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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 1

Understood. You missed the reason why I asked the question. I'll try to be more specific in the future.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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sjimmo SSChampion Points: 11139 More actions · Answer 2

DECLARE @valVARCHAR(30)

SELECT @val = '9.0.0832.1032'

SELECT @val

SELECT SUBSTRING(@val, LEN(@val) - 6, 2)

Steve Jimmo
Sr DBA
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 3

sjimmo (8/10/2016)
DECLARE @valVARCHAR(30)
SELECT @val = '9.0.0832.1032'
SELECT @val
SELECT SUBSTRING(@val, LEN(@val) - 6, 2)

That will work but only if you only ever need the right 2 of the 3rd element and only if the 4th element will always have 4 characters. Unfortunately, we may never know because the OP seems to have flown the coop and hasn't participated in his own question (asked 5 months ago) never mind the questions that others have asked about the consistency of the data format.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

sjimmo SSChampion Points: 11139 More actions · Answer 4

Thanks Jeff. I was simply offering an alternative. Should have looked more closely at the dates. :hehe:

Steve Jimmo
Sr DBA
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 5

sjimmo (8/11/2016)
Thanks Jeff. I was simply offering an alternative. Should have looked more closely at the dates. :hehe:

Absolutely understood and alternatives are great. I appreciate your post even if it were on a decade old thread because methods change and alternatives are sometimes better. I'm just a wee bit ticked that the OP never came back on the questions at hand.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)