Separate a column into 2 columns

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bang725 Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 577 More actions · Answer 1

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Christopher Stobbs SSC-Insane Points: 21098 More actions · Answer 2

Hi

This is a basic example you may need to change it if you don't want leading spaces etc.

DECLARE @string VARCHAR(100)

SET @string = '123-458-856 -AD45 EXP 01/01/01'

SELECT

@string as [My String],

LEFT(@string,CHARINDEX('EXP',@string,0)-1) as [Column 1],

RIGHT(@string,LEN(@string)+2 - CHARINDEX('EXP',@string,0)) as [Column 2]

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 3

seems to me like your data after exp is a date, so make it a datetime column !

pro:

- only date(time) values accepted

- the whole bunch of datetime related functions

con:

- no invalid dates allowed :w00t:

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