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Separate field based on \ character

  • June 13, 2012 at 11:13 am

    #259760

    I have the below field...

    servername\instance

    I want to be listed as two separate fields in my report

    servername instance

    How do I make these two separate fields? Substring?

  • June 13, 2012 at 11:50 am

    #1500566

    Can use this to make seperate fileds...

    select substring(name,1, len(name)-(charindex('\',reverse(name))))

    ,substring(name,len(name)-(charindex('\',reverse(name)))+2,len(name))

    from instancename

    Can use this to be same field replacing \ with ' '...

    select Replace(name,'\',' ')

    from instancename

    John

  • June 13, 2012 at 11:55 am

    #1500569

    a neat trick with the PARSENAME function, which is used to chop up object names like ServerName.DatabaseName.SchemaName.ObjectName:

    --Results:

    /*

    ServerName Instance

    ----------- --------

    MyServer SQL2005

    */

    SELECT

    PARSENAME(Replace(instancename,'\','.'),2) AS ServerName,

    PARSENAME(Replace(instancename,'\','.'),1) AS Instance

    from(SELECT 'MyServer\SQL2005' AS instancename) x

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  • June 13, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    #1500576

    The following will also work:

    declare @TestString varchar(32) = 'servername\instance';

    select

    left(@TestString,charindex('\', @TestString) - 1),

    right(@TestString, len(@TestString) - charindex('\', @TestString));

  • June 13, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    #1500578

    Great they both worked...thank you everyone!

  • June 13, 2012 at 10:53 pm

    #1500783

    Lowell (6/13/2012)

    a neat trick with the PARSENAME function, which is used to chop up object names like ServerName.DatabaseName.SchemaName.ObjectName:

    --Results:

    /*

    ServerName Instance

    ----------- --------

    MyServer SQL2005

    */

    SELECT

    PARSENAME(Replace(instancename,'\','.'),2) AS ServerName,

    PARSENAME(Replace(instancename,'\','.'),1) AS Instance

    from(SELECT 'MyServer\SQL2005' AS instancename) x

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  • July 1, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    #1507574

    doesnt work for a list of named and default instances tho

  • July 2, 2012 at 7:20 pm

    #1507992

    DECLARE @SomeString VARCHAR(20)

    SET @SomeString = 'ServerName\Instance'

    If (SELECT LEN(@SomeString) - LEN(REPLACE( @SomeString,'\','')))>0

    SELECT LEFT(@SomeString,CHARINDEX('\',@SomeString)-1), right(@SomeString, len(@SomeString) - charindex('\', @SomeString));

    ELSE

    SELECT @SomeString

  • July 2, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    #1508003

    Thanks

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