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  • August 27, 2014 at 6:39 am

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    ronan.healy (8/27/2014)

    sorry I ment the text before the date.

    that's the text I want to take

    so its like this now BNY Mellon - 07/01/2014

    and I want it like this BNY Mellon

    DECLARE @MyString VARCHAR(200) = 'BNY Mellon - 07/01/2014'

    SELECT LEFT(@MyString, LEN(@MyString)-LEN(' - 07/01/2014'))

    SELECT LEFT(@MyString, LEN(@MyString)-13)

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