Substring Question

• Jeff Moden

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  October 30, 2017 at 2:59 pm

  #1965864

  Alan.B - Monday, October 30, 2017 2:02 PM

  Another way, using Luis' sample data

  SELECT name, rtrim(ltrim(isnull(parsename(' '+x.name+' ', 2), x.name))) as name2
FROM (VALUES('Luis.Cazares'),('Luis Cazares'),('Luis Cazares.'),('.Luis Cazares')) x(name);

  Again, I strongly recommend that concatenation be avoided for such things.  See my previous response to Luis.

  --Jeff Moden

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• Alan Burstein

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  October 30, 2017 at 3:34 pm

  #1965867

  Jeff Moden - Monday, October 30, 2017 2:59 PM

  Alan.B - Monday, October 30, 2017 2:02 PM

  Another way, using Luis' sample data

  SELECT name, rtrim(ltrim(isnull(parsename(' '+x.name+' ', 2), x.name))) as name2
FROM (VALUES('Luis.Cazares'),('Luis Cazares'),('Luis Cazares.'),('.Luis Cazares')) x(name);

  Again, I strongly recommend that concatenation be avoided for such things.  See my previous response to Luis.

  I missed that. Agreed.

  "I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

  -- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001