• mukherjee.subhro (5/10/2010)


    Yea !

    I mean what you have understood i.e. stripping the first 3 alphabet and taking only the numeric portion (i.e. year) . The output is in the image that I have send with that message.

    Thanks

    Subhro

    Check out SUBSTRING() in BOL.

    Is this part of your course specific to PIVOT / UNPIVOT?

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