Luis Cazares (9/10/2012)
Maybe this modification to Sean's code will work better:
select *,
LEFT(full_name, charindex('_', full_name)) + RIGHT(full_name, charindex('_', reverse(full_name),2) - 1)
from test_name
Thanks Luis. I was a brain meltdown for some reason. I knew I was making it harder than it needed to be. Of course who knows if this is what the OP wanted. 😉
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