeValue) +1, len(@SomeValue))

  This is why we store one and only one value in a column. Storing 2 pieces of information in a single column is a violation of 1NF.

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